Metro last light is the best weapon. Thoughts on weapons in the game

The sequel to Metro 2033 promises to be one of the best shooters of 2013.

The metro is waiting

Over the past few years, many first-person shooters have vied for control of the multiplayer shooter arena. But the battle for online supremacy (which Call of Duty is winning so far) has left a void in single-player shooters. While Metro 2033 was far from perfect back in 2010, it remains an excellent example of an atmospheric single-player shooter.

And now it’s time for its continuation - Metro Last Light, there is little time left before the game releases. This FPS will not greet you with a half-baked multiplayer mode and a corridor single-player mode with automatic aiming at the head of the nearest enemy. Are you ready for the dark and dangerous subway tunnels? Are you looking forward to a new shooter? That's all. What you should know about Metro Last Light.

Attention! I hope you have already completed Metro 2033, there will be some spoilers ahead.

The world is dark and dangerous

The events of Metro Last Light, like the events of Metro 2033, take place in post-apocalyptic Moscow, where only those who were able to take refuge in the subway managed to survive during a devastating nuclear war. There is practically nothing left on the surface except the empty husk of civilization. Cars are parked on destroyed and practically destroyed roads, dilapidated buildings stretch beyond the horizon. Thanks to radiation, the air on the surface became deadly. But even if it were breathable, surviving humanity would have to face monstrous mutants that appeared after prolonged exposure to radiation. animal world, inhabiting the surface.

The situation underground is not much better. While people can breathe without fear of death, they have to deal with lack of light, dampness and cramped living conditions. There is also a shortage of water and food. The gloom and darkness of Metro Last Light is unnerving and constantly keeps you in suspense. Exploring abandoned tunnels with a flashlight and a pistol (which is almost out of ammo) is a pretty scary experience. Worst of all, the conflicts due to which humanity was thrown to the brink of extinction and forced underground were transferred there too.

Events take place a year after Metro 2033

Artyom, main character Metro 2033 returns to Metro Last Light as the protagonist, one year after the events of the previous game. Spoiler from Metro 2033: As you remember, at the end of the game Artyom had a choice: either destroy the Dark, psychic mutants, whose intentions were misinterpreted and received with hostility, or allow them to survive. The dark ones wanted to establish contact with the survivors in the metro, form an alliance and begin to build new life on the surface of the Earth. They offered protection in exchange for labor to restore civilization, since the Dark Ones no longer had the ability to create and use technology.

The fact is that the events of Metro Last Light continue the events of the book, in which Artyom realized who the Dark Ones are and what they want to offer to the survivors only at the moment of their destruction. Everyone believes that the Dark Ones have been destroyed, but there is a rumor that one of them survived and Artyom was tasked with finding the creature. The task is quite difficult; he will have to overcome the dangers of the subway and the surface of the Earth on his way.

You will encounter many ghostly apparitions

Metro Last Light added eerie dark vibrations in the form of ghosts and imprints of people destroyed by atomic explosions. Sometimes you can see them at the edge of your vision, and sometimes you begin to hallucinate and see terrible events like death falling from the sky onto Moscow.

One of the fragments with a hallucination can be seen in last year's gameplay video of the game presented at E3. During a mission to search for resources on a crashed plane lying on the surface of the Earth. Inside the plane, the remains of the dead people remain strapped in. The flesh of most of them has turned to dust, but they still remain in the chairs. As he moves along the plane, Artyom is overwhelmed by fragments of visions; once in the cockpit, we see the moment of the disaster, all the horror that gripped the crew and passengers of the plane. Such moments are incredible effective remedy narratives.

Monster people want to finish you off

The subway is divided into stations, most of which have become independent city-states aligned with one of four factions: the capitalist Rangers, the fascist Neo-Nazis, the Communist Red Line, and the Knights Templar. Artyom is one of the Rangers, because of this, other groups will be very happy to put a bullet in his head rather than let him pass through their territory. Usually it is quite easy to “take down” an enemy soldier (and at the same time replenish your very limited supplies of ammunition), but there are strong opponents wearing armored suits. In order to destroy their armor you will have to spend quite a lot of ammunition.

But besides the people living at the stations, the subway tunnels are home to a variety of monsters. Most monsters feed on human remains and rarely attack living creatures unless provoked. Any attempt to provoke a group of monsters can end very sadly for the player.

This is not a corridor shooter (although you will have to spend a lot of time in... corridors)

Where most modern shooters try to fill the screen with explosions, Metro Last Light, like its predecessor, creates atmosphere and immersion. There are no notes here about where you should go or how to overcome the next obstacle. These things are intuitive.

There are plenty of hidden areas with an abundance (by game standards) of ammo, weapons, or narrative context for those willing to put in the effort to find them. This is not a game with open world, which is achieved in all possible ways, there are many linear and scripted moments in Metro Last Light, but the illusion of an open world is quite tempting, especially when it comes to exploring the surface of the Earth. The most important thing is that Metro Last Light allows you to play the way you want and enjoy it. Sneaking around in the darkness of tunnels and quietly eliminating the enemy is one of the game styles, but if this is not your style, then you can go ahead and destroy everything that moves. Just know that you're in for one hell of an adventure.

The path ahead can be quite difficult...

Case in point, we burst into a Rambo-style room early in the game's demo to find it to be a Communist checkpoint. We easily took down several enemies who were taken by surprise, but as soon as their comrades got their bearings in the situation, they opened heavy fire. The concrete barricade with which we were hiding literally evaporates under a hail of bullets. And here the situation starts to get complicated.

