Atomic Heart - open world first-person shooter set in an alternate universe Soviet Union

[JDR13]

I was starting to think this was vaporware.

 

[luj1]

level0rd is a fucking legend. Dude hasn't aged a day, incredible. What's he doing there anyway?

 

[Wunderbar]

Silky-smooth 16 FPS.

 

[HoboForEternity]

i thought this was a scam guys

 

[Jinn]

Looks pretty cool though.

 

[luj1]

This and Bright Memory are the only FPS I'm looking forward to.

 

[Dodo1610]

Wait there are actually people who think this won't be a complete buggy disappointment? They wanted to release this last year and you can clearly see that they aren't in Pre Alpha yet. This is just the 100th attempt from a Russian no-name studio to make a AAA shooter every single one of them failed because the teams were over-ambitious and lacked any professionalism.

 

[Life of the Party]

 

[JDR13]

Here's hoping the game plays as good as it looks.

 

[Latelistener]

Judging from what we've read from the fired team, it won't be good. It probably won't be at all.

 

[Latelistener]

What's he doing there anyway?

He lives is Russia I think, after marrying someone.

 

[PrettyDeadman]

Wait there are actually people who think this won't be a complete buggy disappointment? They wanted to release this last year and you can clearly see that they aren't in Pre Alpha yet. This is just the 100th attempt from a Russian no-name studio to make a AAA shooter every single one of them failed because the teams were over-ambitious and lacked any professionalism.

If shitty western AAA devs can make AAA shooters, what makes you think a Russian no-name studio wont be able to make an AAA shooter?

 

[JDR13]

If nothing else, it should make for a good tech demo and system benchmark.

 

[karoliner]

 

[Turuko]

i don't get it, this game looks fire
at this point there must be more talent behind the iron curtain than everywhere else in the world

 

[Multidirectional]

Well, combat doesn't seem like clunky garbage in this Ruskiyshock anymore, previously hits didn't even look like they connected. So at least an improvement there. If the overall game is not shit remains to be seen. Presence of QTEs is never a good sign.

 

[JDR13]

We'll see. As history has shown many times, it's easier to make a good trailer than it is to make a good game.

 

[agentorange]

It still looks like a fake game made of random assets thrown together. Also they were pretty focused on ripping off from Bioshock and Fallout 4 before, now it looks like they are focused on stealing from Prey. I mean that enemy looks exactly like the typhon, and even the music playing when it's near the player is remarkably similar to the sound design from Prey.

 

[PrettyDeadman]

It still looks like a fake game made of random assets thrown together. Also they were pretty focused on ripping off from Bioshock and Fallout 4 before, now it looks like they are focused on stealing from Prey. I mean that enemy looks exactly like the typhon, and even the music playing when it's near the player is remarkably similar to the sound design from Prey.

Sounds based as fuck.

 

[agentorange]

Ripping off is cool so long as the end result is cool. This end result looks like a unity asset game but with some higher level graphics.

 

[Wunderbar]

agentorange they even hired Mick Gordon to do the music.

 

[SpaceWizardz]

Ripping off is cool so long as the end result is cool. This end result looks like a unity asset game but with some higher level graphics.

You focus too much on graphics. Do the strange enemy behaviors and weapon designs not pique your curiosity in the slightest?

 

[JDR13]

Not a fan of that music. I find it more distracting than immersive.

 

[Wunderbar]

Mick Gordon: "I'm not going to work with Bethesda again after they have scammed me with Doom Eternal ost!"
Also Mick Gordon: works with shady russians

 

[agentorange]

Ripping off is cool so long as the end result is cool. This end result looks like a unity asset game but with some higher level graphics.

You focus too much on graphics. Do the strange enemy behaviors and weapon designs not pique your curiosity in the slightest?

No, not really. I don't care about things being strange for the sake of it, it's boring to me. And really nothing in the game seems particularly unique for that matter. Abandoned soviet stuff is trendy right now. Retro stuff is as well so they just combined the two (already seen in stuff like You Are Empty anyway and that had a far more focused visual design to it even with giant chickens). The weapon designs? It looks like they range from generic AK47 to some kind of spinning sawblade like the crafted weapons from Dying Light? So I have no clue what to make of what they are going for.

My point about the graphics is that the game has a level of graphical fidelity that you would expect from a AAA game, but everything else about the game screams lower budget messy production, which makes the look of the game particularly jarring. It seems like they have a bunch of people producing assets without a director. Since you know the point of an art director is to try and give a game a unified art direction, based around some central aesthetic vision, which this completely lacks. It reeks of them trying to emulate other games as they are released as well, like what I pointed out with taking stuff from Prey because that was popular, after they started out aping on Fallout 4/Bioshock type stuff. Which again point to there being no strong underlying vision for the game.

It seems like overall the kind of visuals that impress people with middling taste because "wow it's so crazy!" but really there is nothing there.


When going back through the thread to look at some of the footage again it turns out you have already said basically the same thing that I mean?

Art design seems all over the place, the three different weapons looked



like they were pulled out of entirely different games.