Atomic Heart: Is the scanner tutorial damaged?

Atomic Heart’s first hurdle is a tutorial. Whatever struggles you’re having whereas studying the right way to use the scanner, know that it’s not a bug (most likely).

You’d be forgiven for getting stumped proper at the begin of this first-person shooter, out now for PlayStation, Xbox, and Windows PC.

How to make use of the scanner in the Atomic Heart tutorial

To use the scanner in Atomic Heart, simply double-tap R1 on PlayStation (or RB on Xbox), then maintain holding R1 / RB after the second press.

The written instructions (“Hold R1 + R1” on PlayStation) learn like the type of tip the place you’re alleged to press two completely different buttons, and the NPC — who exists solely to justify the tutorial inside the sport’s tenuous fiction — tells you one thing to impact of “holding both of your hands up.”

Given the common bugginess of Atomic Heart, nobody would blame you for assuming the textual content instruction is in error, or for repeatedly attempting to carry down L1 and R1 at the similar time as an alternative — one shoulder button for every hand. (This author is responsible as charged.)

How to search out objects with Atomic Heart’s scanner

Image: Mundfish/Focus Entertainment through Polygon

Atomic Heart’s scanner works loads like most scanners work from most video games: It helps you analyze your environment. When scanning, objects will present up highlighted in overlays of assorted colours, which the sport doesn’t clarify:

• Blue signifies chests, drawers, and different containers which have assets you’ll be able to loot.
• Orange signifies enemies. If you maintain the scanner over a particular enemy, you’ll be capable to see a listing of their resistances and weaknesses, plus a rundown of the loot they’ll drop when defeated. Note that utilizing the scanner doesn’t pause time totally; you’re nonetheless vulnerable to assaults.
• White signifies objects you’ll be able to work together with — save stations, elevator name buttons, that type of factor.
• Purple signifies story-essential objects. For the most half, Atomic Heart is fairly beneficiant with its waypointing, however in some uncommon circumstances, you need to do the work your self. For occasion, throughout the “Made in the USSR” mission, you need to discover the “voice, the symbol, and the sprout of the Motherland.” Activating the scanner will spotlight the three objects — a radio, a hammer, and a plant — it is advisable progress. They’re all in the similar room.