Atomic Heart's February 2023 Xbox Game Pass arrival was a much-anticipated one, with Mundfish's bonkers sci-fi shooter fast becoming one of the month's biggest additions to the service. As it turns out, the game's file sizes are pretty huge as well, including a mysterious day one patch that the developer is yet to address.
An almost 70GB update seemingly dropped for the Xbox version of Atomic Heart late last night, Feb. 21st, while a similar 75GB update arrived for the PC version. Prior to this update the game was roughly 80GB on Xbox Series X, so the day one patch is essentially requiring a full re-download of the game - there or thereabouts!
As mentioned, the team is yet to detail what this update actually does to Atomic Heart. We are hearing that it has made alterations to some of the game's controls, but we can't confirm the full extent of the changes just yet.
The dev team does seem to be working away on another update to address some community concerns though. One area mentioned relates to increased Field of View (FOV) options for the game, while the team also says it will implement the option to increase the size of subtitles in a future patch.
If Mundfish releases the patch notes for this huge Atomic Heart Xbox Game Pass update, we'll let you know!
Have you played Atomic Heart yet? What do you think of it so far? Let us know down below.
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@Kaloudz, was the same with Hot Wheels when it dropped on GamePass. Two versions in the mobile app, the one with Windows in the name got installed on my console (and obviously worked just fine).
Let's hope they address the issues with the controls. I played it for about two hours on day one and some of the climbing sections were near impossible. The controls were just broken. Also, moving around seemed just "off". As if they didn't quite finish how my character moves (not balanced). If that's in the update, I will give it another try.
@Kaloudz, agreed, but at least that's something you see coming. What's imo more annoying are games (looking at you Forza Horizon 5) that inform you about a big update just when you have an hour at the end of the day to play. And of course you can't play without the update.
@tho_mi with Hot Wheels I believe it was an option to install Series or One version of the game (aka. circumvent smart delivery). Same for Maiden.
Either way, as a Series S owner I'm all for it, and have been saying that from the get go (having an option is way more valuable in the long run compared to training my eye during first time experience).
Yea, found this out the hard way when I went to fire it up last night. Pretty frustrating since I didn't even get to play and just went to bed.
@Cikajovazmaj, I didn't look into that, but it was a bit confusing and definitely could've been labeled better/clearer.
@Kaloudz I absolutely think they uploaded the wrong version. Obviously it isn't as simple as the windows version as it simply wouldn't work.
I do believe they've uploaded maybe an early non final build. You don't drop a patch that is the full size of the game on day 2 and then go radio silent on what is in it... unless it was something embarrassing like admitting they made boo boo and they had to get everyone to fully download the game again.
It has happened before a few times, one I specifically remember was Dead Island on steam. They admitted it almost right away and made a statement and apologised
@NintendoByNature me too, haven't seen a glimpse of the game, pre downloaded it, wanted to start it up for the first time, and said 70 gigs update, now I have great speed over here, but I was once again, hey time for bed, will try tonight when i get some time.
I’ve got to be honest, it’s been a long time since I’ve been so disappointed in a release at launch. I was really looking forward to the game and am typically generous in my understanding for bugs, but there’s a lot that frustrated me in playing this game for three hours last night. I can forgive the weird janky animations, but there were parts of my initial session where button inputs just didn’t work. In 2023, that’s a really bizarre issue to have in a AAA style game. I also had an issue where there was a quest already that just didn’t give any instruction what to do. I was trying to find an elevator, so it should’ve been simple to figure out, but the game was so obtuse about it. I restarted the game and the quest became active. The visuals are spectacular in the game though when they aren’t jittery, and I like the voice acting, but I suppose I’m biased as a Supernatural fan. I want to enjoy the game. More obnoxious than the technical issues though is the gameplay loop so far. The game doesn’t seem to know what type of genre it wants to be, whether that’s an FPS, a first person puzzler, immersive sim, whatever, so the gameplay loop feels awkwardly paced. Shoot two robots, there’s a lock and pick it, shoot two robots, find a key and unlock a door, shoot two robots, find two canisters, shoot two robots, find five canisters, etc. I swear, I ragequit when the five canister search began, just because I was ready for the game to open up. The puzzles have been boring so far and the amount of locks have broken the pacing for me every time. I don’t know if I’ll go back to the game, honestly. The first hour, prior to real gameplay, was certainly stunning, but I was frustrated a lot once the game actually got started. Also, jeez, who decided that the size 8 font text size was suitable for the ui and subtitles with this one? It’s really hard to read if you’re not right in front of the TV.
@Romans12 Sadly the whole game feels just clunky to play.
@somnambulance I agree with everything you just said, it’s been a disappointing and frustrating experience, I’ve played for 5 hours but no more, it’s extremely rare that I leave a game unfinished but I’ve had a miserable experience so far.
