Not gonna lie bro, Pick up the saw-blade club with spinning death, and you will crush EVERY. SINGLE. FIGHT. in the entire dlc. I struggled with the bea-d boss for about an hour, started sawing away at range, and killed it in 5 minutes.
My main issue was the instantly respawning robots in the overworld it made killing them pointless and exploring kind of annoying cause you could end up wasting resources
As I recall, you could stop them from respawning for a time, by taking out the control hub for the repair drones in the area, didn't stop them for good, but you got some breathing room at least.
@@DarkDetectivex Which I undestood was a reason to keep moving and not remain too long in one Area. If they just spawned out of nowhere, like the Cyberpunk cops, I could agree with your point, but its an intentional part of the game world. Maybe it's a mechanic that you don't like, but I don't see how it alone ruined the game.
there should have been a way to stop them completely, it lacked the sense of completion and its not even worth to flight them, it would have been a small issue if it wasn't the literal map of the whole game
I felt the game just didn't commit hard enough in either direction. The game is at its best when it's either focused on super intense combat or creating a great atmosphere and strategy. My BEST time with the game was when it bugged and kept me at a permanent level 2 alert level and kept spawning enemies. The combat really clicked with me and I was tearing through hordes of enemies fighting for my life as Zvyozdnoe Leto blared in the background.
I would really like an Atomic Heart 2, the lore and desings are awesome and the boss fights are the best. But some gameplay and story things lack refinement, i hope it copies doom eternal in some ways
I would say more like Wolfenstein, atleast in terms of the story, but more Run and Gun could work, but I think it might crash with the Overworld they have currently, would need to make it more level based for that type of Gameplay.
@@fire900s oh, I meant gameplay wise, not the story. Mainly in how the guns are able to be upgraded and function, where as Doom has more running than gunning, at least in my opinion. In terms of the story, it shares more with the Bioshock series.
@@chriswihulu Yeah, you got that mostly right. However, the upgrades still aren’t really similar. One requires looting and then transacting with a vendor (i.e crafting), the other just requires grabbing the upgrade itself in some kind of form in its past four games (which is technically what happens in AH with the blueprints). The functioning though. Aiming and shooting is universal between all games, it’s just the animations in the reloading or something in my opinion that makes them unique. Wolfenstein actually gets compared to Doom as “DOOM junior”.
@@TheThirdWorldCitizen Yup, no news is good news. If it were constantly in the news like the Saints Row reboot for all the wrong reasons... well, then that's not good at all.
Performance issues? This was the best running unreal engine game released this year… my only issue with the game was the puzzles too many tedious puzzles
The testing grounds would make this game feel more like bioshock. If they expanded apon that and Isolated you in an endless testing ground. It probably would have been a better idea. The whole point of bioshock is to Isolate the player. I don't even think player dialogue or cutscenes would have been a good idea either. Silent protagonist with no allies would have made the game better.
@@ThePughskiNo it's not, it was very optimized. Props to the devs delaying the game until it was optimized and relatively bug-free on release. Unless you played the leaked dev build from October 2022, then it's just on you.
I feel like people are giving these devs too much flak. I mean, this is their first game after all, and it’s actually pretty acceptable for a first game. They haven’t found their vibe yet which might explain the hesitation to go too deep into a certain development path. The balancing is atrocious at times, the double-saw melee weapon is hilariously overpowered. The thing they absolutely nailed though, was the setting and design. No game since Bioshock has been this immersive in my opinion. I have played hundreds of single player games in my lifetime, how many of the enemies can I actually remember from any of them? There’s the Big Daddies from Bioshock, Alien from Isolation, Micah from RDR2. That’s pretty much it. I can remember and name every single boss in this game. I remember everything about them, their design, their aesthetic. The robot twins are hot and all but it’s the robot bosses that really got me hooked into the game. They somehow made a perfect futuristic utopia, and still managed to incorporate cubist Soviet architecture in a perfect blend that is both awe-inspiring and believable. The setting and design alone is enough to warrant me giving it a recommendation.
For a first game from a newer studio, when the game goes on Sale (around $20 or so) I'll definitely wanna try it. As long as the game ain't boring, it can be a good time because that tells me the devs genuinely wanted it to be a great game. I'll bet they'll take the criticism of AH 1 and make the sequel the game they truly wanted to shine. For now at least we have a promising foundation, they just need to refine it and build onto it. Kinda makes me think of the transition from Dead Island to Dying Light from Techland, very flawed gem but made an even better gem even though it's... still flawed, but today it's regarded as one of the best Zombie Games we'll ever see for a very long time. Too bad Techland got a big head and stumbled with DL2, and now with Tencent... anyway I digress. I'll pick this up when everything is bundled up as one thing for a good price.
Man, that hurts so much when you brought up Techland's mega-chad evolution with Dying Light and then they regressed big time with Dying Light 2. Hopefully the Atomic Heart devs will just take everything they already have with the first game and just evolve it with the sequel. The art-style is next world good, and probably the best art-style we've seen in a game this entire generation.
@@billywashere6965 At least DL2 is still a good game, just not the one we wanted. Not to mention other issues. Indeed, I really hope so too cuz I've been really wanting to play it. It's probably the closest to a BioShock spiritual successor we'll get. And as someone who's never played through BioShock, I'd like AH to be my BioShock. Well, for me, stylized graphics are my thing like Ratchet and Clank, Okami, Splatoon, Gravity Rush, Scarlet Nexus, etc, and I believe Vanillaware can't be topped with their art direction. But for what AH is, it's definitely cool for more photo-realistic standards. The last game that wowed me with photo-realism was Plague Tale: Requiem, amazing game.
@@ghostlegitand I’ll say YES you’re wrong. It’s literally dead island done better lmao. There’s no reason to even play dead island because dying light is the same game just done better with more things. Same combat but refined, amazing parkour system, graphically objectively better looking. And story although flawed is a better story than dead island.
most underrated game of the year and even my 1070 ran the game at 1080 resolution all settings max at 80 plus frames without the upscaling.capped it at 60 as my monitor only 60hz
I think the game has some really high points and some really low points. The highs being the combat and gunplay, the animation work and satisfaction of hitting robots and the way they react is top notch. Also the indoor sections, puzzles and boss fights are great as well. Where it falls short for me is the somewhat funky story, the terrible voice writing especially from the character you play as and the outdoor sections where the robots keep getting magically rebuilt from other robots which makes no sense. Other than that it’s very fun. I still gotta play through it all I haven’t finished it yet.
I agree, the respawning/reparing Robots might work better as a Gameplay modifier or Difficulty setting, cause Lore-wise, it made sense that they had an automatic repair protocol in place, since it was meant to self sustaining.
@@chriswihulu Yeah the repair is lore accurate but not that fast. They just zap them with lightning and all the sudden they are alive again. I would understand them respawning as you come back to that section at a later date but the repair is too fast.
@@FilledWithChi11 Do segments make them spawn in? How do you respawn the robots in a orderly fashion in any part of the game? The mission objectives that take you out the open world don’t work since they are extremely far apart, and timers do not work since it makes no difference. The most logical way would be to respawn them when you look the other way and are a slightly far distance away, that could possibly work.
I dont get the comments about difficulty, i found the games hard mode extremely easy. This is how i know people dont explore or upgrade gear, its easy to break the game with any ability build, and the game floods you in resources and ammo so you dont even have to craft anything.
