Dune: Awakening devs are reimbursing players for a Deep Desert patch mistake that lost folks bases and gear

Funcom are besides aiming the large worm of justness astatine cheaters, hackers, and different exploiters

Have you precocious mislaid a conveyance oregon point successful Dune: Awakening successful a manner that wasn't your fault? If so, you whitethorn beryllium entitled to in-game compensation from developers Funcom, who've said atrocious for a Deep Desert spot "oversight" that wiped retired "an unfortunate amount" of bases and gear.

You won't adjacent person to enlist the services of a affable neighbourhood Lionel Hutz oregon Saul Goodman either, DA's devs are already moving to nonstop retired replacement worldly to affected folks. They've besides pledged to tackle the cheating and point nonaccomplishment owed to bugs that've been plaguing the crippled since launch.

All of this is outlined successful a developer update station Funcom person enactment unrecorded this good morning, providing immoderate bully June 9th meal reading. It kicks disconnected with the Funcom team, including Dune: Awakening's Joel Bylos, saying atrocious for method missteps portion moving to rejig the Deep Desert from PvP-only to a happening that besides has a clump of PvE zones.

"On Monday the 7th of July, we patched retired a layout alteration to the Deep Desert which caused respective areas of the PvE Deep Desert to go PvP enabled," they wrote, "This was an oversight successful our improvement process and interior communications, which led to radical suffering an unfortunate magnitude of mislaid bases and equipment. This alteration was intended to lone hap with the adjacent Coriolis rhythm and not interaction the ongoing cycle."

As good arsenic making changes to their processes successful the hopes of preventing this benignant of happening from happening again, Funcom are moving to "reimburse" affected players with vehicles and gear. The devs accidental "reimbursed materials, items, and conveyance components" should stone up successful these players' assertion rewards tab by the extremity of this week.

Alongside that, the workplace accidental they're stepping up wider efforts to marque definite folks get backmost immoderate vehicles that extremity up being banished to the large worm void by bugs, thing they accidental they "lacked the tooling and logging" to commencement doing close from launch. If your Ornithopter's gone walkies to the bug dimension, you tin taxable a summons in-game that'll beryllium added to the large heap that's present being worked through.

Finally, Funcom accidental their anti-exploit squad are taking purpose astatine eliminating each of the cheating and hacking that's frustrated folks playing decently truthful far. "Over the adjacent fewer patches, they volition beryllium introducing further efforts to forestall exploits by expanding information connected respective client/server connection layer, performing further penetration investigating against communal onslaught vectors, and auditing our point and inventory systems to marque definite they are resistant to point duplication," the devs wrote.

So, determination you go. Funcom are connected the case. Tell the suited sandworm you enactment done Harkonnen instrumentality schoolhouse to halt shuffling papers successful its teeth.