A new type of vehicle is introduced: The Motorboat.

Level limitations between co-op players have been removed, with auto-balancing for enemy groups being implemented.

Disconnections are dealt with seamlessly, as opposed to offering a break in play.

Cash and weapons will not be imported, only the skill trees.

If players do not import their character, they can start a new character and will automatically begin with level 15.

Players can import their Dead Island game progress.

As inhabitants approach the arrived boat, retching and gurgling sounds of zombies can be heard inside the boat, leaving you curious about the current status of our heroes. A Ram busts through the security shutters 6 days later, and a similar boat is seen docking at an unknown island as news reports are saying that Palanai and Banoi are returning to normal. As the boat is leaving it is shown that the hospital camp and movie theatre have been overrun by Infected. Instead, they leave him to his fate and he is mauled and killed by Infected. He pleads for the immune to come with him saying he could cure them from the mutagen. After the fight they find a boat and prepare to leave when Serpo enters the room. The heroes then take a dose of the mutagen to defeat Harlow. Harlow injects herself with the mutagen and fights them. She says the government unleashed the virus on Palanai to test the lethality of the new bio-weapon they planned on using, and that the immune could never leave or the whole world would end up like Banoi and Palanai. The Heroes break open the quarantine zone gates and rush to the docks where they find all the human survivors dead and Harlow ranting. After that they find Serpo who tells them that Harlow is a terrorist who was planning on selling the Virus to make 'a shit load of money' and that she is in the quarantine zone at the docks. They follow a trail of blood to an injured pilot who tells them that Serpo killed one of the pilots to distract the Infected so he could save his own life. The chopper crashes at the Old Fort and the heroes go to see if it is salvageable but the chopper is completely destroyed. As a result of this, Logan shoots the chopper down using a rocket launcher. Not falling for it, Colonel Hardy tries to board so he can leave but is shot by a soldier. As the chopper arrives Serpo tries to trick the Heroes into boarding the chopper so he can leave the normal people behind to die. The Heroes check out the base to contact the army to extract them, but the only response they get is from Frank Serpo, claiming that the colonel is dead and that he is sending a chopper. The Heroes secure the old movie theatre as a base of operations for the time being. Even the military base fell to the undead hordes. They finally arrive in Henderson only to find the city completely overrun with infected. Once the ferry has been called the Heroes must defend the station, and once the ferry arrives they must engage the Screamer.

As they reach the crossing to Henderson they find the station has been taken over by Convicts so with no choice they have to kill them. Once in the tunnels they must fight through undead and living enemies. They build a water pump to drain the tunnels but they have to defend the area for the noise attracts the undead. The only choice left is to take the underground tunnels that the Japanese built in World War II, but they are flooded. They head to Halai Village to see if there are any boats available to take to Henderson but the survivors there tell them that all the ships left long ago. After the attack the main plan is to reach the city of Henderson to contact the Military for extraction. She instructs them to head to the survivor camp called Paradise Survival Camp.Īs they arrive the camp is under attack by Infected and the Heroes must help defend the camp, building debris to stop the infected for a little while. The survivors are found on the beach by a woman named Harlow Jordan. Palanai has also been struck by the infection, and the island has been overrun with zombies. Colonel Hardy attempts to steer the ship away from the rocks, but it crashes and strands them on Palanai, located still in the Banoi archipelago.

After fighting through the ship, they reach the bridge and deal with The Captain, who is now undead. After meeting John Morgan in the ship, the heroes awake one day to find the ship overrun with zombies. The Heroes thought that they had escaped the terrors of Banoi and survived the approaching apocalypse, but their fate takes a turn for the worst. However, they are kept imprisoned inside the ship and experimented on individually. The game's story picks up right where the initial Dead Island left off, with the survivors landing on a military ship after their flight from Banoi.

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