In Dune: Awakening, many PvE players wished to finally access the loot from the PvP area Deep Desert. The developers of the game have now responded to this request, but the loot seems insufficient as players report that areas are cleared by player hordes in just a few seconds.
What have the developers brought into the game? The most important resources in Dune: Awakening await players in the Deep Desert. Originally a pure PvP area, this changed with the current Patch 1.1.0.17 following criticism from PvE players.
With the patch, the southern part of the Deep Desert became a PvE area. Since June 26, 2025, players can look for loot and enjoy themselves in caves, testing stations, and on rock formations. However, there seems to be a problem. There is too little loot for too many players, as some report on Reddit.
Stations and areas are cleared in a short time
What is the problem in the new PvE area? In the open world, any PvE player can farm resources and crates in the desert, but if you’re too slow, you have to wait 45 minutes for the resource to respawn (via Reddit).
With so many players currently out and about, this leads to a situation where you hardly get any resources because you compete with hundreds of players. The Deep Desert is shared by players from 25 Sietches. The entire desert is being harvested, and as a single player, you need luck or have to wait quite a while in one spot.
This also creates another problem, as jackShyn reports on Reddit. If you dare to enter the PvP area, you have the issue that it has become smaller and it is harder to hide from strong PvP players. The area was previously twice as large and offered more opportunities to avoid other players.
Another problem occurs at the testing stations. In a Reddit thread, CraftyMud6756 shows what a testing station run looked like for him. A horde of players storms the dungeon, and in a matter of seconds, there are no more enemies. Here, the loot is personal, and you always get something, but the challenge of the testing stations is no longer present, even if you want to do it as a small group.
You can see this for yourself:
How does the community respond to the crowded testing stations? Under the Reddit post by CraftyMud6756, some take it with humor while others criticize the game:
- Ivara-Ara-Fail (via Reddit) has a positive view:
At least the place is much livelier now than before.
- Joshatron121 (via Reddit) does not see the problem as too serious, after all, the patch has just been released:
I mean, the patch literally just came out. A lot of people all ready for the endgame are going out at the same time. That will slow down.
- Live_Bus7425 (via Reddit) sees it much more negatively:
Reminds me of New World chest runs… I don’t think this is good for Dune Awakening.
How big the problem will really be will be seen in the coming days. If it becomes larger, one can expect that the developers will react quickly. In the past, they tried to promptly fix other issues with the game. Such as with disappearing vehicles: In Dune Awakening, vehicles disappear, but the developers fix the problem without restarting the servers
