Dune: Awakening

In-Game Radio 

Switch Emotes 

Customize Gear Swatches 

Customize Vehicle Swatches 

Vehicle Storage 

Momentum and Suspensors 

Refuel Generators Quickly 

FIXES

• [p]Improved client and server stability.[/p]

• [p]Fixed an issue where players who disconnected or crashed during a respawn on a different map or server would get a timeout error, preventing them from accessing the game.[/p]
• [p]Fixed a rare issue where using vulture mode to cross sector borders in the Deep Desert could cause the ornithopter to fall beneath the terrain and be lost.[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue where sometimes components could fail to spawn in Deep Desert loot.[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue that allowed using rockets to target players out of sight.[/p]

• [p]Account/Permission spoofing [/p]
• [p]Building Dismantle Item Duplication [/p]
• [p]Increased Damage/Insta Kill attacks [/p]
• [p]Vehicle Inventory/VBT Item Duplication [/p]
• [p]Vehicle Ownership takeover [/p]
• [p]Projectile weapon rapid fire (rockets from ornithopters) [/p]
• [p]Durability Repair [/p]

FEATURES AND CHANGES

Deep Desert, End Game, and Landsraad

• [p]Tier 6 resources can now be collected across wider areas in the PvE part of the Deep Desert.[/p]
• [p]We added an element of randomization to the respawn timer of unique loot containers in the Deep Desert.[/p]
• [p]The plastanium tier crafting components were split up to drop based on the content location: Imperial Testing Stations, Caves, or Shipwrecks, with each of them dropping their own selection of components. Fallen Shipwrecks and Buried Treasure can drop components from any location.[/p]
• [p]Added a chance of a different selection of Uniques drop in PvE loot in Deep Desert.[/p]
• [p]The spawn rate of medium fields increased from 5 back to 8, and of the small spice fields increased from 22 to 30.[/p]
• [p]The delay for leaving a PvP security zone increased from 5 to 30 seconds to prevent border camping and allow PvP players to protect their area.[/p]
• [p]Changed Landsraad tasks to allow for Kill and Delivery Contribution to happen after the task has been completed but awarding only personal contribution. (i.e., which faction won and how many guild votes were awarded are unaffected by contributions made after the task was completed by one faction).[/p]

Other:

• [p]Improved game stability.[/p]
• [p]Reduced the cases where the sandworm can push vehicles under terrain.[/p]
• [p]Added a new audio alert for the PvP zone change.[/p]

FIXES

• [p]Fixed an issue where the Harkonnen faction recruitment contract “Do you have what it takes?” could sometimes get stuck and couldn’t be completed if you exited the dialogue with Maxim Kazmir before selecting the line “It says here that you’re looking for recruits“ to complete the contract.[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue where contract rewards dropped on the ground if your inventory was full, which could lead to situations where you would miss them. Now rewards can only be claimed when there is enough space in your inventory.[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue where vehicle modules wouldn’t highlight properly after the player had applied a customization variant.[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue where the positioning of a pentashield surface could overlap with an existing pentashield surface.[/p]
• [p]Fixed an exploit that would allow building a vehicle with items from another player's inventory.[/p]

FIXES

Technical and stability:

• [p]Fixed an issue where the ornithopter inventory could get visually empty if a player traveled to Deep Desert, loaded the inventory, left the game, and logged back into Deep Desert.[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue where sometimes players were unable to travel from Arrakeen and Harko Village to the Overland Map.[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue where the player’s vehicle could disappear if the player got disconnected when traveling between Deep Desert servers.[/p]

Highlights

• [p]Sandworms now linger for a bit around spicefields that have been recently harvested from.[/p]
• [p]Reduced the frequency of Harkonnen attacks on certain Atreides bases (and vice versa) in Hagga Basin.[/p]
• [p]Main menu "Play Now" button has been set to filter out private servers.[/p]
• [p]When streamer mode is active, map creator name is hidden if the player created the sinkchart. In addition, while in streamer mode, sector name in the Deep Desert is now hidden as well.[/p]
• [p]In the exchange, items can now be listed from and claimed to the vehicle inventory of your Ornithopter.[/p]
• [p]Improved interaction with vehicles. It should now be easier to enter them from different angles.[/p]
• [p]We closed several vulnerabilities that could lead to increased combat damage.[/p]
• [p]Fixed an exploit where you could repair all items to full durability.[/p]
• [p]Fixed an exploit where a player could duplicate resources.[/p]
• [p]Fixed an edge case issue allowing vehicles to pass through Pentashields unauthorized.[/p]

Deep Desert PvE-PvP Balance 

Ornithopters 

Visiting Other Sietches 

FEATURES AND CHANGES

Deep Desert:

