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The game is now available! Drivers AMD: http://www.guru3d.com/files_details/amd_catalyst_13_5_beta_2_download.html NVIDIA: http://www.guru3d.com/files_details/geforce_320_14_beta_driver_download.html Performance Performance is reported to be good on both consoles. AMD users should disable PhysX. NVIDIA users should follow the 'Optimal Playable Settings' guide at http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/metro-last-light-graphics-breakdown-and-performance-guide In general, SSAA, Tesselation and Advanced PhysX are computationally expensive options. The FOV is so low, I literally vomited in my gas mask A patch to address this issue has been pushed out on Steam. Find your user.cfg file in %LOCALAPPDATA%\4A Games\Metro LL\ and modify the following attribute: r_base_fov Note that this is the vertical FOV; default is 50.625. pre:Desired Horizontal | Vertical 80 | 56 85 | 60 90 | 65 Notes on Ranger Hardcore Mode
Is it it any good?! A review in 3 acts If you liked the atmosphere in 2033, there's much more to love in LL -- the world feels both fuller and darker and there's some real diversity in the people and in the stations that was largely absent in 2033. And if you liked the atmosphere in 2033, but didn't like the stealth and combat, well, in LL, the stealth is buttery smooth and the combat is viscerally satisfying. As the Metro weapon vendors would say, "Recommended!" We now return you to your pre-release content! What is Metro: Last Light? The sequel to Metro 2033. Metro 2033 was a post-apocalyptic FPS based on a novel of the same name by Дми́трий Алексе́евич Глухо́вский (roughly transliterated as Bob); Metro: Last Light features an all new story penned by same. Developed by 4A Games and published by Deep Silver, Metro: Last Light promises an experience positively brimming with atmosphere (of the bleak and post-apocalyptic variety) and action (of the survival horror variety). Who is 4A Games? An Eastern European video game developer that was founded by former employees of GSC (of STALKER fame). Great, so what's the gameplay in M:LL like? As Hunter is wont to say, if it's hostile, you kill it. Alternatively, it's a mostly linear story-driven FPS set in the Metro tunnels beneath the post-apocalyptic city of Moscow. The game allows the player to approach combat situations with stealth or.. not.. all while contending with a hostile environment which would just as soon see the player dead. Popular features carried over from the original.
The protagonist, Arytom of Exhibition station, has come face to face with the threat posed by the Dark Ones. His travels have taken him from the blasted wastelands of the surface to an abandoned top-secret military facility (known as D6) buried deep beneath the ruins of Moscow. Armed with the secrets of D6, Artyom must decide the fate of an entire people. Blah, blah, I played the original. So, which ending is considered canonical? The bad one. You really did it! You maniac! You blew it up! Evidently, metrics revealed that most players were dicks. What happens now? With the discovery of D6 and the terrible secrets contained within (primarily amoebas - you know what I'm talking about), total war between the factions of the Reich, the Red Line, Hanza and the Rangers seems all but inevitable. Reich, Red Line, Hanza, Rangers? Factions within the Metro.
President Putin has survived the devastation that man has wrought upon the Earth. Now, after 20 years, alone and lost in the dark, Putin is stirring... and he's grown hungry. This is thought to be the biological doomsday weapon that is referred to in some of the earlier trailers. IMDB says Nolan North and Patton Oswalt are VAs in M:LL? Apparently. Artyom is no longer a silent protagonist, but will instead be voiced by Patton Oswalt. The character of Arytom has been slightly retconned to reflect this new direction; Artyom is now a bumbling but well-intentioned ticket checker who is thrust into a desperate battle for the fate of humanity and must rely on his easy charm and folksy wisdom to win the day. On the technical side, I heard Metro 2033 was poorly optimized/a bit buggy. So goes the conventional wisdom (it's debatable -- the AI was occasionally inscrutable and the DX11 features were extremely expensive), but whatever the case, 4A has assured us that the latest iteration of the 4A Engine is the most optimized and polished version to date. OK, but I heard you need a Titan to run M:LL. This is accurate; no quarter will be given to those with inferior hardware. Alternatively, check out the specs here: Recommended PC Specs When? NA release on May 14; EU on May 17. On what? PC, PS360. I'm a little short on rubles... M:LL is 10% off on Steam for users who own Metro 2033 M:LL is $37.50 on GMG (use code: GMG25-5GT67-87HJ9, good till 5/10) P.S., what about Ranger Mode? Without getting into the whole THQ/DS pre-order debacle, Ranger Mode (a hardcore mode that eliminates the HUD and enhances the survival aspects of the game) is a preorder DLC that comes free with all pre-order copies of the game. Those who elect not to pre-order will regrettably have to purchase Ranger Mode as a separate DLC should they wish to experience M:LL as the invisible watchers intended. Gameplay Trailer http://www.gamespot.com/metro-last-...utesInTheSwampW Live Action Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mON5WmA5REk Ranger Survival Guide Part I: The World of Metro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwJXgb3G508 Part II: Enemy Danger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4WSE4za6VE Part III: Weapons and Inventory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAMI0fiJqY4 Redemption Trailer (slightly spoilery if you played the first game) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV3cY0InnF0 And behind advanced cloth simulation #3... A NEW CAR!!! A taste of survival horror... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV5XInC79GE The ice is melting.. The sun is shining.. Tailgate party (reference lost on Europeans)! Get those MGR ready.. Leb fucked around with this message at 20:12 on May 16, 2013 |
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I'm really excited for this game but just the menu screen of Metro 2033 brought my old computer to its knees. My new one could play it just fine though and I unfortunately got the bad ending. This seems like it's more focused on fighting among humans. Is there an overarching threat this time or is it just a continuation of the hosed up recreation of the eastern front?
