Articles - Metro 2033: Legacy mod for Metro 2033 Redux

Welcome to the Players Choice: Best Upcoming Mods of 2022 Results! The following mods have been selected by ModDB readers from the Top 100 nominees to determine which mods they are most anticipating for future release.

The year is 1568. In the far aftermath of the disastrous Onin War and the in-fighting of feuding clans across Japan, turmoil is rife and has turned the lands into bountiful prey for all rungs of society from the likes of Uesugi Kenshin right down to the masses. You have been thrown into the Sengoku Jidai, the Warring States era of Japan. In your hands lies the power to craft your own destiny. Whether you take up a sword or brush in hand, it is up to you to carve your own path in Japan's history and make a name for yourself, be that through cunning foxery or brute force.

From the crew that brought you C&C Tiberian Dawn Redux for C&C Generals Zero Hour, C&C Red Alert Redux is now being developed and will be coming soon! Both Allied and Soviet factions from the original C&C Red Alert will be in the mod. Attack Dogs, Tesla Coils, Naval Warfare, and Chronoshifting are also in the works along with much more that is yet to be announced!

Half-Life: Enriched aims to update the look and feel of Half-Life with reworked maps and artwork. Enriched isn't trying to reinvent the wheel or dramatically change the Half-Life we know and love, but instead, polish up a classic, by adding more to the Black Mesa facility, enhancing the existing visuals, and designing updated (yet stylistically fitting) models for some of the game's core assets.

Half-Life: Recovery is a Modification which continues the plot of the official add-on Decay. The main character, Colette Green, is looking for a way to leave Black Mesa along with Dr. Keller. A portable teleportation device will help them to do it. Taking possession of it is considered a matter of life and death.

Sins of the Prophets is a total conversion mod for Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion that transforms the game into a Halo-themed experience. Huge fleets of ships clash in the gravity wells of planets, asteroid fields, and massive structures. The skirmish style of the game allows for some of Halo's sandbox appeal to translate well into the mod. The space combat is brutal and fast - an element of the Halo story covered well in the books, but hasn't yet been fully realized in a game or film.

You're a new Sparta recruit, and a former Hanza citizen. Learn about the fate of the Arbat Confederation and the Sparta HQ after the events of Metro Last Light, bridging the gap between that game and Exodus in the Metro continuity. The mod is planned to be semi open world, with side quests and and environments taking you from stations, to catacombs, to bunkers, and the dangerous surface.

Candidate Twelve is a Black Mesa community campaign mod based off the highly-acclaimed Half-Life Echoes, created by the original author “Mr. Gnang”. Experience the sheer horror of the disaster once again with levels revamped from the original mod, featuring new assets that will bring a fresh experience for the player to enjoy!

Star Wars: Interregnum is an upcoming mod for Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion that builds off of the highly successful Enhanced 4X Mod. Fleeing the unknown terror that is chasing the Vasari, the factions of Sins of a Solar Empire stumble on a temporary wormhole that takes them to a galaxy far, far away. The sudden arrival of armadas with trillions of refugees and thousands of warships between the events of Episodes 5 & 6 forever alters the Star Wars universe and plunges the galaxy into an unprecedented period of chaos and violence. Begun, a new conflict has.

Half-Life Decay: Solo Mission is a new, upcoming port of the PS2 exclusive Half-Life expansion "Decay", with the goal of rebuilding the game to work as a single player experience, thus allowing anyone to play through the entirety of Decay without the need for setting up a private server, and all the headaches that come with it. Along with allowing anyone to play Decay without needing a server, this port will also rework the visuals to make them more consistent with the original Half-Life, giving every map in Decay an extra bit of polish in the process, and all without making any major alterations to the original game.

First place for the mods yet to come (but which we almost can't wait for) is Entropy : Zero - Uprising - a submod to the titular Entropy : Zero which builds upon a powerful foundation with new and original ideas. Combine-adjacent mods have been a well the Half-Life community has returned to now and again, but Entropy : Zero has become a father to many mods where you're the bad guy on-site. Numerous spin-offs each taking a shot at the other side of humanity's struggle have emerged, and users have decided Uprising is the first among equals. Mods that create their own modding communities are a special kind of awesome, and it's amazing to see that reflected in our results this year.

