"Y'all are pathetic": Dune: Awakening players are using sandworms to kill their rivals in PvE-only areas, proving once more that nowhere on Arrakis is safe
This trick, as reported by Eurogamer, involves landing your own ornithopter on another player's and then placing a thumper in the ground to summon Shai-Hulud, the ever-hungry sandworms that roam all over.
This works because, while vehicles can no longer damage people by ramming into them, they can still block other vehicles. This was apparently a common tactic out in the Deep Desert, where it was annoying but relatively fair game considering that's the PvP zone, but now it's popular in Hagga Basin, too.
Your enjoyment is going to fall intob either you making your own fun and/or playing with people. Playing solo, it's a big ghost town.
Combat is unvearied. The gameplay loop gets very repetitive very quickly.
Early game at least, the sandworm and dust storms provide an interesting looking threat for a while.
It's not a bad game, but it's a pvp centric game with minimal pve to justify the story of Dune.
To me it seems like it's very much going to be a flash in a pan kind of game. It is going to live and die by rapid updates to add content. What is there if you know what you're doing, you could experience the whole game in about a weekend.
I’ve played it for about 6 hours and so far it’s kind of meh. I’ll admit I’ve not made it to the full in deep desert with PVP and so forth so my opinion still might change. But the early game is kind of slow for my tastes and the script writing / story is just senseless video game tripe.
Also a side note is that so far the voice acting for the story stuff is pretty bad overall. My favorite so far was when you’re exploring a shipwreck and find a voice log from the crash and the speaker identifies herself as Ensign whoever. But she mispronounces ensign as “en-sine” which made me do this:
I think it's best at this point to call the American version American rather than English, cause it's kind of doing it's own thing, but if you call it English. The standard should be based off the English dictionary.
It’s very not slow if you don’t want it to be as soon as I got a bike I ignored all quests headed straight for high level areas I shouldn’t be. Looted chests until I got cutters and stuff to farm higher end ores and had a thopter in like 2 days tops. I’ve been doing deep desert stuff for ages and still have barely done any quests at all. It’s very forgiving about skipping ahead if you want to. And honestly that made me love the game a lot.