There’s one other new patch obtainable for Dune: Awakening, and extra tweaks to enhance the endgame expertise for gamers who’d want to spend time in PvE actions, together with the power to farm Tier 6 sources and a greater probability of getting Distinctive drops in PvE loot in Deep Desert.
Beforehand, Funcom launched Dune: Awakening’s prolonged the PvE zone of the Deep Desert from about 10% of the map to 50%. It adopted an AMA through which the studio instructed gamers annoyed by the endgame expertise that it was “formulating a plan” to enhance PvP within the Deep Desert. Some had branded the endgame “poisonous” as a consequence of griefing even after the power for gamers to squish one another with their Ornithopter was supposedly patched out. Later, griefers deliberately landed their Ornis on different gamers’ personal thopters to stop them from farming.
Dune: Awakening’s final massive replace, 1.1.10.00, launched an extended listing of adjustments, and whereas it did not particularly take care of end-game points that point, it did make some QoL enhancements. However this time, there’s a complete part of the patch notes devoted to the Deep Desert, end-game, and Landsraad.
The power to search out extra T6 sources in PvE areas of the Deep Desert is especially noteworthy, as even with the rebalancing of PvE and PvP zones, it was nonetheless fairly difficult to routinely discover T6 minerals with out delving into heavy PvP areas. This could make it simpler for gamers needing sources to search out what they need with out placing their digital lives on the road.
It is not all dangerous for PvP followers, both. One of many adjustments features a delay for leaving a PvP safety zone from 5 to 30 seconds to stop border tenting and permit gamers to raised defend their areas.
Here is the complete listing…
Dune: Awakening Patch Notes 1.1.15.0
Deep Desert, Finish Sport, and Landsraad
- Tier 6 sources can now be collected throughout wider areas within the PvE a part of the Deep Desert.
- We added a component of randomization to the respawn timer of distinctive loot containers within the Deep Desert.
- The plastanium tier crafting elements had been break up as much as drop based mostly on the content material location: Imperial Testing Stations, Caves, or Shipwrecks, with every of them dropping their very own number of elements. Fallen Shipwrecks and Buried Treasure can drop elements from any location.
- Added an opportunity of a distinct number of Uniques drop in PvE loot in Deep Desert.
- The spawn charge of medium fields elevated from 5 again to eight, and of the small spice fields elevated from 22 to 30.
- The delay for leaving a PvP safety zone elevated from 5 to 30 seconds to stop border tenting and permit PvP gamers to guard their space.
- Modified Landsraad duties to permit for Kill and Supply Contribution to occur after the duty has been accomplished however awarding solely private contribution. (i.e., which faction gained and what number of guild votes had been awarded are unaffected by contributions made after the duty was accomplished by one faction).
Different:
- Improved recreation stability.
- Lowered the circumstances the place the sandworm can push autos below terrain.
- Added a brand new audio alert for the PvP zone change.
FIXES
- Fastened a difficulty the place the Harkonnen faction recruitment contract “Do you could have what it takes?” might typically get caught and couldn’t be accomplished in case you exited the dialogue with Maxim Kazmir earlier than deciding on the road “It says right here that you simply’re on the lookout for recruits“ to finish the contract.
- Fastened a difficulty the place contract rewards dropped on the bottom in case your stock was full, which might result in conditions the place you’d miss them. Now rewards can solely be claimed when there’s sufficient area in your stock.
- Fastened a difficulty the place automobile modules wouldn’t spotlight correctly after the participant had utilized a customization variant.
- Fastened a difficulty the place the positioning of a pentashield floor might overlap with an current pentashield floor.
- Fastened an exploit that will permit constructing a automobile with gadgets from one other participant’s stock.
If all that is acquired you however you are unsure the place to begin, ensure to take a look at all of the Dune: Awakening courses you possibly can select from, and our Dune: Awakening walkthrough for a step-by-step information to the story. We have additionally acquired Dune: Awakening useful resource guides that’ll enable you discover iron, metal, aluminium, and a Dune: Awakening Trainers areas information that can assist you survive on Arrakis.
Dune: Awakening has loved an outstanding launch, with a ‘very optimistic’ person assessment score on Steam. Inside hours of going reside on June 10, Funcom’s survival MMO had clocked up over 142,000 concurrent gamers on Valve’s platform, and hit a brand new excessive earlier this month of 189,333 gamers. And it is already clocked up over 1 million gamers, too, making it Funcom’s fastest-selling recreation ever, and securing a Nice 8/10 in our assessment.
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