This was one of the few games that released this year that didn’t honestly disappoint me all me too much. Probably because I didn’t have any expectations going in, but even so … I didn’t hear much about after it launched nor did I anticipate it prior compared to other games released from November 2022 to March 2023, but I actually enjoyed my time playing it back around June/July when I saw it on Steam and thought “oh, hey, let me see if it’s on Game Pass…” and sure enough. Not too bad. Of course, I played it a few months after the issues some may have encountered, but compared to other games, I feel it definitely was overlooked. I remember there was some drama with a certain TH-cam video trying to convince people to not play this game because of a conflict that was out of the devs’ control, which thankfully a lot of people pushed back against …. but outside of that, it’s been quiet. Hell, I didn’t even know it had a new DLC - something I may look into when the game goes on sale again and grab along with it.
The game would be 10x better if they got rid of the HAWK system. I don't know how many times I avoided exploration and just beelined straight to the next main mission because I didn't want to deal with cameras, repair bots, and alert levels. Just a very annoying mechanic that really hampered my experience.
I loved the game, but it lacks some things like more characters, bosses and hidden stuff. Also the gameplay should have been doom eternal type because its way too slow for all of the things it throws at you
I went into this game with only the trailer from several years ago. My hype and expectations were just “looking forward to it” and I enjoyed it so much more than all of the reviewers I’ve seen talking about this game. My complaints with it was: an awful map and some cringe dialogue. Other than that, though, I really enjoyed the game. For a very first game I am excited to see what they do with their next game.
Atomic Heart literally follows the same path Callisto Protocol did, where it came out a mess but it got better and became a solid but not amazing game. It's also to Bioshock what Callisto is to Dead Space, where it's close but no cigar.
If you want to beat the game on Hard easier, (for the achievement or whatever), I strongly suggest you complete it on Notmal or Easy first, and then simply new game plus it (New Game plus was added recently) and just max out the skill trees and guns. Recommendations? Max out the Swede, the AK and the rocket launcher to the best of your ability, oh, and Electro, nothing else really matters. Swede will be your boss and crowd control weapon, AK will be for ranged attacks or attacks on groups of enemies, and the launcher, well just use it on boss fights, because a couple mags of it makes the boss fights genuinely obsolete, because it’s that powerful, especially if you use power ups before fight. Use Electro for stun purposes, and taking out cameras and bees. Yeah, new game plus on Hard may sound insane, but hence why it’s new game plus, you just gotta be well prepared. But if you’re gonna do Hard mode immediately, then practice your combat with the Swede at least a bit, and just save your resources, don’t worry about any fancy weapons, just go with what I advised. What skill you use is up to you, I hardly used any except for mass telekinesis. But I’ve ran through sections with them, so they’re definitely useful, you just gotta use what’s best for you. Oh, and when it comes to boss fights, my fellas in Christ, PLEASE don’t use guns, EXCEPT the launcher, because in boss fights the guns are also obsolete, and going ham on the enemies with your axe is better. Or just spam the launcher. For most of them. First boss, Hedgie, got simple mechanics, meaning you don’t have to shoot or attack to much, just use the statues and attack when it overheats. But for twins: Grab multiple launcher ammo stacks, some power ups and health boosts, and make sure to grab the AK this time. Craft a bunch of electric cassettes and at least 300 ammo, and shoot the twin that’s on the ground. Once the air twin can’t heal the ground twin anymore, she’ll be out, just keep attacking the ground twin, and then dodge the laser section, and you’re done. This game is challenging, but after a run or 2 of practice, it becomes surprisingly trivial, even in hard difficulty on new game plus. Yes, personally died a lot myself, but mostly when I got overrun with enemies, and there were too many for me to handle. So last tip, is to save, a lot. But nah thats it, hopefully someone finds this useful lol
Open world wasn't really necessary and the respawning robots made it a chore to explore, main character sucks but it has great gun play and indoor environment
I like dlc. I like that the creators are working on the mistakes that were in the original game. there are no security cameras in the dlc, which means there is no grind. because of this, you have few first-aid kits dropped from mobs, but you have the ability to "shield". and this is perhaps the most ginial comeback of the most useless ability in the original campaign. and at the same time you are given a new time dilation ability, which is cool. they also added cool new weapons, and limited the arsenal of the old one, removing unnecessary ones. gameplay, as for me, the game has become much better. and not only gameplay. there are not many dialogues now and there is no problem that you can skip the dialogue by starting a new one. I am glad that the creators care about their project and that they are improving themselves.
Pretty solid review. Just finished it myself and I agree with most of what you said except for one thing. I actually prefer the linear levels to the open-world levels. Maybe I'm just getting sick of many games trying to force a by-the-numbers open world, but the open-world sections just felt more bland and empty. When the game's linear, it does feel like some thought was going into it. There was a decent amount of environmental storytelling with neat set pieces and setting variety from time to time, solving puzzles and slowly unlocking new routes in the levels was satisfying, and the combat scenarios felt a little more planned out and well-paced. But whenever I go to the open world, most of the locations look the same with abandoned cabins, cars, and buildings. The gameplay also doesn't really translate well to the open world because the robots are watching every single corner, very quickly reviving any cameras/bots you destroy, and you're left either struggling to hold off an endless horde (which feels like the game was meant for you to only fight a couple dozen enemies at a time) or trying to sneak past them with some honestly basic stealth. You can temporarily disable the cameras and bots in each area, but even that's a tedious proceed of finding a camera station, hacking a camera, using that camera to find and open a hawk station, running to the hawk station without getting detected, and disabling everything in that area... for only 3 minutes. Maybe I would've felt like exploring more if they either improved the steal mechanics, had a more permanent and rewarding system for disabling cameras/drones in our area, or at least some interesting side missions and encounters throughout the world.
I'd like to see a sequel with less repetitive tasks, killable (for good) enemies and more world exploration with points of interest. But there were a lot of good things... combat, character progression, art style / graphics, enemy types / bosses, skill tree and story I enjoyed. Even most of the puzzles the first time.
Is Atomic Hearts a difficult game? Not at all. Just before going to the first boss, find and upgrade the rocket launcher. Complete several puzzles on the polygons and develop your abilities. And most of the bosses will not even force you to use first-aid kits in battle (they will die in one minute at the normal difficulty level).
I actually think atomic heart fully lived up to my expectations probably cause i thought this game was gonna be a cool and fun shooter with a good artstyle and thats exactly what i got
That's too bad... I am in love with Atomic Heart's world, but the game is just now good. It was a pain to beat... If it was a walking simulator that would be game of the year to me
For people struggling with the over world robots, you need to change your mind set, you are not playing a ubi game where you are supposed liberate towers or outposts and kill everyone, instead think of them as flood in halo, what do you do when you encounter them? You run! And only kill whatever stands in your way! Think of it as an Mgs game, you want to avoid combat unless unavoidable. For the ones feel compelled to kill everyone, try disabling that generator thing or lure them in house! You are simply spoiled by those ubi games that your default to play every game the same one, but it’s the wrong one for this game! It’s not the game’s fault!
