Thread 527976840

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God Emperor edition

>What is this?
A mass-multiplayer survival game, set in the Dune universe.
A mix of PvE and PvP, focusing heavily on PvP in the endgame.

>Links
https://duneawakening.com/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1172710/Dune_Awakening/?curator_clanid=33090091

> THREAD GUILDS:
US: Dune, Solitary, Sietch Tabr
EU: Spice Rats, Solaria, Sietch Tabr
Leave your character name or funcom id to be invited. /vg/ guilds are gay shit.

>>527976693
What do you have to do to destroy them? I should go out and do this

I might have autism, I can't stop building
Please send help. I have reached horizontal Staking limit
1/3

>>527976993
well if you don't have an empty fief slot, can't do it, but you just look for fiefs that let you claim them and manually demo

>>527977117
2/3

>>527977117
How do you create large builds that aren't just empty shells that look good from afar? Is it all just decorations? I might need to rebuild from scratch, not sure how to do that since I can't just demolish everything.

>>527977313
3/3
>>527977398
I consider what I want each room to be before I build it

>>527977117
it's really addictive. I would only stop building to get more bathsalts for a few days

>>527977398
Create individual rooms with walls inside. You can also have hollow walls, i.e. your base is for example 10x10 but inside you only see 8x8. Picrel is inside of mine and my friend's

don't give up, skeleton

>>527977857
This is 1.5x height, right? How do you handle that from the outside? How would you do windows for hollow walls?

>>527978101
nta, but there was roofs, wedge walls, and half walls that accomodate the 1.5x vertical. For me, I place hollow walls against inner rock walls or internal walls to conceal them

>>527978101
Bottom floor is 1.5, top floor is 1 but angled hark roof is also 1, so top floor is sort of 2

I guess you couldn't do windows, but you could have little alcoves, similar to the second floor here, except recessed inside

Saw a dude on a sandbike going mach 5 across the desert. Glitch or hacker?

>>527978528
glacker

>>527976840 (OP)
>/vg/ guilds are gay shit.
doomtranny faggot already vandalizing our OPs

>>527978528
Probably has the unique Mohadis Engine. Mk 3 has top speed of like 115kph

OP here, I love the game but /vg/ guilds are always cesspools

>>527978882
meant for
>>527978727

ugh. I wish hark had sloped tiles with dark underside rather than interior underside. How annoying...

>>527978318
That style looks dope, I might need to look up which sets there are and buy one that I like.

Good idea with the alcoves, I might just need to rethink scale for my build and figure out a way to rebuild from scratch without going insane from inventory management.

>>527978085
he died
he fucking dead

where do you sell testing records that you don't need for a quest?

why cant i use the voice to make bitches suck my dick

>>527978528
Normal, thats the top model with unique parts probs

>Reached the point where I need to move base
>Eastern Shield Wall is the best location, but ugly as sin
>Mysa requires you to drive up to Eastern, and is ugly as sin
>Jabal is too far from Aluminum, and also ugly as sin
God damn why are the end zone areas so crap, claustrophobic hell holes.

>>527980758
Now I want to build a Mk5 bike, thanks for making my list of to-do's even longer.

>Used to worry about finding fuels cells to keep my gennies stocked
>Get buggy
>Suddenly ROLLING in fuel cells for days

>>527981105
I should figure out how to use my buggy properly. I guess I'm too far away from all my farms, so I always go there by thopter or bike, and I have a dedicated aluminum outpost.

>>527979641
this but for almost literally every building piece lol. i hate that they're all two sided. a lot of the time i want two identical sides. wish there was just a quick variant toggle while placing to let you do both. also while we're on the topic of building QOL/parts: why the FUCK is there no 90 degree triangle floor piece to match all of the other walls and wedges? instead you have to use weird small triangles that only probably snap to each other for making hexagonal shapes. those are cool and should exist but the base floor piece is just missing for no reason.

>>527981105
i have a bunch near my base so it's great to go on a route around popping them for ~615 fuel cells each. base will be comfortably powered for months lol.

>>527981256
Its ridiculous. By hand, I'd get 60 fuel cells per block with a hand cutteray. With buggy cutter, I'm get 407 per block

>>527981282
>90 degree triangle
that one can actually be explained. If there was a 90 degree triangle piece, the slanted part would be longer than the other side parts (pythagorean theorem). Thus the walls, sized for regular sides, would be too short for the long side.

>>527981105
>>527981256
>use Mk4 buggy cutter on fuel cell block
>+407 fuel cells
>(Poor efficiency)
what the fuck does good efficiency get lol

>>527981447
that's about the same for ores too just a bit less

This is such ass. Explosive rounds are not worth +3 heavy darts per trigger pull.

unbothered. moisturized. hydrated. in my lane. flourishing.

im starting to build my first copter lads!

just smelting all the alu and cobalt. I really need to up my water collection i'm constantly running out.

i think she wants my penis

Did anyone else here straight up just skip steel tier?
Everything in it felt so worthless, I didn't make anything in that tier except for a unique cutterray and just went straight into aluminium gear since it was so easy to get.

Spacious interiors.

>>527985396
>I really need to up my water collection i'm constantly running out.
Just one (1) death bed is more than enough for a solo base

>>527986437
not at all

>>527986093
Pretty much yes. I got better armor doing the electric worm quest area, weapons off drops and never built a thing in Steel, except for the construction pieces like larger water tanks.

>>527986497
>He can't log in every hour and put a body in
Sucks to be you

>>527986572
45k water per hour is too little if you’re at duraluminum tier

>>527986691
>duraluminum
Why would I bother with that

>>527987015
>why would i bother with T5 gear
i dunno

>heh, yea i play the game wrong, guess i'm too CRAZY for you...
why does /vg/ have so many of these?

>>527977117
It's beautiful, Anon. It's what us old Conan Exiles players have always wanted.

>>527987108
>i dunno
Exactly

I wanna fuck a bald harko bitch ngl

just sunk 80k getting the hark build kit.

should i replace the base block by block to plastone or just build a new base?

Not building smack bang in the middle of the aluminum area seems like a mistake.

>>527987418
depends on you, really. i like starting over from scratch somewhere new because i come up with new ideas as i build. some people just have a practical template they wanna slap down.

>>527987506
yea probably, need more aluminum than most other ores because it gets used for two tiers, and inflated cost tiers at that.

>>527987506
i built on the same rock island as the trade post. seems pretty comfy so far.

