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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Ah, okay. I tried to explore a lot and help people out whenever possible, but as far as sneaking, I'd try at first and then one of the guards would hear me shooting my silenced pistol somehow and I'd have to mow them all down with a submachine gun Listen to conversations also, in safe zones or by enemies. Alot of them(but not all) give you good points.
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The latest patch fixed the issue I was having where changing the resolution would crash the game. Now I must say, God drat this game good looking.
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May 17, 2013 07:37
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I was initially having that same resolution problem too, but what fixed it was disconnecting my HDMI connection from my TV to my computer and then restarting so that my monitor would register as my only display after doing so. It was some issue with having 2 displays, apparently. Took me several hours after getting the game to find that fix, but that's all it was for me.
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I didn't see it posted, so you can now change the FOV in the user.cfg file with the line : r_base_fov X , where X means vertical FOV. Use this calculator to check what value you need to use to get your desired FOV : http://www.rjdown.co.uk/projects/bfbc2/fovcalculator.php
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Wicaeed posted:Huh, so my game just bugged on me, and I can't figure out how to fix it: I didn't have that one but in my experience the game will bug throughout and reloading the chapter is usually the best fix if the checkpoint wont work. For me bugged out NPCS were usually enemies and I could just run past them as they creepily stood there like statues.
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Ra-amun posted:Man this game really scratched that STALKER itch. I'm really sad that there probably won't be another of that series because drat the post apocalyptic nuclear creepiness is something these studios do well. I dream if a new stalker game came out that looked as good as metro and get sad that it will never happen. Actually that is a good thing because I will probably die from playing it 60 hours straight with no sleep. edit: oh my loving god that bridge you cross later on was absolutely amazing with the heavy wind and rain. 
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keyframe posted:edit: oh my loving god that bridge you cross later on was absolutely amazing with the heavy wind and rain. When I crossed that section I decided to try avoiding shooting things. I turn around and one of the fuckers is only 2 meters away, causing me to go  and flinch at my computer. He just wandered on, paying me no heed.Also, holy crap ranger hardcore is the best way to play this. I really would have liked to be able to count my ammo though. Not knowing what you have adds to the tension sure, but it's also frustrating as you have no idea if it's a good idea to swap a weapon out other than gut feeling.
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Tips for getting the good ending (spoilered for convenience, I won't give away any important story beats): - Wait around and listen to people talk. This applies to both neutral and enemy hubs as well. Listening to the two soldiers gab about D6 right at the beginning of the game gives you a karma point, for example, but so does listening to two hostiles talk about fixing the lights. Not EVERY conversation is worth karma, but many are. - Don't kill, as much as you can. Every section you clear without killing any humans gives good karma. Also, try not to attack mutants if they haven't noticed you or if you're exhorted not to. - Explore hostile areas. Every nook and cranny. Checking the back of the train you ride when you head out of D6 is worth karma, for example. - Be charitable. Every major civilization hub has at least one person who needs a hand; help them out.
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Having finished this game (and getting the bad ending, which I think is much better and more suited to the game than the good ending), I gotta say I'm not that big a fan of the story. In Metro 2033, there weren't really any villains - everybody was just doing what they needed to do to get by, and even groups like the Reich & Red Line had some humanity to them. In Last Light, everyone's a cartoon villain, be it the head-measuring Reich, the bandits who festoon their camps with human corpses or the Red Line, who (end game spoilers) raise a giant army to throw against D6 in order to get at all the superviruses contained within before just running a train straight into the loving complex. I didn't like the little dark one either; its moralising was a bit too overt for my tastes, and every time its situation was brought up it felt like they had to make a comparison to Artyom's mother. Also, the game seemed to rely way too heavily upon the diary entries you can pick up; in particular, there's one in the second last chapter which is four pages long which basically dumps the entire backstory on the dark ones, and there's another in the last chapter where it's revealed that D6 is full of biological and chemical weapons, not food and supplies which came right out of left field for me. Maybe I missed some dialogue somewhere along the line, but it all seems a bit too heavily dependent on telling, not showing. Still a great game though!
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I cheated and looked up the "good" ending on Youtube: Ulman died!? gently caress that, he was the only Ranger I liked. Also, I find it odd that Ana and Artyom's kid is only mentioned in the "bad" ending. Overall, I feel the "bad" ending better fit the tone of the series, but I bet they make the good ending canonical, because otherwise they can't really have a sequel.