Luke, you mentioned not wanting to look at the exposition or various posters in Russian, but you can turn on the subtitled translations for those…many are actually interesting. But I do agree with all your points otherwise, it’s all very cool on the surface but kind of hollow or shallow maybe is the word
Can't tell you some. I've played the game since first launch. I've just played it again. It's amazing I don't care. Miss, you may have bugs. Every game. Does people still love him so I don't care what the what do you think? But it's my favorite game of all time. Best story game even you've beats the last of us
After playing Bioshock in preparation for this game and completing Infinite nearly....let's say an Infinite amount of times i'm still in a "need more Bioshock" phase also knows as addiction. No matter how many times i replay Infinite dude i need more, 1 is not fulfilling enough but with Infinite, sheesh the combos i try and do are...INFINITE. I've never used plasmids to the extent i have with vigors so when this game came out it scratched that Bioshock need and the DLC is even better. Even better if you like, you're like i can only play for 2 hours type better but still good like the main game, it goes harder in many places and i'm excited for the other 3 DLC that are meant to come. The new slowing time ability thing is kinda useless for me tho ngl, i was expecting it to just slow enemies down in a certain radius, not slow ME down alongside them so it wasn't as fun as the other abilities. The new melee slaps tho, it felt kinda weak at first and i was trying not to rage quit on the hardest difficulty but the second i entered the facility i felt OP. Probably because of Nora my beloved, from that point onward there was no challenge like the one i experienced outside the facility with these new nightmarish enemy types, which are great when you're used to them. Also new gun cool, it goes pew pew and i like, i always preferred melee in these games tho, the "Charge" vigor in Infinite is my most used alongside "Return To Sender" because i have a build all based around melee and regaining health
The main game looks beautiful but feels extremely unpolished. It isn't fun to play. I would kill a group of 6 robots and by the time I was done, 3 of them were already rebuilt and killing me again. Combat is pointless when the robots just keep getting back up. I wanted to enjoy fighting robots, not avoiding conflict the whole time. It was very linear when it shoul have been open world.
Many thank that's for the review update! As a casual gamer, I know I'd be playing on 'Easy'.. I sadly sense though that I'll end up frustrated, especially if I keep getting killed on er Easy/Normal. The game looks visually stunning and unique story appeals, though I think I will try it second hand for $35Aus 🇦🇺 as I'm not a Game Pass lad 🙈 Wish me luck. Think I'm going to need it❤👍🇦🇺
Tbh this video just got me to redownload Metroid Exodus which I never finished. An actually good first person shooter with a good story lmao. No I won’t be checking this out but at least it gave me the push to give a game I’d backlogged a while ago another shot
Wait people were having performance issues at launch, yeah I have a 4080 but heard from just about every other reviewer praise the optimization especially compared to other UE4 titles. Was running it a 4K native TAA max settings no frame gen getting 100-120FPS at launch.
The only annoying thing about this game for me, are the cameras and the time on the those repair bots, there’s so many cameras for no reason making exploring not fun and, repair bots they should have made them take longer repairing a bot for 5mins or 10mins with resources, instead of 5sec or 10 seconds with no resources.
Wow, That's a real bummer. I enjoyed the base-game for what it was and was hyped for the DLC, in short I was hoping that the DLC would "save" the game. ):
For a first game from the studio, this is a great entry into the industry. They have a lot to learn, but they did a lot of things right. All in all, I look forward to future games from this studio. Atomic Heart was my cup of tea, and I know a lot of people it was not. But again, for a literal first game from a team of newer developers not already established in the industry, it's a great starting foundation for a franchise to improve upon.
Hi man, I'm not sure if you noticed it, but the videos lately are almost entirely negative stuff. I'm not sure if that's intentional or it just happened to be the case. I really loved your content for years but lately I almost don't watch it anymore mainly because of the negativity. Look at the latest 12 thumbnails (one screen below the fold) for example: "It's just marketing,", "Yup, still sucks" (twice), "I am depressed", "This is so dumb", "It's just ok", "They broke it". If its working than great, I'm happy for you. I guess there really could be a lot of negative stuff to talk about, I just miss the content that hooked me :)
That's not his fault. What is he supposed to do? Act like Yongyea and pretend games are good or hyped when they aren't? Did people learn nothing from Cyberpunk 2077? I puporsely watch Luke's content because he doesn't sugarcoat or brush over the flaws, and makes common sense suggestions and offers proper critical feedback. Kind of sounds like you just want a hype-man for corporate products, and I'm glad Luke isn't that.
@@danilthorstensson8902 He chose to play this DLC because it seemed fun, if it didn't have the issues it had, then the video would be positive. Once again, you're effectively saying he should be avoiding realistic commentary on topics he finds interesting if it's not positive. That's a pretty dishonest way to approach covering the gaming industry. If the DLC turned out to be great, then he would have said so. I'm glad he pointed out the bugs and showcased them in the video because it added context to what he was saying, not to be negative but to be transparent. It's kind of odd how people are latching onto this as if he wants to be negative, rather than it simply being the outcome of a product that has flaws and he's pointing out said flaws. More than anything, he should be receiving props given that a lot of content creators only cover the positive of some things and mislead people into supporting projects that shouldn't be supported.
@@billywashere6965Nah at this point he’s making his propensity to be cynical and a skeptic the whole identity of the channel and that’s just as one dimensional and NPC behavior as the other channels you compare it to. He can find something he legitimately enjoys before recording a TH-cam video about it. Not that hard.
I remember being really excited for this game when I first heard about it a couple years ago. When I finally played it I found it fun but pretty repetitive… I got maybe 30% through the story and gave up, just wasn’t having fun. Between the repetitive enemies, not too fun exploration, overly confusing puzzles, floaty feeling gun play, and open world segments that are just constantly flooding your screen with enemies never really giving you a chance to rest. Despite all that I did like the world design, abilities and character progression but everything else really lacked for me. I might go back to try it again at some point.
Im having significantly more fun on my new game + playthrough with this game then i did on the first playthrough. I started playing on release and after beating it id have given it a 6/10. 10 months later, and doing a NG+ id rate this a 8.5/10. Definitely enjoy many things about this game, while also hating multiple Design decisions haha.
What i didnt like about the open world is that none of the weapon upgrades are scattered on the open map like you'd expect a game with an explorable open world to have- but are instead clustered together in these repetitive puzzle dungeons making the entire open world feel completely empty.
Combat wise im not a big fan of only being allowed to equip two polymer abilties. Id rather they'd copy actual bioshock from the first two games where you have access to multiple abilites and guns at your disposal. If theres only six polymer abilites I'd rather i be able to use any of them on a moment's notice. I wouldn't mind if in order to balance it, they had to either make unlocking them from the shop more expensive, introducing a second resource in the form of mp guage, or having to go and find in the open world. Just let me have more fun with the glove powers.
I like this game well the main game need build up and it good for storytelling and I can agree that this game is not open world like you need to sweat to do exploring but you do not need to do it so it okay I guess
I couldn't even finish the game because the boss I was fighting would despawn and I didnt have any other save that would put me further back to see if that would fix it. I would've had to start the game over which I didnt want to do so I just stopped playing it all together
"there are tons of huge boss fights" was the line that made me delete the game from my wishlist. I'm not sure if I'm the minority here or if it just seems that way, but I really hate it when games say "STOP! We interrupt your game flow by putting this one enemy that takes a really long time to beat and propably you will have to retry and therefore annoylingly repeat scenes until we let you continue with the game". There are very, very few bosses that have ever been fun, as soon as it becomes a "shoot this thing or guy a thousand times" my enjoyment is over.
