In Dune: Awakening, the latest patch has caused a lot of trouble for the players. They are now making a drastic demand to the developers at Funcom.
What did the patch do? The new patch 1.1.15.0 was supposed to just make small adjustments and improvements to the game. The list included more spice fields, as well as more Tier 6 resources and variable timers for the crates in the deep desert.
However, along with the features, a bug was also patched in, which the developers confirmed about two hours after the maintenance work. On Discord, they write: “We are also aware that a certain small area in the PVE zone of the deep desert has a PvP rule set after the patch. This is not intended and will be fixed with the next Coriolis storm.”
The Coriolis storm is the weekly reset of the deep desert, which took place on Tuesday, July 8th at 5:00 AM. This one day with the unintended new PvP zones caused, according to players on Reddit, much more damage than one would initially believe.
Here you can see what the future of Dune: Awakening looks like:
Patch makes players lose everything
What have the additional PvP zones triggered? According to player reports on Reddit, the new, unintended PvP zones caused players to lose all their belongings that they had stored in the deep desert.
If an area in the deep desert is in the PvP zone, other players can raid and loot the bases therein. According to dualshockers.com, “a catastrophic swarm of base thieves has been unleashed, looting everything they could get their hands on.”
These accusations are supported by users on Reddit, who independently report how their bases were allegedly raided because they suddenly found themselves in the PvP area.
User RDJMA reports on Reddit that his group lost 2 spice crawlers, 2 carrier aircraft, 6 combat flyers, and 4 scout ornithopters. These vehicles have high costs and mean that, even in large groups, several weeks of progress are lost with their destruction.
For user CaptainRichard, the looters mainly targeted the valuable spice melange. According to Reddit, they stole over 1,000 units as well as other materials and equipment from the player’s base.
What are the players demanding? For the affected players, the damage is immense, as dualshockers.com reports. The players presumably blame the developers for this problem, which is why they are demanding a server rollback on Reddit.
A server rollback would mean that the developers would reset the servers to a backup before the looting took place. However, Funcom developers have already ruled out a rollback via Discord. There, Senior Community Manager Andy Benditt writes:
We will not perform a rollback. We are exploring our options on how to best approach this, but I cannot make any promises at the moment until we can hammer out a plan.
Senior Community Manager Andy Benditt on Discord
How the developers want to help the players and whether Funcom can help at all is still unknown.
The developers of Dune: Awakening have caused a lot of trouble in the community with the latest patch. Some even say they will give up the game if the developers do not find an adequate solution to compensate for the lost items and vehicles. However, those wanting to secure their items should also not rely on the Hagga Basin: Players are bringing the most valuable resource from Dune: Awakening to the bank because hackers are raiding the supposedly secure home base
