Dune: Awakening is testing out a repair for ornithopter griefing and making an unforgivable change to flour sand farming

A brand new patch is headed for Dune: Awakening in August, however Funcom is testing it out proper on the general public check shopper. There is a lotta stuff crammed into model 1.1.20, together with an try to repair the ever-present drawback of ornithopter griefing, a top quality of life repair all you bloodsuckers will get pleasure from, and one significantly scandalous change that may completely piss everybody off. Let’s dive in!

Colliding ornithopters will now get knocked again to separate them.

I am guessing that’ll assist lots with the griefing technique in PvE areas, the place somebody lands a ‘thopter on the open sand to reap spice, after which somebody lands on high of their ‘thopter with their very own ‘thopter, pinning them down till a worm comes alongside and eats them. It is a jerk transfer, so hopefully if somebody tries it with the brand new patch they will simply bounce off?

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Apparently, it is also a problem when teams of scout ‘thopters swarm provider ‘thopters, which I have never personally witnessed myself. Talking of which, in the event you be a part of the check server you may be given a free scout ‘thopter, assault ‘thopter, and provider ‘thopter to assist check out how efficient this new change is.

I’ve grown weary of typing ‘thopter so let’s transfer onto a change that each single Dune participant will likely be sad with:

Redistributed Flour Sand and Spice Sand fields in Hagga Basin to permit the worm to achieve them.

C’mon, Funcom. Spice, OK, I get it, that ought to all the time be harmful to farm. Put all spice within the path of the worm, completely.

However we have had these candy little patches of flour sand close to the rocks that you may farm with out the worms with the ability to attain you for the reason that sport launched. You possibly can’t take them away now! Farming flour is a boring little nothing of a process: buzz over in a chopper, decide up a thousand or so items with out having to fret about worm signal, after which haul it away to make the frankly obscene quantity of silicon blocks wanted for crafting.

However including hazard to boring would not equal thrilling. It simply makes boring take lots longer. Depart our boring process alone! We prefer it this fashion!

Added Deposit All Blood and Deposit/Extract All Water buttons to blood purifiers and water cisterns.

That is a very nice repair! It is annoying to should hammer the button to deposit or withdraw just a few glugs of blood and water at a time. However would not make up for transferring flour sand into the trail of the worm.

Now you can seek for gadgets by title within the trade, and the classes have been re-organized to make shopping for gadgets extra handy and intuitive.

Cool cool cool. However again to flour sand.

Look, all you builders at Funcom, you in all probability go make your self a espresso or a tea or get some water from the breakroom sooner or later throughout the day, proper? It is not thrilling, but it surely must be finished.

Do I come to Funcom and transfer all of your drinks onto the practice tracks so when you’re dunking teabags you must run away to security each few dunks? No! So depart us our tiny little protected patches of flour sand, you monsters.

Listed below are the remainder of the notes for the patch, which is now stay on the general public check shopper. Funcom goals to convey the patch to the principle sport on August 12.