Pressing the reset button on the title's development supposedly led to the new version of the game being significantly downgraded from earlier builds. Supposedly, mass layoffs had occurred after months of poor project management and incompetency from the top of the hierarchy, with crunch beginning as early as 2017 - not far into the initial development.

Back in January 2019, a report was submitted to gaming forum ResetEra that provided an account from anonymous sources within Mundfish about the tumultuous nature of development. Under the orders of the renowned Soviet scientist Dmitry Sechenov, Major Nechaev arrives at Facility 3826 to investigate why its AI workers have suddenly begun attacking humans and to restore the facility's inner workings.The development for Atomic Heart hasn’t all been smooth sailing so far though and the game reportedly had to be scrapped, with development restarting in 2018. The narrative reportedly takes place in the Soviet advanced research base, Facility 3826, and follows the perspective of the mentally unstable military officer, Major Sergei 'P-3' Nechaev. Join him in bringing your A-game for the most Atomic release of 2023!' What is Atomic Heart?Ītomic Heart is an upcoming video game set in an alternate universe, wherein the USSR developed into a post-scarcity utopian society, with most of the population's demands readily met by an army of robotic servants. The description for the trailer reads, 'The release of Atomic Heart, the hotly anticipated action RPG set in the mad utopia of a fictional 1955 USSR, is finally within sight! We would like to celebrate the final stage of the countdown with a new video starring The Boys and Supernatural star Jensen Ackles.

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