• [p]The PvE area has been adjusted to encompass the entire southern half of the Deep Desert map.[/p]
  • [p]This means that players who have no interest in PvP should be able to find what they want without engaging in PvP. Imperial Testing Stations, caves, and so forth found in this area are thus now PvE.[/p]
  • [p]Control Points and Shipwrecks will, however, continue to be PvP throughout the entire map, which means you will find localized pockets of PvP within the PvE section still. Similar to how Shipwrecks are PvP in Hagga Basin.[/p]
• [p]To retain the Risk vs Reward setup for the Deep Desert:[/p]
  • [p]The density of resources increases the further north you go. This includes high-density clusters of valuable resources.[/p]
  • [p]The largest spice fields will also spawn in the north.[/p]
  • [p]The majority of Control Points will exist in the northern part.[/p]
• [p]As part of these changes, we have made some balancing adjustments in the Deep Desert:[/p]
  • [p]The lower half of the Deep Desert now offers PvE loot that is balanced toward shared loot and PvE activities. You may find better loot in the more dangerous PvP area located further north on the map. In the PvE area, for example, each player gets their own loot and can expect to receive one schematic. In the PvP area, loot is distributed on a "first come, first served" basis, with higher quantities of everything. Players can expect to find 2–6 schematics there, which are among the rarest.[/p]
  • [p]Plasteel plates can only be found in PvP zones. This line was inaccurate, since Plasteel plates can be obtained from crashing ships.[/p]
  • [p]The amount of active medium spice fields has been reduced from 8 to 5.[/p]
  • [p]The number of active small spice fields has increased from 20 to 22.[/p]
  • [p]The spawn rate of Titanium and Stravidium has been reduced in the PvE areas so that large quantities only spawn in the far-out PvP areas.[/p]
  • [p]The number of nodes in resource hotspots in the PvE part of the map has been reduced.[/p]
  • [p]The respawn time of Titanium and Stravidium has increased from 30 to 45 minutes.[/p]
• [p]Some Imperial Testing Stations are still in the PvP region, and players who want all schematics available each week will want to visit both the PvP and PvE Imperial Testing Stations. Keep in mind the loot in them rotates each week, so even if you're not interested in PvP, you could obtain it at a later date if you're not able to trade for it or buy it off the Exchange.[/p]

Vehicles:

• [p]We have begun work on the outlined changes to the Scout Ornithopters.[/p]
  • [p]Equipping a Rocket Launcher Module will now decrease the top speed of your Ornithopter.[/p]
    • [p]For Scout Ornithopters, the reduction is 20%.[/p]
    • [p]For Assault Ornithopters, the reduction is 10%.[/p]
  • [p]Infocards for the modules now reflect this change.[/p]
• [p]Exiting ornithopters mid-air will now cause them to drop straight down instead of gliding away. This should decrease the chance that you lose your ornithopter upon disconnecting from the game or exiting by accident your ornithopter mid-air (yes, we have seen the videos).[/p]
  • [p]Known issue: There is an edge case that if your vehicle ends up in the quicksand you might not be able to interact with it if you are in the quicksand. The workaround is to try to get on top of the vehicle to interact with it. This will be fixed in the very next patch.[/p]

Visiting:

• [p]We removed the restrictions when visiting other sietches.[/p]
  • [p]Before this change, players had their “home” sietches, and could visit other sietches in their world but couldn’t claim land. Now, any player can go to any sietch in their world and claim land wherever they want.[/p]
  • [p]Players can also place respawn beacons on any sietch in their world.[/p]
• [p]As a result of this change, the home icon on the server selection screen, which previously indicated your home server, now indicates on what server you have a base. Similarly, a vehicle icon shows where you have vehicles.[/p]

Technical and stability:

• [p]Increased game stability.[/p]
• [p]The latest NVIDIA driver was added to the GPU driver check at the game launch.[/p]

Other

• [p]We have introduced Player Reporting, allowing players to now report other players' messages from the text chat or report players from the Inspect menu on players.[/p]

FIXES

Technical and stability:

• [p]As a continuous effort, we have closed several exploit vulnerabilities.[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue where a specific type of network issue would cause players to be stuck in an infinite loading screen.[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue where some players could experience a client freeze when traveling between Deep Desert servers.[/p]

Combat:

• [p]Fixed an issue where players performing a melee attack could get obstructed by corpses lying on the ground.[/p]

User Interface:

• [p]Fixed an issue where the guild faction alignment was not localized on the Guild Overview tab.[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue where players could encounter a black screen if they skipped the cinematic at “The Wreck of the Hephaestus”.[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue where several Sandbike research schematics failed to mention the Imperial Testing Stations as the primary source.[/p]

Travel:

• [p]Fixed an issue where players could use an ornithopter pilot service to fly from the cities to Hagga Basin if they had arrived in a city with their ornithopter.[/p]

Miscellaneous:

• [p]You will no longer lose learned emotes when respec'ing your skill tree.[/p]

Check Out Our Reddit AMA 

"Our goal is not to force PvE players to interact with a PvP system that they may have no interest in. "

"Some areas of the Deep Desert will now be flagged as “Partial Warfare (PvE), while the deepest parts of the Deep Desert will remain as they currently are – high reward, high risk areas"

"PvP itself has plenty of issues that need to be addressed. We’re taking steps in that direction with our first changes to Scout Ornithopters. "

• [p]Scout Ornithopters with rocket launchers attached will have their speed maneuverability reduced[/p]
• [p]Rockets fired from Scout Ornithopters will have increased heat generation[/p]
• [p]Thrusters will provide a max speed bonus regardless of wings, ensuring that thruster equipped scouts will be the fastest vehicles in the game [/p]
• [p]A new T5 infantry rocket launcher will be added to help improve the dynamics of vehicle/ground combat [/p]

"The Deep Desert becomes a place where people battle it out over specific objectives – unburied testing stations and shipwrecks, resource focused islands and, of course, spice blows." 

The activities that the Landsraad asks you to do will become more varied as we flesh out the world with more content and activities. 

And we will keep adding endgame activities and more PvE content to the game going forward; both free and paid content in the form of DLCs and expansions.