Dune: Awakening’s newest replace has introduced main endgame PvP modifications, placing an finish to 1 notably annoying technique and making loss of life in PvP zones way more punishing.
Replace 1.1.0.15, launched June 18, makes it so gamers now not obtain injury when hit by automobiles in Funcom’s survival sport set in creator Frank Herbert’s sci-fi universe. It could appear to be an odd change out of context, however it’s to curb a PvP technique developer Funcom has referred to as “goomba stomping” and beforehand vowed to handle. The technique entails gamers of their flying ornithopter automobiles regularly crushing enemy gamers on the bottom by repeatedly flying into them.
It is a welcome change that ought to make endgame PvP extra attention-grabbing. One other important PvP change is an adjustment to respawn timers. As an alternative of with the ability to rapidly respawn in a PvP zone, as was beforehand the case, gamers will now want to attend 70 seconds after loss of life in a PvP zone. Subsequent deaths will take 115 seconds.
Which will appear to be a punishing period of time, however it’s higher than the choice. Beforehand, gamers who emerged victorious in PvP had little to no time to loot the realm or relish of their victory, as enemy gamers would rapidly respawn and return to the battle.
Different modifications within the patch notes embrace extra outstanding placement of server restart alerts, and one other wave of modifications to “additional enhance the sport server and stability,” a line that has been current in each Dune: Awakening replace so far. You possibly can learn the total patch notes beneath.
Dune: Awakening seems to be to have discovered success on Steam, lately surpassing 140,000 concurrent gamers. The survival MMO is slated to launch on consoles in 2026.
Dune: Awakening 1.1.0.15 Patch Notes
CHANGES
- Respawn timeout in PvP zones was adjusted. The primary respawn will take 70 seconds, second and following respawns will take 115 seconds.
- The Dvyetz Ornithopter Engine Mk5 Schematic was faraway from loot tables, because it was a deprecated merchandise.
- Gamers now not obtain injury when hit by automobiles.
- Because the Unstuck function doesn’t work for automobiles and when the participant is on the Overland Map, the Unstuck button received’t present when the participant is on or in a automobile or on the Overland map.
- Service messages like server restart alerts now seem on the higher central a part of the display for higher visibility. (was within the upper-right nook)
- A further safeguard was added when a participant respawns throughout maps: Gamers now have to manually kind “Respawn” into the affirmation popup subject.
- When gamers choose the Personal servers tab within the Server Browser, they may obtain a notification pop-up.
- One other set of modifications to additional enhance the sport server and consumer stability.
FIXES
- Mounted a difficulty the place the sport consumer may freeze when the participant tried to cross the Deep Desert server border.
- Mounted a difficulty the place gamers who shared their base entry with pals couldn’t generally abandon their base by way of a map marker.
- Mounted a difficulty that precipitated the dart trails from the Maula Pistol to generally deviate from the meant route.
- Mounted a difficulty the place the Atreides Chief that the participant wanted to kill in The Superior Contract – Mentat – Cataloging Defectors contact respawned instantly.
- Mounted a difficulty that precipitated a potential crash when restoring a automobile with the Automobile Backup Software.
- Mounted a difficulty that made it potential to maneuver Crysknifes into storage containers by swapping them with different gadgets.
- Mounted a difficulty inflicting the Landsraad refining time discount bonus to not apply if a number of cases of the identical useful resource had been being refined concurrently.
- Mounted a difficulty that would trigger the participant to lose Solaris deposited within the financial institution.
- Mounted a difficulty the place service alert notifications wouldn’t present resulting from being blocked by different notifications.
- Mounted a difficulty the place exiting the dialogue with Anton Tolliver too quickly after delivering the “Deep Extraction” contract would block the participant from progressing the faction storyline.
- Mounted an exploit the place gamers may injury different gamers’ bases with a cutteray.
- Mounted a difficulty the place Analysis Journey steps wouldn’t get accomplished retroactively if the participant was in a automobile when performing analysis. Logging out and again into the sport was wanted to repair the problem.
- Mounted an exploit inflicting folks to have the ability to take out water from a deathstill that didn’t exist within the base.
- Mounted an exploit the place gamers may hearth a salvo of projectiles.