Summary
2023’sAtomic Heartoffers an excellent sci-fi FPS experience with an especially unique setting. When trying to survive the haywire robots of the alt-history USSR, there are some things new and oldAtomic Heartplayers ought to keep in mind.
Atomic Heartisan FPS experience similar toBioShock, one that combines gunplay with a variety of elemental attacks. These attributes will all be necessary to fight through the haywire robots, zombified abominations, and overgrown botanical horrors that have run rampant throughout the various locales around the facility. Players will end up taking on some truly merciless foes and bosses that lead to unfaltering onslaughts, so tactical use of weapons and polymer upgrades will be a necessity.
How To Succeed In Atomic Heart
Grind For Parts (And Save Time Doing It)
Atomic Heartis full of different materials that can be used for ammo, weapons, and polymer upgrades. They’re also essential forAtomic Heart’s vital neuromeds, so players will want to stock up. Open-world sections will especially offer a variety of areas to find this crafting loot, as will the various offices and labs dotted around the map. Save on ammo by killing off smaller robots with a melee weapon and explore every room to find as much material as possible.
Importantly, the polymer glove P-3 is equipped with picks up this loot by vacuuming it. Using this, don’t go to individual containers and suck up loot but hold out P-3’s hand and walk around the room. This is not only incredibly satisfying but is undoubtedly the most efficient way to get all of an area’s resources.
Conserve Ammo With Stun Abilities
P-3’s polymer glove hasabilities essential toAtomic Heart. Among these are powers that momentarily stun enemies, which are easily some of the game’s best options. Not only do these powers give the player an opening to get in some crucial damage, but they will also allow the player to get close and use a melee option. Using melee weapons will help conserve ammo and the various difficulties that come from attaining it. This is especially useful for flying enemies, such as vova bots, that can be safely hacked away once frozen in place.
These benefits to stun makeFrostbite and Mass Telekinesis amongAtomic Heart’s strongest options. The former freezes foes in place, covering them in frost and temporarily immobilizing them. It’s useful for on-the-fly combat adaptation, taking an enemy out of combat and allowing for an easy barrage of melee strikes. On the other hand, mass telekinesis lifts a group of enemies in the air and lets players stab or shoot at them like fish in a barrel. Both are also solid for allowing repositioning or a break when amid a fray, providing vital time to heal or buff.
Hone Dodge And Polymeric Shield
The player will want to avoid damage as much as possible to conserve healing resources, which can often be especially tiresome to attain. Dodging is one of the ways to swerve from danger, so it’ll be best to get good at it.Atomic Heart’s Second Wind upgradeis a particularly reliable way to help with dodging, allowing the player a second dodge and giving both a great boost to health conservation and combat mobility. Many enemies will hit hard, so staying out of the way is crucial.
Sometimes, however, it won’t always be possible to dodge. This is why players should consider investing in Polymeric Shield, a polymer blockade that will soak up a few attacks before dissipating.Atomic Heart’s first bosswill set the tone for this ability’s vital purpose, with nigh-unpredictable rampage patterns that bombard the player out the gate. Supplementing dodge downtime with Polymeric Shield will greatly improve survivability. It’s not always essential, but the game’s upgrade system can be entirely remodeled, so it’s a solid trait to take and leave as needed.
Atomic Heart
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Welcome to a utopian world of wonders and perfection, in which humans live in harmony with their loyal and fervent robots.Well, that’s how it used to be. With the launch of the latest robot-control system mere days away, only a tragic accident or a global conspiracy could disrupt it…The unstoppable course of technology along with secret experiments have brought rise to mutant creatures, terrifying machines and superpowered robots—all suddenly rebelling against their creators. Only you may stop them and find out what lies behind the idealized world.Using the combat abilities granted by your experimental power glove, your arsenal of blades and cutting-edge weaponry, fight for your life in explosive and frenetic encounters. Adapt your fighting style to each unique opponent. Combine your skills and resources, use the environment and upgrade your equipment to overcome challenges and fight for good.
