Can't knockout enemies bug.

[Adizzel]

I saw thats it been a while since someone put a thread on this issue. I had this bug since the Bandits mission and it won't go away. I've tried doing the Pavel dlc mission and that didn't work, I tried closing and reopening the game, and I tried reinstalling the game.

So has anyone got any updated ways on how to solve this?

[Jig McGalliger]

Reload the prior chapter and see if the error doesn't reoccur.

[Adizzel]

Originally posted by Jig McGalliger:

Reload the prior chapter and see if the error doesn't reoccur.

Do I play through the whole chapter because the leve before Bandits is Regina and I've no way to tell if it works in Regina or do I just load it up and go on to the next chapter?

[Jig McGalliger]

It will start your save at the beginning of that level. It should work if you load a level where you last remember takedowns working, then continue from there and hope the bandits level doesn't kill it again. You will have to replay a level.

I think if you knock a spider on his back (during Regina) you shuld be able initiate a takedown animation. If it works on the spider, it should work on the humans (regardless of lethal/non lethal)

[Adizzel]

Originally posted by Jig McGalliger:

It will start your save at the beginning of that level. It should work if you load a level where you last remember takedowns working, then continue from there and hope the bandits level doesn't kill it again. You will have to replay a level.

I think if you knock a spider on his back (during Regina) you shuld be able initiate a takedown animation. If it works on the spider, it should work on the humans (regardless of lethal/non lethal)

No it still doesn't work.

[Jinks33]

Originally posted by Adizzel:

Originally posted by Jig McGalliger:

It will start your save at the beginning of that level. It should work if you load a level where you last remember takedowns working, then continue from there and hope the bandits level doesn't kill it again. You will have to replay a level.

I think if you knock a spider on his back (during Regina) you shuld be able initiate a takedown animation. If it works on the spider, it should work on the humans (regardless of lethal/non lethal)

No it still doesn't work.

just like to say it worked for me ..i went back and just selected chapter before and loaded it after that i went back to the chaper i was on ...so far so good

[Adizzel]

Originally posted by glendavid292003:

Originally posted by Adizzel:

No it still doesn't work.

just like to say it worked for me ..i went back and just selected chapter before and loaded it after that i went back to the chaper i was on ...so far so good

It still doesn't work, I tried it twice now. I don't get a takedown option when they are on their backs so is there any other way?

[Jig McGalliger]

Then try loading the one before that, because the spider level's save has the corruption too.

[yellow eggplant]

Originally posted by glendavid292003:

Originally posted by Adizzel:

No it still doesn't work.

just like to say it worked for me ..i went back and just selected chapter before and loaded it after that i went back to the chaper i was on ...so far so good

Hi, I have the same problem. The takedown prompt does not show up, but when I press V, it does the takedown animation. Is this what you mean? Or is there a takedown prompt that's still spelled out? Don't want to play through that chapter again just to see that it doesn't work hehe

[Adizzel]

Originally posted by yellow eggplant:

Originally posted by glendavid292003:

just like to say it worked for me ..i went back and just selected chapter before and loaded it after that i went back to the chaper i was on ...so far so good

Hi, I have the same problem. The takedown prompt does not show up, but when I press V, it does the takedown animation. Is this what you mean? Or is there a takedown prompt that's still spelled out? Don't want to play through that chapter again just to see that it doesn't work hehe

I don't get any options for non lethal and lethal takedowns so I can't do anything. I can press v like slashing the knife and thats all I can do melee wise. I really want to finish the game. It saddens me something like this hasn't fixed in a year or more.

[yellow eggplant]

Originally posted by Adizzel:

Originally posted by yellow eggplant:

Hi, I have the same problem. The takedown prompt does not show up, but when I press V, it does the takedown animation. Is this what you mean? Or is there a takedown prompt that's still spelled out? Don't want to play through that chapter again just to see that it doesn't work hehe

I don't get any options for non lethal and lethal takedowns so I can't do anything. I can press v like slashing the knife and thats all I can do melee wise. I really want to finish the game. It saddens me something like this hasn't fixed in a year or more.

Sorry, should have been a bit more clear. It does the takedown animation on the spiders. I know it's not just the usual animation when you press v because the character here kneels down and stabs the spider right in the gut. Is that the animation he means? The chapter before Bandits is really long and I don't wanna waste my time to see that it doesn't work anyway when you get to Bandits.

[Adizzel]

Originally posted by yellow eggplant:

Originally posted by Adizzel:

I don't get any options for non lethal and lethal takedowns so I can't do anything. I can press v like slashing the knife and thats all I can do melee wise. I really want to finish the game. It saddens me something like this hasn't fixed in a year or more.

Sorry, should have been a bit more clear. It does the takedown animation on the spiders. I know it's not just the usual animation when you press v because the character here kneels down and stabs the spider right in the gut. Is that the animation he means? The chapter before Bandits is really long and I don't wanna waste my time to see that it doesn't work anyway when you get to Bandits.

