Metro: Last Light Bugs, problems and glitches

Broken my Metro: LL

Hello everyone.

I had to force restart my computer whilst M:LL was running, and I hit force restart.

As a result, Metro will now fail to load and ask me if I want to run it in safe mode or not, and either option will just give me a black screen and no further. It was working perfectly fine up 'till now.

If anyone has a fix or any ideas, it'd be a great help, as I would like to continue streaming it.

I have already tried a re-install, but the problem persists.

 

Bumping my own thread.

If i'm on the wrong part of the forums, if someone could redirect me, I would appreciate it.

 

Thank you whoever moved it in here, however i'm starting to get crack-addict-esque shakes from M:LL withdrawal.

Anyone got -any- ideas?

 

Nvidia Driver Crash

Hello there

Metro Last Light keeps crashing the Nvidia Display Driver on a random basis and I have to force exit the game.

My detailed system specifications:

ASUS Z77 WS
Intel i5-3570k at 4400Mhz
2x 8GB DDR3 1866/C9
ASUS Geforce GTX Titan, no Overclock. Default GPU Boost at 1019Mhz.
Samsung 840 Pro 256GB
Windows 8 Pro x64
Nvidia Driver 320.14 Beta (tried 314.22 WHQL as well)

Game settings:

2560x1440, everything at Very High, PhysX enabled, no SSAA

Sometimes I can play 2-3 hours straight without any problems and performance is really great for a single Titan at this resolution but then the game just freezes and after force quitting it I see the Nvidia Display Driver crashed and recovered:

Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered.

This can also happen in the Benchmark after running it for 10-20 times in a loop.

I'm very confident my video card and the rest of my hardware are fine, I have been running several Benchmarks (Unigine Valley and Heaven, 3DMark11 and 2013 one) as well as other games (Tomb Raider and Hitman Absolution). All of these are very demanding as well and they run without any problems. I also rolled back the Driver from 320.14 to 314.22 but the issue persists. Sometimes I also see some textures not being loaded or weird flimmering and stutter in Metro.

Anyone else got these Driver crashes in Metro when their PC used to run other games just fine?

I really hope its not a graphics card problem and 4A/Nvidia will fix it.

Thanks and kind regards

 

Intro (Dark Ones "attack") and final battle with Pavel scenes have a VERY ugly terrain fog.
Please fix that terrible effect!

 

freezing issues on xbox360

Description of location:

I am currently loading the game from a save spot underneath a building that is on fire and there are rows of plants and stairs in front of me. I think its called "though fire" but not sure. Anyways, If I go up a short flight of stairs there is a motor that I can turn off. If I go the left after I go up the short stairs I have to go around a larger flight of stair and there is a guy standing at the bottom.

Issue/bug on xbox360:

When I begin to play and I sneak up behind an enemy to stealth stab them the screen freezes and the enemy does not drop. An icon showing his ammo is available that I can pickup but he is frozen standing up in this manikin pose and I am frozen as well but all xbox and game menu controls still work. I have reproduced this is over and over again, tried a different sequence of events and it still happens. I am unable to continue the game. It freezes if I stab the guy in the bottom of the stairs or the guy at the top of the stairs.

Please HELP!

 

[Bug] Chase Level *Spoilers*

At the end of the Khan level before getting into the buggy, I collect the med kits from the locker in anticipation of the next level and shadow ranger achievement.

Before the loading screen I have 5 med kits and playing on ranger difficulty. Once the Chase level is loaded I immediately check my med kits and I have 3.

you need 5 med kits to make it to the train on the chase level, this bug has basically stalled my shadow ranger run. Even worse, after the save point on the chase level just before the buggy flips over your cart.. If you progress past the checkpoint and use a few med kits but still die, upon loading the aforementioned check point you well have less med kits then when you triggered the save point.

So to sum it up, finish the Khan level with 5 med kits on ranger, load chase level immediatly have 3 med kits. Trigger the first save point with 3 med kits die further down the road, reload the first checkpoint and you can have as little as 1-2 med kits.

 

Try modding the ¨r_api¨ value, set it to 0 the full route: user/ user name folder/AppData/Local/4A Games/Metro LL/ number folder name/user.cfg

 

Try modding the ¨r_api¨ value, set it to 0 the full route: user/ user name folder/AppData/Local/4A Games/Metro LL/ number folder name/user.cfg

 

Shadow Ranger Bugged? *Spoilers*

I....I don't know. I managed to get through both the train and the Kremlin ambush without killing anyone, but it seems like in order to successfully defend D6, you have to take out both the tank and the phalanx guarding the flamethrower. (since apparently sinking 30 AMR rounds into his helmet nor 30 AMR rounds into the spouts to his tank seem capable of taking him down) Yet, no achievement. Did I do something wrong, or is the game and/or its achievements bugged? (I also never got the achievement for beating Ranger mode when I beat it my first time through on Ranger Normal)

 

Random Lock Up During "Bandit"

Did a memory test, all good. Nothing is overclocked, everything is watercooled (so its not temperature/stress related). And no other games are crashing.

