If You Put That Rock on This Map Again
Metro Exodus's summer map is fun, just information technology's at its all-time when you lot go back cloak-and-dagger
Mad to the maximum
I was told before playing Metro Exodus that, as with the previous Metro games, it is important to call back before you act. Seize every tranquillity opportunity to craft some other med kit, a molotov, another filter for your mask. Continually take stock of your, er, stock. And information technology'southward true, there is grim satisfaction in sneaking up behind a weird anti-electricity pseudo-Christian cultist and knocking him out without making a sound. In convincing the noisemaker traps before you run into them. In taking out a ghoul-like Humanimal with a throwing pocketknife to the head, and pulling the pocketknife out to use on something else. Reduce, reuse, recycle, as they say.
But it's also skillful to pull out a sawn-off shotgun and smash a Humanimal in the face with information technology, alerting all the other Humanimals in the surface area and then you can faceblast them as well.
It may have been the setting. The shotgun was the nearly Mad Max-y of the weapons I had at my disposal, you run into, and while I had access to both the icy flood plains that Edwin saw and the autumnal forest Brendy explored in his Metro Exodus preview, I besides got to play effectually in the big desert map. Metro'southward story spans seasons likewise as miles. As you go, you pick up more people, almost all of whom talk similar how I imagine former school Soviet propaganda was. I found this very entertaining, although probably not in the style intended. A pocket-size girl told me my lovely wife was "very kind and potent", the nigh natural of compliments, and I had to studiously chew at my knuckle for a few seconds.
By the summer, Artyom and his train of rag tag survivors gyre into sand country. It used to be a sea, I think -- or at least, the sea used to exist a lot further in than information technology is now. There are boats and tankers stranded, backs broken, in the center of nowhere, and a lighthouse on an isle jutting out of nothing.
The new, open maps are designed so y'all can spot landmarks and find your way around hands; early on when you arrive somewhere, someone will prompt yous to use binoculars and signal out the key $.25 y'all might similar to explore. Metro Exodus doesn't have a mini map, you have to stop and get out an actual map with a compass to see where yous are, and this works because the areas aren't too big or cluttered. At the aforementioned time, though, crossing the same fleck of basis at a crawl because i didn't want to alert the same agglomeration of mutants that keeps respawing in that location no matter how many times yous kill them, did go wearisome.
Moving slowly means I noticed some open globe jank. Watching the same domestic dog monster cycling through the same patrol blitheness every 3 minutes spoils the magic a bit. Possibly if they stayed dead, I would've felt like I was conquering the land a bit and get things done quickly. But that'due south counter to the feeling of Metro. And so the open maps can push button y'all towards beingness more of an action hero and whipping out that shotgun. Yeah, I'll use up valuable ammo and alarm every other domestic dog monster in a mile radius, but at to the lowest degree I won't have to creep through these bushes for the fourth fourth dimension.
The desert was my favourite area that I played, because there'due south less of that. It tricks yous, and so yous cease trusting it almost immediately. The ground, in some places, is littered with Humanimals. They're the same yellowy color as the sand, and sometimes obscured with patchy grass, and then you tread on them without realising. Then up they pop, screaming, and all their mates wake up likewise. Sometimes yous do see 1, and transport a knife into it, only to find that it was already expressionless. Things like that keep yous constantly on edge, reminding you of the days you were confined to dark tunnels.
The open up areas are fun, but Metro is still at its best when you delve underground again. A lot of the missions, both optional and principal story, send you into tunnels or cramped buildings. The stand-out of them all for me was also in the desert, exploring an old power station. Information technology'southward full of behemothic armoured spiders who climb the walls and pop out behind you. But light makes them scream and burn.
You accept to smoothen your creepo-powered torch at them, forcing them to scuttle abroad into the corners. This works fine against just one, but if at that place'southward 2 or three you end upwardly swinging your torch around wildly as they choice at y'all from all sides. You corrigendum into curtains of web, sometimes knocking dozens of babe spiders down around you (the animation of them crawling over Artyom'due south in-game arms made me shudder in real life). Your gas mask is cracked, and so y'all're gasping a bit. Then you realise your torch battery is starting to run down…
It'due south tense, creepy, frustrating in the best fashion, and I ended upward loudly swearing equally I fabricated a drastic intermission for the go out. At these times you do feel like you're on the back pes; like the globe doesn't belong to u.s.a. any more. Upwardly on the surface it feels deceptively easy to sigh, button some other couple of shells into the shotgun, and explode some skulls. In the dark, underground, the spiders movement as well fast for that, and there's nowhere to run... Skilful practise for our inevitable apocalyptic time to come either way though, eh?
Source: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/metro-exodus-pc-preview-summer-map