THEY FIXED EVERYTHING >More options in the endgame, more ways to play that are all equally rewarding>More content; more stuff to discover and experience in the world of Arrakis>To be able to take full advantage of everything the endgame has to offer, without being forced to engage in a play style they don't want to>More ways to advance their character, with deeper progression systemsIt's time to log in again
this better be a good update making people stick around else Funcom must be questioned under a lamp in a dim lit room as to how the fuck are you even able to exist despite fumbling literally everything you ever created
>>2221772It only adds to the pve stuff so it might be fun? the big things are grinding for augments in little dungeons and specializations to grind through landsraad.
>>2220929>> they snuck the Finger Lake Caverns into the moonI ain't playing that pedo shitHoward is rolling in his grave.
>oooh chani
>>2220929looks like shit
>>2227733The game pop barely spiking would agree with you. But at least there is something to do now.
So, is this game basically Destiny but set in nu-Dune?
>>2228377It's conan/ark with guns and honestly pretty fun vehicles.
>>2228058the content they added is aimed at end game and new story, which is like at least 100 hours in for most people, usually more with distractions. internally they probably see millions of dead max level characters that were never touched after everyone's friends/clans moved on. they prepped the character transfer feature in anticipation of returning players maybe wanting to move off their dead servers. >>2228377it's conan exiles but the sun hurts, and they utilize the timed entry mechanic of a deadly area, in this case radiation. their way to balance is still making HP sponges, you can tune into dune awakening stream and watch them fight the new station NPCs and it'll be 4 people focus firing a single guy getting chain CC'd in melee.
>>2229742It's painful but I still like the game. Conan actually had pretty good pvp with lots of funny stuff like poison arrows.
>>2220929>>To be able to take full advantage of everything the endgame has to offer, without being forced to engage in a play style they don't want togay
>>2231052Technically, it was what they advertised at launch, they just expected the PVE playerbase to be happy with not taking part in Deep Desert/T6 activities and thought the game would be PlanetSide reborn with combined arms guild combat.
>>2232218They weren't wrong, the pve playerbase doesn't want to be in the DD because there is nothing in it. They just misjudged how incredibly whiny they are when there is content they think is "stolen" from them.
How do you fight two melee npcs? I try but they just stunlock me whenever I try to get through one of their shields.
>>2235749I just can't be fucking assed with melee and get to an elevated position so they are forced to shoot and drop their shields
made a new character on a supposedly populated server the other day, haven't played since last summer, and I have yet to see another player, unless the worm being triggered is caused by environmental stuffalso new hotfix:>durability drain reduced by 50%>high-tier enemies nerfedstill on iron-tier but it was pissing me off how quick my suspensor belt was breaking
>>2237078It was bad but it wasn't as bad as it's being made out to be. A lot of the people complaining struggled to clear the new arena in top tier gear.
>>2237078the vast majority will be in T6 content on separate maps not Hagga Basin, you could try using the chat to clan up with someone or ask if anyone's recruiting. unless you just want to solo everything.
is end game worth it? not really into pvp in survival games, i have a scout copter now and im already getting bored of the tedious missions, the combat is very predictable too, bosses are a joke except the heavy weapon guys that are just annoying, for some reason they are better in melee than melee troops
>>2247403The dungeons don't really get better.
>>2247403It gets better once you learn how to create a plastinium farming base in deep desert
>>2220929i read the dune novels a while ago and they were okis this an mmo?
>>2222813Kek
>start a guild>two other players but neither have done any landsraad missions>become the top contributor solo for Hark almost immediatelySo do people just not give a shit about the Landsraad on my server, or is it just the Harkonnen?
>>2255867it wanted to be, and it's online persistently, your character has a max level and there are builds and pve dungeons and loot. it takes place in an alternate timeline where paul doesn't exist though, a bene gesserit daughter was who foresaw the harkonnen plot and the emperor called for a war of assassins over the fake of arrakis.
>>2273335fate*
Is your server closing? If so where are you moving to?
>>2220929>THEY FIXED EVERYTHINGThey removed PVP and you arent getting it back. Endgame is gone>NO REFUNDS
I heard this was good? Just got it from the fire testing station
>>2220929those skins don't look like dune
>>2220929>THEY FIXED EVERYTHING>Except they already removed the PVPNo refunds redditor. Time to go back
>>2309848Shockedpikachuface.jpg
I really love the Dunc aesthetic and they nailed it in the game. Especially because i get to experience it without seeing Zendaya's disgusting face. Shame it sucks.
