Atomic Heart - 9 Things I Wish I Knew

Atomic Heart is a first-person, action-RPG set in a world of killer robots. The game isn’t the best at explaining some of its mechanics, so I’ve put together a list of tips that I would've loved to have early on.

Here are 9 things I wish I knew when I started playing Atomic Heart.
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In the early hours of Atomic Heart, the game walks you through the purchase of ‘Shok’, an elemental upgrade for your sentient polymer glove Char-Les. This tutorial, as well as my experience with similar games, led me to believe that this was the only elemental upgrade available to me that early on. In fact Char-Les even says, [“More skills will become available to you soon” clip], but this is not 100% the truth as all the glove upgrades are available right away, you just need enough materials for them. 

Atomic Heart does not tell you this, but if you head back into the NORA machine following the free tutorial upgrades, you’ll see that you have around 30 Neuropolymer that can be used. This is just enough to afford Polymeric Shield by itself OR Frostbite and Polymeric Jet together. The latter will set you up with 3 elemental powers right out the gate, giving you an early advantage against your foes. 

The best part is that you are not locked into your decision here. You can return abilities at any point in the game at a NORA for 100% refund of resources. So if you'd rather try out the Shield ability first, you can do so and still try the other two abilities later and vice versa. The game eventually gives you this information, but it's great to know sooner so you can start tinkering with your playstyle in the opening hours. This awesome refund feature also works when dismantling weapons and consumables, but you won’t need to worry about the weapons part yet. This is because unlike the glove upgrades, all the weapons are not available from the start and need to be unlocked using found blueprints.

[dutty]

Really don't get the hate for this game. We don't get games like this very often anymore. Probably the best single player FPS I've played since Prey (2017).

[vedantbharvirkar]

The looting mechanic is so satisfying imo

[fly-guy-ry]

Can we just take the time to appreciate decent games coming out without game breaking bugs ty developers we needed this (BioShock fans)

[Chadghostal]

some of the glove upgrades are locked behind story moments. you can buy them early, but as soon as you try and exit, the game tells you its too early and gives you a refund.

[Noazzark]

I really like this game, aside from a few issues which I have no doubt will be fixed up bit by bit with patches. I think it's a nice solid release.

[Edwardify]

The game is so well optimised. I can run on atomic with everything max with a 1070 it's insane

[petersmith-zevl]

I got this the day it came out I played for about 6 hours it was brutally hard and a little bugy but not game breaky. took a break went to play a little before bed when it told me my save file was no good as the updated feature didnt work with saves on the master file. So started over but got to choose a difficulty that time and found the update fixed most of the performance issues I had. having a lot of fun with it now.

[zerozeroone]

I'm a little over 8 hours in and so far i'm really loving the game.

[jazzardperi]

9 tips you've alreadly discovered after 3 hours of playing

[brucewilson]

2023 may be the best year in gaming we've had in a very long time 🤘

[bigbusinessbusiness]

Yeah that button re-mapping would be awesome. Y is always switch weapons even in the old bioshock so why not give us the option🤷🏻‍♂️. Maybe they’ll add it later

[antronico]

It was the Neuromed capsules for me. I could not even you how many times I accidentally used them. 6 add to that was the fact that even if you are full health, it still wastes a capsule when you accidentally push the button.

[anonymous_dot_com]

Another great tip with the plant zombies... Make sure you slice up any corpse you can see into bits so that the parasite plant cant mount on them, makes fights easier

[Tamisday]

Everyone seems to hate everything that isn’t a cookie cutter franchise these days. This game’s pretty fun, I’m glad I gave it a chance. Thanks for pointing out the Nora storage! Nora is my one major gripe, I peace out of her menu fast and completely overlooked that feature. Gonna go stock up …

[masterofthemaidens]

If the game just improved combat, it wouldn't be getting the hate it is.

[SBASTAN]

I'm loving this game, I've had no real substantial issues on performance except two minor instances. One with the crazy running around lifter robot spazing out a bit and a bit of lag glitch issue trying to use the map while in the first area. Which fixed on a quick restart and the latest 2 patches have made thing running very smoothly

[brandonbishop]

You can remap any buttons through the ps5 settings. So if you’d rather have triangle switch your weapon on this game you can definitely change it. I have 2 scuf controllers and I gotta say I absolutely love them for the button mapping alone. Makes games that need the buttons tweaked so much more enjoyable 😅

[mundanemorselsmundanemorse]

#1 : that it would have an additional 70GB update after already being installed.

[nexus]

4 hours in and I love the game. I was so much on the fence after watching all the reviews complaining about it. So far I haven’t come across anything I don’t like. The combat is really very cool and much better than many other games.

[CyberMonty]

This game is pretty good.
I having much more fun than I thought I would.
Don’t listen to the people complaining about this game.
There are a small handful of bugs here and there, but they can fixed down the road.