Please keep your supplies and survival instincts with you at all times.
Build, difficulty and story goals are separate. Optional notes and ending preferences may stay blank.
Record your difficulty, playthrough and expansion ownership. Treat Ranger Hardcore or Iron Mode as optional challenges alongside your weapon and survival plan.
These controls record your game and guide preferences. Change actual game settings in the game.
Choose how you travel and fight. Crew and story outcomes depend on decisions during the journey, so an equipment style alone does not determine the ending.
Combine these priorities freely. They record your priorities. Story decisions remain available at their quests; these notes do not mark achievements earned.
Checked 10 October 2026. These notes review selected claims that affect a run; they do not certify every walkthrough step or your save.
Hardcore names Ranger Hardcore; Untouchable and It’s just a scratch name Normal or higher. Pick targets before choosing the run’s difficulty.
The route’s no-lowering advice is a conservative campaign plan, not a save-flag inspection.
Steam global achievement roster · Steam global achievement roster
Ranger Hardcore and Iron Mode restrict saving differently. An ordinary manual-save branch plan must not be promised inside a mode that removes it.
Steam discussion preserving Ranger Update notes · Metro player discussion of Ranger Hardcore saving
Changes save with this playthrough and travel in its progress backup.
Choose weapon roles, attachment priorities and how cautiously you approach encounters; Metro Exodus has no attribute allocation or talent-tree respec. Difficulty and New Game+ modifiers are separate decisions, and story access can temporarily replace or restrict the equipment you carry.
Reorder the comparison without changing your game settings or story preferences.
Avoid unnecessary fights, keep the story utility weapon ready, and carry a rifle plus a close-range backup when the campaign permits. The Tikhar is economical if pressure is maintained, while a shotgun covers an ambush your quiet approach did not prevent. This flexible loadout supports a first playthrough and leaves morally sensitive encounters to deliberate nonlethal choices.
The weapon roles are easy to understand; pressure, cleaning and deciding when not to shoot create the learning cost.
Reconsider if: You want constant open firefights; You dislike slow observation and weapon maintenance.
A practical rhythm, from preparation to payoff.
Identify enemies, civilians and surrender opportunities before choosing an action; stay dark where practical, and use a nonlethal path when the route requires restraint.
Check utility pressure, weapon cleanliness, ammunition and healing at a safe point; reserve shotgun rounds for an ambush rather than spending them on every distant target.
Imagine a lit camp lies between you and the objective. Observe the patrols, identify people who should be spared, extinguish or avoid the relevant light and move through a safe gap. If a hostile mutant forces a fight afterwards, use the appropriate weapon without exhausting the shotgun reserve. Recheck pressure and supplies before the next area. This is a tactical illustration; carrying a silent weapon alone neither guarantees stealth nor determines the ending.
Read in order. Each stage explains what makes the next step practical.
Use the weapons the story actually gives you, and practice avoiding unnecessary detection before seeking a perfect attachment set. Clean at the available bench, collect useful supplies and learn the difference between a hostile threat and a person the route asks you to spare.
When Tikhar arrives, practice pumping and reading pressure before a quiet engagement. Retain a dependable conventional gun and shotgun where slots permit. Prioritize an attachment that improves your real aiming problem rather than assuming maximum scope magnification is always useful.
Review the kit when the story changes your utility weapon or inventory. Carry filters and healing for the next environment, return to known benches when practical and preserve resources for compulsory fights. Keep protected factions and surrendered enemies out of lethal weapon objectives.
Guide progression diagram — an authored explanation, not an official skill tree or measured ranking.
The supporting roles that make this style work.
Quiet precision with the correct pressure or ammunition routine.
A dependable conventional answer for sustained mandatory pressure.
Close-range emergency response when stealth or distance collapses.
Support hazards that weapon damage cannot solve.
Can you change your mind? Swap weapons and attachments at available opportunities; no character respec is required. Supplies and discovered attachments are the cost. Some chapters dictate access, and irreversible moral actions cannot be corrected merely by changing the gun afterwards.
Economical stealth is supported by multiple guides. Individual stealth encounters and platform bugs were not playtested.
