Dune Awakening developers Funcom have announced plans to lay off an unspecified number of staff as part of a "restructure".
  • cevn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    6 days ago

    Dune Awakening had sooo much potential but they could not make simple changes to make the game 10 times better and that resulted in a player exodus once the story completes.

    1. First person mode
    2. pvp arena or matchmaking not involving deep desert
    • swelter_spark@reddthat.comEnglish
      4·
      6 days ago

      I didn’t mind the game being difficult, but there were so many bugs and unexplained mechanics that could wipe out large amounts of progress unexpectedly. It was disappointing.

        • swelter_spark@reddthat.comEnglish
          3·
          3 days ago

          Or getting kicked out of the game while flying a copter over the Deep Desert, and logging back in to find myself in quicksand and the copter stuck inside a cliff. Great times!

          • cevn@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            3 days ago

            The way the game treats players time as something you can just throw in a dumpster was really… a choice that was made. I really wonder if the higher ups actually played the end game at all, it was miserable.

  • Washedupcynic@lemmy.caEnglish
    31·
    6 days ago

    I read some reviews and one of the downsides I read was that people would lose progress with their “bases” if they weren’t logging in every X amount of hours. Also heard it was full of micro transactions, gacha style game.

    • swelter_spark@reddthat.comEnglish
      7·
      6 days ago

      Your base and vehicles disintegrate slowly with exposure to the elements. I never saw any gacha mechanics, though.

      • P1k1e@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        6 days ago

        Also you’ve got essentially a month before the degredation begins, and another month before it destroys anything