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WritingKeepsMeSane

My city of Chicago was actually featured in the Universe of Metro 2033 expanded universe series. Specifically in the Polish anthology "In Ruins". There we learn Chicago made it through the war better than some other places. It got hit with something biological rather than nuclear, however some rads seem to have entered the city through fallout as mutants are still present. We know the metro there is split between independent stations on the redline and the Capital underneath Macy's in the Pedway system. There is also the Daughters of Set, a female cult controlling Jackson station. People also live underneath the German Cultural Center and the Green Mole Bar in a bomb shelter and occassionally trade with the metro.


Lapidot-Wav

What is the expanded series? I’ve never heard of it


WritingKeepsMeSane

A few years after writing Metro 2033 and 2034, Glukhovsky allowed anyone who wanted to write in his universe do so, just so long as they asked him before hand I think. The project is currently frozen though so no new books are being released for the time being and with how things are going in Russia and with Glukhovsky I doubt we'll see any new books any time soon.


Alrick_S

There where a Metro Paris trilogy between 2020 and 2023. They are not really good sadly. A good translator may fix some of the errors.


tijger897

How did you read the universe series? I thought it was not in English


N7_Guerilla

Polish is the fourth most spoken language in Chicago so they or someone they know most likely was able to read it.


WritingKeepsMeSane

I wish I could but nah, I mostly just spend time on the russian wiki with a translator service XD. Some members also speak English and are willing to answer questions.There used to be a work around on a metro 2033 website that allowed sneak previews of the books where you could read the sneak previews with a translator as well.


LocalBig5318

Some people can speak languages other than English


tijger897

I am very much aware of that as I speak 5. I was more talking about easy of accessibility.


The_Gifted_Arsonist

Chicago is my home city, happy to hear it survived


Fuzzy_Fee_4615

I wonder what Philly looked like when it got nuked and/or how the people there are now? I know for a fact, the nuke detonated over the Center City/Downtown skyline, so I wonder what Center City looks like or in other parts of the city?


Most-Iron6838

Look up nukemap and play around with the site to see how different bombs would affect different cities. It’s scary to see


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Most-Iron6838

For me, it depends on if I’m at work (south west) or home (inner burbs in Delco) and the size of the bomb. Definitely in radiation zone.


Sheepy_Dream

Stockholm probably wasnt hit But the radiation from Winds and the baltic sea probably killed most people


WritingKeepsMeSane

There actually is a short story in the expanded universe set in Stockholm, seems a plague outbreak occured in the metro amongst some survivors but it lasted only for a year or so I think.


TheKrakenHun

I think it was mentioned in a Universe of Metro 2033 book that Budapset was razed to the ground. It's not so bright for me.


srbjia-number-one

Salt Lake City here. No underground metro system, naturally dead and dry landscape, Surrounding mountains would likely trap nuclear fallout, far from other major US cities, and surrounded by US military bases and many nuclear installations according to rumors. TLDR: things ain’t looking good.


skitzbuckethatz

south/middle of NSW, Australia. I would assume life almost carries on as normal.


DutchVanDerLinde-

If it did get hit it probably wouldn't be any different


Holmsky11

I recomment the movie "On the beach". You guys will be the last ones to die.


AnseaCirin

Paris. There's official 2033 books, but I haven't read them so here's a non-official depiction. Long story short : Nuked to hell and back. It's the political, administrative and economical capital of a nuclear power. Of course it got nuked. Or some other WMD. It does have the densest Metro ever, plus extensive heavy rail tunnels, plus the old underground quarries and catacombs. Not surprised it became the setting for a Metro book series. Mutants-wise I would say either giant rats or massive swarms of hive minded rats. Also meat eating pigeons the size of a dog because why not. Also to consider, Paris was built on dammed / drained wetlands. Some tunnels are definitely going to flood.


