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Atomic Heart

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Atomic Heart
Atomic Heart cover
Developers
Mundfish
Publishers
Focus Entertainment
CIS VK Play
Asia 4Divinity
Engines
Unreal Engine 4[Note 1]
Release dates
Windows February 20, 2023
Reception
Metacritic 75
OpenCritic 74
IGDB 72
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, DLC, Subscription gaming service
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, Open world, FPS
Art styles Realistic
Themes Eastern Europe, Sci-fi
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Atomic Heart is a singleplayer first-person action, open world and FPS game.

The game received several patches which added field of view option, HUD size settings, subtitle size settings, improved stability, improved performance, improved shadows, achievement unlocking fixes, fixed some crashes and fixed many other issues.[1][2][3]

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

All versions require Denuvo Anti-Tamper DRM.

Version differences

Standard Edition includes the base game, Swede skinn and Electro skin.
Gold Edition includes everything from the Standard Edition plus Glove skin and four post-launch story DLC.
Premium Edition includes everything from the Gold Edition plus AK skin, Zvezdochka skin and a digital artbook.

Monetization

Type Notes
DLC Skins and post-launch story DLC.[4]
One-time game purchase The game requires an upfront purchase to access.
Subscription gaming service Available via Xbox Game Pass for PC.

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Labor & Science Weapon Skin pack Contains Swede weapon skin and Electro weapon skin. Free for pre-orders.
Windows
Midas Glove skin Cosmetic. Included with the Gold Edition and Premium Edition
Windows
Golden Age Weaspon Skin Pack Contains golden skins for AK and Zvezdochka Axe Included with the Premium Edition.
Windows
04 DLC 4 pieces of upcoming post-launch story DLC. Included with the Gold Edition and Premium Edition.
Windows
Annihilation Instinct Story DLC, released August 2, 2023.
Windows
Trapped in Limbo Second Story DLC, released February 6, 2024.
Windows

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Remove, rename or move the intro video files[5][6]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\AtomicHeart\Content\Movies.
  2. Remove, rename or move Launch_FHD_60FPS_PC_Steam.mp4, LaunchVideo_WIndows_4k_60FPS.mp4 and LaunchVideo_WIndows_Low_30FPS.mp4.
Download the No Startup Videos - pak version mod and put it into <path-to-game>\AtomicHeart\Content\Paks
Disables the intro videos instead of removing, renaming, moving or replacing them.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\AtomicHeart\Saved\Config
Microsoft Store
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/668580/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\AtomicHeart\Saved\SaveGames
Microsoft Store %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\FocusHomeInteractiveSA.579645D26CFD_4hny5m903y3g0\SystemAppData\wgs\<user-id>\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/668580/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud
Saves and all settings.
Xbox Cloud

Video

Quality settings
Quality settings
Display settings
Display settings

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
Flawless Widescreen plugin exists to fix culling and aspect ratio.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Added in 1.3.4.0[2] or use Flawless Widescreen.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Labeled as Texture Anisotropy. Disabled, 2x, 4x and 8x options available in-game. No 16x anisotripic filtering can be set in-game.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
TAA with Disabled, Medium and High presets available..
High-fidelity upscaling
DLSS 3.1, FSR 2.2
[7]DLSS Frame Generation is supported.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
On/Off toggle.
On some systems, this option could be greyed out and thus cannot be turned on. Use AMD/Nvidia Control Panel to force Vsync externally instead.[8]
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Frame rate cap options of 30, 60, 90, 120, 144, 165, 240 and 300 available. An extra 500 FPS cap option was added through update 1.3.0 on February 25, 2023.[1]
No way in-game to fully unlock the frame-rate. Some distant animations play back at a noticable lower frame-rate.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
[9]
Ray tracing (RT)
Game will support ray-traced direct illumination in a post-launch update.[10]
The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 4 page for more details.