Firstly, our ammunition supply began to run low; if we rush to the enemy’s corpse to pick up cartridges, there is no guarantee that we will be able to survive. The second problem is several of those same heavily armored enemies that were mentioned earlier and which require quite a lot of ammunition to destroy. The third problem was the enemy, who ran to the gas valves while wearing a gas mask. After turning the valve, the room was filled with toxic gas. Fortunately, we had a gas mask (we’ll talk about the importance of having a gas mask later), but in any case, it did not save us from death.

...but you can sneak in the dark

After rebooting the same point in the game, we tried to go through it in stealth style. Fortunately, the metro tunnels are characterized by darkness and many residents use various homemade light sources, an attempt to light them will end in failure for us. On a small fire, not far from us, water is boiling in a pot. When the guard patrol left, we took the pot and put out the fire. indicator on wristwatch showed that we are completely hidden in the dark. Praise be to gadgets in games! ;)

Using a gun with a silencer, we destroy several light bulbs on our way to the switchboard. We turn off all the switches and the room is plunged into darkness. The guards, realizing that this was not a clean matter, turned on the lights and began to look for us. As soon as they separated, we had the opportunity to sneak up on them and now we face the dilemma of killing or knocking out? The ending depends on our actions throughout the game. It was decided to remove him with a knife, and although the body was later discovered and an open battle had to be fought, this time the shootout ended in our victory.

Weapons are no longer weak

A common complaint among players in Metro 2033 was the weak weapons and lack of ammo, with some enemies wasting a whole clip of precious ammo to kill. In Last Light this is not a problem until you encounter heavily armored enemies. The weapon has pretty good power and stopping power.

The great thing about Metro Last Light is that each weapon has its own playstyle. Like a standard weapon, a revolver, assault rifle or a sawn-off shotgun. So is the alternative - homemade weapons assembled from scrap materials. For example, a homemade shotgun with a rotating cylinder of cartridges allows you to fire several shots in a row without reloading. Now in the subway you can find a lot of homemade weapons and carry not two, but three of their varieties at the same time, and not one of them seems to be a copy of another with a changed skin.

Huge changes have also been made to the AI of enemies after Metro 2033

Another big problem with Metro 2033 is that enemies seemed to know your location. If you were sneaking around in the shadows and one of the bad guys spotted you, then all the enemies in that area knew your location and began shooting at you with high accuracy, even if the room was completely dark.

Now when one of the enemies sees you and shoots, the others will look for you. Now, having eliminated the enemy who found you, you can calmly change your location and move on to the next ones.

A gas mask is your best friend

Your gas mask will be your most reliable companion during Last Light. You will need it in tricky areas of the metro filled with toxic fumes and in those moments when you get to the surface. Just keep an eye on the additional filters - they need to be changed every five minutes (you can keep track of the time on the clock; in the timer mode, the time is displayed in digital rather than analogue form) or enjoy all the delights of radioactive air.

As in Metro 2033, the gas mask adds even more atmosphere and immersion to the game. When the filter's duration comes to an end, Artyom's breathing becomes heavier and the glass begins to fog up. If you don’t replace the filter, then death will be inevitable, it also adds adrenaline, if the windows fog up, then you know you need to quickly escape from this hell or change the filter.

You can upgrade your weapons and buy different items...

The upgrade system allows you to purchase weapons, upgrades and equipment from vendors located in certain stations and tunnels, a very useful system if you can afford to purchase the goods offered by the vendors.

You can purchase a silencer for your weapon, and filters and medical packs will increase your chances of survival. Each improvement costs its price, and this price is not small.

...but currency, ammunition and other resources remain in short supply

No matter how strange it may seem, the currency in Metro is ammunition. “Dirty ammo” - loaded cartridges, spent cartridges, your main ammunition. It is advisable to have a couple of clips of pre-war ammunition, they are worth their weight in gold.

Ammunition is a rather rare find in Metro and there will often be situations when you are left without ammo, so save it for heavily armored opponents, and try to eliminate the rest in close combat. The fact that ammo must be used wisely adds spice to the game. When shooting indiscriminately, cartridges tend to run out at the most inopportune moment.

Light at the end of the tunnel

If you haven't played Metro 2033 yet, we highly recommend doing so, especially since buy Metro 2033 Available on sale at a very low price.

In it I will try to show my vision of weapons in Metro 2033, analyze its pros and cons and compare it with models from other shooters.

"A kind word and a revolver can achieve more than kind words" - Al Capone

Here's about POV, or rather FOV. As I understand from the text and picture, the author was talking about the field of view, and this is FOV. In some games (CoD: BO, TF2) it can be changed. This is an opportunity to give players the ability to set the weapon's range however they want. This is a trifle, of course, but we are still talking about a shooter, which means we will have weapons looming in front of the screen most of the time. I think that when on the left side of the screen you can only see the barrel and magazine of a weapon, then this is some kind of sharpening for eSports. Don't they even care what the weapon looks like? Perhaps this speaks of a “note of Code”, but I don’t play like that. If possible, I always place the weapon as far as possible from the screen. Not very far, of course, there needs to be a middle ground. Usually I do it so that it is completely visible optical sight(I mean without aiming). I think this way you can see most of the weapon, you can see all its details. And as soon as we changed the FOV, we began to take a closer look at the reloading animation and the sound of weapon firing (I consider the CoD series to be the “king” of animation). Perhaps it has something to do with the aspect ratio. Consoles are usually played on TVs. And the latest TVs make them in 720p, and 1080, that is, 16:9. For example, I have a 16:10 monitor and I really want to change it. When I bought it two years ago, I didn’t think about it at all. I am for those games in which it is possible to change the FOV, for me this is an important gameplay detail.

Mine 16:10 (1680x 1050)