The pvp fucking sucked what are you talking about
>>2220929Why scifi armors are always sooo ugly no matter the setting nor the franchise?
>>2309852>give in to pve players>remove most of the pvp area>player base does not recoverI wonder what their next plan is.
>>2316099>>2309852>>2309848>>2279967I was there in the DD, clanned up, even led them towards the end, 18 clan alliance protecting the big spice rings. I was a rocket spammer with nothing to gain if you killed me. i was weirding step stunlocking you death, taking out entire groups with shotty/tripletap and halleck's pick, ancient way spamming chasers >>2286574 best launcher you'll get outside of lansraad, lasgun robbing people during sandstorms and third party raiding other looter with a massive zerg. that's not what most of the playerbase signed up for, how it all played out wasn't even what the devs hoped for, they wanted PvP as well, they just hoped people would be engaging in glorious guild combat. that's not even addressing the hacking situation and the fact that funcom, as whole entire company, took a vacation while the game and servers were on fire with dupe exploits and hackers running across every sietch and simple things like an extract all button for water when you need to carry it back and forth to rebuild your bases weekly in the DD, it was a poorly thought out concept.
>>2315041I enjoyed
When is the next dlc coming out
https://duneawakening.com/news/developer-update-april-2026/>private servers announced before the console versionlmao rn fr
>>2338931>All PvP zones in Hagga Basin will be disabled across all official Worlds.>A PvE instance for pure survival and exploration experience with no player combat. There is no PvP in this instance across any of the rows, including Shipwrecks. Alright so this game is fucking dead.> the yield from mining and spice harvesting will be multiplied by 2.5 in PvP areas. Where is the actual pvp update.
>>2338938If you read the full post they basically say PvP players will have to accept that their needs are tertiary, because 80% of their players are PvE only.
>>2339188>80% of their players are PvE onlyi wonder how on earth that might've happened.
>>2339196>release the absolute most barebones shit ever>with some of the worst pvp>>only functional content is farming easy npcs or whacking rocks>let the game flounder for about six months. Lose 95% of your players who don't want to hit rocks for six months>only dlc is base building cosmeticsA real mystery alright.
>>2339188>80% of their players are PvE only
>>2339215>>2339196"lifetime" players, so even among the quitters, PvPers are the minority, if they had an exodus, it was deafened by PvE players five times over.
>>2339245By the time the general audience had progressed through the game to the point where they might see some need/benefit to pvp, it was already widely known that it was a half baked thopter gank fest and everyone you talked to advised to avoid it until it got better. They almost immediately started scaling back their pvp focus too so, no, I don't believe that 80% lifetime players being exclusively pve thing to be a metric of much of anything at all.
>>2339287Yup. Almost everyone had bailed out by them and pvp at shipwrecks never really happened.
>>2339287If your seal clubbing activities are contingent on the seals being unaware they're about to be clubbed to engage with you, perhaps the system wasn't sustainable.
>>2339324The vision for these games is usually group combat on a scale where losses barely matter but funcom underestimated how much one or two shitty casuals will refuse to ever work with anyone else.
>>2339332>>group combat on a scale where losses barely matter>with dune's servers size>with dune's permanent durability loss after repair>with dune's general gameplay formula>with 'alpha-clans' stacking for seal clubbing>with endless bugs and exploitsI have no idea how funcom could be retarded enough to expect Planetside-like mass battles in crafting-building-survival game.
>>2339324I never really got a chance to pvp outside of a couple extremely jank occurrences where i got popped by a rocket thopter i couldn't even see. I'm probably part of that 80% of exclusive pve players. Not because I want to be. There was just never an incentive.
>>2279967>the carebears did this!fuck off. Yea carebears who inject themselves into combat exist, but not enough to kill a game outright. You are purposely overlooking the larger part of the problem to cope.Why is that pvpers always shidding and farding over a people *not* wanting to play with them?>whaaa Im too much of a sad weak faggot to be a bully in real life so you have to tolerate me being a asshole in your video gamesnooooooooooooooooo my self esteem hinges entirely on being better than you at this game, why does everyone leave me?!Perhaps if hardcore/competitive PVPers showed more grace in victory and didn’t outright exploit, cheat, cheese or otherwise act like a fucking asshole when playing, perhaps more people would be willing to tolerate them. But most never do, because they don’t actually want competition they want easy prey to pad their stats and act like they’re better than the next guy.so you get what you fucking deserve,To play alone in yet another dead game.
