PvPing players of Dune: Awakening have gotten a little bit of relief in the survival MMO’s latest patch, which has applied a couple of targeted adjustments that seek to correct some of the more frustrating things that others were capable of when fighting out in the Deep Desert.
First of all, the respawn timer for PvP zones has been ramped up, starting at 70 seconds for the first death and 115 seconds for subsequent deaths after that. This is in direct response to one Redditor’s post that called out how battles in the desert are often lost because the opposition can simply respawn immediately and win by pure attrition. The other major part of the puzzle is the end of “goomba stomping” as players will no longer take damage from any vehicle.
Other features of the patch include a new location for server messages to make them more obvious, the removal of a deprecated ornithopter engine schematic, further server stability improvements, and another line of fixes. It’s likely not a silver bullet for all of the PvPing woes in the game, but it is a start.
