Please hybrid Ranger Normal and Ranger Hardcore

I do have one, though.....

 

My bad.

 

LOL

With that aside. I played through this game on Ranger Hardcore on my first try. I never counted my bullets one by one, but I did make estimates by checking with vendors.

A bit pesky at first, but I thought this was the point.

 

Ranger Hardcore is made for players whose are not fear to take a challenge. It's not a must to do. I'm come from Halo Waypoint forums and people also complain about Mythic difficulty to make it easier.

I say no. This is why this difficulty is unique. You need to fight your way trough with all your limitations. That is a challenge! You feel yourself a bit "special" when you finished it, because your hard work just got it's tasty fruits.

If you were enough dare to start the game on that difficulty, you shouldn't gave up on a little math and thinking. I mean, before you manage to shoot press the reload button once. If Artyom makes the animation then you know you have at least one bullet left (which is enough in my option, you shouldn't engage too much enemies at once since you can die so fast). One shot, one kill if it's a head shot.

Knowing the game is also helpful, I advise to play it trough at least once or twice to know where you can buy ammo and where you'll need it. Especially against mutants. Some weapons ammunition is reusable, which is good too.

Aim Assist shouldn't be a problem on PC, for Consoles it's add a bit more challenge, but since the game has ADS mechanism, accurate fire shouldn't be a problem if you engage targets from safe places. If you not, you will probably die because you'll take incoming fire anyway.

As others mentioned before me, a silenced Assault Rifle (like a Kalash AK-74) and a shotgun is a must.

You also got plenty of possibilities. If you stuck at one of the section, then Internet is your friend. Here is the Forum, there is the Youtube and Google is your friend. Living in an age when nearly every gamers have Internet connection is pretty easy to ask for help. Knowing how powerful machine is needed to run Last Light, Internet connection is guaranteed 99% of the time for the user. If you want to complete Ranger Hardcore without assistance then do it at your own risk, you taken the challenge you can choose to finish it or not.

 

Nice write-up. It just missed the main point this debate is all about.

Complaints about Ranger modes, especially hardcore one, are not about game being too difficult. Just about all players agree this game is on easier side of the specter.

4A Games proclaimed that Ranger modes should increase immersion, and that HUD will be removed. What happened in reality is that MLL implementation of Ranger modes, again hardcore is the main culprit, breaks immersion and at times makes outright stupid changes to original Metro 2033 Ranger modes.

Some people here suggested to write down number of picked up air filters or count bullets in your head. These suggestions are definitely not helping immersion or gameplay in general. They are just annoyances a player have to deal with. Even more bewildering is the fact all of the above mentioned things were depicted by Metro 2033 by non-HUD means just perfect. Why did 4A Games had to change it for MLL?

 

Yeah I know that part but people are already complain about how easy is Ranger Hardcore in Last Light. I'm not against anything, but I do not think about it as a big problem. It's not good do not have, I agree, but it's simply shocking how big echoes does it makes.

 

More like having a skill tree, but being unable to see it. You know, cause if you have to guess which skills you have it'll make it "harder".

 

I agree that it's foolish to purposefully deprive the player of certain info in Ranger Hardcore. In 2033 we did not have to memorize information because of artificial difficulty increases. Why not have a toggle in the options menu for players to allow the HUD from Ranger Normal in Ranger Hardcore.

 

Looks like I'll have to see if my old desktop can run LL so I can try any fixes the SDK brings.

 

how about in the next metro we have a mag and bag of bullets system instead of the magic auto mag reloading system we got now

so with this system the player has 3 mags and 90 rounds plus a bag of bullets

so if i empty half a mag then reload it shows still 3 if i empty a full mag it shows 2 left i can reload my mags with the bag of bullets(for game play lets just have a mag reloader loading mags a bullet at a time would be a bit shit) this will also help if the next metro is open word

or another way is when we look down we see a body with mags on it!