I don’t understand what you wish to get from a game. I respect your opinion to the fullest extent, not everyone likes bullet sponge enemies. But bosses have been a staple in games since their inception, I’m pretty sure 1978’s Space Invaders had a boss fight. The boss fights in this game aren’t really interrupting your game flow either, they are evenly spaced out, they don’t happen suddenly out of nowhere, the game gives you time to prepare (90% of the time) because most of the time right before a boss the game leads you into an area with no enemies. This game learns from Dark Souls in which the bosses are the main attraction I think, they made them so well here.
Great game that challenges you with undoubtedly the best boss fights in first-person shooter games! Buy the game to support the developers to encourage them to keep doing high-quality games.
this has got to be one of the most fair reviews i’ve seen of this game since it launched i just finished it on armageddon and that was me honestly running through half the open world parts to my objective avoiding enemies because it just didn’t feel fair at times (and that was probably on me) having played souls games i still feel this game is unfair at times towards the end i will say you kinda become unstoppable that being said they missed the mark a lot on a great game but i loved it not gonna lie but has no replay ability whatsoever
Мне понравился сюжет этой игры,но если так задуматься то основная история довольно простая. Куда же интереснее изучать трупы, что довольно оригинально и искать часы с аудиозаписями. Буквально в каждой вещи которая раскрывает мир есть юмор и шутка,что делает мертвый комплекс более живее
Exploration or the lack there of was my biggest issue with this game. There was nothing interesting to find really and the open world starts to look samey after a while, just a bland mixture of reused wooden structures and white metal constructs. No hidden bosses, no hidden weapons (outside of the ones you get blueprints) for, No secret caves of buildings to find intereseting loot, etc. Its like they just never had the time to fully commit to the open world aspect. Still enjoyed it tho, the combat and music is top notch.
It's hard for me to not get pulled out of the experience when I see the places where Screen Space Reflections fail on reflective surfaces, RT solves this issue as well as some other tricks (see global reflections in alan wake 2). Does this issue still persist in July 2024?
I just started the game and play maybe an hour of it. What I’ve gathered is I really like it and it brings me back to thought of bioshock and even borderlands (the humor), but I feel the game is trying WAY too hard to be over the top with the cinematics and humor. Imo being more open would have made this game a lot better, than making super linear (lack of exploration) and forced punch-lines.
The strange Scenes with the womens at the beginning are AI created if iam not mistaken. I can remember seeing some of them on twitter. Kinda already a big Red Flag seeing this in the game.
Annoying difficulty is a good explanation. I played for a few hours and couldn't get into it, the melee combat is not fun, it feels to restrictive and slow and guns run out of ammo very quickly, I don't know if that changes later on cause I wasn't having fun.
I was really excited for the main game but I fell off pretty quickly after about 5 hours. The main character was extremely annoying, the melee combat wasn't too fun (and ammo was too scarce to enjoy shooting), and I just didn't feel the need to continue. Like I didn't totally hate it, but just couldn't continue. Nothing drew me back. I'm not to surprised the DLC wasn't too substantial, it came quickly. Especially considering how long the main game took to come out.
Tbh this game is really REALLY underrated, it really needed more praise for everything it does right compared to all the pieces of shit that come in a gaming year
Very uncommon that you can fix bugs retroactively in your personal save file... doesn't really happen. It will be fixed for new saves/players (probably)
I didn't even bother running around exploring at all the story was so good it keep wanting more of it plus i didnt want to waste resources. The new game plus is way to hard and they need have hardness selection for it. I found normal mode very challenging. So might just continue on with what i have with annihilation dlc or maybe go back to load point before the end and build my character up and weapons. I really enjoyed this game and all the complaints are nuance. I loved i could kill robots more then just shooting and sneak attacks.
The game is great but the problem for me personally is the world felt empty with no Military personnel, Safe Zones, and other NPCs in General out there fighting the mass amount of robots the game spawns, and tbh for me it didn't feel like it gave much direction once i finished the story, so i lost interest and stopped playing, but overall, this being their first game and everything, they did a beautiful job, they can only go up from here!
Ok I played some of the DLC and everything is going fine but for some reason even on a series X, whenever I use that techostasis ability with a LOT of enemies it just crashes the game for some reason, I don't know why, is that supposed to happen because I'm seriously confused, i seriously hope they fix that since it's irritating
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No, I don't think I will.
Not gonna lie bro,
Pick up the saw-blade club with spinning death, and you will crush EVERY. SINGLE. FIGHT.
in the entire dlc.
I struggled with the bea-d boss for about an hour, started sawing away at range, and killed it in 5 minutes.
I think they fixed the door bug but your save was with a flag already triggered and this is why it appeared when you loaded the game.
My main issue was the instantly respawning robots in the overworld it made killing them pointless and exploring kind of annoying cause you could end up wasting resources
As I recall, you could stop them from respawning for a time, by taking out the control hub for the repair drones in the area, didn't stop them for good, but you got some breathing room at least.
@chriswihulu ya you could but it still made killing them pointless because they would get repaired as soon as the system came back online
If you used the plasma gun it evaporated the robots and couldn’t be repaired
@@DarkDetectivex Which I undestood was a reason to keep moving and not remain too long in one Area. If they just spawned out of nowhere, like the Cyberpunk cops, I could agree with your point, but its an intentional part of the game world.
Maybe it's a mechanic that you don't like, but I don't see how it alone ruined the game.
there should have been a way to stop them completely, it lacked the sense of completion and its not even worth to flight them, it would have been a small issue if it wasn't the literal map of the whole game
I felt the game just didn't commit hard enough in either direction. The game is at its best when it's either focused on super intense combat or creating a great atmosphere and strategy. My BEST time with the game was when it bugged and kept me at a permanent level 2 alert level and kept spawning enemies. The combat really clicked with me and I was tearing through hordes of enemies fighting for my life as Zvyozdnoe Leto blared in the background.
Petition for the Devs to add a hoard survival mode?
I would really like an Atomic Heart 2, the lore and desings are awesome and the boss fights are the best. But some gameplay and story things lack refinement, i hope it copies doom eternal in some ways
I would say more like Wolfenstein, atleast in terms of the story, but more Run and Gun could work, but I think it might crash with the Overworld they have currently, would need to make it more level based for that type of Gameplay.
@@chriswihulu Atomic Heart and Wolfenstein's stories are wildly different. They only share ONE common factor and that's with futuristic technology.
@@fire900s oh, I meant gameplay wise, not the story. Mainly in how the guns are able to be upgraded and function, where as Doom has more running than gunning, at least in my opinion.
In terms of the story, it shares more with the Bioshock series.
@@chriswihulu Yeah, you got that mostly right. However, the upgrades still aren’t really similar. One requires looting and then transacting with a vendor (i.e crafting), the other just requires grabbing the upgrade itself in some kind of form in its past four games (which is technically what happens in AH with the blueprints). The functioning though. Aiming and shooting is universal between all games, it’s just the animations in the reloading or something in my opinion that makes them unique. Wolfenstein actually gets compared to Doom as “DOOM junior”.
Two DLCs are out, one for each ending. Two more are coming.
I haven't heard a single thing about this game since it came out
That's every game from the last 5 years.
