Dune Awakening

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Rezz said:
Is there anything that someone would miss out on that is not replicable in 6 months when the game is $20?
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I doubt it'll be $20 in 6 months. Conan Exiles took a little bit to drop in price, but it also released at like $30 if I remember right - since it both wasn't an MMO and was initially an "early access" style release. It actually had a pretty low amount of content on release.

But to answer your question: No, you won't really miss much. Especially if you don't really care about that initial "MMO rush" of seeing other players, a world that feels a bit more "lively", etc. If you just want a single-player, open-world survival experience in the Dune universe? You can definitely wait for a discount.
 
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I read that combat in this game is janky. No, not janky. It is straight up broken. Broken combat and forced pvp is going to make a lot of people wish they didn't buy it or refunded it when they could. Makes me wonder yet again if devs play the games they are making because the combat is bad and broken in a HUGE way.

Also, they can fuck off with rentable private servers. Either make the game free or the servers free. Don't charge for both. Why in fuck is only part of the game private?

People are already griefing with building placement. Granted, you can climb over them, but it is going to be a huge PITA real quick.

Seems like FC never learns.
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All the jankiness comes from the melee combat. Which is 100% avoidable if you just fly up and perch on something. It makes the game more enjoyable. The melee combat is complete trash, and annoying as heck when you are trying to fight 3 - 4 npcs at the same time. The whole melee system needs to go.

As I thought it would be the case. People can easily grief with the buildings in HB. They can block off paths pretty easily. So if you are in a mining buggy you have to spend a lot of time trying to find away around.

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For those of you who don't know you can use a vehicle scanner or hand held scanner to find hidden treasure in the open sand. Which can get you some pretty good stuff. You can do this in the DD as well has HB. You need one of those compactor things to dig it up.
 
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Anybody know why this game chews up so much virtual memory? I've been having an issue where after 1-2 hours or so of gameplay, my virtual memory is getting blasted and it creates major choppiness. I have 32GB of RAM and already increased my Page File size in Win11. My card has 16GB of VRAM.

Didn't seem to happen on release day, but have noticed it since the "hotfix" they did.
 
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I haven't run into any griefer bases yet

Another tip if you didn't figure it out: Ever go on a buggy run but want to move the cargo quickly to your base storage? When you open a storage chest, on the right side click on backpack and then you'll see a dropdown of vehicles. You can then move stuff directly from your vehicle inventory to the storage box.
 
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I haven't run into any griefer bases yet
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The game hasn't officially launch yet and reddit is already a pure salt mine over it. Wanting people banned over it, As I said it would be. Anyone with a brain could have guessed this would be a huge issue for a lot of players. Wait until you have whole guilds being dicks. A Guild of 10, being dicks, could cripple a single basin.

This is way I said that's the best benefit to having a private server, not having to deal with others shitshacks. Having to spend a bunch of extra time driving around other people's shit is annoying and the mining buggy is mid to late game. So, the bitching is only going to get worse as more people reach the mid to late game.

I'm enjoying the salt mines. This is only the start.
 
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All the jankiness comes from the melee combat. Which is 100% avoidable if you just fly up and perch on something. It makes the game more enjoyable. The melee combat is complete trash, and annoying as heck when you are trying to fight 3 - 4 npcs at the same time. The whole melee system needs to go.

As I thought it would be the case. People can easily grief with the buildings in HB. They can block off paths pretty easily. So if you are in a mining buggy you have to spend a lot of time trying to find away around.

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It's almost like the developers have never actually played a "competitive" winks game before. I wonder if those same types of structures show up in a game where your endgame isn't based around PVP and who effectively monopolizes certain resources the fastest. Who knows!

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I played on a public server with some "friends" in V Rising during the early days. PVP, the whole shebang. We were all new so it was kind of fun, and this guy set up shop near us but not too near where it was actually an issue. One of my "friends" chatted with the guy and he gave us access to his land so we could get through his base without destroying it. The moment he went offline, my "friends" destroyed his entire base and heart immediately.

