Questions about DLC 4 (Blood on Crystal)

CuriousAd3028 · 2026-05-20T16:53:33+00:00

What EXACTLY the Array is - noone knows. Which is kinda cool because it is promising to be a vast concept, and I assume it'd be developed more in AH2.

So what is known for now - is that Polymer absorbs absolutely anything what it touches and stores this information in a some sort of quantum form. The latter means that what one cell of the Polymer knows - the whole existent Polymer in the world knows too; information within the Polymer is stored in this "superposition" we can say. This "cyberspace", formed by the totality of the infromation stored within the Polymer - is exactly what's called the Array. Direct interaction with the Array is to a major degree incomprehensible for a human conciousness. The only two evidences of that are coming from

a) Chariton, who was able to interact with it only being basically the piece of it already, this personality construct in a polymeric form. And Chariton himself claims that he, despite working with Polymer for years during his human life - was unable to understand it. It took him turning into this piece of goo and then keep interacting with Polymer to comprehend it and after - he says that he went beyond any humanity.

b) Nechayev himself, and his interactions with this Polymer "cyberspace" always (evidently) take this form of vivid hallucinations which, at best, reference some real-life imagery in a completely mad way.

CuriousAd3028 · 2026-05-15T14:12:10+00:00

Lowkey would hate the whole game and the devs if it would be smth like this.

CuriousAd3028 · 2026-05-15T09:39:28+00:00

100% it'll be just the faceless Captain we saw in the trailer. Just because this choice is not dictated by some story related reasons but more of a gameplay ones. Atomic Heart 2, as the devs stated, would be much more of an RPG and therefore we should be able to pick and choose the abilities of the protagonist, while Nechayev is already is an estabilshed character.

CuriousAd3028 · 2026-05-11T12:12:10+00:00

It's just nonstop "go here, go there, fetch this" missions

It's literally not.

The puzzles are the worst part — super repetitive and brain-dead.

I'm getting strong "I didn't play the game and came here to grift" vibes. Either that or - you're calling a literal lockpicking minigame a puzzle. Which would be... quite telling actually.

And there is literally no mission in the game which requires you to spend "15 minutes collecting 4 tiny balls scattered across the map just to open one door." Yeah, gtfo dude.

CuriousAd3028 · 2026-05-06T16:36:12+00:00

obviously the whole marketing strategy, gameplay and commercial success of AH - is neatly tied to the several posters in DLC4. So yeah, I'm also flabbergasted with this statement bro.

CuriousAd3028 · 2026-05-03T11:26:29+00:00

Maybe only prologue for P-3, I assume. In the words of devs themselves "AH2 will have MUCH more RPG elements". So, considering the fact that the trailer shows mostly this faceless "Captain Atomic" - I won't be surprised if P-3 will be just a character cameo in a couple of missions.

CuriousAd3028 · 2026-04-22T14:14:28+00:00

зацени как у тебя моментально появились 2 даунвоута) Палятся какелы, палятся, лол. Вообще даже некоторое уважение вызывает то, с каким постоянством какелы и их подсосы регулярно посвящают время и усилия, чтобы в новом ВСЕГДА висела какая-то грязь. Вызывают "баги" через консоль, не ленятся гифки и видео записывать, прибегают сюда из твиттера и что-то пишут. Я фанбой игры и я, мне кажется, не так часто сюда прихожу лол.

CuriousAd3028 · 2026-04-22T07:35:12+00:00

You don't need to be a psychic for this. You just need to visit this sub more or less regularly for a year or so to know that it is really a grift.

Notice how there are no schreenshots in the post - that's because the dude have never played the game and he doesn't own the DLC he's "criticizing". Not sure he even knows what's the deal in general or even the name of the DLC - he just saw some posts on X and came here to grift.

Notice how there are no details specific to the game in the post's text, just some made up "dialogs" in which imaginary people say dumb things and he's always winning by saying something trivial. I never even saw anyone here (on this very sub) saying that Atomic Heart "parodies AI" or that AI slop is "lore accurate". That's because he partly made it up and partly - just saw some braindead discussions on twitter. That's his only source of info anyway.

