Metro Exodus Review | Be Very Afraid. 

so I finished the game. some things I've noticed (no spoilers): 1. autosaving is inconsistent. for example: you approach a bandit camp, the game saves, you kill/knock out everyone, the game saves again. cool. but sometimes the game saves and then leaves you with several REALLY difficult sections to pass before it will save again. sometimes it saves when you still have to do a lot of prep-work, travel long distance, then finally approach what killed you the last time. needless to say this results in A LOT of tedious replaying of the same sections, to the point where you'll start hating parts of the game that you originally liked. this significantly soured my overall experience. 2. difficulty is inconsistent. I was playing on Ranger Hardcore, which is the highest difficulty, but I found the game to be much easier than the previous entries in the series, where I'd frequently run out of ammo, medkits, or filters. in Metro Exodus I always had plenty of ammo, so much of it in fact that I'd go all out Rambo if the enemies didn't one-hit kill me. most of the time I died from things I either didn't or couldn't see coming, not because I didn't manage my resources properly. there was one particular section that I had to replay more than a dozen times, since it had enemies coming at me in waves and there was practically no cover. in these difficulty spikes you don't feel like you failed, rather, you feel like the game cheated. 3. one weapon is made completely obsolete by the absence of crosshair in your HUD (which can't be toggled on Ranger Hardcore). 4. stealth is awful. easily the worst part of the game. it would make sense to try to sneak around if you were low on ammo, but, as I described earlier, this is usually not the case, so it's pointless. trying to go stealthy simply exposes you to more danger and potential death than there would be in an open gunfight. 5. the game is huge and has varied scenery, much more so than I expected. doesn't get stale. 6. graphics are gorgeous. nuff said. 7. non-lethal (pacifist) approach is immersion-breaking. the game gauges your 'moral alignment' by the amount of people whose lives you take or spare, but those very same people don't seem to have any reservations about killing you. I get why slaughtering entire communities would adversely affect the overall state of affairs in your own group, as well as your sanity, but I don't understand why I should feel bad about simply defending myself. some enemies act like it wouldn't be possible to reason with them, and the game acknowledges this by not presenting you with a lot of stealth options. with others the game tries to deliver a message that murder is bad. okay, but then why is there no option to surrender and talk things out? it just feels stupid to knock-out 30-something guys when you could just explain that you don't mean any harm. it took some serious effort and dedication on my part to go pacifist on some of the factions in the game. it was tedious, frustrating, and not rewarding, but I felt like the game would unfairly punish me otherwise. 8. bugs. not a lot of those. the game crashed twice during the last chapter. AI glitched out occasionally. sometimes I couldn't access my workbench and sleeping place. there was one type of enemy that I for the life of me couldn't knock out after they were alerted to my presence (which was possible to do with other enemies). 9. replayability. this game is the first if the series I feel at least somewhat compelled to play through again, mainly because of the side-quests that I missed. 10. I can describe driving a car in this game with one word: smooth. can't say the same about using the boats. 11. overall feel of the game is closer to S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and Fallout (aesthetically it's very similar to 4 and 76) than previous Metro games. the exception is the last chapter, which (gameplay-wise) is just one long, narrow, and completely linear corridor. it felt much closer to the original atmosphere. I was even running low on ammo and other supplies. it's also probably the only part of the game that felt genuinely unsettling, if not outright scary. when I was cornered in a room with a bunch of monsters and my rifle jammed after each shot… that was something. 12. Anna's character. it simply doesn't work. I think it's because they tried really, really hard to make her likable, but forgot to give her some believable human traits in the process. as a result she's just a walking stereotype of an imaginary anime girlfriend that fawns over you 100% of the time. it just looks stupid. she never does anything cool or interesting and is mainly there as a plot device. I think she would've been a much more compelling character if we also saw the not-so-likeable sides of her personality. also, specifics: what does she like? what does she dislike? what does she fear? what does she want? maybe set up some conflict, some disagreements, some fights - anything to offset the grayness. but 4A Games did nothing.

