At the start of October, we caught wind of next-gen upgrades for Metro 2033 Redux and Metro: Last Light Redux, bringing them up to scratch with Xbox Series hardware.
Well, the upgrade is out right now for digital owners of Metro 2033 Redux and Metro: Last Light Redux on Xbox Series X|S, however bare in mind when upgrading to the next-gen version that previous saves won’t carry through and a new game is required.
It’s worth mentioning that both games also support the Xbox Disc to Digital programme, so if you pop the discs in and claim the digital license, you should be able to upgrade your physical disc-based copies too.
The patch notes are quite long, so here’s a few of the “highlights” from the new upgrade:
- True 4K at 60FPS natively on Xbox Series X|S – Upscaled to 4K at 120FPS
- Xbox Play Anywhere support
- Xbox Ally/Ally X optimisation – 4A TSR upscaling and antialiasing support
To install the ‘Next-Gen Update’ versions of both Metro Redux titles, simply press ‘Y’ and input ‘Metro Redux’ from the Xbox dashboard. From there you should be able to navigate to the Xbox Series X|S versions of each game. The update is free for existing owners.
Here’s a look at the full patch notes:
Xbox Series X|S – Patch Notes
- Native Xbox Series X|S support
- Xbox Ally/Ally X support and optimization
- True 4K at 60 FPS (Requires supporting display hardware)
- Upscaled 4K at 120 FPS on Xbox Series X (Requires supporting display hardware)
- 4A TSR upscaling and antialiasing support
- Screen Space Global Illumination
- Increased geometry details
- Run-time geometry tessellation support
- Run-time geometry displacement support
- Increased texture details
- Support 4k textures
- Improved PBR materials
- Higher quality lighting and shading
- Higher quality particle effects
- Higher quality post processing
- Higher quality shadows
- Xbox play anywhere support
- Power optimised mode support
- Improved animation quality
- Improved sound quality
- Spatial audio support
- Community bugfixes as noted below
- Impulse triggers for Xbox Controller
Stability
- Fixed a black screen when resuming the game from suspend on Xbox Series X|S.
- Fixed instability after Quick Resume on Xbox Series X|S, including crashes and graphical corruption.
- Improved stability on modern PC hardware (Windows 11, AMD GPUs, high-refresh-rate displays), including crashes during chapter transitions and on launch.
- Fixed a crash when picking up a gas mask.
- Fixed hard freezes at splash screens, on “Press Any Button” and during chapter loads.
- Fixed infinite loading screens and black screens after the intro logos, particularly on newer AMD hardware and Xbox One X backward compatibility.
- Fixed freezes during level transitions and scripted sequences, and crashes with newer graphics drivers.
Gameplay
- Fixed the weapon getting stuck in an endless reload animation and being unable to fire if burning cobwebs was interrupted by reloading or switching weapons.
- Fixed enemies detecting the player through darkness and through walls, and their alert state escalating instantly.
Saves
- Improved save stability when resuming from suspend / Quick Resume and when syncing with cloud saves (Xbox Series X|S).
- Fixed Steam Cloud not uploading save data.
- The game no longer creates a checkpoint when the player has too little filter time left. This prevents saves where the player suffocates before they can find more filters.
- Fixed crashes and infinite loading when loading a checkpoint, including after repeated reloads.
- Improved save reliability when the game is quit or interrupted while autosaving.
- Fixed checkpoints being created when the player had too few filters, which could trap the player in a death loop.
- Fixed save files disappearing, “Continue” loading an older checkpoint, and saves becoming corrupted after a crash or improper shutdown.
Controls
- Restored default keyboard bindings that were missing after a previous update.
- Fixed the mouse cursor getting stuck at the edge of the screen in menus and vendor screens on multi-monitor setups.
- Fixed Xbox controllers only being partially detected, and button remapping failures.
Display & Settings
- Advanced PhysX is now enabled by default on PC.
- Fixed the title screen displaying incorrectly if the game lost focus straight after launch.
- Fixed the game not starting in full screen on first launch on 4K monitors with display scaling enabled.
- Fixed missing modern resolutions (such as 1440p and 4K) and the game being limited to legacy resolutions like 1600×1200.
- Fixed fullscreen not working, and fixed stretched images and incorrect aspect ratios on high-resolution monitors.
- Improved lighting and shadow quality, fixing pixelated bloom, broken shadows, missing volumetric lighting and white halo artifacts (e.g. Hunter intro, searchlights, backlit corridors).
- Fixed flickering shadows, shimmering textures, unstable SSAO and broken post-processing on modern GPUs and ultrawide displays.
METRO 2033 Redux
- Fixed the Demon freezing in mid-air during its grab attack in “Outpost”.
- Improved performance in “Torchlight”.
- Fixed being unable to collect the weapon from the armorer at the start of the game, which blocked progress.
- Fixed Khan and his men freezing in place or firing endlessly after the player plants the bomb in “Khan” (Turgenevskaya), and fixed the freeze / black screen when loading the last checkpoint there.
- Fixed the player getting stuck with no cutscene after finishing the encounter in “Library”.
- Fixed the crane, magnet and lever mechanisms near the end of the game not responding in “D6”.
- Fixed the ending cutscene not playing after finishing the game.
- Fixed instant death in toxic areas even with the gas mask on.
- Fixed achievements not unlocking even though their requirements were met, including “Armorer”.
- Fixed achievement progress made offline not syncing after reconnecting.
METRO Last Light Redux
- Fixed the bear staying knocked out during the boss fight in “The Garden”, which blocked progress.
- Fixed stealth knockouts and kills being unavailable from the “Revolution” chapter onwards.
- Fixed a crash when buying the RPK into an empty third weapon slot at the Venice armory.
- Fixed being unable to progress in the “Khan” DLC after Khan wakes Ulman from the visions.
- Fixed the player ending up out of bounds after falling into the water in “Nightfall”.
General note when upgrading the Microsoft Store version only:
- Saves will not carry over to the upgraded version and a New Game start is recommended.
- Chapter select will be unlocked to contain each chapter and you can start any chapter with a default set of equipment if desired.
