Dune: Imperium News

We bring you more boons from Arrakis!

This release squashes several bugs messing with rule mechanics and gameplay. We’ve also spiced up the visuals for certain game events for cards like Foldspace, which now includes animations that trigger when the cards trash themselves. Controller-wielding players, rejoice! We’ve sprinkled in various improvements and fixes just for you. Plus, there are now further adjustments to how animations are handled with turn-timers to ensure that complex turns with many card plays don’t impede gameplay.

• Players can now double-click to play and acquire cards on PC.
  
• Playing troops to a garrison is more clearly signaled with a new FX treatment.
  
• Player seat position is now indicated on the Leader selection screen.
  
• Leader’s House is now listed on both the Player Info screen and the Leader Selection screen.
  
• Easy AI’s difficulty has decreased. (boop!)
  
• Players can now control ambient sfx in Settings.
  
• Prompts that let players deploy troops now indicate the maximum number of troops available for deployment.
  
• Chat is no longer interrupted when a player is prompted to take an action.
  
• The Alliance token in the player HUD is now easier to read.
  
• Reveal abilities that appear in the lower left corner of the Reveal window are easier to spot with improved visual effects.
  
• Endgame Intrigue cards now show as playable when at least one of their conditions is met.
  
• When placing the Mentat, the cursor now uses the outline of the Mentat, not that of a regular Agent.
  
• Control markers now match player colors.
  
• Drawing an Intrigue card now plays an animation.
  
• In the Bene Gesserit Initiation challenge, you can now trash a number of cards equal to the number of Bene Gesserit purchased during the Reveal phase.
  
• Adjustments have been made to turn timer behavior and to animations to ensure full turns can be taken.
  
• Crysknife has a new, easier-to-understand entry.
  
• Endgame Intrigue cards now animate properly when played.
  
• Master Tactician now animates properly when played.
  
• Cards that automatically trash now animate before being trashed.
  
• Some prompts that lingered on screen after timing out now leave the screen properly.
  
• Skirmish tiles on the Solo Menu have been cleaned up.
  
• The strength reduction for Chani’s ability now uses a simple animation instead of a -X value.
  
• The multiplayer lobby has additional explanatory tooltips.
  
• The pass icon now remains on a player’s HUD until the player moves to the Conflict results screen.
  
• A pass icon now appears on a player’s HUD for players with no troops in the Conflict.
  
• The Vs. AI menu tile and the Lobby menu tile now use different art.
  
• Agents now keep their blue glow when dragged to locations.
  
• Undoing a Reveal action and then playing an Agent now lets you complete your full turn.
  
• The player info menu now automatically closes when a Conflict is resolved.
  
• Leader portrait visual effects that indicate a player’s turn now show only the current player’s color.
  
• Players can now cancel an Agent card selection either by double clicking or using the undo button.
  
• Players can now access and play Challenges offline.
  
• Various audio, layout, and localization fixes.
  
• The prompt text for deploying troops now includes the number of troops that can be deployed.
  
• House Hagal rivals no longer limit their troop deployment to 2 troops.
  
• The Persuasion indicator now updates properly when a player is forced to discard.
  
• Players now can play Intrigue Cards gained with Bypass Protocol on the same turn they are acquired.
  
• Ariana’s Action Log entries now specify how much Spice is gained.
  
• In the Fencing Mirror challenge, undoing the purchase of Helena’s Manipulate card now properly removes the card from a player’s hand.
  
• The location to where an agent is sent with Kwisatz Haderatch is now bold-faced in the action log.
  
• The Lobby icon that indicates an Asynchronous match is now a calendar icon.
  
• The send arrow in chat now sends chat.
  
• A proper icon appears in the action log for Persuasion values greater than 10.
  
• As always, thanks for your support!
  

Happy playing!

Hey community!

To aid us in our Early Access feedback, we wanted to give you some quick info about sending logs and feedback. In general, the more information, the better! Screenshots, videos, the works.

In-Game Feedback is the best case scenario!

1. When you're in game, stay on the main page and select Settings in the Right-Hand Menu.
   
2. Select Feedback
   
3. Enter your Email and type in your issue (if you're already logged in, the email will populate automatically)
   
4. Select "Send logs"
   

...and you're done!

If for some reason, you're unable to send feedback in-game, player logs are the next best thing.

1. Open Control Panel -> File Explorer Options.
   
2. Click the View tab.
   
3. Under "Hidden files and folders" select "Show hidden files, folders, and drives."
   
4. Navigate to C:\Users\[Your Computer Username Here]\AppData\LocalLow\Dire Wolf Digital
   
5. In the Dune: Imperium folder, there will be a text file named "output_log.txt". This is your log file.
   

Mac

1. Open the Finder app
   
2. Select the "Go" drop down (next to File, Edit, and View at the top)
   
3. Select Go to Folder in the drop down
   
4. In the text box, type "~/library"
   
5. Open the "Logs" folder
   
6. Open the "Dire Wolf Digital" folder
   
7. Open the folder of the game you need logs for, in it should be the "Player.log" file
   

Thanks for your continued support and happy playing!

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Full details

The community really turned out for this event, making it a massive success! We played, we won, and mostly importantly, we gained a lot of insight into how to improve the experience for future events.

We’re diving into the work and already making improvements to messaging, timers, leaderboards, length of events and more. Big shoutout to everyone who contributed to the feedback! We can’t wait to kick off 2024 with more events, more challenges, and more to share!

We’re excited to land this spicy release in time for the holidays!

We’ve got a number of updates in this patch , including our first test of the Events feature! The Test of Humanity opens 5PM (1700) UTC on Friday Dec. 15, and ends at 5AM (500) UTC on Sunday Dec 17th! More details coming soon!


After considering player feedback, turn timers for multiplayer have been reduced from 3 minutes to 90 seconds.

Behavior around turn timers, especially during time-out warnings and end of turn, have been improved.

This release adds Chinese localization to the game! Please note that the Chinese version of the rulebook located in Settings will be added in a subsequent release.

We’ve also made improvements to the Skirmish feature, improved the flow of combat, and responded to several quality of life improvements.

A big thanks from all of us to the Early Access community of Dune Imperium: Digital, both for playing and for sharing your feedback!

• The multiplayer turn timer is now 90 seconds, instead of 3 minutes.
  
• An animation now plays for self-trashing cards and the action log should capture the event correctly.
  
• Reverend Mother Mohiam now uses a single animation to display both discards, instead of two animations.
  
• Active games now filter to the top in the online lobby.
  
• Hagal matches are now marked with a unique icon in the online lobby.
  
• AI players (Hagal and digital) should now be easier to identify in the HUD and more clearly marked in online games.
  
• In Draft Mode, players now select from a pool of 6 random leaders instead of all 8.
  
• Resource icons have been added as shorthand to the action log where appropriate.
  
• Drawing an Intrigue card now plays an animation.
  
• The button for maximizing Imperium Row should now be easier to identify.
  
• Players can view their current troop supply summary in the Garrison tooltip.
  
• Players can now play Combat Intrigue cards when all other players pass their turn.
  
• Declining the trash prompt in the Bene Gesserit Initiation challenge now takes players to the playmat where they can Undo, reopen the Imperium Row, or end their turn.
  
• Player color selection is preserved between matches.
  
• During leader selection, leader avatars appear next to player names as players make selections.
  

[h2]Miscellaneous:[/h2]

• Various translation corrections.
  
• Audio improvements and fixes.
  
• Various gameplay and undo fixes.
  
• Assorted AI improvements and fixes.
  
• Display and aspect ratio fixes and improvements.
  

Happy playing!