The nearly nonexistant hand holding in this game really appealed to me. No tagging enemies and xray vision. Ammo conservation is key, its not laying around everywhere. There's no mini map with every enemy location marked. No GPS or glowing waypoints. No flashing items and objectives. The game doesn't pause while you dig through your pockets. You actually have to pay attention, think and plan ahead. It reminded me a lot of Half Life 2. It has that perfect mix FPS, Stealth and Horror as you said.

Wait, what?? A finished game on launch day? What year is this?? Great review BTW.

I absolutely loved this game, I even bought the DLC BEFORE starting to play the main game about a year ago. I’m just getting through your awesome reviews even though some are years old.

The 4-10 gauge is the one you wanna gift your children. Much better for them to get there little digits around. Well done

I am in my 2nd playthru at the moment. You described the 3rd weapon slot problem perfectly. Its my only big complaint in the game. I am in love with the metro series now. I only discovered metro 2033 & Lastlight a year ago. Exodus is a perfect addition and I highly enjoy it. I wish we could return to maps and play levels with our later gained weapons and attachments. But I lose myself in this game and I'll keep coming back to it. Great review @21Kiloton

I loved 2033 and last light. I played them more than once. I even opted briefly for 'turbo nutter bastard' setting, but my continued and frequent demise convinced me that i was about as tough as Justin Beiber's underwear. I have only just started playing Exodus, so im going to hold off on watching all of this review. I will say one thing though. Your lack of popular contemporary youtube patwah is music to my ears. If i have to listen to one more gaming You'Tuber' ( For Tuber, see Root vegetable), open their video with "Hey whats up people?", i will literally chew out my own tongue. You speak to us like adults and for that you are the finest game reviewer around. Im going to enjoy this review in parts as i make my way through the game. Im going to savour it like some form of digital M.R.E. Thank you 21k, you restore my faith in 'Tubers.

21KT - Your videos are definitely some of the best content on You Tube. Truly well done.

At the beginning, I think you missed a very important one. Tsar Bomba! (Only cause it was the largest one ever set off!, and 29 Kilotons more than you!)

Just finished the second DLC in 2021. I love this game so much. Like you say, far fom perfect, but the story is so compelling, the landscapes so great looking, and the quality so good that I'll forgive quite a bit. But the next one had better fix the broken stuff.

Great video as usual. The constant blahblah of NPCs in video games is the plague to be honest. "Whoaaa! I am throwing a grenade at you!", "Fire in the hole!", "I'm coming for you!", together with the lights and all the other stuff you mentioned. I mean...come on, really? Is this how developers imagine combat situations? That was one of the actually good things in The Division 1: You could turn that shit off, which I did after like 30 minutes of gameplay. The nonstop talking is annoying the crap out of me.

A word on the revolver. Yes perhaps it shouldn't be quite as powerful as it is, but I believe they're doing what they can within the parameters of a video game. The 5.45 of the AK 74 (or whatever you'd like to call the hybridizations of the AK in Metro) was designed to have a fast, flat trajectory, and then penetrate. Whereas the 44 Mag is just a big fat round that knocks the fuck out of whatever it hits. It has a much less flat trajectory and much worse range than the rifles do in game and you're rarely going to use it without some form of extended barrel anyways. It's a matter of force of impact vs penetration. Balancing between those two in a video game against improvised armor and mutant hellbeasts the performance of them compared to reality is really anyone's guess.

21 you ROCK!! Thanks to your well-informed and honest game reviews, you helped me avoid buying into the corporate hype over Fallout 76 as well as several other crap "AAA" games. I saved my money and finally bought this game based purely on your review. This game is AWESOME! Way better money spent than if I had bought the latest shit micro-transaction "game". Thank you again for your work, well done!

Literally everything I need to know about Metro. Thanks keep em coming. Are you gonna risk D2?

I’m playing this on extreme settings. System gets hot af but it’s gorgeous and haven’t noticed any performance drops. Great review. It’s refreshing to play a new game that is actually complete.

Gonna be honest, the woman point, with a civilization reverting back 100s of years, woman would be seen as more precious and valuable than men and would be protected as the 'woman and children first' policy. It would be unlikely but only the most determined of woman to be in any combat roles. This is displayed through the previous games, but in Exodus you aren't in the safety of the metro anymore, so woman would need to be a lot more guarded, as radiation and health issues can either endanger, or make females infertile from my understanding.

