Atomic Heart Sure Looks Sick on a Superpowered PC

It’s like a AA dev from the 2000s has been given money.

@Notoriousmakavel It’s not really all that missing though, Ken Levine’s got a new game coming out and there’s two System Shock games plus another Bioshock coming out.

Definitely keeping my eye on it but I’ll refrain from preordering. I can easily see this getting headlines of either being fantastic or a garbage fire.

@Notoriousmakavel Only 10 years yet Infinite has aged about as well as a jobbie milkshake.

@KaijuKaiser just wait for reviews to save your wallet

I agree with what many have said here, looks incredible but I see this one having a catch. Could be that it’s extremely short or copy pasted since the team was smaller for so long.

My goodness though these hype videos are wild

Atomic Heart has been around since the original RTX cards. Scenes from the game were actually used as a demo.

Needless to say, the developers have had some time working with the technology.

some good xbox advertising on last 2 articles, both day1 gamepass

Might pick this up after a price drop. Generally not one for FPS games, but this has an interesting style too it.

I dont see nothing the ps5 cant do.
it looks good.but its not like wow look at those graphics. It can be done on sony console.word up son

Everything looks great on a super powerful PC. I just don’t love PC gaming much, so i stick to my PS5 and Series X. I’ll play this on GP and hope it’s fun. Looks promising, but hard to tell.

@stvevan 1. They never mentioned gamepass nor xbox… you did!
2. you don’t have to get them on gamepass, you know

No way ps5 version can do that. Those are by far the best graphics of all time.

@stvevan well Xbox is desperate for gamers, they’ve got to do something 🤣

@durxll123 the ps5 could do those graphics..they wont be running @60fps though with ray tracing etc and will probably utilise some kind of adaptavie resolution to maintain 60fps in performance mode..but the ps5 will do a grand job of replicating them..

This gives me such Arkane vibes. I don't have a lot of confidence in the final product let alone not running on a $3500 rig, but the design just screams Arkane to me.

@NEStalgia i always thought arkanes games reminded me of the bioshock games in terms of pretty much everything..so it looks as though things are turning full circle.

@NEStalgia Raphaël Colantonio is the founder of arkane studios and he worked on the original bioshock game for 2k marin..so that explains a lot of similarities between the 2 studios game design..👍

I’m so excited for this game I can’t wait!

@Colour it’s open world not huge but there’s vehicles and everything to drive and it’s supposed to be like twenty hours long. Think of halo infinite and the way it’s world was designed and that’s what atomic heart is like

This looks great and one I'll probably play on PC rather than PS5 to take advantage of its RT

@KaijuKaiser "without any risks to the wallet." You still have to subscribe, which is not for free (or are there still the $1 deals?), and You may not get anything that You really want.

@Northern_munkey DLSS is already an adaptive resolution technique, albeit often or maybe even in most cases a very good one.

@gaston isnt dlss an nvidia application? Not even sure if the ps5 uses an alternative to it..

@themightyant that is true. I just wanted to say, that the image is already upscaled when using a top of the line NV GPU. So, with a PS5 which has less than (?) 1/3 of the power, there cannot be more than 1/3 of the detail and resolution i.e. before upscaling the resolution is likely much lower than 1080p or less frames per second.

@gaston @themightyant cheers guys. I'm sure that if this game is coming to the ps5 it is still going to look great..just nowhere near to that vid..tbh i'm not sure why push square are showing this and not waiting for ps5 footage..

@themightyant 👍

Yeah, I remember all the hype around Biomutant, some of which was around the graphics. And to be fair I haven't really played it so I'm not judging the game as "good" or "bad", but all that hype sure amounted to very little in the end.

Oh c'mon, keep your shirt on!
This is a demo video, masterfully polished by Nvidia as part of their aggressive marketing for DLSS 3, to justify the exorbitant prices they've put on the RTX 40xx GPU's.
The final game will look nothing like this, even when played on RTX 4090 with DLSS 3 as they say...