>>2340339It wasn't fun but this change just makes it look like they are floundering to do anything. Farming sand is boring as fuck unless you have autism. >>2339978You don't lose your shit on death. A group of five can farm a load of thopters and gear easily.
I still don't understand why they didn't make this game like Conan and instead tried this "soft mmo" shit. People who like Dune are going to be put off by the fact it is pretty grindy and people coming from Conan are going to want a private server, probably with mods. Literally nobody asked for an always online survival game with forced pvp. An incredible amount of time wasted, pvp is getting limited and eventually, you are going to be able to just play solo on your own "server". So much time and effort wasted on something nobody wanted.Why do so many developers create problems for themselves only to be forced to solve them later down the line? Are they retarded?
>>2345242They just think they're built different and will manage to make it work, unlike everyone else.
>>2345242>I still don't understand why they didn't make this game like Conan and instead tried this "soft mmo" shit.It's actually pretty simple when you think of dune as conan but with all the rough edges that made people bounce off pvp in conan sanded away. >full loot death is punishing: removed>getting ganked everywhere even when just starting by high levels : removedThey also probably made the deep desert fuck huge to make running away and avoiding other players even easier but they underestimated how blood thirsty people get and how risk averse players are even when they lose almost nothing. It was also really clear they expected groups to be the only viable way to play the deep desert areas.>>2345509Pretty much. Every survival pvp game says they solve the shoot on sight zerg problem and every single one failed. I think Dune could have managed it pretty close though but if you leave any crack, these people seep in.
Is this game as fun as it looks?I have never watched\read Dune, but I'm willing to.I kinda like Conan Exiles tho I find it a bit boring to level thralls up and shit, this one seems to be more MMO-lite\Fallout 76-lite.
>>2358089I pretty much only enjoy the base building. There's almost zero reason to interact with other players and the combat is extremely shallow. Pic related describes the PVP. Read the books by all means but that's not important for this game.
>>2359385>There's almost zero reason to interact with other players and the combat is extremely shallow. Can I finally play in private mode or something? Why the fuck I can do it in Conan Exiles but not here is beyond me.
>>2367497They just announced that private server functionality is being rolled out so that's coming.
So hold on a second, if I play on a world who has completely empty servers, does that mean the DD will be mine to explore forever without player interference?
>>2317910>that's not what most of the playerbase signed up for>Announce survival pvp mmo>First gameplay showcase is PVP footage>Dedicate 30 minutes of first gameplay showcase to how shields block ranged damage, and using melee will still be viable against other players>Tell players entire endgame will focus around pvp>Game launches>Horribly buggy mess>Extremely unoptimized (tranny devs as always)>No patches to fix the obviously broken and unbalanced perm stunning>Solution is to remove pvp, not fix the issuesMany such cases
>>2339245Debunked here >>2279967Explain planetside 2, explain albion online, explain tera's instant death, explain how subscription required wildstar had more player retention than free2play wildstar, explain firefall's death, explain wakfu's english servers, explain dofus' english servers, explain, explain, explain etc
>>2341261Gonna be honest; that was a lot of reddit spacing so i skimmed until i got to the ad hominem.Even without reading your post i know you didnt refute anything said.
why are so many low pop servers locked?we cant pick one withotu 10 billion people who built the entire map
>>2380650Because they're closing the low pop servers with the next major update, probably next week
>>2383871Source?And what does that mean exactly? Is everyone going to be forced to move to highpops?
>>2383898In fairness I don't know for sure that it's going to be the next update, but they've been talking about server merges in the developer updates for the past 6+ months. It's not in the PTR patch notes so I might be talking out of my ass>Is everyone going to be forced to move to highpops?Yes. Your base will be saved into the base reconstruction tool in case you've built in a location that's already occupied in your destination server, beyond that I don't know the finer details. I play on the most populated Oceania server so I never bothered to check
>>2383929Well at this point we'll just wait for the update to come out, then.A bit annoying since we just finished watching the dune movies, but it's whatever.
