Dune: Spice Wars News

• Vernius’s harvester in range of the Experimental Alloy Furnace will get a trait with texts in english, even if it’s not the chosen game language.

• Fixed Fremen AoE damage factor issues
  
• Fixed AoE issues for Skimisher (center of explosion, aoe radius and aoe fx radius)
  
• Fixed loot display not appearing correctly
  
• Re added idle harvester alert
  
• Fixed robotic voices in conquest
  
• Alloy furnace works on Vernius Harvester
  
• Fixed popup appearing when using a patent or obfuscate when it should not
  
• Fixed Epic Quest Operation
  
• Fixed player being able to place a infiltration cell when faction target is already being assassinated by player
  
• Fixed free main base building effect when having a pending building
  
• Ceremonial caves now works properly on great volcano
  
• Fixed sniper trait
  
• Some fixes in aura levels (fedaykin, incinerator, siren, overlord stings and hark drones)
  
• Also adding filter so armies in truce won't get damage from aura levels
  
• Fixed repair cost for vernius ship
  
• Fixed radius for Incinerator gear and Feydakin
  
• Fixed cost applied not being what is shown in refund dialog
  
• Fixed being able to unlock “Patent Troll” achievements when not playing the required faction
  
• Fixed uncontrollable unit not auto engaging in combat
  
• Fixed LifeReformation gear being active when regenerating at a safe place
  
• Fixed uncontrollable units not loosing Rabban's passive when they become controllable
  
• Fixed incinerators badly applying burn. Also fixing the gear that accelerates the burn
  
• Reduced allocations and perf CPU
  
• Fixed Conquest Battle generation
  
• Fixed Agony for Vernius and also fixing random bug that spawns uncontrollable raids of my faction around my mainbase
  
• Fixed stakkanov prod increase on craft workshops

• close range and most aoe range: 10->7
  
• Patent dev 1000 -> 800 solaris
  
• Atreides Support Drone 13 -> 14 power
  
• Harkonnen Combat Probe 60 -> 100 hp
  
• knight gear:
  
  • vow of fervor +30% -> +20% damage
    
  • vow of heroism +2 -> +3 CP
    
  • vow of bravery: -3 -> -2 armor
• Fremen dev Stalwart Alliance: the amount of unit in the raid have been reduced
  
• Harkonnen Overlord stings:
  
  • 80 -> 150 health
    
  • Lose 50% -> 40% health per day
• Duncan Idaho: unit at short range inflict +10% -> +20% damage
  
• Vernius Resonance Drone do not attack with aoe anymore
  
• Fedaykin nerf 180 degrees -> 120 degrees
  
• Sietch raid units have been balanced
  
• Incinerator, Fedaykin and Siren aoe have been fixed to start from them instead of the unit they target. Angles have also been adapted to fit the visual not too badly.

• House Atreides: Duncan Idaho or Gurney Halleck
  
• House Harkonnen: Glossu Rabban or Iakin Nefud
  
• The Fremen: Chani Kynes or Otheym
  
• House Corrino: Wensicia Corrino or Captain Aramsham
  
• The Smugglers: Drisq or Bannerjee
  
• House Ecaz: Whitmore Bludd or Ilesa Ecaz

• House Atreides: Dr. Wellington Yueh and Young Paul Atreides
  
• House Harkonnen: Umman Kudu and Cron Vatia
  
• The Smugglers: Lashon Hara and Stakkanov
  
• The Fremen: Jamis and Shimoom
  
• House Corrino: Mother Helen Gaius Mohiam and Zum Garon
  
• House Ecaz: Rivvy Dinari and Ibbo Vipp

• Combat systems have been reworked with an emphasis on making army composition deeper and more diverse, with every unit having a role to play, without increasing the need to micromanage too much.
  
• Units have a more diverse range of armor values. Armor can no longer be shredded, but every faction has a unit that reduces armor value by a flat amount, as well as a unit made to kill high-armored opponents.
  
• To increase diversity, units now have different attack speeds, and Elite units are available earlier in the game, at 5k hegemony. Gear are also more specialized and easier to access: they are free to install and only cost Solari to remove or swap.
  
• To increase the strategic possibilities, both on the offense and defense, it is now possible to change the position your units appear on the map by placing a Rally Point anywhere within Airfield range. The Fremen use allied sietches that have not been pillaged to place their Rally Point.
  
• To accommodate those changes, almost all units' stats, traits and gear have been changed, as well as many military buildings, development and operation.

• We’ve made Stealth a more powerful, advanced mechanic.
  
• Stealthy units are no longer detected by everything. They will often remain hidden until their first strike in combat. To detect a stealthy unit before they strike, you will have to rely on Probe Setup, a new village building called Monitoring Station, or a rare Gear or Hero effect.
  
• On the other hand, most units are no longer stealth as a base effect. Most but not all of the units that were previously stealthy have a gear that grants the effect. It can otherwise be granted by some faction’s spying operation, development, or heroes.

