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Patch notes for 23/04/2024

v2.0.6.31902

[h2]Balancing[/h2]
  • Added Annexation costs per ongoing Annexation, that are equals to cost of owning more region, but do not benefit from cost reduction and is never refunded.
  • Atreides Peaceful Annexation takes 10 -> 5 days.
  • Detection of a stealth unit now gives an alert.
  • The ranges for detection of stealth units are not longer smaller at night.


[h2]Bug fixes[/h2]
  • Fixed fremen dev "Desert Watchers" so the unit stay hidden between regions.
  • Fixed fremen dev "Arrakis Secret" so the harvester can be attacked right after undeploying, if you can detect them.
  • Fixed Assassin reseting assassination progress factor even when the infiltration cell has been removed.
  • Fixed the text explaining which faction is affected by an ongoing operation.
  • Fixed the "World Museum" achievement in conquest.

Patch notes for 10/04/2024

v2.0.5.31873

[h2]Balancing[/h2]
  • Overkill damage is now applied to Executionner with "Meat Armor" gear
  • Executionner "Meat Armor": heal 50 -> 40 hp per stack


[h2]Bug Fix[/h2]
  • Fixed Atreides Sustainable Spying not working on the second traits from Thuffir Hawat
  • Fixed recruitment cancellation on multiplayer
  • Fixed Village textures not being updated when annexed by a faction on multiplayer
  • Fixed Harkonnen Gunners' "Blood Thinner" gear removing 50% life instead of 25% in some situations

Patch notes for 02/04/2024

v.2.0.4.31850

[h2]Balancing[/h2]
  • Harkonnen Councillor Umman Kudu gives +3 -> +2 manpower prod
  • Corrino development "Administrative Consolidation" gives -15% -> -20% upkeep on villages with 4 buildings of the same type
  • Landsraad charter support: the efficiency of supporting a charter on the agenda depends on the time left before the next council. It gives 20 Priority for 10 Influence at the start of a period and only 2 Priority for 10 Influence at the end.
  • Resolution "Controlled Markets" can no longer appear during the first 2 councils


[h2]Bug fixes[/h2]
  • Fixed airfields not being updated when using Vernius / Bronso
  • Fixed Fremen hero first recruitment costing Solari
  • Fixed refunded cost being divided each time we open the refund dialog
  • Fixed not being able to choose a hero when no recruitment slot is available
  • Fixed Fremen harvester recruitment being blocked if no recruitment slot is available
  • Fixed not being able to cancel recruitment when refunding in a particular order
  • Fixed Vernius not giving unlocked developments to teammates in 2v2
  • Fixed agents gained via Sietch alliance not being removed if they were assigned to a Sietch
  • Fixed Jamis receiving no authority when liberation is canceled from abandon of the village
  • Fixed Executioner not receiving Bloodthirst stacks when there is an enemy drone nearby on the fight. (also apply to Adrenaline Addiction)
  • Fixed Executionner not getting stacks from suicidal drones nor from executed units (also apply to Adrenaline Addiction)
  • Fixed Fighting Engineer receiving XP multiple times for each drone in the range and in combat (and for itself too)
  • Fixed Fighting Engineer not receiving XP bonus in some situations
  • Fixed Paul first Sietch bonus being lost when the first Sietch is hostile
  • Fixed sending a message with enter unfocusing the chat box in the lobby
  • Fixed Neural Grid sometimes disconnecting neural nodes
  • Fixed Corrino Frigate having 500 more hp while deployed
  • Fixed some units briefly losing stealth when changing regions

Patch notes for 20/03/24

v.2.0.3.31764

[h2]Balancing[/h2]

[h3]House Atreides[/h3]
- Development “Political Entente” gives 5 -> 4 guards on betrayal
- Warden’s Gear “Cover Tactics” gives +20% -> +30% speed

[h3]House Harkonnen[/h3]
- Councillor Cron Vatia gives +2 manpower per empty building slot on oppression, on top of his other effects
- Councillor Umman Kudu produce +3 Manpower on top of his other effects

