There’s one other new patch out there for Dune: Awakening, and extra tweaks to enhance the endgame expertise for gamers who’d favor to spend time in PvE actions, together with the flexibility to farm Tier 6 assets 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 during which the studio informed 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 result of griefing even after the flexibility 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 forestall them from farming.
Dune: Awakening’s final huge replace, 1.1.10.00, launched a protracted checklist 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 an entire part of the patch notes devoted to the Deep Desert, end-game, and Landsraad.
The flexibility to seek out extra T6 assets in PvE areas of the Deep Desert is especially noteworthy, as even with the rebalancing of PvE and PvP zones, it was nonetheless fairly tough to routinely discover T6 minerals with out delving into heavy PvP areas. This could make it simpler for gamers needing assets to seek out what they need with out placing their digital lives on the road.
It is not all unhealthy for PvP followers, both. One of many adjustments features a delay for leaving a PvP safety zone from 5 to 30 seconds to forestall border tenting and permit gamers to raised shield their areas.
This is the total checklist…
Dune: Awakening Patch Notes 1.1.15.0
Deep Desert, Finish Recreation, and Landsraad
- Tier 6 assets 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 choice of elements. Fallen Shipwrecks and Buried Treasure can drop elements from any location.
- Added an opportunity of a special choice 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 forestall 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 sport stability.
- Diminished the instances 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’ve what it takes?” might generally get caught and couldn’t be accomplished should you exited the dialogue with Maxim Kazmir earlier than choosing the road “It says right here that you simply’re in search of 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’ll miss them. Now rewards can solely be claimed when there’s sufficient house 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 enable constructing a automobile with objects from one other participant’s stock.
If all that is bought you however you are unsure the place to begin, be sure that to take a look at all of the Dune: Awakening lessons you possibly can select from, and our Dune: Awakening walkthrough for a step-by-step information to the story. We have additionally bought Dune: Awakening useful resource guides that’ll allow you to discover iron, metal, aluminium, and a Dune: Awakening Trainers areas information that will help you survive on Arrakis.
Dune: Awakening has loved an excellent launch, with a ‘very constructive’ person evaluate ranking on Steam. Inside hours of going dwell 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 sport ever, and securing a Nice 8/10 in our evaluate.
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