Dune: Awakening News

Public Test Client: Patch 1.1.20.0

[p]Hey Sleepers,[/p][p]We have opened the Public Test Client to test patch 1.1.20.0! You can find the PTC in your Steam library as a separate client.[/p][p]Before we dive into the patch notes we’ve got some important information on a couple things. [/p][p]First, we would appreciate your help in testing the following changes:[/p]

[p]Colliding ornithopters will now get an impulse applied to separate them. This will mitigate the griefing done to Carrier ornithopters by swarming with multiple ornithopters.[/p]
[p]Added Deposit All Blood and Deposit/Extract All Water buttons to blood purifiers and water cisterns.[/p]

[p]To help with testing this, we will provide a top-tier buggy, a scout ornithopter, assault ornithopter, and a transport ornithopter. To receive the vehicles, use the Claim option in Escape menu or if you have an issue, make an in-game bug report. We suggest being in a base with Storage nearby when claiming them, as you will receive the parts for the vehicles.[/p][p][/p][p]We are also disabling taxation and sandstorms for the first week of this patch to not endanger your base. [/p][p]You can find the full patch notes list here: \[LINK][/p][p][/p][p]You can discuss the patch on the relevant Steam Discussion Board and our Discord.[/p][p][/p][p]Thank you and happy testing![/p]

Dune Awakening's new patch may collapse your Pentashields if you're not careful

Dune Awakening has had a pretty good run so far since launching in June. Despite a slightly more bumpy road in recent weeks, the reviews for the MMO are still sitting at 'mostly positive,' with a 75% rating from Steam users. But the upcoming patch is set to shake some things up, adding new content, balancing, and tweaks, including a bug fix that might collapse your Pentashield. That's not all; you can test out the new patch for yourself right now.

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Dune Awakening's devs are testing a patch that'll let you deposit all of your blood and should help tackle ornithopter griefing

The next big patch for Dune: Awakening's now out there via Steam testing client, as devs Funcom look to test out its various tweaks before pressing go on full deployment next month. If you've been desperately screaming for the ability to slop out a bunch of blood and/or water at once, or have recently be chased by a swarm of griefy ornithopters, this is the patch for you.

In fact, the devs make clear that they'd really prefer it if you were to dedicate the bulk of your two-week-long patch testing time to those two things in particular. They're also turning off taxes and sandstorms, the latter very much being the tax equivalent of the natural world, for the first week so bases won't be at risk.

Upcoming Change to Pentashield-Only Bases

[p]Sleepers,[/p][p][/p][p]With the upcoming 1.1.20 patch, we are making a change that will fix a bug that allowed building Pentashields without proper support. As a consequence, all Pentashields built in this way will collapse when the patch goes live.[/p][p]If you have any Pentashields built this way (not attached to the walls but to one another), please rebuild them properly to avoid losing your base.[/p][p]The current ETA for the patch is August 12. In the meanwhile, 1.1.20 is available in the Public Test Client now, you can read more about it here.[/p][p]See you on Arrakis, Sleepers.[/p]

Dune Awakening disables Family Sharing as exploits see it "abused frequently"

Dune Awakening is doing a fairly decent job at cementing its place in the MMO scene so far - a scene that's notoriously hard to break into. However, as with all online multiplayer games, it's got an army of cheaters and bad actors to fight back against. In its efforts to make things fair for all players, developer Funcom has just revealed that it'll be disabling Family Sharing on Steam as it works to eliminate a rampant exploit. Even though it has already banned "hundreds of players" and wiped out lots of illegitimately earned Solaris, the studio says it has to remove the feature while it works out a way to permanently eliminate the exploit.

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