Atomic Heart - Story Explained
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- Опубліковано 2 сер 2024
- Today, we're going to be explaining the confusing storyline of Atomic heart. This game for me was enjoyable, however lacked in many areas, however the story gave it some extra bonus points. The Atomic Heart storyline is a bit all over the place and confusing, however when it's fully understood you actually appreciate what the developers were trying to do here. Let me know what you thoughts of Atomic Hearts storyline, did you like it, or did you not like it?
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:12 - Chapter 1 - The Beginning
13:04 - Chapter 2 - Vavilov
37:29 - Chapter 3 - What Just Happened?
54:00 - Chapter 4 - Finding Petrov
1:00:18 - Chapter 5 - The Truth
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![The Entire [Prototype] Story EXPLAINED!](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/b2U7q_8VURw/mqdefault.jpg)
Atomic Heart has a setting called Streaming Mode, which turns off all of the licensed music in the game for people who want to avoid copyright strikes when they livestream or upload their gameplay to UA-cam.
I had it turned on.. It still copyrighted me constantly
I find the ending in Limbo pretty sad, because it's not really a happy ending either, and leaves us players with an open ending. The ending gives me more questions than it answers.
I very much hope that we will pick up where it ends in the upcoming DLCs. It would be pretty bad for the game to give us DLCs that have nothing to do with the main plot.
Good work!
I see it as positive, because while both sechenov and chariton are arguing, Katya is speaking to you telepathically, and she has been doing that throughout the game and none of them seem to be aware of it, they constantly tell you she's dead. But Don't underestimate the "katya factor". The means to control collective might be gone, but because we see the limbo scene where Sergey and Katya finally reunite, I assume P3 isn't dead yet, they can communicate. As long as P3 is alive, and the dominant twin (who clearly stage a certain procedure at the end) isn't entirely dead.. they can maybe organize a plan in limbo and strategize to begin a counter offensive to deal with Charles.
Take note that Katya has been (in many occasions) been able to wake up P3 from limbo throughout the game. She is even momentarily able to prevent him from going to limbo when P3 is in the Academy. They don't need any connector to communicate, so it seems, they have a special neuro connection. (pay attention to what she sais in the academy: "resist my darling, resist", and then during the battle: I've been searching for you for so long). She definitely knows there'll be a confrontation from beforehand. She is expecting P3, she tells him to "come, COME!" on several occasions and to follow her. She has much more on her sleeve.
In my theory, Chariton is bold enough to decide to use P3 to do his bidding. at 1:31:20 he speaks about how everyone is able to be subverted by Kollektiv. And his plan is to eliminate sechenov so HE can do that. He says to sergey that he's the first "ordinary link", I'm seeing him capable of using P3 because of his prosthesis, a strong combatant to tie up the loose ends so to speak. Fast forward at the end of the twins battle: if the ballerina who can see both in the real world and in limbo and wake him up at the right time when chariton is not around, he can bail and get help from Granny Zina, and so begins the sequel.
Also remember the rings that P3 had to throw away. Maybe somehow someone finds them. They enable someone to be invisible from kollektiv. That will open up a chance for someone to go undercover and not be seen by kollektiv.
It might seem a bit optimistic, but assuming that Chariton keeps P3 alive to be useful later for example, to go and deal with granny zina ? Imagine that Charles is stupid enough to send him to that kondor to try and finish her off, and then Katya (who nobody is aware of) wake up P3 once again, his mind is clear and he can tell Zina what happened at the central chelomey building. Then the new adventure begins and she can use her own tactical advantage to lead him to the rings, and they both will wear em, and can begin a plan to counter Chariton.
Anyway this is just a little scenario I can think of. The story will continue, because the devs already told this was a prologue to a continuing arc. But maybe they'll totally throw this around.
But it could just turn out completely different. Maybe katya and sergay are finished, and they party in limbo together until their polymer runs out of steam, and there will be other protagonists picking up the mantle in a later stage, when Chariton is busy conquering Russia. Either way I'm really intrigued as to how this story will continue! But I'm rooting for Katya/sergey duo becoming larger than life, and liberating everyone from Kollektiv due to their unique bond. It would be extra dramatic that Katya will sacrifice herself and in her dying breath wakes up Sergey on the right moment in some fascion. I would totally hate that but it would be an interesting emotional thread for the story. I'm ofcourse simping for her. That she'll be able to be repaired and becomes his companion, who can now act in free will.