If you think about it, that’s a good thing cuz it means the game isn’t bad and had a good launch.
@@TheThirdWorldCitizen Yup, no news is good news. If it were constantly in the news like the Saints Row reboot for all the wrong reasons... well, then that's not good at all.
@@MASJYTyou must live under a rock
Outside of the Ballerina Twins (which lasted as long as Lady Dimitrescu's fame), there was not much discourse about it, no.
Performance issues? This was the best running unreal engine game released this year… my only issue with the game was the puzzles too many tedious puzzles
The game runs well but in my configs it suddently starts to stutter in some areas... i'ts kinda strange
Because it runs on UE4, not UE5. And also because the devs really did do a good job optimizing the game
The game really shouldnt of been open world. It should of been completely linear like bioshock.
shouldn't have*
The testing grounds would make this game feel more like bioshock.
If they expanded apon that and Isolated you in an endless testing ground.
It probably would have been a better idea.
The whole point of bioshock is to Isolate the player.
I don't even think player dialogue or cutscenes would have been a good idea either.
Silent protagonist with no allies would have made the game better.
performance issues? dude, this game is literally the only game that came out this year without technical issues.
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All games have technical issues 🙄 it's not a terrible game I play it for free all the time on game pass
That's a lie
@@ThePughskiNo it's not, it was very optimized. Props to the devs delaying the game until it was optimized and relatively bug-free on release. Unless you played the leaked dev build from October 2022, then it's just on you.
@@one_step_sideways he absolutely played the dev build lmao
I feel like people are giving these devs too much flak. I mean, this is their first game after all, and it’s actually pretty acceptable for a first game. They haven’t found their vibe yet which might explain the hesitation to go too deep into a certain development path. The balancing is atrocious at times, the double-saw melee weapon is hilariously overpowered.
The thing they absolutely nailed though, was the setting and design. No game since Bioshock has been this immersive in my opinion. I have played hundreds of single player games in my lifetime, how many of the enemies can I actually remember from any of them? There’s the Big Daddies from Bioshock, Alien from Isolation, Micah from RDR2. That’s pretty much it. I can remember and name every single boss in this game. I remember everything about them, their design, their aesthetic. The robot twins are hot and all but it’s the robot bosses that really got me hooked into the game. They somehow made a perfect futuristic utopia, and still managed to incorporate cubist Soviet architecture in a perfect blend that is both awe-inspiring and believable. The setting and design alone is enough to warrant me giving it a recommendation.
For a first game from a newer studio, when the game goes on Sale (around $20 or so) I'll definitely wanna try it. As long as the game ain't boring, it can be a good time because that tells me the devs genuinely wanted it to be a great game. I'll bet they'll take the criticism of AH 1 and make the sequel the game they truly wanted to shine. For now at least we have a promising foundation, they just need to refine it and build onto it.
Kinda makes me think of the transition from Dead Island to Dying Light from Techland, very flawed gem but made an even better gem even though it's... still flawed, but today it's regarded as one of the best Zombie Games we'll ever see for a very long time. Too bad Techland got a big head and stumbled with DL2, and now with Tencent... anyway I digress. I'll pick this up when everything is bundled up as one thing for a good price.
Man, that hurts so much when you brought up Techland's mega-chad evolution with Dying Light and then they regressed big time with Dying Light 2. Hopefully the Atomic Heart devs will just take everything they already have with the first game and just evolve it with the sequel. The art-style is next world good, and probably the best art-style we've seen in a game this entire generation.
@@billywashere6965 At least DL2 is still a good game, just not the one we wanted. Not to mention other issues.
Indeed, I really hope so too cuz I've been really wanting to play it. It's probably the closest to a BioShock spiritual successor we'll get. And as someone who's never played through BioShock, I'd like AH to be my BioShock.
Well, for me, stylized graphics are my thing like Ratchet and Clank, Okami, Splatoon, Gravity Rush, Scarlet Nexus, etc, and I believe Vanillaware can't be topped with their art direction. But for what AH is, it's definitely cool for more photo-realistic standards. The last game that wowed me with photo-realism was Plague Tale: Requiem, amazing game.
Dying light is not better than dead island. Yes I said that
@@ghostlegitand I’ll say YES you’re wrong. It’s literally dead island done better lmao. There’s no reason to even play dead island because dying light is the same game just done better with more things. Same combat but refined, amazing parkour system, graphically objectively better looking. And story although flawed is a better story than dead island.
most underrated game of the year and even my 1070 ran the game at 1080 resolution all settings max at 80 plus frames without the upscaling.capped it at 60 as my monitor only 60hz
I think the game has some really high points and some really low points. The highs being the combat and gunplay, the animation work and satisfaction of hitting robots and the way they react is top notch. Also the indoor sections, puzzles and boss fights are great as well. Where it falls short for me is the somewhat funky story, the terrible voice writing especially from the character you play as and the outdoor sections where the robots keep getting magically rebuilt from other robots which makes no sense. Other than that it’s very fun. I still gotta play through it all I haven’t finished it yet.
I agree, the respawning/reparing Robots might work better as a Gameplay modifier or Difficulty setting, cause Lore-wise, it made sense that they had an automatic repair protocol in place, since it was meant to self sustaining.
It does make sense though. The open world would rapidly just get boring and just serve as a chore and not a obstacle from your objective.
@@chriswihulu Yeah the repair is lore accurate but not that fast. They just zap them with lightning and all the sudden they are alive again. I would understand them respawning as you come back to that section at a later date but the repair is too fast.
@@fire900s No because you would still kill the robots but they wouldn’t get repaired.
@@FilledWithChi11 Do segments make them spawn in? How do you respawn the robots in a orderly fashion in any part of the game? The mission objectives that take you out the open world don’t work since they are extremely far apart, and timers do not work since it makes no difference. The most logical way would be to respawn them when you look the other way and are a slightly far distance away, that could possibly work.
I love these kind of videos where games get revisited after a while. Wish youtubers would do these more often.
Keep in mind this is their first game so I'd say they did pretty good.
I dont get the comments about difficulty, i found the games hard mode extremely easy.
This is how i know people dont explore or upgrade gear, its easy to break the game with any ability build, and the game floods you in resources and ammo so you dont even have to craft anything.
This was one of the few games that released this year that didn’t honestly disappoint me all me too much. Probably because I didn’t have any expectations going in, but even so …
I didn’t hear much about after it launched nor did I anticipate it prior compared to other games released from November 2022 to March 2023, but I actually enjoyed my time playing it back around June/July when I saw it on Steam and thought “oh, hey, let me see if it’s on Game Pass…” and sure enough. Not too bad.
Of course, I played it a few months after the issues some may have encountered, but compared to other games, I feel it definitely was overlooked. I remember there was some drama with a certain TH-cam video trying to convince people to not play this game because of a conflict that was out of the devs’ control, which thankfully a lot of people pushed back against …. but outside of that, it’s been quiet. Hell, I didn’t even know it had a new DLC - something I may look into when the game goes on sale again and grab along with it.
The game would be 10x better if they got rid of the HAWK system. I don't know how many times I avoided exploration and just beelined straight to the next main mission because I didn't want to deal with cameras, repair bots, and alert levels. Just a very annoying mechanic that really hampered my experience.
