The Outer Worlds 2 is seemingly going to solve a design problem that the creator of the Fallout series himself has been struggling to solve for nearly 30 years.
14.12.2023 - 18:21 / mmorpg.com
If there’s one thing we’ve learned recently, it’s that Survival MMOs cancertainly be a mixed bag. It’s common to see lackluster combat, mediocre building options, and a common pitfall of placing too much emphasis on punishing hunger and thirst mechanics. Once Human by Starry Studio and published by NetEase Games takes these features and finds a way to balance them to enhance the gameplay, rather than punish players for it. Let’s get into a deep dive of thissupernatural survival MMO.
If you haven’t heard of Once Human yet, that will probably change over the course of 2024. The game has been making waves for Starry Studio, as the developers have been humbled by the response to their beta, leading to an expansion of their testing scope. Originally the game was meant for 20,000 players, which was then extended to 50,000 players, and the player response was so overwhelming that Starry had to shut down free access and move to an invite-only testing plan so that they wouldn’t overload the servers.
From the start of Once Human you’re brought into a very unique, story-driven world, where you awaken as a Meta-Human with no memory of who you were. Your body was augmented by an alien power called Stardust. Stardust contaminates the entire world, and has changed it in wild and dangerous ways. As a Meta-Human you’re on the fringe of humans that can harness this power. You'll be brought up to speed by the titular character Cyo, who you'll meet during the tutorial. Then you’ll embark on a journey to capture Deviations throughout the world to increase your power and bring peace to this chaotic new reality. However, you end up hiding yourself under the guise of a Mayfly, which were a sect of bounty-hunter-like humans that harnessed deviations in a cradle (a backpack that houses Deviant energy) and used their power to rid the world of those atrocities.
The main questline will find you taking down Great Ones, which are extremely powerful instanced bosses that you can tackle with a group. If you don’t dispatch the first Great One by level 8 or so, you will miss out on progressing your building and crafting skill tree, which is a major detriment to progression. Aside from the main quest though, there are plenty of side and secret quests throughout the world. You have a second sight that lets you see extra-dimensional rifts throughout the world. While you’re exploring, you may find puzzles and unique quests or maybe even random rewards that you would otherwise miss if you weren’t utilizing your second sight reliably.
In many ways, the puzzles that I’ve come across remind me a lot of The Secret World because some of them require putting a little more mental effort into than simply hacking your way to victory. One of my favorite
The Outer Worlds 2 is seemingly going to solve a design problem that the creator of the Fallout series himself has been struggling to solve for nearly 30 years.
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