In a crowded subject filled with on-line survival sims, Dune: Awakening is kicking up storm. The variation of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi novels lets gamers construct bases, rid sand worms, and smash Ornithopters into each other. That final half has change into an issue, and the builders are already wanting right into a repair.
Dune’s Ornithopters are helicopters formed like dragonflies. In Dune: Awakening, they’re one of many many automobiles gamers can construct that function each a useful resource and an end-goal of kinds. They require quite a lot of tools and sources to craft in case you’re taking part in solo, which is why most of them belong to gamers working in teams. It seems that they’re fairly indestructible too, making them deadly weapons for ramming enemy gamers with in PVP.
Reddit consumer Bombe18 shared his run-in with Dune: Awakening’s man-made scourge in a latest clip that blew up on the subreddit exhibiting him repeatedly being accosted by a number of Ornithopters. Capturing at them does nothing. They’re unscathed by always smashing into the bottom on prime of him. At one level, he tries to wall-jump off a ledge and stab one. “Yeah sorry about this,” wrote recreation director Joel Bylos. “We’ve individuals engaged on fixing the goomba stomping ASAP.”
Gamers have been debating the function of Ornithopters in Dune: Awakening since its beta assessments final yr. On the one hand, they’re quite a lot of enjoyable and a cool reward for gamers to construct towards. On the opposite, they type of trivialize making an attempt to journey across the desert and survive, the 2 issues the sport is meant to be about. They’ll additionally shoot missiles, utterly dominating the bottom recreation. Now that’s actual desert energy.
By way of stopping gamers from griefing each other with Ornithopters, there are a number of completely different recommendations. Some gamers simply need the automobiles not to have the ability to be used as weapons in any respect. Others need them remoted to particular PVP areas. One other resolution is to make it simpler to destroy them. “Looks as if they need to simply make weapons deal extra harm to them,” wrote one participant. “They’d suppose twice about doing this if their orni may get wrecked by gunfire.” One other wrote, “Make Deep Desert crashes do important harm. Two crashes or one thing previous a sure physics threshold ought to disable the car.”
Nevertheless the builders resolve to deal with the latest outbreak of Ornithopter “goomba stomping,” Dune: Awakening is having a terrific launch to date. Out earlier this week on PC, it’s nearing a 90 % optimistic score on Steam with nearly 20,000 critiques. The concurrent player-count could be very wholesome, too, peaking at slightly below 150,000 heading into the weekend.
Sadly, console gamers must wait a bit to construct Ornithropters of their very own. A PlayStation 5 and Xbox Sequence X/S launch isn’t deliberate till someday in 2026.
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