• Spice Fields in neutral and controlled regions can be harvested by Tethered Combine Harvester Drones.
  
• Factions in truce get the effects of unresearched development that have been researched by Vernius.
  
• Mixed S-Vault districts are split to give district bonuses

• Villages not connected to the Nodal Network through Neural Nodes suffer -50% ressource productions

• Can File Patent on researched developments that no other faction has researched.
  
• Can research 1 development without having researched its requirement.

• Can Obfuscate a single researched development.
  
• Each Knowledge point increases the production of all other resources by 0.2%.

• Can build multiple Main Base buildings at the same time in the same district of S-Vault
  
• Removed Main Base buildings in S-Vault are reimbursed fully
  
• Gain 1 Knowledge per district bonus

• Villages neighboring a single Vernius region cost -20% Authority to Annex
  
• The furthest connected Neural Node generates an Airfield

• Maximum Influence increases by 5 per Knowledge
  
• Immediately gain 200 Influence when entering Conflict with another faction

• Infiltration levels required for spying missions are lowered by 1
  
• While no development is in progress, 50% of Knowledge is turned into Intel

• Hero trait:
  
  • +20% drone recruitment speed
    
  • Spying operation launched in Nuwa’s region last 2 days longer
    
  • Nearby Tethered units have +1 armor and move 20% faster
• Skill: Nuwa’s Repair Station
  
  • Can deploy a repairing station that heals nearby drones. Cannot move while the repairing station is active.

• Hero trait:
  
  • A single unit can get +1 gear in the armory
    
  • C’tair has stealth near ally non-mechanical unit and ally villages
    
  • C’tair’s first attack executes inside ixian territory.
• Skill: Evasion
  
  • Leaves combat and becomes stealth
    
  • Must be near an ally non-mechanical unit or an ally village

• +2 Knowledge per exploited Spice Field
  
• -2 Fuel Cell Requirement for Combine Harvester Drone

• Connected Neural Nodes produce 1 Fuel Cell
  
• +2% knowledge per connected Neural Nodes

• Connect the region to the Nodal Network, Tethering drones in the region and neighboring regions.
  
• Can only be build in region where exactly 1 neighbor is connected to the Nodal Network

• Can spend up to 2 Fuel Cell in Combine Harvester Drone to increase their production
  
• Unlock the Spice Silo
  
• Unlock the Spice Laboratory

• Can spend up to 4 Fuel Cell in Combine Harvester Drone to increase their production
  
• +0.5 Spice production per Knowledge

• When out of fuel cells, Water is used in its stead
  
• Unlock the second gear slot in the armory

• +5 Command Point
  
• Agents assigned on Spacing Guild Information produce 2 Fuel Cell
  
• Unlock the Command Post

• +10 Command Point
  
• +0.5% recruitment and regeneration speed per Knowledge

• Gain +5 Standing on Council Opening per active Truce
  
• +2 Knowledge per active Truce

• Unlock Analytical Machine Agent and get one for free
  
• Unlock the Harmless Gadget Treaty
  
• Unlock the Intelligence Agency

• +1 Knowledge per information field with at least 1 Analytical Machine Agent
  
• Information level increases by 1 in factions that have accepted a Harmless Gadget treaty

• Infiltration Cells neighboring a region connected to the Nodal Network do not count towards the maximum of Infiltration Cells
  
• Unlock Assassins

• The Nodal Network can optionally connect across Deep Deserts
  
• Each node in the longest path of the Nodal Network gives +1 Knowledge and +2% authority production

• Enemy factions pay +30% authority to capture a region neighboring at least 2 region connected to the Nodal Network
  
• Unlock the Neural Core

• +2 free Automated Militia in Village connected to the Nodal Network
  
• In controlled regions, enemy units suffer -4% health per day per node connected to the main base through this region.

Dune: Spice Wars has been scratching the itch for diehard Dune fans patiently waiting for the many times delayed release of the movie sequel Dune Part Two. The strategy game, which officially launched back in September 2023, allows players to take on many of the popular factions that battle for power on Arrakis, including the famous House Atreides and House Harkonnen. Now, developer Shiro Games has revealed the next playable faction in the 4X game, and they are looking quite powerful.

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• Duncan Idaho and Gurney Halleck for House Atreides
  
• Glossu Rabban and Iakin Nefud for House Harkonnen
  
• Drisq and Bannerjee for The Smugglers
  
• Chani Kynes and Otheym for The Fremen
  
• Aramsham and Wensicia Corrino for House Corrino
  
• Ilesa Ecaz and Whitmore Bludd for House Ecaz

• Make army composition richer and deeper by ensuring that all units have a place / a role in the army.
  
• Direct military micro-management towards positioning at the moment of engagement rather than micro-control of units during combat.
  
• Make gear more fun and unique.
  
• Slightly simplify combat onboarding with simpler basic unit traits.