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# ? Apr 25, 2013 08:49 |
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Honestly, I only picked up Metro 2033 because it was four bucks on Steam at one point. I've played very little of it, because there was some weird video stuttering I couldn't fully eliminate (though I got rid of it in the vast majority of the game) and the game didn't feel terribly... fluid, for lack of a better term. It felt very free-to-play shooter where everything was just a little off from what I was used to. The story was interesting, but it just wasn't enough to make a lazy, self-righteous dickbag like me put up with the little things that irked me. Are there any signs of whether Last Light is going to be a bit more polished and smooth than its predecessor? I have to admit despite my issues with the last one, Last Light still intrigues me.
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Zaodai posted:Are there any signs of whether Last Light is going to be a bit more polished and smooth than its predecessor? I have to admit despite my issues with the last one, Last Light still intrigues me. "More polished and smooth" seems to be the consistent message. At least, that's what a lot of the interviews have emphasized. I'm looking forward to it, though I'm worried that Ranger mode might not get as much love as just a preorder bonus.
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# ? Apr 25, 2013 09:14 |
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Why can't metro 2034 get published before this releases? I'm still excited as hell for this game. Pre-ordered on steam because I am a drone for those silly pre-order items. I also really enjoy ranger mode in 2033 so I guess that may have been a deciding factor. I have to say, I read 2033's book after playing the game and I was rather disappointed in it. I don't know if the game blew me away that much or the book was such a different approach/theme with life in the metro.
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# ? Apr 25, 2013 09:38 |
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So wait, the top difficulty level comes as a pre-order DLC? What? This is one of those games I'll most likely pre-order anyway, but that is a pretty damned scummy thing to do. What's next? Ability to save your games, only $10 if you pre-order today!
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Fewd posted:So wait, the top difficulty level comes as a pre-order DLC? What? As I recall, Ranger Mode isn't specifically a difficulty. Consider it like Survival Mode in the Fallout games, where you had to manage your hydration and poo poo. It's more of a different game mode than a different difficulty. [EDIT] Though I don't disagree with your general point.
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Scyron posted:I have to say, I read 2033's book after playing the game and I was rather disappointed in it. I don't know if the game blew me away that much or the book was such a different approach/theme with life in the metro. It was the same way for me. I think it's a combination of those two. The book makes you feel a huge lack of agency (much more so than a normal book would just by being linear). Unexpected things do happen in the game, but the book is just chapter after chapter of "he's captured and prisoner," "the tunnel is eating him," "now he's shoveling poo poo for a week," "Artyom really should be dead by now," "...and he was the only survivor, again." Emphasizing a lack of agency is a really good and valid way of building a bleak atmosphere... but the game built an equal or superior Metro and preserved player agency throughout the game. (Even through all those "and then you fall through loose floorboards" cutscenes.)
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# ? Apr 25, 2013 10:24 |
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I'm unbelievably excited for this, and I think if it's basically metro 2033 but slightly improved it'll be my goty. Also from what I've read of it the english translation of the first book is really bad, so some of the impact might be lost.
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hopterque posted:Also from what I've read of it the english translation of the first book is really bad, so some of the impact might be lost.
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hopterque posted:Also from what I've read of it the english translation of the first book is really bad, so some of the impact might be lost. That... makes a lot of sense. I genuinely could not understand some stuff about... should I spoiler the book? Some stuff about a large hidden tribe somewhere of cannibals that all accessed the main tunnels through a single small duct in the roof of something and had thousands of darts of an instantly killing neurotoxin? And they worshipped a worm? And all of them ate by stealing a person every few weeks? I pretty much lost all awareness of where the characters were and why and how. On a different note, I just watched the Ranger Survival Guide videos. There are spiders now
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# ? Apr 25, 2013 11:54 |
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Oh man, so excited for this. I enjoyed 2033 and I'm sad I couldn't get a copy for my PS3. No idea if it'll be digital download on PS3?
