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Dune: Awakening Had To Briefly Remove This Iconic Dune Feature After It Kept Breaking The Game

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Josh Coulson

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Funcom has been forced to do something about its destructive sandworms.
During Dune: Awakening's pre-launch weekend, giant worms have been swallowing bases whole.
The devs appear to have made adjustment as for a brief period, worms were removed from the game entriely.

When you think of Dune, you think of its giant worms. Even if you haven't seen the movies, you almost certainly know what they look like. That's why it was very noticeable right away when Funcom removed the Shai-Hulud from 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dune: Awakening.

Dune: Awakening, a survival game set on the series' fictional sand planet of Arrakis, launches this week, but early adopters have already spent their first weekend with it, giving Dune fans the chance to live in a version of its world. Much like the Fremen, they must figure out how to stay alive on Arrakis's unforgiving surface. Naturally, one of the𝐆 biggest threats to their lives are the giant worms. However, for a brief but blissful period, Awakening's Arrakis was worm-free.

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noticed something was up after they passed 💫two worm ♚territories and didn't feel the vibrations that warn you of a nearby Shai-Hulud. That prompted them to take to to question whether something was broken, if they just weren't alerting nearby worms, or if they had been removed from the game.

Shai-Hulud Are Wreaking Havoc On Arakkis

If You Lost Your Base To A Worm Last Weekend, You're Not Alone

It appears to have been the third and final option, and the video below, , might explain why. Upon hearing a worm approaching, the players r😼etreat to the safety of their Ornithopter and then wat♐ch on, helpless, as the Shai-Hulud they knew was coming proceeds to wreak more havoc on their base than they, or anyone else who plays, thought was possible.

The worm effortlessly ploughs through the base, leaving nothing but a few walls standing amid some debris as it races away to whatever impor🌌tant business it has to take care of next. "Is that the base gone?" one of the players can be heard asking, to which their fellow inhabitant of this virtual Arrakis dejectedly replies, "Yep".

The base above doesn't appear to have been the only one decimated by a giant worm. It's also not something that's supposed to happen, at least not as easily as it does above, or as frequently as it seems to have been happening during Awakening's first weekend. So much so that the reason players in the Reddit thread haven't been able t🤡o find them is because they were briefly removed.

Shai-Hulud should be back in Dune: Awakening by the time you read this, and hopefully, Funcom has tweaked the game so that they can't lay waste to bases quite as easily. Some players are hopeful the dev team hasn't gone too far in the other direction, though. While well-built bases on rocks where the worms can't get them should be safe, if you're building your base on sand anywhere near giant wor𝕴m territory, you deserv🌠e what's coming to you.