Dune: Awakening griefers are at it once more, concocting ever-new and thrilling methods to make different gamers’ lives depressing. And as soon as once more, the griefing considerations Ornithopters.
Final week, Funcom launched Dune: Awakening’s Public Check Shopper after which prolonged the PvE zone of the Deep Desert from about 10% of the map to 50%. It adopted an AMA by which the studio instructed gamers annoyed by the endgame expertise that it was “formulating a plan” to enhance PvP within the Deep Desert. Beforehand, gamers branded the endgame as “poisonous” on account of griefing even after the flexibility for gamers to squish one another with their Ornithopter was supposedly patched out.
However regardless of Funcom’s mitigations, unscrupulous gamers have found one other method to grief gamers by touchdown their Ornis on high of unsuspecting gamers — this time to forestall them from farming.
“All of the griefers at the moment are coming into Hagga to farm spice. They’re doing the identical thumper and land on thopter method they perfected in [Deep Desert]. However now they’re utilizing it to farm all of the minor nodes in Hagga,” wrote one aggrieved fan over the weekend.
“This sport has some large points forward. Griefers are in an all-out battle towards everybody else on their server, and but there’s zero approach for solos to band collectively to cease it. And as a Dune fan, I do not assume planting a thumper after which having 4 thopters land on you is a part of the mythology.”
u/RandoFinder then edited their put up so as to add: “I saved my Thopter at 730 km for half-hour till a spice blow, and as quickly as I moved, 4 thopters had been chasing me. JFC, y’all are pathetic. This was in Hagga. I had gamers tonight telling one another to doxx me once I stood as much as them in Hagga chat. I have been in WoW normal and different horrible chats, however Dune normal is essentially the most poisonous chat that I’ve ever seen.”
“I believe it goes with out saying that PVP is PVP, and killing different gamers in a PVP zone is completely respectable and anticipated,” responded one other participant. “Entrapping somebody by abusing sport mechanics supposed to forestall grief of an identical form, ala pinning folks with ornithopters that in any other case cannot be destroyed or escaped in a PVE zone, is griefing. Griefing needs to be explicitly and implicitly disallowed. In case you’re in a PVE zone, you shouldn’t have to fret about gamers killing you thru an abuse of mechanics.”
On the time of writing, there was no public response from Funcom in regards to the challenge.
Dune: Awakening has loved an excellent launch, with a ‘very constructive’ person assessment score 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 assessment.
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