Metro: Last Light confirmed to feature ultra-hard Ranger mode, but only in Limited Edition
By Tim Colwill on December 16, 2012 at 10:00 am
The original Metro 2033 featured a UI-free, crosshair-free, health-bar-free ‘Ranger’ mode designed for the hardest of core, and word comes to us this morning that ‘Ranger’ mode will return in Metro: Last Light… if you buy the Limited Edition.
The Limited Edition can currently be pre-purchased through the THQ online shop, but only for people in the USA or the UK. For Australians, the link just redirects back to the THQ shop home.
Purchasers of the Limited Edition — which, it should be noted, can be pre-ordered at the same price as the regular edition, according to PC Gamer — also includes an extra bandolier full of military-grade ammo which can be be fired or used as bartering goods, as well as a modified AKS-74U rifle.
We’ve asked THQ in Australia whether buyers here will get the same experience — we’ll let you know what we find out.
Source: PC Gamer
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Stupid. GMG or ozgameshop to the rescue, once again!
Wow, as if day 0 dlc wasn’t bad enough, now they’re restricting basic game features such as a particular difficulty setting as well?
You would think a business under financial pressure would want to welcome potential customers with open arms, not pull some EA/Activision BS like that.
Pass, will wait for some complete edition @75% off down the road or something.
Free bullets and a weapon which I am guessing will make the first half of the game easy as hell? Wtf man, I don’t want dlc and pre-order content to make games easier, give me the original and intended challenge.
I really am quite over publishers/developers pulling this crap.
I know the idea is to make me want to preorder it, rather than pick it up out of a bargain bin later on… but in reality it just makes me put it straight back into said bin when I remember they have purposely removed things from it as some kind of indirect punishment for not buying it sooner.
s1elite,
I agree completely. I also think it’s the wrong approach to take, the likes of TF2 and Saint’s Row show that there are plenty of people willing to pay for after-market cosmetic/bragging rights stuff, they shouldn’t need to remove what used to be core mechanics and lump them into a pre-order ‘bonus’.
Isn’t RAGE doing the same thing with their ‘Scorchers’ DLC, supplying an ultra-high difficulty mode which presumably won’t be available without the DLC?
If this keeps on happening, the younger generation of gamers will be so used to DLC supplying things like multiple difficulty levels which we took for granted, they won’t know any better. Then again, it’s possible they’ll just backport the difficulty into the regular edition after a while.
kunodiablo,
NO they wont backport it you know what game companies are like today, and yeah i was reading about rage doing it; i think its a serious mocking of gamers TBH, i only support major big DLC; but then again back in the day the only DLC that was around were expansions which were okay because look how much “the shivering isles” added to oblivion, and diablo II. making it a requirement to pay extra money for extra challenge is just bad; i guess it means theyre catering the games main focus to retards who cant even survive on normal- ergo making gamers who wanna be punished (oh yes i see the irony in this statement), be PUNISHED by having to pay more to get what we want out of a normal pc game.
OK this i have a problem with. Rage was a complete game, with easy, medium, hard, and nightmare, INCLUDED in the original game. IT was finished, shipped, and sold. Just like all id games. Almost one whole year later Rage is ADDING an even harder difficulty setting that wasnt just programmed in and pulled out to be DLC content. They’re adding it for purists to play. They’re also adding an entirely new bandit clan to kill. for $5. Sure map packs used to be free, but those days are long gone.
Metro Last Light has all the difficulty settings there, just one of them, the hardest one, theyre locking off as a Pre Order Bonus. THAT to me is unacceptable. ON the other hand, the preorder cost no more money than a regular edition. Although I’ll probably buy preorder a cd key on GMG anyways.
Valve’s released their Mann vs Machine update mid August this year. It was a completely new gamemode with new content (maps, voice acting, models, etc)… all for free. Evidently free content is still doable, it’s just that a lot of publishers are incredibly greedy and don’t do anything if they can’t squeeze every last buck out of something.
Yes, they are a busness and are there to make money. But Valve knows the value of goodwill, and it’s surprising how many other publishers/developers don’t.
kunodiablo,
thats true, but valve do have a huge online store where they take a cut off every sale, so they can probably afford to do things like that. if all your doing is making games, then selling them, its hard to blame when ur trying to maximise profits. unfortunately/fortunately gaming isnt the small niche market it once was :S
trex0321,
That is very true. Once upon a time though, Epic released free bonus packs for Unreal Tournament 99 and 2003/2004 (and apparently even UT3, which I’ve never played cos everyone says it’s crap). So it’s still possible for people other than Valve to get on the action.
I’m not mad though. Games are very expensive to make nowadays with the standards people have, so free stuff is a bit harder to justify with the costs in development. But at the same time, adding a hard difficulty level is surely not a huge investment, and no-one likes to feel like they’re being taken for a fool.
I agree. However I hate to admit I would actually pay for a harder Far Cry 3 difficulty that game is incredibly easy on the Hardest setting.