Before we present the winners, the following mods polled strongly and deserve our attention for either narrowly missing out, or they have previously placed in a best upcoming countdown and are ineligible to place again. These mods have significantly impressed us over 2022, and we are eagerly anticipating their future developments.

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Congratulations to every winner in the Player's Choice: Best Upcoming Mods of 2022! Congratulations too to every mod who was nominated and participated in voting. With the Best Upcoming Mods announced, the final Mod of the Year results will go live on December 28.

Editors Choice

Welcome to the Editor's Choice awards for the 2022 Mod of the Year Awards, where we show recognition to the mods from the past year that we've found to be personally deserving of attention. We've chosen a series of award categories which range from best singleplayer mod, to multiplayer, to most anticipated and to several more unique and theme related categories.

Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines is a game I've played a lot of times over the years, usually with the Unofficial Patch at my side and occasionally one of a number of competent refreshes of the VTMB sandbox installed as well. UP still remained the certain inclusion for any playthrough, though, and that was a mantle I thought insurmountable...until I finally got around to playing the Clan Quest Mod. This mod amounts to an expansion more than anything that is almost fully voice acted and features hours of well-written and generally well-executed content. One of the boss fights near the end of the game on the Sabbat side is a particular highlight and all in all, we're surprised this one hasn't placed before - so now's the time to amend that.

Combat Revolved somehow makes Halo: CE into even more a whale of a time with a friend, revising the sandbox, adding more foes into the equation, and expanding the weapon and vehicle roster just enough to enhance without overdoing it. There's plenty of quality of life improvements as well, from diversifying the co-op character to a range of AI and weapon rebalances that change how even hardcore Halo fans will approach this classic campaign. It was already hard to beat storming the Control Room or doing the Warthog rally on The Silent Cartographer with another Spartan by your side, but Revolved makes it so fun to go back and do it all again.

It can be hard to select for this category as whilst the many 4k HD AI upscale packs and ambitious ReShade presets out there can add a little bit of additional polish to a game, it's hard to pick up on mods that totally reshape how we view the title and the engine it's built upon. Sometimes we select projects that rebuild a game from the ground up, as with last year's winner, to be comparable with modern titles; but this year, eXperiment is our pick, as a mod that proves Goldsrc is still, well, gold, and has plenty of room for creative reinterpretation. Not only making the most of the technical limitations of the engine, it also takes the art style in a different, fresh direction for its own narrative, and given these graphical revisions, it fits handily into this category. A special mention must go, though, to Portal RTX, not developed by a conventional modding team, but by the folks at NVIDIA using RTX Remix! We're excited to see what modders will achieve when the tool makes its way into the public's hands.

The Editor's Choice is a good chance for us to shine a light on some of the top mods that haven't, for whatever reason, placed in Mod of the Year before - so for Best Overhaul, we're exercising that privilege for Back2Fronts, a complete overhaul of Call of Duty 2 featuring new missions for the singleplayer in addition to new weapons and new enemy types. Newer CODs have had a real lack of modding support - the last time it was a focus was Black Ops 3 - but with Modern Warfare 2 (2022, that is), slated to include tools aimed at allowing UGC to flourish, it's a great time to look back on the legacy of COD mods and revisit gems like Back2Fronts.

Elite Force II is one of the better Star Trek titles, with the franchise not faring as well in this department as its oft-compared sci-fi twin sibling Star Wars. Built upon the classic Quake III engine, Elite Force II is a solid shooter where you fight off the Borg Collective and prove resistance is not, in fact, futile. The only thing missing is the signature Star Trek away team experience, and with Hazard Modding Co-op - a mod that has seen regular updates now for fifteen years - that's something now open to all. Featuring multiplayer support in the singleplayer story and secret missions, this is the mod for the action-oriented Trekkies to get together and kill some Borg!

It's no secret that Supreme Commander 2 wasn't quite the sequel the dedicated fans of massive-scale RTS were looking for. It's still a solid game, but compared to the first title, it's considerably cut-back and much simpler. For those who were hoping for a little more bang and plenty more economic strategy, the Revamp Expansion Mod is an unsung hero that has singlehandedly brought much of what was once loved back into Supreme Commander 2, featuring a more complicated economic model, a revision of the research system to facilitate classic unit tiers, and many more experimentals that are far larger and more destructive than ever before.