Version context: PC Exodus: official account update 26 August 2026; Enhanced Edition DLSS fix 2 September. No numbered gameplay rebalance was established in those notes. Ranger Hardcore and NG+ Iron Mode remain separate settings with different save restrictions; neither edition was gameplay-tested in this review.
Balanced stealth, distance shooting and mandatory-fight loadouts solve different situations. The challenge option is a preparation overlay, not higher weapon damage. Recommendations prioritize ammo economy, upkeep and ending-compatible choices over unsupported best-DPS claims.
Extra guidance adds smaller actions and local checks where available. Compact reduces spacing and cover size; it keeps the full instructions, warnings and choices. Quiet backgrounds reduce decoration. These options change the guide, not the game’s difficulty.
Dotted item names have quick details. Hover with a mouse, tap, or focus the name and press Enter. Stats stay in a small pop-up.
Jumping changes your bookmark; it never marks earlier steps complete. Build and outcome choices stay in your current playthrough.
Search instructions, selected-build advice, choices and achievements. Outcome details stay collapsed.
Moscow to the finale, both endings, Ranger Hardcore and New Game+, The Two Colonels and Sam's Story; all 68 PC achievements and waypoint directions for all 71 base diaries and 21 postcards woven into the route. Outcome comparisons contain spoilers and start closed.
First playthrough · Quiet survivor — recommended
Review the local rewards and achievement checkpoint before marking this section complete.
Each profile keeps its own build, actual outcomes, equipment and checklists. Up to eight profiles per game.
Use the guide’s progress backup to transfer all profiles between the website and offline copies. The website stores signed-in progress. Downloads keep a separate browser record.
Record only information that affects your next decision. Blank fields mean unknown. These entries describe your game and never change it.
Record companion outcomes after the relevant region and preserve the difference between planned morality and the result you actually saw.
Before a long mission, record filter, ammunition, healing and weapon condition. Quiet movement and correct knockout prompts matter for the companion route.
Keep base-game and DLC collection/counter checks separate. A preferred gun configuration does not mean every collectible attachment was found.
Tokarev’s weapon supports the early quiet-survivor route.
Use the maintained available weapon and avoid loud unnecessary engagements while finishing the introduction.
A useful early equipment pickup during the local sweep.
Use the route’s landmarks and return during open exploration if the area is still accessible.
A survival equipment lead to audit during the Volga sweep.
Keep spare filters and a conservative route; do not assume the upgrade was collected merely because the location was visited.
The terminal pickup needs charge to remain useful.
Use careful light management and restore the charge when safe; ownership alone does not solve visibility.
A regional protection upgrade on the equipment sweep.
Keep the current protection serviced and finish the local pickup audit before leaving the region.
The Taiga’s changed loadout needs stealth and crafting reserves.
Work with the local weapon and supplies rather than trying to reconstruct every prior attachment immediately.
Collecting all required parts is separate from equipping your preferred setup.
Strip and record every needed part during its local window; compare both lists at a bench before committing to the final route.
Use these checks before moving to harder content or expanding. They are manual observations, separate from platform achievements.
Record the observed outcome and review its regional conditions. Continue with the available ending path or use the appropriate earlier checkpoint; selecting a different plan does not change the result.
Review nearby available crafting/loot and the earlier checkpoint before pushing into the institute. Keep the route conservative and avoid unnecessary combat.
Compare the two part lists with actual owned parts at a workbench and revisit accessible local leads before the final rendezvous.
68 achievement entries match the public Steam count. Checked 2026-10-09. View the platform catalog
Sixty-eight names match for the original PC app. The Two Colonels and Sam's Story are released. The official 2026 update adds account integration, with a later Enhanced DLSS restoration note.
Achievement names and counts were compared with public Steam records. Quest outcomes and hardest-difficulty builds were sampled from sources, not validated by a completed playthrough.
