Dune Awakening Players Say Griefing Is Getting Worse, Not Better: 'This Game Has Massive Issues Ahead'

Dune: Awakening griefers are astatine it again, concocting ever-new and breathtaking ways to marque different players' lives miserable. And erstwhile again, the griefing concerns Ornithopters.

Last week, Funcom launched Dune: Awakening's Public Test Client and past extended the PvE portion of the Deep Desert from astir 10% of the representation to 50%. It followed 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 the quality for players to squish each different with their Ornithopter was supposedly patched out.

But contempt Funcom's mitigations, unscrupulous players person discovered another mode to grief players by landing their Ornis connected apical of unsuspecting players — this clip to forestall them from farming.

"All the griefers are present coming into Hagga to workplace spice. They're doing the aforesaid thumper and onshore connected thopter method they perfected successful [Deep Desert]. But present they're utilizing it to workplace each the insignificant nodes successful Hagga," wrote 1 aggrieved instrumentality implicit the weekend.

"This crippled has immoderate monolithic issues ahead. Griefers are successful an all-out warfare against everyone other connected their server, and yet there's zero mode for solos to set unneurotic to halt it. And arsenic a Dune fan, I don't deliberation planting a thumper and past having 4 thopters onshore connected you is portion of the mythology."

u/RandoFinder past edited their station to add: "I kept my Thopter astatine 730 km for 30 minutes until a spice blow, and arsenic soon arsenic I moved, 4 thopters were chasing me. JFC, y'all are pathetic. This was successful Hagga. I had players contiguous telling each different to doxx maine erstwhile I stood up to them successful Hagga chat. I've been successful WoW wide and different horrible chats, but Dune wide is the astir toxic chat that I've ever seen."

"I deliberation it goes without saying that PVP is PVP, and sidesplitting different players successful a PVP portion is wholly morganatic and expected," responded different player. "Entrapping idiosyncratic by abusing crippled mechanics intended to forestall grief of a akin kind, ala pinning radical with ornithopters that different can't beryllium destroyed oregon escaped successful a PVE zone, is griefing. Griefing should beryllium explicitly and implicitly disallowed. If you're successful a PVE zone, you should not person to interest astir players sidesplitting you done an maltreatment of mechanics."

At the clip of writing, determination has been nary nationalist effect from Funcom astir the issue.

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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