>>527987691
That is sort of what I am thinking. Easy access to a trade post and the aluminum spawns start right there and up that pathway into the zone.

>>527987506
I claimed a little bit on the shield wall because of the views you get.
It being in the middle of the most valuable resource field in the game is a bonus.

>>527987868
>I claimed a little bit on the shield wall because of the views you get.
This is one of my issues. Is the wall gives great views, but the ground level just below it is a bit easier to get around from.

Ill probably end up being a view whore and go up top tho.

fuck me this thing is massive, so are the later tier buildings. I did not build big enough

Has anyone tried lasgunning people while gliding on an ornithopter?

>>527988397
I kinda hate how big everything gets, it gets hard to keep a compact base.

>rolling with a 4th group of friends now on a new server
this one is casual at least

Is my server just fucked or is shai hulud not spawning? I saw them all over a few hours ago, now nothing. I don't even get the wormsign warning when I most definitely should be.

>>527989260
they keep losing control of the worms. first they're flying, eating peoples bases on land, and straight up vanishing for hours at a time. they usually have to restart the server to fix it, fuck knows how the worm works but I guess its not like your average NPC since it bugs the fuck out constantly

>>527989712
lore accurate worm behaviour, desu

Can anyone tell me where to get the third planetolonigger training? I did all his quests, and went to find him above the Planetology Station no 2, he dont say shiii

>>527990068
he'll be in a testing station entrance waiting for you, there's like 3 different stations he could be at depending on what part of the quest chain you're in. he's annoying to find

>>527989712
Shai-Hulud giveth and Shai-Hulud taketh away.

I hate the way my character looks. Should I remake

>>527991086
depends how far in because there's a lot I wouldn't want to do twice and it's 100% that you'll be able to edit the character later on just who knows when

uhhh...

>>527991086
wear a helmet

>>527991181
stinky hairy harkonnen armpits

>>527991086
just wear a helmet nigga

>>527990329
found the bastard, goddamn its an annoying questline

Also, what the fuck does gear deteriorate rapidly on death? I just got killed for like the third time ever, and all my uniques have deteriorated a couple %

>>527993829
it's like wow where you lose 10% durability on all your shit when you die.

>>527994121
fuck, the uniques are actually unique here, I wont be getting another quest stillsuit

>>527994443
Depends, if the reward is purple it has a blueprint. The green stuff does not

>>527994443
If you're talking about the one from Crossroads, you absolutely can
https://www.openworld.gg/dune-awakening/unique-items/maraqeb-stillsuit-garment

>>527994508
I don't know what to do with the green stuff since I can't dismantle it
>>527994443
don't be fussed if it's this one I got 2 now, you'll keep finding better gear anyway long before it breaks

>>527994508
>>527994715
>>527994893
Ty, that is better

Decided to go through the painstaking task of breaking down my base so I could change the original positioning. Gonna set up a nice viewing balcony right here.

>>527997518
What armor is that?

>>527998018
Harkonnen light armor, I think it's scout

Deep Desert Sectors G5 - Stravidium, H6 - Titanium. Both are high density ore islands.

>>527994893
and now I got this one. this suit really makes me wish I made a female character

What the fuck is this lightning radius?
Its like 1 meter wide.

It's absolutely crazy how fast you can go with the first ornichopter or whatever its called, made my base right next to the shieldwall near Atreides stronghold and it takes me like 4 min to go to the Harkonnen stronghold or Anvil tradepost.

The MK6 Cutter looks pretty cool

>>528004924
This trait works with the cutters too so you barely get slowed when wielding them

babbys first plastone base

>>528004924
The quest that requires this as a donation rewards a lasgun at the end, not sure how good it is but would possibly be a contender for fucking killing scout orniths.

tempted to defect to the harks for the big questline and affordable build set and skins for the vehicles since they look pretty sick, what are the chances i'll regret doing this later when they release more faction content

>>528006029
The questline is retarded. Dont do it.
>go to this place, for this thing my minion!
>ambush
>haha I tried to kill you minion! Thats just how we do things around here!
Repeat 5 times

>>528006029
>>528006203
Harko players in Deep Desert really reinforcing the "fat virgin retard" stereotype. I just go Atreides and paint the ship black so I don't attract attention.

so electricity does hurt

>>528007205
I could've told you that

Any anons believe that scouts shouldn't have rocket pods?

>>528007854
It's fine if they have them but they shouldn't do a lot of damage.

>>527977117
>>527977313
>>527977510
What server are you on? I could swear I've seen something like that on Serpens, sietch Nadir.

>>528007854
Scout should be scout. Assault is a glorified slow transport right now.

What are these gems for? Randomly found it in the buried treasure node with a compactor while I was harvesting spice lmao what are the chances of that

>>528008012
landagraadadads

>>528005212
>>528006004
>lasguns
Fuck. Nothing happens if you hit a shielded enemy, does it.

>>528008274
You know all those server issues the game has been having? Lasgun on shielded enemies. The servers simply explode.

>>528007748
Basic or advanced?

>>528008592
Advanced.

>>528008274
Apparently, the gun has "safety" that turns itself off when shooting shields.

>>528008967
Boring. It should utterly melt anything unshielded, but instakill you if you hit a shield.

>>528008274
ingame lore a big lasgun shield incident happened recently and now every imported lasgun by imperial decree has a built in safety to prevent the lasgun from firing at a shield. in the early beta it could cause a big explosion and kill everyone but people just abused it as you'd expect

>>528007854
It should have a gatling/las gun or one of those cool heavy scatter guns from the movie

I'm not far enough to worry about getting griefed I just think it would be cooler

>>528009567
In the books they're more of a beam weapon than pew pew gatlings.

Does the Harko building set require plastone? I saved up enough money to get the schematics but I could just buy a thopter and skip farming materials because I dont even know how you get plastone yet

>>528009868
yeah it's all 12 plastone per

>>528009868
>I dont even know how you get plastone yet

Just how much superior is a basic scout orni to a pimped out, boosted sandbike? That thing can really haul ass. I just got my first orni, and the thing is honestly a bit clunky, and not as fast as I hoped it would be

>>528010726
>and not as fast as I hoped it would be
You're using gliding, right?

