The builders of Dune: Awakening have simply launched a patch in response to participant complaints concerning the recreation’s PvP zones. People have been irritated as a result of they stored getting crushed to loss of life by different gamers piloting an ornithopter (Dune’s massive flying bug automobile). It was irksome as a result of it is tough to wreck stated automobile or battle again in any significant manner. The devs resolution is fairly easy: “Gamers not obtain injury when hit by autos”. The identical patch additionally addresses respawn occasions in PvP areas.
With regards to the crushy ornithopters, the patch could imply we get fewer moments like this, through which on-foot gamers are hounded and repeatedly squished by others flying a ship, like some freaky sci-fi model of Steven Speilberg’s Duel. Though I’m sure some individuals will nonetheless discover some inventive methods to grief others utilizing the cumbersome ships. As for the respawning, that was a complete different concern.
“Respawn timeout in PvP zones was adjusted,” say the patch notes. “The primary respawn will take 70 seconds, [the] second and following respawns will take 115 seconds.”
This can be a massive improve from the earlier respawn timers, which irritated gamers for being too brief and permitting defeated opponents to return again and harrass you earlier than you may even benefit from the spoils of your victory. One participant complained a respawn was by no means longer than 12 seconds. “Even whenever you win a protracted winded battle the shedding staff will simply re-spawn immediately within the native space,” stated the participant in a miffed Reddit post noticed by PC Gamer.
This was particularly taxing when combating a gaggle bigger than your individual, stated the participant, since a sufficiently big clan can all the time have sufficient fighters on the sector.
“[Even] whenever you choose off members they’re again within the fray earlier than you may blink, which simply feels unhealthy… Because it presently stands, even when you have the higher staff and beat the percentages the bigger group will all the time win as they will simply hold chucking our bodies at it until the opposite staff provides up or their gear breaks.”
Because it occurred, a developer from Funcom noticed this submit and responded to it. “We’re engaged on a bunch of modifications/fixes to those issues,” stated the dev on the time. “Please bear with us.”
And now they’ve tweaked it. Will 70 seconds be sufficient? I do not know, I am most likely not the particular person to ask. I are inclined to keep away from PvP zones – the texture of the sport’s fight simply would not click on for me, and I do not fancy shedding gear when it is a bit of grind to get that gear. An extraction shootist I’m not. However I did just like the world and lots of different survival recreation components, as I stated in our Dune: Awakening review.
There have been another minor fixes within the patch, together with fixes for crashy moments and one scary concern that will “trigger the participant to lose Solaris deposited within the financial institution”. Your financial safety is assured. Besides you should still lose all of your pocket cash if swallowed by Shai-Hulud, in fact.