[h3]The Smugglers[/h3]
- Councillor Lashon Hara now gain information in faction when trading intel or influence and gain both intel and influence from information level

[h3]The Fremen[/h3]
- Councillor Mother Ramallo gives 0.5 authority prod per active harvesting teams, on top of her other bonuses

[h3]House Corrino[/h3]
- Rework “Solid Materials” development:
- +15 plascrete production
- Village buildings have +1000 health
- Rework “Megalopolis” development:
- +3 Water in village neighboring main base
- Building cost 10% less plascrete and solari to build in MB and neighboring villages
- Rework “Imperial Administration” development:
- Effects of villages quirks are applied one more time in village neighboring MB
- Unlock the “investment office” village building
- Rework “Administrative Consolidation” development:
- Village with 4 or more buildings of the same type reduce solari upkeep by 15%
- Unlock the “emperor monument” MB building
- “Integrated cost” development: -50% -> -30% solari upkeep of major building around main base
- “Maintenance Center” village building is no longer available.

[h3]House Ecaz[/h3]
- “Museum of unbound art” gives +5 -> +3 max influence, manpower and authority
- “Garden Resort” +0.5 -> +0.2 influence prod per masterpiece in neighboring regions
- “Artistic Aspirations” development gives 100 -> 80 solari on building a masterpiece
- “Political Art” development gives 15 -> 8 influence on building a masterpiece

[h3]House Vernius[/h3]
- Councillor Cammar Pilru gives 30 Landsraad whenever an opponent declare Conflict or break a Truce, on top of his other effects
- Councillor Tessia Vernius turn 50% of knowledge into intel and solari when no development is in progress
- Patent dev cost 800 -> 600 Solari
- Harmless gadget treaty cost 200 -> 100 Solari
- Analytical machine cost reduced by 100 Solari each

[h3]Other[/h3]
- Balancing of hostile sietch raid (unit stats and numbers of units) in conquest
- Sietch demo raider has 7 -> 6 power
- Spying operation “Scavenger Team” now gives 25% of dead units max health as solari instead of scaling off power.


[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]
- Fixed “Political Model” Atreides Conquest Bonus
- Fixed “Automatic Weapons” Ranger gear
- Fixed no war grace period with Lady Jessica
- Fixed “Omnipresent Fanaticism” Harkonnen Conquest Bonus
- Fixed “Painful Lesson” Conquest Bonus interaction with “Red Fluid” gear
- Fixed “Activist Heardquarters” Smuggler Main Base Extension
- Fixed “Stalwart Alliance” Fremen development: Only one raid per Sietch at the same time, that can only help to Liberate
- Fixed “Political Arts” Ecaz development blocking charters after House Ecaz death
- Fixed “Sobering Medication” Squire gear not displaying its bonuses correctly in multiplayer
- Fixed C’Tair skill
- Obfuscating the “Counter Measures” development properly unassign the third agents in counterintelligence
- Fixed being able to queue multiple devs without checking their requirements with Vernius 5k hegemony
- Fixed water regulation resolution being scaled by villages
- Units are not dragged into combat by aoe anymore
- Fix Crew Training Program was apply 2 times (on faction & on harvester)
- Fix conflicted input after rebind + add feedback when there is a conflict
- Fixing assassination tooltip showing wrong message when only free infiltration cells where remaining
- Fixing landsraad confirm button getting disabled after each resAction
- Fixing rally point and hero alerts in dedicated servers
- Fixing stealth units remaining stealth if they are the only one sieging
- Fixing AI when trying to defend itself

Free update for Dune 4X game adds playable heroes from the films

Dune: Spice Wars just got its first piece of post-launch DLC, which adds House Vernius of Ix to the list of factions in the game. However, that expansion is launching alongside a major free update for the core game that adds playable heroes for each faction fighting for control of Arrakis.


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