Sure that this a classic setup. I don't blame that you have to begin with nothing. But what I blame here is that there is a weapon and then AKRKADABRA it disappears like magic from your inventory because you are not allowed to use it. What I wanted to say is, that everything what happens in the gameworld should make any sense. Now it's very clumsy.
Either there should be no weapon from beginning or you are not able to go and get the weapon in time before a raider takes it. That's logic.

Yeah, I know that. :)
No such luck with recruitable NPCs, though. The are only a handful of companions, all of whom on the "good" path are men (the dog doesn't count). And the sole female companion is exclusive to the "evil" path, and after falling from grace there is no going back and half of the game world (including your former companions) is eager to greet you with lead in your face. :)
Or so I've heard.

Thanks for clarifying that, Judas, although for me that would be no issue at all :)

looks very polished and a good time waster, wont get it as i still have a backlog of underrail and other similar games, otherwise, id get it in an instant

Wut? I'm playing as female protagonist in ATOM just now.

Sweet, sweet post-apocalyptic ass... *cough* I mean: Equality! =P

(***In Zoidberg Voice***)

Fallout-Gasm, (Slobbers all over the keyboard, While soiling shorts in excitement) {Not I.R.L. mind you}

Now I can play with myself all over again... Umm... That didn't come out quite right... Woop woop woop woop woop woop woop woop.

I most likely missed the opportunity to find the helmet. Will be playing the game again soon enough anyway. Will find it then fo sure.

Thank you very much for making such wonderful game, btw. I for one had lots of fun with it.

All the best to you guys!

Hi there! I'm very sorry for the experience you're having with that resolution thing. If you can, please send the contents of the ~/Library/Logs/Unity/Player.log to our support@atomrpg.com and we will do our best to fix it. That's only the second time we heard about that issue from a MAC user, and the first time we solved it quite fast.

On the story - we get a lot of flac about the start of the game, but you have to keep in mind that it's not the game yet, it's the intro. The reason behind this intro is to make you start the game with little to no items. You're playing as a junior operative, so you can't start without weapons right off the bat. That's why you need a weapon. But you also need to lose it somehow. Imagine starting the game with an AK. It'd be like god mode :)) Hence the robbery. We could make you like... fall asleep and make a bear steal your weapon, or trip and accidentally throw your weapon in a river or something. Would that be better? A premise is a premise. We don't get mad at the Terminator movies, because the Terminator starts completely naked and has to go around looking for clothes and weapons, right?

On the barkeep situation: You ask Sasha for a local job here, in the Otradnoye town. He points you to his sister. Then, as you walk away, he remembers a chore he must do - give a receipt to a bookseller in a far away city of Krasnoznamenny. That's not exactly a local town job, is it? :) It's not what you've been asking for. Believe me, even though it might start rough, the game gets better eventually. Our players and fans can't all be liars, right? :)


Ofc you can play as a woman! You always could, ever since the 2017 beta. Use the arrows under the portrait on the creation screen to pick your gender. If it's a female portrait - you're a female character, if it's male - you're a male. Not only do we have both genders in the game, we actually have many quests that are unique for males and females, so each playthrough has its own special moments.
Thank you very much! Between you and me, the helmet can be found while completing the Death Gang quest. Get it from the guy who likes to set things on fire.

But you can play as a woman! Just like the people already pointed out, you merely push the arrows beneath the character portrait on the creation screen. If there is a Women on the portrait you will play as one. If there is a male - you will play as one.

Wow game looks awesome and stupid cheap...

... not sure when I'll commit to such a huge game though... will decide whether to impulse buy later, probably to support the devs. Lot of neat stuff showing up here lately.

Anyone know if the 100+ hours of content is more like a "side quest and DO EVERYTHING" sort of number? And maybe the main quest / game gives you a chance to be a bit more focused in your playthrough?

Check howlongtobeat after more people will finish the game.

Personally, I think the best way to deal with the need to start with a weapon is to give the player some weak weapon, not strings attached, and dispense with the intro. Wasteland does this, for example; every character starts out with a clip pistol (the weakest type of firearm in the game); this allows the player to start with a weapon (and is nice for players who prefer to use firearms, though that isn't the best strategy in the early game of Wasteland), but doesn't break the game right away.

Having the player start with a weapon does not mean having to start the player with an AK-47 (assuming such weapon is powerful in the context of the game).