Authored coaching synthesized from this guide's existing route, builds and source bibliography. This date records the data/anchor review, not fresh verification of every linked page or hands-on gameplay. Facts are entered manually; recommendations do not read the game save, certify achievement unlocks, or cover every possible state. Existing coverage limits: Includes all 68 PC achievements, the important weapon and suit routes, companion outcomes, and named waypoint directions for all 71 base-game diary pages and 21 postcards. Linked illustrated atlases help identify exact rooms. This is researched text coverage, not an independently played completion test. DLC routes include all 9 Two Colonels diaries, 11 Sam lore diaries, the stash and melody milestones, and the named 18-part Sammy/Stallion inventory. Optional ambient conversations and every loose crafting resource are not enumerated. Recommendations are researched strategies, not a guarantee of surviving Ranger Hardcore. Save and reload behavior differs by difficulty; no obsolete version downgrade or achievement unlock exploit is required.
Coaching review: 2026-10-09 · Synthesis of cited guide sources. Guide checks do not claim a personal completion playthrough.
Steam: current Metro Exodus achievements
Steam: PC Enhanced Edition achievements
PowerPyx: difficulty, weapon and achievement requirements
PowerPyx: chapter collectible atlas
PowerPyx: Volga collectibles and eight suit upgrades
PowerPyx: Caspian collectibles and five suit upgrades
GamesRadar: annotated equipment maps
XboxAchievements: hidden achievement conditions
Hold To Reset: all nine Two Colonels diaries
Steam community: Two Colonels choice and achievements
Gameranx: eight Night Hunter stashes
rus199410: nine melody video locations
PC Gamer — Metro Exodus backpack/workbench crafting limits
Steam: original PC achievement list, checked 2026-10-09
Steam: PC Enhanced achievement list, checked 2026-10-09
Deep Silver: PC Enhanced entitlement and separate installation
Gamepressure: Volga diary and postcard reference
Hold To Reset: Volga landmark directions; numbering cross-checked
Gamepressure: Caspian diary and postcard reference
Gamepressure: Taiga diary and postcard reference
PowerPyx: Dead City chronological paper route
Gamepressure: Two Colonels diary waypoints
Hold To Reset: eleven Sam diary locations; introductory nine-count is a typo
PlayStationTrophies: 18 named weapon upgrades, used for item names rather than PC unlock authority
Game Guides Channel: all eleven Sam diaries, timestamped
XboxAchievements: Untouchable encounter preparation; PC condition cross-checked on Steam
Steam community: Sam item order, diary context and stash entrances
Choose quiet survival, scoped fire, controlled close combat or a learned Ranger Hardcore route. The plan changes weapon roles and preparation; regional moral decisions and one-way collectible checkpoints still apply to every loadout.
A forgiving loadout for a careful first run and a sound foundation for Ranger Hardcore: quiet precision, a shotgun for emergencies, and efficient supplies.
Your completion route: Finish the chosen base-game ending, The Two Colonels and Sam's Story; use planned replays for the opposite ending, New Game+/Iron challenges and remaining achievements. Diary and postcard waypoints appear in the walkthrough, with illustrated atlases linked for visual reference.
Changing your plan keeps your saved achievements, quest choices and checklists. Required respecs, unlocks and later equipment are explained at their route steps.
Open the matching walkthrough section. Its choices, build advice and checklists stay together.
Use the checklist for the edition you actually play. Standard and PC Enhanced Edition have separate Steam app pages with the same 68 achievement names. This guide does not read your Steam account or save files.
There are no character levels, ability points or controllable companion builds. Your build is a weapon, attachment, suit and resource plan. Select one below; its advice follows you through the journey.
The publisher treats PC Enhanced Edition as a separate library item and entitlement, not an ordinary patch to the standard game. Owned DLC determines access to the Enhanced versions of those expansions.
Covers the base story, The Two Colonels and Sam’s Story. Official Exodus notices list an account-feature update on 26 August 2026 and an Enhanced Edition DLSS fix on 2 September. Those notices do not announce weapon rebalance. Recent Metro Redux news is for another game.
Check confirmed platform unlocks. Untick a target to defer it. Finishing a walkthrough step never checks an achievement automatically.
Finish the Moscow escape and allow the transition to Winter.
Let the locomotive naming scene finish in Winter.
Use the repair prompt to patch a cracked gas mask; repair it rather than only changing its filter.
Enter the boat during the opening Volga church approach.
