Dune: Awakening Patches Out Orni Squishing in PvP By Completely Removing The Ability to Damage Players and NPCs With Vehicles — And Not All Fans Are Happy About It

Remember erstwhile Funcom promised a hole was coming for players sick of getting squished by helicopters successful PvP? Well, hole it the developer did. Kinda.

Rather than messiness with the Ornithopters themselves, the developer simply deployed a spot truthful "players nary longer person harm erstwhile deed by vehicles."

As PC Gamer points out, this is good successful theory, arsenic it means you're not lone protected by griefers determined to squish you similar a bug successful PvP, but it besides protects you from wiping retired connected your sandbike, particularly if you accidentally nonstop yourself rocketing disconnected the broadside of a cliff, for instance.

And though hundreds of players person upvoted a station connected the subreddit that confirms the change, immoderate constituent retired that griefers person simply changed tactics alternatively than halt griefing altogether.

"The[y] request to alteration apical velocity erstwhile utilizing rockets. They request to summation apical velocity erstwhile utilizing thrusters. PvP should beryllium astir control, not ganking. You usage rockets to instrumentality oregon clasp a landmark, not to hunt people. That would lick a ton," said 1 player.

"Scouts shouldn’t person rockets," suggested another. "I’ve killed truthful galore radical with them and I shouldn’t beryllium this accelerated oregon efficient. Assaults should person the rockets, due to the fact that they’re dilatory and request changeless input to retired manoeuvre someone. Scouts should beryllium retention and scanning."

"Is that good? I'm not sure. I deliberation it would person been preferable if some took damage. The Thopter not taking immoderate harm doesn't halt radical being annoying with it," added another.

They're not wrong. The lone happening that tin sprout down an Orni is simply a rocket launcher oregon Lasguns, but some of those are Tier 6-exclusive weapons and instrumentality immoderate clip to unlock.

It besides means you can't expedite fights with NPCs by ramming them with your vehicle, either. But hey, it's amended than however it was before, right?

We gave Dune: Awakening a Great 8/10 successful our review, writing: "Dune: Awakening is an fantabulous endurance MMO that captures Frank Herbet’s sci-fi satellite incredibly well, mostly to its vantage and occasionally to its detriment. The endurance ascent from dehydrated peasant to almighty warlord of Arrakis is simply a joyousness astir each measurement of the way, and the communicative and worldbuilding filled this nerd with implicit joy.

"There’s inactive plentifulness for Awakening to enactment connected though, arsenic its combat ne'er truly hits its stride, the endgame is simply a spot of a chaotic messiness not worthy the effort, and there’s rather a fewer method bugs yet to beryllium squashed, but adjacent these unsmooth patches felt similar tiny godforsaken mice adjacent to the leviathan shai-huluds that are this endurance game’s fantastic successes."

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 implicit the play of 189,333 players.

If each that's got you interested, marque definite to cheque retired each the Dune: Awakening classes you tin take from, and support an oculus connected our in-progress Dune: Awakening walkthrough for a step-by-step usher to the story. To assistance you past connected Arrakis, we've got Dune: Awakening assets guides that'll assistance you find iron, steel, aluminium, and more.

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