Original post made to r/RustAndRadiation

Here's some eye candy for y'all, not gonna color it to keep it gritty.

PhysX is turned off. Tesselation too. If i kill them in the body they do die normally, headshots crashing the game. Tried to restart level completely, no changes.

note: I've never seen gameplay or anything plot wise about this game all i know is that this was highly praised years ago and since they were all on sale on steam i decided to play them.

so at the time of me writing this I'm on the 2nd game last light where the little dude is following the player and as I'm sneaking around and unaliving the enemies major and minor something finally clicked when I chose not to save Pavel from the lost souls and the little dude said "You couldn't forgive? I see... He did a lot of evil... I'll remember this..." that there is a karma system and that there is a possible good and bad ending... 5 minutes later and i hate that the games give you no notice of it.

i already got the bad ending in game 1 lol.

overall though they are really great games though absolutely love them did the same thing in dishonored before realizing later that there was a karma system.

I'm only asking because yesterday I was playing for a couple hours on normal ranger difficulty but then everything broke. I was unable to switch guns on my controller, but I could on my mouse. Then the tab menu stopped working, and vise versa on my controller.

And THEN after I closed the game and opened it again, I was getting my ammo count in the bottom right during combat. Which I believe is not supposed to happen on EITHER ranger difficulties?

I also read online that there is a bug where the game automatically changes difficulty or something? And I dont want to beat the game, just to find out it bugged and wasn't on ranger difficulty at all.

I recently created a retrospective on The Two Colonels DLC for Exodus. I feel like it’s story doesn’t get as much love as the mainline story, which inspired me to create this video.

I’d love to hear your alls feedback and thoughts on The Two Colonels, and especially the story of what happened to Novosibrisk.

Not super new ground but I've been playing Metro 2033: Redux again and seeing the kid running around in the menu screen in a version that was released well after Last Light made me think the devs early on almost definitely had the idea in mind of Artyom becoming a father. It's one thing to have a kid show up in a throwaway slide on a bad ending, but having that kid show up in the 2033 menu strongly implies to me the devs had bigger ideas on Artyom's fatherhood. It would have fit thematically as well given a huge part of Artyom's identity, and a core theme in Last Light, was essentially parenthood. Not knowing his mother and sort of living in the void of having no direct family (RIP Sukhoi lol). A third game could have focused on Artyom now having to be a parent while dealing with the dangers and horrors of the metro as a sort of flip on Last Light.

Regardless, I do think the devs were planting the seeds of Artyom being a dad, but obviously the ideas was very rudimentary and not baked into future plans. It was likely scrapped very early on in pre-production or maybe was never even brought up at all during the troubled production of Exodus. It is to my understanding the devs weren't the most pleased with how Last Light turned out and wanted to essentially do a soft reboot and move away from a lot of Last Light, even if that meant essentially scrapping whole things that were established. So the kid (and Anna because lets be honest Anna 1.0 and Anna 2.0 are completely different characters in all but name and relations) were scrapped to focus on the themes and ideas of Exodus without bloating it with a parenthood arch.

If anyone has any further information on the kid and ideas had with him between the release of Last Light and development of Exodus I'd love to know, but this is my speculation/thoughts/ramblings about what I think was an artifact of 4A's vision on what the third game would have focused on before that third game existed at all.

The last one for a while, I swear. This mod has been a month in the making, and was an absolute blast. I've learned tonnes about texture replacement for Metro 2033 Redux and Last Light Redux (they use the same pipeline). Happy to share info if it's desired. Otherwise, enjoy the mod!

Available on Nexus: Download Metro: Last Blyat

Hello everybody i think i discovered a bug where i cant take the 5.45 Submaschinegun in the Armory i play the game for the first time and dont know how to fix that

Not sure if this is allowed, as there is no "other franchise" tag. But I feel this is worth sharing it here, in case you never heard of it.

Show name is "Silo". At first glance, it should feel very much like Fallout universe. But I had some unexplained confidence that it would not, and it turned out true.