>>528010539
>>528010059
aids
thopter time

>>528010786
Yes, it gets up to a 100km/h when gliding, 70 when not. The sandbike goes at around a 100 most of the time. The only issue is, you have to dodge worms and rocks on a bike. I just don't know man

>>528010908
>100km/h when gliding
160(162)km/h when proper gliding. Lrn2fly.

>>528010908
bro the normal scout orni max speed when gliding is 163 km/h tilt it down until you reach that

>>528011021
Nigga I'm tryin

>>528010908
>>528011021
>>528011023
yeah you can't reach max speed with the booster, you have to dip to gain speed

>>528011321
Booster is for gaining altitude quickly, nothing else.

>>528007969
Solitary/Sietch Umbu

Are Spice Rats recruiting? I'm ready to rat for spice, add me: "Sylen"

>almost got the buggy
I trek to the rift. I go down that damn basin. I come back with like 150 etherite because it's so dark and hard to find. I don't like it. the entire rift screams to me like it was meant to be a end game pvp zone.

>>528008274
They tested them with a mini nuke effect on hitting shields and the testers just kept nuking each other all the time for shits and giggles

>>528012910
the nodes are quite a distance apart, look for the zone icons with the minecart and usually theres two nodes next to the entrance and a few more inside.

>>528012910
Just go into the mining facilities they usually have areas at the middle full of erythite

>>528006203
well there's no questline, just 1 quest. then instant rank 5 harko

>>528012880
No

>>528013732
Big sad :(

>>528007854
I do. At the very least rocket scouts should have their speed reduced.

My goal in this game has gone from "harvest big spice" to "grief as many harko rocket scouts as possible".

>>528012880
Sent

>>528013310
Of course they have, and that's even more reason to bring it back

>>528014097
My goal is mass produce alu scout ornis, put rockets on them and fly into DD and just shoot at everybody until I get rekt, then go grab another one and continue
Cant farm anything in DD cus Ill just get shot down, so might as well join in on the shooting

>>528014162
Eh, they should bring back Conan Exiles style servers so people can set it as a rule if they want to, same for other stuff

>>528014124
If this is you, you have an invite.
But do behave, we have normies.

>can't use the voice to make people cum on command
0/10 immediate refund

>>528014464
>join the /vg/ guild
>but you have to censor yourself because we aren't really a 4chan guild
dumb nigger what is even the point then?

>>528014595
Because when the game launched nobody wanted to join and I had to invite other people to even do shit.

>>528014428
Goes without saying. the fact we wont be getting mods for this game nearly made me pass it altogether, it was an utterly retarded business decision, and means it will never have the staying power conan had

>>528014428
I think when I'm bored of Dune I'm gonna go back to Conan and do a hard mode run. One thing I want to try is lowering gathering yields to something ridiculous like 0.2x, but boosting loot yields to 5x or so. Real barbarian survival hours.

>>528014876
Someone did that on /vm/ and i think it was just annoying.

>>527976840 (OP)
>EU: Spice Rats, Solaria
Is it possible to join the guild when I'm on a different server since the DD map pools players from everywhere?

>>528016026
I'm not sure, post your name and we'll see

>>528014464
>we have normies
For what purpose?

>>528017271
bodies

At hark vendor you can buy a flamethrower (really bad, useless). Does the Atreides vendor also sell that, or some other weapon?

>>528018264
that atreides base on the west side of basin has a unique buggy laser, and I think unique scout wings at one point.

>>528016414
I saw people from other servers in some random guild I joined so it should work but idk about DD, inv me pls

>>528019278
Nope, it says can't find player with the name.
It also won't let me search for the id

>>528019548
foreveralone

>fullscreen screamer spice withdrawal hallucination
Yep. Never letting that bar stay empty again.

Navigator class when?

>>528021272
would you

>>528019548
can't you try adding me on steam and inviting me from the friends list? That's how the other guys mustve done it. My code's 67089969, I'd really appreciate it

>>528021587
Only if they look like the ones in Behind the Dune

>>528021104
Huh? I've had it empty like forever and never got anything like that

The discord for the game is full of casual faggots, good God.

>>528022598
Depending on your addiction levels, the withdrawal symptoms can get pretty wild
https://youtu.be/_K1vdWQaGi8

>>528017373
Pragmatic. I think Dune was intended for everyone on a sietch to work together in the DD.

>>528024101
Holy shit

>>528024101
Lmao, I had no idea that was a thing

>>528024947
If that's the case, they went about it the exactly the worst, retarded way possible. You will never get cooperation between players without building to encourage and enforce it, too many sweatlords and sociopathic griefers

It's kinda crazy how stark the differences between tiers are.
Damage just straight up doubles every time

>>528027608
sorry I am an antisocial recluse, even in-game, my favorite thing about these games is making my base hidden somewhere. But I do have fun watching people with the binocs

>>528029018
same

>>528022446
Picture?

>>528029018
And that's perfectly fine, I'm a bit like that myself. What I can't stand are the groups of zerg griefers roaming the DD

>>528029998
They are having fun playing there way.

>>528029669
https://files.catbox.moe/0cjats.jpg

>>528030051
Their fun depends on ruining the fun of solo players and small groups, thus killing the game over time as those people leave out of frustration. Then the sweatlords can no longer have fun, because they're not in it for a fair fight against other sweatlords, they run at the first hint of a fair fight. So the game dies. It happened a hundred times already, New World is a great example

The devs either understand that, or the game will go to shit.

>>528029323
>>528029998
I really need to start recording my people watching, yesterday saw some poor lad losing his buggy to a worm because he drove straight into quicksand, he then jumped out of the way using the wire, plopped down a bike, drove for about 100m and got trapped in fucking sand again and got eaten.
I almost crashed my bugcopter from laughing.

Anyone know if you can have an overhang on going into open desert?

>>528030449
>New World is a great example
Last oasis is a better one.

I with into the hagga rift and died to snipers. It's so insanely dark in there, I can't see anything.

>>528030723
Try it and tell us

>>528029018
>shy-hulud

>Our plan is for the Landsraad to be the end game PvE content

From the Reddit QnA

i don't think these masks are n95

>>528033508
>quests to build shit and give it away are endgame pve
are they retarded?

>>528034332
If you read the reddit QnA then you will come to the realization that yes, they are fucking retarded.

>>528033508
>non-repeatable delivery quests completed by the sweats in first 20-30 minutes
>end game PvE content
Its like they have absolutely 0 idea how "openworld survival-crafting" genre works. At all.