Fit a modification in every available category on one compatible gun at the backpack/workbench.
Get into the recovered rail trolley in Volga.
Spend 500 consumable resources on crafting over your play. Craft useful ammunition, filters and equipment as needed.
Recover the passenger carriage in Volga and progress its story objective.
Finish the Volga bridge finale.
Finish Yamantau after rescuing Anna and escaping.
Acquire the Bukhanka and drive it in the Caspian chapter.
Collect the satellite maps in the underground laboratory.
Kill 90 cannibals in Yamantau; the rescue/departure waves provide opportunities. Recoverable by a later combat replay.
Kill 30 appropriate hostile enemies using the ; avoid protected humans on the survival route.
Retrieve both the guitar and Nastya's teddy bear in Volga; return and complete the crew interactions.
Finish the Caspian chapter at the Baron's fortress.
Stay for the wedding during the Summer train chapter.
Finish the Taiga chapter.
Pass the putrid tunnel in the Dead City story route.
Perform 50 melee kills or knockouts. Knockouts let this coexist with the merciful route, except the stricter Forest child attempt.
Kill 300 mutants across combat play; avoid adding unnecessary encounters to an Iron survival attempt.
Keep Duke alive through the Volga ending by sparing cultists/merchants and following the nonlethal route.
Keep Alyosha unwounded at the end of Taiga; spare the Pioneers and Pirates.
Kill the catfish with the terminal trap before taking the railcar out.
Drive off the bear at its first cemetery encounter rather than immediately fleeing by ladder.
Tune the Aurora radio to music and let the tune register.
Kill 30 enemies with the crossbow. Use mutants or another replay if human attacks would compromise Forest child.
Reach the ending where Artyom survives and leads the Order; protect at least two favorable companion outcomes.
Kill 300 human enemies. Yamantau/replay combat is safer for the preferred story than killing protected regional factions.
Sit through the Admiral's tea scene in Taiga; stay and complete its interaction before leaving.
Have Damir return to the Aurora: rescue slaves, avoid killing them and return Giul's photograph.
Progress the New Year celebration in The Two Colonels.
Complete the Petrovich medicine-choice scene; either role-playing response qualifies.
Complete Khlebnikov's guidance conversation with Kirill during The Two Colonels story.
Finish The Two Colonels.
Reach the ending where Artyom dies after saving Anna; requires an unfavorable donor outcome from earlier regional choices, not a last-minute dialogue.
Pass the Dead City research facility without killing any Blind One; use quiet movement and distractions.
In one continuous campaign, have Duke survive, Damir stay and Alyosha remain unwounded. One loss forfeits this run's target.
Kill a demon with fire; the Volga teddy-bear nest is a practical planned attempt.
Finish Sam's Story with either final submarine choice.
Make one kill with each of the ten base ranged weapons listed in the cleanup step; distinct attachments do not count as new weapon types.
While suffocating after filters run out in a hazardous area, craft a new filter. Prepare materials and a safe save; defer on a fragile survival run.
Make three kills while wearing the gas mask, using night vision and aiming through a sniper scope together.
Spend 500 chemical resources specifically on cleaning weapons at workbenches.
Set all five Molotov traps in the Captain's apartment before using its departure route.
Destroy the large statue in front of the children's camp early in Taiga.
Collect every upgrade for Sammy and Stallion in Sam's Story; strip parts from found guns, including parts you do not intend to equip.
Use the bucket lift to reach the oasis in the Caspian chapter.
Replace the cinema film with the American documentary and start its screening.
Collect all 13 distinct suit upgrades: eight in Volga and five in Caspian, in the same continuous campaign.
Detach all required cars on the hostile Moscow train before planting the bomb.
Avoid every Blind One throwing attack in the Two Colonels final encounter; a thrown mutant also counts.
Kill 50 enemies at long distance; use a scoped weapon against distant hostile targets.
Finish Sam's Story on Normal or higher without dying in any Batwing encounter. Prepare for all three fights, not just the last.
Complete Sam's Story with the Captain's full trust. Follow every local trust interaction; the guide uses detonation as the conservative final branch.
