Dune: Awakening’s large endgame modifications at the moment are reside, remodeling half of the sport’s previously participant vs. participant heavy-Deep Desert area right into a participant vs. environment-friendly house.
The change got here faster than followers maybe anticipated. Information that developer Funcom could be making an enormous shift to the survival MMO’s endgame got here only a few days in the past in a weblog put up from the sport’s artistic director, Joel Bylos, who stated Funcom’s objective was to not “drive PvE gamers to work together with a PvP system that they might have no real interest in.” That information was adopted by a public check shopper construct for the sport’s 1.1.10.0 patch that listed the Deep Desert modifications (amongst many others).
Nevertheless, a hotfix launched right now makes it so the southern half of the Deep Desert is now open for PvE enterprise, although there are nonetheless pockets of PvP to be discovered. Shipwrecks and management factors discovered throughout the southern half of the area will nonetheless be PvP zones. Funcom notes that it rebalanced the distribution of Dune: Awakenings coveted endgame assets round this modification, making it in order that “loot total is extra worthwhile and plentiful within the northmost PvP zones.” PvE gamers will nonetheless be capable to discover the best tier of assets within the southern areas of the zone, simply not as a lot of it.
“We are going to proceed monitoring how this performs out and proceed iterating when and if wanted,” Funcom states within the patch notes.
The hotfix additionally brings beforehand introduced modifications to Ornithopters, presently a menace in PvP regardless of having already been nerfed to now not trigger harm when ramming into different gamers on the bottom. Utilizing a rocket launcher module for the Scout Orni now decreases its prime velocity by 20% (or 10% for these utilizing the extra unpopular Assault Ornithopter). Funcom states it has extra modifications deliberate round Ornithopters and PvP.
In a single different main change as a part of the hotfix, gamers can now go to different Sietches and declare land. Dune: Awakening’s servers are damaged down into Worlds, that are made up of a number of smaller servers known as Sietches. Whereas gamers can now declare land in different Sietches, the variety of bases a participant can have remains to be locked to 3. The hotfix additionally introduces a participant reporting function, permitting gamers to report textual content chat or messages from different gamers.
You’ll be able to learn the complete Dune: Awakening replace 1.1.0.17 patch notes under. Funcom lately introduced Dune: Awakening is already its fastest-selling recreation thus far, having bought greater than 1 million copies since its launch in early June.
Dune: Awakening Replace 1.1.0.17 Patch Notes
FEATURES AND CHANGES
Deep Desert:
As outlined in A message from the Artistic Director on PvE and PVP » Dune: Awakening, this hotfix will see the primary iteration of the modifications to the stability between PvE and PvP within the Deep Desert. Relaxation assured that we are going to proceed to take heed to your suggestions and make changes sooner or later.
The PvE space has been adjusted to embody your complete southern half of the Deep Desert map. Which means that gamers who’ve no real interest in PvP ought to be capable to discover what they need with out participating in PvP. Imperial Testing Stations, caves, and so forth discovered on this space are thus now PvE.Management Factors and Shipwrecks will, nevertheless, proceed to be PvP all through your complete map, which implies you can find localized pockets of PvP throughout the PvE part nonetheless. Just like how Shipwrecks are PvP in Hagga Basin.To retain the Danger vs Reward setup for the Deep Desert: The density of assets will increase the additional north you go. This consists of high-density clusters of worthwhile assets.The most important spice fields may even spawn within the north.Nearly all of Management Factors will exist within the northern half.As a part of these modifications, we have now made some balancing changes within the Deep Desert: The decrease half of the Deep Desert now gives PvE loot that’s balanced towards shared loot and PvE actions. You could discover higher loot within the extra harmful PvP space situated additional north on the map. Within the PvE space, for instance, every participant will get their very own loot and may anticipate to obtain one schematic. Within the PvP space, loot is distributed on a “first come, first served” foundation, with increased portions of every little thing. Gamers can look forward to finding 2–6 schematics there, that are among the many rarest.Plasteel plates can solely be present in PvP zones. This line was inaccurate, since Plasteel plates might be obtained from crashing ships.The quantity of energetic medium spice fields has been diminished from 8 to five.The variety of energetic small spice fields has elevated from 20 to 22.The spawn charge of Titanium and Stravidium has been diminished within the PvE areas so that enormous portions solely spawn within the far-out PvP areas.The variety of nodes in useful resource hotspots within the PvE a part of the map has been diminished.The respawn time of Titanium and Stravidium has elevated from 30 to 45 minutes.Some Imperial Testing Stations are nonetheless within the PvP area, and gamers who need all schematics out there every week will need to go to each the PvP and PvE Imperial Testing Stations. Consider the loot in them rotates every week, so even in case you’re not fascinated with PvP, you possibly can get hold of it at a later date in case you’re not capable of commerce for it or purchase it off the Alternate.
Automobiles:
We’ve got begun work on the outlined modifications to the Scout Ornithopters. Equipping a Rocket Launcher Module will now lower the highest velocity of your Ornithopter. For Scout Ornithopters, the discount is 20%.For Assault Ornithopters, the discount is 10%.Infocards for the modules now replicate this modification.Exiting ornithopters mid-air will now trigger them to drop straight down as a substitute of gliding away. This could lower the possibility that you simply lose your ornithopter upon disconnecting from the sport or exiting accidentally your ornithopter mid-air (sure, we have now seen the movies). Identified problem: There may be an edge case that in case your car leads to the quicksand you won’t be capable to work together with it in case you are within the quicksand. The workaround is to attempt to get on prime of the car to work together with it. This might be fastened within the very subsequent patch.
Visiting:
We eliminated the restrictions when visiting different sietches. Earlier than this modification, gamers had their “residence” sietches, and will go to different sietches of their world however couldn’t declare land. Now, any participant can go to any sietch of their world and declare land wherever they need.Gamers also can place respawn beacons on any sietch of their world.On account of this modification, the house icon on the server choice display, which beforehand indicated your house server, now signifies on what server you may have a base. Equally, a car icon reveals the place you may have autos.
Technical and stability:
Elevated recreation stability.The most recent NVIDIA driver was added to the GPU driver verify on the recreation launch.
Different
We’ve got launched Participant Reporting, permitting gamers to now report different gamers’ messages from the textual content chat or report gamers from the Examine menu on gamers.
FIXES
Technical and stability:
As a steady effort, we have now closed a number of exploit vulnerabilities.Mounted a difficulty the place a particular kind of community problem would trigger gamers to be caught in an infinite loading display.Mounted a difficulty the place some gamers might expertise a shopper freeze when touring between Deep Desert servers.
Fight:
Mounted a difficulty the place gamers performing a melee assault might get obstructed by corpses mendacity on the bottom.
Consumer Interface:
Mounted a difficulty the place the guild faction alignment was not localized on the Guild Overview tab.Mounted a difficulty the place gamers might encounter a black display in the event that they skipped the cinematic at “The Wreck of the Hephaestus”.Mounted a difficulty the place a number of Sandbike analysis schematics failed to say the Imperial Testing Stations as the first supply.
Journey:
Mounted a difficulty the place gamers might use an ornithopter pilot service to fly from the cities to Hagga Basin if that they had arrived in a metropolis with their ornithopter.
Miscellaneous:
You’ll now not lose realized emotes when respec’ing your ability tree.