This channel is a gem soon it will be 100.000 subs

I've been plotting on this game for over a year. Im ready to finally dive in. Haven't heard a bad thing yet.

Well 4A engine is heavily modified Xray engine (STALKER) so that might explain some things.

I recently stumbled on your reviews and I do have to say your the fucking best! Best content creator hand down!!!! Keep the shit up Kilo!

Thank you for this review, as I once wrote, I haven't watched any other review of this game, and I'm saving this one to later tonight when I get home, love from Sweden ❤️

You have an underrated channel. Good video!

Nice review mate. I wasn't planning on even looking at this game. I have watched a few other reviews and was feeling pretty solid in that decision. You might have changed my mind. With the Div2 release pretty much everything else will be on hold. If it goes on sale, I will now probably grab this and store it for a later date.

Great review of the game. Played the Redux-versions a week before the release of Exodus, just to refresh my memory of the story bits. Ranger Hardcore mode is a must, just because it makes reserving ammo a thing. Also it makes you and the enemy 1-2 shot kill everything. Mutants still need that sweet headshot though, or a shotgun blast up close. Absolutely loved every second of both games, definitely one of my favorite game series to date. Midway through Exodus currently (at caspian) and loving it so far. It has it's quirks, like the animations are a bit dated, dialogue is cringy af (even in Russian audio, the obious choise) and it's seemingly going through a indentity crisis of sorts (open world/linear mix).

That unskippable fungal nail ad whilst eating my tea did wonders for my appetite...fucking hell...

I'll take this as a good review and keep it on my radar. Thanks!

Love your reviews. Highly entertaining exposition. I view you as a spiritual successor to Mack.

I own the firsst 2 of this franchise, and Missed out on this one, I will not install epic launcher in my system especially after what it took to remove it the first time to get the destiny 2 freebie. That said If it does make it to steam I'll be adding it to my collection. Thanks for the Honest review and somewhat upset that it does not have a frame cap in game. however you can launch the Nvidia control panel and under Manage 3D settings and Program settings you can enable V-Sync just for that game only, this might help you encase you didn't know 21 Kiloton.

Those poor ppl seeing that asteroid must have thought it was a nuclear missile coming in.

Heheheheh, above the feet and between the hands! Brilliant! Another brilliant video!

You know i love your content. You now your content is kind of a medical help for me. I really don't want to see you suffer. But damn, we need a horror game let's play from our beloved content creator fast :)

I legitimately enjoy your videos. It's not just the exhaustive amount of detail that you put into them, but your cadence and incredibly well structured scripting for your videos is both raucously entertaining and straight to the point.

Mr.21kiloton..... Thank you for gracing us simple wankers with your knowledge, entertainment and world renowned expertise in game reviewing.... P.S...By the way the 12th is Tuesday and the 15 is Froday...(I know mind blown)...Uggggh UBISOFT Massive The Division 2..... I have my scotch ready in anticipation of Harry Potter weaponry,glitches a la carte and a new season of State of the Game...... Who said gaming is not great......

Great review 🙂👍

Most gamers are casual mid level skilled people who are just trying to have fun and escape from the monotony of life. Professional "hardcore" players are wankers who have no life outside of their room in their mom's basement. Thanks 21Kiloton for a video for the masses.

great video! loved the editing, the comedy and the more serious parts of the review. Because of this video, I will carry a double barreled shotgun with me everywhere I go.

top notch review mate

I found some hardware and graphics settings on rockpapershotgun for pc, maybe update your directX ^^, loved the video, stay you, be honest, never give up, never surrender.

