Atomic Heart

[craste]

I like the look of this!

https://youtu.be/qRBEfJkjtsM

[dundarach]

[PhilboSE]

anonymous said:

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By ‘eck, I couldn’t be playing a game with that going on. Puts your teeth on edge.

[130R]

PhilboSE said:

anonymous said:

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By ‘eck, I couldn’t be playing a game with that going on. Puts your teeth on edge.

The original audio is in Russian so hopefully there is the option to use that with English subtitles.

[Leon R]

Anyone playing? I am quite enjoying it and it was free on Gamepass.

[Narcisus]

I grabbed it on pc then Xbox. Wouldn’t run on pc then I saw all the you tube videos about its origins so binned it off.

[Lucas Ayde]

LOL. Apparently having failed spectacularly with Hogwarts Legacy, the professionally offended have turned their sights on this one.

Reviews look pretty decent and I have PC gamepass so I'm going to be giving this one a go for sure

[Narcisus]

Lucas Ayde said:

LOL. Apparently having failed spectacularly with Hogwarts Legacy, the professionally offended have turned their sights on this one.

Reviews look pretty decent and I have PC gamepass so I'm going to be giving this one a go for sure

Professionally offended ? Please do explain !

Edit - Ahhh right I didn't know anything about Hogwarts not something I would look at as for Atomic Heart I'm giving it a miss because of the possible connections to Ukraine.

What's causing the professionally offended to have turned their sights on it ?

Edited by Narcisus on Saturday 25th February 11:04

[Narcisus]

Narcisus said:

Lucas Ayde said:

LOL. Apparently having failed spectacularly with Hogwarts Legacy, the professionally offended have turned their sights on this one.

Reviews look pretty decent and I have PC gamepass so I'm going to be giving this one a go for sure

Professionally offended ? Please do explain !

Edit - Ahhh right I didn't know anything about Hogwarts not something I would look at as for Atomic Heart I'm giving it a miss because of the possible connections to Ukraine.

What's causing the professionally offended to have turned their sights on it ?

Edited by Narcisus on Saturday 25th February 11:04

Guess we will never know then lol !

[Zetec-S]

Accusations of data harvesting for the Russian gov.
Apparently one scene has some sort of racist 60's Soviet cartoon.
Ukraine has objected as the game "romanticises" the Soviet Empire.

[Narcisus]

Zetec-S said:

Accusations of data harvesting for the Russian gov.
Apparently one scene has some sort of racist 60's Soviet cartoon.
Ukraine has objected as the game "romanticises" the Soviet Empire.

Thanks for that not particularly the professionally offended then.

[Leon R]

I don't see how anyone who thinks it romanticises the soviet empire can have actually played it. What is the basis for this claim?

[ZedLeg]

Gave it a go but I'm not that big a fan of the Bioshock style games so didn't stick with it.

[FourWheelDrift]

This is the game Nvidia was proudly announcing in it's RTX 2000 series launch, it's poster child for ray tracing gaming 5 years ago.

It doesn't have ray tracing - https://www.tomshardware.com/news/atomic-heart-pc-...

[Zetec-S]

Leon R said:

I don't see how anyone who thinks it romanticises the soviet empire can have actually played it. What is the basis for this claim?

My limited understanding is that the game is based in an alternative reality which portrays an idealistic view of the soviet union and it's history/achievements? I've not played the game so don't really know the plot, I've watched a couple of videos as it grabbed my attention, but I guess it doesn't sit quite right with me at the moment so don't think it's for me.

But in many ways I guess no different to something like C&C Red Alert years ago, where you could play from the soviet pov. Albeit that wasn't from a dev with links to Russia. But the difference being current events obviously make the timing of this a little more controversial (despite the fact it's been in development for a few years now).

[Leon R]

Zetec-S said:

Leon R said:

I don't see how anyone who thinks it romanticises the soviet empire can have actually played it. What is the basis for this claim?

My limited understanding is that the game is based in an alternative reality which portrays an idealistic view of the soviet union and it's history/achievements?

Not really no as none of the achievements portrayed in the game ever actually existed and to be honest while you can consider them fantastic scientific achievements the soviet union is not shown in a positive light.

IMO it is no different to the alternate universe portrayed in Man in the high castle.

[Rick_1138]

Played about an hour and enjoying it so far, the stuff online about it idoliising or glorifying the Soviet Union are wrong as you can see after a very brief period of time it's found to all be a shiny veneer over a rather awful place and lots of controlling society etc.

[sheldimus]

Top game that I've been on since it launched on Xbox.
I was finding it a fair challenge until I put some effort into upgrading my Mass Telekinesis. Now I can walk into anywhere and dominate everything in sight.

Couple it with maxing SHOK out and you're pretty much untouchable.

Great game

[Trustmeimadoctor]

I'm not enjoying it that much

Controls aren't great especially the jumping from holding stuff, swinging the axe isn't easy always getting caught on stuff and it takes ages to heal.

I'm only at the seed store bit though so I assume very early although the 72 hour long slow walking forced intro was a pain in the arse

[Trustmeimadoctor]

Finished it with 2 different endings by Christ it's a boring game. There is so little difference in any sections of it and the looting is a pain in the arse