The Dune: Awakening beta weekend has come to an finish, and together with sandworms, speeders, and spice, there’s one other subject on everybody’s thoughts: stunlock.
We discovered over the weekend that Paul Atreides did not must spend all that point coaching to grasp the gradual blade: he might have simply repeatedly slashed his knife round in entrance of him and conquered Arrakis in a matter of minutes.
That is as a result of there is a little bit of an exploit in Dune: Awakening’s PvP. As an alternative of holding the mouse button to carry out a gradual blade assault, you possibly can simply spam a fast knife assault at your PvP opponent, and in the event that they’re at zero stamina they’re going to be staggered. Use the temporary stagger window to maintain slashing, and so they’ll be fully unable to defend themselves or escape. Button-mashing FTW, even when they have their protecting protect up which, lore-wise, is meant to defend you towards something shifting rapidly. It is… not nice.
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There are a couple of clips of this exploit making the rounds, and certainly one of them was even proven to a number of of Funcom’s builders on the finish of a 4-hour livestream this weekend. The clip reveals streamer Tyler1 combating Shroud, each utilizing knives with Holtzmann shields activated. Shroud, out of stamina, is perpetually staggered and Tyler1 retains spamming knife assaults. It takes a superb lengthy whereas, however the helpless Shroud is finally killed.
Dune: Awakening’s world director Jeff Gagné and lead producer Ole Andreas Haley have been fast to handle the exploit and touch upon if the exploit might be fastened within the June 10 launch.
“It’ll. We have already got a model, internally, that has a few of this [problem] already coated,” they mentioned. “The [beta] is a couple of variations previous in comparison with what we now have.”
You’ll be able to see the clip right here at 4:04:16 within the livestream. You can even see it from Shroud’s perspective within the clip under:
“We received this coated,” Gagné added. “It isn’t like ‘Oh my god, we’ve not thought of it.’ It is already going away.”
Weirdly, I’ve seen some gamers defending the exploit, saying it is Shroud’s fault for not managing his stamina, however I am nonetheless glad it is getting a repair. I do not care how careless you might be in a combat, being slowly spammed to dying with a knife when you’re helplessly stunlocked is not good PvP, regardless of if somebody was taking part in recklessly. Fight simply should not work that manner, doubly so because the lore says fast-moving blades will not get via your protect anyway.