@@CosmicD Wow thanks for this detailed comment. Lets hope the DLCs bring us further.
@@randomshit.exe69 I also hope that it'll not be simply weapons and new testing grounds, although that would be cool too, but the story is so compelling that I would like it to continue in the DLC, and we don't have to wait until the sequel. But Someone commented on discord today that one of the devs said that they'll continue the story in episodes. Lets hope for the best.
@@CosmicD That sounds good. I cant wait, game of the year for me.
Reading between the lines here:
Sechenov is an idealist who lived through the horror of the 2nd World War, which in this timeline probably was much much worse. He never wanted humanity to live through that again, for ignorant and selfish leaders to manipulate people into handing over their lives and causing mass destruction. He wanted a better future for humanity and that was the whole point of Kollective and his robots. He knew what he was doing and he also knew what others would try to do with his dream.
Kollective would have been the gateway to a transhuman future. Knowledge would be ubiquitous. You would know everything anyone else knew. No more secrets, no more lies, no more manipulation. Decisions would be made by global consensus and with the innovations that his technology would be able to provide the world, the need for a socialist or capitalist state would no longer be necessary. Robots do the labor, happily, humans do the thinking and planning in a world where we all share our thoughts and where we all have the same level of control. No more tyrants, no more war, no more poverty or hate or greed.
Unfortunately, this scared Petrov and Filatov, who believed they would lose what it meant to be human and that this would all lead to some sort of mind control, which it couldn't. Zina, could potentially also be accused of this. That's just them misunderstanding things and not having all the information. Molotov and the Soviet Politboro are convinced Kollective and the robots are the perfect weapon for destroying their enemy and turning the world into a fascist utopia masquerading as a communist utopia. After all, the party and government in general would no longer be necessary under Sechenov's vision. No one in a position of power that fully understood the implications of Sechenov's plan would truly want Kollective 2.0 to go online. As for Zakharov, he had a grander vision in mind. His own personal metamorphosis and the destruction of the rest of humanity.
Sechenov was well aware of all of this. He opposed Atomic Heart, but couldn't really take action against it. He had to agree to it, but he could still try to stop it. The combat mode was going to be built in but he was going to have a kill switch, the alpha connector and the beta rings. The alpha connector could shut the combat mode down across the entire network, or switch it on. The beta rings give robots equipped with them full autonomy from the rest of the system. Originally Sechenov planned to use the alpha connector to permanently disable combat mode. The Twins would be given beta-1 and beta-2 so they could continue to protect him while he was disconnected from the Kollective and there was an issue with overriding the combat mode. They would take his last commands over any others they may receive.
Then a couple of things happened. Petrov's cold feet, Zakharov's disappearance, Molotov working to have Sechenov removed from the project so he could take over, and finally the Bulgarians attacking Sergey and Katya. Sechenov realized his original plans might not work. He figured Petrov might be up to something and he was never very comfortable with Zakharov and his experiments. He had a hunch about Char-LES, but I don't think he knew right away. He used the polymer to repair Sergey's brain damage. He would have done the same thing for Katya, but she died from her injuries. But her mind was still uploaded into the network. Her consciousness would become not only Limbo, but part of P-1 and P-2, the Twins.
My hunch is, at this point, Sechenov was certain either Petrov, Zakharov, or Molotov was going to get to him before he could impliment his plan. What he didn't anticipate was the full scope of Petrov's plan and the damage it would cause. This got Molotov moving. Sergey was entrusted with Zahkarov by Sechenov prior to all of this. It was the best place, and Sechenov also figured that when he used his kill switch, that would disable Sergey's combat mode as well. This is why he keeps Sergey away during the game.
Zina is also another unforeseen interference in the plan. She's ignorant of the full picture, so doesn't know what Sechenov is scheming. She's also angry about what happened to Katya and what Sergey has become. Char-LES is manipulating Sergey, hoping he can convince Sergey to destroy the beta rings which leaves Sechenov in a bad position when he's able to get close enough to get synched up with the Red Polymer and take over.
