One day, Artyom received a message from the leader of the VDNKh station, a major hub in the metro system. The leader, a grizzled old man named Vladimir, had received a distress call from a group of survivors in the Polis station, the seat of government in the metro. The survivors were fleeing from a group of mutants, and Vladimir needed someone to escort them to safety.

Repackers use advanced compression algorithms (like LZMA2) and often strip out "unnecessary" files such as multi-language voiceovers or high-resolution credits videos to achieve these sizes. Game Specifications

It is important to clarify from the outset: It is a term used primarily on torrent sites, warez forums, and file-sharing blogs to describe a pirated copy of the game that has been altered to reduce its file size for faster downloading.

: If the game crashes on startup, try turning off PhysX and Tessellation in the graphics settings, as these are common culprits for stability issues on older hardware.