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  What level of difficulty are you playing at? : baron calamity
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    Normal :/ The AI reacts quite different from most games I have played. And it's really throwing me off. : ghost hacker
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      Actually I've found the AI a bit disappointing. In many cases the AI just runs a standard route over and... : wytefang
      • I have noticed some patterns with the AI's movements. Yeah it seems quite railed, but that's fine by me. ... : ghost hacker
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  What are your specs? I have a Q9550 with a 5850 and 8 gigs of ram, and even in DX9 mode on Very High it d... : at0micgarden
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    i7 920, asus rampage II gene, 6gb ram and a 5858. Yeah it drops when you hit outside, I'll have to mess ... : ghost hacker
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      GOOD GOD, man! : CrustaR
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        sorry 5850, but I assume you guessed that. : ghost hacker
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          I'm hoping ATI steps up performance with their new drivers... : at0micgarden
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            Try the 10.3a Preview Drivers: http://sites.amd.com/us/underground/tips/Pages/catalyst-10-3-preview.aspx : rms
            • I don't think there's any Metro 2033 in those drivers, my guess is we'll have to wait till the April set. : one random winner
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      yea, in your case I highly recommend playing on dx11 / high, for me it seems to be the best overall trade... : Milleh
      • I'll give that a shot, we need a tweak sheet the config file is a bit confusing. : ghost hacker
  • I had to drop my resolution down significantly like 1300xsomething. Looks pretty nice in dx11 very high s... : Lawgiver
  • X4 955, 4890, 8 gigs, it runs 30-40 avg. The only time it drops is when they open the door to the outside... : shortbuscaptain
• great great game. Had my first trip up to Moscow last night and it was tense as hell. Ghosts! : Fredrik S
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  Damnit you're going to make me buy this game. Is it a viable tactic to stealth around knifing bitches... : Dynotaku
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    Fuck I never thought of shooting the lights out. That might help. I can do some stealth, but it''s hard, ... : ghost hacker
    • That helped me like crazy in the first bandit hideout, that + throwing knives ftw. : Milleh
  • Knifing seems awkward to me, though it seems to be one hit kills if you hit them in the head? Not sure. : crummynz
  • you can get a stealth suit which helps a lot. You can also use throwing knives and take people out with o... : DarkDeus
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    It sucks when you step on a bottle trying to get past a pack of mutants, then they let out that damn call... : shortbuscaptain
    • apparently they can smell you too : ( : DarkDeus
• I am about half way through on Normal and finding it way too easy unfortunately. BTW - going from very hi... : Milleh
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  For some reason I don't care about this game - it's been completely off my radar. Am I doing it wrong? : _jon
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    No you're doing it right. Play Stalker instead. : zuff
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      Nah, both are really good for the types of games that they are. : wytefang
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        I don't think I would like either : _jon
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          With your posts about "twitch" games like CS and whatnot, Stalker has excellent shooting mechanics. I thi... : zuff
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            interesting. will consider : _jon
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              yeah Stalker and Metro are both games that are not twitch at all. I love Stalker and Metro just because i... : ghost hacker
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                How does Metro compare to FO3? Is it all linear akin to HL or are there side-quests, alternate endings, ... : dedgecko
                • I've not touched FO3 yet. There does not seem to be side quests, it is a railed shooter no doubt, and the... : ghost hacker
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                  I've felt like there could be alternate endings or at least dialogue segments just because of how smoothl... : kemical
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                    subtitles? : dedgecko
                    • the option is there yes. : ghost hacker
                    • yeah I have them switched on, the russian voice acting feels way more authentic to english, it gets rid o... : kemical
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                  Metro and FO3 cannot be compared in any kind of a meaningfull way - there are virtually NO rpg elements i... : Milleh
                  • cool - I'll pick it up as soon as it hits $29.99 : dedgecko
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                  F03?? : wytefang
                  • Oh DUH. Fallout 3. I are dumm. : wytefang
                • I think there are alternate endings but overall the game is more like HL. It does not have the weapon sta... : DarkDeus
    • This game is really nothing like Stalker, that's like comparing BF to CS because they both involve modern... : Milleh
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      you shouldnt even compare them. They are completely different types of games. Would you compare bioshock ... : DarkDeus
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        I didn't compare them. I told him what game he should be playing instead. : zuff
        • he should just play both of them. : DarkDeus
• i had a scary dream about this game last night and i've never even played it! i watched a few gameplay vi... : ass-street
• Thought this was a steam game, how come its not out on steam in Europe? : trelain
• I'm wondering if you need a new driver or something? I have a Nvidia 275 with 1792MB and it runs on High... : wytefang
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  The game still has hitching that makes it unplayable for me, no matter how much I dial down the detail le... : UtilityMaximizer
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    There was a thread that went through the config file and turned off two items which killed framerates. ... : ghost hacker
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      dx11 dop and tesselation? : Milleh
      • ^This : one random winner
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        I'm running in Dx10 at low detail. I'm pretty sure that's not the problem. Even the damn loading screen h... : UtilityMaximizer
        • thats really obnoxious. i wonder what the F? : chilln
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          This sounds really stupid and doesn't make much sense at all, but on release day I read a post (not on sh... : Milleh
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            Interesting. I guess I could give it a try, but I already removed the game. I'll wait for new drivers or a patch, defrag, and then try it.

            Mar 19, 2010 10:59am PDT
            Interesting. I guess I could give it a try, but I already removed the game. I'll wait for new drivers or ... : UtilityMaximizer
        • it's not the machine, there is definately something buggy in the game on a couple items, hopefully like o... : ghost hacker
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          hmm thats weird. I'm running it on a fairly old pc with normal settings and it is very smooth. : DarkDeus
          • This is why I think it must be something wrong with my machine. : UtilityMaximizer
• i've been playing this on 360 as an experiment and i have to say it looks and plays amazingly fluid, grea... : kemical
• Question: Are you all running ATI or NVIDIA?? : ghost hacker
• Steam unlocked it, deleted 6Gig of preloaded content and is now downloading it again :(((((((((((((((( : fen boi
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  The animations for the creatures are crazy, I dunno they just move really fluid and the motion blur gives... : shortbuscaptain
  • yea the animations are really good and add a lot to the scariness and realism. These fuckers were annoyin... : DarkDeus
• Quick graphics comparison. Very high- http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/403/metro2033veryhigh.jpg Hig... : DarkDeus
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  Performance tips: Well, first thing after installing and launching the game once to put in your setti... : Visceral Monkey
  • I looked for it and there was no r_gi at all. I added in and it did nothing... and for those running in ... : ghost hacker