Dune: Imperium News

[p]Today’s patch brings the Immortality expansion to Dune: Imperium Digital, along with a number of bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements.[/p][p][/p][h2]New Expansion: Immortality[/h2][p][/p][p]Immortality has arrived to Dune: Imperium! As the Great Houses wage war, the Bene Tleilax advance their own agenda by trading in genetic innovations. Will you hire Face Dancer spies of unmatched skill? Regrow damaged tissue and organs? Or dare to employ people restored to life as gholas?[/p][p]Immortality expands Dune: Imperium in new directions. Make shadowy deals with the Tleilaxu to harvest genetic specimens. Unlock the potential of scientific research. Graft cards together to empower your Agents.[/p]

• [p]25 new Imperium deck cards[/p]
• [p]18+ Tleilaxu cards[/p]
• [p]10+ new Intrigue cards[/p]
• [p]A new starter card - Experimentation[/p]
• [p]Family Atomics - Gain a strategic edge by removing and replacing the Imperium row once per game[/p]
• [p]Go to 11 rules variant - For players who seek a slightly longer game to watch their Tleilaxu-fueled creations come to life[/p]
• [p]10 unique Challenges in both Normal and Heroic modes.[/p]
• [p]12 new achievements[/p]

[p][/p][h3]General UI & Visual Fixes[/h3]

• [p]Resource icons in control markers should now be centered correctly.[/p]
• [p]The blue glow on opponents' reveal stingers should no longer linger when animations are set to Fast.[/p]
• [p]When making multiple selections that can be undone, the Undo button should now appear correctly aligned with the prompt.[/p]
• [p]Visual effects should no longer play on top of the expanded player HUD.[/p]
• [p]The highlight on the join game button should now correctly match the size of the button.[/p]
• [p]Private messages should now display the hamburger menu icon next to player names, similar to other messages.[/p]
• [p]Timestamps on private messages should now be larger and easier to read.[/p]
• [p]The highlight on the "Join Game" button in multiplayer lobbies should now fully cover the button.[/p]
• [p]The log in and cancel buttons on the account menu should now be centered correctly.[/p]
• [p]Minor visual issues with some UI elements (like the "NEW" badge and Arrakis board space icons) at lower resolutions and High quality setting should now be resolved.[/p]
• [p]The Mentat leaving animation on the board space should now be correctly sized and positioned.[/p]
• [p]The Mentat cleanup animation should now occur at the same time as other Agents are removed from the board, rather than after the Mentat has already disappeared.[/p]
• [p]Players should now be able to zoom cards in the expanded Imperium Row when a trash prompt is minimized.[/p]
• [p]Avatars in Game History (specifically Earl, Helena, Ilban, Ilessa, Ecaz, Tessia, Hundro) should no longer have pixels bleeding outside their avatar box.[/p]
• [p]The chat window should now interact more intuitively with the Tech and Imperium row modals, appearing above them when open.[/p]
• [p]Alliance tokens on the Player Info modal should now appear at the same time as other icons, instead of fading in after a delay.[/p]
• [p]The "Skip Replay" button should now have an appropriate backer, be correctly sized, and feature a non-pixelated icon.[/p]
• [p]Undoing the play of Intrigue and Imperium cards should now correctly animate those cards back to the player's hand.[/p]
• [p]Faction icons from Dispatch an Envoy should no longer cover up card text on cards like Lady Jessica or Bene Gesserit Initiate.[/p]
• [p]News panels in Direbytes on Steam Deck should now appear at consistent heights.[/p]
• [p]Black pillar boxes should no longer appear on wide-screen displays.[/p]

[p][/p][h3]Gameplay & Card Fixes[/h3]

• [p]Players should now receive a Masterstroke warning prompt when trashing Treachery to add troops, if this action would trigger Masterstroke, regardless of the order of operations.[/p]
• [p]The AI Player in Rise of Ix should now correctly choose to recall at level 1 on the Shipping Track (if it has Swordmaster) when gaining spice would allow it to acquire a valuable Tech tile.[/p]

[p][/p][h3]Gamepad Fixes[/h3]

• [p]The gamepad cursor should no longer become excessively large when hovering over Agent icons.[/p]
• [p]The gamepad selector VFX on the Deck button of the Other Memory prompt should now be synchronized and displayed correctly.[/p]
• [p]Disabling controller support in settings should now correctly prevent all gamepad button inputs.[/p]
• [p]The card acquisition animation on gamepad when acquiring cards that trigger a second prompt (like Lady Jessica or via Recruitment Mission) should now be consistently sized and positioned.[/p]
• [p]The Animation Speed slider in settings should no longer have a non-functional "ghost" selection target for gamepads.[/p]

[p][/p][h3]Tutorial Fixes[/h3]

• [p]The "Persuasion Cost" label should no longer overlap the Persuasion cost of Sardaukar Legion during the tutorial.[/p]
• [p]Several card icons should no longer flash briefly when hovering over Reconnaissance during a specific point in Tutorial 1.[/p]
• [p]The "Machinations" tutorial should now be clearly identified as the Rise of Ix tutorial on the tutorial page.[/p]

