Atomic Heart - Russian BioShock-Like Soviet Diesselpunk Shooter feat. Hot Robot Twins

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Giant file sizes are because of streaming limitations on consoles, which (mostly) can't handle decompression well. It's laziness to not have a separate system for PC, but that would also introduce cross-platform maintenance issues. PC-only indie games don't need to make that decision.
So there is a reason for it at least, which I'm not defending, but perhaps you nerds can take some comfort in knowing that.
 
Table Country said:
I thought it was because slavgames are usually buggy unplayable trash that is somehow the most enjoyable gaming experience of your life.
Yes, I do play S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
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I personally love janky slavshit games, STALKER and Metro are two of what I love. Also been playing Grezzo Due again but that's Italian, they dropped a demo for a sequel that's pretty fun and over the top as fuck.

As far as this game goes, I'm going to give it a chance and see if it's any good, it looks beautifully made but I'm not quite ready to shell out my rubles for it until I see some reviews.

I've been disappointed by modern games a lot, most of it turns out to be overhyped microtransaction riddled pay to win fourth rate crap.
BernieRose said:
My main fear for this game is that; I hope the enemies in this game are not too bullet sponge-y at least on the 'intended' difficulty. Bioshock 1 and 2, alongside other games like Half-Life had it best when it came to how powerful the guns should feel versus the enemies. For example, the starting pistol being weak and taking at least four shots per enemy? Yeah makes sense, a shotgun one-shotting an enemy at a close range and at least being able to two-shot them from a modest distance? Also good too.

Fucking hated when I played Cyberpunk 2077 (the one time I played a big budget game that came out in the 2020s) and each enemy took at least half if not an entire magazine to take down.
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That's the reason I modded CP2077 in part, there's a mod that makes everything more realistically deadly and I now play it the way you would a tactical shooter (and you're no sponge either). Not that I didn't personally enjoy the game before but giving gang members both barrels is a hell of a lot more satisfying with a few tweaks.
Sigmund Freud said:
Three years ago we were being lectured about how you shouldn't be hostile against the chinese over the cough. Now it's perfectly fine to claim for total russian death.
Fucking hypocrites.
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I stopped taking these types of narratives seriously a long time ago, but it goes double now for these assholes basically screaming to nuke everything east of Berlin. I'll take the land of Rus over the Middle Kingdom any day, people don't realize how much worse the CCP actually is.
 
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With the publicity both this game and Hogwarts Legacy have recieved, I can see outrage marketing making a strong comeback soon
 
Ya know, I'm currently debating who's more disgusting, the devs of STALKER 2 with pulling scams on Russian gamers who pre-ordered the game and then were told to fuck themselves, or Frogwares the devs of the Sherlock Holmes game, who during a Kickstarter for their new Holmes game had a donation where people write down a message that would be put on rockets fired at Russian soldiers and civilians in Donetsk and Lugansk.
 
Damn hard to say. STALKER devs took the money and ran, but at least in their case you might make a argument that due to a state of war it means they cannot really legally honor the deal and the UA government would be less the likely to give a shit about any ruskies complaining about it. Meanwhile the Frogwares didn't really scam anyone but fucking hell if it doesn't come off as somewhat psychotic to do something like this. Like I get you are a Ukrainian dev but it's a Sherlock Holmes game the fuck does it have to do with anything?
 
General Emílio Médici said:
Damn hard to say. STALKER devs took the money and ran, but at least in their case you might make a argument that due to a state of war it means they cannot really legally honor the deal and the UA government would be less the likely to give a shit about any ruskies complaining about it. Meanwhile the Frogwares didn't really scam anyone but fucking hell if it doesn't come off as somewhat psychotic to do something like this. Like I get you are a Ukrainian dev but it's a Sherlock Holmes game the fuck does it have to do with anything?
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Ye, though I think Frogwares quickly scrubbed it away because checking their Kickstarter page that pledge is no longer listed. So, I'm guessing after they put out that shit, people reported this to Kickstarter mods.
 
Involuntary Celebrity said:
Giant file sizes are because of streaming limitations on consoles, which (mostly) can't handle decompression well.
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That's the excuse. The reality is the massive reduction in the average quality of programmers. Programmers went from being highly motivated and passionate engineers to absolute bottom of the barrel retards who can't write a complete C++ script without having a game engine or library do the heavy lifting for them.