>>528030449
>New World
>PvP is 100% opt-in with no penalties for dying
are you confused? they killed NW in utero by turning a PvP game into a theme park MMO

>>528034614
>they are fucking retarded.
And they seem to really, really like rocket scouts while not being smart enough to make the tank a hard counter to anything flying.

>>528030723
>>528033145
Yep, overhangs get eaten. I should test to see how high though

>>528030603
You know, I'd watch that. You might've found a little niche there, desu. Try it

>>528036562
There is already a youtube channel with that style of content. Its called Dune WTF moments or something like that

>>528033338
underboated

>>528033508
They also said that they obviously need to change it a lot

Is there a purpose to the probe launcher and the binoculars? It seems I just discover everything quicker and easier just flying or biking around.

>>528036416
Okay, so did some testing and the open desert border is roughly where the turbines are. a spacing height of 2 blocks will get eaten, but it seems a spacing height of 3 like pic related is fine

>>528037024
Binos, not really. At least not while the draw distance is what it is.
Probe launcher, you need to use it for the (hagga) map to stay revealed after the weekly reset. Aside from that, they're good for deep desert surveys

>>528037024
probe launcher literally takes 30 seconds and is practically free, getting up cliffs is really easy once you have a suspensor belt

>>528037246
Interesting. Now I wonder if there's an upper limit when the worm won't reach anymore

>>528036562
>>528036675
There's not much variation of things to be witnessed I dont think, yesterday was by far the most entertaining, but aside from that i've only seen people either crash their bike and have it spazz the fuck out, or getting btfo by 2 minigunners, so far only witnessed people getting eaten by the worms 3 times, one was the buggy guy, the other was my unfortunate friend (that doesn't play very often) getting eaten bike and all right outside the new base, an the last was a random dude running naked in the middle of the desert. I need to get good at webms so I can share some in the future. Is Nvidia's thing good for capturing these kinds of clips?

>>528037246
>>528037461
tested using a thumper and it was eaten, so not a good idea as someoen could grief you, I'll see what the reach of the worm is

>>528037797
>>528037461
the game's discord had the answer, damnit that's tall

>>528038006
whew...

>>528038006
now make a 13 block tall tower so you can make people walk the plank

>>528037246
>>528038006
>>528038451
Make a sacrifice chamber you can lock dorks in and then summon the work by placing a support on the sand

>>528037279
>>528037374
>Reveal the map, its easy
I mean sure but so is just flying around in my ornithopter? Or does it instantly reveal everything I discovered before? Not just regionally?

>>528038657
if you shoot a scanner in a region, it never gets cloaked again. If you fly around, your region gets cloaked at reset every single week, requiring you to fly around the entire map again to reveal it all.

>>528039136
>it never gets cloaked again
Now that's a good reason to use it, thanks

>>528030178
eww

>>527976840 (OP)
get this discord guild shit out of the OP.

Where is the black market in Arrakeen? I want to buy Harkonnen architecture as Atreides.

>>528043157
I was able to buy harko stuff right where you spawn in. There are two vendors opposite of each other, near the npc ornithopter pilot. One of them seems to sell other faction stuff for a higher price.

>>528043484
Oh shit, I didn't realize there was a second NPC there.

why is the apparel customzation so weird with what gets unlocked and what not.
for example, I was enjoying using the Slaver Stillsuit but when I got a better one I cant make it look like the Slaver one, but I can make it look like the earlier one, kinda strange.

Ugh. First preview post came out. Odyssey looks pretty good. Getting kinda excited for it.

>>528044970
I don't know what you are talking about.

>swordmaster has seven fucking active combat abilities
>you can only have one technical combat ability slot active at any given time
am i missing something or is this a dumbo idiot gamedev moment

>>528046640
Made for consoles.

There isn't a way to quickly Offload a Vehicle/Buggy's Inventory into nearby base chests right? I gotta manually move it bit by bit?

>>528047896
There is. Top left of your inventory, dummy.

>>528047896
Open storage and look at the top left, there is a drop down to select vehicle storage.

>>528047896
while interacting with a chest in your base with a nearby parked vehicle,
https://i.imgur.com/hjoSMEh.gif
i just found that out the other day too - it isn't mentioned anywhere and you basically have to stumble into it by accident

>>528046640
>>528046729
i guess i'm just really disappointed with it
i was hoping for a bunch of cool passive flourishes and 'you do sword stuff better than others' perks but it's just a pile of redundant abilities you can't use together

>>528047987
>>528048051
>>528048086
Holy shit
>Tfw I'm 60 hours in

>>528048086
Not to shit on you for being helpful but you do know we're on an imageboard, right? You could have just uploaded that gif here instead of linking elsewhere.

I don't recall ever seeing someone else link to fucking imgur for a 4chan post, of all things. Again, not trying to shit on you I just find it funny.

>>528048631
>You could have just uploaded that gif here
filesize constraits and i'm too obstinate to learn how to shave it down for imageboard posting, sowwy anon

Ranged with mentat shieldbusting is gonna rape in PVP.
Then again, so is BG with their THREE point and click stuns

>>528051410
don't think BG stuns work on ornithopters. Same with mentat abilities. I mean, I guess they do work, but your grenade seeker isn't going to do enough damage on that 30s cooldown to take down a thopter.

>>528046640
Yeah its fucking stupid and infuriating, 3 active ability slots is dumb as absolute shit

>heaviest rain of 2025 outside my window
>chilling on arrakis

>>528029018
wtf are you me?
>>527951904
well i guess i don't use binoculars, there's nothing to see but canyon walls outside of my base. it's so dark down here that the base becomes invisible/shrouded in fog from about 50 meters in the air.

can i put mk4 cutter on an mk3 buggy?

>>528054203
yes

>>528042846
there's no discord but you can't roll on sietch tabir anyway, go be a doomtranny in some other 20 /vg/ threads you have open dumb faggot trannoid.

>60 hours played
>got bored of base, never got past steel
>never flown in plane
>rode shitty tier 2 bike from quest to quest and used grapple hook/suspender to fly up cliffs
>only missing the final swordmaster quest cause it requires aluminum
am i playing wrong?

