User blog comment:Chaosian/Primary source for Tower Pack DLC/@comment-217.26.27.230-20130928160304/@comment-1932315-20131001022230

Typically I do not think of anything 15 - 20 years old as being new, except in a cosmic sense. I also do not typically think of one familliar enemy encounter to another as encounters with "new forms of life", paired with their scientific latin name. Additionally, the terminology for "commoners" is odd because in no other place do members of the order seem to distinguish themselves as above the rest of the metro.

Have you seen a ranger use an Ashot? A Bastard? Of all the Rangers, only Vladamir uses a metro-made weapon (in 2033). While they exist in D6's armory, they don't look to train with them either.

Indeed. The game and novel cannon are already distinctly separate, and everything of the expanded universe is already considered of suspect cannon to both 'timelines'.