Bear in mind when Funcom promised a repair was coming for gamers sick of getting squished by helicopters in PvP? Effectively, repair it the developer did. Kinda.
Moderately than mess with the Ornithopters themselves, the developer merely deployed a patch so “gamers not obtain harm when hit by automobiles.”
As PC Gamer factors out, that is high quality in idea, because it means you are not solely protected by griefers decided to squish you want a bug in PvP, nevertheless it additionally protects you from wiping out in your sandbike, particularly when you by chance ship your self rocketing off the facet of a cliff, for example.
And although lots of of gamers have upvoted a post on the subreddit that confirms the change, some level out that griefers have merely modified techniques fairly than cease griefing altogether.
“The[y] want to lower prime pace when utilizing rockets. They want to enhance prime pace when utilizing thrusters. PvP needs to be about management, not ganking. You utilize rockets to take or maintain a landmark, not to hunt individuals. That will clear up a ton,” said one participant.
“Scouts shouldn’t have rockets,” suggested one other. “I’ve killed so many individuals with them and I shouldn’t be this quick or environment friendly. Assaults ought to have the rockets, as a result of they’re sluggish and want fixed enter to out manoeuvre somebody. Scouts needs to be storage and scanning.”
“Is that good? I am unsure. I believe it might have been preferable if each took harm. The Thopter not taking any harm does not cease individuals being annoying with it,” added one other.
They are not flawed. The solely factor that may shoot down an Orni is a rocket launcher or Lasguns, however each of these are Tier 6-exclusive weapons and take a while to unlock.
It additionally means you’ll be able to’t expedite fights with NPCs by ramming them together with your car, both. However hey, it is higher than the way it was earlier than, proper?
We gave Dune: Awakening a Nice 8/10 in our evaluation, writing: “Dune: Awakening is a superb survival MMO that captures Frank Herbet’s sci-fi world extremely nicely, principally to its benefit and often to its detriment. The survival climb from dehydrated peasant to highly effective warlord of Arrakis is a pleasure virtually each step of the way in which, and the story and worldbuilding stuffed this nerd with absolute pleasure.
“There’s nonetheless loads for Awakening to work on although, as its fight by no means actually hits its stride, the endgame is a little bit of a chaotic mess not definitely worth the effort, and there’s fairly a number of technical bugs but to be squashed, however even these tough patches felt like tiny desert mice subsequent to the leviathan shai-huluds which might be this survival recreation’s great successes.”
Dune: Awakening has loved an excellent launch, with a ‘very optimistic’ person evaluation score on Steam. Inside hours of going dwell on June 10, Funcom’s survival MMO had clocked up over 142,000 concurrent gamers on Valve’s platform, and hit a new high over the weekend of 189,333 players.
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Vikki Blake is a reporter for IGN, in addition to a critic, columnist, and advisor with 15+ years expertise working with a number of the world’s greatest gaming websites and publications. She’s additionally a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually Excessive Chaos. Discover her at BlueSky.