this better be a good update making people stick around else Funcom must be questioned under a lamp in a dim lit room as to how the fuck are you even able to exist despite fumbling literally everything you ever created

>>2221772
It only adds to the pve stuff so it might be fun? the big things are grinding for augments in little dungeons and specializations to grind through landsraad.

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>>2220929
>> they snuck the Finger Lake Caverns into the moon
I ain't playing that pedo shit
Howard is rolling in his grave.

>oooh chani

>>2220929
looks like shit

>>2227733
The game pop barely spiking would agree with you. But at least there is something to do now.

So, is this game basically Destiny but set in nu-Dune?

>>2228377
It's conan/ark with guns and honestly pretty fun vehicles.

>>2228058
the content they added is aimed at end game and new story, which is like at least 100 hours in for most people, usually more with distractions. internally they probably see millions of dead max level characters that were never touched after everyone's friends/clans moved on. they prepped the character transfer feature in anticipation of returning players maybe wanting to move off their dead servers.
>>2228377
it's conan exiles but the sun hurts, and they utilize the timed entry mechanic of a deadly area, in this case radiation. their way to balance is still making HP sponges, you can tune into dune awakening stream and watch them fight the new station NPCs and it'll be 4 people focus firing a single guy getting chain CC'd in melee.

>>2229742
It's painful but I still like the game. Conan actually had pretty good pvp with lots of funny stuff like poison arrows.

>>2220929
>>To be able to take full advantage of everything the endgame has to offer, without being forced to engage in a play style they don't want to
gay

>>2231052
Technically, it was what they advertised at launch, they just expected the PVE playerbase to be happy with not taking part in Deep Desert/T6 activities and thought the game would be PlanetSide reborn with combined arms guild combat.

>>2232218
They weren't wrong, the pve playerbase doesn't want to be in the DD because there is nothing in it. They just misjudged how incredibly whiny they are when there is content they think is "stolen" from them.

How do you fight two melee npcs? I try but they just stunlock me whenever I try to get through one of their shields.

>>2235749
I just can't be fucking assed with melee and get to an elevated position so they are forced to shoot and drop their shields

made a new character on a supposedly populated server the other day, haven't played since last summer, and I have yet to see another player, unless the worm being triggered is caused by environmental stuff
also new hotfix:
>durability drain reduced by 50%
>high-tier enemies nerfed
still on iron-tier but it was pissing me off how quick my suspensor belt was breaking

>>2237078
It was bad but it wasn't as bad as it's being made out to be. A lot of the people complaining struggled to clear the new arena in top tier gear.

>>2237078
the vast majority will be in T6 content on separate maps not Hagga Basin, you could try using the chat to clan up with someone or ask if anyone's recruiting. unless you just want to solo everything.

is end game worth it? not really into pvp in survival games, i have a scout copter now and im already getting bored of the tedious missions, the combat is very predictable too, bosses are a joke except the heavy weapon guys that are just annoying, for some reason they are better in melee than melee troops

>>2247403
The dungeons don't really get better.

>>2247403
It gets better once you learn how to create a plastinium farming base in deep desert

>>2220929
i read the dune novels a while ago and they were ok

is this an mmo?

>>2222813
Kek

>start a guild
>two other players but neither have done any landsraad missions
>become the top contributor solo for Hark almost immediately
So do people just not give a shit about the Landsraad on my server, or is it just the Harkonnen?

>>2255867
it wanted to be, and it's online persistently, your character has a max level and there are builds and pve dungeons and loot. it takes place in an alternate timeline where paul doesn't exist though, a bene gesserit daughter was who foresaw the harkonnen plot and the emperor called for a war of assassins over the fake of arrakis.

>>2273335
fate*

Is your server closing? If so where are you moving to?

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>>2220929
>THEY FIXED EVERYTHING
They removed PVP and you arent getting it back. Endgame is gone
>NO REFUNDS

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I heard this was good? Just got it from the fire testing station

>>2220929
those skins don't look like dune

>>2220929
>THEY FIXED EVERYTHING
>Except they already removed the PVP
No refunds redditor. Time to go back

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>>2309848
Shockedpikachuface.jpg

I really love the Dunc aesthetic and they nailed it in the game. Especially because i get to experience it without seeing Zendaya's disgusting face. Shame it sucks.

The pvp fucking sucked what are you talking about

>>2220929
Why scifi armors are always sooo ugly no matter the setting nor the franchise?

>>2309852
>give in to pve players
>remove most of the pvp area
>player base does not recover
I wonder what their next plan is.

>>2316099
>>2309852
>>2309848
>>2279967
I was there in the DD, clanned up, even led them towards the end, 18 clan alliance protecting the big spice rings. I was a rocket spammer with nothing to gain if you killed me. i was weirding step stunlocking you death, taking out entire groups with shotty/tripletap and halleck's pick, ancient way spamming chasers >>2286574 best launcher you'll get outside of lansraad, lasgun robbing people during sandstorms and third party raiding other looter with a massive zerg.

that's not what most of the playerbase signed up for, how it all played out wasn't even what the devs hoped for, they wanted PvP as well, they just hoped people would be engaging in glorious guild combat. that's not even addressing the hacking situation and the fact that funcom, as whole entire company, took a vacation while the game and servers were on fire with dupe exploits and hackers running across every sietch and simple things like an extract all button for water when you need to carry it back and forth to rebuild your bases weekly in the DD, it was a poorly thought out concept.

