Dying Light 2 Duplication Exploit & Infinite Money Guide (2024)

February 2, 2022 by PowerPyx 58 Comments

This guide explains how the Duplication Exploit Glitch works in Dying Light 2 and how to get Infinite Money quickly. If you stack up expensive endgame gear or have a high-rank player help you out, you can get up to 1 Million Money in 30-60 minutes. All types of inventory items can be duped, including weapons, valuables, armor. You also need 1 Million Money for the “Who Wants To Be a…” trophy and achievement.

The Duplication Exploit requires a Co-Op Partner. Alternatively, if you have a 2nd console/computer you can do it by yourself but it only works online. Also note that at the time of Dying Light 2’s release it does not support crossplay between platforms. PS4 players can only play with other PS4 players (not PS5 players). There is also no crossplay with other platforms. It cannot be done solo offline!

If you played the first Dying Light or Dead Island you may remember the method back then was to throw a weapon, open inventory, and drop it from inventory at the same time to create 2 copies of it. This no longer works because you can’t throw weapons in Dying Light 2 anymore. However, with save game backups and the use of a Co-Op partner you can still dupe items.

Short Summary: Create a Backup Save > Drop items > Have your partner pick them up > Restore your old save to get your items back > repeat. After building up a big stack of valuables you can make another backup save, dropmultiple copies at once and keep reloading the old save to create more copies.

Dying Light 2 Duplication & Money Exploit Step by Step:

1. Get a 2nd Player to Help: First you need a friend to help you. Alternatively, if you have a 2nd console/computer you can do the exploit by yourself.Remember that the game doesn’t support crossplay at the time of its release. Both players must be on the same platform (e.g. both playing PS5 version or both playing PS4 version).
2. Prepare a good item to dupe: For duping weapons and gear just have the item you want to dupe in your inventory. For weapons it’s best to also add mods via crafting menu to make it even stronger. Adding mods also repairs the weapon if it’s not at maximum durability anymore. For unlimited Money: It’s best to get some yellow rarity goods (Smartphone, Old World Wine etc, randomly found throughout the world) or some yellow rarity Gear (yellow rarity Head Gear, Gloves, Torso etc). The more valuable the item, the faster this will go. For the early game, anything listed under Inventory > Backpack > Valuables is best. For endgame any Rank 9 yellow-rarity gear is the most valuable. If you have neither you can simply dupe your entire inventory and all your valuables at the same time which will still give you a good amount of money.
   
3. Create a save game backup:
   1. On PS4/PS5: Console Settings > Saved Data Management > Saved Data > Console Storage > Upload your save to PS+ Cloud [PS5/PS4] or USB flash drive [PS4 only].If using PS+ cloud (only option on PS5) make sure you have automatic save sync uploads disabledor else it could automatically overwrite yourcloud save (PS5 Settings > Saved Data and Game/App Settings > Saved Data PS5 > Sync Saved Data > Auto-Sync Saved Data = Disabled).
   2. On PC: Find wherever the save game is stored, this can vary but for Steam it should be C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata. Copy and paste it into another folder where you can find it later.
   3. On Xbox One / Xbox Series– warning, it’s a bit tricky on Xbox and you should try on a test account first if you never did this before, to not lose your progress.This method can mess up your cloud save so proceed at your own risk and with extreme caution:To force a cloud save where you want it to occur:disconnect yourself from the internet> move around in-game whilst disconnected from internet for a few seconds> reconnect yourself back to the internet>now it will forcea cloud save > (double-check that it really uploaded to the cloud)>Drop the dupe gear to the other player in co-opWITHOUT EXITING THE GAME (exiting the game may overwrite cloud save!) > as soon as 2nd player picked up your gear, press Home-Button > scroll down toDying Light 2 > press Options > Manage Game > Saved Data > click Gamertag > Delete Saved Data > Delete from Console > if it still shows the save, delete it again until it’s gone > press Home-Button and restart the game > it will now sync/download your backup save from cloud to get your gear back! (thanks to Spray_UK for confirming the Xbox method)
4. Give item to Co-Op Partner: Start a co-op session. Dropitems from inventory for your co-op partner. Your friend must pick it up.
5. Restore your old Save: Exit game, copy back your save to get yourweapon back. If you are quick enough you can potentially just quit the game before it overwrites your current save, reboot and see if you still have your weapons. If yes you don’t need to restore save. If no, you must restore your old save to get them back.
   1. On PS4/PS5: Console Settings > Saved Data Management > Saved Data > Cloud Storage / USB Drive > Copy to Console > Overwrite console saves.
   2. On PC: Overwrite the Dying Light 2 save with your backup.
   3. On Xbox: Follow the stepsoutlinedin Step 3 for Xbox, it’s recommended to test on a second account first if you’ve never done this before.
6. Rejoin Friend, repeat Steps 2-5: Rejoin your friend in co-op, drop same item again, repeat Steps 2-5 until your friend has built up a full inventory + stash of the same high value item. After a few tries when your friend has 3-4 copies of the sameitem, have the friend give you the stack of items and you make a new backup (Step 3). Then you have a bigger stack of items so you can duplicate multiple ones each run instead of just one. The goal in this step is to have an entire inventory of the same item (can even put them in player stash for even more). The more copies you can drop at the same time the faster it will multiply.
7. Once inventory is full, make another backup: Once a player has a full inventory of the same high-value item, that player shouldback up their save again (Step 3). On this save you now have lots of copies of the same item. This allows you to drop off an entire inventory of highly valuable gear on each cycle so it will go super fast to get money.
8. Sell items for money or put them in the stash for later use:Drop off the entire inventory of item copies,friend sells allitems at merchant for money (or in case of weapons put them in player stash). After you dropped off all items, copy back your save (Step 5). Keep repeating Step8 & Step 5, dropping off lots ofitem copies for your friend each time. After one player has reached 1 Million money you can switch sides and have the other person drop the items.

If you were to go for 1 Million money legit, it would take 200 hours+. You’d have to loot and sell absolutely everything you come across, clear everything on the map. For reference, after 100h of gameplay you may only have around 400,000 money and by this point you’ll run out of points of interest. Then the only viable option would be to join someone’s co-op game, or kill lots of enemies and loot them, but they don’t always drop valuable loot. The co-op duplication exploit is your best bet. With some high-value Rank 9 items (worth up to 8,000 per piece) you can get to 1 Million in about 30-60 minutes. It’s doable even faster if your friend already has an entire stash full of high-value items to dupe.

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