[p][/p][h3]Rise of Ix Fixes[/h3]

• [p]The Cancel button in some Rise of Ix prompts should now appear correctly positioned within the prompt.[/p]
• [p]Alliance icons should no longer be covered up by the tech negotiators icon in Rise of Ix.[/p]
• [p]Tech tiles in Rise of Ix modals should no longer bounce up and down constantly when mousing between tiles.[/p]
• [p]Tessia's Careful Observation Bonus 1 ability button in Rise of Ix, when triggered by winning combat without cards in hand to discard, should now auto-resolve.[/p]

[p][/p][h3]Localization Fixes[/h3]

• [p]The poison snooper prompt in Italian should no longer display overlapped text in the header, and the card image should not overlap prompt text.[/p]
• [p]The prompt appearing when Play History fails to load should now be properly localized.[/p]

[p][/p][h3]Known Issues[/h3]

• [p]Immortality[/p]
  • [p]Players on older 2.2 game clients who resume a game on the new 3.0 server the "May Undo" cursor may be incorrect for two cards: Test of Humanity and Reverend Mother Mohiam.This will correct itself when players update their app to version 3.0.[/p]
• [p]Steam store v. In-game store[/p]
  • [p]The Steam store listing can take approximately half an hour to appear in all locales, even though it shows in the in-game shop.[/p]

[p]As always, if you run into trouble or need help, drop us a line at [email protected] so we can help. And if you haven’t, be sure to join our player community on Discord![/p][p]Thanks for playing Dune: Imperium![/p]

The Immortality expansion releases on Steam (with mobile platforms soon to follow) on June 10th!

The shadowy Bene Tleilax bring their machinations to Arrakis... along with limitless new potential to your deck-building. Explore a new universe of possibilities in your games of Dune: Imperium Digital when Immortality releases next week!

Click here to read the full announcement on our website!

As the Great Houses wage war, the Bene Tleilax advance their own agenda by trading in genetic innovations. Make shadowy deals with the Tleilaxu to harvest genetic specimens, unlock the potential of scientific research, and graft cards together to empower your Agents in Immortality, coming soon to Dune: Imperium Digital!

[h2]What Immortality Brings to Dune: Imperium Digital[/h2]
The Bene Tleilax, or Tleilaxu, are a powerful fringe society in the Imperium, specializing in genetic engineering. House leaders must carefully consider the costs of dealing with them, both financial and ethical. Tleilaxu replacement organs are widely used throughout the Imperium, but their genetic grafting programs and hybrid creations are looked upon with suspicion.

[h2]The Bene Tleilax Board[/h2]



The Bene Tleilax board tracks each player’s relationship with the shadowy Tleilaxu in two ways: the research track and the Tleilaxu track.

• The Research Track: The research track represents each House’s scientific gains from their involvement with the Tleilaxu. By engaging with the Research icon, you can move forward on this track. With a litany of branching paths to choose from, you get to choose which rewards you reap from the Bene Tleilax’s machinations.
  
• The Tleilaxu Track: This track represents your favor with the Tleilaxu, which you can advance by activating the beetle-shaped Tleilaxu icon. Similar to other factions, you can gain Victory Points by moving up on this track, but there’s no Alliance to be formed here — the Bene Tleilax are shrewd in their dealings, and their services are offered to all Houses willing to embrace their twisted ambitions.
  

[h2]Tleilaxu Cards[/h2]

The unique creations of the Bene Tleilax are represented on Tleilaxu cards. These cards are functionally similar to Imperium cards, but with a key difference: instead of acquiring them with Persuasion, Tleilaxu cards sit on their own row and can only be acquired with specimens.

You can collect specimens (represented by cubes from your supply) by activating specimen icons on various cards and board spaces. Once you have enough, you can spend them during the Reveal phase to acquire powerful Tleilaxu cards. Will you hire Face Dancer spies of unmatched skill? Regrow damaged tissue and organs? Or dare to employ people restored to life as gholas? Many surprises will await your foes as you bring these new tools to the conflict on Arrakis.

[h2]Card Grafting: Unlock Powerful New Deck-Building Potential[/h2]
Immortality brings 48 new cards to Dune: Imperium Digital, comprising 18 Tleilaxu cards and 30 new Imperium cards. Many of these cards include the Graft effect, allowing you to play two cards together in an Agent turn!

Graft cards can’t be played alone; they must be combined with another card. But once grafted together, both cards act as one, granting you access to both of their Agent icons and card effects for the turn.



This unlocks powerful new combinations. What new opportunities await you when you can use your Signet Ring on faction spaces? How will your opponents react when you bring your Sardaukar Legion straight into a battle space? Grafting brings a whole new world of possibilities to your games of Dune: Imperium Digital.

