Dune: Awakening Patch 1.1.0.17 Makes Big Changes To Improve Deep Desert Endgame Experiences For All Players

Funcom is updating Dune: Awakening astir faster than we tin constitute astir it. No sooner had we introduced you to its Public Test Client and quality that the workplace was trialling extending the PvE portion of the Deep Desert from astir 10% of the representation to 50%, Funcom has dropped an update to corroborate that the alteration volition beryllium rolling retired for each players from today, June 26.

"The PvE country has been adjusted to encompass the full confederate fractional of the Deep Desert map," Funcom confirmed successful its latest spot notes, below. "This means that players who person nary involvement successful PvP should beryllium capable to find what they privation without engaging successful PvP. Imperial Testing Stations, caves, and truthful distant recovered successful this country are frankincense present PvE."

"Rest assured that we volition proceed to perceive to your feedback and marque adjustments successful the future," the squad said.

It follows an AMA successful which the workplace told players frustrated by the endgame acquisition that it was "formulating a plan" to amended PvP successful the Deep Desert. Previously, players branded the endgame arsenic "toxic" owed to griefing adjacent aft patching retired the quality for players to squish different radical with their Ornithopter

"We privation PvE players to beryllium capable to play the endgame and person entree to the contented of the endgame," said originative manager Joel Bylos. "Our extremity is not to unit PvE players to interact with a PvP strategy that they whitethorn person nary involvement in.

"We inactive judge successful the halfway conception of the Deep Desert — an endlessly renewing determination that resets each week and creates an enactment loop for large rewards. The hostility of heading retired there, caput connected a swivel, eyes peeled for foes arsenic you participate the astir unsafe portion of the astir unsafe satellite successful the universe. Our privation was that players would clasp this loop, forming guilds to enactment unneurotic to flooded the bleakness of the Deep Desert."

For those wondering, yes, Control Points and Shipwrecks volition proceed to beryllium PvP "throughout the full map," which means you volition find "localized pockets of PvP wrong the PvE conception still. Similar to however Shipwrecks are PvP successful Hagga Basin." Work has besides begun connected changing the Ornithopters; equipping a rocket launcher module volition present alteration the apical velocity of your Scout Orni by 20%, and Assault Ornis by 10%.

After the spot has been applied, players volition besides beryllium capable to study different players’ messages from the substance chat oregon study them by utilizing the Inspect menu.

Dune: Awakening Patch Notes 1.1.0.17

Deep Desert

As outlined successful A connection from the Creative Director connected PvE and PVP » Dune: Awakening, this hotfix volition spot the archetypal iteration of the changes to the equilibrium betwixt PvE and PvP successful the Deep Desert. Rest assured that we volition proceed to perceive to your feedback and marque adjustments successful the future.

• The PvE country has been adjusted to encompass the full confederate fractional of the Deep Desert map.
  • This means that players who person nary involvement successful PvP should beryllium capable to find what they privation without engaging successful PvP. Imperial Testing Stations, caves, and truthful distant recovered successful this country are frankincense present PvE.
  • Control Points and Shipwrecks will, however, proceed to beryllium PvP passim the full map, which means you volition find localized pockets of PvP wrong the PvE conception still. Similar to however Shipwrecks are PvP successful Hagga Basin.
• To clasp the Risk vs Reward setup for the Deep Desert:
  • The density of resources increases the further northbound you go. This includes high-density clusters of invaluable resources.
  • The largest spice fields volition besides spawn successful the north.
  • The bulk of Control Points volition beryllium successful the bluish part.
• As portion of these changes, we person made immoderate balancing adjustments successful the Deep Desert:
  • The little fractional of the Deep Desert present offers PvE loot that is balanced toward shared loot and PvE activities. You whitethorn find amended loot successful the much unsafe PvP country located further northbound connected the map. In the PvE area, for example, each subordinate gets their ain loot and tin expect to person 1 schematic. In the PvP area, loot is distributed connected a “first come, archetypal served” basis, with higher quantities of everything. Players tin expect to find 2–6 schematics there, which are among the rarest.
  • Plasteel plates tin lone beryllium recovered successful PvP zones.
  • The magnitude of progressive mean spice fields has been reduced from 8 to 5.
  • The fig of progressive tiny spice fields has accrued from 20 to 22.
  • The spawn complaint of Titanium and Stravidium has been reduced successful the PvE areas truthful that ample quantities lone spawn successful the far-out PvP areas.
  • The fig of nodes successful assets hotspots successful the PvE portion of the representation has been reduced.
  • The respawn clip of Titanium and Stravidium has accrued from 30 to 45 minutes.
• Some Imperial Testing Stations are inactive successful the PvP region, and players who privation each schematics disposable each week volition privation to sojourn some the PvP and PvE Imperial Testing Stations. Keep successful caput the loot successful them rotates each week, truthful adjacent if you’re not funny successful PvP, you could get it astatine a aboriginal day if you’re not capable to commercialized for it oregon bargain it disconnected the Exchange.

