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 issues 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 wherein the studio informed 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” resulting from griefing even after the power 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 technique to grief gamers by touchdown their Ornis on prime of unsuspecting gamers — this time to stop them from farming.
“All of the griefers are actually 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 warfare in opposition to everybody else on their server, and but there’s zero means 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 publish so as to add: “I stored 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 basic and different horrible chats, however Dune basic 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 reputable and anticipated,” responded one other participant. “Entrapping somebody by abusing sport mechanics supposed to stop grief of an identical variety, ala pinning individuals 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. Should 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 concerning the difficulty.
Dune: Awakening has loved an outstanding launch, with a ‘very optimistic’ consumer evaluation score 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 evaluation.
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