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With all this ending talk I reckon there's gonna be a combination of 'good' and 'bad' somewhere down the line. Like Artyom saving D6 while Anna tells their kid about it BBJoey posted:Having finished this game (and getting the bad ending, which I think is much better and more suited to the game than the good ending), I gotta say I'm not that big a fan of the story. In Metro 2033, there weren't really any villains - everybody was just doing what they needed to do to get by, and even groups like the Reich & Red Line had some humanity to them. In Last Light, everyone's a cartoon villain, be it the head-measuring Reich, the bandits who festoon their camps with human corpses or the Red Line, who (end game spoilers) raise a giant army to throw against D6 in order to get at all the superviruses contained within before just running a train straight into the loving complex. I didn't like the little dark one either; its moralising was a bit too overt for my tastes, and every time its situation was brought up it felt like they had to make a comparison to Artyom's mother. So true, like if 4A were in better conditions, they would probably have had a more fleshed out game.
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BBJoey posted:Having finished this game... I gotta say I'm not that big a fan of the story. In Metro 2033, there weren't really any villains - everybody was just doing what they needed to do to get by... I think part of the difference, though, is that in 2033 you never really meet anyone except foot soldiers. The humanity you overheard in the Black Station, e.g., was the humanity of two fathers trying to do right by their families; meanwhile, overheard conversations from the bandits in 'Lost Tunnel' and 'Dry', the commissar in 'War' and the Reich officer in 'Outpost' suggest that the leadership in 2033 wasn't much different than what we encountered in LL.
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What guns do you guys use? I've just finished Bridge and started the Depot chapter on hard difficulty and right now I have the rotating bolt gun, Saiga shotgun and Kalash 2012. Do you have better ideas on what to carry?
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By that point I was just carrying two Kalash 2012s and a Saiga; one Kalash kitted out for regular assault rifle work, the other with a silencer and an IR scope. Never really bothered with any of the specialised silenced weapons or the actual sniper rifle.
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So can you only carry two guns in Ranger Hardcore?
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hopterque posted:So can you only carry two guns in Ranger Hardcore? Well I think Shrimp will be leaving my diet shortly. Flipswitch fucked around with this message at 17:44 on May 17, 2013 |
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Myoclonic Jerk posted:
He talked her into having an abortion in the good ending.
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NESguerilla posted:He talked her into having an abortion in the good ending. Wait what the gently caress?
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I can't seem to start this game. It just blackscreens on start and slowly allocates memory form 250MB to around 280 by now and counting. Welp.
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Anyone have any tips for the Chase level, when you are getting shot by the Communists on the other carts, I'm trying to do the Shadow ranger achievement so I can't exactly kill them but there seems to be now way to mitigate the damage they do
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Stormgale posted:Anyone have any tips for the Chase level, when you are getting shot by the Communists on the other carts, I'm trying to do the Shadow ranger achievement so I can't exactly kill them but there seems to be now way to mitigate the damage they do You're allowed to kill certain mandatory human enemies for that achievement. Not sure if those particular guys count as mandatory or not, my guess would be that you have to kill them to trigger the scripted sequences.
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Jonah Galtberg posted:You're allowed to kill certain mandatory human enemies for that achievement. Not sure if those particular guys count as mandatory or not, my guess would be that you have to kill them to trigger the scripted sequences. Not sure if they count, I would also honestly rather not have to play the rest of the game to find out so I am a little buggered right now.
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I'd just like to say I actually like spiderbros in real life but this game is turning me into an arachnophobe
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Fergus Mac Roich posted:I'd just like to say I actually like spiderbros in real life but this game is turning me into an arachnophobe I'm not even sure if it worked, but I'm loving this game too much to know.
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Jesus Christ, Metro 2033 is such a shittier, buggier game than I remember. I can barely believe the game devs are the same as Last Light considering how amazingly good the sequel is. I just had to restart the trolley combat chapter because I was randomly getting blown up. Earlier I had to do the same because enemies suddenly could see me through walls. Restarts fixed it but Christ, it sure as hell ain't fun to constantly re-do levels. Fell through the floor in Dead City a few times too and couldn't take off my gas mask at all after going through it and wasted all my filters trying to take it off.
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Okay so during the ferry incident, when you get one of those attacks where you gotta mash your use key, something glitched, and I got frozen in place with the "hit the button" prompt stuck on screen. The event finished, but after that, Arteyum's hands disappeared. Every time there is a moment where you see yourself interacting with the world, his hands are completely invisible (but are there when you have a gun out). I tried restarting the game and playing a different chapter...the hands are still missing. Even quitting the game out and starting it back up has not fixed it. Although the scene with the stripper and you silencing her was kind of funny. I was confused about what was happening since Arteyum had no hands.