>>528052852
>3 active ability slots
it's technically even less than three, since one will always be constrained to shigawire or bindu sprint in any realistic scenario
i don't even know what the X button is yet but i'm assuming it's some super bankai spice attack that translates into a thing you press maybe twice an hour

we realistically have One ability slot and no way that i know of to cleanly swap things in and out of it - so the dozens of 'neat utility on a blue moon' bubble grenades and shield techniques just might as well not exist at all
it's really fucking weird design and i kinda hate it, my only gripe with the game so far

>>528058053
>since one will always be constrained to shigawire or bindu sprint in any realistic scenario
this is the biggest problem right now, console niggers are to blame for this shit as always

wormsign detected, in my pants

>>528058662
aw it is so cute and tiny
i didn't know they got this small anon

>>528057571
50 bucks for 60+ hours aint bad in my eyes. You still have plenty of stuff left to do if you ever feel the desire too. Still being sub-aluminum tier is fine as there is no good reason to rush ahead. The only thing at the endgame is the awful deep desert which nobody is happy with.

If you're wanting to quit I would recommend at least making that last push for an ornithopter just to experience it. The game opens up significantly with one of them. You're most of the way there anyway.

>>528058804
>doesn't know about sandtrouts
anon please just read the books

>>528058053
>it's really fucking weird design and i kinda hate it,
More than that. Trooper has a straight thrown explosive drone and a grenade. Since one ability is taken up by the wire there's really no way you're ever going to take both when shields counter them so hard. This mix and match shit is retarded compared to making us all in on one class.

>>528059082
>can't even tell someone they have a small cock without b**kfag weighing in
why don't you read the room poindexter

>>528058053
>i don't even know what the X button is yet but i'm assuming it's some super bankai spice attack that translates into a thing you press maybe twice an hour
anon you can put any ability in your third slot

>>528059261
Pretty sure he meant the prescience thing which is on not on X but would make more sense with what he said.

>>528059261
>>528059504
https://i.imgur.com/H34JbGb.gif
am i retarded? i can't get anything to go in that slot
maybe it's locked behind quest things

>>528059774
So interesting thing. One of the trials unlocked this and said I could click it to use my third slot. Then later it unlocked anyway permanently.

>>528059774
>>528059941
Yes its linked to the fremen trials. I don't remember which specific one but it is fairly early on in the game, in vermillius gap. Its either the one to the far west, or up the hammer looking rock.

>>528052736
Once they delete thopter PVP. And they 100% will, considering how much people are bitching about it.

My guild and I just got ambushed by one guy...
We had 3 Mk5 scouts filled with rockets. He had his Mk6.
We managed to get a couple hits on him but 3 or so hits in us meant we were crippled.
What confuses me the most is how I got a hitmarker on him once at the start and then never again, even when missiles hit. The people with me said the same thing, no hitmarker even when missiles hit. Does that mean anything?

Anyway, we managed to get away without any losses but we didn't get any spice either, which sucked. I can't wait for the scout shit to be gone.

>>528059941
I remember thinking the wording was odd when I first unlocked that. It read to me like you only got the 3rd ability slot while prescience was active. That is not the case, thankfully. You simply get another ability slot AND prescience as its own thing.

>>528062034
they just posted in their ama today that they like thopter combat and aren't doing anything but applying a 10km/h movement speed penalty to the scout thopter if it is equipped with rockets

>>528058053
Nigglet you can swap ability anywhere on the fly. If you enter a dungeon and keep the sprint/claw you might just be dumb. What we need is to have a second quick swap set in the future.

>>528062489
Just saw that. Retarded nigger devs kill yet another game.

>>528057571
I don't think there's a wrong way to play a game this focused on sandbox gameplay. The way Dune flows (or doesn't) lends itself to creating slumps and droughts depending on how you play and what you enjoy, so what you're asking is probably just 'how do I get back to the (next) fun part'. Do you want to just chill for a bit and build a cooler base you enjoy? Do that. Want to take a break from building for a bit? Just focus on the quests and do your trials, full clear all intel in the first few areas and dismantle gear for resources. Annoyed you haven't gotten past steel? Set up an aluminum outpost (literally just a shack with a medium refinery in it) and take your shitty bike for some aluminum runs with chill music or a show on the side. There is a solution for everything here, but you have to be willing to meet some of the game's system on their own terms, or ignore them for a while until your general familiarity with the game automatically reframes the system in question for you.

>>528062489
if anything scouts should be even faster than they are, but they shouldn't be able to equip rockets and they shouldn't be able to be stowed in your back pocket via a storage device (at least not in the DD).

>>528062094
maybe some lag shinanigans?

>>528062489
It needs to be higher. Scout copters with rockets need to be only valid as backup for assault copters or lucky gank squads. I assume like Conan the ultimate goal they have in mind are these epic 30v30 battles with multiple copters fighting it out in the skies.

i respec'd to ranged after 100 hours of melee to complete the trooper/mentat class storylines and it's actually pretty fun. melee still feels better but i think this is more effective in terms of killing enemies in PvE. can one-shot snipe the whole camp from outside of it in complete safety, pretty nuts. the hunter seekers are a lot of fun too, both the regular trooper version on a short CD and the manually guided mentat ultimate.

>>528058053
Its shigawire AND bindu sprint for me. I just can't do without the mobility options. Those two abilities and a supply of full suspensor belts, and the game is actually fun.

>you can’t contribute to a task once a faction wins the tile
>this usually happens 10 minutes after the task has been revealed making it virtually impossible to ever get the 14k rewards
What the fuck were they thinking?

>>528063752
imo every class tree should have a powerful but different movement ability equal to shigawire and bindu sprint. but! you should only be able to equip one at a time and it should get it's own dedicated 4th key.

>>528062549
That would make it actually fun, we could have two or more sets for different scenarios, mobility, range, melee. Which means it will never, EVER be implemented, because Funcom HATES its playerbase having FUN, and it hates YOU in particular

>ching chong hackers showed up on the contribution board on my server today
it's over, isn't it? why aren't regions locked in modern gaming? i don't get it. i never had to worry about this until like ~2008-2010.

So if this game has choppers can i larp as a huey pilot dropping off troops into a hot lz

>>528064474
theoretically yet because there is a carrier thopter that can lift vehicles. practically, no, because you're gonna get shot down by a swarm of a scout thopters

>>528063734
>I assume like Conan the ultimate goal they have in mind are these epic 30v30 battles with multiple copters fighting it out in the skies.

I've got like 200 hours on Conan, three different runs of it at three different points in its lifecycle---one at launch, one just last year, and one somewhere inbetween. PvP in that game generally went like this: Between 3 and 10 people show up to your base in its early days (still at t1 or t2 stone base) wearing end-game gear. If you poke your head outside, they kill you instantly. If you don't pop your head outside, they drop bombs all over your buildings. Repeat until pvp hours are over.

