Earth review: 🟡🟡⚫⚫⚫

⚠️WARNING: YAP ALERT. TL;DR AT END⚠️

I\’ve been playing Earth for a while and I just gotta say, why? That\’s what I what asking during my entire playthrough because there are just so much unnecessary mechanics in it.

First, the levels. Why does it take one entire year to go up one level? That may just be like %20 of our real life days, but there\’s a lot of people who don\’t have the time to play every day. And when you miss a day, but hop on the next, it doesn\’t make you play the day you missed.

It sends you to the next one. There is absolutely no reason to do that other than the game being \”immersive\” or whatever. It doesn\’t even tell you, you have to find out yourself by looking at a calendar, assuming your parent npcs bought one.

When you level up, you get a cool celebration that lasts the entire day and free items, which is cool, except for the fact that the items I get are never useful. I don\’t know if it\’s different for anyone else, but I think my family npcs have a bug where they don\’t buy items based off of the my interests system. I only ever get one or two items that does something like being my dopamine or intelligence bar up, and its always the ones that I request.

Secondly, the account creation process… Why? For some reason, the devs thought that it was a great idea to only give yourself a 1 in 400 trillion chance of a new account you created actually working. And even then, there\’s a chance that your character dies before they even reach level one.

Plus, you could also end up in a really terrible spawn like an abusive household, or a poor household, or a poor abusive household since the location you spawn in is randomly generated. You could also get debuffs like any of the disability debuffs, the single parent debuffs, the orphan debuffs, the minority debuffs, etc.

I know the devs say that being a minority isn\’t a debuffs, but that\’s pretty obviously a lie since the npcs always treat you differently if you have one, and depending on the type, it could literally make your mental health bar go down because of \”dysphoria\” or whatever but that\’s bullshit and we all know it. The devs brag about there being 117 billion accounts but I\’m sure most of them are just accounts that never ended up being activated, since there are only about 8 billion active players daily.

There\’s so much more I can add but I don\’t wanna make this too long. Tl;dr leveling up is dogshit and account creation process is terrible

-Earth Patch v2.25.19.3
-This is just a small hotfix patch to fix some known issues, no shutdown required.
-we\’ve still been busy working on the Christmas event, so dont expect anything other than patches for a few months

-Balance Changes
-45. Does more damage to the body now, this is made so it can actually compete with the other sidearms.

-22. No longer one taps to the head.

-Buffed the reload time of the TV remote

-PS4 Controller battery life increased by 20%

-Decreased chance of falling asleep while watching a movie by 30% (60% if your character has a special intrest in the movie.)
-do note this only applies to characters under 25, characters from 25 – 60 years old only have a decrease of 13%

-Psychological damage of child trauma buffed by 20%

-Burger King is a bit better again.

-Coffee now provides a 40% stamina boost upon drinking it, although there are now de-caffinated variants that provide the same 15% boost the old coffee used to give.

-Bug Fixes

-Fixed issue where overdose on Ketamine would cause hallucinations

-Fixed issue where the character would forget the current objective upon entering a new room

-Fixed issue of character being unable to get out of bed in the morning

-Fixed issue where Sig pistols would fire by themselves when dropped

-Fixed issue where pillow was warm in both sides.

-Fixed \”the hat man\” appearing after a single all-nighter, now after 3 nights without sleep it will have a 30% chance to spawn in your closet, this chance will aument periodically until 5 nights without sleep, where the chance will be capped at 80%

-Added \”King Of The Monsters\” badge
-this badge is aqquired if you spend a week without sleeping and without encountering the hat man.
-Energy Drinks and Coffee reduce the hat man\’s chance to appear by 10%, the effects do stack until a maximum of 30%, anything after that will give you a heart attack.

-Breaking bad^2 is now a thing