Kill 50 enemies by running them down with the Bukhanka. Use hostile mutants to avoid harming the slave-rescue route.
Finish the full main campaign on Ranger Hardcore. Select it at the start and do not lower difficulty.
Collect all nine Two Colonels diary pages, including the last one before the final vent.
Kill three Nosalises with the flamethrower's melee strike; fire damage kills do not fulfill it.
Finish Taiga without attacking people or being noticed. Use a dedicated stealth replay if exploration/combat goals conflict; even knockouts are avoided.
Collect the full 71-page base diary set despite the achievement wording saying 70. Use the chapter atlas and replay for missed pages.
Collect all 21 base-game postcards. Check each one-way chapter interior as you pass; missing cards can be recovered in replay.
Finish New Game+ with at least one modifier enabled.
Find all eight Night Hunter secret stashes; check hidden entrances and puzzles before each one-way transition.
Complete the entire Two Colonels DLC on Normal or higher without using a medkit. Set difficulty before starting the attempt.
Collect all nine harmonica music sheets in Sam’s Story. Playing an available piano is an optional community-reported precaution, not a substitute for a sheet or a separately verified requirement. Diary notes are a different collection.
Collect the fish, sun and bear toys during New Game+; ordinary teddy-bear quest items do not substitute.
Complete a campaign with Iron Mode enabled in New Game+. Plan for chapter-length progress loss if you die or abandon a chapter.
Each option explains its consequences. Your choice is repeated at the relevant step; alternatives remain available.
Anna and Artyom survive; Artyom leads the Order. Keep Duke, Damir and healthy Alyosha for all three companion achievements plus Full Strength and Your Destination. Miller still dies.
Two favorable regional outcomes can support the good ending, but Full Strength is lost. Select which personal story you want to change and verify the other two.
Arrange at least two unfavorable regional outcomes. Anna survives but Artyom dies, awarding Eternal Voyage; Your Destination and Full Strength require another campaign branch.
Spare cultists and merchants through the church, boat theft and bridge. Duke survives and remains with the crew; Duke and Full Strength remain available.
Lethal hostility through Volga leads to the hostile bridge escape and Duke's death. You lose his achievement and Full Strength on this run. A lone final choice is not a guaranteed switch.
Rescue the slaves, avoid harming them, return the photograph and use restraint. Damir returns, enabling his achievement and retaining Full Strength.
Neglecting the oppressed people or harming them leads Damir to stay and help Giul. He lives, but leaves your party and cannot donate in the finale. His achievement and Full Strength are lost.
Spare the Pioneers and Pirates and help captives. Olga lets you leave, preserving Alyosha and Full Strength. Perfect stealth is only additionally needed for Forest child.
Killing the forest factions produces a hostile farewell and his serious injury. He survives but loses his healthy-donor outcome; Alyosha and Full Strength are unavailable.
A compassionate response changes the immediate dialogue. Duty and conscience still unlocks; the DLC's final story is unchanged.
Khlebnikov enforces the order and the exchange is harsher. The achievement still unlocks and no alternative ending or exclusive weapon is created.
Sam gives up the immediate voyage home to stop Tom retaining the nuclear vessel, honoring the Captain's request. Follow the full trust route for the conservative A Man of Principle attempt.
Sam reaches the American coast with Tom, while Tom retains the submarine and its nuclear threat. This is the homecoming outcome; it is not the guide's conservative A Man of Principle route.
Anna and Artyom survive; Artyom leads the Order. Keep Duke, Damir and healthy Alyosha for all three companion achievements plus Full Strength and Your Destination. Miller still dies.
Two favorable regional outcomes can support the good ending, but Full Strength is lost. Select which personal story you want to change and verify the other two.
Arrange at least two unfavorable regional outcomes. Anna survives but Artyom dies, awarding Eternal Voyage; Your Destination and Full Strength require another campaign branch.
Full Strength needs the same continuing campaign to preserve Duke, Damir and healthy Alyosha.
A last-minute final dialogue does not repair an earlier regional loss.
Spare the church followers and merchants; confirm Duke boards alive.
Free both slave ships, return Giul's photo and protect slaves; confirm he returns to the Aurora.