Quite simply you can never trust anyone, ever, in a game where there is resource contention and PVP isn't just combat. Assume everyone will fuck you, in whatever way possible, every time. Because they will.

And I thoroughly enjoyed that game when run solo or in a private world. Some people just revel in fucking over others (especially in this age of streamers) and if you give them the tools they will. Not "they will think about it." - No, they will. Every single time.
 
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They've had lots of small hotfixes every day, usually requires recompiling shaders afterwards
 
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That Call of Duty that had the Warzone battle royale (Modern Warfare?) used to do it pretty much every launch. Shit was obnoxious.
 
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Game is awesome so far and I'm loving the huge world with tons of open world, it's been a long time since I've enjoyed corpse runs and actually being worried about what I'm doing.
 
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Both AOC and Enshrouded have that heavy frontload of shaders. Usually it's just the first startup after a new build, but I think Enshrouded does it every time. Seems DA is doing that as well.
 
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My complaints stem from complaints I have with all survival games - item degrading, leaving you putzing around way too long in each "tier", and some of the material requirements mid-late game are astoundingly tedious. Also, in some regards, the map is too fucking big. Built your base up North by aluminum but need a bunch of iron? Lol prepare to spend 4 hours driving around harvesting.

It's a fun game and I've gotten a lot of hours out of it so far, but the survival stuff is burning me out already and I'm a tier away from end game.
 
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One way to shorten harvest runs if you don't want to make 2 bases once you can fly: Disassemble the buggy, load it into scout ornithopter cargo, fly to the resource area, build the buggy, harvest then drive home (can store the ornithopter using the vehicle backup tool).

While you still have to drive home, it makes the whole round trip deal much shorter.

My main base is near iron/carbon/crystals/flour sand. I plan to make a 2nd resource processing base up north eventually near the aluminum fields to try to process the ore closer to gathering, although I'll need to setup a robust water operation. Once you get the industrial dew reaper and the giant literjons that can hold 10k units of water, it becomes relatively easy to at least bring a decent amount of starting water to get the operation running.
 
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Flour sand! Going to make some bread?

Do you lose tool durability mining? I wonder if they will have the high end tool problems from Conan. In that game if you upgrade your tools eventually the tools cost more metal to repair than they harvest. You actually lose overall metal by using the tools.
 
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You could basically completely mitigate that problem by going into the harvesting tree if I remember correctly. it's been a couple of years since I've played, but Star Metal+ stuff was like you described, basically a wash or worse if you didn't have any points into the harvesting crap. You would basically run around with a tier lower or whatever because you would get similar mileage out of the tools and they were a lot easier/cheaper to repair (plus I think you could automate to some degree with thralls the mining process? I may be misremembering; it may have just been processing) and then only use the 'good' tools for when you were trying to get the top end node drops.

Which absolutely didn't come into play if you were a little ways into the harvesting tree skill points wise. I remember running around with a hybrid build that was all over the place (harvesting, construction, combat) and absolutely there was a difference between myself and the more combat focused people whenever we'd get to resource harvesting. I'd have to kill less rhinos/mammoths to get the heavier skins, mine less ore, etc.

I have to imagine Dune has similar stuff set up in it.
 
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Flour sand! Going to make some bread?

Do you lose tool durability mining? I wonder if they will have the high end tool problems from Conan. In that game if you upgrade your tools eventually the tools cost more metal to repair than they harvest. You actually lose overall metal by using the tools.
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Flour sand is actually from the books. In the game, you can harvest some to refine into something (silicone) you use in a lot of crafts.

You lose dura on pretty much everything when you use it.

Repairing is significantly cheaper than crafting the tool from scratch. Like if it takes 15 metal to make the tool, it costs like 2 or 3 to repair. They last quite a while as well unless you die a lot (dura loss on death). There are perks that reduce durability loss as well. You can also get world drop tools, although usually they're half broken. But it can be very helpful if you're still resource poor. You can find vehicle parts as well in the dungeons.
 
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