Atomic Heart Adds Fan-Favorite Feature

By Ricky Frech

Atomic Heart shipped to solid critical reviews and performed well with the general audience as well. While the game was noted as "frustrating" at times in our review, it's hard to deny it found its fans at launch. However, Atomic Heart shipped without at least one feature that most modern games come with. These days, it's rare to see something, especially a game with above-average graphical fidelity, ship without a photo mode. Atomic Heart did just that, but today the developers at Mundfish have issued a new patch that includes that fan-favorite feature, opening the door for anyone looking to capture the visuals of its strange, retrofuturistic world.

As with most photo modes, Atomic Heart will come with all the usual bells and whistles. That means players can change everything from lighting and contrast to the depth of field with their pictures. Basically, if you can dream it up, you can probably make it happen. Of course, the photo mode isn't the only thing coming in Patch 1.7.0.0.

The other major addition coming with the patch is that Mundfish has added "specific graphics and display settings for the Steam Deck platform." While that only affects players on that specific platform, it is great to see Mundfish giving anyone playing on the Steam Deck. That platform is only getting more popular, so targeting updates there makes quite a bit of sense.

It's also worth noting that this update is likely looking ahead to Atomic Heart's upcoming DLC. Announced last month, the currently unnamed DLC is supposedly on target to release later this summer so we will likely be hearing more about it in the near future, potentially later this week at the Summer Game Fest or one of the many other events surrounding Geoff Keighley's summer showcase. 

You'll find the full patch notes for Patch 1.7.0.0 in Atomic Heart below.

MAIN

  • Added Photo Mode
  • Added specific graphics and display settings for the Steam Deck platform

OTHERS

  • Added AMD FSR 2.2 technology for PC players
  • Improved car physics
  • Improved game stability (various minor bugs and rare crashes)

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SOLVING SOME ISSUES

  • We cannot guarantee or support the game if the Atomic Heart game client has been modified by any third-party software. If this happens, you should uninstall this software and reinstall the game.

  • If you encounter issues on Steam, first check the integrity of the game files as described here. This may solve the issues:
    https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/0C48-FCBD-DA71-93EB

  • Updating the driver to the latest version may improve performance (NVIDIA only).

  • The problem with unlocking achievements has already been solved, but in some very rare cases, the following issues may occur:

      ○ There may be some delay in unlocking achievements on a platform that requires an Internet connection for this process;
      ○For those whose achievements were achieved entirely on savegames before or during the Day 1 patch, there may be some issues, which can be solved as follows:

        a) In case the achievements were not unlocked, even though their progress was achieved, it will be necessary to re-execute all the conditions by starting a new game.

        b) In the rare case where all achievements have been obtained, but the "The Motherland Does Not Forget its Heroes" achievement has not been unlocked for achieving them all, the problem can be solved simply by starting a new game. Data will be recalculated at the launch of the new game, which will entail unlocking the achievement.
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