Dune: Awakening’s massive endgame modifications at the moment are reside, reworking half of the sport’s previously participant vs. participant heavy-Deep Desert area right into a participant vs. environment-friendly area.The change got here faster than followers maybe anticipated. News that developer Funcom can be making an enormous shift to the survival MMO’s endgame got here only a few days in the past in a weblog submit from the sport’s artistic director, Joel Bylos, who stated Funcom’s objective was to not “force PvE players to interact with a PvP system that they may have no interest in.” That information was adopted by a public take a look at consumer construct for the sport’s 1.1.10.0 patch that listed the Deep Desert modifications (amongst many others).
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However, a hotfix launched immediately 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 inside 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 variation, making it in order that “loot overall is more valuable and plentiful in 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 will continue monitoring how this plays out and continue iterating when and if needed,” Funcom states within the patch notes.The hotfix additionally brings beforehand introduced modifications to Ornithopters, at the moment a menace in PvP regardless of having already been nerfed to now not trigger injury when ramming into different gamers on the bottom. Using a rocket launcher module for the Scout Orni now decreases its high 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 one 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 referred to as Sietches. While gamers can now declare land in different Sietches, the variety of bases a participant can have remains to be locked to a few. The hotfix additionally introduces a participant reporting characteristic, permitting gamers to report textual content chat or messages from different gamers.You can learn the complete Dune: Awakening replace 1.1.0.17 patch notes under. Funcom just lately introduced Dune: Awakening is already its fastest-selling recreation up to now, having offered greater than 1 million copies since its launch in early June.Dune: Awakening Update 1.1.0.17 Patch NotesFEATURES AND CHANGESDeep Desert:As outlined in A message from the Creative 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. Rest 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 the complete southern half of the Deep Desert map. This implies 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.Control Points and Shipwrecks will, nonetheless, proceed to be PvP all through the complete map, which implies you will see that localized pockets of PvP inside the PvE part nonetheless. Similar to how Shipwrecks are PvP in Hagga Basin.To retain the Risk 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 beneficial assets.The largest spice fields can even spawn within the north.The majority of Control Points will exist within the northern half.As a part of these modifications, now we have made some balancing changes within the Deep Desert: The decrease half of the Deep Desert now affords PvE loot that’s balanced towards shared loot and PvE actions. You could discover higher loot within the extra harmful PvP space positioned additional north on the map. In the PvE space, for instance, every participant will get their very own loot and might anticipate to obtain one schematic. In the PvP space, loot is distributed on a “first come, first served” foundation, with increased portions of every thing. Players 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 5.The variety of energetic small spice fields has elevated from 20 to 22.The spawn price 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 accessible every week will wish to go to each the PvP and PvE Imperial Testing Stations. Keep in thoughts the loot in them rotates every week, so even should you’re not keen on PvP, you can get hold of it at a later date should you’re not capable of commerce for it or purchase it off the Exchange.Vehicles:We have 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 variation.Exiting ornithopters mid-air will now trigger them to drop straight down as an alternative of gliding away. This ought to lower the possibility that you just lose your ornithopter upon disconnecting from the sport or exiting accidentally your ornithopter mid-air (sure, now we have seen the movies). Known problem: There is an edge case that in case your car leads to the quicksand you won’t be capable to work together with it if you’re within the quicksand. The workaround is to attempt to get on high 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. Before this variation, gamers had their “home” 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.Players may also place respawn beacons on any sietch of their world.As a results of this variation, the house icon on the server choice display, which beforehand indicated your own home server, now signifies on what server you may have a base. Similarly, a car icon reveals the place you may have autos.Technical and stability:Increased recreation stability.The newest NVIDIA driver was added to the GPU driver verify on the recreation launch.DifferentWe have launched Player Reporting, permitting gamers to now report different gamers’ messages from the textual content chat or report gamers from the Inspect menu on gamers.FIXESTechnical and stability:As a steady effort, now we have closed a number of exploit vulnerabilities.Fixed a difficulty the place a selected sort of community problem would trigger gamers to be caught in an infinite loading display.Fixed a difficulty the place some gamers may expertise a consumer freeze when touring between Deep Desert servers.Combat:Fixed a difficulty the place gamers performing a melee assault may get obstructed by corpses mendacity on the bottom.User Interface:Fixed a difficulty the place the guild faction alignment was not localized on the Guild Overview tab.Fixed a difficulty the place gamers may encounter a black display in the event that they skipped the cinematic at “The Wreck of the Hephaestus”.Fixed a difficulty the place a number of Sandbike analysis schematics failed to say the Imperial Testing Stations as the first supply.Travel:Fixed a difficulty the place gamers may use an ornithopter pilot service to fly from the cities to Hagga Basin if they’d arrived in a metropolis with their ornithopter.Miscellaneous:You will now not lose realized emotes when respec’ing your ability tree.