[SPOILERS] end game explanation

[Guillermo Van Helsing]

I just finished the game and I'm still wondering why Hanza goes through so much trouble to keep the population underground.

It appears to me that there's no occupying enemy force, because the mutual destruction worked, NATO and Russia both got rekt, there's just a mad max/Fallout like wasteland out there with lots of bandits and crazy mofos.

My theories are:
1: Hanza knows the truth but hides it from the Moscow population because that's the only way to keep the population under control, if everyone starts to wander around then there will be no one for the elites at Hanza to command.

2: Hanza believes there really is an occupying ennemy force and are doing what they believe to be right.


What do you think?

[⚡Snake⚡Plissken⚡]

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[CursedPanther]

Your first point is likely the reason.

Humans work best together when we all have a common goal to focus on. The group maintains this cover with the jammers probably to provide exactly this, which surviving 'the war' should be the absolute priority mission for every Metro citizen. Having the freedom of speech and news is always nice, but only during peaceful times with plenty of everything to spare.

However as time passes the survivors have found new ways to reach the surface and explore or even bump into others survivors outside of Moscow by chance. News eventually travel back to the Metro forming the subsequent rumors leading to Artyom's belief.

Anyway, this scheme of the group is obviously falling apart pretty fast as it can no longer stop the Reds and Fascists from starting a full scale war and results in hundreds of deaths. Moscow Metro society will slowly destroy itself in a matter of time and the survivors desperately require a new way of living.

[Sovereign]

It's not Hanza, it's Metro Central Command (A.K.A the "Invisible Watchers"), the remnants of the Russian government who control the Metro from behind the scenes. They created the factions to give people the illusion of choice and cause the wars between them as a method of population control. They know full well there is no war with NATO, they are trying to keep people in the Metro so they can control them, they don't want to lose power over what they consider the last "civilized" part of Russia.

[EW/SirAlonne]

read metro 2035

[Derrame]

It is explained in the game
they thought that enemy forces occupied the country and created the jamming towers to hide moscow to prevent new attacks

plus that, what Soverign wrote ^

[Guillermo Van Helsing]

Originally posted by Sovereign:

It's not Hanza, it's Metro Central Command (A.K.A the "Invisible Watchers"), the remnants of the Russian government who control the Metro from behind the scenes. They created the factions to give people the illusion of choice and cause the wars between them as a method of population control. They know full well there is no war with NATO, they are trying to keep people in the Metro so they can control them, they don't want to lose power over what they consider the last "civilized" part of Russia.

Did we ever encounter the invisible watchers in the game? Where do they live? In one of the metro stations?

[Sovereign]

Originally posted by Supreme Being:

Originally posted by Sovereign:

It's not Hanza, it's Metro Central Command (A.K.A the "Invisible Watchers"), the remnants of the Russian government who control the Metro from behind the scenes. They created the factions to give people the illusion of choice and cause the wars between them as a method of population control. They know full well there is no war with NATO, they are trying to keep people in the Metro so they can control them, they don't want to lose power over what they consider the last "civilized" part of Russia.

Did we ever encounter the invisible watchers in the game? Where do they live? In one of the metro stations?

They’re mentioned several times, the jammer station at the beginning is theirs. I assume they’re saving them for the next game.

Assuming it’s the same as the books they live in a soviet era bunker in Moscow called Bunker 42.

[Guillermo Van Helsing]

Originally posted by Sovereign:

Originally posted by Supreme Being:

Did we ever encounter the invisible watchers in the game? Where do they live? In one of the metro stations?

They’re mentioned several times, the jammer station at the beginning is theirs. I assume they’re saving them for the next game.

Assuming it’s the same as the books they live in a soviet era bunker in Moscow called Bunker 42.

Oh ok so they don't mingle with the Metro ppl they live in a Bunker like Yamantau's.

[Sovereign]

Originally posted by Supreme Being:

Originally posted by Sovereign:

They’re mentioned several times, the jammer station at the beginning is theirs. I assume they’re saving them for the next game.

Assuming it’s the same as the books they live in a soviet era bunker in Moscow called Bunker 42.

Oh ok so they don't mingle with the Metro ppl they live in a Bunker like Yamantau's.

Yes, most never leave the bunker, again assuming it’s the same as the book.

[mark1971]

One of the guards at the jammer installation said, Washington is well. And Hanza does what every leadership (less or more) does, control and operate.

Generally, it's fiction, - so speculation is desired. That makes a good story.