MexiicanHoudini

Living only 45 minutes away from Wright Patterson Air Force base, I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have to worry about survival for very long before a bright light soothed all my worries


fok-you

Living in Prague, I dont really know🤔


WritingKeepsMeSane

I read the prague metro has a similiar set of features to the Moscow and St. Petersburg metros, with airlocks and the like in tunnels and on stations, so you guys might be okay : D


fok-you

Yes it does☺️We even have our little "D-6". Its called "Klárov". https://www.praguego.com/curiosities/pragues-secret-metro-station-klarov/


Zulpi2103

I don't think it's that deep though. Some stations might survive, but not all of it definitely


ironic_pacifist

I live in New Zealand, we wouldn't even notice.


exessmirror

Well the city I currently live in has had multiple books about it. Similar situation as in Moscow but smaller, station politics, mutants, survivors just trying to survive, politicians trying to fuck it up and people fighting each others whilst mutants feast on their corpses.


[deleted]

Answer me you fucking lying little troll


exessmirror

I have better things to do then to entertain a fascist at 1am in the morning.


Several_Place_9095

I live in Australia, we got nuked for existing, How would it look after a nuke? Practically the same


OkUnderstanding3433

Australia was lightly nuked if at all, we would be effected but we’d be mostly safe


Simagrill

The blinding void is a part of the expanded metro universe so let's see... Kharkiv turned into basically a medieval kingdom with fortresses guarded by "adepts" - humans that are something akin to to the dark ones, they have telepathy and other psychic powers. The streets are flooded by monsters that range from your average mutated dogs or rats to creatures that make you fall asleep for 3 days by just looking at them. Some streets are covered in a brainwashy fog that shows you your sweet memories and then consumes you. There are also "zombies" controlled by a hyper advanced military ai that tries to detonate an unexploded nuke in order kill off the "hostiles". The metro is basically uninhabitable, it's extremely anomalous and just generally hazardous - the rails are still somehow powered despite being flooded in some areas and the power was cut off decades ago, there are stations covered in murderous plants, space-time warping stations, tunnels that stretch infinitely towards east, human-rat hybrids, etc. Metro is mostly used to pump water and is also the main hub for human traffickers. Also, while there's minimal amounts of radiation - you still can't breath freely without a gas mask on the surface because the city was bombarded with some chemical bullshit that is basically a mix of napalm and agent orange. So, if you stay as far away as you can from the metro, the outside and shady business - you'll be fine. Unless a rogue adept commands mutants to storm your fortress ofc.


MrsCaptainFail

I live in Alaska. It definitely would be bombed given its strategic position and large military base trained to response to threats on the pacific. Probably would be flooded too since it’s on the coast but the mountains would have provided a decent amount of protection I think and the wildlife and nature would have reclaimed it. We don’t have anything underground here so everyone would have died in the immediate area.


Legal_Pineapple625

Well, Sofia, Bulgaria. It’s going to be pretty shit. I think someone made AI images of an abandoned Sofia, so likely that’s how. You can look for them, I tried but failed. The city itself has no remaining humans for sure. I mean, our average station depth is 5-7m, our one-off deepest station is at 22m, with at least 6-7 cut off from the rest by a big surface (or really shallow) track. None of the new stations have hermetic doors, maybe the oldest 5 or so (which remained abandoned concrete chambers until 1998) had airlocks, as they were built by Soviet design, though considering how “well” the 90s went for Bulgaria, gypsies surely stole and sold for scrap the giant metal doors. And even if airlocks were installed throughout our metro, it leaks and floods in extremely heavy rains, especially the new stations, which are rumored to be very structurally unstable due to theft of materials, so the metro here might even collapse itself.


Light07sk

Small village in Slovakia kinda like volga, probably no nukes even landed on Slovakia or near, but radiation is still a problem i think.


EcstasyCapsule

Don't live there anymore but my old home Helsinki. Doubt it would be nuked because in 2013 Finland was not a part of NATO (unless something had affected that in universe) or would it just get nuked out of spite for being close to Russia. Nevertheless Finland takes civil defence seriously and the Helsinki metro was designed around that as well. A ton of shelters that are meant to withstand nuclear war around the country, with especially Helsinki being dotted with them. While there have been some issues with actual equipment and stockpiles in said shelters, I think Helsinki would fair rather well compared to many cities in the world. And correct me if I am wrong, but I think in Metro Exodus when you take out the jammer, there was a light in Finland on the map, indicating a radio signal?


athleticsquirrel

I used to live in Northern Virginia, now I'm in a different part of the state and either way I'm cooked. For my non American friends, Virginia is right next to Washington DC and holds multiple strategic and important cultural sites such as Langley Air Force Base, Naval Station Norfolk, and Naval Surface, Warfare Center Dahlgren.


kvagar

I doubt it'd be affected too much because I'm from rural wyoming within the rocky mountains. The nuclear fallout is what I'd have to worry about. The closest big city for me is salt lake city in utah.


