Atomic Heart's Twins Look Even More Terrifying Without Their Masks

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An Atomic Heart mod reveals what is underneath the robot Ballerina Twins' masks. The results are not only unexpected but make Atomic Heart's robotic Ballerinas even more unsettling than they were before.

Atomic Heart launched on PC and next-gen consoles last month to generally favorable reviews, despite some harsh criticism from those who felt the game didn't live up to its potential. The game's robotic Ballerina Twins featured heavily in Atomic Heart's marketing. They quickly achieved viral popularity, including bizarre internet rumors that the game contained a multi-hour sex scene between the player characters and the two robots. With a woman's body and a blank metal face, these feminine automatons get more unsettling the closer one looks at them, even before they try to slice players apart with lasers and retractable claws.

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A mod maker called DmgVol decided they wanted to see what the twins looked like behind their mirrored faceplates and created a simple mod to do just that. While Atomic Heart's Ballerina Twins are biomechanical constructs rather than pure electronics, most would not expect to find a human face underneath. However, that's precisely what the game's new «Unmasked Twins» mod reveals. The final result is significantly creepier than the mechanical ballerinas were beforehand.

Atomic Heart's developer Mundfish never intended for players to see what is underneath the Twin's reflective face plates. As such, developers never modeled anything to go underneath it. Instead, removing their masks reveals Unreal Engine 4's default female face serving as a placeholder. Since developers never intended for players to see behind the Twins' masks, their faces are