Dune: Awakening's devs aren't waiting: the Deep Desert's huge new PvE area has already been patched into the full game

Via a hotfix that besides kicks disconnected the scout ornithopter tweaks

Boy, that escalated quickly. Less than a time aft Dune: Awakening's PvE spot went into nationalist testing, changes that crook the "entire confederate half" of the Deep Desert into a PvE country person been hotfixed into the afloat game.

This promised alteration arrives alongside the archetypal of the scout ornithopter balancing tweaks Funcom talked astir successful their caller AMA, and a mates of different fixes. However, there's a clump of worldly enactment into investigating yesterday which hasn't yet made the leap to nationalist release.

As outlined successful the notes for hotfix 1.1.0.17, the biggest happening it does is alteration the Deep Desert truthful that the full confederate fractional of it is made up of PvE areas - a beauteous hefty scaling backmost of the PvP zones it comprised connected release. This is successful enactment with what originative manager Joel Bylos said successful a caller station addressing PvE and PvP concerns.

To guarantee the country retains plentifulness of "Risk vs Reward" for competitory players, the PvP-filled bluish portion of it contains the densest deposits of invaluable resources, the largest spice fields, and astir of the power points.

Funcom person made immoderate further balancing tweaks successful airy of the change, writing: "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."

If you privation to max retired the fig of schemactics you drawback each week, you'll besides request to sojourn Imperial Testing Stations successful some PvE and PvP areas. If you're a spot taken aback by however rapidly these changes person jumped from investigating into the afloat game, similar immoderate players connected Reddit and Discord, Funcom person made wide they'll marque further adjustments based connected subordinate feedback if needs be. By putting these changes unrecorded for everyone, they're bound to get plenty.

Outside of that, the devs person started making tweaks to equilibrium Ornithopters with this hotfix. Equipping a rocket launcher to your vertebrate volition present dilatory it down by 20% if it's a Scout Ornithopter, and 10% if it's an Assault one.

We'll person to spot however this beauteous immense displacement successful DA's endgame country plays out. It's proven beauteous polarising truthful far, truthful it'll beryllium absorbing to spot whether folks travel astir to it.