The sandbox MMO with extra sand is doing great on Steam, but in PvP, a tactic for crash pilots is causing a lot of frustration.
For Dune: Awakening, things are going better than ever on Steam after a strong release. Player numbers are high and reviews are very positive. While many players enjoy battling other players, there is one thing in the deserts of Arrakis that is more dangerous than sandworms: players who think they are Super Mario.
Steam records for Dune: Awakening
According to SteamDBthe game from Funcom narrowly missed the record of190,000 concurrent players yesterday. A look at the curve shows that player numbers have been steadily rising since release.
The tracking website also revealsthat Dune: Awakening ranked second in the global top sellerson Steam in its release week. Even now, the MMO still ranks third among the global top sellers in terms of current sales.
Targeted crash landing
In Dune: Awakening, there is a large PvP area where you can find numerous activities as well as important resources and other loot. So you can’t really avoid fighting other players.
The fastest way to get around the desert is with the ornithopters. However, these flying machines are also used for a rather unfair tactic.Players simply crash the metal dragonflies into others to defeat them.
You can see what this looks like in this Reddit clip from French streamer Bombe18:
Dune developers, I agree to be defeated in PVP. But being crushed by ornithopters that take no damage is unacceptable. No.
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Since you cannot cause any damage to the ornithopters with normal weapons or abilitiesand the impact does not damage them either, there is no way to defend yourself except to flee.
It may look funny when the flying machines plop onto players like Mario on a Goomba, but for those affected, the fun is limited.
Developers promise a fix
Funcom’s Creative Director Joel Bylos responded to the Reddit post, apologized, and assured players that they are already working on a solution to this problem.There are two obvious solutions: Either give players the means to defend themselves and shoot down the ornithopters, or disable the collision damage. After all, in Dune, sudden death is supposed to come from below, from the sandworms lurking beneath, not from above. Bylos does not say when exactly a patch can be expected.