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Zaodai posted:As I recall, Ranger Mode isn't specifically a difficulty. Consider it like Survival Mode in the Fallout games, where you had to manage your hydration and poo poo. It's more of a different game mode than a different difficulty. Yeah, in Metro 2033 it upped the damage and lowered the health on everything while making ammo very scarce. I thought the game was really boring before they added that difficulty so it's pretty weird that they're locking it behind DLC for people buying it later.
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I am a bit of a weirdo I guess because 2033 is one of my favorite games of all time. Might have something to do with the fact that I love Russian stuff and the fact that my computer ran it on max without a hiccup. I am between jobs at the moment and not being able to afford LL on release is bumming me out really hard. gently caress yeah, Aртём.
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# ? Apr 25, 2013 21:32 |
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2033 on Ranger Hardcore is the champagne of linear FPS. Hope they can do it again.
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# ? Apr 26, 2013 02:48 |
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Metro 2033 was one of my favorite games, ever ever. Ever. I'm surprised people are saying they didn't like the book as much, the book was great. It was a less gamey more depressing realism and focus on the psychological fuckery of the metro on the people, I loved the hell out of it.
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# ? Apr 26, 2013 03:12 |
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I loved Metro 2033 so I'm pretty excited for this, but as others have mentioned it's incredibly stupid that Ranger mode is a preorder bonus because it was basically half the reason the first game was so good. It removed your HUD so you had to use the viewmodel and stuff to actually tell how much ammo you had unless you took a moment to do a manual ammo check, and it rebalanced all the damage and amounts of ammo you would find. The result was that everything died faster but you had to make every shot count. I wanted to read the book but the general consensus I got from reviews was that it's very good in Russian, but its English translation is bad. I don't know Russian so I figured it would be better to preserve my more positive impression of the setting.
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# ? Apr 26, 2013 03:57 |
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Metro 2033 was a brilliant game with tons of atmosphere and a great interface (or lack thereof), and it was great looking to boot. I'm super looking forward to this game, and it's even more exciting knowing that unlike the first time I played Metro 2033, I've got a rig that's considered "optimal." This is going to be a gorgeous experience at the very least, and an awesome story-based FPS like the original if they've spent all these years right.
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So is this game going to have a Russian voicetrack? I watched an LP of the first game in English, but when I finally played myself it was in Russian, and I thought it was nice to hear the same game in two different ways.
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Pepsi-Tan posted:I'm surprised people are saying they didn't like the book as much, the book was great. It was a less gamey more depressing realism and focus on the psychological fuckery of the metro on the people, I loved the hell out of it. The most brutal part of the book are the markets and Artyom's reactions to them at the beginning and then again halfway through the novel. At the beginning, Artyom reacts to how everyone uses bullets to pay for food and clothing, like in the game, and is disgusted by it, comparing it to trading lives, and notes how many lives it'd take to pay for a lovely hunk of pork, or how a nice coat is on sale and only twelve lives today. By the halfway point he spends nearly all his ammo, dozens of lives, on a meal and a load of booze in what qualifies as a good place in the metro and doesn't think twice about it. Don't read Metro 2033 if you want to feel happiness for a while. RBA Starblade fucked around with this message at 05:09 on Apr 26, 2013 |
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I was never terribly into the first game but I liked it for what it was. This game making a difficulty level into DLC though is so retarded that I'll never buy it. The only other game I know of that did something like that was Sonic 2006 and even that had the excuse of it being Sonic 2006.
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# ? Apr 26, 2013 07:13 |
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Artyom wasn't really a silent protagonist in the first game. He did all of the narration, after all. Also I think ranger mode was actual paid for DLC in the console versions, so it's not surprising (if a little lame).
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quote:Also I think ranger mode was actual paid for DLC in the console versions, so it's not surprising (if a little lame). It was, and it also came with the volt driver and some shotgun or turret thing I didn't use because the volt driver was pretty much the best weapon in the game.
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Cityinthesea posted:Artyom wasn't really a silent protagonist in the first game. He did all of the narration, after all. There was a good Let's Play of Metro 2033, that might be useful for someone out there. Full disclosure, I was involved in a very minor way and the video below is mine as well. There were also many great conversations between NPCs, most are lifted from the book. Great stuff for building atmosphere, and some are legitimately spooky. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYYFexAMBaw&t=132s
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# ? Apr 26, 2013 08:15 |
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My biggest problem with Last Light right now is it doesn't seem like the engine is optimized that much better from 2033. My current computer can barely run that game without running into a ton of input lag on highest settings. Was really hoping that would be improved but the Titan requirement doesn't leave me with much hope.