But it’s not just the cards you’re familiar with that will benefit from Grafting; certain new cards in Immortality have unique effects that trigger only when Grafted. With familiar cards gaining new utility and new cards introducing comboing potential, deck-building is taken to an entirely new level in Immortality!

[h2]Family Atomics[/h2]



Feeling nonplussed about your options in the Imperium row? Want to deny your opponent a card that you know you can’t let them have? Immortality gives each player a Family Atomics token, which can be used once per game to completely replace the card row.

[h2]New Challenges[/h2]



Ten new Challenges come to Dune: Imperium Digital in this expansion, allowing you to run wild with the new mechanics from Immortality. As with the base game and Rise of Ix, each of these Challenges will include a Heroic variant with even more difficult AI and win conditions.

[h2]Compatibility with Rise of Ix[/h2]



Immortality is compatible with the base game as a standalone expansion, and it can also be combined with Rise of Ix! When creating a game, you can choose which expansion[s] to include. Rise of Ix’s Epic Mode is compatible with Immortality, and Immortality has a variant of its own, Go to 11, which allows you to play to 11 points, and is compatible with both Ix and the base game.

[h2]Expand the Imperium[/h2]
With the Tleilaxu setting their sights on the desert planet, the conflict on Arrakis will never be the same. We’ll have more to say about Immortality in the coming weeks, including a release date and additional previews. With new cards, mechanics, and unprecedented new deck-building potential, Immortality is set to transform your games of Dune: Imperium when it arrives. Wishlist it today!

This release fixes a few rules bugs and corrects some iOS display issues on the skirmish results screen.

[h2]Bugs[/h2]

• Fixed a bug where reserve cards could not be purchased if one was trashed from discard the same turn.
  
• Fixed a bug where Shai-Hulud would incorrectly give an extra strength in combination with Artillery or Imperial Bashar.
  
• Fixed a few iOS display issues on the skirmish results screen.
  
• Fixed a bug where canceling Imperial Bashar's trash ability could freeze the application.
  

[h2]Known issues[/h2]

• The cursor on 4K displays is too small.
  
• Tech tile activations can appear in the previous player’s action log
  
• Missing warning for gaining Tech Negotiators when at troop supply limit.
  
• Troops gained from purchasing Invasion Ships take too long to go into garrison due to individual VFX.
  
• When using the Unexpected Terrain rules mod, the number of remaining Conflict I cards is not communicated.
  
• In a Vs AI game, when a player ends their turn saves, and then resumes, they resume before their end of turn.
  

As always, if you run into trouble or need help, drop us a line at [email protected] so we can help. And if you haven’t, be sure to join our player community on Discord!

Thanks for playing Dune: Imperium!

Today’s Dune: Imperium Digital patch continues to address gameplay issues and visual bugs identified by the player community.

[h2]Updates[/h2]

• The gain troops ability from the Shipping track will now be deferred if Troop Transports is still in one of the Tech stacks (not yet acquired in this game).

[h2]Bugs[/h2]

• Fixed some visual and calculation errors in the Play History feature.
  
• Fixed some sizing defects for foldable phones to improve visibility and legibility.
  
• Display resolution settings are now visible on widescreen desktop displays.
  
• Action log icons now support resource counts in excess to 20.
  
• The action log now indicates the correct number of Tech Negotiators gained when a player hits the supply limit.
  
• Tech stacks are now immediately refreshed for the local player's view when an opponent acquires one.
  
• Resigning a match from a prior skirmish no longer warns players that they'll lose an attempt for the current skirmish.
  
• Acquiring Invasion Ships now generates all gained troops simultaneously.
  
• Hard AI playing as Baron Harkonnen will no longer sometimes decline to use Masterstroke.
  

[h2]Known issues[/h2]

• Desync can occur when two users reconnect to an async game around the same time.
  
• The cursor on 4K displays is too small.
  
• Playing Test of Humanity or Reverend Mother Mohiam to a Bene Gesserit space doesn't allow the user to gain influence before making opponents discard.
  
• Missing troop supply limit warning when recalling from the Shipping track.
  
• Tech tile activations can appear in the previous player’s action log
  
• Missing Masterstroke warning when Treachery troops are added after deployment.
  
• Missing warning for gaining Tech Negotiators when at troop supply limit.
  
• Troops gained from purchasing Invasion Ships take too long to go into garrison due to individual VFX.
  
• When using the Unexpected Terrain rules mod, the number of remaining Conflict I cards is not communicated.
  
• Other players appear offline when 2+ players resume an async game at the exact same time.
  
• When Tessia's first Careful Observation bonus is triggered via winning combat, an ability button appears that can be selected to no effect.
  
• In a Vs AI game, when a player ends their turn saves, and then resumes, they resume before their end of turn.
  
• In Ranked, the timer does not display hour intervals.
  
• Mobile keyboard is missing the language selection button.
  

As always, if you run into trouble or need help, drop us a line at [email protected] so we can help. And if you haven’t, be sure to join our player community on Discord!

Thanks for playing Dune: Imperium!