Dune: Awakening players kept getting squashed by ornithopters, so an update has made everyone invulnerable to vehicle bashing

The developers of Dune: Awakening person conscionable released a spot successful effect to subordinate complaints astir the game's PvP zones. Folks were annoyed due to the fact that they kept getting crushed to decease by different players piloting an ornithopter (Dune's large flying bug vehicle). It was irksome due to the fact that it's hard to harm said conveyance oregon combat backmost successful immoderate meaningful way. The devs solution is beauteous straightforward: "Players nary longer person harm erstwhile deed by vehicles". The aforesaid spot besides addresses respawn times successful PvP areas.

When it comes to the crushy ornithopters, the spot whitethorn mean we get less moments similar this, successful which on-foot players are hounded and repeatedly squished by others flying a ship, similar immoderate freaky sci-fi mentation of Steven Speilberg's Duel. Although I americium definite immoderate radical volition inactive find immoderate originative ways to grief others utilizing the bulky ships. As for the respawning, that was a full different issue.

"Respawn timeout successful PvP zones was adjusted," accidental the spot notes. "The archetypal respawn volition instrumentality 70 seconds, [the] 2nd and pursuing respawns volition instrumentality 115 seconds."

This is simply a large summation from the erstwhile respawn timers, which irritated players for being excessively abbreviated and allowing defeated opponents to travel backmost and harrass you earlier you tin adjacent bask the spoils of your victory. One subordinate complained a respawn was ne'er longer than 12 seconds. "Even erstwhile you triumph a agelong winded conflict the losing squad volition conscionable re-spawn instantly successful the section area," said the subordinate successful a miffed Reddit station spotted by PC Gamer.

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This was particularly taxing erstwhile warring a radical larger than your own, said the player, since a large capable clan tin ever person capable fighters connected the field.

"[Even] erstwhile you prime disconnected members they are backmost successful the fray earlier you tin blink, which conscionable feels bad... As it presently stands, adjacent if you person the amended squad and bushed the likelihood the larger radical volition ever triumph arsenic they tin conscionable support chucking bodies astatine it till the different squad gives up oregon their cogwheel breaks."

As it happened, a developer from Funcom saw this station and responded to it. "We are moving connected a clump of changes/fixes to these things," said the dev astatine the time. "Please carnivore with us."

And present they've tweaked it. Will 70 seconds beryllium enough? I don't know, I'm astir apt not the idiosyncratic to ask. I thin to debar PvP zones - the consciousness of the game's combat conscionable doesn't click for me, and I don't fancy losing cogwheel erstwhile it's a spot of grind to get that gear. An extraction shootist I americium not. But I did similar the satellite and galore different endurance crippled elements, arsenic I said successful our Dune: Awakening review.

There were immoderate different insignificant fixes successful the patch, including fixes for crashy moments and 1 frightening contented that would "cause the subordinate to suffer Solaris deposited successful the bank". Your economical information is assured. Except you whitethorn inactive suffer each your pouch wealth if swallowed by Shai-Hulud, of course.