Funcom is updating Dune: Awakening nearly quicker than we will write about it. No sooner had we launched you to its Public Take a look at Shopper and information that the studio was trialling extending the PvE zone of the Deep Desert from about 10% of the map to 50%, Funcom has dropped an replace to substantiate that the change shall be rolling out for all gamers from as we speak, June 26.
“The PvE space has been adjusted to embody the complete southern half of the Deep Desert map,” Funcom confirmed in its newest patch notes, below. “Which means that gamers who’ve no real interest in PvP ought to be capable to discover what they need with out partaking in PvP. Imperial Testing Stations, caves, and so forth discovered on this space are thus now PvE.”
“Relaxation assured that we’ll proceed to hearken to your suggestions and make changes sooner or later,” the crew stated.
It follows an AMA during which the studio instructed gamers annoyed by the endgame expertise that it was “formulating a plan” to enhance PvP within the Deep Desert. Beforehand, gamers branded the endgame as “poisonous” as a result of griefing even after patching out the power for gamers to squish different individuals with their Ornithopter
“We would like PvE gamers to have the ability to play the endgame and have entry to the content material of the endgame,” stated inventive director Joel Bylos. “Our purpose is to not drive PvE gamers to work together with a PvP system that they could have no real interest in.
“We nonetheless imagine within the core idea of the Deep Desert — an endlessly renewing location that resets each week and creates an exercise loop for nice rewards. The stress of heading on the market, head on a swivel, eyes peeled for foes as you enter probably the most harmful a part of probably the most harmful planet within the universe. Our want was that gamers would embrace this loop, forming guilds to work collectively to beat the bleakness of the Deep Desert.”
For these questioning, sure, Management Factors and Shipwrecks will proceed to be PvP “all through the complete map,” which implies you will see that “localized pockets of PvP inside the PvE part nonetheless. Just like how Shipwrecks are PvP in Hagga Basin.” Work has additionally begun on altering the Ornithopters; equipping a rocket launcher module will now lower the highest pace of your Scout Orni by 20%, and Assault Ornis by 10%.
After the patch has been utilized, gamers can even be capable to report different gamers’ messages from the textual content chat or report them through the use of the Examine menu.
Dune: Awakening Patch Notes 1.1.0.17
Deep Desert
As outlined in A message from the Creative Director on PvE and PVP » Dune: Awakening, this hotfix will see the primary iteration of the adjustments to the stability between PvE and PvP within the Deep Desert. Relaxation assured that we’ll proceed to hearken to your suggestions and make changes sooner or later.
- The PvE space has been adjusted to embody the complete southern half of the Deep Desert map.
- Which means that gamers who’ve no real interest in PvP ought to be capable to discover what they need with out partaking in PvP. Imperial Testing Stations, caves, and so forth discovered on this space are thus now PvE.
- Management Factors and Shipwrecks will, nevertheless, proceed to be PvP all through the complete map, which implies you will see that localized pockets of PvP inside the PvE part nonetheless. Just like how Shipwrecks are PvP in Hagga Basin.
- To retain the Threat vs Reward setup for the Deep Desert:
- The density of assets will increase the additional north you go. This contains high-density clusters of invaluable assets.
- The most important spice fields can even spawn within the north.
- Nearly all of Management Factors will exist within the northern half.
- As a part of these adjustments, we’ve made some balancing changes within the Deep Desert:
- The decrease half of the Deep Desert now gives PvE loot that’s balanced towards shared loot and PvE actions. You might discover higher loot within the extra harmful PvP space situated additional north on the map. Within the PvE space, for instance, every participant will get their very own loot and may count on to obtain one schematic. Within the PvP space, loot is distributed on a “first come, first served” foundation, with increased portions of every thing. Players can anticipate finding 2–6 schematics there, that are among the many rarest.
- Plasteel plates can solely be present in PvP zones.
- The quantity of lively medium spice fields has been diminished from 8 to five.