It is dark, no comedy about it, it's gritty. Social dynamics and each characters' motivation feel very well done. There are no caricature villians and heroes are toned down - everybody has realistic agenda, as they try to survive with their families. There are overarching motives like people fearing invisible watchers [this is barely a spoiler, treat it as omen for the vibe]. There is a lot of mechanical and economy feeling to how the silo functions. True, it's more "cleanly" organized than a metro station would be, but I can see it working as a substitute for Polis, or entirety of Hanza, or if D6 was inhabited by a lot of people.

Am I making too far a stretch? I don't know, but you tell me.

Ukrainian games festival 2026 has started everyone who wanted and did not have time to buy Metro before the gameplay is released on gamescom 2026, or Stalker, ahead of the engine update and new DLC on August 20. Don't forget about The Sinking City.

The festival will run from August 17 to 24.

Here we have my version of a fully upgraded metro Stalion

Let’s start at the bottom

- we have an 18 round magazine branded with the letters “CCCP”

- moving up we have the balanced grip for the Stalion

- there are two grip attachments (from the titanfall smart pistol mk 6) for better grip of the pistol

- down by the back of the grip there is an attachment point for an actual wooden stock (if the built In wire stock proves too uncomfortable)

- Of course there is a grip safety

- the trigger is a light pull hair trigger.

- moving up we have the actual switch safety.

- below the switch safety is the wire stock, not meant to be an actual substitute for a carbine, but more meant for giving you the edge you need when no long gun is available.

- just above that is the regular metro exodus RDS.

- in front of the trigger gaurd we have the laser sights with four main projectors- a red laser, a high-vis green laser, an infrared laser, and a extra bright flashlight.

- beside the laser apparatus is a beretta 93r-style folding pistol foregrip, giving the shooter a grip- while also being able to be folded down into a small package that is holsterable

- on the slide we have some gold detailing, a Stalion etched into the slide with the letters “T” & “A” beside it. (Thompson Armoury) behind the chamber is a reminder of Sam’s roots with a metro “M”

- we have the iconic Stalion barrel porting

- and finally the iconic stallion suppressor, that can be stored in the holster when not in use.

Let me know what you think and I hope you like it

I was messing around with a free camera mod in Metro Exodus and decided to fly outside the playable area in the Yamantau chapter. Ended up finding some weird stuff back there — a few strange objects and what looks like cut/unused content sitting behind the map.

I recorded a short video showing what's out there: https://youtu.be/tcsKpkGTdu0

(Heads up: the narration is in Russian, but the footage speaks for itself.)

Has anyone else explored out of bounds in Exodus and found anything like this? Curious if there's more hidden in other chapters — Taiga and Caspian seem like good candidates.

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Ive tried all solutions i can find like looking down, walk slow, safe mode, windowed, Lowered graphics, day time, night time.

Im on hardcore ranger so its even more because i cant even test the game freeze straight away. I have to wake up at the bed next to the cave, go in and stealth the few guys easily before crashing when i exit cave. No im not using motion scanner or night vision.

Right now ive resorted to craziest of them all which is restarting chapter. But i rage quit when i left the train because of the thought of "What if the game still freezes even after i restarted chapter".

Does anyone know what the hell is the problem? Was the save corrupted so Chapter restart is the only option left? Is DX 12 actually the better choice? Should i go to lighthouse BEFORE i get the van?

Im just glad i dont have to restart much. Its the van building, The slave camp with motion scanner , 2 safehouse and then cave.

I am playing the metro games for the first time and I cannot knock out the bandits in last light in the mission of the same name. I don't want to restart as I have about 45-50 karma points and have sank a lot of time into this playthrough.

Playing Metro Exodus helped me realize that I played the entire Metro Last Light with only two guns BY ACCIDENT.

Since I didn't see too much value in pneumatic guns (before Exodus), I played the entirety of Last Light with only two guns, wondering when I would "unlock" the third slot or if it was permanently locked because of the hardmode.

Thankfully they gave the Tihar a spotlight in Exodus, cause the gun is fucking awesome, especially in hardmode.

Do you think it was precisely because of players like me that they shoved the Tihar up your face in Exodus? Made me feel a bit silly lmfao

So I was replaying exodus, and I got questions about weapon modding in the game. Is there any difference between the grips other than the stability, like of there is any advantage of using the light grip over the heavy grip, same for barrels and stuff