Just wanted to ask:
Has anyone been bitten by the September 5th Steam DLC for Metro 2033, leaving you with an unplayable Metro 2033 ("Metro 2033 Executable has stopped working")? If so, I tried all the "fixes" proposed by the STEAM community until I found the one at
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/s ... ?t=1425766 . Seems the "update" deleted a necessary file, content.vfs0. The sucker is nearly 2 Gbyte, so it's not like it was lost in the noise or anything!
With that file replaced, I burned through the new Ranger Easy difficulty in a day. Now, I'm trying Ranger Hardcore. Both new difficulties have a new "rifle" - the volt (kind of a super pneumatic rifle with an electric zap melee mode) and a belt-fed auto shotgun. I can say, the auto shotty REALLY burns through ammo but is damned effective. Use your "aim" key to fire it in semi-auto mode. I wasted so many shotshells before D6, getting through the amoebas down in the bowels of D6 put me down to just a couple pistol rounds, no other remaining ammo.
Ranger Hardcore gives you NO HUD, and no way to check how much ammo you have except at a trader or in your journal. In both difficulties, there is no longer any screen crosshair, you have to aim. Less ammo is available, mutants and humans die with fewer hits. And, so do you. Different, not sure if it's better or worse, just different.