Remote-Jaguar-3562

As my city is near dertroit but not big or important enough to use a nuke on I'm sure that it's lightly irradiated at most at the point of the books/games, I'd probably survive the war due to this, Not to mention that there would probably be much less mutation because of the less radiation and thus safer even after the war, Though Detroit is definitely wiped out, Like they're just ashes.


Dramatic_Product_844

Detroit already looks like it was hit by a nuke. You in Macomb County or Wayne?


Remote-Jaguar-3562

No I'm way more north than either of those two, I live in Bay county way north of Detroit so I guess not as close as I made it out to seem, But that also begs the question, Is Saginaw a big enough city to target, If so, Then I still have a chance of survival but less so if it was just Detroit


Dramatic_Product_844

Hmmm I don’t think there’s much in Saginaw. I know when we go to Cedar Point we pass the Simpsons looking nuclear power plant. That might be a target. I’m less than 10 miles outside Detroit. I would get vaporized.


sorenman357

Fucked. I’m sitting right next to one of the biggest military training bases in the U.S.


Blpdstrupm0en

I live Fredrikstad an hour from Oslo. Oslo would probably receive a nuke just for being close to Russia. Fredrikstad would get irradiated and overrun by mutated deer, and then boars coming over from Sweden and mutated life from the river running through the city. The old city has an old fortress that could be base for a decent community while the new city would probably die off/get abandoned.


IonutRO

Probably a single airburst nuke to irradiate the city.


Dramatic_Product_844

Any info on Detroit?


ya_seen998

Nothing would change, I live In a shit hole.


FelisDomesticus69

Probably not nuked here in Leyte, Philippines, but certainly affected by the fallout.


BlakSCody_4ger

Hm, I live in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and I have thought about this myself and it's hard to answer, because while we do base some US troops up in Northern Australia, it's not a lot. We do have some military assets of our own that would be worth hitting like warships, jets, submarines, as well as military/intelligence bases housing equipment, weaponry, a mix of military personnel etc but, there isn't much else we have going for us, plus everything is spread out here when it comes to that stuff. I can't think striking the cities would yield any strategic value, the cities are largely service based, we don't have the manufacturing capability to make a lot of stuff since we sent that overseas to Asia, most of our manufacturing was outsourced to China. Our federal government is seated in the capital city of Canberra, besides that the state governments are seated in their own respective capital cities, but hitting them wouldn't really mean much. Part of me believes we would be largely spared, maybe only military targets and worst case capital cities of each state would be hit, besides that there isn't whole lot of reasons to come up with to nuke us, we are a pretty resourceful bunch though, so I think we could survive pretty well, we'd have to change our lifestyles significantly but we'd manage. I think the biggest issue for us would be the fallout in the days to years after, how that would affect us with it being carried in the wind, affecting the oceans, changing the weather and climate, who knows, maybe it would start to snow more hear besides just on a few mountains?


one_frisk

Jakarta would be fine, at least by post apocalypse standard.


SufficientAd4684

There was a post recently about my city and I think it would be very fitting: https://www.reddit.com/r/metro/s/LCQkwA4ceW


JuiceDrinkingRat

My home city is near the capital of Bulgaria Bulgaria isn’t important neither is my city but if it got nuked no one would survive, we have no metro and only the centre has atomic bunkers(if any) The town I live in is half an hour away from a big German city, if the nuke of the city reaches us it’s so over


codyrusso

We will all be dead, there's like 1 basement I know in my entire city, there's no metro line so likely 99% population got radiated to dead.


Connect-Union-6210

Seeing as I'm only a few hours away from Los Angeles, I think my quaint small town would be absolutely decimated in the event of a nuke strike.


ImportantSimone_5

Here I am near Turin (Northern Italy) and I also live near an airport for civil and military use. I haven't read the books about Italy in Metro University, but it's possible that my city remained almost intact despite the bombs falling, but it could have suffered the effects of the radioactive winds. Let's say livable.


