Dune: Awakening Making Changes to Loot Structure for Deep Desert

The development team over at Funcom is working on some interesting changes for Dune: Awakening. One of these focuses on the Deep Desert. In particular, there's going to be a new loot structure.

How it works is that schematics no longer rotate on a weekly basis. Instead, all schematics can be obtained each week with the exception of those reserved for Landsraad vendors. The schematics belong to Location + security zone specific loot-pools that include PvP Testing Stations, Shipwrecks, or PvE Testing Stations. Meanwhile, some schematics are going to belong in multiple pools. The goal of the update is to allow for each area in the Deep Desert to be valuable to explore. At the same time, it should also allow for rare items to become more available.

Another change is that players can now obtain a player start near one of the Taxi services in the Deep Desert. This should allow all players access to the taxi service to escape the Deep Desert safely.

Other Changes

Some of the other planned changes include:

• The construction tool now features a ‘Replace’ mode that can be used to replace building pieces with other compatible pieces.

• The piece picker is now a separate action available in both the build and replace modes.

• Windtraps now stop consuming filters if the base’s water storage is full.

• The rocket launcher can now lock on characters again, but it also requires a target lock before being able to fire, both against characters and vehicles.

• Improved consistency of infantry missiles to hit their targets.

• Several of the target NPCs in the Desert Ghoul’s assassination contracts are now slightly tougher.

• Spitdart Rifles now have their own weapon sub-category in the customization menu.

The upcoming update is also set to introduce a new Recovery mode for vehicles. Check out the complete list of planned changes here.

Dune: Awakening takes players to an open world and multiplayer survival game on a massive scale. In reality, it’s more than just survival since the game offers a large-scale, persistent, and highly immersive world that has social hubs bustling with other players, server-wide politics and intrigue, and even a cinematic storyline that’s sure to leave players at the edge of their seat. Dune: Awakening is available for PC via Steam.