Windows 8 (Latest updates for all software/bios/drivers.)
2GB GTX 680
Corsair Dom. 16GB Ram
Intel 520 SSD.
Intel i7 3930k.

Seems the crashes are isolated to the Bandit level. Replaying on Ranger HC, get to approximately the same spot (as previous play through) and boom. Not Responding.

Happens at the caravan, during the long conversation they have.

Monitoring GPU usage, and GPU RAM is sitting at 990mb give or take a few, and when it crashes usage drops from 50% to 0%.

Only way to recover is to Ctrl+Alt+Del, Sign Out/Swtich User and back in again.

Tried putting everything on the lowest settings etc, and still no good. Also used Process Explorer to see what files Metro access's during that scene/part and re-downloaded them, but made no difference.

Also tried putting on another hard drive with a different controller, still no good. Doing my head in.

 

Hmm, that's odd. I'm having the same crash in the same place. I've replayed the Bandits level several times and if I never revisit the caravan, it never crashes; if I decide to sell off some bandit kit and backtrack, however, there's an excellent chance it will crash as I get close to the caravan.

I haven't been able to find any sort of crashlog, unfortunately.

Beyond that, I haven't had any stability problems anywhere else or in any other game, for that matter.

 

Beat Ranger Hardcore yesterday (Xbox 360) and didn't get the Hardcore achievements for it. Saw someone else mention this as well.

 

This achievement glitch is complained about ALL OVER THE PLACE has anyone heard news of a future update yet?
I was worried at first that we would never see a patch when I read about the horrible working conditions and miniscule budget that 4A had to work with but it was just announced, yesterday i think, that 4A is planning four add-on packs in the near future, first two in June, so it seems logical that they could simply add a patch onto the dlc when they release it and hopefully that way they can avoid the $40,000 microsoft fee for patching.

im keeping my fingers crossed

 

At least you guys get to play and finish the game! Still haven't been able to touch the dam thing because of stuttering on the PC.....

 

I know that feel Lazzerus. My game suffers from stuttering too :/ i wish a patch gets released soon that fixes this. I'm reading the reviews and the game is good but it's no fun playing if you can't play it smoothly. I want to enjoy the game to the max so i'm not even finishing the 1st level untill the stutters are fixed. And i really REALLY hope they will be.

 

Things that are wrong with Metro Last Light...

....Or simply stuff that I want to delve my opinion in the game.

Warning: This thread may be spoiler heavy so before scrolling down make sure you finish the game 100%.



STORY, CHARACTERS & ENDINGS

-The story of Metro Last Light is nothing but amazing. But I can't help but feel unnerve with the changes in some of the characters looks and personalities, the feeling that the story has been rushed and the two endings.

Characters:

Artyom - Seriously? Why change the tone of his voice? I think the old voice of Artyom fits him better. It gives off a unique persona to his character. But honestly I have no complains about the voice change. I just wonder why they change it in the first place....

Miller - In the Metro 2033, the way Miller looks and sound like makes him to be this calm and charismatic leader who is in good and friendly terms with his men. The way he acts in the first games makes him an approachable character at the same retaining a sense of being the leader of a powerful order. He can even tell a joke just like Ulman sometimes....

No, not in this game....damn.

Now, he is this grumpy, serious looking old man who yells orders at me that makes me really want to punch him in the face for making me kill the last Dark One.

He also treats Khan like dirt despite helping him to find Artyom in the first game.

Ulman - Ulman isn't Ulman anymore. Before the game was released, I was hoping to see his cheery charisma and hear his wise-crack jokes and maybe be one of Artyom's companions. But no, not in this game....again. They turned him into this serious soldier lackey instead who tells Khan to shut up instead.

Now he is more of an asshole. and he just anti-climatically got splat in the good ending.

Khan - I got no problem with Khan. He is wise and strong as ever as he was in the first game. But why do they have to turn him into this old bandana wearing hippie?

Andrew "The Blacksmith" - Again they changed what he look like and sound like. They turned andrew into this bald old man...and notice that he never mentions Khan despite being established that the two of them are friends.

Anna (and other women in the game) - Anna is not a returning character but a new one. She is Miller's daughter and the Order's top sniper.

When the trailer 'Redemption' was premiered in Youtube, I was excited because I thought Anna is going to be this strong female companion that will give a different feel in the game, seeing that all of Artyom's companions were male.

But no, not this time around.....

The way she interacts with Artyom can be understandable if she was already established that she was Artyom's partner for many months since he became a Renger.

Se treats Artyom and the Dark Ones like shit....she didn't explain to Artyom why she wasn't able to rescue him from the Nazis while he was unconscious in the gardens....then she turned all mushy and shit...then after rescuing her from Oktyabrskaya, they make love...all in a short time. And I was all like WTF?!

Here we have a potential strong female character only to be turned into this...this...HORNY BITCH!