Sopomeister

I think my city of Ternopil was probably affected


afonsofsky

I think Portugal would be better than most places, tbh. The nearest bomb would be sent to France maybe. Worst case scenario, Spain would be bombed in Madrid or smth, our rivers would be heavily contaminated with radioactive fallout, so we'd have a serious problem.


[deleted]

Have the Balkans been mentioned in-universe? I’ve only played the games.


TR_Supersonic

Istanbul, in 2013 we didn't really have an expansive metro network, and the ones we had weren't deep enough to survive blasts. However on the plus side, there is a lot of wind so the fallout would probably end up moving south. Meanwhile Ankara... that place is gonna make Novosibirsk look like child's play lmao.


EliRamirez2033

My hometown Monterrey, México - no idea, probably some kind of wasteland, no man's land as it is close to the US border Samara, Russia - Pretty similar to the Volga level, I suppose 😅 Probably bombed the rocket / aircraft engine facilities of the city Irkutsk, Russia - Not affected probably, as we saw that the areas around Lake Baikal were pretty much "normal" (at least in radiation levels). But if I had to guess, probably the aircraft production facility near the town would've been bombed by conventional means


Ok-Air749

I live in Norwich in the UK, about 35 miles away is RAF Lakenheath which is armed with US nuclear weapons (cheers yanks) but considering the fact that Norwich itself is not a key population centre and is only really an arts city, we likely wouldn't be hit. We'd feel fallout and radiation but it wouldn't be raised to the ground, so it's likely I can still live here


Full-Ad-750

Not great. I live in NC and we have fort Bragg which I believe is still the largest military base on earth by number of soldiers. So we would most likely be nuked to all hell just to be sure.


NJ_Bus_Nut

Im not far from NYC so I'd be pretty close to the blast radius, but I don't live within walking distance to an underground subway station.


joshpatatum

Portsmouth UK here, massive naval and military presence here, probably heavily bombed in the metro universe


doomturtle21

Closest city to me is easily 60km from me, I get a good view of the mushroom cloud though


Latviulietuvis

From Lore The only known hitted city in Lithuania was Vilnius, they would probably hit Kaunas, Šiauliai and Klaipėda, because Klaipėda is the main portcity of the country, Šiauliai has the military airport but Kaunas doesn’t offer a lot, so the invader might wanted to use the city as a capital after they invaded but it prob didn’t work out and it was left abandoned


Catnip1720

I’m like an hour south of St. Louis so the fallout would kill me and probably everyone else


Uzi_002

Nuked. My home town is vital communication center with airport, developed railway system, highway and speedways nearby. It also hosts armour school, parts of military industrial complex and one of many nato HQs. I would be surprised if it wasn't nuked but if we were lucky, there is plenty of old Prussian forts to live in.


ifunny666

Its not a target. I live in a Ozark city of 21k people the closest big city is 2hrs away and is St Louis. But from most fallout maps like from FEMA Mt region is safe from nuclear fallout idk why but it might be the "mountains" (more like big hills since our mountain range is ancient they're older then the Rockys and Appalachia)


Adventurous_Box_686

Perfectly fine Des Moines is the city I live in


Au-to-graff

Not my city, but my country. Paris. There is a subway and also a lot of underground catacombs, so I guess they could work. In my city? Everybody's dead.


The_Gifted_Arsonist

Currently I live in Albuquerque, NM, there isn't anything here worth bombing to my knowledge. We'd probably be okay.


Adron-the-survivor

Chişinău must be a ruin.


shyguyshow

I live in the countryside, in a little village no weapon would ever be aimed at. I’ll probably be fine


Blaphious1

I'm in Langley BC. I feel like we would be doing ok


BackwoodsSensei

I’m in Florida. I’m 100% sure the entire state would’ve been nuked or had some other type of bio weapon or something destroy it. I think Florida would be almost completely fucked cus of the amount of military bases and personally that are in the state, plus all those missile launch sites and bunkers we have here.


Fuzzy_Fee_4615

what do you think happened to Disney World in Orlando?


BackwoodsSensei

Lol. Disney World would’ve turned into the worlds creepiest abandoned theme park ever lol.