Excellent review 21K, I wanted to say it was Epic but reconsidered :P

I guess the real exodus is the exodus to the epic game store.

always enjoy your content! curious to know what you thought of the stalker series

As a metro fan and a Kiloton fan I cannot believe I missed this review until now! Also I'm one of those hardcore only Metro players who only plays on the highest difficulty because I have replayed the first two games twelve times each. So there were a few moments where I thought "well that was cute" while watching the video. lol Exodus did differ in play style from the last games though. The moral system was more grounded and once ai detached something they had laser vision in my opinion. I did die many times in action scenes because of always dying to one hit kill. But typically the gameplay overall was that great metro experience I greatly love. Notes -totally agree on variety of guns. mods just carry over from gun to gun or bullets behave better or worse by magical means. Many fans were upset many of the modern and real weapons given to use in last light did not carry over. also annoys me on a personal level that kalash's from the last two games and all modern kalash are made out of polymer. yet in exodus we have wood with wood on rubber with tape. like wtf where did the real guns go and why wouldn't we want to use them for being more reliable. -indie games are still the wave of all best games. always been that way. -yes the future of humanity is solidly fucked in metro. I just never understood why "all" of the government officials or anyone who could explain the war are magically dead or have disappeared. we dont even know why we all were in a war. -yeah repop was a problem sometimes. also annoyed me how bodies would just disappear after a few minutes. forget about slowly killing and looting overtime. -as for more women in the game it is the whole no killing women and children thing. this is because publishers will refuse to publish the game. so we get hits but we do not really see it. -totally agree, the publisher got a bigger slice from "less sales" and tons of negative publicity across the internet. -I have not bought the game because I will not download the dirty spyware known as epic games. so I rented the game on pc and plan to buy it on steam next year. love the game love the trilogy but I wont buy to support the idea of further shady business practice. (also just found two days ago epic was tracking files from the steam launcher with any permission from the users) -so glad you mentioned the movie. totally agree again, warner bros would of ruined the story and everything by "making it american" and I'm american. lol All in all I love Exodus, I also wish the story was more fleshed out. By the end I had more questions than answers and I felt like the game lacked at least two more levels. Volga was by far the biggest and most polished level. Everything that followed became less and less open world and more linear story. But I will give it a light pass in this area because the game was shelved to never release several times and the devs went through a literal war in shit conditions to make this game happen. Give Exodus a buy on steam, the devs deserve the success, and the game is a finished solid game with a great story. Almost no other modern game can say the same as that.

I hate when you gotta go through a loading screen to see a map.

Great review mate, what are your thoughts on TD2 so far, content actually looks promising, let’s hope the bugs are fewer than last time

5.45x39 is designed as an intermediate rifle round, to be lightweight, low recoiling and high velocity as it's better to defeat armour. It will go straight through a human body with a relatively small wound cavity. .44 magnum however hits like a fucking sledgehammer and if you're using soft lead or hollow point ammunition it will liquify the internal organs of whatever you hit, it will stop a bear in its tracks

Awesome video again man! This is definitely one I will be picking up on PS4 instead of PC. Liked your point about not spending money on public relations and actually developing a game lol. That's so spot on.

Spot on, no evolution of firearm variety and customization and choice was disappointing, as was depth of crafting and survival. Bit of a shallow lake when you got into the meat of it. Game was very short as well. This was so close to being an epic game. Very unique IP, it was good, but could have been so much more. It was a one play through, as I didn’t feel anything new would be experienced a difficulty up and 6-8 more hours.

Btw if you read that by a chance, I would like to recommend these books: Hard to Be a God Prisoners of Power / Inhabited Island Monday Begins on Saturday + Tale of the Troika (both versions) Roadside Picnic Written by Strugatsky brothers, these soviet science fiction and fantasy books are full of subtle satire of USSR, and some of them provide a nontrivial view on how the communist future might have been. Roadside Picnic being probably one of the most famous because Stalker movie and videogames were roughly based on it. But while school literature lessons almost cemented my dislike of reading, some of the books in the list I could read in one night. Because they are awesome. And there are some great backstage stories about some of these books. For example, my version of Monday begins on Saturday/Tale of the Troika is a book containing two similar but yet very different stories, first one of which is very light-hearted and second one is much more heavy and depressing in tone. IIRC this book was heavily censored and that's how the second one was born to be published in USSR. Only years later the original version got printed.