Sechenov was eventually going to let Sergey in on what was happening, I think. But all this interference meant P-3 was removed from the equation. Not that terrible an outcome though. Kollective is disabled, for now. Zakharov is either destroyed or escaped. If you chose for P-3 to stop being manipulated, he's taken off, believing that Sechenov is not the problem but everybody else is. He knows too much though and is going to be a thorn in someone's side somewhere down the line. Or, he's in Limbo with P-1 and P-2, being told their not free by Katya who fills them in on the spaces Sechenov left blank and they become the ghosts in the machine thwarting any attempt by the Politboro, or Zakharov of taking over the Kollective.
Because, while they may be connected to it, only P-1, P-2, and P-3 are part of Limbo. And Limbo/Katya is the true Alpha Connector. When Katya flies out to meet Sergey in Limbo, you see the rings floating in the distance over a dome shaped object. Sechenov either had this idea as a back-up plan from the start, hiding what he tried to do with Zakharov and Katya from the Ministry, since they were already uploaded, or he came up with it on the fly as events unfolded. Given that he wasn't aware of Zakharov's "possession" of Sergey until it was too late, he probably took measures to make sure Limbo was secured and transformed into a back up of the rings and Alpha Controller.
Could you shorten that?
Makes you feel bad for Sechenov… dude tried everything and yet still failed that sucks man
Crispy Critters! That's a helluva cliffhanger ending.
The vending machine was right after all, should have put that glove down
This game had 3 types of villains. Keep in mind in the SAME GAME.
The evil líder, the traitors and the damn glove
Crispy critters! What a wild story and perhaps a warning. A.I., free will, the human condition... If people weren't so wrapped up and consumed by the politics of it all hopefully more and more people will get to experience this awesome game and story. It gets an a+ rating from me! Excited to see what the dev team dreams up next! I am thoroughly impressed and excited for future projects or continuations of this ip!!!
Great video!! Seriously very well made.
I loved the inclusion of the Black Ops 3 multiplayer music at 37:30 too, I must've listened to it so many times that I can always recognise it hahah
Keep up the amazing work! It would be great if you continue this series for the DLCs of this game. It blew my mind to find out DLC 1 was a completely different timeline to DLC 2.
Crispy Critters! Great video, well voiced and thoroughly enjoyed
Crispy critters! That was a lot to take in. I have played Atomic Heart and completed it. I had to search for those pocket watches and check out the logs to understand more of the story and to fresh out the characters such as Victor. There where times I forgot parts of the story or what the characters where saying. (Mostly by robot attacks). At lest now I fully understand the story now so well done.
Crispy critters!! Also, great job bro!
41:27
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
George Orwell, Animal Farm
Great book, have you read 1984 by Orwell
@@ridiculous5322 big brother is always watching
Kinda disappointed there wasn't a third ending where you break the limbo of being a pawn and put the pieces together by discovering and learning things throughout the game about Charles/ Zakharov's exploits and manipulation of you. Something you'd need to earn to unlock that ending of the game. You later rip him out and kill him and still go after Sechenov to settle things for good. It would be harder since we probably wouldn't have our elemental and polymer abilities, but it provides the player with a "ace in the hole" quest option (it would've been another clever nod to jack in bioshock too). Kinda like the don't fear the reaper final battle ending in cyberpunk 2077 where you choose the most difficult option to end the game.
1:49:18 completely agree with you on this one
Crispy critters! I wanted to know about the game's story in detail since I can't play the game (neither want to spent too much time watching a gameplay) and this video was pretty nice! Tysm for making this! And god, I did think the major was the one responsible for the killings when he blacked out, but I did not expect the twist in the end holy shit, took me completely by surprise!
Thank you for the video. I loved this long explanation video, and have subscribed to you. I hope you do more of these.
Crispy Critters, what a train wreck of an ending. Thanks for the video. You did a great job balancing explanations and visuals.
I interpreted the ending, or more concretely the choice between two endings, a commentary/critique on Russian pragmatism. Don't get involved, upstream things will happen. Get involved, upstream things will happen. We are never truly in control of what happens to the world, but we are directly involved in what happens to ourselves. By sheer logic, regressive impulse of self preservation makes most sense.
Crispy critters!!!!! I really enjoyed the setting and the story. Did anyone notice the music that was seemingly close to the bioshock theme when you get dropped down to Rapture? As far as the ending is concerned...it reminded me of Total Recall (Arnold Schwarzenegger) when we don't know if it was real or if he was lobotomized. Sad, yet it made me think which I enjoy. I also don't understand the hate that this game received especially since we have all sadly signed away our privacy through app like the one I'm using to write this and others. I wish it was illegal. Thank you for the video explanation! Subbed.