- The variety of lively small spice fields has elevated from 20 to 22.
- The spawn price of Titanium and Stravidium has been diminished within the PvE areas so that enormous portions solely spawn within the far-out PvP areas.
- The variety of nodes in useful resource hotspots within the PvE a part of the map has been diminished.
- The respawn time of Titanium and Stravidium has elevated from 30 to 45 minutes.
- Some Imperial Testing Stations are nonetheless within the PvP area, and gamers who need all schematics obtainable every week will wish to go to each the PvP and PvE Imperial Testing Stations. Be mindful the loot in them rotates every week, so even should you’re not fascinated with PvP, you would get hold of it at a later date should you’re not in a position to commerce for it or purchase it off the Alternate.
Autos
- We’ve got begun work on the outlined adjustments to the Scout Ornithopters.
- Equipping a Rocket Launcher Module will now lower the highest pace of your Ornithopter.
- For Scout Ornithopters, the discount is 20%.
- For Assault Ornithopters, the discount is 10%.
- Infocards for the modules now mirror this variation.
- Equipping a Rocket Launcher Module will now lower the highest pace of your Ornithopter.
- Exiting ornithopters mid-air will now trigger them to drop straight down as an alternative of gliding away. This could lower the possibility that you just lose your ornithopter upon disconnecting from the sport or exiting accidentally your ornithopter mid-air (sure, we’ve seen the movies).
- Identified challenge: There’s an edge case that in case your car results in the quicksand you may not be capable to work together with it in case you are within the quicksand. The workaround is to attempt to get on prime of the car to work together with it. This shall be fastened within the very subsequent patch.
Visiting
- We eliminated the restrictions when visiting different sietches. Earlier than this variation, gamers had their “house” sietches, and will go to different sietches of their world however couldn’t declare land. Now, any participant can go to any sietch of their world and declare land wherever they need.
Technical and stability
- Elevated sport stability.
- The newest NVIDIA driver was added to the GPU driver test on the sport launch.
Different
- We’ve got launched Participant Reporting, permitting gamers to now report different gamers’ messages from the textual content chat or report gamers from the Examine menu on gamers.
FIXES
Technical and stability
- As a steady effort, we’ve closed a number of exploit vulnerabilities.
- Mounted a difficulty the place a selected kind of community challenge would trigger gamers to be caught in an infinite loading display.
- Mounted a difficulty the place some gamers might expertise a consumer freeze when touring between Deep Desert servers.
Fight
- Mounted a difficulty the place gamers performing a melee assault might get obstructed by corpses mendacity on the bottom.
Person Interface
- Mounted a difficulty the place the guild faction alignment was not localized on the Guild Overview tab.
- Mounted a difficulty the place gamers might encounter a black display in the event that they skipped the cinematic at “The Wreck of the Hephaestus”.
- Mounted a difficulty the place a number of Sandbike analysis schematics failed to say the Imperial Testing Stations as the first supply.
Journey
- Mounted a difficulty the place gamers might use an ornithopter pilot service to fly from the cities to Hagga Basin if they’d arrived in a metropolis with their ornithopter.
Miscellaneous
- You’ll now not lose discovered emotes when respec’ing your ability tree.
Dune: Awakening has loved an outstanding launch, with a ‘very optimistic’ consumer evaluate ranking on Steam. Inside hours of going stay 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 sport ever, and securing a Nice 8/10 in our evaluate.
If all that is obtained you however you are undecided the place to start out, be sure that to take a look at all of the Dune: Awakening lessons you’ll be able to select from, and regulate our Dune: Awakening walkthrough for a step-by-step information to the story. We have additionally obtained Dune: Awakening useful resource guides that’ll enable you to discover iron, metal, aluminium, and a Dune: Awakening Trainers areas information that will help you survive on Arrakis.
Vikki Blake is a reporter for IGN, in addition to a critic, columnist, and marketing consultant with 15+ years expertise working with among 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.