AtomTeam estimate that about 30% of the game's stories and side jobs are in, and the rest will be done in six months or so. That's not to say it's exactly overflowing at the moment. It's a solid hook, and as this expansion is confined to one city, the condensed space makes the main plot thread feel closer, and more connected to everything else you're doing. Your character from the base game (or a new one you create, who will start at level 15 and answer a few questions in a dream sequence to determine the outcome of earlier events) is sent to the city of Trudograd to track down an experimental pre-war weapon that your bosses think can shoot down an Earthbound asteroid. Rejoice! You can scale the UI up instead of hunching over the screen like a diseased gremlin.Īll that carries over to Trudograd. Character levelling works similarly, with a high emphasis on core attributes like strength and intelligence, which are directly tested in dialogue, and skills like medicine, lockpicking, and crafting having a drastic effect on what your options are when it comes to resolving fights and subplots. You'll wander a dusty geigerworld fighting mutants and grumpy men in makeshift armour, visiting settlements and talking to many people, discovering a sinister plot along the way. America and the USSR nuked each other, and the remnant of a semi-legitimate military/scientific organisation sends you out into the wasteland many years later to explore. The setup of ATOM, and in fact an awful lot of what it does, will be familiar to anyone who's played the original Fallout games. I have a feeling it'll be worth the wait. It entered Steam Early Access on Monday (or you can get it on GOG, if you prefer).If you've not played ATOM, Trudograd is a surprisingly welcoming place to start, but my advice is to give it a while longer in the oven. Happily its developers, AtomTeam, have just released a standalone expansion called Trudograd. The heavily Fallout-inspired ATOM RPG has been on my 'play more' list for almost a year, since I enjoyed a few hours of it but was distracted by something else.

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