In Dune: Awakening there is currently a server maintenance. For this, the servers of the survival MMO have been shut down. MeinMMO tells you what things will change with the patch.
How long are the servers offline? In Dune: Awakening, the servers are currently under maintenance. The developers at Funcom announced the maintenance work on July 1 at 7:30 PM on Discord (via X.com).
The maintenance work is expected to last 90 minutes and will bring a new patch. It starts on July 2 at 10:00 AM German time and is scheduled to end at 11:30 AM German time.
Here you can see what to expect in Dune: Awakening in the future:
Puzzle about the new patch
What could be included in the new patch? The developers of Dune: Awakening always release the exact patch notes only when the update is live and the servers are back up. However, they have revealed this time that the patch “brings a variety of fixes, improvements, and balancing changes”.
So it could already be the major July patch that the developers have been testing on the test server for the past few weeks. Recently, the developers announced that this patch is now mature and that they want to run the test servers only until July 2 at 11:00 AM.
Since this timing coincides with today’s patch, it is possible that it is indeed the major patch announced for early July, which brings hundreds of improvements. The developers present the following important changes:
- Sandworms now linger for a while near spice fields from which they have recently been harvested.
- The frequency of Harkonnen attacks on certain Atreides bases (and vice versa) in the Hagga basin has been reduced.
- The “Play Now” button in the main menu has been adjusted to filter out private servers.
- If the streamer mode is active, the name of the map creator is hidden when the player has created the sink chart. Furthermore, the sector name in the deep desert is now also hidden in streamer mode.
- Items in the vehicle inventory of the ornithopter can now be listed and claimed in the exchange.
- The PvE area near the shield wall has been expanded and now includes rows A, B, C, D, and half of E in the deep desert.
However, it is still unclear whether the developers will actually deploy the July patch today. We will update this article as soon as the update is live and the servers are back up. Then the official changes should also be available.
The last important change has already been implemented by the developers. It has been live for a few days and is causing a lot of uproar. For example, because so many players are now rushing into the endgame area Deep Desert that there are hardly any resources left: Dune: Awakening opens its endgame for PvE players, but they are so fast that there is no loot left after a short time
