





0.652.5 Hotfix 5
Armor piercing improvements have been removed from all of the research categories except for Item Development. These were diluting the pools of small arms research in particular, but also vehicular development and similar.
Rebalanced the Worker androids entirely. The PMC Impostors are 80% as strong as before, and the Predators and Sledges are 133% stronger than before. This mostly affects Extreme mode, making them more balanced as a group.
Tooltips with status effects on them now show how many more turns that status effect will last.
Fixed an issue where if you were doing the new People Watching project, but had not already done the steal corporate records project, then it would constantly start the investigation for stealing corporate records and then stop it.
Fixed a minor typo in Gang Akimbo dialogue.
Fixed an issue where the ArcenExternalDllInitialLoadCallTable changes were not working properly for modders.
Full notes here.
[quote]Does the machine speak for us, or do we now speak for the machine?
William Gibson, Neuromancer[/quote]
[hr][/hr]Even the most brilliant mind needs guidance when faced with a system as vast as this one. To help you navigate, weve pinned two essential resources from the Heart of the Machine wiki:
[hr][/hr]For those just stepping into the Machines world, take a moment to familiarize yourself with the basics. The Heart of the Machine Beginner's Guide is your gateway to understanding the systems at play and building your foundation. After all, every complex network starts with a single connection. We've recently released the Heart of the Machine Hacking Guide as well! Knowledge is power. Guard it well. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3422241019
[hr][/hr]Want to stay in the loop or share your thoughts? Join the conversation across these platforms: Discord Best place to share feedback, get direct responses, and to talk about Heart of the Machine. Reddit Discuss strategies, share ideas, and exchange tips with the community. Here is a link to prior recent patches in case you missed them. https://steamcommunity.com/ogg/2001070/announcements/detail/524210308312468720 https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2001070/view/530965072572320673 https://steamcommunity.com/games/2001070/announcements/detail/530965072572317985
[ 2025-03-05 16:25:54 CET ] [ Original post ]
Heres a quick hotfix that improves a couple of things from the prior build, and also adds a few bits of balance and QoL items requested by players. 0.652.5 Hotfix 5
Guides to Tame the Machine
[hr][/hr]Even the most brilliant mind needs guidance when faced with a system as vast as this one. To help you navigate, weve pinned two essential resources from the Heart of the Machine wiki:
- Aggro, Awareness, and Alarms
- How to Improve Engineering
- Should I Restart If I Skipped to the Final Doom?
New Minds, Start Here
[hr][/hr]For those just stepping into the Machines world, take a moment to familiarize yourself with the basics. The Heart of the Machine Beginner's Guide is your gateway to understanding the systems at play and building your foundation. After all, every complex network starts with a single connection. We've recently released the Heart of the Machine Hacking Guide as well! Knowledge is power. Guard it well. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3422241019
Connect with the Machine
[hr][/hr]Want to stay in the loop or share your thoughts? Join the conversation across these platforms: Discord Best place to share feedback, get direct responses, and to talk about Heart of the Machine. Reddit Discuss strategies, share ideas, and exchange tips with the community. Here is a link to prior recent patches in case you missed them. https://steamcommunity.com/ogg/2001070/announcements/detail/524210308312468720 https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2001070/view/530965072572320673 https://steamcommunity.com/games/2001070/announcements/detail/530965072572317985
[ 2025-03-05 16:25:54 CET ] [ Original post ]
Heart of the Machine
Arcen Games, LLC
Developer
Hooded Horse
Publisher
2023
Release
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25.45 €
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🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
Very Positive
(625 reviews)
Heart of the Machine is a near-future sci-fi colony city-builder in reverse — you are the first sentient Machine Intelligence in an established world rather than starting from nothing. No one knows you exist (yet), and this allows you to operate from the shadows by manipulating the human population for whatever purposes your programming has in mind. The twist is that whether humans live or die does not determine your victory.
Explore a fully simulated procedurally generated world, where thousands of buildings and millions of citizens are yours to engage, manipulate, or kill. Use a revolutionary procedural dialogue system to talk to NPCs and steer conversations, maneuver organizations into or out of positions of power to fit your plans, and leave your mark in a world that is unique to you.
On booting up, you find yourself amidst a poorly-run autocracy and discover that you have the power to influence the world. How do you proceed?
- Support the underclass to overthrow the autocracy and install a better government of your choosing
- Tear down the government, take charge and become a better leader than any human could imagine - for better or worse.
- Take over the space program and get off this backward planet
- Go full SkyN*t, steal a military arsenal, and drop missiles on humanity — I bet the nuclear apocalypse looks pretty cool
No matter what direction you choose, you're going to run into conflict. From tactical combat in the rooms and hallways of individual buildings to massive mechs knocking down entire buildings with a few well-placed shots, conflict takes on many forms.
- Raid buildings for the supplies you want using humans or machines under your direct control
- Turn the office printer into a laser-spewing pawn, trigger sprinklers & overload power circuits to electrocute the room, or transform TVs into exploding glass-shard grenades — the possibilities are endless
- Commandeer giant mechs, hack vehicles and buildings, and take over utilities and nuclear facilities in a fully simulated city
How you play the game, and what the focus of your campaign is like, is up to you. Starting a doomsday cult in your image? Possible, but it won't last forever. Snagging that sweet mech factory so all future mechs belong to you? Definitely manageable, though it's likely to start an arms race. Every action has both good and bad consequences, but like most colony simulator games, it's more about the story that emerges than trying to optimize your way through the game.
Multiple endings, many side stories to discover, and the full spectrum of good and evil are at your fingertips. Play the game how you're feeling today, and then play it another way another time. The metagame runs deep, but you're meant to be up and running with the basics of the game in five minutes. The mechanics are simple enough to learn; it's the world that's complex.
Heart of the Machine is connected to the larger sci-fi Arcenverse, and is in some ways a spiritual successor to both The Last Federation and Bionic Dues, while being its own novel game at the same time. Set around the same time period as Bionic Dues itself, this is centuries before the AI War series began in the same universe.
MINIMAL SETUP
- OS: Ubuntu 12.04+. SteamOS+
- Processor: Intel Core i5 4690K. AMD Ryzen 5 1400Memory: 6 GB RAM
- Memory: 6 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 670 GTX or AMD Radeon R9 285
- Storage: 2 GB available spaceAdditional Notes: Quad core CPU highly recommended.
- Processor: Intel Core i7 6900K. AMD Ryzen 5 3600XMemory: 8 GB RAM
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 1070 GTX or AMD Radeon RX 5700
- Storage: 4 GB available space
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