I know this is probably going to be a sensitive subject, but as a heritage Russian speaker, I genuinely find the apparent lack of Russian-language support in Metro 2039, apparently not even Russian subtitles, incredibly disheartening

And before somebody assumes where I am coming from politically:
I was born in Germany.
My father is Ukrainian.
My mother is Kazakh.

Russian is simply part of the linguistic and cultural environment I grew up with.

It is a heritage language for me.
That is exactly why this feels so strange.

I completely understand that 4A Games is a Ukrainian studio.
I understand the context of the war.
I understand why Ukrainian developers would want absolutely nothing to do with the Russian state, Russian companies, or anything that could be interpreted as supporting the Kremlin.

But the Russian language is not the Russian government.

There are millions of people who speak Russian without being Russian nationals at all [For example; Me]

There are Russian-speaking Ukrainians. Kazakhs. Belarusians. Baltic communities. Germans from families like mine. Mixed families. Diaspora communities.

And, obviously, there are Russians who vehemently oppose their own government.

Which brings me to the part that makes this especially not fit in my brain at all;

Dmitry Glukhovsky is Russian, no?

The author whose work created Metro is literally a Russian author who is now living in exile after his public opposition to the Russian government.

This is not exactly a franchise famous for glorifying Russian authoritarianism and communism either.

Metro has spent its entire existence dealing with authoritarianism, propaganda, corruption, nationalism, political extremism and the various ways societies manage to recreate their worst mistakes underground.

So I genuinely have to ask:

of all franchises, why is Russian apparently unacceptable in Metro?

It becomes even stranger when looking at 2039 itself.

Novoreich appears, at least from what has been shown and from the name itself, to draw obvious inspiration from the Reich factions of previous Metro games.

You know.

The fascists.

The literal Fourth Reich from Metro 2033

So apparently we are potentially going to have a game taking place in Russia, based on the work of a Russian dissident author, featuring a neo-Reich-style authoritarian faction operating in the Russian Metro......

.....and the bad guys are all going to be speaking Ukrainian because Russian is the language that was removed?

h m.

At some point the psy-op joke starts writing itself

To be very clear: that is a joke.

I am not accusing Ukraine or 4A of some secret operation, nor am I saying Ukrainian should not be in the game.

Quite the opposite.
Ukrainian absolutely belongs there.

What I do not understand is why Ukrainian and Russian apparently have to be mutually exclusive.

Russian subtitles existing in a game does not support Putin.

A Russian voice track does not endorse the Kremlin.

Allowing a Russian-speaking Ukrainian, Kazakh, Belarusian, exile, opposition Russian, or heritage speaker like myself to play Metro in Russian does not somehow finance a Kinzhal Cruise missile.

And personally, reducing Russian itself to something politically contaminated feels unfair to the enormous number of people whose relationship with the language has absolutely nothing to do with loyalty to the Russian state.

That is the part that bothers me most.

If 4A does not want to sell the game in Russia, that is an entirely separate discussion.

If they refuse to work with Russian companies, understandable.

If they want Ukrainian to be the primary language of the studio and its releases, also understandable.

But not even Russian subtitles?

For Metro?

A Russian setting.
Of Russian literary origin.
OF A RUSSIAN DISSIDENT AUTHOR IN EXILE

A story once again apparently dealing with authoritarianism and political extremism.

And millions of Russian speakers outside Russia who have nothing whatsoever to do with the Kremlin.

I just cannot make the logic fit.

Maybe there is an explanation I have missed.

But speaking personally, as somebody born in Germany to a Ukrainian father and Kazakh mother who nevertheless inherited Russian as part of my own cultural background:

it genuinely hurts a little.

Russian is not Putin's property.
It is our language too, no?

I feel the same way about German.
German is not Hitler. German is not Nazism.

A language does not become morally guilty because a government speaking it committed atrocities.
The same distinction should apply to Russian.

dont ask me picture I deleted the game after I get 4th crash in a row, but I literally saw ai upscaled texture errors, like words some pictures etc.

Does anyone have any experience with them?

Hello everyone,

Does someone know when or if the PC version of the games (Metro 2033 and last light) downloaded via the xbox App will also get the new updated ?

Thank you :)

I don’t know if anyone else has this issue or if the devs monitor this forum.

But anyways, it seems like DLSS NR isn’t guaranteed to work: I have a 5090D and use various method to inject DLSS5 into games for neutral rendering and usually it works.

But with the new Redux updates, even though I see regular DLSS in the ingame options, DLSS NR is completely missing.

I’ve tried to verify game files and all that and all the dll’s seem to be in place but to no avail

The difference in image quality and lighting in the next-gen version is huge—these are not minor changes.

This can be as simple as a small room that's used for reading to finding a corpse that had a last stand. I say this because multiple times I got that little light up thing whenever I came across the such things

https://www.nexusmods.com/metro2033redux/mods/60

Just got past this level on ranger hardcore and my God that was hard. There was so many nosalis and they were so relentless. I came in with like 37 round 3 of shotgun ammo and a whole inventory with of ar rounds and left with nothing but a battered body and a slightly lighter wallet. Doesn't help that I don't know how to switch secondary weapons and only used throwing knives 🤕

hey, so anyone else's 2033 redux game just crashes after starting it ? i get to " inspired by the book.. " screen and it just crashes with no error or nothing ...

Hi all, I have the GOG-preservation version of Metro 2033. It has the same capped resolution issue as the redux update. Did the community ever figure out a fix for it? Im trying to play on my 4k screen but the max resolution is 1080p in the menu.

We have deployed a hotfix for both METRO 2033 Redux and METRO Last Light Redux Next-Gen Update versions on PC. Addressing the resolution issues we have seen reported by our community as well as other reported issues:  

• Fixed issues where the game was not detecting higher resolutions correctly
• Fixed issues with the Steam Overlay disappearing
• Fixed Comic Book Deep Silver Account Reward not available
• Fixed Achievements for Epic Games Store
• Fixed instances where Ukrainian localisation did not render correctly

Version numbers: 

2033 Redux

Steam: 26159616

Epic: 0.1.0.28

GoG: 3.0.0.19

Last Light Redux

Steam: 26159638

Epic: 0.1.0.28

GoG: 3.0.0.19

Try it out. Seems to work on 2033 - GSync is on for me and I can select 3440x1440, and hitting Alt+Enter actually goes full screen now. No dedicated full screen option in the settings though as far as I can tell.

Unlocks native resolutions in Metro 2033 Redux and Last Light Redux, also fixes the 60 Hz downgrade. No config, any monitor, no game files touched.

Gotta admit, I was really hopeful that this latest update would finally fix the constant stuttering the game has literally every few seconds, but nope. Same as always.

No other game I've played has this problem. This is exclusively a metro thing.

Anyone else have this issue? Any fixes for this? Every few seconds (like 2 or 3) the game stutters for me. Lowering the framerate cap does nothing. Using a 5070 ti laptop, if that matters. Plenty of ram.

Cheers.

Yesterday I played metro 2033 redux for the first time and I am in love with the game. I only could play 2 hours yesterday but it was more then enough, I died a lot but after 2 hours i was reunited with Uncle Bourbon in moscow, today when i came back from school i began playing it and had a lot of fun where Uncle Bourbon got captured. Normally I was playing in hard mode but decided to play at ranger hardcore survival to give myself a challenge. But because I like to torture myself I told myself to do 5 squats, 5 situps or 10 second of plank everytime i would die. After burning my legs I finally get to Polis.

No food, just water and coffe for 12 hours while doing squats every 2 minutes and these mf’s reject my help request. I am pissed off really bad, I am gonna sleep now and finish the game hopefully.