The space is now full of 83 IQ pajeets. Every uni/college offers some 2 bit "computer science" or "game dev" program. Don't even get me started on the people who get hired on some over priced 4 month code camp certificate. However, they're cheap and far more abundant than actual skilled programmers, so the end-user suffers from whatever garbled up alphabet soup they pass as code.

Software regression is real, moving full speed ahead and no knows where the breaks are.
 
MichałDrzymała said:
According to NFKRZ, there are some connections to the Kremlin as far as who owns/invests in the dev company.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=pByp18OYq0o
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Oh ye, this BS the same as that half Ukranian faggot was spouting. I do hope both these retards understand that the money Atomic Heart earns isnt even a drop in the ocean compared what Gazprom earns just from Gas and Oil sales alone.
 
The tired cat said:
Oh ye, this BS the same as that half Ukranian faggot was spouting. I do hope both these retards understand that the money Atomic Heart earns isnt even a drop in the ocean compared what Gazprom earns just from Gas and Oil sales alone.
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Yeah, I doubt the Russian economy will be greatly boosted by the sales of one video game by a dev studio that moved to Cyprus.
 
MichałDrzymała said:
Yeah, I doubt the Russian economy will be greatly boosted by the sales of one video game by a dev studio that moved to Cyprus.
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I dunno if they are officially located in Cyprus, but yes the sales from this game def isnt gonna be some huge boost. Most is what we'll get is maybe more Russian gaming studios making apperances and companies seeing it being somethin worth investing into.
 
The tired cat said:
I dunno if they are officially located in Cyprus, but yes the sales from this game def isnt gonna be some huge boost. Most is what we'll get is maybe more Russian gaming studios making apperances and companies seeing it being somethin worth investing into.
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I am not an expert on the sanctions currently in place for Russia but I am not sure they would be able to sell the game on Steam if they were still in Russia as Valve is an American company and would abide by any sanctions placed on Russia by the US government.

Furthermore, I wouldn't be surprised if the studio did physically relocate as it would kinda suck to have your developers/QA/whathaveyou mobilized to go fight in Ukraine while making the final touches to the game and then making post-release patches/DLC/etc.
 
Saying Atomic Heart has some Kremlin connected money is like saying a California based game studio has some ESG connected money. It's a goddamn foregone conclusion. Literally every single billionaire in Russia has Kremlin connections, and if they don't they aren't living in Russia. Means pretty much nothing.
 
MichałDrzymała said:
I am not an expert on the sanctions currently in place for Russia but I am not sure they would be able to sell the game on Steam if they were still in Russia as Valve is an American company and would abide by any sanctions placed on Russia by the US government.

Furthermore, I wouldn't be surprised if the studio did physically relocate as it would kinda suck to have your developers/QA/whathaveyou mobilized to go fight in Ukraine while making the final touches to the game and then making post-release patches/DLC/etc.
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By that logic, the people behind those Pathfinder games and ATOM Rpg shouldnt be able to sell their games, but I believe since both companies are Russian, they can still sell them and are still located in Russia, even somethin like Partisans 1941 is made by another Russian company who and their is still being sold on steam despite the sanctions.
 
The tired cat said:
By that logic, the people behind those Pathfinder games and ATOM Rpg shouldnt be able to sell their games, but I believe since both companies are Russian, they can still sell them and are still located in Russia, even somethin like Partisans 1941 is made by another Russian company who and their is still being sold on steam despite the sanctions.
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Like I said, I am not an expert on the matter of sanctions. We would need someone with some insight on the matter because in my non-expert opinion as long as a company is not located in Russia and isn't paying taxes to the Russian government then they avoid sanctions.
 
MichałDrzymała said:
Like I said, I am not an expert on the matter of sanctions. We would need someone with some insight on the matter because in my non-expert opinion as long as a company is not located in Russia and isn't paying taxes to the Russian government then they avoid sanctions.
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Gaming companies had a habit of moving their HQs to Cyprus or something for quite some time now. Mainly because lower taxes, not needing to wory about some governmental busybody wankers inventing yet another stupid law, etc.
 
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