Atomic Heart: How To Use Cartridge Modules | Elemental Damage Guide

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Atomic Heart is a very strange game. As the story begins, you’re thrust into an unfamiliar world that’s both massive and overwhelming — and after everything goes wrong, you’re thrown into the deep end of complete weirdness. You’ll have to survive, fighting back insane robots with just an axe and eventually a simple shotgun. Very early in the game, you’ll also meet a sweet-talking shop kiosk that can craft weapon upgrades — one of the most important upgrades is the Cartridge Module.

Cartridge Modules are barely explained in the game. Even after getting a tutorial pop-up, you’ll never get an explanation on how to actually equip these things. Here, we’ll explain how to equip modules, how to get them early in the game, and why they’re so useful. There are three types of modules you’ll unlock before leaving the first major area of the game — the Ice Cartridge, Fire Cartridge and Electricity Cartridge. Each Cartridge type can be slotted into a weapon, and that includes melee weapons too.

At the NORA Unit, guns can be upgraded with Cartridge Modules. This fits your gun with a special slot for loading elemental damage modifiers — hitting an enemy with elemental damage can be devastating.

How To Use Cartridges: After upgrading a weapon and unlocking a cartridge module, you can now load your gun with cartridges.

You can load Ice Cartridges, Fire Cartridges, and Electric Cartridges.

Cartridges only need to be crafted once. These can be installed and uninstalled at will and don’t require new ammo. Once a cartridge is installed, all weapon damage will have an added elemental effect.

That’ll get you started on cartridges. There’s no reason not to equip all your weapons with cartridges!