Technical FAQs

No, Dead Island 2 will not support cross-play.

Dead Island 2 will have a co-op story mode for up to 3 players. We'll reveal more details about co-op soon in another blog!

Yes, Dead Island 2 will support cross-gen. Again - more details are coming up soon in a blog dedicated to co-op!

No - Dead Island 2 will support key + mouse only on PC.

While Dead Island 2 will only have English audio, the subtitles, tooltips, options, and menu items will be available in the following languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, Mexican Spanish, Polish, Czech, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean and Japanese.

PlayStation 5/Xbox Series X|S – 60 FPS

PlayStation 4/Xbox One – 30 FPS

The options menu in Dead Island 2 provides layouts for Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 5, and PlayStation 4 controllers.

Yes, Dead Island 2 has a streamer mode that blocks licensed music. However, while launching the game, players will first watch the Cinematic Title Sequence, which also has licensed music, so we recommend caution. Additionally, the streamer mode does not have a gore filter.

In Dead Island 2, you can customize the following HUD elements: player health & status, compass, quest objective information, objective markers, co-op player roaster, central notification pop-ups, left side notification pop-ups, reticle, radio messages, message log, small central hints, stamina bar, weapon pick up log, weapon information, curveballs information, zombie health & status, interaction locations, weapon pickup information, damage numbers, quick time event information, hazardous threat indicator. 

Dead Island 2 supports DirectX 12 only – it does not support DirectX 11.

Yes - Dead Island 2 does support both. You have the option to turn FSR2 on in the graphics menu. RCAS is enabled by default.

No, Dead Island 2 does not support performance-boosting software.