Once Human

The game is definitely a mishmash of various games, but it works

I'm enjoying this game. I'm mid 20's and so far it's still fun for me. I do like a good base builder, and mixed with some looter/shooter it's right in my wheelhouse. The Palworld/Pokemon things is a nice touch too.

Sniper Rifles are OP and apparently I can hit people with a giant fish.

So my server got to phase 6 about a week ago and I decided to move over to hard mode since other people were as well.

The “wipe” mechanic isn’t that bad. Basically all your furniture and mods and special currency automatically comes with you. Everything else goes into your eternal land storage except memetic specialization stuff (so solar drills go poof). You then get 20000 points to xfer stuff from last server to the new server and you can do this at any time. So for example a fully upgraded 10/10 gun costs 10000 points, a calibration costs 1000 points, an advanced drill is like 3000 points, deviants are 800 points. However a 10/10 gun can’t even be used right away, so I brought a drill and chainsaw and some high level deviants to start and still have 11k points I can use. Next time I’ll probably just bring the drill and some deviants to start since the value of the chainsaw falls off and you can craft tier 1 chainsaws anyways the first week

Once on the new server, you can craft tier 1 versions of your prior blueprint gear and keep all your mods, so your power level even at level 1 is pretty high since you have set bonuses and mod effects. The mods won’t be fully unlocked stat wise until later gear tiers, but I was deleting shit with my shotgun build just fine

Hard servers biggest change (at least week 1) are some enemies are glowing blue (void) or yellow (balance). Certain damage types or weapons with cradle abilities will kill them, otherwise they take no damage. Enemies also swarm you more and do more damage. Your character also has to constantly drink and eat, which is super annoying especially early on. Also, you can pick a “fast” mode where you don’t have to redo most of the quests, you just go to “echoes” and it gives you all the xp and rewards you would have gotten anyways.

October will be the new pve map, so looking forward to that. But so far I am still in a relatively honeymoon stage with the game so I haven’t minded “starting over” since it wasn’t as punishing as I thought it would be

Some news from their stream today

1) New PVP scenario comes out 9/26 - you pick a faction (rosetta or mayfly). they will try to balance factions. no gear/resource drop if you get ganked (which is fine IMO, gear drop just encourages hackers). Basically the main focus will be rare deviations will spawn in forced pvp areas - you have to snag them and bring them to a securement crate to get credit. There will be rewards i guess and some unique deviations

2) New PVE scenario comes out 10/17

We played the shit out of it for about 2 and a half weeks. But we also seemed to dropped it much faster than most games.

I'm not sure the gatekeeping works in their favor. Feel like maybe they should've chosen one between gatekeeping and resets and not both.

The resets arent as bad as I thought - the Mannibus phases aren't ideal though

Week 1 and 2 are the leveling/material collection phases and easy prime wars. Those are fine IMO because it is all leadup to endgame stuff. Then week 3 you get hard modes, then week 4 you get pro and week 5 is nightmare PW. I think the issue with weeks 3-5 are hard modes feel like sort of a waste - they're harder than normal, but they just feel like a holdover until pro content releases (where you can get mods you actually want). Plus no one wants to waste controllers opening hard mode chests when they'll start really doing farming when pro stuff releases. Phase 5 doesn't really add any content beyond Nightmare primewars and some mannibus arm world events, but the nightmare primewars sort of putter out after people get their starcrom and get sick of shooting missiles at the arms that cost thousands of stardust source to make.

Honestly it would be nice if they had more content like Lea Labs - stuff that you really can't solo easily and involve more complex fight mechanics

Once you start getting into mods and other builds, you can start making some pretty interesting builds

New map released yesterday. They changed the VA for V and it is jarring - VA director must have given direction along the lines of “can you constantly sound like you’re sick of all this shit and passive aggressive sarcasm dialed to 11?”

They added a temperature mechanic that is a little too DayZ like for my liking - game doesn’t do a great job of explaining and there are lots of sudden temperature shifts. You get hypothermia in like 3 minutes and die, it’s annoying as fuck