Andriy Tarkovsky was a director of movie Solaris. Not a writer. Author of that book was Lem. Polish sci fi writer. Just to be clear.

holy shit!! that chimp with the AK nearly killed me :D about the game, I love it and on my xbox one x at native 4k it never looks outdated and always looks absolutely gorgeous.. far cry new dawn and rdr2 were stunning to look at too but, Metro Exodus, and especially the Taiga level in it is the most gorgeous and best looking game/level I have ever witnessed..

IHonestly, i have the same viewpoint as the friends you asked about Metro. Awesome game, will buy it, but only in like a year on Steam.

Oh god I hate when games make jumping a foot or two impossible. "Stow your weapon and use your hands to pull yourself up, dumb ass!" always seems to be flickering in the back of my mind.

Thank for video but i dont know what to do i buy the game but i not open becuse i dont know is good or bad im big fan of this game i ply two last of them I live in iran and here ps4 game are very very expensiv and price of metro and red dead are same is it worth to change with red dead or assassin oddyse? Sorry for my bad english:)

I'm an equal opportunity lunatic... Love that Postal dude quote

Gonna pick this one up for the PS4. Have been a fan of the first two games and am intrigued with the third one. As always, keep up the great work 21K.

I absolutely love the fact you are the kind of guy who can speak knowledgeably on firearms. So many game reviewers are absolutely feckin clueless

I bought this game and the 2 made to 1 games before it not played yet but looking forward I really like you no nonsense reviews well done,

these types of gps handheld and figure out the rest yourself style reminds me why i enjoyed farcry2 only, but none since :)

IRL shotguns are effective to 40 - 50 FEET?! Try 40 - 50 YARDS and you're still short but a lot closer to the truth.

I love this game and u and the shotgun

5.45x 39: 3.69 g (57 gr) 7N22 AP hardened steel core890 m/s (2,900 ft/s)1,461 J (1,078 ft⋅lbf) test barrel length 16.3 inches. The heaviest hitting load I can find info on. .44 magnum: 240 gr (16 g) JHP Cor-Bon 1,475 ft/s (450 m/s)1,160 ft⋅lbf (1,570 J) test barrel length 7.5 inches. A pretty standard hunting round. So, you're wrong. .44 mag out of a handgun can definitely deliver more kinetic energy than a 5.45x39 out of a rifle. At least do research on the stuff you talk about, dude. This was incredibly easy to find. Edit: Come to think of it, you're actually pretty wrong about all of your gun "knowledge" in this video 🤣

An amusing side note on the morality of not killing your enemies in this universe... You can loot them, but in doing so you would be leaving them with an empty mask, without ammo, unconscious on the cold surface surrounded by a wide variety of mutants aggressive enough to take more than a few well placed shots on a good day to take down. Like sure they insult you, threaten to kill you, and most of them are literally just bandits, but at the same time it's hilarious to think that the good thing to do was to reenact The Road but leave them unconscious for good measure! XD

I am currently playing the game and find it to be really good. Kind of makes me want to read the books....

36:20 UPLAY has backdoor mechanics too.

I have 230 hours in this between original 2019 game and 2021 enhanced edition. 100% trophies in both versions and 8 playthroughs + dlc's. Yeah, i love Metro: Exodus. :)

I need to listen some more to this but was afraid there might be spoilers. I skipped I am sorry but I think I got it. As you see it this one steps out from the norm and is a little special to you. I hope it sits with me just as well.

SLAV MEMES INCOMING!!

I really enjoyed the Metro series. Exodus is - for me - the best title of the three. The PC enhanced edition was mainly bug free and looks gorgeus. And the plot is very nice in general. Games that are based upon books have a charme that some original IPs will never achieve.

Liked just after the first minute LOL XD

I can't watch Metro stuff without thinking about S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow Of Chernobyl.

I finally get to play this. If you sign up for the microsoft pc game pass (the beta first month is a pound), this is one of the games available. So yes, im playing this right now for a pound.

I really wanna play this Metro Game and i already playedd all the previous ones but the fact that its on the epic games store and that keeps me away sadly... :(. I already read all the books for every game.

