Ever since launch,Dune: Awakeninghas been under constant maintenance to improve the quality of the game and give players the best experience possible. Over the course of its first few months, players have received countless updates to the game.
With today’s Patch 1.1.20.0 introducing a ton of quality of life improvements,Dune: Awakeningis hardly recognizablefrom itsstate at launch, and it’s legitimately an entirely different experience after everything they’ve updated. If you walked away from the game for whatever reason, you might want to consider heading back to Arrakis for another try.
Dune: Awakening Wasn’t In The Best Shape At Launch
Awakening Started Off With Huge Ambitions
Dune: Awakeningis a massive game that might have confused players at first. Despite officially avoiding the “MMO” label, the game was commonly described as such, which may have repelled some players who areaverse to MMOs.
Notably, it should be understood thatDune: Awakeningis playable entirely as a PvE experience,and the only PvP element is in the game’s designated “Deep Desert” areas. If you’re interested in the survival elements of the game and want to avoid PvP, there’s no risk of “accidentally” wandering into a PvP area.
Messaging about the game aside,the gameplay itself was somewhat problematicwhenDune: Awakeningofficially launched a few months ago, with a range of reported bugs and performance issues. This is something developers have seriously focused on and dramatically improved, and the countless updates rolled out are worth revisiting the game for, even if it could stilluse endgame improvements.
The Dune: Awakening Team Has Spruced Up The Game A Lot
From Fixed Worms To New Features Like Search Bars, Dune: Awakening Is Finally Awakening
Dune: Awakeningis a vastly improved experience from what we saw a few months back, and the constant updates from developers have definitely paid off. New essential features, such as Search Bars in crafting menus, are game-changers. Developer Funcom has alsofixed Worm-related glitches:“Colliding with the sandworm’s body while it is above the ground on open sand will now result in death.”
Further improvements in this patch alone include Vehicle degradation updates, improvements to various features in the Exchange andother Economy-related changes, among countless other upgrades to the game’s various systems.
All told, if you left Arrakis because of a specific feature you thought needed to be fixed, there’s a good chance developers have addressed it in one of the various updates since launch. While there’s still room for improvement, there are plenty of good reasons to dive back intoDune: Awakeningor to finally pick it up if you were waiting for the right moment.