Historical mods - especially for Total War - tend to culminate around the middle-ages, but there's untapped potential digging back into the centuries before the first millennium whilst still remaining in AD. Insularis Draco tries to shine a light on some of the dark ages, focusing on the rise of barbarian kingdoms, the waning influence of the Roman Empire, and the rising powers of Europe in the year 452 AD. There's little peace and quiet in this time of history and difficult choices will need to be made to eke out supremacy!

Lord of the Rings is a mainstay of the total conversion scene - if there's a game with a medieval or fantasy twist, you can bet there's a mod introducing Tolkien's mythology into the mix. This isn't the first Lord of the Rings total conversion for a Total War game, but it's one of the most promising and beautiful in recent years. Whether you're replaying some of the most iconic battles in the series from a commander-on-the-field's point of view, or pursuing the mod's new campaign taking the Ring Bearer from Hobbiton to the fires of Mordor, this mod's spring of Lord of the Rings action never runs dry.

Earlier this year, we received the feline-simulator Stray, which saw players occupy the paws of a curious cat in a cyberpunk world. Stray took the world by storm because, well, anything involving cats usually does, and it spawned an interesting question in one modder's mind - what if DOOM, but as a cat? The beautifully bizarre melding of these ideas is Stray DOOM, where you'll rip and tear through the usual suspects of demonkind not as a buffed-up space marine, but as a dainty, athletic cat. We have to give an honourable mention here to another mod called Doom Shinobi which, similarly, places you in standard DOOM levels against standard DOOM enemies, but now, as a kickass ninja. Stray DOOM wins out as the concept is just a little zanier and more fitting of this award, but Shinobi is still worth a go!

Some games are modded to hell and back whether they feature a proper SDK or not, and some games we'd love to see mods for unfortunately never seem to get their UGC off the ground. That made it a great surprise, then, to see movement from Metro 2033: Legacy this year as they transitioned to a new engine and continued their journey towards an expansive new POV in Dmitry Glukhovsky's world. It was fans of his books that first put these games into motion, and now, new fans continue the cycle of creation. That's why we can't wait to see what Legacy has in store for us in 2023.

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What mods would you have picked given the chance? Let us know in the comments and get ready for the next announcement in a few days, the most anticipated mods and then the big one soon after that, the Top 10 Mods of 2022!

The 2022 Mod of the Year has just kicked off, so join us in celebrating some of the amazing creations released in the last 12 months and major modding news. Whether it was an amazing update to a long running total conversion mod, or a whole new overhaul for a classic game. This article is breaking down the biggest headlines for October, November, and December.

(Note: 2022 is not actually over yet so November has six features instead of four. We still managed to sneak in a pair of December featurettes though!)

What mods did you enjoy the most and who will be getting your vote this year? Are there any other mods that did a major release in Q4 this year that we missed? Let us know in the comments! Otherwise - now is the time to get your votes in for the 2022 Mod of the Year.

For a long time, Metro 2033: Legacy mod was developed on the base of original Metro 2033 from 2010.
But in early 2022, the project began moving to the "Redux" version of the game.

Watch the demonstration of what we've achieved during this year of development.

For more than half a year there has been no updates on the project, except for a bunch of concept art. However, the development of the modification is still on.

Here's some news.

At the moment we did 6 levels from 8 planned. There is still work on scripting and props placement.

Models of new characters and mutants are under development. Here's some of them:

Arbat Confederation is the faction, which appeared in the Metro 2033 book and for some unknown reason was not involved in the first game.

"The Arbat Confederation is a moderate capitalist autocracy governed by Caucasians and non-Russian nationality traders. Besides a high number of Stalkers, little is known about this alliance. In the beginning, it had substantial power and population. During the Hansa-Red Line war, it was allied with Hansa. Although they gained the station of Lenin Library (later given to Polis), their forces were severely weakened and the population decreased over the years. With the unseen threat from Park Pobedy to Kievskaya that was only disposed of in recent years, people have been fleeing the station, which led the Arbat Confederation to install a soft quarantine regime on Kievskaya-radial (the blue line). Now the Arbat Confederation is nothing more than a weak Hansa satellite, dependent on their resources and protection."