The only other pvp I experienced was me and my friends base getting god-stomped while we weren't even online. That happened with all three runs and generally signaled the end of that instance of our conan life.

Dune is better off with its (mostly) separate pve and pvp experiences but in any kind of asymmetrical pvp, it's always going to be somebody being stomped by the larger and better equipped group who spend 15 hours a day on the game. The pve endgame being donate materials to lansaarad for effectively nothing in return has to be the most retarded decision I've ever read in that ama. Conan at least had tons of enemy variety and actual dungeons with actual bosses in it.

I like this game, but I'm pretty sure it isn't going to last beyond my friend group finishing the quests. There is literally nothing beyond that since none of us are the types to just roam around and blast people down.

>>528064407
Because it would be considered racist, and would limit the userbase. The fact that it would VASTLY improve the player experience is meaningless.

>>528065241
it's crazy to me. the sietches only hold 40 people. if that guild is somehow only 5 people, that's 12.5% of my server in this social MMO game that don't speak the same language as me and can't be interacted with, to say nothing of their culture's total approval of cheating and poor sportsmanship.

>>528063516
>they shouldn't be able to be stowed in your back pocket via a storage device
this should be true for all vehicles - having a motorcycle pokeball is lore-breaking garbage that doesn't belong in the setting and needlessly over-conveniences management of assets

>>528064058
>What the fuck were they thinking?
the early game meta-narrative heavily indoctrinates you with the belief that you need to join a zerg guild to get by, and it's readily apparent why once you get closer to the endgame
most things seem like they were designed under the assumption that you're part of some gay discord gamer clan

>>528064697
well SHIT

>>528066224
It should have been obvious to people when they give you a buggy that needs at least two people to work properly.
The problem is what you say though, nobody wants to be a part of a gay gamer clan, they want to play with two or three people max. Even world of warcraft has this problem.

>>528067012
>>528066224
The worst aspect of this to me personally, even IF I wanted to join a big group like that I simply cannot due to the way they made the server/sietch system. If I want to play a game, I'm going to play it now, solo if I need to. I'm not going to sit on my hands and wait the weeks/months it might take for the sietches to open up. I would have joined the 4chan guild if I could have, but even at the morning of release day the entire server, every single sietch was locked. I've check a handful of times since then and its remained locked at all hours. Even with the increased capacity of 60 players, thats just too limited for the apparent vision funcom has for the game.

i meant the buggy is still worth solo dude. capacity is crazy and you are only like 20% slower than a duo using it. you do switch seats while on the move right anon?

>>528065771
Just hope the jeets never get into it.

I gotta say, I'm a big fan of the nigh-invincible maas kharet heavy shielded enemies. Very enjoyable playing against a high-damage npc with literally zero counterplay until duraluminium!

>>528068312
Unironically git gud. Aluminium is more than enough. If you find the Spark Sword and unlock the Bene Gesserit and Swordmaster blade damage bonuses and maybe one stun ability, its gg, they all go down in three hits max, one charged shot for shielded gonks. The minigun assholes are the most annoying, I leave them for last.

>>528068701
The stun is the most annoying part. I stun one of the maas kharet shielded enemies (light or heavy) and they just do their bullshit shadow punch attack and completely ignore the fact they should be stunned. it's horseshit.

this was originally a quest item but i have duplicates
who is the person that would pay money for it?

>>528069104
They're pretty easy to deal with when you know what to do. Between knee charge, shigawire and slow attack flinches they can't do much of anything.

>>528068312
>Very enjoyable playing against a high-damage npc with literally zero counterplay until duraluminium!
bro what the fuck
turret, grenade, stab with whatever

>>528006029
>>528006203
Reasons I hate Harks:
1) They have no redeeming qualities.
2) They're bald.
3) They tolerate Rabbis.

>>528065771
I thought it's several hundreds per server, 40 people for a huge ass map is far too scarce.

>>528070257
There are 5+ giant bases in direct proximity of where I am. 40 is way too many, considering everyone will want to be around the same two or three spots based on how the game distributes resources on the map.

>>528070257
Im pretty sure you can invite to guilds from across Sietches

>>528070257
Per server technically, but servers are broken into sietches.

Has anyone read the AMA? It's like the devs are trying to speedrun the death of this game. Why are fat whiteoids completely incapable of designing a fun game?

>>528066224
>>528064058
And the reddit AMA just happened where they acknowledged it was an issue and came up with a pointless "solution" that wont work.

Welp pack it up folks, the devs are taking the wrong lessons and will drive the game into the dirt.

>>528070603
Yeah, I am disappointed and not surprised that they promoting the same low effort toxic end game they always do. This is Funcom, they're not intelligent devs and they dont know how to do live service.

i haven't even got to the deep desert yet why's everyone dooming about it already

>>528069808
Have you done the planetologist stuff yet? He tends to want stuff like that.

>>528071394
it's mostly just gank squads and thopter rocket spam right now

>>528068312
there are so many options it's insane. are you playing melee or ranged?

>>528072117
I wonder if it will get better with more players.

>>528071394
The only end game and final tier of gear is the worst type of PvP imaginable. Its solos/small groups getting obliterated by clans where they all have the best gear and infinite resources and you have much worse gear and limited resources.

>>528073845
more players in the DD map is fine, but the sietches are too crowded and there are too few controls to stop people from niggerbuilding in the middle of roads and chokepoints as it is.

Does the Shield Wall in DD change after the coriolis?

god i wish suspensor belts didn't take dura damage while building in your own base

>>528069104
Yeah the combat is formulaic and gimmicky, and its unlikely to change, Funcom being Funcom. The way I do it is just, kite them until I can get the shielded bastards to attack, parry and murder them one by one, then take out the unshielded gunmen that I didnt manage to get with my sniper rifle, leave the miniguniggas for last.

>>528070603
It's because they are as autistic and set in their ways as all of us here, just older and completely out of touch. What, you thought having neckbearded autists in charge would be a good thing?

lmao

>>528074643
Unironically yes. But I see now that I was extremely fucking wrong and there’s zero hope for this dogshit game.

>>528075015
They have their vision, and they won't let reality or history get in the way of it. That's a GREAT thing, when it works. When it doesn't, and it won't here, its just another failed product.

