The upcoming update of Dune: Awakening is highly anticipated by players, but there is a lot of trouble regarding the sandworm. Another player, on the other hand, is mourning his flower field.
Who is it about? While the Dune: Awakening community sharply criticizes the changes to the sandworm in the game, one player is bothered by another patch note more.
On Reddit, user StGerGer shares his frustration. He explains that he specially built his base over a field full of primroses. The flowers give players water when harvested with a collector, and they sparkle beautifully when the dew is on them.
However, the developers announced in the new patch notes that they will prevent such fields. They write: “The resource distribution in some Jabal content blocks has been improved to prevent very large primrose fields from spawning.”
Here you can see his primrose field:
Sandworm farming is going to be tougher
What concerns the community? However, the community is more concerned about the sandworm in the patch rather than the end of some primrose fields. In Dune: Awakening, you must collect sandworm with a Compactor to create silicone blocks.
You need these repeatedly in the game, and until now they could be safely collected in some locations that the worm cannot reach. The developers probably don’t like this because in their new patch notes they announce a significant change.
They write: “Redistribution of sandworm and spicesand fields in the Hagga Basin, so that the worm can reach them.” Additionally, they simultaneously nerf the corresponding tool, the Compactor, with several changes:
Patch notes on DuneAwakening.com
- The power consumption of the static compactor now scales more linearly per level.
- The generation of threats by static compactors has been increased.
- Changes to the sandworm field have been made to align it with the spice harvest in terms of gameplay and the appearance of the static compactor.
- Adding the missing ambient sounds in the room for static compactors.
This announcement has caused an uproar in the community. Players are greatly concerned that farming the material may become even more laborious than it already is. Even before the patch, obtaining sandworm was considered tiresome, especially since it must be manually collected with an extra tool.
Anticipating the patch, players are now even preparing to farm sandworm in the current patch before it might become much rarer after the change (via Reddit).
What do the players say about the change? On Reddit, players’ opinions are, as often the case with Dune: Awakening, divided. While some are already shopping layers to stock up their supplies, others are unfazed by the change and do not understand the frustration.
- Trip_Dubs says on Reddit: “I am surprised by this change and find it hard to understand their reasoning.”
- MrWhiteAndTight is upset on Reddit: “This is nonsense. I hate wasting the durability of the compactor for sandworm, so I use lower levels for that because I have also found safer spots to farm it. If that means I draw even more aggro, it is going to be more cumbersome than spice.”
- ThatOneNinja thinks on Reddit: “This is not such a big deal… Why are people getting upset about this?”
- piratesgoyarrrr contemplates on Reddit: “It is less a ‘problem’ than it makes the task even more cumbersome than it already was.”
That two months after the release a fundamental function, which no longer poses a challenge for many players, is changed, upsets the players. They would prefer new features instead of the changes: Dune: Awakening is missing an important feature that most other survival games have – players are pleading with the developers now.
