In Dune: Awakening, the developers are striving to meet the many wishes and demands of the players. However, with one feature, many wonder why it is even missing.
Which feature is missing? In Dune: Awakening, there are many machines and devices that players can build. The further players progress in the game, the more machines become available, allowing them to create better equipment and tools with increasingly rare resources.
Each type of item has its own factory gate in Dune: Awakening. Weapons come from the weapon fabricator, vehicles come from the vehicle fabricator, and armor comes from the armor fabricator. Many of these machines also have further upgraded tiers to allow the best items in the game to be created.
However, many players have a problem with this. They are now complaining on Reddit that their bases are full of machines and consuming a lot of power. They would much rather be able to build everything in the upgraded tiers.
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Power Hogs in the Base
What is the problem? To be able to craft all items in Dune: Awakening, not only the highest tiers of machines and fabricators are needed, but also the lower ones. While the lower fabricators lack the capability to produce higher-tier items, the higher-tier fabricators sometimes also lack the ability to craft lower-tier items.
Now, user Suterusu-shin is complaining on Reddit that his base is unnecessarily cluttered with machines just because there are some items that cannot be built in the advanced fabricators. The player states that there are 13 machines in his base and asks the developers to reduce the necessary number.
Do other players feel the same way? Yes, in the comments under the Reddit post, many players agree with the user. Many are unclear why the developers have not implemented this feature long ago, especially since it is handled this way in many competitor titles. On Reddit, they write:
- UnabletoPrintagain: “Yes, that always seemed absurd to me.”
- AcidRohnin: “I deleted my survival fabricator, assuming the advanced ones would replace it, only to find out that it only had 3-4 items I had unlocked. Such a silly design decision. I understand they are playing the power game where you need to build more things, but I hate the clutter. Just increase the required power of all advanced factories instead of making me have a regular and an advanced one.”
- Aivlis_Eldelbar: “I was extremely surprised when I found out that I had removed my old fabricators for free when I got the plan for a base upgrade. Needing an additional, dedicated space for the Mk6 items is one of the dumbest decisions ever unless they plan to add more higher-tier items soon. And it better be soon if that’s the case.”
- Arbiter51x: “Especially since machines consume power 100% of the time, not just when they are in use. Manually turning off idle machines never made sense to me. Maybe I have played too much Satisfactory.”
What about the power issue? In Dune: Awakening, all machines in the base require sufficient power. If the limit is exceeded, the machines shut down, and you have to turn some of them off.
However, there is no function to initiate a standby mode for machines. Instead, each machine consumes the same amount of power at all times, whether it is being used or not. With so many machines, the limit is quickly reached.
The fact that advanced machines can hardly perform simple crafting is a design decision that is unusual for a survival game. In other titles, this is often possible. While this option is missing, the developers have been very creative with other features in the game: Players in Dune: Awakening suddenly discover a giraffe in front of their airplane, and the community explains that this is not a bug