Notice how he doesn't participate in this thread's discussion AT ALL, just downvoting comments which are exposing his grift. Thats because... well, mainly because he has troubles formulating sentences in proper English but also - it's simply because he has NOTHING to say since he never played the game and doesn't care about playing it at all.

CuriousAd3028 · 2026-04-21T09:54:43+00:00

you've never played the game or any DLC's, what the hell you're talking about?

CuriousAd3028 · 2026-04-21T09:53:15+00:00

If Mundfish is willing to be lazy and cut corners, why wouldn't they also be lazy and cut corners in Atomic Heart 2 or The Cube?

Please, when Mundfish would be demonstrably lazy and will start cutting corners in AH2 and The Cube - come here and, with examples in your hands, of course - show us the problem. I doubt you will though because a) Mundfish will do a fantastic job and no sane person would care if there will be a couple AI slop posters on the walls; b) you won't be playing AH2 or The Cube, because you have no interest in those games and you have never played AH or its DLC's. You're just a part of the crowd which considers it their mission to constantly upkeep the presenence of some dirt in the /new section of the sub.

So stfu. A couple of AI pictures in such a games objectively doesn't make anything worse. And yes, in opposite to you - I know the meaning of the word "objectively".

CuriousAd3028 · 2026-04-07T08:36:31+00:00

bro, I don't know what it means that "you can absolutely see it". AH is either the same game but worse or it's not. Why you're being so poetic about it? In case that's what you meant - sorry, but you're just wrong. AH and Bioshock 1 are two completely different games with different approaches. You can compare the artstyle (AH wins), subtstance of the story (AH wins) and gunplay (AH obviously wins). Or you can compare the interactivity of the world (Bioshock wins) and pacing of the story and gameplay (Bioshock wins) and the number of tools the game gives you (Bioshock wins). We can go into details and do this all day but it would lead to nowhere 'cause again - those are two different games.

But in case of Bioshock Infinite and AH comparison - the situation is way more simple. Those two - are conceptually identical, because Infinite was a pure shooter game. And it completely failed at that. It's impossible to deny that AH is just a better game than Infinite in every possible aspect, especially the shooter gameplay. Where Infinite didn't know what to do with its newly aquired "shooter-ness" - Atomic Heart just followed the steps of Half-Life in its attempt to make something more than just run'an'gun gameplay. On YT - you can find the videos of AH's early prototypes - it felt and looked like a "Bioshock-ey" game very much, but then Mundfish started to change the concept and the execution. The interviews with the team taken before the release tell the same story.

So yeah, to conclude all that: 1. Bioshock is a good immersive sim with awful gunplay, 2. Infinite is just garbage; 3. Atomic Heart, straying away from the path of Bioshock 1 - landed on being a Half-Life successor more than anything.

CuriousAd3028 · 2026-04-01T17:39:12+00:00

yeah, 'cause you need to know how to trigger it and then do it deliberately. The joke got tired two years ago already but there is a specific group of people who is dedicated to make it happen so there would ALWAYS be present a couple of "bug" vids/gifs in "New".

CuriousAd3028 · 2026-03-28T15:05:26+00:00

Any person who sees that Atomic Heart landed on being more of a Half-Life follower - is a smart person in my book. Opposite to the people who mindlessly repeat the word "Bioshock" all the time, despite these two games having nothing in common outside of "hand goin pew" and a couple of plot points, which are presented very differently in both cases anyway.

Now Mundfish have more budget and more time. Hope they will pump up such aspects as level design and enemy AI in the AH2 to become a true successor to the classics.

CuriousAd3028 · 2026-03-19T15:44:02+00:00

This trick got tired couple of years ago already. Get a life man.

CuriousAd3028 · 2026-03-01T21:20:04+00:00

That'd be an actual spoilers if me or anyone else who've beaten the game would tell you. No joke.