Crispy critters...that was convoluted, but interesting.
Crispy Critters! Great video
kind of has some parallels to vivy: flourite eyes song. definitely going to get this game despite not being a big fan of fps games. also that granny character seems hilariously badass.
I wonder what would've happened if we fast forward from Atomic Heart 1955 to Atomic Heart 2023
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Crispy Critterss!! Thanks for the video, it put the story in order but i have a question: does chariton kill himself when he realised he could became part of the neuropolymer? So it wasn't neither and accident nor an assassination
Great video! Saved me from having to play the game lol. But this definitely set up for either DLC or a sequel no doubt, and if so hopefully they fix day one bugs/messes
I love the halo music in the back
Is it just me or is the lack of russian accents for the characters really distracting.
It’s like when I’m watching a Roman period piece and everyone talks like they apprenticed at the Shakespeare’s Globe…
I played it in russian. It was really cool
I get it - it’s kinda weird. It’s a subset of the diagesis argument - that if a character would hear the dialogue in their native dialect, there’s no reason why the audience member shouldn’t as well. Some film and theatre thinkers posit that it’s a more accurate way of conveying the character’s point of view, while others say it erases valuable cultural clues that provide contextual circumstance.
Play in Russian! The English voice track doesn't cut it!
YESSSS
Crispy Critters! Great video. I'm very fascinated by this games story but it was a bit convoluted. I'm still not sure what Sechenov wanted. Was he really gonna enslaved humanity or was he gonna use Kollektiv 2.0 so everyone can have that unlimited knowledge.
I like the halo music in the background
Crispy critters!! Now I’mma go play this myself lmao
The cartoon on the TV at 1:14:03 ish is "Nu pagadi"
Comrade Majors face @59:03 lol!
I feel this game would have been more immersive if it had been in Russian with English subtitles......however, given the fact that Charles tells you crucial information often times in the middle of a battle, it would have been even more confusing.....
Also hella more expensive to produce.
You can actually play the game with the original russian voiceovers with English subtitles but you need to adjust that in settings at the main menu. Can’t change those settings when the game is already loaded in.
you can turn the dialog in Russian and put the English subtitles from the main audio menu, I did I disliked the English voice but you are right is hard to read when there are action scenes...
I played it in Russian and it made all the difference
Collective 2.0 means humanity becoming a singularity. Knowing this fact is the difference between being a geek and being a nerd.
9:12 When you are trying hard to get the point across that you are trying to be like Bioshock lol
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In the end behind Katya is the two rings he threw into the ocean correct? Supposed sequel upon rediscovering them?
yup, exactly that rings, beta-connectors. but nodoby knows yet what'll be in dlc and sequels
Crispy Critters! I want to pet that house thing Granny has
Granny is basically Baba Yaga
I wanna use “crispy critters” in my daily life
Great video!! Cant wait to see that robussy in 4k😩😩
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Interesting choice of plot and characters. I've heard the mechanics can be a bit touchy sometimes during game play. Cool story though, although the chatter between characters was bit much.
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Atomic Heart is like Wolfenstein, BioShock and pre-war Fallout all in one.
How do the dlcs tie into this
What about the other ending?
the story is pretty good, the writers plant those seeds of doubt through the entire story, they put clues here and there the hands of Sergei in limbo were fluffy like Charles favorite fluffy creature
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The Russian voice acting was great but it’s so hard for me to be able to read subtitles while in the middle of combat or just trying to immerse myself with the environment. The English dub sounds pretty bad. Not even sure why they all gave American accents.
With that said, great video. Thanks for breaking it down. I lost a lot of info from playing in Russian
That theatre scene is so similar to nier automata
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Dewdrop was the worst boss fight in the game on the hardest difficulty
I watched the entire 2 hour video and still have no idea what the hell is going on.
this ending...is kinda sad
Crispy Critters, whatever that means, I played the game half way and dropped because I didn't like the game play and progression, it takes too much time until the game give you decent weapons and I hate the immortal drones everywere that always regenerate, I like games were you can clean one area or sector and explore all the details unbothered, so I came to your video to know the rest of the interesting story without having to deal with the frustrating gameplay.
