Developer Funcom has apologised to Dune: Awakening players and pledged to restore missing vehicles and items after a recent patch inadvertently deleted bases and other equipment.
Dune: Awakening, you might recall, recently made significant changes to its end-game, introducing a substantial number of PvE-focused areas to its ever-shifting Deep Desert area following player complaints. During a subsequent update, several PvE-designated areas were inadvertently switched to PvP, and Funcom released a patch on Monday swapping them back.
However, as it’s now revealed in a new post addressing the issue, these changes weren’t supposed to come into effect until the next Coriolis cycle, when the Deep Desert is reset and reshaped by raging sandstorms. As a result of their premature deployment, players who’d set up camp in the impacted areas suddenly found their bases gone and their hard-earned end-game resources and equipment missing. Annoyance, as you might imagine, ensued.
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“This was an oversight in our development process and internal communications,” Funcom explained in its developer update. “We’re incredibly sorry that this happened and we want to acknowledge that this should have been handled better. We’ve changed our internal processes as a result of this and will be better in the future.”