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"Enlightened" Ending
Metro 2033

"Enlightened" Ending

Learn how to achieve the "Enlightened" Ending in Metro 2033 Redux by making specific choices and interacting with the guidance system at the Ostankino Tower.

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Learn how to achieve the "Enlightened" Ending in Metro 2033 Redux by making specific choices and interacting with the guidance system at the Ostankino Tower.

To achieve the "Enlightened" Ending in Metro 2033, you must have made specific choices throughout the game. This ending is triggered by Khan's dialogue at Sparta base and your actions at the Ostankino Tower.

Walkthrough
  1. 1
    Upon reaching Ostankino Tower, you will automatically equip a Gas Mask. Switch to Military Grade ammo.
  2. 2
    Fight off the initial wave of watchers.
  3. 3
    Stay close to Miller; straying too far ahead or behind can result in a demon attack or being overwhelmed by watchers.
  4. 4
    After fighting a second pack of watchers, follow Miller. Loot the body near the buses to find the KEY.
  5. 5
    Enter the shack and loot the red wall locker and the area around the skeleton for a Gas Mask, Medkits, shotgun ammo, and assault rifle ammo.
  6. 6
    Exit the shack and fight off the last pack of watchers before entering the base of the tower.
  7. 7
    Go left to a marked ranger stash and open the green door. The SAFE inside is empty.
  8. 8
    Continue through the doorway on the left and follow Miller to the elevator.
  9. 9
    After falling off the elevator, go to the back. A demon will appear and then fly off.
  10. 10
    Exit the elevator, find a filter, Gas Mask, and NOTE in a red wall locker.
  11. 11
    Climb over the cabinet, find a gap to the right leading towards the tower's center. Loot the red wall locker for filters and a Medkit.
  12. 12
    Crouch under a tipped-over cabinet and stay along the edge to reach the staircase.
  13. 13
    Go up the stairs, staying along the edge to navigate around cabinets.
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    Go through the gap on the left to meet Miller. A demon will attack; kill it to save Miller. You can pick up Miller's VSV.
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    Go through the hole the demon made, reach the elevator, and use the broken slab to ascend to the next level.
  16. 16
    Climb the ladder and pull yourself over the railing.
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    Walk along the edge, go through the doorway on the left, and descend the first set of stairs for filters.
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    Go up the stairs to the top of the elevator shaft. You will hear the Dark Ones.
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    To get the "Enlightened" Ending: Do NOT shoot the guidance system. Instead, use a weapon to shoot it off the tower, or run up and push it off. If you let it count down without intervention, you will receive the "If It's Hostile, You Kill It" ending.

Ending Dialogue Snippet (Enlightened Ending):

"H.G. Wells once wrote, "If we don't end wars, wars will end us." And somehow, I stopped my war. At the time, I couldn't say what had made me spare the Dark Ones. But, I came to realize that the strange visions that haunted my journey were their attempts to reach out to us. I don't know if I was the first to communicate with them, but I will not be the last... And the future -- our future -- stretches before us like an endless Metro tunnel."

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