I loved the game, but it lacks some things like more characters, bosses and hidden stuff. Also the gameplay should have been doom eternal type because its way too slow for all of the things it throws at you
I went into this game with only the trailer from several years ago. My hype and expectations were just “looking forward to it” and I enjoyed it so much more than all of the reviewers I’ve seen talking about this game. My complaints with it was: an awful map and some cringe dialogue. Other than that, though, I really enjoyed the game. For a very first game I am excited to see what they do with their next game.
Same, only I kept up with trailers as they came out.
Atomic Heart literally follows the same path Callisto Protocol did, where it came out a mess but it got better and became a solid but not amazing game. It's also to Bioshock what Callisto is to Dead Space, where it's close but no cigar.
If you want to beat the game on Hard easier, (for the achievement or whatever), I strongly suggest you complete it on Notmal or Easy first, and then simply new game plus it (New Game plus was added recently) and just max out the skill trees and guns. Recommendations? Max out the Swede, the AK and the rocket launcher to the best of your ability, oh, and Electro, nothing else really matters. Swede will be your boss and crowd control weapon, AK will be for ranged attacks or attacks on groups of enemies, and the launcher, well just use it on boss fights, because a couple mags of it makes the boss fights genuinely obsolete, because it’s that powerful, especially if you use power ups before fight. Use Electro for stun purposes, and taking out cameras and bees. Yeah, new game plus on Hard may sound insane, but hence why it’s new game plus, you just gotta be well prepared.
But if you’re gonna do Hard mode immediately, then practice your combat with the Swede at least a bit, and just save your resources, don’t worry about any fancy weapons, just go with what I advised. What skill you use is up to you, I hardly used any except for mass telekinesis. But I’ve ran through sections with them, so they’re definitely useful, you just gotta use what’s best for you.
Oh, and when it comes to boss fights, my fellas in Christ, PLEASE don’t use guns, EXCEPT the launcher, because in boss fights the guns are also obsolete, and going ham on the enemies with your axe is better. Or just spam the launcher. For most of them. First boss, Hedgie, got simple mechanics, meaning you don’t have to shoot or attack to much, just use the statues and attack when it overheats. But for twins:
Grab multiple launcher ammo stacks, some power ups and health boosts, and make sure to grab the AK this time. Craft a bunch of electric cassettes and at least 300 ammo, and shoot the twin that’s on the ground. Once the air twin can’t heal the ground twin anymore, she’ll be out, just keep attacking the ground twin, and then dodge the laser section, and you’re done.
This game is challenging, but after a run or 2 of practice, it becomes surprisingly trivial, even in hard difficulty on new game plus.
Yes, personally died a lot myself, but mostly when I got overrun with enemies, and there were too many for me to handle.
So last tip, is to save, a lot.
But nah thats it, hopefully someone finds this useful lol
Open world wasn't really necessary and the respawning robots made it a chore to explore, main character sucks but it has great gun play and indoor environment
I like dlc. I like that the creators are working on the mistakes that were in the original game. there are no security cameras in the dlc, which means there is no grind. because of this, you have few first-aid kits dropped from mobs, but you have the ability to "shield". and this is perhaps the most ginial comeback of the most useless ability in the original campaign. and at the same time you are given a new time dilation ability, which is cool. they also added cool new weapons, and limited the arsenal of the old one, removing unnecessary ones. gameplay, as for me, the game has become much better. and not only gameplay. there are not many dialogues now and there is no problem that you can skip the dialogue by starting a new one. I am glad that the creators care about their project and that they are improving themselves.
Pretty solid review. Just finished it myself and I agree with most of what you said except for one thing. I actually prefer the linear levels to the open-world levels. Maybe I'm just getting sick of many games trying to force a by-the-numbers open world, but the open-world sections just felt more bland and empty. When the game's linear, it does feel like some thought was going into it. There was a decent amount of environmental storytelling with neat set pieces and setting variety from time to time, solving puzzles and slowly unlocking new routes in the levels was satisfying, and the combat scenarios felt a little more planned out and well-paced. But whenever I go to the open world, most of the locations look the same with abandoned cabins, cars, and buildings. The gameplay also doesn't really translate well to the open world because the robots are watching every single corner, very quickly reviving any cameras/bots you destroy, and you're left either struggling to hold off an endless horde (which feels like the game was meant for you to only fight a couple dozen enemies at a time) or trying to sneak past them with some honestly basic stealth. You can temporarily disable the cameras and bots in each area, but even that's a tedious proceed of finding a camera station, hacking a camera, using that camera to find and open a hawk station, running to the hawk station without getting detected, and disabling everything in that area... for only 3 minutes. Maybe I would've felt like exploring more if they either improved the steal mechanics, had a more permanent and rewarding system for disabling cameras/drones in our area, or at least some interesting side missions and encounters throughout the world.
Enjoyed it, not many studios give this much content for 10 bucks anymore.
Bioshock games have all been phenomenal. Infinite was decent, but not my favorite one.
I really liked this game :) I had a blast beating through it and I would like to play a new playthough one day
I'm always impressed by this game graphics and animations...
I love your room. That backdrop is nuts.
5:45 still slav jank. Happy to see Mundfish still supporting it.
I'd like to see a sequel with less repetitive tasks, killable (for good) enemies and more world exploration with points of interest.
But there were a lot of good things... combat, character progression, art style / graphics, enemy types / bosses, skill tree and story I enjoyed. Even most of the puzzles the first time.
i like to close my eyes and imagine saul goodman is reviewing videogames when i watch your videos
I actually really enjoyed this game and its dlc. Not a masterpiece but really original and fun
Is Atomic Hearts a difficult game? Not at all. Just before going to the first boss, find and upgrade the rocket launcher. Complete several puzzles on the polygons and develop your abilities. And most of the bosses will not even force you to use first-aid kits in battle (they will die in one minute at the normal difficulty level).
I actually think atomic heart fully lived up to my expectations probably cause i thought this game was gonna be a cool and fun shooter with a good artstyle and thats exactly what i got
Agree. I was skeptical from the trailers even if they looked awesome, but the gunplay was solid and the art direction and music was phenomenal.
That's too bad... I am in love with Atomic Heart's world, but the game is just now good. It was a pain to beat... If it was a walking simulator that would be game of the year to me
Thank you for your honest reviews! They are really great
For people struggling with the over world robots, you need to change your mind set, you are not playing a ubi game where you are supposed liberate towers or outposts and kill everyone, instead think of them as flood in halo, what do you do when you encounter them? You run! And only kill whatever stands in your way! Think of it as an Mgs game, you want to avoid combat unless unavoidable. For the ones feel compelled to kill everyone, try disabling that generator thing or lure them in house! You are simply spoiled by those ubi games that your default to play every game the same one, but it’s the wrong one for this game! It’s not the game’s fault!
