Squished Like a Bug By an Ornithopter Playing Dune: Awakening PvP? You're Not Alone — And Funcom's Looking Into It

Dune: Awakening developer Funcom said there's a hole coming for players sick of getting squished by helicopters — known in-game arsenic Ornithopters — successful PvP.

As admirably reported by redditor Bombe18 successful the video below, there's beauteous overmuch thing you tin bash if an Ornithopter sets its sights connected you, arsenic the infinitesimal you self-revive, the Orni volition beryllium backmost to rinse and repeat. It's a peculiarly egregious mode to dice fixed there's precise small you tin bash to halt it unless you person a rocket launcher with you.

"Dune developers, I hold to person a decision successful PvP," Bombe18 wrote (thanks, Eurogamer). "But been [sic] crushed by orni that do[es] not instrumentality immoderate damage? No." They adjacent suggest a mates of solutions: either fto the Orni instrumentality harm erstwhile it crashes into players similar this or, you know, conscionable disable crushing and its quality to marque aerial assaults.

The bully quality is it didn't instrumentality agelong for Funcom to announcement Bombe18's (and galore others') plight.

"Sorry astir this," replied Funcom's Chief Creative Officer, Joel Bylos. "We person radical moving connected fixing the goomba stomping ASAP."

It's not conscionable the Ornithopters that instrumentality nary damage, either — it's the aforesaid with each vehicles. So unless Funcom addresses them simultaneously, players fearfulness the PvP meta volition simply rotation from Ornis to thing else. Fingers crossed we get a solution soon.

Apart from this PvP griefing, Dune: Awakening has enjoyed a superb launch, with a 'very positive' idiosyncratic reappraisal standing connected Steam. Within hours of going unrecorded connected June 10, Funcom's endurance MMO had clocked up implicit 142,000 concurrent players connected Valve's platform, and that highest is expected to swell this weekend. You tin besides spot what we marque of it truthful acold successful our Dune: Awakening reappraisal successful progress.

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