As part of the AP-PRO Showcase 2022 event in Moscow, dedicated to modding by STALKER, a team of enthusiasts from Green Games Group presented the second trailer of their global modification “Legacy” for the shooter Metro 2033. The authors also showed new screenshots and talked about the progress of development.
Legacy will add a completely open world, a new storyline with two endings, characters and weapons from the book series, a time of day change, and much more. The events take place after what happened in Subway: the last lightparallel to the novel “Metro 2034”, and the main character is a recruit of the Hansa enlisted in the Order.
According to the authors, the long absence of news about the project was due to an engine modification. Initially, the mod was developed for the original version of Metro 2033 in 2010, but in early 2022 it was decided to transfer it to the updated engine Reprints 2014. The team independently created some tools to work with the Redux version.
At the moment, “Heritage” is 60% ready:
- the whole texture has been reworked – it has already been partially transferred to the new engine;
- the geometry of almost all declared localities is finished;
- 95% of the first surface objects (14,000 pieces) are ready, including all historic buildings with scale preservation and new structures for users to visit;
- Ready objects 50% of the area of u200bu200bKievsky railway station – a huge place with many buildings you can enter and underground passages;
- both endings are elaborate (what the player gets depends on his choice at the decisive moment of the plot);
- three of the seven story chapters are fully finished, one of which takes place in a completely open world with access to all mod content;
- added new weapons (models from Gunslinger Mod for “STALKER: Call of Pripyat”);
- the day/night switch is fully functional in all locations. At night there are fewer people in the stations, the lighting is almost completely turned off and merchants go to bed;
- the world keeps filling up with side events, new dialogues are added;
- three mini-games were created: picking mushrooms at the station with subsequent rewards from NPCs, rat race and patrolling in the station tunnels;
- mods restored with underbarrel grenade launcher and shotgun;
- prepared a unique menu.
Fans have greeted the new trailer with enthusiastic comments. “You are doing something amazing, – wrote a YouTube user with the nickname Alt. — Don’t stop there, go ahead, give this world a new masterpiece!
The developers have warned that the mod is available “rather crude version” and there is still much work to be done “testing, creating and smoothing many elements, voicing and solving technical problems.” It was slated for a 2023 release at the time of the announcement, but now the release dates are no longer specified. You can follow the news on the “Heritage” in Green Games Group on VK.
The announcement of the mod took place in November 2020, at the same time as the release of the first trailer.
As of May 2020, the same team released for the Metro 2033 story mod “Explorer”.
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