Early in Atomic Heart, you’ll quickly realize that inventory space comes at a premium. Large weapons like the shotgun, and your many melee weapons, all take up multiple inventory spaces. And you’ll need all the healing items you can get. You can only hold so much ammo too, so if you want to stay stocked up, you’ll have to limit the number of weapons you’re carrying. For the early game, you’ll be stuck with about four. But you’ll quickly begin unlocking many, many more weapons.
If you’re sick of running out of space and don’t want to give up those precious healing items or ammo, then you’ll want to follow a specific upgrade path. Upgrades in Atomic Heart can’t be checked from the menu — you have to actually unlock the right skills to see what you can get next. And if you’re skipping, you can stick yourself with an extremely limited inventory. Want to double the size of your carrying capacity? Here’s what you need to do.
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Your character starts with 20 Inventory Slots by default. By unlocking upgrades, you can increase inventory space by +20 slots, doubling your carrying capacity and allowing you to carry more ammo, more healing items, and many more weapons.
That’s twice your normal inventory. Increasing carrying capacity also increases how many weapons you can carry — that’s the primary function, and all weapons on your quick-select menu can be swapped fast. You’ll want to limit yourself to a maximum of six or seven weapons. After that, you won’t be able to hot-swap and you’ll need to manually switch out weapons on the weapon wheel.
Inventory space
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