Finally finished my new Atreides base in the Shield Wall. Couldn't completely shed the box but overall I'm pretty happy.

>>528075598
nice, looks sick. especially like the parapets on the towers.

>>528075598
looks great anon, there is more than enough depth to prevent it from looking boxy. I like the ramp heading into it

>>528075414
Funcom WILL make the greatest survival pvp game. And they don't give a FUCK what pve players think.
They know that this kind of game is hated too. That's why they advertised it as an MMO for so long knowing people immediately think of mmorpgs.

>>528077121
Not enough PVP enjoyers in the world to make a live service game survive LMAO

>>528074235
They said suspendor elevators are maybe coming at least

>>528075598
good shit atreidesbro. i'm more or less finished with the pyramid exterior but i can't really capture it in a screenshot because of its size and shape and the fact that it's dark as fuck in the rift.

i just gave poisoned wine to some guy for atreides plot, and now the questline has gone cold. wtf do you even do after that?

>>528080291
The darkness really suits the Harkonnen set well though. More people should build in the rift.

>>528080449
you failed the atreides honor test, now you gotta shave your head bald and go harkonnen.

>>528080518
here's the beautiful aerial view, lmao.

>>528077121
Funcom will fail like always.

>>528065987
This, so much. Really they should just add a deployable tent or covering for the vehicles that just protect it from storm damage. Hell it can even be customizable cosmetic stuff with various cloth patterns or netting with cheap camo.
I think even PUBG now offers vehicle netting, there's probably some free marketplace shit that the devs don't even need to develop to implement. (which feels like a lot of this game I don't know what they innovated for Dune.)

>>528077121
PVP unless by designed and heavily moderate dby the devs, will always lead to account closures.
Not everyone is American born and learn good sportsmanship, this is just a fatal flaw that kills not just games as everyone assumes they think like they do.
Boomer devs are already behind the apex just like Japanese boomer devs and reproduce things from 20 years ago as new but this time the Atreides are only 15% of the population and you have to share the same space with Harkonnens.

>>528080928
I hate how limited lighting props are.

>>528081451
yea, seems like lights really scare funcom in terms of performance. the lights we get aren't very bright, despawn/blink out at ~100m, and are capped at for a max sized plot of land.

>>528080645
damn really?

>>528082253
no, honestly i have no idea. i played through the harkonnen plotline. your best bet is to google it and dig through the shitty AI guides to see if you're just missing speaking to an npc or something.

>>528080645
aha i worked it out
nice try, NIGGER

my performance went to shit after the last patch, anyone else?

>>528082128
In conan people used them to crash the client/server.

>>528082475
get you next time, atreides scum

>>528081357
>>528077121
>5 tiers of gear and an ignorable end game
Between the aluminium/rads end game, base building, landsraad, class builds and gearing up honestly im fine with them having a pointless dead DD. If anything its good, its a containment zone for griefers who otherwise would plague PvE zones.

This is completely reasonable and is the path I expected them to take. It's a good sign that they aren't letting the players (children) push them to an overreaction like removing rockets from scouts completely.

>>528092887
>Scouts are typically the earlier, cheaper version for players starting the DD
>Guilds want even more power over solo/small groups by removing even the ability to fire back
Sounds exactly what you would expect from the toxic Funcom pvp crowd.

>>528094176
i'm not a heavy pvp'er and i'm not in a guild, but i want scouts to be faster and unarmed precisely because i'm solo. scouts with rockets just means guild swarms of scouts can catch and kill me when i'm trying to move fast and grab what i need. the thopters should have specialized uses, not power tiers. scouts should be scouting and assaults should be assaulting.

I duo this game with a friend. He's very pvp averse, I'm not. But we do everything together. Is there some role he can play whenever we get to DD? (I just hit iron, so no hurry)

>>528092887
>>528094176
vehicles simply should not have guns or lethal functionality on them at all, it completely undermines the 'human danger' narrative of dune and makes learning the combat structures of melee and abilities utterly pointless

>>528095668
I agree, why were they so adamant about keeping the scout thopters' offensive capabilities? I hope the nerf you get from equipping it with weapons basically neuters it.

>>528095709
And should we make a guild together for just the 2 of us? Is there a benefit? After whatever they do with the landsraad maybe?

>went through the trouble of making a Native Stillsuit
>do the cult investigation mission
>it hands you an entire set of gold-trimmed Native Stillsuit bits that's objectively better than the Native Stillsuit in every way
fuckin piss

>>528096120
>>528095709
Make a guild asap and joining the winning faction on your server, as I've seen all servers are a one way stomp for Basetradies or Harkonnuts, so go with whatever side is winning each week. There is no downside, you get access to whatever victory perk they pick which may be access to weapons/armors or passives like -30% crafting costs, ect.

For the PvP side, just forget it. Seriously there is nothing fun or special about the DD experience that you cannot get from your usual experience in the base game. If you personally want to try the PvP then you can fly in with a cheap scout thopter and play it, but trying to force him into it will just get him mad when you both get shot down over sand and then eaten by a worm in 5 minutes.

>>528096480
I also got that suit, but never bothered crafting anything. There honestly is no reason to, every weapon has a better version from a quest for free. I got a knife when I got into the iron zone that carried me into Aluminum and that stillsuit from the cult.

>>528095826
Dune has vehicular combat dummy

>>528077121
their "vision" is that a free for all PVP endgame is the easiest to implement and maintain. Always best to allow the people that paid you money to make their own content so you dont have to. Also, as far as PVE is concerned, the Dune IP is HIGHLY constraining concening its basic technology, so they are going to have to expand via story to justify things, and the IP is highly constrained there too for a survival crafter game. It will be interesting to see where they go after the first year if the game lasts that long.

It's so fucked up that the Atreides are cannibals.

>>528096550
NTA, but I haven't taken a side yet, because I want to go with the third faction when it releases and I don't want to betray a faction.

>>528098206
this

>>528098206
who will the third faction be

>>528098379
Smugglers

>>528098379
all we know is that it wont be House Corrino, per the devs.

so can i play this as a pve game

>>528098412
probably, its supposed to have a role in the landsraad where they have the most impact when the two houses are close points wise, or something.

>>528098518
sure. The Deep Desert is the free for all PVP end game zone, but you really dont NEED anything thats there (Tier 6 stuff), since Tier 5 is just fine.

