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Metro: Exodus announced (2018, big open levels, PC/XBO/PS4)
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metareferential
Member
Battles were surely scripted but screens from the HQ trailer on gamersyde show it's clearly in-game.
Which point do you think was scripted?
Greigor The Fellhand
Member
4A games always look insane
therealminime
Member
Here is a gif from the end of Last Light on PC, from 4 years ago.
4A's tech is quite incredible. And we haven't seen anything from them yet that is fully current gen, I suppose Metro 2033 Redux might sorta count but only sorta.
perfectsil
Member
WHat a nice surprise, can't wait
Hooks
Member
As excited as I am it did look heavily scripted in the demo
Banderdash
Member
How are they on the surface without masks?
As every E3 demo that must be shown in 4 min during a press briefing ?
maybe enough time has passed
Metro had a great nvidia physx implementation. Maybe the best to date. It ran really good and looked amazing. I hope we will see some PC physx features again.
This is so nice.
Tons of great subtle rendering things occuring.
Transparency caustics from the gas mask glass lens (first game I have ever seen to have coloured transparency shadows) + tessellated snow:
GPU particles (a series staple at this point):
Lit particles (check out the window illuminating the particles, hard to see if hard shadows can cast through and onto them though):
Global Volumetrics (coming through the opening in the structure on the left):
Volumetric Cloud Rendering:
Global Illumination (illuminating the inside locally) plus shadows on transparencies (the glass jars on the right):
And then hair translucency-lighting and physics (hairworks?):
https://giant.gfycat.com/SpiffyWanAmurminnow.webm
This wont even look close as good as this on my PS4 slim won't it lol...
Shadax the wizard
Member
This looks so amazing!
blame space
Banned
this shit looked unreal
Volta Mars
Banned
I dig it. I enjoyed the first two, and this looks like it might scratch that Stalker itch I didn't know I had (though honestly, I'm only expecting a diet version of Stalker).
loganclaws
Plane Escape Torment
So it's not open world, but is it just linear levels like the previous two games or is it more like Stalker where there are a bunch of levels that you can explore freely and go back and forth between them?
Lord of Ostia
Member
Sounds like the latter
Not 100% like for like, but it'll look comparable of course, at 30fps, and perhaps reduced resolution.
4A were keen to using Jaguar and the consoles RAM advantage as their base for development according to their interviews on Metro Redux as opposed to scaling down from PC.
Yep. If you have a PC capable of running 2033 and Last Light at 4K/60fps...whew. Still looks amazing.
BigTnaples
Todd Howard's Secret GAF Account
Looks amazing. Can't fucking wait.
Redux on consoles was severely underrated. One of the best Remasters this gen.
Redux on consoles was severely underrated. One of the best Remasters this gen.
loganclaws
Plane Escape Torment
Really? Any official confirmation?
AusRoachman
Member
Looked amazing. Been meaning to pickup the first 2 on sale. Loved the look of the world.
Comrade Crunch
Member
Some spoilers from the last Book, Metro 2035:
The air is completely safe to breath outside of Moscow, and even in parts of Moscow, there's a major conspiracy relating to how "unlivable" the outside world is. It's a pretty amazing twist, so I won't detail the full spoilers.
abacab driver
Banned
Looks superb.
Comrade Crunch
Member
In the OP.
The trailer obviously had to be staged.No other way to do it.
But an open world Metro will scratch my STALKER itch something rotten.
I want to see more of the exploration. The Metro games were great but we spent way too much time indoors as fun as that was having a wider play area sounds dope.
But an open world Metro will scratch my STALKER itch something rotten.
I want to see more of the exploration. The Metro games were great but we spent way too much time indoors as fun as that was having a wider play area sounds dope.
chicken_pasta
Banned
Is there any gameplay? The footage shown during the xbox event looked super scripted.
That said, it did look interested. May get it on PS4
That said, it did look interested. May get it on PS4
Hooks
Member
True but they also weren't open world
therealminime
Member
I was going to agree but then I saw this in the OP, so not quite open world. Which I think is for the better for what this series is all about.
I'm just ferrying our producer over to Twitch for an interview where we can share more detail, but just to be clear - we're a Metro game with some huge, open, non linear levels. But we're not one big open world. We think we have the best of both
I'm just ferrying our producer over to Twitch for an interview where we can share more detail, but just to be clear - we're a Metro game with some huge, open, non linear levels. But we're not one big open world. We think we have the best of both
This is what I was expecting large dense explorable levels. Can't wait to see more.
Metro 2033 and Last Light especially are probably the closest thing I have to a HL2/Episodes successor. The worldbuilding and the gameplay aren't really the same in terms of setting/environment but they are just so solidly built and engrossing that I fall into the games when I play them.
I can't wait to give this a try. It's gonna be hard to push me away.
I can't wait to give this a try. It's gonna be hard to push me away.
loganclaws
Plane Escape Torment
My understanding from that OP blurb is that the levels themselves are big and each level has non-linearity in it, but I think the progress of levels is still linear, not like Stalker.
I've gotta get back to the books, I guess!
HotHamWater
Member
Absolutely fucking thrilled with this. STALKER is way up there for me, with the Metro series not far behind. To see them go this route is exactly what I wanted. I have great faith in 4A, as well. Over the moon, probably the only thing coming out of E3 I'll care about.
GavinUK86
Member
I don't even care about a new Xbox, I'm just SUPER DUPER HYPED that we're getting another Metro game. 2033 is a masterpiece and LL is a solid follow up. Cannot wait for this. "Open world" in the thread title had me worried but now I've read some more I see it isn't. It's just larger levels.
Orochinagis
Member
The outside is now breathable while the inside is toxic thats some inverse game changing
This is so nice.
Tons of great subtle rendering things occuring.
Transparency caustics from the gas mask glass lens (first game I have ever seen to have coloured transparency shadows) + tessellated snow:
GPU particles (a series staple at this point):
Lit particles (check out the window illuminating the particles, hard to see if hard shadows can cast through and onto them though):
Global Volumetrics (coming through the opening in the structure on the left):
Volumetric Cloud Rendering:
Global Illumination (illuminating the inside locally) plus shadows on transparencies (the glass jars on the right):
And then hair translucency-lighting and physics (hairworks?):
https://giant.gfycat.com/SpiffyWanAmurminnow.webm
Lovely stuff
Forsaken82
Member
GSC hasn't done anything remotely relevant in like 5 years (unless you enjoy the Cossacks games)... Most of the talent behind Stalker went to 4A and it clearly shows in this.
TheSadRanger
Banned
Is Arytom the main character again? It's been a while since I've played LL but wasn't
that his wife on the train.
I didn't even know there was a Metro2035 novel, so not only do I have to read that, I have to jump back in to the game series. That it's open world makes this more like Stalker than Metro, where claustrophobia played a huge role in the gameplay. I wonder how it squares the circle between what happened in Last Light and 2034, since they are very different and hugely impactful
Hoping for good things, and what I saw looked like it should deliver.
Hoping for good things, and what I saw looked like it should deliver.
GavinUK86
Member
Yeah he is. Anna shouts Artyom as the train's zipping by.
Some of the most intense and memorable memories of the Metro series for me is reading the books, then replaying the games, in a dark room with headphones on. So good.
90% of that trailer is in game. You can tell what's what by the animations. The only non-gameplay sections are the running away from the monsters in the building and the ending.