Shai Hulud defanged: In Dune: Awakening, your vehicles are no longer permanently lost if a sandworm eats them

But that punishing permadeath for everything the sandworm swallows has been de-fanged, at least a little bit: a new patch for Funcom's survival MMO means that you don't have to lose your vehicle ...
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Dune: Awakening dev says "when we do bring stuff like sandworm riding into the game, it'll feel like an epic moment like in the movies," but you can't "trivialize the sandworm ...

MMO Games Dune: Awakening is a bit more “like a Dune survival RPG” than a full MMO, with multiplayer driving "that feeling of the universe being alive” Survival Games Dune: Awakening devs reveal new ...
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Dune: Awakening player manages a sandworm escape so jaw-dropping even the MMO's devs are impressed: "Yes, I pissed my pants, yes, my stillsuit saved the piss"

Survival Games Dune: Awakening player says "there IS sandwalking" in the survival MMO to avoid the big ol' worm – and "if you do it just right, you can cross any distance" in Arrakis MMO Games Dune: ...
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Even the beginner zone in Dune: Awakening isn't safe from sandworm-manipulating griefers anymore

Players new to Dune: Awakening should watch their backs in the Hagga Basin starting area—or risk getting swallowed by a sandworm thanks to griefers. After the Dune: Awakening devs significantly ...
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Dune Awakening's upcoming patch will end Ornithopter griefing and make sandworm collisions deadly

Good news: Ornithopter griefers will be grounded after patch 1.1.20. Bad news: Funcom has put a stop to riding Shai Hulud. Version 1.1.20 of Dune: Awakening is now live on the Public Test Client, ...