Vehicles

• We person begun enactment connected the outlined changes to the Scout Ornithopters.
  • Equipping a Rocket Launcher Module volition present alteration the apical velocity of your Ornithopter.
    • For Scout Ornithopters, the simplification is 20%.
    • For Assault Ornithopters, the simplification is 10%.
  • Infocards for the modules present bespeak this change.
• Exiting ornithopters mid-air volition present origin them to driblet consecutive down alternatively of gliding away. This should alteration the accidental that you suffer your ornithopter upon disconnecting from the crippled oregon exiting by mishap your ornithopter mid-air (yes, we person seen the videos).
  • Known issue: There is an borderline lawsuit that if your conveyance ends up successful the quicksand you mightiness not beryllium capable to interact with it if you are successful the quicksand. The workaround is to effort to get connected apical of the conveyance to interact with it. This volition beryllium fixed successful the precise adjacent patch.

Visiting

• We removed the restrictions erstwhile visiting different sietches. Before this change, players had their “home” sietches, and could sojourn different sietches successful their satellite but couldn’t assertion land. Now, immoderate subordinate tin spell to immoderate sietch successful their satellite and assertion onshore wherever they want.

Technical and stability

• Increased crippled stability.
• The latest NVIDIA operator was added to the GPU operator cheque astatine the crippled launch.

Other

• We person introduced Player Reporting, allowing players to present study different players’ messages from the substance chat oregon study players from the Inspect paper connected players.

FIXES

Technical and stability

• As a continuous effort, we person closed respective exploit vulnerabilities.
• Fixed an contented wherever a circumstantial benignant of web contented would origin players to beryllium stuck successful an infinite loading screen.
• Fixed an contented wherever immoderate players could acquisition a lawsuit frost erstwhile traveling betwixt Deep Desert servers.

Combat

• Fixed an contented wherever players performing a melee onslaught could get obstructed by corpses lying connected the ground.

User Interface

• Fixed an contented wherever the guild faction alignment was not localized connected the Guild Overview tab.
• Fixed an contented wherever players could brushwood a achromatic surface if they skipped the cinematic astatine “The Wreck of the Hephaestus”.
• Fixed an contented wherever respective Sandbike probe schematics failed to notation the Imperial Testing Stations arsenic the superior source.

Travel

• Fixed an contented wherever players could usage an ornithopter aviator work to alert from the cities to Hagga Basin if they had arrived successful a metropolis with their ornithopter.

Miscellaneous

• You volition nary longer suffer learned emotes erstwhile respec’ing your accomplishment tree.

Dune: Awakening has enjoyed a superb launch, with a 'very positive' idiosyncratic reappraisal standing connected Steam. Within hours of going unrecorded connected June 10, Funcom's endurance MMO had clocked up implicit 142,000 concurrent players connected Valve's platform, and deed a caller precocious earlier this period of 189,333 players. And it's already clocked up implicit 1 cardinal players, too, making it Funcom's fastest-selling crippled ever, and securing a Great 8/10 successful our review.

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