Keep Pioneers and Pirates alive; confirm the peaceful departure and no serious injury.
Separate replayed chapters do not replace the campaign whose outcomes you are carrying.
Guide diagram. Original outcome checklist. Damir staying with Giul is departure, not death; each regional result must be checked in-game.
Choose your difficulty and start Moscow. If Hardcore is your target, begin on Ranger Hardcore and keep it through the campaign; ordinary Hardcore is a different preset. Otherwise choose the challenge you enjoy.
On Ranger Hardcore, plan around automatic checkpoints; the ordinary manual/quick-save recovery used elsewhere in this guide is unavailable. Iron Mode has the stricter chapter-level reset rule described at . When this guide says to preserve an alternate save, read that as conditional on the mode’s actual saving options. For incompatible story outcomes, a separate campaign is the dependable fallback.
Play the opening tunnels next. Equipment maintenance starts when its tools are available. Crew and ending choices can stay undecided; the guide explains their consequences before the relevant actions.
This route applies to original Metro Exodus (Steam 412020) and PC Enhanced Edition (1449560). Both currently list 68 achievements with matching names; their Steam records are separate. Enhanced is a separate installation, and its DLC entitlement depends on owning the expansions. Check the library entry you actually launch.
Use this only if you are stuck or want to come back later. Otherwise, leave it on “Continue normally” and use “Mark section complete” below when you finish.
Use this while working through the section. This menu changes your guide’s progress reminders, not anything in your game.
Record the option you actually chose in the game. Leave decisions you have not reached blank. These records are separate from your planned choices.
Finish the full main campaign on Ranger Hardcore. Select it at the start and do not lower difficulty.
Individual tasks and achievements keep their own checkmarks.
Check an item after picking it up and confirming it in the game. These marks are separate from platform achievements. Follow the local chapter’s last safe pickup and replay rules.
Where to look: Begin in the tunnel and inspect the skeleton for ammunition before the first mutant. The damaged blue carriage leads toward the exit afterward.
What to do: Handle the first encounter, move through the carriage and use the exit door promptly when the pack arrives. Complete its prompts, then inspect the hospital before joining the group.
What should happen: You pass the first encounter and the door interaction advances the escape. You still have an opportunity to inspect the hospital before its departure scene.
If it does not work: If enemies keep arriving at the exit, focus on the door prompt rather than trying to clear the whole pack. If you are unsure about a paper pickup, inspect the nearby desks before crossing the next story transition.
Open the before the train escape. The illustrated chapter atlas is linked there. Search hospital bedside tables, the apartment rooms, the captured-train work areas and the last hostile train as you pass.
Keep cover between you and the second attacker. Reload while Anna or a doorway limits incoming angles. Use a close-range weapon on rushing mutants and save automatic ammunition for enemies that cannot safely be bypassed.
After the opening mutant, check the candlelit desk on the right for Half-Torn Notebook. In the hospital, collect Patient File from the desk ahead-right, then the postcard on the green locker before the green meeting-room door.
After one staircase, enter the doorway left of the second stairs: postcard by the window, Dusty Diary in the adjoining left room. After the Watchmen fight, take Shopping List from the corpse against the left door. Shura's Note is inside the blue bus on the right; Crumpled Letter is by the corpse after the crawl under logs.
Use this only if you are stuck or want to come back later. Otherwise, leave it on “Continue normally” and use “Mark section complete” below when you finish.
Use this while working through the section. This menu changes your guide’s progress reminders, not anything in your game.
Individual tasks and achievements keep their own checkmarks.
Check an item after picking it up and confirming it in the game. These marks are separate from platform achievements. Follow the local chapter’s last safe pickup and replay rules.
Use these choices when the required level, resource or unlock is available. Opening this section does not change your character.
Compare or change your styleWhere to look: Follow Yermak to the power panel and inspect the ladder approach. Watch the isolated guard and the next patrol’s facing direction.
What to do: Cut the power, stay low, and use cover and the thrown-can distraction to cross the exposed route. Keep your flashlight off near the human patrols.
What should happen: You reach the next objective through the yard without remaining exposed to several firing angles at once.