Input

Controls settings
Controls settings
Gameplay settings
Gameplay settings

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Separate sliders available for X-axis and Y-axis as well as overall Mouse Sensitivity.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Inverted Mouse toggle available.
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Will be added through an upcoming update.[2]
Controller sensitivity
Separate sliders available for X-axis and Y-axis as well as overall Controller Sensitivity.
Controller Y-axis inversion
Controller Inversion option available.
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration
PlayStation controllers
DualSense haptic feedback and adaptive triggers are not supported on PC.[9][11]
PlayStation button prompts
Light bar support
Adaptive trigger support
DualSense haptic feedback support
Connection modes
Generic/other controllers
Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M
Mouse movements and controller inputs are mixed correctly.[12][13]

Audio

Audio settings
Audio settings

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Separate volume sliders available for Master, Music, Dialogue, FX, Environmental Audio FX, Radio and Interface FX.
Surround sound
Menu and CHAR-les are stereo. The rest of sound is 7.0.
Subtitles
On/Off toggle separately for Art Subtitles (for text, posters etc.) and general Subtitles (for speech). Subtitle size option was added post-launch through patch 1.4.0.0 on April 5, 2023.[3][1][14]
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio
Streamer Mode option is available, however audio is still present that triggers copyright claims.[15]

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Ukrainian
Only Steam version.

VR support

Issues unresolved

Downsampling / DSR resolutions not applied

The game allows picking resolutions enabled via DSR, but only actually applies up to the desktop resolution, in both windowed fullscreen & exclusive modes.[16]
This can be worked around by changing the desktop resolution to the DSR resolution before launching, after that DSR options should apply properly in-game, though desktop resolution will need to be changed each time you want to launch it.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 12
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics PhysX, APEX PhysX v3.4.0.0, APEX v1.4.0.0
Audio XAudio, Wwise XAudio v2.9

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10 (20H1)
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i5-2500
AMD Ryzen 3 1200
System memory (RAM) 8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 90 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 960
AMD Radeon R9 380
4 GB of VRAM
DirectX 12 compatible
A 64-bit operating system is required.
The minimum requirements are for 1080p, 30 FPS at low settings. The recommended system requirements are for 1080p, 60 FPS at ultra settings. Additional system requirements are also available.


Notes

  1. Unreal Engine 4 engine build: 4.27.2.0
  2. 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/668580/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (668580) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 PATCHES 1.3.3.0 / 1.3.3.1 – LIST OF CHANGES - last accessed on 2023-02-27
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 PATCHES 1.3.4.0 - 1.3.5.0 – LIST OF CHANGES - Steam - last accessed on 2023-03-10
  3. 3.0 3.1 PATCH 1.4.0.0 — LIST OF CHANGES - Steam - last accessed on 2023-04-05
  4. Atomic Heart DLC Will Be Entirely Single-Player, Story-Focused - GameRant - last accessed on 2023-01-27
  5. Verified by User:Mrtnptrs on 2023-02-26
    Tested removing the 3 videos from the Steam version and the game booted straight to menu.
  6. Verified by User:Cjmaxik on 2023-02-26
    Tested with GamePass version 1.3.3.0.
  7. Verified by User:Mrtnptrs on 2023-02-21
    Even though the developers mentioned that the game would include FSR 2, it clearly only includes FSR 1 as it has the typical FSR 1 artifact of spatial upscaling, no temporal artifacts. Other users were also suggesting this. Game also includes DLSS 3.1.1 Super Resolution DLL.
  8. Verified by User:Sxp2high on 2023-02-23
    Tested on Windows 11 with the Game Pass version on Nvidia hardware with no special settings applied in the Nvidia Control Panel.
  9. 9.0 9.1 Atomic Heart Review in Progress – Polished Soviet BioShock - last accessed on 2023-02-20
  10. Atomic Heart Final Q&A Part II – Mundfish ‘Impressed’ by DLSS 3; FSR 2 Confirmed; Old Consoles Will Be Fine - last accessed on 2023-01-05
  11. Atomic Heart Bonus Q&A – Exclusive Full PC Specs Reveal & Shader Comp Info; Devs Talk Final Build Improvements - last accessed on 2023-02-09
  12. Steam curator review by Gamepad Controls QA - last accessed on 2023-02-24
    "⫸Gyro - Mixed Input, Mouse Smoothing"
  13. r/SteamDeck comment in Atomic Heart Megathread (Steam/PC) - last accessed on 2023-02-24
    "Stick + gyro mouse works very well"
  14. @Mundfish #AtomicHeart - 10:09 AM · Feb 22, 2023 - Twitter - last accessed on 2023-02-22
  15. Steam Community - Atomic Heart - Streamer Mode doesn't work - last accessed on 2023-02-22
  16. Verified by User:Infogram1 on 2023-02-21
    Using DLSS with dev overlay shows the resolution actually being rendered by the game, selecting any DSR resolution always kept it at desktop res, despite windowed mode setting & any DPI changes applied to EXE.