Luke, you mentioned not wanting to look at the exposition or various posters in Russian, but you can turn on the subtitled translations for those…many are actually interesting. But I do agree with all your points otherwise, it’s all very cool on the surface but kind of hollow or shallow maybe is the word
For the first game of the company - the game is really good, I'm waiting for new projects
Can't tell you some. I've played the game since first launch. I've just played it again. It's amazing I don't care. Miss, you may have bugs. Every game. Does people still love him so I don't care what the what do you think? But it's my favorite game of all time. Best story game even you've beats the last of us
After playing Bioshock in preparation for this game and completing Infinite nearly....let's say an Infinite amount of times i'm still in a "need more Bioshock" phase also knows as addiction. No matter how many times i replay Infinite dude i need more, 1 is not fulfilling enough but with Infinite, sheesh the combos i try and do are...INFINITE. I've never used plasmids to the extent i have with vigors so when this game came out it scratched that Bioshock need and the DLC is even better. Even better if you like, you're like i can only play for 2 hours type better but still good like the main game, it goes harder in many places and i'm excited for the other 3 DLC that are meant to come. The new slowing time ability thing is kinda useless for me tho ngl, i was expecting it to just slow enemies down in a certain radius, not slow ME down alongside them so it wasn't as fun as the other abilities. The new melee slaps tho, it felt kinda weak at first and i was trying not to rage quit on the hardest difficulty but the second i entered the facility i felt OP. Probably because of Nora my beloved, from that point onward there was no challenge like the one i experienced outside the facility with these new nightmarish enemy types, which are great when you're used to them. Also new gun cool, it goes pew pew and i like, i always preferred melee in these games tho, the "Charge" vigor in Infinite is my most used alongside "Return To Sender" because i have a build all based around melee and regaining health
The main game looks beautiful but feels extremely unpolished. It isn't fun to play. I would kill a group of 6 robots and by the time I was done, 3 of them were already rebuilt and killing me again. Combat is pointless when the robots just keep getting back up. I wanted to enjoy fighting robots, not avoiding conflict the whole time. It was very linear when it shoul have been open world.
Many thank that's for the review update!
As a casual gamer, I know I'd be playing on 'Easy'.. I sadly sense though that I'll end up frustrated, especially if I keep getting killed on er Easy/Normal.
The game looks visually stunning and unique story appeals, though I think I will try it second hand for $35Aus 🇦🇺 as I'm not a Game Pass lad 🙈
Wish me luck. Think I'm going to need it❤👍🇦🇺
I loved it! The story was great and had fun playing it . I was sad that new game plus only had hard mode on it tho.
If every game u play is bad, why bother playing at all? This channel seems to be built on rant.
I don't know, man. You get a new area and 2 new weapons for $10. Paradox released a $15 DLC for Victoria 3 that was basically a nothing flavor pack.
I never even got out of the opening bits underground
skill issue
Is that bad?
@@enenrax it just kinda lost my interest
It gets boring.
beacuse it was Tedious, you got lost/bored or something else, doesn't really say a lot...
Tbh this video just got me to redownload Metroid Exodus which I never finished. An actually good first person shooter with a good story lmao. No I won’t be checking this out but at least it gave me the push to give a game I’d backlogged a while ago another shot
You meant Metro Exodus right?
Wait people were having performance issues at launch, yeah I have a 4080 but heard from just about every other reviewer praise the optimization especially compared to other UE4 titles.
Was running it a 4K native TAA max settings no frame gen getting 100-120FPS at launch.
The only annoying thing about this game for me, are the cameras and the time on the those repair bots, there’s so many cameras for no reason making exploring not fun and, repair bots they should have made them take longer repairing a bot for 5mins or 10mins with resources, instead of 5sec or 10 seconds with no resources.
Played my fair share of buggy new age games. This was a breath of fresh air. Atomic Heart would easily be my game of the year. DLC and NG+ excluded
I've been planing on getting a complete edition bluray (have the original bluray but I don't like patches external to the disc when possible!:)
Wow, That's a real bummer. I enjoyed the base-game for what it was and was hyped for the DLC, in short I was hoping that the DLC would "save" the game. ):
Was a great game, but the open world parts were not great. You just need to run past all enemies. If not, they will always respawn
Them thic Russian bots are the best thing to come out of this game
back at launch I got into some boss fight where I couldn't do any damage, put the game down and didn't look back
For a first game from the studio, this is a great entry into the industry. They have a lot to learn, but they did a lot of things right. All in all, I look forward to future games from this studio. Atomic Heart was my cup of tea, and I know a lot of people it was not. But again, for a literal first game from a team of newer developers not already established in the industry, it's a great starting foundation for a franchise to improve upon.
Its straight up too hard. The difficulty needs to be rebalanced. Most stop playing before it picks up.
PLAY IT IN RUSSIAN!!!! Makes it 1000X better!! Way more immersive, better acting, it improves the story and characters SO MUCH!!
Hi man, I'm not sure if you noticed it, but the videos lately are almost entirely negative stuff. I'm not sure if that's intentional or it just happened to be the case. I really loved your content for years but lately I almost don't watch it anymore mainly because of the negativity. Look at the latest 12 thumbnails (one screen below the fold) for example: "It's just marketing,", "Yup, still sucks" (twice), "I am depressed", "This is so dumb", "It's just ok", "They broke it". If its working than great, I'm happy for you. I guess there really could be a lot of negative stuff to talk about, I just miss the content that hooked me :)
That's not his fault. What is he supposed to do? Act like Yongyea and pretend games are good or hyped when they aren't? Did people learn nothing from Cyberpunk 2077?
I puporsely watch Luke's content because he doesn't sugarcoat or brush over the flaws, and makes common sense suggestions and offers proper critical feedback. Kind of sounds like you just want a hype-man for corporate products, and I'm glad Luke isn't that.
@@billywashere6965he could choose positive stories to spice up the tone of the videos
@@danilthorstensson8902 He chose to play this DLC because it seemed fun, if it didn't have the issues it had, then the video would be positive. Once again, you're effectively saying he should be avoiding realistic commentary on topics he finds interesting if it's not positive. That's a pretty dishonest way to approach covering the gaming industry.
If the DLC turned out to be great, then he would have said so. I'm glad he pointed out the bugs and showcased them in the video because it added context to what he was saying, not to be negative but to be transparent. It's kind of odd how people are latching onto this as if he wants to be negative, rather than it simply being the outcome of a product that has flaws and he's pointing out said flaws.
More than anything, he should be receiving props given that a lot of content creators only cover the positive of some things and mislead people into supporting projects that shouldn't be supported.
@@billywashere6965Nah at this point he’s making his propensity to be cynical and a skeptic the whole identity of the channel and that’s just as one dimensional and NPC behavior as the other channels you compare it to. He can find something he legitimately enjoys before recording a TH-cam video about it. Not that hard.
He just did a positive one?
I remember being really excited for this game when I first heard about it a couple years ago. When I finally played it I found it fun but pretty repetitive… I got maybe 30% through the story and gave up, just wasn’t having fun. Between the repetitive enemies, not too fun exploration, overly confusing puzzles, floaty feeling gun play, and open world segments that are just constantly flooding your screen with enemies never really giving you a chance to rest. Despite all that I did like the world design, abilities and character progression but everything else really lacked for me. I might go back to try it again at some point.
I loved this game at release and still love it now.
Im having significantly more fun on my new game + playthrough with this game then i did on the first playthrough. I started playing on release and after beating it id have given it a 6/10. 10 months later, and doing a NG+ id rate this a 8.5/10. Definitely enjoy many things about this game, while also hating multiple Design decisions haha.
What i didnt like about the open world is that none of the weapon upgrades are scattered on the open map like you'd expect a game with an explorable open world to have- but are instead clustered together in these repetitive puzzle dungeons making the entire open world feel completely empty.
Combat wise im not a big fan of only being allowed to equip two polymer abilties.
