There’s one other new patch accessible for Dune: Awakening, and extra tweaks to enhance the endgame expertise for gamers who’d want to spend time in PvE actions, together with the power to farm Tier 6 sources and a greater probability of getting Distinctive drops in PvE loot in Deep Desert.
Beforehand, Funcom launched Dune: Awakening’s prolonged the PvE zone of the Deep Desert from about 10% of the map to 50%. It adopted an AMA wherein the studio advised gamers annoyed by the endgame expertise that it was “formulating a plan” to enhance PvP within the Deep Desert. Some had branded the endgame “poisonous” on account of griefing even after the power 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.
Dune: Awakening’s final massive replace, 1.1.10.00, launched an extended listing of modifications, and whereas it did not particularly take care of end-game points that point, it did make some QoL enhancements. However this time, there’s a complete part of the patch notes devoted to the Deep Desert, end-game, and Landsraad.
The flexibility to seek out extra T6 sources in PvE areas of the Deep Desert is especially noteworthy, as even with the rebalancing of PvE and PvP zones, it was nonetheless fairly difficult to routinely discover T6 minerals with out delving into heavy PvP areas. This could make it simpler for gamers needing sources to seek out what they need with out placing their digital lives on the road.
It is not all unhealthy for PvP followers, both. One of many modifications features a delay for leaving a PvP safety zone from 5 to 30 seconds to stop border tenting and permit gamers to higher defend their areas.
Here is the complete listing…
Dune: Awakening Patch Notes 1.1.15.0
Deep Desert, End Sport, and Landsraad
- Tier 6 sources can now be collected throughout wider areas within the PvE a part of the Deep Desert.
- We added a component of randomization to the respawn timer of distinctive loot containers within the Deep Desert.
- The plastanium tier crafting parts have been break up as much as drop based mostly on the content material location: Imperial Testing Stations, Caves, or Shipwrecks, with every of them dropping their very own choice of parts. Fallen Shipwrecks and Buried Treasure can drop parts from any location.
- Added an opportunity of a distinct choice of Uniques drop in PvE loot in Deep Desert.
- The spawn fee of medium fields elevated from 5 again to eight, and of the small spice fields elevated from 22 to 30.
- The delay for leaving a PvP safety zone elevated from 5 to 30 seconds to stop border tenting and permit PvP gamers to guard their space.
- Modified Landsraad duties to permit for Kill and Supply Contribution to occur after the duty has been accomplished however awarding solely private contribution. (i.e., which faction gained and what number of guild votes have been awarded are unaffected by contributions made after the duty was accomplished by one faction).
Different:
- Improved recreation stability.
- Lowered the instances the place the sandworm can push autos underneath terrain.
- Added a brand new audio alert for the PvP zone change.
FIXES
- Fastened a problem the place the Harkonnen faction recruitment contract “Do you may have what it takes?” may generally get caught and couldn’t be accomplished for those who exited the dialogue with Maxim Kazmir earlier than choosing the road “It says right here that you simply’re in search of recruits“ to finish the contract.
- Fastened a problem the place contract rewards dropped on the bottom in case your stock was full, which may result in conditions the place you’ll miss them. Now rewards can solely be claimed when there’s sufficient area in your stock.
- Fastened a problem the place automobile modules wouldn’t spotlight correctly after the participant had utilized a customization variant.
- Fastened a problem the place the positioning of a pentashield floor may overlap with an current pentashield floor.
- Fastened an exploit that will permit constructing a automobile with gadgets from one other participant’s stock.
If all that is acquired you however you are undecided the place to start out, make certain to take a look at all of the Dune: Awakening lessons 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 places information that can assist you survive on Arrakis.
Dune: Awakening has loved an outstanding launch, with a ‘very optimistic’ person evaluation score on Steam. Inside hours of going reside 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 evaluation.
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