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Watching this after beating the game and MAN the game sounds so much better in Russian. Especially Petrov, his barking and slimy voice added so much character to him compared to whatever this is haha. Incredible breakdown !
The story was confusing af and if they didn’t include important dialogue when doing things, then that would’ve been so much better. They could’ve done the story differently or just didn’t make it super hard to follow (it was that way for me). Plus, if you wanted to go to a testing ground, then they could’ve added a waypoint system. Overall, the story was very good, but they didn’t process or explain it the right way, imo. The lady robots were hella creepy to look at btw. If give this game a 5/10. This explanation helped a lot btw!
"Everyone who gets an injection will be part of Koliektiv forever." Interesting... They started making this game in 2018? I wonder if this part of the plot was already set or if it came later, after certain world events transpired.
oh shit we got a "conspiracy theorist" over here
@@Slavic_Snake Oh shit, we got a 'coincidence theorist' over here winkyface emoji
I don't if it's me but the voice lines sounds off for some reason.
Yeah i found that weird. The game In general is delayed
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Crispy critters! Why is nobody mentioning that the beta controller rings are a clear allusion to wedding rings and marriage? That by those rings two can be together and separate from the world? That Limbo is the idealised version of living a blissful (and presumably married) life with Katya?
The story is crushing on an emotional level, the sense of loss is just brutal.
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Crispy Criders. When I beat the Atomic Heart it left me both shocked and confused . Screw you Charles
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please add subtitles and punctuation
For deaf viewers like me, you know the subtitles generated by youtube sometimes have wrong sentences :)
I suppose I could upload my scripts as captions! Let me look into it :)
What a game
Krispy kritter
I feel like the story logic really fits more the western narrative, the Russians don't plot to destroy, that would be out of character. Conquering and absorbing - yes, defending - yes, plotting to rule the world or betraying - no. I think it's a misrepresentation. But I guess in a current political climate there was no other way to have this game published for the western markets.
Also believing that an unhappy journey could somehow have a happy ending, an absurd idea, really... I feel like the plot was heavily influenced by the Hollywood movies and their typical "good"/"bad" dichotomies.
I wish it was presented in a more gradual and balanced way. It's almost like we learn 70% of the story at the very last moment.
Nevertheless, thanks for the story, I think it was really helpful and well-presented. I'm on the birch tree power-up quest now.
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I don’t understand peoples obsessions wirh “good” and “bad” endings in video games.. like, the ending is the ending, ur not entitled to having a good option in every game.. u wouldn’t complain about a movie ending like this but with a game people r like “I’m unsatisfied and disappointed because the ending is bad” like ok but it’s the ending lol I thought the ending was phenomenal, twisted and brutal and I wouldn’t have it any other way.. I’m so baffled by people complaining about the ending lol this game ended fantastically
Crispy Critters.
Atomic Heart doesn't have a complex storyline. It isn't that hard to follow in all honesty.That said, this was a good video all the same.
I just found the method of story telling to be really unecessarily complex... Like Charles would just tell you critical info at the most stupid of times
@@_Wizzo Yeah. I can see your point there. Though I suppose Charles could have been doing that on purpose given the ending. Some things did seem glossed over and not fully fleshed out as well, so I can see where it could be seen as convoluted at times. Thanks for the reply. You have a new sub for it.
Overcooked Minuscule creatures!
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This ending actually infuriated me lol. Like all this just to lose? Why is the main character such a bone head idiot? Like I actually do my wanna play this game lol
I want to now more about the chemical the nazis made in the backstory of this game
I played it all the way up till I had to explore an office room. There was drawers everywhere and even with the fast search mechanic I could tell this was going to get annoying very fast so I just stopped playing it.
Remember everyone people in Ukraine want to ban this game apparently. Because it's really hurtful to ukrainians that this game exist so everyone you know what to do keep buying this game. Buy 50 to 60 copies and give them to your friends and tell them to buy two more copies and give them to their. Friends Hogwarts legacy 2.0.
I don't understand your thinking 🤔
That's not how this works
You just giving money to developers and not to Russia
@@matgaw123 people on Twitter want to ban this game because it offended Ukrainian people because of Russia
First comment # I'm number one. Game looks good
Oh god, I’m sorry, but I can’t stand hearing this in English. It’s just wrong.
Great analysis btw
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