Yeah I think so.

[Shrek1onVHS]

I believe I may have found a fix for this.

This is what I did:

1. On Steam, go to Steam > Settings > Cloud. Uncheck Enable Steam Cloud synchronization for applications which support it

2. Go to Documents > 4A Games > Metro Last Light > 11000010a9206f2

3. Delete 2034_auto_save, 2034_I07_tunnel.player and 2034_I07_tunnel_2.player

4. Start up the game. Go to chapter select (you won't be able to use the Continue option because you deleted the autosave file) and replay through Revolution and Regina. When you get up to Bandits, you should be able to do stealth kills and knockouts. If you can't, delete the saves again and try again.

The first time I tried to fix this glitch, I deleted my saves and started a new game on Normal. I got up to Bandits and was able to do stealth takedowns. I finished the level, quit to main menu, then started a new game on Ranger. I played back up to Bandits and this time the glitch did not happen.

I thought this was the fix, but after starting another new game on Ranger, the glitch happened again. I tried doing the same thing as before (playing on Normal then on Ranger) but the glitch happened again (it didn't happen on Normal but did happen on Ranger.)

So, then I knew my original "fix" wasn't a fix at all and I can only assume that it's random whether or not the glitch will happen. My theory is that the glitch is linked to either the auto_save file or the tunnel_2.player file.

The first time I tried this new fix, I only deleted the auto_save file and the tunnel_2.player file, which is the file for Bandits. I replayed through Regina and still encountered the glitch on Bandits, but when I also deleted the tunnel_1.player file and replayed through from Revolution, I didn't encounter the glitch.

I think it's possible that the glitch will happen at random when you reach Bandits, but deleting those saves and replaying one or two levels seems to be the best chance at not encountering the glitch. If it doesn't work the first time, it should work after a few tries. Obviously, this is much faster than starting a new game and hoping the glitch doesn't occur.

[Elephant]

I tried the method above 4 times as indicated by A Wooden Nail and it didn't work for me. I tried one more time and on my last attempt I did the same except after each chapter I quit to main menu at the start then loaded the chapter again from chapter select. I did this at the start of Regina and once again on the Bandits level. After this I could now use take downs again.

I'm not sure if the load from chapter at the start changed it or if it's just a random chance of bugging out each time you go through the levels again. It was painful but i'm now able to play the game with take downs. I hope this helps someone else as this was an infuriating bug.

[Doner]

I think i know whats causing the problem. A few years ago when i was playing this game i had similiar problem but forgot about it and about solution that worked for me. So right now i was kinda in shocked when i noticed i cant do knockout in Bandits level. At first i thought it was some kind of story telling or something like that and Artyom don't want to spare them and thats why i cant do knock out but after few minutes i couldn't belive it so i search google and find out it's bug. I spend few hours retrying levels from Retribiution to Bandits and all the time i was taking the same path over and over and i still had the bug. Then this strange feeling happend in my mind that i was doing the same thing few years ago and the solution for that was to NOT KNOCK OUT THE LAST HEAVY ARMOR MAN in Retribution level. So again i started from Retribution and was doing the same thing, going the same route but this time at the end i didn't knock out the last guy in level and it worked. Bug disappear and i finally can Konck Out whoever i want in Bandits level. I hope it will work for you too... After many trails i did it's hard for me to belive it will not. Nonetheless leave comment to let everybody knows that it's working for you too or not :)

[Cranberry Juice]

Originally posted by Doner:

I think i know whats causing the problem. A few years ago when i was playing this game i had similiar problem but forgot about it and about solution that worked for me. So right now i was kinda in shocked when i noticed i cant do knockout in Bandits level. At first i thought it was some kind of story telling or something like that and Artyom don't want to spare them and thats why i cant do knock out but after few minutes i couldn't belive it so i search google and find out it's bug. I spend few hours retrying levels from Retribiution to Bandits and all the time i was taking the same path over and over and i still had the bug. Then this strange feeling happend in my mind that i was doing the same thing few years ago and the solution for that was to NOT KNOCK OUT THE LAST HEAVY ARMOR MAN in Retribution level. So again i started from Retribution and was doing the same thing, going the same route but this time at the end i didn't knock out the last guy in level and it worked. Bug disappear and i finally can Konck Out whoever i want in Bandits level. I hope it will work for you too... After many trails i did it's hard for me to belive it will not. Nonetheless leave comment to let everybody knows that it's working for you too or not :)

I only ever played Metro on console so I unknowingly encountered this bug during my first play through on PC and didn't realize it was bugged until I was relatively far past the REVOLUTION level. This solution of yours does in fact work for me and presumably anyone else who tries it hopefully so thank you very much for sharing.