It's not the first time something like this happened either.
The Witcher 3 had the exact same problem, the launched game did not look like the marketing videos - it was only after people's backlash that they patched it to improve the graphics.
Remember the puddles problem in Spider-Man on PS4, that were present in the first videos when they showcased Ray Tracing and reflections? And they removed them later on, then put back in after people's backlash ?
Also the graphics of Horizon FW were somewhat lowered even on quality setting on the PS5, compared to the gameplay video they released a few months before launch supposedly to showcase the power of the PS5... yeah, so much power you have to play at 30fps to even come somewhat closer(ish) to the graphics level showed in that video, that was both superbly looking and fluent at the same time! ... Don't get me wrong, I love the game a lot, and plan to play it a second time on PS5 before the DLC comes out - it's just this kind of false marketing practice that I severely despise.

@themightyant "Partially true, but it's not linear so a 1/3 power GPU will do FAR better than 1/3 detail, resolution, frame rate etc." That might be true. Though by raw numbers a 4090 is nearly 10 times more powerful, seems to have a better ray tracing support, and games meant to show off PCs are typically not very much optimised for consoles. In the end it presumably depends much more on the developer's effort to optimise for a certain platform than anything else.

@Northern_munkey "i'm not sure why push square are showing this and not waiting for ps5 footage.." Excitement ?

Well of COURSE a nvidia tailored PC video is going to look better than a PS4 (big belly laugh here) and a $500 PS5. A Ferrari is going to be faster and slicker than a Civic too. Nice call Einstein.
On the game itself, it sure does look interesting, but only a fool pre-orders games nowadays. A smart buyer waits for reviews and a smarter one waits for sales.

@gaston or: Slow news day?

@gaston well usually it gets aired in the push square pc section..you know when the text header goes red..

@gaston #38 who would have thought?

This is either gonna look or run dodgy as hell on base PS4, I can just feel it. Mostly because this is a new studio aiming for a 'AAA' multiplatform release on pretty much everything like Striking Distance attempted

Although, like Striking Distance, Mundfish have been impressing with their technical chops from day 1 (if their videos are to be taken at face value) and I think PS5 gamers can rest easy that there will be a very decent-looking port for the current-gen machines. The main difference will be the lack of RT as there's nothing else here that would really push the PS5/SX even when aiming for higher resolution targets and/or frames.

Obviously having a full-fat machine capable of great RT was a bit of a moonshot for £450 in 2020 and it was always gonna be the Achilles's heel of the consoles. It'll be interesting to see if any 'Pro' revisions come out in the next couple years and if so, just how much more advanced they are in RT hardware. The PS5 is so far behind a 2060-super already when it comes to RT performance 😞

As for the game, I can't wait! Ever since the first trailer I've been hungering for a dose of Soviet goodness!

Looks good. Hope it's more of an immersive sim than a typical shooter though.... Although I grew up on boomer shooters, I usually find the "just kill everything that moves" gameplay a bit dull these days.

Shiney, but I'm not blown away. Maybe its just me, but anything associated with Russia can rot in hell as far as I'm concerned, and that definitely includes this game.

@Titntin Mundfish is based in Nicosia, Cyprus. It’s being published by Focus Home Interactive based in Paris, France and 4Divinity based in Southeast Asia. I found this out through quick 3 Google searches. It took me far longer typing this comment than searching up that info…

@ryanburnsred
Thank you for at least not being abusive.
If you looked up that information, then you are also aware they are Russian owned company. Its a game set in a future Russia which can be clearly seen in almost all the environments. Some of the robots even wear the soviet star.
If that doesn't matter for you, then that's OK. I did not ask anyone to join my boycott or even pass any judgement on those for whom it doesn't matter.
I shared why I'm not interested in this (though the actual gameplay clips give me pause for concern regardless).
I might not wish to buy in for those reasons, but I'm in no position to judge others who wish too, and I hope they enjoy the game

@Titntin well said, feel the same way

@Northern_munkey Ahh that makes a LOT of sense, then!

@nessisonett
Majorly disagree Infinite had the best gunplay and movement of the series and the art direction is still pretty. Don't @me.