Dune: Awakening Developer Apologizes, 'Working to Reimburse' Items Lost Due to Recent Patch That Caused Players to Lose Bases And Equipment

Dune: Awakening developer Funcom has apologized aft "patching out" a layout alteration successful the Deep Desert that concisely transformed PvE territory into PvP, starring to "an unfortunate magnitude of mislaid bases and equipment."

Yesterday, Funcom released different spot for Dune: Awakening, with much tweaks to amended the endgame acquisition for players who'd similar to walk clip successful PvE activities, including the quality to workplace Tier 6 resources and a amended accidental of getting Unique drops successful PvE loot successful Deep Desert.

It follows on-going efforts from the developer to amended PvP successful the Deep Desert aft an AMA revealed galore players branded the endgame "toxic" owed to griefing adjacent aft the quality for players to squish each different with their Ornithopter was supposedly patched out. Later, griefers intentionally landed their Ornis connected different players' ain thopters to forestall them from farming.

However, the alteration — which was "intended to lone hap with the adjacent Coriolis rhythm and not interaction the ongoing cycle" — resulted successful an "oversight successful the improvement process and interior communications," resulting successful dense losses for immoderate players.

"We're incredibly atrocious that this happened and we privation to admit that this should person been handled better. We’ve changed our interior processes arsenic a effect of this and volition beryllium amended successful the future," the squad said successful a statement.

"We are moving to reimburse vehicles and items (to the champion of our ability) to players who were impacted by this. You tin expect the reimbursed materials, items, and conveyance components to amusement up successful the in-game ‘Claim Rewards’ tab by the extremity of this week."

In the aforesaid statement, the squad besides revealed it was moving hard to destruct cheaters from Arrakis, writing, "our superior focus, which continues implicit the adjacent weeks and months, volition beryllium to region each identified exploits (third enactment cheat engines, lawsuit hacks, oregon in-game exploitation of crippled mechanics). In addition, we volition beryllium hard astatine enactment improving the game, adding prime of beingness features, and addressing captious gameplay issues.

"We person zero tolerance for the benignant of subordinate behaviour that has an interaction connected the acquisition of different players, and we volition proceed to absorption connected ensuring that players tin bask the crippled arsenic it is intended," the connection added. "If you spot idiosyncratic cheating oregon exploiting, delight study them to america utilizing the disposable reporting channels."

Funcom said that truthful acold it has taken enactment connected "several hundred" cheats caught utilizing exploits, cheats, and hacks, with "more waves of bans coming arsenic we place further culprits."

"We person a squad dedicated exclusively to warring hackers and fixing exploits. Over the adjacent fewer patches, they volition beryllium introducing further efforts to forestall exploits by expanding information connected respective client/server connection layer, performing further penetration investigating against communal onslaught vectors, and auditing our point and inventory systems to marque definite they are resistant to point duplication," Funcom stated.

Finally, the squad besides apologized to players who had mislaid "vehicles oregon different resources" owed to in-game bugs. Though admitting immoderate issues are hard to replicate and resolve, Funcom said it is present moving connected tools to "better reimburse players for conveyance losses owed to bugs."

Dune: Awakening has enjoyed a superb launch, with a 'very positive' idiosyncratic reappraisal standing connected Steam. Within hours of going unrecorded connected June 10, Funcom's endurance MMO had clocked up implicit 142,000 concurrent players connected Valve's platform, and deed a caller precocious earlier this period of 189,333 players. And it's already clocked up implicit 1 cardinal players, too, making it Funcom's fastest-selling crippled ever, and securing a Great 8/10 successful our review.

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