I may add that coupled with the bad gameplay and endless fetch quests the dialogue is borderline unbearable, the main character just keeps cursing and insulting over and over and I lost the count of how many times I’ve heard the stupid phrase “crispy critters”.
@TheSilverFalcon same. Hopefully it's actually worth the wait. Hard to tell based on the reviews.
This is where Gamepass shines. We download (in this case many times) play it and if we don’t like in a few hours we uninstall and move on. However I will never use the preinstall feature ever again …
@IOI it’s literally baffling to me too that they stated the Russian actor was playing both Russian and English language versions of P-3 and then all of a sudden Jensen Ackles is voicing the character, despite the fact that Mundfish was still claiming the Russian actor was the English lead too. It’s weird. Despite all the development time on this one, it feels like 75% of the game’s development time went to art direction and the rest was rushed together to fit it. I almost feel like they started throwing money around late in development or something to get some big names onboard like Jensen Ackles and Mick Gordon, people that wouldn’t mind being in controversial roles, as a PR stunt.
@Kaloudz I can’t believe there’s no setting to increase the size of the text. There’s just so much in this game that just isn’t player friendly.
I have a hard time playing cause I dislike the character you play. At this time I just have dialogue turned off but that doesn't work well. Dude has serious anger issues.
@NintendoByNature Played it for nearly 2 hours, it's drop dead gorgeous, they really push the Unreal 4 engine with this game, Coalition type quality, runs smooth on my series X, probably because of vrr got a QHD 165 fps screen hooked up. Game is not that easy, play it on normal, so far has been fun...
Just the Game Pass version? Weird
Anyone know what todays patch is for? I got the 67gb update yesterday, just went to start the game and it triggered a 16gb update. Playing on XSX.
This game feels like a solid 7/10 for me, after most of the bugs are ironed out that is. In its current state, it’s more like a 6/10. Having completed the campaign, I feel like the framework is there for this game to be a masterpiece, but it misses the target on too many fronts. No updates will ever get it there as there is too many fundamental flaws with the game.
Having said this, I would recommend this game to anyone who enjoyed games like Deus Ex, BioShock and Dishonored. It’s a solid game and I was satisfied with the 25 hours I spent on it.
I got a few hours in yesterday and quite enjoyed it. Very bioshock, but entertaining.
Since the update, the shoulder buttons no longer do anything, making the entire game completely unplayable.
If it doesn't get fixed I'll uninstall it. Very happy I didn't spend any £££ on iy
@TheSilverFalcon I gave it a good hour last night and I completely agree. Looks absolutely stunning, even on the S. Only some wierd flickering with the trees during the sky view segments. Gameplay seems fun, and I might even move it up to normal. I'm a bit of a pansie when it comes to horror(ish) games or overly chaotic games like this will be lol. The one thing I found wierd, and I don't know if it's just me or not, but the movement feels like it's stuttering. Almost like something is wrong with the controller but it's brand new. Ill try on another controller tonight, but it'll be very annoying if that's the way it'll be for the whole game. Did you experience any jittery movement in the facility underground?
@Chuffer It's definitely the full game being downloaded again. Devs do it all the time, it's like they tweak so much little stuff all over the place within, that they can't be bothered creating a true smaller-sized update package. I had Hogwarts Legacy re-download the full game during the pre-install phase like 2 times, lol. No one is preparing proper small-sized update packages near launch imo. MS's "Smart Delivery" feature is also BS - It just re-downloads the entire Xbox Series version of the game (again not simple small update) if you try to play an Xbox One downloaded game on a Xbox Series console.
@AlwaysPlaying lol yeah! I try to use the cloud gaming feature (if available) nowadays to save all that ridiculous dataflow
@SAH77777 It really annoying when we're dealing with such large sizes. Before downloading the whole thing again I thought I'd check around and see if it fixes much. Turns out lots of people have had their save trashed by the update. With that in mind I decided not to bother and just deleted it, I'll check back in 6 months maybe.
Just lately it's like all Devs are hell bent on sabotaging their own releases at lunch. It's the most critical time to not mess up and yet time and time again they are releasing garbage and expecting people to ok with it. Lol... sigh, rant over. 😮💨
@Chuffer Agreed, it's almost like a joke, lol
@SAH77777 Yeah... we were late to the party with Hogwarts Legacy, because of my daughters birthday this week, as it was a present we bought it physical , nicer to give, there's 40 gigs on the disc that gets transferred first, and then you have to download the whole game again and then some (about 80 gigs). So took some time for her to be able to play ,got gig internet speed so not a major problem, but for people that have not that great speeds, (buying physical is pure for the box these days , and able to sell i suppose)
@TheSilverFalcon That sux! Yeah, I'm on 4G internet, at like 10-30 Mbps, so it takes hours for sizes like that for me.
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