Id rather they'd copy actual bioshock from the first two games where you have access to multiple abilites and guns at your disposal. If theres only six polymer abilites I'd rather i be able to use any of them on a moment's notice.
I wouldn't mind if in order to balance it, they had to either make unlocking them from the shop more expensive, introducing a second resource in the form of mp guage, or having to go and find in the open world. Just let me have more fun with the glove powers.
The Cartidge gameplay is all glitch out now since the new patch!!
I like this game well the main game need build up and it good for storytelling and I can agree that this game is not open world like you need to sweat to do exploring but you do not need to do it so it okay I guess
I was really hyped for this game before release but ended up not buying it because of the mixed reviews. I will get it once it goes on deep discount
I couldn't even finish the game because the boss I was fighting would despawn and I didnt have any other save that would put me further back to see if that would fix it. I would've had to start the game over which I didnt want to do so I just stopped playing it all together
"there are tons of huge boss fights" was the line that made me delete the game from my wishlist.
I'm not sure if I'm the minority here or if it just seems that way, but I really hate it when games say "STOP! We interrupt your game flow by putting this one enemy that takes a really long time to beat and propably you will have to retry and therefore annoylingly repeat scenes until we let you continue with the game".
There are very, very few bosses that have ever been fun, as soon as it becomes a "shoot this thing or guy a thousand times" my enjoyment is over.
I don’t understand what you wish to get from a game. I respect your opinion to the fullest extent, not everyone likes bullet sponge enemies. But bosses have been a staple in games since their inception, I’m pretty sure 1978’s Space Invaders had a boss fight. The boss fights in this game aren’t really interrupting your game flow either, they are evenly spaced out, they don’t happen suddenly out of nowhere, the game gives you time to prepare (90% of the time) because most of the time right before a boss the game leads you into an area with no enemies. This game learns from Dark Souls in which the bosses are the main attraction I think, they made them so well here.
I finished hard Mode after normal. My youtube. Not hard, only need Little managment ammo and upgrades. Dó wisely. 4 dlc coming out. Maybe than.
Great game that challenges you with undoubtedly the best boss fights in first-person shooter games! Buy the game to support the developers to encourage them to keep doing high-quality games.
this has got to be one of the most fair reviews i’ve seen of this game since it launched
i just finished it on armageddon and that was me honestly running through half the open world parts to my objective avoiding enemies because it just didn’t feel fair at times (and that was probably on me) having played souls games i still feel this game is unfair at times
towards the end i will say you kinda become unstoppable that being said they missed the mark a lot on a great game but i loved it not gonna lie but has no replay ability whatsoever
not to mention i didn’t get my trophy for the armageddon so no plat for me :/ which really made me kinda pissed
i feel like it should have been compared to serous sam more than bioshock.
Мне понравился сюжет этой игры,но если так задуматься то основная история довольно простая. Куда же интереснее изучать трупы, что довольно оригинально и искать часы с аудиозаписями. Буквально в каждой вещи которая раскрывает мир есть юмор и шутка,что делает мертвый комплекс более живее
lmao that android repeatedly getting hit by the cart was jokes though
Luke's absolute disdain for expectations is the stuff of legends.
idk but I never had any performance or technical issues with the game..and I played it at launch.
Yes maybe other people had issues but... that bad?
Kinda on Console(Xbox SX) the achievements didn't pop for me half of the time ,Not game breaking just annoying
I had lots of fun and bought the dlc,‘let’s see😊
Hopefully the audio isn't still bugged I tried it last month and the audio was muffled unless I was right in there face.
Crispy critters! 😆😆😆 Its my new saying for oh Fning hell! What a catch frase 😆 Loved the character he had character about him
Exploration or the lack there of was my biggest issue with this game. There was nothing interesting to find really and the open world starts to look samey after a while, just a bland mixture of reused wooden structures and white metal constructs. No hidden bosses, no hidden weapons (outside of the ones you get blueprints) for, No secret caves of buildings to find intereseting loot, etc. Its like they just never had the time to fully commit to the open world aspect. Still enjoyed it tho, the combat and music is top notch.
Gotcha back...can skip to the end to find out what you think lol
DAMNIT HE CRACKED THE CODE
@@LukeStephensTV Nahh will still watch it all the way through anyway :D
Has anyone else had problems with weapon cartridges being unusable since the last update
It's hard for me to not get pulled out of the experience when I see the places where Screen Space Reflections fail on reflective surfaces, RT solves this issue as well as some other tricks (see global reflections in alan wake 2). Does this issue still persist in July 2024?
I actually really enjoyed the game. For what it was it was an enjoyable experience for me, it was definitely unique and that's what I liked about it
I really liked this game, great assets
I just started the game and play maybe an hour of it. What I’ve gathered is I really like it and it brings me back to thought of bioshock and even borderlands (the humor), but I feel the game is trying WAY too hard to be over the top with the cinematics and humor. Imo being more open would have made this game a lot better, than making super linear (lack of exploration) and forced punch-lines.
I still have to get this for my ps5 🔥
The strange Scenes with the womens at the beginning are AI created if iam not mistaken. I can remember seeing some of them on twitter.
Kinda already a big Red Flag seeing this in the game.
Annoying difficulty is a good explanation. I played for a few hours and couldn't get into it, the melee combat is not fun, it feels to restrictive and slow and guns run out of ammo very quickly, I don't know if that changes later on cause I wasn't having fun.
I actually enjoyed how tight my ammo was
This game has just awesome visual design and aesthetics.
I was really excited for the main game but I fell off pretty quickly after about 5 hours. The main character was extremely annoying, the melee combat wasn't too fun (and ammo was too scarce to enjoy shooting), and I just didn't feel the need to continue. Like I didn't totally hate it, but just couldn't continue. Nothing drew me back. I'm not to surprised the DLC wasn't too substantial, it came quickly. Especially considering how long the main game took to come out.
Tbh this game is really REALLY underrated, it really needed more praise for everything it does right compared to all the pieces of shit that come in a gaming year
Very uncommon that you can fix bugs retroactively in your personal save file... doesn't really happen. It will be fixed for new saves/players (probably)
I didn't even bother running around exploring at all the story was so good it keep wanting more of it plus i didnt want to waste resources. The new game plus is way to hard and they need have hardness selection for it. I found normal mode very challenging. So might just continue on with what i have with annihilation dlc or maybe go back to load point before the end and build my character up and weapons. I really enjoyed this game and all the complaints are nuance. I loved i could kill robots more then just shooting and sneak attacks.
i enjoyed atomic heart. i'll probably wait until all dlc is released and then play through it again.
The game is great but the problem for me personally is the world felt empty with no Military personnel, Safe Zones, and other NPCs in General out there fighting the mass amount of robots the game spawns, and tbh for me it didn't feel like it gave much direction once i finished the story, so i lost interest and stopped playing, but overall, this being their first game and everything, they did a beautiful job, they can only go up from here!
Much better than most of shooters and adventure released this year.
They need to actually expand the main game.
There were a total of 16 testing grounds now there are 12.
I don't like these kind of cut off dlc's.
Ok I played some of the DLC and everything is going fine but for some reason even on a series X, whenever I use that techostasis ability with a LOT of enemies it just crashes the game for some reason, I don't know why, is that supposed to happen because I'm seriously confused, i seriously hope they fix that since it's irritating