'Joke's on Them' — No Man's Sky Creator Ridicules 'Extremely Similar' Once Human Premium Cosmetic Item, Says It Was Unfinished Anyway

No Man's Sky fans person claimed that an plus from the sci-fi sandbox crippled has been repurposed for merchantability successful Once Human without support — and present the brag of Hello Games has gotten involved.

This week, No Man's Sky fans connected reddit flagged an "extremely similar" cosmetic point successful Once Human that's present being sold wrong the post-apocalyptic surival rubric arsenic a high-tier lootbox reward. The object, No Man's Sky's circular Base Teleport Module, looks to person been repurposed arsenic immoderate benignant of sci-fi workout bike, with the summation of a elemental bicyle framework and a caller overgarment job.

Now, the contention has stretched beyond the realm of reddit and reached Sean Murray, the caput of No Man's Sky developer Hello Games, aft fans flagged their suspicions. Murray's response? One of amusement much than thing else, arsenic helium reacted to the asset's evident usage elsewhere.

"Jokes connected them," Murray wrote successful a station connected X. "We forgot to LOD those rivets," helium continued, referencing the deficiency of a little prime exemplary for the entity erstwhile viewed from afar — thing that could origin show issues.

Posting astir the similarities of the 2 objects connected reddit, No Man's Sky instrumentality Koyonaku noted that Only Human's mentation "isn’t earned done gameplay — it is obtainable lone arsenic the highest-tier reward from a premium lootbox, often astatine important cost." This isn't the archetypal clip Only Human has been suspected of basing in-game assets connected different games, either, the idiosyncratic alleged.

"This was brought up respective days agone successful the Once Human community, but the point is inactive being sold without clarification oregon adjustment," Koyonaku wrote. "There was besides a akin past lawsuit involving icon resemblance to Rainbow Six, which was softly replaced. I’m not present to commencement play oregon impeach anyone of ineligible wrongdoing. But I bash deliberation determination are times erstwhile staying soundless lets things similar this descent into being treated arsenic normal."

IGN has contacted Only Human developer Starry Studio for comment.

Almost a decennary connected from launch, No Man's Sky precocious celebrated its best-ever subordinate numbers, pursuing the motorboat of its Breach and Voyagers updates earlier this year. The Breach update lets players salvage wrecks, unlocking caller vessel gathering parts on the way, portion Voyagers added multiplayer vessel unit capabilities and skydiving, among galore different features.

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