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Just completed the campaign. I got the bad ending where you set the charges off and the little mutant fella doesn't stop you. I also let Pavel live. Kind of annoyed how on Ranger Hard I couldn't even see how many magazines I had left or even what I had selected as my throwing weapon. A bit silly that they did that, I reckon. Easily one of the best games I've played in a while. I also love the non-sugar coated grittiness of the world. There's concentration camps, hangings, "racially impure" locked in cages. Rape scenes (the evidence of them, anyway). Made my immersion so much stronger. Also how those things didn't seem to just be there for a quick but of shock value like some other games have done in the past, they were there because life in the metro is loving tough, and the story reflects that perfectly. All in 10% of the budget it took to make Bioshock Infinite. My only regret is having to play in DX9 mode for 2/3rds of the game because of shadow corruption on 7xxx series graphics cards. What's with the Metro2035.com posters everywhere? Confirmed sequel? I just get a 403 when I try and go there. e: Also that black(?) bear fight was great. Although a little repetitive. Claymore, shoot, claymore, shoot. River fucked around with this message at 20:36 on May 17, 2013 |
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Unexpected posted:What guns do you guys use? Uhhh, can't you only hold two guns?
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Sputty posted:Uhhh, can't you only hold two guns? I think ranger drops that to two, there are key bindings for a third weapon but I at least can't use.
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keyframe posted:This game is really depressing. It was made in the Ukraine, a country which should probably officially change its name to "Depression".
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Is ranger mode worth it for $5? I liked it in Metro 2033 but I keep hearing about how it doesn't show you how many bullets you have left and wasn't thought out very well.
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Red Mundus posted:Is ranger mode worth it for $5? I liked it in Metro 2033 but I keep hearing about how it doesn't show you how many bullets you have left and wasn't thought out very well. I wouldn't really worry about this time around. Scarcity is never really an issue except in one or two brief sections and it's just not very difficult with the new stealth stuff. Most of my deaths were to QTEs since the prompt doesn't appear on Ranger Hardcore.
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keyframe posted:This game is really depressing. SOLD! I love the first one until I hit a brick wall at the end where I had to escort some scientists and could NOT prevent them from dying at all. But you know what? Even if this one does have an escort quest I'm going to get it anyway. Really want more Metro.
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Red Mundus posted:Is ranger mode worth it for $5? I liked it in Metro 2033 but I keep hearing about how it doesn't show you how many bullets you have left and wasn't thought out very well. I'm a little over halfway through on Ranger Normal after playing a few chapters on regular and starting over, and I'd say it's worth it. At first I was bothered by not knowing how much ammo you have left, but it's not an issue if you play stealthily and realize that you can open or interact with a lot of things that don't give you a prompt (light bulbs, lockers, etc). Plus I kind of like the idea that, when I'm being swarmed by mutants, things might go pear-shaped at any moment when my shotgun runs dry.
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Judge Holden posted:I'm a little over halfway through on Ranger Normal after playing a few chapters on regular and starting over, and I'd say it's worth it. At first I was bothered by not knowing how much ammo you have left, but it's not an issue if you play stealthily and realize that you can open or interact with a lot of things that don't give you a prompt (light bulbs, lockers, etc). Plus I kind of like the idea that, when I'm being swarmed by mutants, things might go pear-shaped at any moment when my shotgun runs dry. Yeah, it was more fun to play through with Ranger on but it would've made the game a lot better if it had gone full Far Cry 2 and just removed most of the UI elements in all modes and used other stuff to replace them. Still worth it in my opinion.
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Thanks! The only issue I'm afraid of is not knowing when a QTE will pop up and accidentally firing all my MGR without knowing it.
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River posted:What's with the Metro2035.com posters everywhere? Confirmed sequel? I just get a 403 when I try and go there. The internet is saying that Metro 2035 is the upcoming novelization of Last Light. I wonder if it'd get translated before 2034 or not.
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Jesus Christ, this game just broke Steam for me. Ever since I first installed it, every time I have started it I have shown one of those "are you willing to let this program make changes to your computer" messages, you know, the ones that every game has the first time you open it and then goes away after that. This particular program is called something like "? winslave" (question mark definitely included) and if I say do not allow it won't let me open the game. After I DO allow it, it breaks every single Steam game I have. whenever I open ANY game through Steam, Metro or otherwise, the game starts and runs like normal, but acts like there is a permanent ALT+TAB going on, in that it keeps going to desktop. Not crashing or blue screening or anything, there are no error messages, just a jump to desktop while the game keeps running. You can click back in but as soon as something shows up on the screen you are booted back out. If the game is something like FTL (not fullscreen) it works just fine. Disabling the Steam Overlay does nothing. I tried a complete reinstall of steam, deleting all 700 gigs of installed games too, and everything worked great on the games I tried until I re-downloaded Metro and ran it again. The same installer prompt showed up, everything went back to the way it was. Non-steam games that I launch outside of Steam still work fine. This is unbelievably frustrating. Any suggestions? Edit: of course I verified the game cache and all that too. Tried to look for driver updates, Steam updates, Metro updates, the whole shebang. Do I need to uninstall Steam completely again and re-download everything BUT Metro? That pisses me the gently caress off because I was really loving it and I haven't even finished it. Samfucius fucked around with this message at 01:11 on May 18, 2013 |
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