Dune: Awakening patch ends the reign of vehicular terror, as ramming into other players no longer deals damage

Today’s Dune: Awakening patch has removed the ability to damage other players in PvP by ramming them with your vehicle, killing the popular PvP tactic.

Tactic is perhaps too strong a word. Hordes of players in Dune: Awakening’s Deep Desert end game zone were tracking solos down in orniphopters. If they found them in an orniphopter of their own, they’d shoot them down with missiles.

The real problem emerged if they were on foot. Prior to the patch, if you were hit by a orniphopter you’d be knocked down into a revive state. These pilots then waited for you to self-revive, then crushed you again, leading to a loop of roadkillification.

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This trend didn’t go down particularly well, with creative director Joel Bylos popping onto Reddit to say the team were working on a fix. This appears to be that fix, and it’s going down well among the community. Ciyeelo on Reddit responded with: “Thank fucking god because so-called beta testers Guild with 🤓 10k hours of game play was abusing this Day 3 of the early release.”