If it does not work: If detected, retreat behind solid cover and address one firing lane before moving again. A noisy mistake is a reason to stabilize your position, not sprint through every doorway.
After rescuing Anna, take Official Note from the console involved in the struggle. Later, pass through the red door out of the stealth yard and inspect the desk on the left for Memo.
Use this only if you are stuck or want to come back later. Otherwise, leave it on “Continue normally” and use “Mark section complete” below when you finish.
Use this while working through the section. This menu changes your guide’s progress reminders, not anything in your game.
Use the repair prompt to patch a cracked gas mask; repair it rather than only changing its filter.
Perform 50 melee kills or knockouts. Knockouts let this coexist with the merciful route, except the stricter Forest child attempt.
Individual tasks and achievements keep their own checkmarks.
Check an item after picking it up and confirming it in the game. These marks are separate from platform achievements. Follow the local chapter’s last safe pickup and replay rules.
Compare your diary menu with the Moscow picture atlas. Missing paper collectibles can be recovered with chapter replay; a later chapter cannot bring you back here in the same journey.
After the window takedown, enter the car on your left: Official Letter is on its left desk. Beyond the mounted-machine-gun car, take Crumpled Note from the crate on your right before planting the explosive. Some older guides spell it Crumbled Note.
Use this only if you are stuck or want to come back later. Otherwise, leave it on “Continue normally” and use “Mark section complete” below when you finish.
Use this while working through the section. This menu changes your guide’s progress reminders, not anything in your game.
Finish the Moscow escape and allow the transition to Winter.
Detach all required cars on the hostile Moscow train before planting the bomb.
Collect the full 71-page base diary set despite the achievement wording saying 70. Use the chapter atlas and replay for missed pages.
Collect all 21 base-game postcards. Check each one-way chapter interior as you pass; missing cards can be recovered in replay.
Individual tasks and achievements keep their own checkmarks.
Includes all 68 PC achievements, the important weapon and suit routes, companion outcomes, and named waypoint directions for all 71 base-game diary pages and 21 postcards. Linked illustrated atlases help identify exact rooms. This is researched text coverage, not an independently played completion test.
DLC routes include all 9 Two Colonels diaries, 11 Sam lore diaries, the stash and melody milestones, and the named 18-part Sammy/Stallion inventory. Optional ambient conversations and every loose crafting resource are not enumerated.
Recommendations are researched strategies, not a guarantee of surviving Ranger Hardcore. Save and reload behavior differs by difficulty; no obsolete version downgrade or achievement unlock exploit is required.
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Read the original source ↗Gamepressure: bandits and cemetery
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Read the original source ↗Gamepressure: pirate boat and Admiral
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Read the original source ↗Gamepressure: dam route
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Read the original source ↗Gamepressure: institute and Blind Ones
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Read the original source ↗XboxAchievements: Righteous vengeance
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Read the original source ↗XboxAchievements: hidden achievement conditions
xboxachievements.com
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Read the original source ↗Hold To Reset: all nine Two Colonels diaries
holdtoreset.com
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Read the original source ↗MrReign: Two Colonels chapter and equipment timestamps
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Read the original source ↗XboxAchievements: Normal difficulty and no-medkit run
xboxachievements.com
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Read the original source ↗Metro Wiki: Dodge Master
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Read the original source ↗Steam community: Two Colonels choice and achievements
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Read the original source ↗Gamepressure: Sam prologue
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Read the original source ↗Gamepressure: searching for Captain
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Read the original source ↗Gamepressure: Captain apartment
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Read the original source ↗Gamepressure: diving suit
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Read the original source ↗Gamepressure: fuel tunnels
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Read the original source ↗Gamepressure: Sam finale
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Read the original source ↗Gamepressure: Cinephile
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Read the original source ↗Gameranx: Captain trust route
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Read the original source ↗Gameranx: eight Night Hunter stashes
gameranx.com
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Read the original source ↗Metro Wiki: Sam collectibles and equipment
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Read the original source ↗Gamepressure: all melody locations
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Read the original source ↗rus199410: nine melody video locations
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Read the original source ↗TrueAchievements: 18 weapon parts, eight stashes and nine melodies
trueachievements.com
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Read the original source ↗Games4Fun: New Game+ toy locations
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Read the original source ↗Community reports: alternate toy spawns
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Read the original source ↗PC Gamer — Metro Exodus backpack/workbench crafting limits
