Dune: Awakening Developer Is 'Formulating A Plan' To Improve PvP and Toxic Deep Desert Experiences

In its archetypal Q&A since Dune: Awakening launched connected June 10, developer Funcom responded to questions connected what's adjacent for its endurance MMO, and successful peculiar changes owed to travel to its endgame.

Funcom said it's "currently formulating a plan" to amended PvP successful the Deep Desert, which players person antecedently branded arsenic "toxic" owed to griefing. Funcom has already patched retired the quality for players to squish different radical with their Ornithopter, but elder crippled manager Viljar Sommerbakk besides revealed the squad was considering tweaking Ornis further, specified arsenic equipping them with rockets that "reduces wide maneuverability and max speed".

The squad is besides considering making Scout Orni rockets outgo somewhat much vigor to fire, thing Sommerbakk said would bounds its combat usefulness comparative to the Assault Ornithopter "while inactive allowing it to beryllium an aerial threat."

"We person a batch of plans to code [players'] points astir respawn times and revives," originative manager Joel Bylos added. "Full loot is simply a decree that tin beryllium obtained via the Landsraad (so vie determination if you privation to marque it a reality), determination are power points successful the heavy godforsaken already, we person nary plans to trim the DD size. As we enactment connected the game, we volition proceed to enactment connected making PvP much rewarding (I americium definite you volition enactment I americium not being precise factual but that is due to the fact that we are readying and watching however radical are playing and uncovering the close points to address)."

Lead shaper Ole Andreas Hayley said: "The Deep Desert volition ever enactment a PvP free-for-all area, but we mightiness see adding different locations that connection factional warfare."

"We privation players to marque meaningful decisions astir what they bring with them and however they outfit their vehicles," Sommerbakk continued. "Once players person engaged successful PvP, we privation the acquisition to beryllium reliable, responsive, and intelligibly understood. This determines however PvP arsenic a full feels and however players marque their moment-to-moment decisions successful a fight. To guarantee a much reliable acquisition successful crushed combat, we are continuing to code issues with question desyncs and rubber banding, arsenic good arsenic quality activation reliability."

There's besides immoderate prime of beingness tweaks connected the way, too, including named retention containers and vehicles, to assistance you differentiate, arsenic good arsenic "deposit/extract all" buttons for h2o storages and the like. We should besides expect brag encounters arsenic portion of aboriginal dungeons arsenic the squad continues to germinate PvE content.

Interestingly, Hayley besides teased that we could person further maps successful the future, also.

"The Dune beingness has a batch of absorbing locations and worlds to explore, and we're looking guardant to continuing to physique connected apical of the instauration we have," helium said.

Right now, determination are nary plans to marque it easier to separate betwixt NPCs and different players — "this is successful enactment with the imaginativeness of the game" — and erstwhile asked if it would beryllium imaginable to skip each dialog and animations, Bylos said: "Absolutely not."

We gave Dune: Awakening a Great 8/10 successful our review, writing: "Dune: Awakening is an fantabulous endurance MMO that captures Frank Herbet’s sci-fi satellite incredibly well, mostly to its vantage and occasionally to its detriment. The endurance ascent from dehydrated peasant to almighty warlord of Arrakis is simply a joyousness astir each measurement of the way, and the communicative and worldbuilding filled this nerd with implicit joy.

"There’s inactive plentifulness for Awakening to enactment connected though, arsenic its combat ne'er truly hits its stride, the endgame is simply a spot of a chaotic messiness not worthy the effort, and there’s rather a fewer method bugs yet to beryllium squashed, but adjacent these unsmooth patches felt similar tiny godforsaken mice adjacent to the leviathan shai-huluds that are this endurance game’s fantastic successes."

Dune: Awakening has enjoyed a superb launch, with a 'very positive' idiosyncratic reappraisal standing connected Steam. Within hours of going unrecorded connected June 10, Funcom's endurance MMO had clocked up implicit 142,000 concurrent players connected Valve's platform, and deed a caller precocious implicit the play of 189,333 players.

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