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 desire to spend time in PvE actions, together with the flexibility to farm Tier 6 sources 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” as a consequence 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.
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 inner communications,” leading to heavy losses for some gamers.
“We’re extremely sorry that this occurred and we need to acknowledge that this could have been dealt with higher. We’ve modified our inner processes because of this and will probably be higher sooner or later,” the crew mentioned in an announcement.
“We’re working to reimburse autos and gadgets (to one of the best of our capability) to gamers who have been impacted by this. You may count on the reimbursed supplies, gadgets, and automobile elements to indicate up within the in-game ‘Declare Rewards’ tab by the top of this week.”
In the identical assertion, the crew additionally revealed it was working onerous to remove cheaters from Arrakis, writing, “our major focus, which continues over the following weeks and months, will probably be to take away all recognized exploits (third get together cheat engines, consumer hacks, or in-game exploitation of sport mechanics). As well as, we will probably be onerous at work enhancing the sport, including high quality of life options, and addressing vital gameplay points.
“We now have zero tolerance for the kind of participant conduct that has an affect on the expertise of different gamers, and we are going to proceed to give attention to 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 mentioned 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 determine additional culprits.”
“We now have 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 growing safety on a number of consumer/server communication layer, performing extra penetration testing in opposition to widespread assault vectors, and auditing our merchandise and stock methods to verify they’re proof against merchandise duplication,” Funcom acknowledged.
Lastly, the crew additionally apologized to gamers who had misplaced “autos or different sources” as a consequence of in-game bugs. Although admitting some points are onerous to copy and resolve, Funcom mentioned it’s now engaged on instruments to “higher reimburse gamers for automobile losses as a consequence of bugs.”
Dune: Awakening has loved an outstanding launch, with a ‘very optimistic’ consumer assessment 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 sport ever, and securing a Nice 8/10 in our assessment.
If all that is obtained you however you are unsure the place to begin, be certain 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 obtained Dune: Awakening useful resource guides that’ll assist you to discover iron, metal, aluminium, and a Dune: Awakening Trainers areas information that can assist you survive on Arrakis.
Vikki Blake is a reporter for IGN, in addition to a critic, columnist, and advisor with 15+ years expertise working with a number of the world’s largest gaming websites and publications. She’s additionally a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually Excessive Chaos. Discover her at BlueSky.