So Metro Exodus is a great game, really it's amazing. But I am so beyond pissed at it right now.
Without getting to spoilerey, late in the game, you lose all of your shit and have to get it back as you explore. Okay, cool. I like that as a concept. Pull the player out of their comfort zone for awhile. Except, if you, like I did, happen to forget one of those items in particular (a pretty important piece too - you CAN finish the game without it, but you don't really want to, as once you have it you use it extensively) you will, pretty much at the start of the level be blocked off from ever going back to get it. I'd like to strangle whoever's idea that was. It's so stupid. I mean it's right at the start of the level, but it is pretty easy to miss when you're just kind of thrown-in to explore, especially not knowing you should be looking there for it immediately or you will lose it forever. You could easily miss the location completely. I'm betting many, many people will miss this and not even realize until maybe an hour later, when they find they really kinda need it. I knew and I still missed it, just getting caught up in the game. I went to where it was and explored everywhere and still missed it.
I've really enjoyed the game. I play very meticulously, trying to find every secret and reap the rewards, the item I lost being one of them. I feel like I've been punished for no reason. It's like... REALLY?! I spent hours trekking the desert to find this cool thing and now you're gonna make me look for it again... and then if I miss it my only recourse is "Well just play through the double digit hours you just racked up to get here again and you can have it...." I understand the concept of keeping the player from getting complacent, but that has limits... particularly when taking away something that while optional, is still a core part of playing the game. I've been able to play how I wanted to the whole game only to have it taken from me over something stupid. Please game! Forgive me for missing it! It's sitting discreetly on a fucking bookshelf an there's a lot of shit to look at there! I don't wanna throw away over a week of playing the game for that. That is just torture. But then going without it sucks too. If this was me as a kid I would just throw away the game at that point.
So now instead of enjoying the game, I'm looking for cheats that will let me go back far enough to get it. The one cheat table I know has what I need (I used it before to get past a save glitch earlier in that puts you in the bottom of an elevator shaft you can't get out of,) but it is no longer working and I am at a loss. It won't activate anymore and I know I'm not missing something. There's nothing to really miss.
I really feel like my time has been well spent...
Gotta say, those two things are pretty egregious. Nobody wants to spend their time dealing with that. This, on top of the many minor bugs introduced with the most recent update has me not wanting to play this game anymore. And that sucks. Otherwise it is an amazing game. It's just that shit like that is never okay to me. I don't think they intended for that to be possible. Maybe just a really bad oversight. I hope to god it was. Otherwise that is a terrible mechanic. If I don't figure this out, it will be a long time before I play this game again. I don't wanna sit through that shit again... there are so many cinematic sections and while they're cool, they're not that cool. The game starts off too slow for me to wanna start it over for that. You can go back chapters, but I'm pretty sure you lose a lot of the stuff you rack up, including unique items.
Kinda blew my night tbh. I was looking forward to playing that part of the game. Having only one save is great for tension... it makes you plan. But it also means you have no contingency when the game decides to fuck you for no reason.
