Dune: Awakening developer Funcom has apologized after “patching out” a structure change within the Deep Desert that briefly remodeled PvE territory into PvP, resulting in “an unlucky quantity of misplaced bases and gear.”
Yesterday, Funcom launched one other patch for Dune: Awakening, with extra tweaks to enhance the endgame expertise for gamers who’d choose to spend time in PvE actions, together with the power to farm Tier 6 assets and a greater likelihood of getting Distinctive drops in PvE loot in Deep Desert.
It follows on-going efforts from the developer to enhance PvP within the Deep Desert after an AMA revealed many gamers branded the endgame “poisonous” on account 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.
Nevertheless, the change — which was “supposed to solely happen with the following Coriolis cycle and never influence the continuing cycle” — resulted in an “oversight within the improvement course of and inner communications,” leading to heavy losses for some gamers.
“We’re extremely sorry that this occurred and we wish to acknowledge that this could have been dealt with higher. We’ve modified our inner processes because of this and shall be higher sooner or later,” the workforce stated in an announcement.
“We’re working to reimburse autos and objects (to the most effective of our capability) to gamers who had been impacted by this. You may anticipate the reimbursed supplies, objects, and car parts to indicate up within the in-game ‘Declare Rewards’ tab by the tip of this week.”
In the identical assertion, the workforce additionally revealed it was working exhausting to get rid of cheaters from Arrakis, writing, “our main focus, which continues over the following weeks and months, shall be to take away all recognized exploits (third occasion cheat engines, shopper hacks, or in-game exploitation of sport mechanics). As well as, we shall be exhausting at work bettering the sport, including high quality of life options, and addressing crucial gameplay points.
“We’ve got zero tolerance for the kind of participant conduct that has an influence on the expertise of different gamers, and we are going to proceed to deal with guaranteeing that gamers can benefit from the sport as it’s supposed,” the assertion added. “In case you see somebody dishonest or exploiting, please report them to us utilizing the out there reporting channels.”
Funcom stated that to date it has taken motion on “a number of hundred” cheats caught utilizing exploits, cheats, and hacks, with “extra waves of bans coming as we establish additional culprits.”
“We’ve got a workforce devoted completely to combating hackers and fixing exploits. Over the following few patches, they are going to be introducing extra efforts to stop exploits by growing safety on a number of shopper/server communication layer, performing extra penetration testing in opposition to widespread assault vectors, and auditing our merchandise and stock methods to ensure they’re proof against merchandise duplication,” Funcom acknowledged.
Lastly, the workforce additionally apologized to gamers who had misplaced “autos or different assets” on account of in-game bugs. Although admitting some points are exhausting to copy and resolve, Funcom stated it’s now engaged on instruments to “higher reimburse gamers for car losses on account of bugs.”
Dune: Awakening has loved an excellent launch, with a ‘very optimistic’ person overview ranking 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 sport ever, and securing a Nice 8/10 in our overview.
If all that is received you however you are unsure the place to start out, make sure that to take a look at all of the Dune: Awakening courses you may select from, and our Dune: Awakening walkthrough for a step-by-step information to the story. We have additionally received Dune: Awakening useful resource guides that’ll show you how to discover iron, metal, aluminium, and a Dune: Awakening Trainers places information that can assist you survive on Arrakis.
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