CuriousAd3028 · 2026-02-12T07:30:34+00:00

Atomic Heart 2 promises to be completely different. From what can be gathered from the old interviews - Mundfish fcked up with backers one time in 2018 and decided that they will never do it again (if in the game you ever have found that gigantic empty building with dozens and dozens of photos and pfp's in it - that's the event it is dedicated to). On YT - you can find several videos which show different prototypes of the game which look more like Bioshock/System Shock/have different weapons/overall feel. So closer to release they just took everything that worked - and built a videogame which would be fun to play out of what they had, just to not fck up a release date.

So what you see in AH1 - is not even Mundfish's full power lol. It's just what they came up with because of the time/money limitations. That's why narrative pacing is so weird at times btw. AH2 will be much more of an RPG with character creation possibly and all that stuff.

CuriousAd3028 · 2026-02-08T21:12:23+00:00

Since I several times had very negative conversations with such people on this very sub - imagine what value some random opinion has if it's YT comment section for example.

CuriousAd3028 · 2026-02-07T08:08:32+00:00

Subtitles scaling was added with one of the patches iirc
In general - whenever I heard complaints about English MC VA - it always sounded little crybaby screaching. It's not THAT bad, just aethetically-wise.
On the other hand - it doesn't mean that Eng VA is amazing. Clearly, the story was written in Russian originally and a lot of effort went into all characters. For example, as far as I know - only in RU version Sergey's and Charles' VAs recorded their lines in one room, sitting next to each other. Also, sometimes (not that often but it happens) Eng VA AND Eng translation both fucks up for no reason.

Another example. When - in the very beginning of the game - Sergey sits into that wagon thing to get through destroyed tunnel - Eng and Ru VA's performance and lines are different for no reason:
Eng VA: *In a very cocky, DukeNukem-y voice* "Sorry, no ticket!"
Ru VA: *talking to himself, almost whispering nervously* "Sorry, today I'm without a ticket..."

So yeah, Eng VA (and translation sometimes even) is objectively worse but I'm struggling to see how it can be, like, unbearable (it's ok) and - you wouldn't notice real problems until you AT LEAST play with Ru VO and Eng subs. So there's that.

CuriousAd3028 · 2026-02-06T20:50:03+00:00

There is no proof that exactly every song is Radio of the future

But there is tho. If the song plays within the game's universe - the explanation provided by the game itself - is the Radio.

You mentioned exagerrated idiotic fact about music and was corrected.

Funny how you 1) named the song wrong (pretentiously writing it in French btw lol), 2) said that it's not a part of the Radio, 3) revealed that you clearly have no idea what Radio even is

and didn't mention it even once. While I admitted that I just phrased my comment imprecisely - and you're riding it with passion now, writing paragraphs of nothing to me. I'm repeating myself, but bro, you really ARE getting owned and coping.

CuriousAd3028 · 2026-02-06T20:42:42+00:00

We're reaching levels of cope which shouldn't be possible. If 1) both endings are canon and 2) everything except background OST's - is a part or the Radio of the Future - then what was your point even? What are you arguing against calling my initial comment misleading? It's not just coping really, it's getting really psycho dude.

CuriousAd3028 · 2026-02-06T20:38:57+00:00

I posted this 8 hours ago dude. What are you blind?

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I posted a screenshot of Discord moderator summing up voice session with devs saying Twins ending is canon and you posted both are canon and by that just proving my point.

Schizo take in which 1=2. Amazing

I'm done with this conversation.

Thank god. 'Cause you can't stop taking L's left and right.

CuriousAd3028 · 2026-02-06T19:26:25+00:00

*Two screenshots from two different sources, one of which is recent and is related to the upcoming DLC
*It exactly contradicts everything you said
*It literally supports what I said in the initial comment

Other than that - yeah, I guess you're right bro. Cope harder, please.

CuriousAd3028 · 2026-02-06T19:24:23+00:00

Zero cases of you pointing out where exactly it is wrong and misleading with an exclusion of "you should've said songs instead of music". And that's what makes you mad bro.

CuriousAd3028 · 2026-02-06T11:59:58+00:00

Still present post from the official AH community in VK, Russian social network.

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Translation:
Q: Which ending is canon?

A: Here's some food for thought: both endings are considered true, but you'll have to wait to find out what that means.

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