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 tools.”
Yesterday, Funcom launched one other patch for Dune: Awakening, with 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 assets and a greater probability 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” resulting from 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 forestall them from farming.
Nonetheless, the change — which was “supposed to solely happen with the following Coriolis cycle and never affect the continued cycle” — resulted in an “oversight within the growth course of and inside 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 inside processes because of this and might be higher sooner or later,” the crew stated in a press release.
“We’re working to reimburse autos and objects (to the most effective of our capability) to gamers who had been impacted by this. You’ll be able to count on the reimbursed supplies, objects, and car parts to point out up within the in-game ‘Declare Rewards’ tab by the tip of this week.”
In the identical assertion, the crew additionally revealed it was working laborious to eradicate cheaters from Arrakis, writing, “our major focus, which continues over the following weeks and months, might be to take away all recognized exploits (third occasion cheat engines, consumer hacks, or in-game exploitation of recreation mechanics). As well as, we might be laborious at work enhancing the sport, including high quality of life options, and addressing vital gameplay points.
“We’ve zero tolerance for the kind of participant habits that has an affect on the expertise of different gamers, and we are going to proceed to concentrate on guaranteeing that gamers can benefit from the recreation as it’s supposed,” the assertion added. “If you happen to see somebody dishonest or exploiting, please report them to us utilizing the out there reporting channels.”
Funcom stated that to this point 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 a crew devoted solely to combating hackers and fixing exploits. Over the following few patches, they are going to be introducing extra efforts to forestall exploits by rising safety on a number of consumer/server communication layer, performing extra penetration testing in opposition to frequent assault vectors, and auditing our merchandise and stock methods to verify they’re immune to merchandise duplication,” Funcom said.
Lastly, the crew additionally apologized to gamers who had misplaced “autos or different assets” resulting from in-game bugs. Although admitting some points are laborious to duplicate and resolve, Funcom stated it’s now engaged on instruments to “higher reimburse gamers for car losses resulting from bugs.”
Dune: Awakening has loved an outstanding launch, with a ‘very optimistic’ consumer overview ranking on Steam. Inside hours of going stay 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 overview.
If all that is bought you however you are undecided the place to begin, make sure that 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 bought Dune: Awakening useful resource guides that’ll enable you discover iron, metal, aluminium, and a Dune: Awakening Trainers areas information that will help you survive on Arrakis.
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