The Smash, Loot, Smash Cycle of Robotic Destruction

You’re going to be smashing plenty of robots in Atomic Coronary heart. You’ll have to blast them in two or tear them limb from limb to make sure your individual survival. However these moments of violence are only one a part of a much bigger cycle; by destroying robots you may then harvest their parts, which might then be used to improve your weapons and skills, which in flip can then be used to destroy extra robots. That’s the cycle of life within the halls of Facility 3826.

Rip and Tear

Developer Mundfish has put plenty of work into making Atomic Coronary heart’s fight system as satisfying as doable, and an enormous a part of delivering that satisfaction is thru detailed injury. As you cleave by robots, their artificial pores and skin will tear open and reveal the metallic constructions inside. Extra industrial-style enemies will see their armored casings grow to be scratched and dented with every new strike. And, in fact, bullets will puncture enemies with holes and rockets will blast them to items. Irrespective of your selection in weaponry, the lethal impression of them will likely be mirrored on the enemies you battle.

Whereas Atomic Coronary heart’s quite a few weapons and particular powers can be utilized on any enemy, there’s usually a profit to selecting the best weapon for the job. Every kind of robotic has a novel vulnerability that you just’ll wish to exploit, and so discovering that weak level and focusing on it with the correct weapon will make it easier to take down ferocious foes as quick and effectively as doable. Generally these weaknesses will likely be apparent throughout the course of battle, comparable to a robotic’s armor opening as much as expose its glowing core. For the instances when a weak point shouldn’t be apparent, your private scanner will present hints that will help you discover it.

Along with your robotic enemies useless, their shattered stays can then be looted for parts. Polymer batteries, superconductors, and different digital gadgets are simply a few of the stuff you’ll discover on them, and these can be utilized to improve each your weapons and the skills of your Polymer Glove. That features particular abilities comparable to blasting bolts of stunning electrical energy, freezing enemies in place, and telekinetically smashing robots into the ground.

Dyson Fingers

Your telekinesis talent isn’t simply helpful for beating up foes, although; it may also be used to gather scraps and gadgets from all over the world. Mundfish has created a novel looting mechanic that lets you telekinetically vacuum up gadgets near you; drawers and cupboards fairly actually open up and their contents leap into your arms. This implies you don’t must open and search each particular person cabinet and container, which ensures Atomic Coronary heart’s fast tempo is rarely slowed.

You could possibly accumulate every thing in a room inside a couple of seconds, however you’ll have to pay attention to how a lot you’re carrying. All the things you choose up goes into your Yarov-Abalakov backpack, which shrinks objects so that you could be carry a lot, way more than traditional. Nevertheless, whereas gadgets do get smaller, they don’t get lighter. Mundfish says that “touring all over the world with a ton of sources stacked in your bag can get uncomfortable”, suggesting there could also be some type of stock administration required.

For extra on Atomic Coronary heart, try our IGN First articles on the sport’s robots and its fascinating alternate historical past of the Soviet Union. You can too watch the discharge date trailer and ten minutes of a brutal boss combat.

Matt Purslow is IGN’s UK Information and Options Editor.