Atomic Hearthe shooter first-person inspired by titles like BioShock and Singularity, it is undoubtedly the video game of the moment. However, the launch PC version It was fraught with controversy after users saw that ray tracing is not present. This is even more shocking considering that it was something very advanced by the developers and that it was promoted in collaboration with NVIDIA, who went so far as to post several demos of the development stages on one of their YouTubes. channels.

Absence of ray tracing in Atomic Heart It is surprising to see that the developers increased the system requirements shortly before the launch, a move that forced them to qualify a little to publish more detailed and depending on the quality they want to play with.

Those who followed the development Atomic Heart More specifically, they probably knew that ray tracing wouldn’t be available at the launch of the PC version, as Robert Bagratuni, the game director, said just that in an interview with WccFetch and that they are “working closely with NVIDIA to make it happen in the future with one of the updates games.”



In other words, ray tracing will be provided via update in the futureand it’s a game last gen like this, it cannot remain without a function that was consolidated with the generation of NVIDIA Ampere (RTX 30). Despite the fact that the developers warned, many were disappointed by the absence of ray tracing, which is already criticized by some users.

In addition to the debate about the trajectory of video games, especially with regard to graphics, which have concentrated almost all the development of the industry in the last two decades, the problem Atomic Heart it’s more in the violation of some expectations that have been generated over the years, rather when we see it the inclusion of ray tracing is announced from at least 2018.

Those who are not willing to play Atomic Heart without ray tracing, they’ll just have to wait for the corresponding update to arrive, a habit that should be more widespread.