>>2315041
I enjoyed

When is the next dlc coming out

https://duneawakening.com/news/developer-update-april-2026/

>private servers announced before the console version
lmao rn fr

>>2338931
>All PvP zones in Hagga Basin will be disabled across all official Worlds.
>A PvE instance for pure survival and exploration experience with no player combat. There is no PvP in this instance across any of the rows, including Shipwrecks.
Alright so this game is fucking dead.
> the yield from mining and spice harvesting will be multiplied by 2.5 in PvP areas.
Where is the actual pvp update.

>>2338938
If you read the full post they basically say PvP players will have to accept that their needs are tertiary, because 80% of their players are PvE only.

>>2339188
>80% of their players are PvE only
i wonder how on earth that might've happened.

>>2339196
>release the absolute most barebones shit ever
>with some of the worst pvp
>>only functional content is farming easy npcs or whacking rocks
>let the game flounder for about six months. Lose 95% of your players who don't want to hit rocks for six months
>only dlc is base building cosmetics

A real mystery alright.

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>>2339188
>80% of their players are PvE only

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>>2339215
>>2339196
"lifetime" players, so even among the quitters, PvPers are the minority, if they had an exodus, it was deafened by PvE players five times over.

>>2339245
By the time the general audience had progressed through the game to the point where they might see some need/benefit to pvp, it was already widely known that it was a half baked thopter gank fest and everyone you talked to advised to avoid it until it got better. They almost immediately started scaling back their pvp focus too so, no, I don't believe that 80% lifetime players being exclusively pve thing to be a metric of much of anything at all.

>>2339287
Yup. Almost everyone had bailed out by them and pvp at shipwrecks never really happened.

>>2339287
If your seal clubbing activities are contingent on the seals being unaware they're about to be clubbed to engage with you, perhaps the system wasn't sustainable.

>>2339324
The vision for these games is usually group combat on a scale where losses barely matter but funcom underestimated how much one or two shitty casuals will refuse to ever work with anyone else.

>>2339332
>>group combat on a scale where losses barely matter
>with dune's servers size
>with dune's permanent durability loss after repair
>with dune's general gameplay formula
>with 'alpha-clans' stacking for seal clubbing
>with endless bugs and exploits
I have no idea how funcom could be retarded enough to expect Planetside-like mass battles in crafting-building-survival game.

>>2339324
I never really got a chance to pvp outside of a couple extremely jank occurrences where i got popped by a rocket thopter i couldn't even see. I'm probably part of that 80% of exclusive pve players. Not because I want to be. There was just never an incentive.

>>2279967
>the carebears did this!
fuck off. Yea carebears who inject themselves into combat exist, but not enough to kill a game outright.
You are purposely overlooking the larger part of the problem to cope.

Why is that pvpers always shidding and farding over a people *not* wanting to play with them?

>whaaa Im too much of a sad weak faggot to be a bully in real life so you have to tolerate me being a asshole in your video games
nooooooooooooooooo my self esteem hinges entirely on being better than you at this game, why does everyone leave me?!

Perhaps if hardcore/competitive PVPers showed more grace in victory and didn’t outright exploit, cheat, cheese or otherwise act like a fucking asshole when playing, perhaps more people would be willing to tolerate them. But most never do, because they don’t actually want competition they want easy prey to pad their stats and act like they’re better than the next guy.

so you get what you fucking deserve,
To play alone in yet another dead game.

>>2340339
It wasn't fun but this change just makes it look like they are floundering to do anything. Farming sand is boring as fuck unless you have autism.
>>2339978
You don't lose your shit on death. A group of five can farm a load of thopters and gear easily.

I still don't understand why they didn't make this game like Conan and instead tried this "soft mmo" shit.
People who like Dune are going to be put off by the fact it is pretty grindy and people coming from Conan are going to want a private server, probably with mods. Literally nobody asked for an always online survival game with forced pvp. An incredible amount of time wasted, pvp is getting limited and eventually, you are going to be able to just play solo on your own "server". So much time and effort wasted on something nobody wanted.
Why do so many developers create problems for themselves only to be forced to solve them later down the line? Are they retarded?

>>2345242
They just think they're built different and will manage to make it work, unlike everyone else.

>>2345242
>I still don't understand why they didn't make this game like Conan and instead tried this "soft mmo" shit.
It's actually pretty simple when you think of dune as conan but with all the rough edges that made people bounce off pvp in conan sanded away.
>full loot death is punishing: removed
>getting ganked everywhere even when just starting by high levels : removed
They also probably made the deep desert fuck huge to make running away and avoiding other players even easier but they underestimated how blood thirsty people get and how risk averse players are even when they lose almost nothing. It was also really clear they expected groups to be the only viable way to play the deep desert areas.
>>2345509
Pretty much. Every survival pvp game says they solve the shoot on sight zerg problem and every single one failed. I think Dune could have managed it pretty close though but if you leave any crack, these people seep in.

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Is this game as fun as it looks?
I have never watched\read Dune, but I'm willing to.
I kinda like Conan Exiles tho I find it a bit boring to level thralls up and shit, this one seems to be more MMO-lite\Fallout 76-lite.

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>>2358089
I pretty much only enjoy the base building. There's almost zero reason to interact with other players and the combat is extremely shallow. Pic related describes the PVP. Read the books by all means but that's not important for this game.