In Dune: Awakening, there are players who annoy others with nasty tricks. However, some also show how beautiful unity can be in a survival MMO – and even help others to survive.
What do Griefer do? Griefer are, in short, party poopers, meaning players who annoy others with their behavior in multiplayer titles or even cause them disadvantages. Even in Dune: Awakening, there are already a few Griefer shortly after the release. One fan reported, for instance, that one of the party poopers “ruined his night and made him cry.”
However, the community also has very different sides. Many players report friendly encounters, gifted loot, and spontaneous help in the desert of Arrakis.
To protect your base from unwanted visitors and to grant access to your guild members, you can set certain levels:
Players leave bases and play taxi
This is how helpful the community of Dune: Awakening is: On Reddit, a user reports that a player sought shelter in his garage during a storm. He himself was in the process of moving his loot to a new base – so he simply left it for the stranger. Now he occasionally visits him.
The user Cizhu also experienced something similar: During a sandstorm, he was taken in by someone. A sandstorm gradually drains you of a lot of health – and you cannot heal against it as long as you are taking damage. Many players deliberately build their bases in a way that allows other people to seek shelter during sandstorms or sun exposure.
Cizhu also recounts that while messing around in a bar, he jokingly said in voice chat that he needed a drink. Several people promptly approached him, asking with concern if everything was okay, and one offered him water. “In the end, we sat in a circle and chatted for about 10 minutes. I’m still quite new, asked a lot of questions, and the people gave me great tips. I have never had such a wonderful experience in a game,” he reports.
Another user tells on Reddit how he got stuck in quicksand with his sandbike, lost his loot, and then respawned far away. He asked for help in chat – and indeed someone came with a buggy, picked him up, retrieved his loot with him, and brought the player back to his base.
Especially leaving an old base seems to be something many players consciously do. This way, new players can take over a shelter and are well-equipped to start in the survival MMO. A player found a fully equipped base with “too much free stuff” in Dune: Awakening and simply took it over.