20 ga shotguns are not kids shotguns. They in general are equal or at the worst has 85% of the power of a 12 ga. IA have also made 12 ga loads as weak as a target 20 or 16 ga loads.It really depends on your load. I used to be a trap and sporting clays shooter reloading hundreds of rounds a week to prep for the weekend. Other than that, great review.

Just a note, that steam does not set any type of pricing. it is just a distribution platform. IMO competition is good. Steam has been a virtual money printing machine for gaben for far too long. Sorry to hear what is going on with them (layoffs) but I hope that they can narrow their focus a bit so that one day we may see another half-life. Metro is an interesting series, almost excruciating in the way it has to be played. Stalker has a much better power fantasy. Hopefully we see another of those before too long.

Now calling a 44 mag a hot 45 with a little more powder and a longer case is a insult to the actual 45 with a little more powder and a little longer case the 454 casual and that my friend throws down about 20% more energy than a 00 buck 20gauge shell and probably comparable to 12ga loads but does it with a 5in barrel. I have one and it’s a fun toy for turning a gallon of water into a mist

Great video, this does interest me being a fan in general of all things Russian weaponry.

I'm such a pansy. I looked forward to this game, I really did. Unfortunately I am ever so slightly Arachnophobic and playing in HD with spiders crawling over my visor.... fk no, no no no no no.

Hey Pal Great Video and good oversight over the game. At one point i have to correct. If you compare a .44 Mag and a 5.45 x 39mm you are comparing a speedboat to a yacht. To explain this a little more detailed. With the .44mag you have a slow traveling havy round, that makes an awful lot of damage to soft tissue, unlike in old movies people will not fly through the air like crazy. The round will use up a lot of energy and create an exit wound a lot larger than the bullet diameter, if you use rounds like hollow points, a greater percentage of the energy is used on impact and the exit wound will be larger. Now this is not a guarantee to kill someone, but it's far away from painless. Now a 5.45 x 39mm is very fast traveling, light round and to be very generous we can say it had the same kinetic energy as the .44mag. Fast traveling rounds are good against armor and hard targets. Fast traveling bullets have the tendency to go trough soft tissue like a hot knife trough butter, leaving the a smaler wound and wound canal. The faster the bullet the cleaner the path. It's also far away from painless but since less tissue is damaged the body responds in a different way to it, than beeing hit by a slow and havy round. The everlasting argument is still what way is better, since fast bullets travel longer and have a better ballistic, havy slow rounds are better at close range. Long story short, up to a certain distance, a .44 mag can inflict potentially deadly wounds, a 5.45. would not have the same effect on the same part of the body at the same range

The Metro series is one of my favorites, I still revisit the games every now and then, and make new playthroughs. I only recently just started trying a hardcore playthrough on Exodus, and needless to say it felt like being in a prison full of gay men and you're the one straight guy... So I feel the pain. I have never played any of the DLCs for Exodus, but I hace seen gameplay of them online, and sams story looks interesting. I've only read three chapters of the 2035 book which Exodus is based off of and holy crap that's a discussion in on itself. If you enjoyed the games would highly recommend reading the books, 2033 is fairly faithful to the game, 2034 is a stand alone story, and 2035, pulls some elements if last light, and tells some of the story of metro exodus and a large chunk is its own story.

Fuck yeah Ranger Hardcore crazy bastard here. Can't wait for Exodus to come to Steam.

If tomorrow wasn’t the 12th of March I’d be buying this! :)))))))

This review made me purchase the game :o

Yes, this is not a AAA project. 4A Games - is a humble studio, and they didnt have a hundred of millions bucks, like Rockstar Games.

It's a FLASHLIGHT not a TORCH ьлять! I will die on this hill with my калаш in hand!

This is my favorite game of all time

Forcing you to carry a gun you can make ammo for is central to the balance, or lack thereof, of the game. You'll notice most containers and bodies don't give ammo, or filters, and even enemies won't have medkits. Unlike previous games, they're not distributing loot for you to grab as you'll need it, because they can't be sure when or if you'll need it, and they can't stop you from squandering it doing something else. Since they can't guarantee they can give you what you'll need when you need it, they have to make sure you can craft it yourself. It's not as elegant as the original games, but you can't mess up the supply distribution if you leave it to the player. It's a janky solution to a problem caused by poor game design.

