Shove your precious gas mask mechanic.

[_____]

Imagine a good open world like Far Cry X or most any AAA Ubisoft title or GTA V and then have to wear a stupid gas mask all the time - and they are a pain to find and use and maintain. Yeah, the basic gas mask idea is okay in sections of a world, like in some parts of a sewer system or specific radiated areas. Think Fallout universe. The first two games are completely ruined by the idiotic "always wear gas mask outside" requirement. I don't care that there are a few thousand fanatical fan-boys loving it.

Imagine your Fallout view restricted and having to constantly find and use a face device just to be able to keep playing and not die. Idiotic mechanic devised by weak and incompetent developers. If, this new game changes that (ie: gets rid of gas masks completely) mechanic, maybe okay.

[Sovereign]

This is probablly just bait but just in case it isn't I will point out you only had to wear the gasmask during certain sections of these games, not all the time.

[Jig McGalliger]

1 No, you're wrong, the mask is great
2 The mask won't be required in every above ground area, this has been known for over a year.

[pyr0kid]

this is your monthly reminder to all future readers, please dont feed the trolls or any grade-A morons you may see.

[barbatul misterios]

yeah, reporting this thread.

[(ADORA)ble 🌈👊]

While this is probably a troll attempt I will openly admit that I am the very definition of a casual Metro fan. In both games when I made it to gas mask parts I frequently got frustrated and quit. These are very definitely hardcore games even on the easiest difficulty. While it may not be tailor made for people like me with a bit less patience there is NOTHING wrong with that. This franchise wouldn't be what it is if they caved to every demand.

[BDK]

Metro isnt open world though. You use the train to travel to small locations.

[_____]

The only "trolling" here is by the above tools who claim trolling. They are rabid fan-boyz of the series attacking anyone who speaks "against" their precious favorite game. Blow smarter, not harder!

I want a great open world Metro, but if we will have to find/wear gas masks (or filters) that is a game breaker for me. It was for the previous games. Someone said those are limited areas in the past games. Really? I assumed whenever outside, you have to wear the gas mask. Once I did get outside I got killed by the lack of filters and not by any monster. How ironic. Excuse me that my game play style is to explore every nook and cranny. The game as I played it, was to explore everywhere. Even the game wants you to do that, and the proof is that you find, iirc, audio tapes/logs scattered around, or ammo/useful things in abandoned buildings, and outside.

I went outside as all players eventually do, in Metro 2033, where that flying creature is introduced about 2-3 hours into the game. I killed it, even though I am not even sure you're "supposed" to, but I managed to. I started exploring and picked up many items which proves the developers want you to explore. Too bad I ran out of filters long before I was done exploring. (And before going outside, I did my utmost to find as many filters as I could. This was on the "default" difficulty, iirc.) Garbage and putrid artificial game mechanic. I uninstalled.

I want to take my time and look around, explore, do my own thing. The game forces you to rush like a 14 year old COD player on Red Bull. No! If however you tell me that it changes, that is something I will listen to. So tell me more. In Metro 2033, when and how will you be able breath without gas masks outside? If it's that "there are some outside areas later in the game that you can breathe freely" and are very limited and more a gimmick, big deal. If that initial open area is the "exception" where you're forced to wear a gas mask, I would accept that and move past it, that area, and continue playing - even though that area itself has several "important" things scattered all over. This gas mask gimmick is like a timer; rush through the levels like some speed runner and miss half the things so you can continue moving forward.

[barbatul misterios]

Originally posted by _____:

The only "trolling" here is by the above tools who claim trolling. They are rabid fan-boyz of the series attacking anyone who speaks "against" their precious favorite game. Blow smarter, not harder!

I want a great open world Metro, but if we will have to find/wear gas masks (or filters) that is a game breaker for me. It was for the previous games. Someone said those are limited areas in the past games. Really? I assumed whenever outside, you have to wear the gas mask. Once I did get outside I got killed by the lack of filters and not by any monster. How ironic. Excuse me that my game play style is to explore every nook and cranny. The game as I played it, was to explore everywhere. Even the game wants you to do that, and the proof is that you find, iirc, audio tapes/logs scattered around, or ammo/useful things in abandoned buildings, and outside.

I went outside as all players eventually do, in Metro 2033, where that flying creature is introduced about 2-3 hours into the game. I killed it, even though I am not even sure you're "supposed" to, but I managed to. I started exploring and picked up many items which proves the developers want you to explore. Too bad I ran out of filters long before I was done exploring. (And before going outside, I did my utmost to find as many filters as I could. This was on the "default" difficulty, iirc.) Garbage and putrid artificial game mechanic. I uninstalled.

I want to take my time and look around, explore, do my own thing. The game forces you to rush like a 14 year old COD player on Red Bull. No! If however you tell me that it changes, that is something I will listen to. So tell me more. In Metro 2033, when and how will you be able breath without gas masks outside? If it's that "there are some areas later in the game that you can breath freely" and are very limited and more a gimmick, big deal. If that initial open area is the "exception" where you're forced to wear a gas mask, I would accept that and move past it, that area, and continue playing - even though that area itself has several "important" things scattered all over. This gas mask gimmick is like a timer; rush through the levels like some speed runner and miss half the things so you can continue moving forward.

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[_____]

Originally posted by Mr. Scrotum:

blowing really hard

Get a life, loser!

[barbatul misterios]

Originally posted by _____:

Originally posted by Mr. Scrotum:

blowing really hard

Get a life, loser!

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[Blue_Lightning]

Its a survival game not an open world game, deal with it.

[Taurgar]

Originally posted by _____:

Originally posted by Mr. Scrotum:

blowing really hard

Get a life, loser!

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[Justin_760]

I think its important to promote unhindered exploration, and to allow those who wish to take their time and soak in the environmental detail to do so. I found the mechanic pesky.

In the last Metro's there were always plenty of canisters/masks so it wasnt ever a problem running out of air, which begs the question why even bother putting it in if its not really a threat. I imagine its for immersion and to add tension to exploring above ground, but I personally dont feel it adds enough if anything to the game to justify a pesky meter.

[Jig McGalliger]

If you explored every nook and cranny, you would have found more than enough filters, even on Survival Ranger mode.

They will NOT offer a gas mask god mode, but there have always been other ways around the gas mask, like memory injectors.

[Coldhands]

It seems like the gas mask might be a little more meaningful in Exodus, if only some areas of the surface require it, and the maps are big and open with lots of side content.
In Metro and Last Light, the gas mask was just a timer, because it was always required in the surface areas. That kind of kept it from being an interesting mechanic, because it wasn't a price you had to choose to pay in order to enter an area that might have something useful in it, the gas mask was just this breath meter you had to watch and get through the level before it ran out.