Dune: Awakening developer Funcom has apologized after “patching out” a structure change within the Deep Desert that briefly remodeled PvE territory into PvP, main to “an unlucky quantity of misplaced bases and tools.”
Yesterday, Funcom launched one other patch for Dune: Awakening, with extra tweaks to enhance the endgame expertise for gamers who’d want to spend time in PvE actions, together with the flexibility to farm Tier 6 assets and a greater probability of getting Distinctive drops in PvE loot in Deep Desert.
It follows on-going efforts from the developer to enhance PvP within the Deep Desert after an AMA revealed many gamers branded the endgame “poisonous” due to griefing even after the flexibility for gamers to squish one another with their Ornithopter was supposedly patched out. Later, griefers deliberately landed their Ornis on different gamers’ personal thopters to stop them from farming.
Nonetheless, the change — which was “supposed to solely happen with the following Coriolis cycle and never affect the continuing cycle” — resulted in an “oversight within the improvement course of and inside communications,” leading to heavy losses for some gamers.
“We’re extremely sorry that this occurred and we wish to acknowledge that this could have been dealt with higher. We’ve modified our inside processes on account of this and might be higher sooner or later,” the group stated in a statement.
“We’re working to reimburse automobiles and gadgets (to the very best of our capability) to gamers who had been impacted by this. You’ll be able to anticipate the reimbursed supplies, gadgets, and automobile elements to present up within the in-game ‘Declare Rewards’ tab by the tip of this week.”
In the identical assertion, the group additionally revealed it was working laborious to get rid of cheaters from Arrakis, writing, “our main focus, which continues over the following weeks and months, might be to take away all recognized exploits (third get together cheat engines, consumer hacks, or in-game exploitation of recreation mechanics). As well as, we might be laborious at work enhancing the sport, including high quality of life options, and addressing vital gameplay points.
“Now we have zero tolerance for the kind of participant habits that has an affect on the expertise of different gamers, and we are going to proceed to deal with guaranteeing that gamers can benefit from the recreation as it’s supposed,” the assertion added. “In the event you see somebody dishonest or exploiting, please report them to us utilizing the obtainable reporting channels.”
Funcom stated that to date it has taken motion on “a number of hundred” cheats caught utilizing exploits, cheats, and hacks, with “extra waves of bans coming as we determine additional culprits.”
“Now we have a group devoted completely to preventing hackers and fixing exploits. Over the following few patches, they are going to be introducing further efforts to stop exploits by rising safety on a number of consumer/server communication layer, performing further penetration testing in opposition to widespread assault vectors, and auditing our merchandise and stock techniques to be certain they’re resistant to merchandise duplication,” Funcom acknowledged.
Lastly, the group additionally apologized to gamers who had misplaced “automobiles or different assets” due to in-game bugs. Although admitting some points are laborious to replicate and resolve, Funcom stated it’s now engaged on instruments to “higher reimburse gamers for automobile losses due to bugs.”
Dune: Awakening has loved an excellent launch, with a ‘very optimistic’ person assessment ranking 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 earlier this month of 189,333 players. And it is already clocked up over 1 million gamers, too, making it Funcom’s fastest-selling recreation ever, and securing a Nice 8/10 in our assessment.
If all that is acquired you however you are undecided the place to begin, be certain to try all of the Dune: Awakening courses you may select from, and our Dune: Awakening walkthrough for a step-by-step information to the story. We have additionally acquired Dune: Awakening useful resource guides that’ll show you how to discover iron, metal, aluminium, and a Dune: Awakening Trainers areas information to show you how to survive on Arrakis.
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