ATOM RPG - 1.10 Update
 

A new update for ATOM RPG brings lots of new content and fixes.

Thanks vurt!
More information.

how do you guys feel about this game?

if fallout 1 is a 10, this is a ?

29th it is then, been waiting for this update to land before starting my first play thru. Looks awesome.

Wrote before, this game is Fallout 1.5.
It lacks of complexity and crazyness FO2 had, but is definetly above FO1. When I say above FO1, that automatically means - great.
So buy and play now.

I have no idea why are they adding new stuff instead of moving to a sequel.

As I said already in another thread.

Free content updates for all buyers love it. :heart:

I would definitely pay for an expansion.:nod:

To make sure the first game has Very Positive review's (or better). Very important on steam i would say. And to establish a fan base, who will not forget what they did with the first game in terms of updates.

There's also nothing that would suggest that they aren't working on a sequel (or big expansion) as well.

With more content incoming I'm assuming there will also be further necessary patches in June/July so that will likely delay me playing this game. Keep up the great work and I'll be delving fully into this one once all that's complete!

Quoting my review,
"Superficially, ATOM feels less like a spiritual successor and more like a quasi-sequel to Fallout with some strong STALKER vibes. Yet despite the strong similarities, ATOM manages to stand on its own feet thanks to the unique setting and the quirky Slavic charm. It’s a well-made game with tried and true RPG systems, but one that doesn’t necessarily fix the problems of its role model or revolutionize the systems. ATOM does what it promises to do extremely well. For $ 14.99 or ₹ 479, you just can’t go wrong with this one."
They probably even fixed the balance issues since then. Just buy it

I heard directly from the dev that they plan to make the game 3 times larger than it was on release by releasing free content over time. So if that's still the case this one has a lot more coming for it.

Game is very good, it's Fallout 1.5 like joxer says.

Sounds like a great update and glad I am only about 1/3 into the game - hopefully won't have to restart but if I do won't be too bad.

Serialized updates provide an incentive for the buyer to wait until it has reached final form. I suppose one could buy a copy and just wait until then, if only to help keep them financially solvent.

I was impressed with their initial pitch during the kick starter, and now I'll just wait until all the contest is fully available before I start playing. A great game is worth waiting for, and my back log will keep me fully engaged until this one is completely done baking!!

I really want to try this game. I am just curious about the English translation. How is it? I don't expect it to be perfect. Is it serviceable? Thanks.

I've had no problems at all.. though i've never been very deep into the game. Never heard that it's a problem for anyone.

It also provides incentive to replay the game every few months :)

That's good to know. Thanks for the help.

At launch it had the usual Russian to English translation errors, but the latest patch corrected it with the help of an English community translator a few months back.

WOW! They deserve the sales then!!!

Lol…is this one of those nerd jokes? :lol:

Definitely. He said he plans to continue work on it for years yet. Apparently they have a lot of ideas. The game is pretty cool as-is. Lots of love went into it, you can tell, even if some of the Russian jokes fly over your head. It's very much a Fallout 1 clone and a good one at that.

So i should buy this then as not much of a AAA gamer never was unless it is from CD

It's definitely an Indie RPG made on small budget and they succeeded.

ATOM RPG

Pros:

• Captures the feel of classic RPGs like Fallout & Wasteland
• Good Character customization that affects gameplay
• Freedom of choice when completing quests
• Funny characters and dialog
• New content added for Free

Cons:

• Graphics are mediocre
• Most Areas look and feel small
• Terrible AI
• Clunky interface

Bottom-line if you enjoyed Fallout 1&2 then yes it's a must play.:nod:

Sold!!!!! thanks big guy..

It seems like all games have terrible ai. Can you think of any games with really good ai ?

now that is a great question, always wondering the same thing hahhaaha

Games hasn't evolved much since Pac-Man in terms of A.I. There's no developer who's even the least interested in it. It has even gotten less interesting to most of them than e.g in the 90's.. i'd say shooters overall has worse A.I than before, its probably because it can be quite CPU heavy and its "better" for the CPU to handle other stuff than advanced A.I.

GalCiv 2 had decent A.I, Galciv3 is much worse (dev has no problems to admit it).. This is very common for games, that it only gets worse.

It's really up to the players to demand it and it's up to reviewers to give a bad score if A.I is bad, but no one cares, everyone expects it to be bad or just "like normal". Kind of funny really, graphics has not evolved like that at all. everyone absolutely demanded good graphics, shitty graphics could even give a very poor overall score, but for A.I no, just expect it to be shit and be happy, 10/10.. lol

Eventually, all haphazardly translated English content will be rewritten (down to item descriptions), and Russian jokes replaced with Western equivalents, except where it's funnier to leave some kind of unholy hybrid in place. :)

I've played some video wargames that had pretty good AI. In that case though the developers have a strong interest in making the battles a challenge.

I recently played a game titled Infinite Adventures, and the brain behind the opponents was often quite brutal. Almost every single time that one of my party members were still damaged from a previous fight, the new combatants would target them en masse immediately, and try to take them down. I'd not seen that kind of intelligence from a gaming opponent in quite some time. You really learn to keep up on your healing and clear those detriments asap.

Knights of the Chalice did this. It's just a matter of having sensible pathfinding, and writing detailed algorithms for different situations. It's not technically AI and it's not impossible if you're running a decent game engine. It's just more work than people are willing to put in.

A "deep" A.I would require deeper bug fixes i reckon.. games are already buggy and complex and nowadays it takes ages for many of them to get into a decent, playable shape. I doubt we will ever get great A.I in games, at least not in my life time.

Aye, Knights of the Chalice did that as well, and made it a truly memorable game. Another game I'm itching to have another replay with!

Looks like i will have to cave in and grab this. The devs seem to actually care about their game.

Despite the fact that there are too many Fallout-like RPGs from Russian devs (to be honest, sometimes it looks like they can't do anything else), these guys did a great job.