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Once Human’s maintenance is now complete, and the F2P open-world shooter is back online with a plethora of QoL improvements and optimisations, including a desperately-needed revision to vehicle handling.<\/p>\n

Whilst players received a bundle of Stardust and health-related items to make up for the downtime, Once Human’s long-promised controller and Steam Deck support is still nowhere to be seen (although, confusingly, the “controller” in-game item remains in place).<\/p>\n

In terms of Memetics, you can now pick up memetic specialisation memory fragments in the wild and trade them between players. All memetic fragments will be destroyed at the end of the season – which is in a couple of weeks time – and cannot be sent to Eternaland, so be mindful of that.<\/p>\n

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Once Human’s maintenance is now complete, and the F2P open-world shooter is back online with a plethora of QoL improvements and optimisations, including a desperately-needed revision to vehicle handling. Whilst players received a bundle of Stardust and health-related items to make up for the downtime, Once Human’s long-promised controller and Steam Deck support is still nowhere to be seen (although, confusingly, the “controller” in-game item remains in place). In terms of Memetics, you can now pick up memetic specialisation memory fragments in the wild and trade them between players. All memetic fragments will be destroyed at the end of the season – which is in a couple of weeks time – and cannot be sent to Eternaland, so be mindful of that. 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