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VarXX posted:My biggest problem with Last Light right now is it doesn't seem like the engine is optimized that much better from 2033. My current computer can barely run that game without running into a ton of input lag on highest settings. Was really hoping that would be improved but the Titan requirement doesn't leave me with much hope. To be fair, the titan is their recommendation for running the game at max settings with everything enabled, not just a normal "recommended" setting. e: I'm assuming this included physx and whatever else, so running all that off the same card is gonna be pretty insane. VVVV I forgot it was gonna have 3d stuff, at which point I doubt we're talking 60 fps even with a titan. hopterque fucked around with this message at 16:36 on Apr 26, 2013 |
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hopterque posted:To be fair, the titan is their recommendation for running the game at max settings with everything enabled, not just a normal "recommended" setting. Everything enabled includes running it on a 120hz monitor for 3D stuff.
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havenwaters posted:Everything enabled includes running it on a 120hz monitor for 3D stuff. They straight up recommend a 690 for that as the only single card (technically) that can run it decently on 3D settings, remember that a single 690 is still a fair bit more powerful than a Titan, but honestly, if it's anything like the original, if you want to even bother playing it 3D with max settings, you'll need something obscene like two Titans.
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# ? Apr 26, 2013 20:02 |
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After seeing the last trailer video ( It was a while ago I admit ) I hope the game still has the balance between human enemies and freaky mutants, as well as the interesting enviroments. If this game gets turned into CoD in blurry-textured subways, it will be a goddamn disappointment.
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Momomo posted:So is this game going to have a Russian voicetrack? I watched an LP of the first game in English, but when I finally played myself it was in Russian, and I thought it was nice to hear the same game in two different ways. It does have a Russian voice track.
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Cape Cod Crab Chip posted:It does have a Russian voice track. Are they going to subtitle all the incidental dialogue this time? They didn't in 2033 and that was what kept me from using it then.
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RBA Starblade posted:Are they going to subtitle all the incidental dialogue this time? They didn't in 2033 and that was what kept me from using it then. Unfortunately not. Much of the ambient dialogue is unsubtitled. Sorry.
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havenwaters posted:Everything enabled includes running it on a 120hz monitor for 3D stuff. That means I'll need a Titan
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VarXX posted:That means I'll need a Titan I sincerely doubt this, you'd need more, the optimal system requirements are already higher than those of Crysis 3's, and the Titan is already not too hot on Crysis 3 maxed out (you get around 40-50FPS at best). I'm assuming the 3D system reqs are referring to the way most games do, it's simply what kind of card you'd need to run it at about medium settings with 3D enabled. You'd need SLI Titans to likely get maxed settings on 3D (this is one of the few setups that runs the original Metro on 60+ frames with max settings and 3D.)
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JebanyPedal posted:I sincerely doubt this, you'd need more, the optimal system requirements are already higher than those of Crysis 3's, and the Titan is already not too hot on Crysis 3 maxed out (you get around 40-50FPS at best). Even worse
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# ? Apr 27, 2013 22:12 |
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I'm not sure why you're overly concerned about running at the max of the max. Like Crysis 3, it is beautiful even under less than premium conditions.
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# ? Apr 28, 2013 00:00 |
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I thought the Patton Oswalt thing was a joke. I mean I like the guy well enough, just, huh
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RentACop posted:I thought the Patton Oswalt thing was a joke. I mean I like the guy well enough, just, huh I see absolutely nothing of who he's playing. Everything I found on Google just says he did voice work for this game. Nobody ever says who is voicing Artyom.
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# ? Apr 28, 2013 03:57 |
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I can play Metro 2033 maxed out with my 560 ti. I don't think you'll need a super rig as much as they're saying you do. adendum: I should also mention this was not at 60 fps, more like 30-40. I'm realizing now you guys were probably talkin' about 60 fps Nwabudike Morgan fucked around with this message at 08:41 on Apr 28, 2013 |
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Artyom had a voice in the last game, it was just in the loading screens rather than in-game :s Also regarding the ending to the last game I'm hardly surprised most players got the bad ending, there's an inkling of morality in the game with some of the choices and I loved that the game quietly judged your actions rather than give you big glaring GOOD VS BADDY BAD BAD Mass Effect Morality choices, but the fact that the game factored how much you kill hostile human opponents as well with the problem I saw with the Stealth system made this no surprise to me. Basically the issue with stealth in the first game was that once you are spotted once in a stealth area, then it's impossible to disappear again, it's like the stealth system just turns off completely, all the enemies in the area always know where you are. There's no "Where'd he go?" type stuff and I'm not expecting guards to go back to listening to the radio and playing cards or whatever, but being seen once means you have a long slog of a fight ahead of you that you can no longer avoid. and this greatly hurts your chances of getting the better ending :L GeeCee fucked around with this message at 10:53 on Apr 28, 2013 |
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