>>2384165Just pick the third most populated server for your region or something. The game has like 7k concurrent players globally, the chances that you can't find a place to build are slim to none, and if you hit the top three then there's a microscopic chance you get hit by the server mergesThis website lists server population: https://dune.gaming.tools/server-status
>>2384180Yeah we would like something a bit more private, without actually purchasing a private server.
>dune flounders>conan gets a free ue5 updateI am actually happy now. Hopefully it will fix the absolutely fucked lighting system.
>>2384180>>2384198Yeah we gave up and we're going to rent a server just for the 4 of us.The question is, which provider is the best in terms of consistency?Once the update is out, and if we can make our own localized server, we'll probably move on to that.Any advice? Nitrado looks nice.
>>2388624>Any advice?Nope, I play on public. My experience with G-Portal was fine when renting a Conan Exiles server for my mates, never used any other provider.Bear in mind that rented private servers still connect to other servers for the deep desert, so you'll still be competing for resources out there
>>2388637They connect to the private provider World pool, which means we will be sharing the DD with the 4 other faggots in our World playing in their servers.That's fine.
this game is kino
>>2388645Well, the game exceeded our wildest expectations, we are super into it and glad the game is as fun as we thought it would be.The female of our group doesn't like "sucking blood" out of people, so she dropped the game.But everyone else is stocked and we're actually having a ton of fun, our resident Dune nerd is having a constant orgasm saying the game is everything he always wanted.Not regretting the 10 dollars purchase for the private server.Tho since we have experience with Fallout 76, we are more than ready to move to an actual real server with people as soon as the new PvE update is out, we want to hang around with people\do stuff with randoms.
>>2392729>The female of our group doesn't like "sucking blood" out of people, so she dropped the game.Tell her she doesn't have to. It's more efficient to use a dew harvester to fill your literjons from flower fields just before dawn, and later you get options to passively generate moisture from the air. Couple these with a decent stillsuit and you won't drain enough water to even warrant carrying a literjon, because you'll be back at base before you run out. Blood harvesting is early game onlyAlso if you were going to switch to public after the PvE update anyway then there wasn't really any point in getting the private server. Hagga Basin is PvE anyway but for crashed ships, and you only have to go to them two or three times in the entire game. I've literally never seen another player in one, and I played on launch when the game had the most players it'll ever have
>>2220929Admit you got scammed
>>2394282We'll see honestly, we don't know exactly how the DD is going to work.
>>2221772Funcom has been fucking up since before you were born, zoomer. Don't count on them getting anything right.
>>2395940It was empty but now it's super empty. The only kind of balance it could have is that pve side will get absolutely harvested by locusts that never go offline.>>2395294I feel pretty scammed. The pve section isn't even that good.
>fixed unlimited altitude gain from specializations in orniI fucking hate this place
so is reddit right when they're saying that pve DD is a shitshow of locusts inhaling every resource 2 hours after a coriolis?
>>2372973I don't think a reddit/discord/AI journoslop collage of literal opinions has anything on cold, hard internal heuristics.
>>2372973>Explain planetside 2Why people compare dune to PS2?Those are two vastly different games.AFAICR in planetside you just spawn and fight shit immediately, without all this 'farm blueprints and mats' stuff.
>>2405014because 2.5x material is useless with weight limitation and the advantage still being with organized alliances
>>2395294I fully engaged with it, slaughtered hundreds, chased people down, spiced up clan hunting people in our stations, dominating the DD, never had any hacker issues on my cluster, i rolled on 7 servers when you could still farm xp at the hand of khidr. got my money's worth, easily. the flooding of the PvE DD shows that even the people remaining want nothing to do with PvP if given a CHOICE. everyone would rather poopsock materials and the 2.5 gain in the PvP desert is again, wasted, with weight limitations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIE5x7j6kQEanyways, they put out a video about the next update, so it seems like the PvE change was a massive success.
>>2409850>the flooding of the PvE DD shows that even the people remaining want nothing to do with PvP if given a CHOICE.I played a good bit after the dungeons update and almost never came across anyone in the DD area and the one guy I did fight would just fire rockets at my orni and never chase. The pvp situation was complete delusion by a minority of pve players. If they actually went into the DD areas it would have been as safe as playing arc.
people keep saying this is an mmo but it looks like yet another survival crafting game
>>2412354Seeing as how basically the whole game can be done solo, it sort of is. There's just not too much reason to engage with other players. Its why I've seen a lotta people begging for solo
The end game is dog shit
