Dune: Awakening’s first main patch has entered public testing, so that you can provide some Deep Desert PvE a go

A piece-in-progress model of Dune: Awakening‘s first massive post-release patch is now testable on Steam, so you possibly can hop in and take a look at the adjustments Funcom’s making early doorways earlier than it rolls out for everybody in a number of weeks.

A bunch of the adjustments the sport’s devs teased or confirmed throughout their latest AMA and letter to gamers have not discovered their approach into the patch, or a minimum of this early model. Although, you will a minimum of have the ability to check out PvE in the Deep Desertone thing of us have Demanded one-mass.

Alongside pointing of us to the freshly launch Dune: Awakening Public Check Consumer on Steam, the place now you can check out patch 1.1.10.0, Funcom have launched the notes outlining what’s in it.

Among the many highlights is the information that “the PvE space close to the defend wall has been expanded to cowl row A, B, C, D and half of E inside the Deep Desert.” So, you can try some Deep Desert PvE, which of us had been calling for to keep away from being pressured into PvP throughout Awakening’s endgame, once you’re attempting to find one of the best gear and assets.

I’ve observed a number of of us on the social arguing that this PvE growth is just too massive an adjustment – we’ll should see what the consensus is. Exterior of that, Funcom have “diminished the frequency of Harkonnen assaults on sure Atreides bases (and vice versa) in Hagga Basin”, arrange the principle menu’s play now button to filter out non-public servers, and made positive “sandworms now linger for a bit round spicefields which were lately harvested from”.

In the meantime, now you can use, declare and checklist gadgets straight to and from the stock of your Ornithopter within the alternate. There are a bunch of useful minor tweaks to the whole lot from base constructing to automobiles, fight and the UI. Nevertheless, in the event you’re hungry for the massive PvP adjustments that the devs have teased, changes to the Landsraad, or simply the flexibility to deposit your entire stuff directly, you will should hold ready.

Within the meantime, why not hearken to the radio and skim our DA assessment?