The gas masks can be removed, the background is normal, but the anomaly is here - God forbid, so be careful!

Hello everyone, today we will talk about funny bugs and failures that happened to me personally and to many players from the forums during the passage "Metro Exodus". 

It is unlikely that thanks to the article it will be possible to fix them, because more than one year has passed since the release of the game, but we will still pay attention to what the player can see during Artem's journey through the ruins of the destroyed USSR. 

So on to the anomalies!

Flying objects, their streaks or lack thereof

Let's start with something small, something that can be fun to visualize and that has little effect on the gameplay, but kills the atmosphere, which is even worse. We present to you a fun selection of flying "anomalies"!

A beautiful flying stone that is part of the texture of its more majestic brother at the level of "Caspian".

This innocent wire can be seen at the Volga level. If at the time of writing the article (and this is already several years after the release of the game), the developers have not yet removed it, then you can see this bug while completing an additional story task in which you need to pick up a teddy bear for little Nastya. Don't worry, it's not difficult to see him, he just hangs in the air near the structure you have to climb.

Dude, I don't know what you're holding, but it's definitely not a Kalash. An interesting fact is that I took this screenshot right after this miracle happened! And he stands and aims at me with an imaginary machine gun. Bandyuga met me at the level of Taiga, during the passage of the location of the pirate camp. 

Another contender for a bug that breaks the atmosphere of the game. Something went wrong with the chandelier and its texture successfully stretched all the way to the floor. This bug seemed the most unpleasant to me. It can be spotted if you are "lucky" in the "Dead City" level.

Game breaking bugs

Now for something less pleasant: in this section we will discuss bugs that will not only leave you without a beautiful picture and destroy the atmosphere, but will destroy your character or will be forced at all to cross the game! Fortunately, I didn't have to go through it once, but I pressed rage quit (Alt + F4) more than once because of stupid death.

1. More than once, an unpleasant situation for Artem can happen to you: sometimes the monsters that grab you (demons there, dogs are different) will simply drag you into the texture and at full HP you will die for nothing! After all, the game kills you if you unexpectedly find yourself outside the allowed limits.

2. Have you ever seen a black storm? No? And here I am! In the "Caspian" level, you can see how, due to some graphic glitch, instead of a sandstorm, a huge black piece of the screen is waiting for you. I am sure that it depends on the graphics core and processor drivers, but this does not change the "beauty" of such a picture

3. At the "Volga" level, nothing prevents you from simply leaving the map... No, you don't understand, there is radiation that should kill you (don't even ask where it came from, even though it's everywhere, it just wanted to), but something prevents . So, just go back to where you came from on Aurora, and you will be greeted by a beautiful landscape of a torn map…

4. Many. No, no, not like that. MANY bugs with boats. Somewhere you just can't sail through, even though nothing gets in your way, somewhere on the way you can obviously get in the way of anything, but you can move calmly, your boat can sometimes become invulnerable to enemies, which also looks pretty fun, you can't save on a boat , because it will break the game altogether (the developers simply disabled this possibility).

5. Desynchronization of movements and words of story NPCs during dialogues. Maybe it doesn't seem like too much of a problem, but not when you're already 10 minutes, I emphasize - 10 minutes you will watch how the character said something, and then moved the handles for the same amount of time. I noticed such desynchronization with the Ukrainian dubbing, I did not check the others. It only happened a few times, but waiting for a character to finish their two-way dialogue was pretty boring.

6. Remember I said about MANY bugs with boats? Now enable detailed PhysX in the settings and enjoy… Enjoy that one HUGE the number of textures that will be copied (one moves, the other remains in place), HUGE by the number of objects that you can simply enter, as well as jumps of half a kilometer. Oh, jumps, how many times I did was dying from jumping to the nearby edge of the map, you can't even imagine! Friendly recommendation, don't jump, if the game doesn't force you, you just don't have to, because most likely you'll just hurt yourself, and if not, you'll definitely get into a "fun" situation.

Cut content and more

Let's talk a little bit about the cut content, which was definitely planned in the game, but, unfortunately, was not added. Of course, we won't go too deep into the game files and point out something like "THAT'S WHAT WE FOUND!", but we'll point out the most obvious and the things that will make you wonder if you missed something.

Transport. At the "Caspian" level, you can see a lot of cool vehicles: quadricycles, jeeps and buses. No matter how beautiful they all look, you won't be able to ride them, because the developers simply removed this possibility and left you with Saul's bus - the only allowed transport that you will be given at the beginning of the "Caspian" passage

One more concerning particle Saul - dialogue with him. If you choose to stun the character in the first encounter, and not kill him, then in the second encounter with him after the end of the dialogue, you will hear how, after descending to the ground, he will shout at you with the question of where you went, he did not speak at all, but if you turn to him, then he will be silent. It seems that it was planned to add some additional task from Saul or at least a continuation of the dialogue, but it did not happen. Of course, we can assume that Saul simply overheated in the sun, but we doubt something about this option.

Ukrainian subtitles. The subtitles in this game hurt, it hurts a lot, I almost cried, so at some point I had to turn them off... In addition to spelling mistakes, you will expect a change of meaning, words that do not fit and other speech errors, so we do not recommend turning them on without special need

Result

It should be noted that although the game has a ton and even a little more bugs even in 2024, and 4A Games should change testers, but the game is definitely worth buying and playing, if you haven't already. 

For a game with an open world, in my opinion, it is very unlikely that some kind of glitch will force you to go through a whole level again, I have not encountered such at all, and visual bugs, although they sometimes lose the atmosphere, but look fun and do not spoil your experience of playing the game. Most of the bugs have also thankfully been fixed in the Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition, which you will get for free on Steam after buying the regular version, so you can say that the problem is partially solved.