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Read the original source ↗PC Gamer — Metro Exodus weapon slots, roles and attachments
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Read the original source ↗PowerPyx - all Moscow diary and postcard locations, chronological
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Read the original source ↗PowerPyx - Winter Survey Report location
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Read the original source ↗PowerPyx - all Yamantau diaries and postcards, chronological
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Read the original source ↗Steam: original PC achievement list, checked 2026-10-09
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Read the original source ↗Steam: PC Enhanced achievement list, checked 2026-10-09
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Read the original source ↗Deep Silver: PC Enhanced entitlement and separate installation
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Read the original source ↗Deep Silver: Ranger Update announcement on Steam
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Read the original source ↗Ranger Update thread: community-preserved full modifier notes below the developer post
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Read the original source ↗Deep Silver: current official announcements, including 2026 PC update
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Read the original source ↗PowerPyx: Spring diary location
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Read the original source ↗PowerPyx: Summer diary location
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Read the original source ↗PowerPyx: Autumn diary location
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Read the original source ↗Gamepressure: Volga diary and postcard reference
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Read the original source ↗Hold To Reset: Volga landmark directions; numbering cross-checked
holdtoreset.com
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Read the original source ↗Gamepressure: Caspian diary and postcard reference
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Read the original source ↗Gamepressure: Taiga diary and postcard reference
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Read the original source ↗PowerPyx: Dead City chronological paper route
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Read the original source ↗Gamepressure: Two Colonels diary waypoints
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Read the original source ↗Hold To Reset: eleven Sam diary locations; introductory nine-count is a typo
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Read the original source ↗Gamepressure: Sam diary locations
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Read the original source ↗Gameranx: Sammy and Stallion collectible parts
gameranx.com
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Read the original source ↗PlayStationTrophies: 18 named weapon upgrades, used for item names rather than PC unlock authority
playstationtrophies.org
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Read the original source ↗Steam community: achievement walkthrough, sniper parts and replay planning
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Read the original source ↗Metro Wiki: flamethrower upgrade locations; indexed text checked
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Read the original source ↗Game Guides Channel: all eleven Sam diaries, timestamped
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Read the original source ↗XboxAchievements: Untouchable encounter preparation; PC condition cross-checked on Steam
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Read the original source ↗Steam community: Sam item order, diary context and stash entrances
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Read the original source ↗Gamepressure: Autumn and Dead City paper reference
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Read the original source ↗Hold To Reset: Moscow diary names and the final train-car note
holdtoreset.com
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Read the original source ↗Gamepressure: Two Colonels maintenance tunnels
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Read the original source ↗Gamepressure: map search and blind creatures
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Read the original source ↗Deep Silver: Metro Exodus news hub
deepsilver.com
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Read the original source ↗Metro Wiki: Dusty Workbook, container landmark
metrovideogame.fandom.com
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Read the original source ↗PCGamingWiki: Ranger mode checkpoint and sleep saving
pcgamingwiki.com
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Read the original source ↗Gamepressure: battery charge controller roof and electrical-room route
gamepressure.com
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Supports: Fuel source, rooftop access, interior power and wired-body pickup.
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Limits: Walkthrough last updated January 2022; exact current key bindings are not assumed.
Read the original source ↗Gamepur: battery-controller electrical-door interaction sequence
gamepur.com
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Supports: Glowing-mushroom roof opening, yellow box, return door and final lever.
Claim checked: 2026-10-10
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Read the original source ↗Supersoluce: terminal fish trap and trolley track switch
video-game-guide-walkthrough.supersoluce.com
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Supports: Bell, one body cable, fish-feeding window, left lever and post-terminal railway switch.
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Read the original source ↗Thumbsticks: pumping the Tikhar
thumbsticks.com
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Read the original source ↗Game Informer: mask repair and equipment charging
gameinformer.com
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Read the original source ↗Manual planning and checklists. This guide does not read your game save or platform account.