It's been a rough week for the newly launched free-to-play multiplayer open world survival game Once Human . Just a few days ago, the game had been review bombed on Steam due to its rather egregious terms of service , including the potential to collect a government-issued ID via its personal information policy. And then, just 24 hours before that, players took issue with the game only allowing one character per account and preventing server switches . Thankfully, that problem has since been fixed. But regardless, things have not been gr

Once Human is an always-online multiplayer open-world survival crafting game. If you’ve recoiled from that sentence and are now shaking your head in disgust, I completely understand. But bear with me. Once Human is not revolutionary in its design, but from what I’ve played so far, it takes a lot of concepts familiar to the genre and makes them better. Combat is satisfying, though it definitely needs a few tweaks when it comes to PvP balance; building is complex and gratifying; the grind for materials isn’t even that bad (with better tools, trees can drop thousands of pieces of wood at once); and the world design is downright bizarre. Take a look at these nutcrackers as an exam

Over on the Once Human Steam page, the game is currently sitting with an average review score of "Mixed" as members of the player base question the terms-of-service , citing security concerns as their primary issue with the experience. Several users allege that publisher NetEase has implemented a system that allows Once Human to mine Bitcoin with players' computers while others are worried that their privacy may be breached thanks to the privacy policy. The terms of service allow NetEase access to personal information like government-issued IDs, phone numbers, and credit card deta

Regardless of what's transpired, it's refreshing to see a company not only take swift action, but also be as responsive as possible. Based off the word of people like Pirate Software, there's a good game hidden in there and fan feedback can help bring that out. Only time will tell, though, if gamers will have enough patience to see that thro

Those changes came after a publicized conversation that developer Pirate Software had with the team in which they provided comprehensive feedback to Starry. "Cosmetics currently are also per character, which feels very bad," the developer said. "I would much rather have these account-wide. Currently, I have no reason to buy a cosmetic as I would then have to rebuy it for each character I make. Why should I buy a cool hat multiple times just because I made multiple characters? Not interest

However, I foresee one major, glaring fault with Once Human: seasonal wipes. Once Human is a bit like Rust. In that game, players fight over resources, build bases, and generally get up to a lot of nonsense over the course of a ‘server wipe’. Servers wipe once a month on Rust, the last Thursday of every month. In Once Human, server wipes will occur every six weeks, over the course of six ‘phases’ in the server’s life cycle—each phase introduces new monsters and new battles for PvP players, with better loot and rarer resour

The first step in crafting a gun is to go into the Crafting tree of the Memetics menu and pick the Essential Tools then Gear Workbench upgrades . The second upgrade will give players the ability to build the Gear Workbench, where guns are actually crafted. By interacting with a Gear Workbench, players can choose what kind of gun they want to craft and what tier to craft. Higher-tier guns will require rarer materials but will deal higher base damage.

In other words, if you were planning on purchasing cosmetics, you might want to hold off for a couple of weeks, or at least until the issue has been solved in full. And if you happen to have purchased multiple of the same cosmetic, then you'll receive a refund in the form of in-game curre

Take scraps back to the Disassembly bench to break them down into various materials based on what you collected, and take those back to the Gear Workbench to try and craft your gun. Some guns will also require smithing materials such as Tin , Copper, and Iron, which can be obtained through mining and using a Furnace to smelt the materials.

Now, in another change of strategy, Starry Studio has seemingly reversed course when it comes to cosmetics. In a statement posted to Twitter , the studio outlined the upcoming changes, as well as a timeline for them to take eff

That conversation appears to have led to the changes outlined above. And it would appear that Starry isn't stopping there, either. Because the team has made it clear that fans should leave comments either on Twitter or Discord, and they'll review them and potentially respond as they have over the past w

It also states that it will only collect "information such as social media account usernames, names, and address here in user surveys that users voluntarily participate in" and that players can "provide as much or as little information in these user surveys if they choose to respond to the survey at a