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She was turned into this love bitch for the sake of the Sacrifice ending.

First of all if they want to take that route there should be an already established relationship between Artyom and Anna. Like treating Artyom with disrespect while secretly having an attraction to him.

This is just minor but...the way she look like make her a bit older(?) than Artyom who in the game is now 21 year old. I don't know, that is how I see it...

The other female "characters" in the game are nothing more but Vendors, Mothers, Widows, Performers, rape victims and....Strippers....motherf*cking STRIPPERS!

Here is a good example....

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That segment is unnecessary as fuck! Like Artyom wants to see a lap dance first before he can continue to pursue Pavel...what? Couldn't he just give the lady an MGR and leave?

The women in the game were such a wasted potential especially Anna. *sighs*

STORY

(To be updated)

ENDINGS

(To be updated)


WEAPONS

- Don't get me wrong, the firearms in Metro Last Light are great and superb. Each has its purpose, even the sidearms are useful, none of the guns are useless in a sense as to other videogames. It is all up to the player in which weapon they prefer.





But my only complain is about two weapons, the AKu and the RPK. Both need 'special conditions' to be obtained in the game. The AKu is part of the infamous Ranger mode DLC and is only usable only in Ranger Mode. The RPK need a special code for it to be unlock in the game.

What about those people who didn't pre-order?

What about those people who ,in for some reason, can't afford the DLC?

What about those who want to use the AKu in other difficulties but can't?

What about hose people who didn't get the special code for the RPK?

Well, sucks for them. They lose. (I pity them really...)


BUGS, GLITCHES & ENEMY AI

- Just like its predecessor, Metro Last Light also share some horrible bugs and glitches in the PC which have been pointed out in numerous reviews and forum posts. Problems with graphic cards especially AMD ones are quite problematic. FOV options are non-existent and other serious technical difficulties are rampant to some players.

Fortunately, 4A is hard at work in repairing these grievances through the release of update patches.

Aside from Bugs and Glitches, the game suffers from bad enemy AI....I mean very bad, especially on stealth sections. There is a time that I encountered an enemy going back and fourth, shouting, firing his gun. I was just standing in front of him watching.

Sample videos:

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RANGER MODE

- There is nothing new about this one. It was one great disappointment to many. Though the Ranger mode in Metro Last Light is nothing compared to the horrific brutality of the Ranger mode in Metro 2033.

Whoever that person who decided to turn Ranger mode into a DLC should just die. (it was a joke.) :lol:

 

my god you are whining.

 

I definitely agree with your take on Miller and Ullman. I liked him a lot in the first game, very patient and smart. In LL he's just an angry old guy who gets mad and feels borderline unreasonable much of the time. New voice was bad, too.

Anna

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was so forced, even awkward. At the beginning of the game she gives you that cold shoulder "don't get in my way newbie" attitude and then when you meet her later, she does this complete 180 and is in love with you for some reason. Hey baby we've spent a cumulative five minutes together so a long term thing probably ain't gonna happen, but if you want to hook up for some quick guilt sex for leaving me to the Nazis a couple days ago, then that's cool. I get she was there for that hope and redemption thing, but it was so poorly done.

Honestly though, my biggest problem character-wise is Khan. I was so, so, so disappointed by him in this game:

Spoiler

In 2033, Khan was a great character. He had this sort of subtle wisdom to him, and many of his lines doubled with a philosophical or religious meaning to them. If you were paying attention, you really got the feeling that this guy knows a lot more about the supernatural aspects of the metro than he's letting on. His dialogue had a very contemplative tone to it, like he was not only comfortable with this new world but he had come to understand it. I still remember his line, "An anomaly. A new phenomenon, in a new world." Anyone else would have panicked, but he was calm and contemplative, sort of meditating on the fact that in this new world, even the most terrifying things can be nonviolent or even friendly.

I felt that anomaly chapter was key to the game, as it connected to the dark ones perfectly. Just like the anomaly, the dark ones were also a new phenomenon that was frightening at first glance, but were actually helpful and even friendly.

Khan had that way of conveying the main themes of the game with very few choice words, and he had a very ethereal feel to him. Loved the guy, and he added a great deal of depth to the game. Even the rangers appeared to respect him, letting him into their base at the end of the game.


Then Last Light completely turns Khan around. Now the rangers no longer respect him, even dislike him. Ullman wants to kick him out of the base, and Miller orders him restrained and removed for making a simple suggestion.

But worse, Khan no longer has that sort of subtle wisdom to him. Now he just rambles on about the pre-war world with no subtlety at all, punching me in the face with a fist full of thematic philosophy. The way he just kind of launches into the tomb talk at the beginning of the game on the D6 elevator felt very out of place, as did most of his long talks that had no segways or prompts.

"Oh hey Artyom, before you finish this chapter let me give you this long speech that serves as a very obvious metaphor for what you're about to do."

 

Throw some more spoiler tags in those posts, boys. You both just ruined a ton of shit for me...