Nice rundown, thanks. Would anyone consider it imperative to have played Last Light before this Exodus?

Some of the game mechanics remind me of the half life games. Particularly the monsters and charging life stations being like recharging lanterns.

On console anyone experience a bug getting into the bus? Camper? When you bring your map up it looks like you lose your neck and you have to re see your map again. To gain a neck back lol. Also weapons ideas to add more variety as you said Maybe Wunderwaffe from nazi zombies , der riese ? Lol BlAck window catapult to start / as a back up that flings balls that open up into nets or some shit ? Compound bows or normal bows ? Spears ? Melee weapons ! Etc ? That would be good it’s missing melee weapons, ? Animations for killing could be varied and maybe animations for knocking out etc. But it’s an indie game and I feel like they did well with this, very cool decent game when there are hulks of shit being thrown out these days. So yeah for me the game was a 8-10

I see u too use the alt-key for stuff.Me,too!Its way underutilized.I use it for melee,though.

I love the Metro games. I'm objectively crap at them, so the news that they have a difficulty setting now lower than "Fuck off back to Fallout, you wimp" is great news.

that's why I liked the metro series

Ukraine tractor porn in a Spiderman onesie? Now that's a good night in. Love your work.

I like Exodus, for the most part. Game was obviously rushed, so there are some weird shortcuts here and there. I could simply walk off the map on several occasions(not even invisible walls). First half of the game is great, pace is great, new weapons, upgrades, enemies, story, etc. But then things get worse and worse and worse. Whole Taiga is a one big stealth mission, as both factions are technically "good". Second fight with Master was utterly moronic, considering that during first fight player cant harm him, so its pointless to waste ammo. But during second player actually has to damage him to get past that point. And not to just damage him, but let him then hit you. Librarians from previous games were one of most retarded enemies i have met in a shooter - i utterly despise tanks that one-hit you, and force player to play in one specific way. Yet they had to rename then and stick back again. And actually managed to make them even worse. Nobosibirsk is essentially Moscow MK2. If you didnt know its different city, you would never guess. It is practically identical, including Metro bit. Camps are available only in first third of the game, later on even finding workbench is extreme rarity. Whole second half of the game player also has no access to train, so no weapon swapping. Even if controls are rebind, in build and navigation menus they are still hardcoded, even tho they show new, rebinded keys as prompts, ffs. I had to actually look online on how to clean equipment, as my rebinded key did not work, even tho it prompted for it. AI "covering" resulting them being stationary for several seconds, while providing perfect line for headshot. I actually have a long laundry list of issues that this game has, from the fact that game takes half your shit when traversing from chapter to chapter(that can become serious problem later in game, as by then player may have lost literally thousands of units of scrap and oil, yet have practically nothing to go on with, as loot gets scarcer), to items clipping thru terrains, often leading to things simply becoming inaccessible. Russian influence ? Their idea of being nice to prisoners is to beat the shit out of them ? Seriously ? Gitmo anyone ? Or hundreds of other prisons and black sites that US alone operates. Pretty much every western country has such "detention facilities".

Shotguns do spread out to 18-30" groups at 30 yards. A pistol like the 44 mag can deliver a single focused shot although it loses significant energy at 30 yards. They both do. I'm one of those crazy Yanks who owns guns. I used to spend my weekend firing hundreds of rounds in12 ga shotguns and reloading them evert weeknight. due to shot placement it is possible to cause more damage with the 44 mag, it's all circumstantial. Barrel size load range placement, certainly placement all count. The way videogames only do 1 shot kills with headshots is BS. The way shotguns are often worthless past 15 yards BS.

Also i feel sad for 4agames thanks to deep silver fucking them over by making it a epic store timed exclusive

it feels really weird to say this, but thank you for appreciating the difference.

Buy all 3 and play them in order. You won't be disappointed.

It's not a triple a game, it's a 4A game.

I'm an Epic Games fan for two main reasons: free games every week and the Unreal Engine being usable for free.