Weapons and equipment | Valuable Hints Metro: LL Guide

Last update: 11 May 2016

At any time, your character can have on him, at most, three different pieces of weaponry. The choice of weapons should be excusable by the preferred playing style. If you want to operate in shadows and fight only if you have to, it is best to choose a set of a pistol, an assault rifle and a double barreled shotgun/regular shotgun. If you, on the other hand, prefer to wreak havoc and go medieval on all the monsters and enemies, I recommend that you go for a rifle (sniper rifle for example) or a good machine gun.

New kinds of weapon can be acquired in two different ways. Variant one consists in finding them in the game world. The weaponry that you can find at the killed enemies are usually nothing special. The most valuable ones can be found by means of exploring the world carefully, because the ones that you can find at the skeletons or in the crates are usually more interesting and they often come with modifications. (more about these further in this text).

Variant two assumes that you buy these from local dealers. Every dealer that you meet has a selection of weapons on stock, including the ones that cannot be found anywhere else. That is why it is worth recommending that you check carefully what is on stock (the dealers' whereabouts have been given in the walkthrough section of this guide) because you can always find something that corresponds to your playing style.

The dealers also offer all sorts of modifications for weapons and I recommend that you purchase these for all the kinds of weaponry currently possessed. To the extent that it is possible, try to buy as many modifications as possible, and especially silencers, scopes or elements that improve stability. It is worth mentioning here that the best modifications become available towards the end of the game. Therefore you should check the inventory of every dealer that you meet during the campaign mode.

Apart from firearms, you can also use auxiliary equipment. In my opinion, throwing knives turn out to be the most useful. Like I have said earlier, knives are ideal to deal with enemies silently. Additionally, you do not need to worry about their supply because, you can retrieve them from the corpses of the soldiers you kill. The remaining ones are explosives. Grenades are very good when it comes to fighting shrimps and the living enemies. Claymore mines, on the other hand, are effective in battles with mutants that are more agile.

Regardless of your playing style (sneaking or getting involved in direct battles), you should always make sure that you have considerable amounts of ammo and explosives on you. This way you avoid dead ends when surprised by bosses or larger groups of mutants. Supplies (weapons, ammo, first-aid kits etc.), can always be scavenged for, and found in various crates, backpacks or lockers. Apart from that, you can always examine skeletons and corpses that you find. All the same, you need to remember that this may bring about the "bad" ending of the game (more about this in the section entitled Endings).