>>528098453
I was thinking Fenring, but then someone told me Funcom said the third faction wasn't going to take direct part in the Landsraad and instead their objective was to force a stalemate between the other two factions
Of course then the game came out and Count Fenring shows up in the story

It's Smugglers. It was datamined a while back and it makes sense that smugglers would want the chaos of war to continue, so they benefit most from keeping it at a stalemate.

>>528069808
if you have already done the quest just drop the items out the front of the testing station. I leave random shit I don't need for other players

which faction are the annoying night cop ships?
why are they hunting down people specifically at night?

>>528098206
Retarded logic, that update may not be for literally years. This is Funcom not good devs.

>>528102079
Neither, thats the Emperor's mercenaries hunting Fremen and anyone else that gets too much spotlight.

>>528098518
Yes, its not a PvP game and only 1% of the community like that dumb shit mode

>>528098518
~95% of it

>>528102263
KILL the Sardaukar

>>528102371
Its not Sar, there are so Sars anywhere for some reason

>>528102446
They're around, we just can't fight any of them yet afaik. They have the armor with ponytail helmets. Usually see them roaming either of the cities.

>>528102191
This being Funcom I don't expect them to accommodate a non-betrayal faction switch, but maybe I should reconsider.

>playing with friend
>all he does is get 100% on maps by himself while using all of my mats and water to make what he wants
this shit is annoying as fuck. can I somehow lock out the chests so he can't use anything in them to craft?

>>528103014
you can set permissions on pretty much everything

>Staking units extend your base upwards
>And downwards at the same time
If you placed your base smack bang in the middle of the huge wall separating iron and aluminum, you might actually be able to provide easy access up it to everyone on the server. That would be so neato.

>>528102990
Not joining a faction now is stupid because betrayal means nothing, if you want to go smugglers you can switch, you wont be able to switch back but who cares about that you're now in the faction you want to be in. Missing out on all the Landsraad features because of a "MAYBE" feature in the future is stupid.

How do you visit a different Sietch?
Visit is always greyed out for me

>>528103014
There is this super helpful in-game tool called communication. You should try it sometime.

>>528104626
Mine is directly next to the wall, even building on the ground I might be able to reach, I think I'm most of the way up with 3 or 4 vertical expansions already. No clue how to build a tower that is tall enough without looking terrible and actually providing easy access, any suggestions?

>>528105041
Might be stupid, but I'm no snitch.

>>528105467
The easiest would just be a foundation, then wall+ladders up, might not look the best and vehicles can't use it but people would.

For car access it would have to be a 3x3 foundation at minimum, where it spirals up going from flat > stairs > flat > stairs in a circle. To make it not look ugly you could just create 2-3 parts that extend out of the wall and widen the structure. Accept this ugly as sin plan.

drillshots have very satisfying sound effects. love the 'ping!' as it pierces their shield and the kill counter pops up on the screen.

>>528103014
hold F, go to permissions, set it to owner only. you have to do this on a per object basis.

How long will this game keep your base up for if you stop playing? I really like where my neighbors base is and I want to steal it.

>>527976840 (OP)
>pic
Is this Barons final form?

>>528108180
That's the God-Emperor and you'll put some fucking respect in your tone.

Look at mah box

>>528106284
Ladders don't cost stamina?
For vehicle access, that doesn't seem reasonable to build or use, considering this would be 10++ revolutions.

>>528109298
>For vehicle access, that doesn't seem reasonable to build or use, considering this would be 10++ revolutions.
Its a meme but its a fun meme

>>528108127
21 days at minimum, and the upkeep is piss easy

>>528075598
how the fuck you make shit this big with just a shitty advanced sub fief?

>>528110003
each stake adds a whole subfief worth of space and you can add five in any shape you want as long as they're adjacent.

whelp, i've put off going to the DD for as long as possible. i've done almost everything else in the game. 100% completed the codex entries and journeys (minus the DD ones of course). i've got a full set of everything in the duraluminum tier from vehicles to armor to weapons.

>>528110003
You can extend the build area

>>528104626
>Staking increased base downwards
What? I accidentally built too high by a sliver and can't put foundations on a quarter portion of my base, you're saying if I get a vertical height stake it will let me build lower too?

>>528111934
Yes, horizontal stakes add one space where you place it, vertical stakes add height on all stakes above and below.

Well, every single spot along the wall is either taken or blocked by a sub-fief just to stop people having fun. So I guess this spot will have to do, at least I am near the aluminum I guess.

>>528112383
it's probably the most important region for most players since aluminum is needed for two tiers in a row, including the highest possible tier without going into the DD which is where a lot of people will linger/stall. and also what they'll be using to replace their lost thopters.

>>528110003
i used all three of my sub fiefs + stakes to just claim off a massive city block sized zone aroud my base. not blocking it with walls or anything, just want to own the whole 'property' and not have other people cramping my space.

>>528112842
Yeah the access to Alum with my buggy will be a huge time saver. Plus its kind of a nice spot since I plan to build Atreides style.

Side point but you can buy a Mk4 Thopter for like 120k at the Atreides base. Didn't realise you could buy parts like that.

>>528113251
you can buy it but it's totally not worth it. much easier and faster to do a run on the buggy for a full load of aluminum/jasmium than to do 120k solaris worth of looting chests. there are no repeatable or daily quests so once you do all of the story/faction ones you have to grind money the hard way.

>>528113689
Yeah probs true, but the wings for example are just 7k each which is not bad if you just need a replacement since they break first

>>528112383
>>528113251
>>528113816
That area has aluminum en mass, one of the best places to farm industrial pumps, and is a hop away from the only place to farm diamontine dust / carbide scraps. It would be crazy to spend money on mk4 parts while having that access (each farm run would supply you with enough for 1-3 thopters in components, caveat cobalt paste, but just fill an assault from time to time). Your money is better used on T6 Landsraad vendor blueprints when they're available. They're expensive and it's 1 per character max.

>>528114532
Don worry anon my autism doesn't let me put down a single piece of granite before I've mapped out the next fifty hours of gametime

What’s the best way to get solari

>>528116189
Selling items / schematics to other players. Then chest runs. The latter kind of feeds the former.

>>528115428
I envy you. I am deeply unhappy with my base(s), and I've set down outposts near aluminum and jasmin respectively, but it feels incredibly game-y rather than immersive.

>>528116189
Radiation suits go for 7k each and they're not that bad to farm up the resources for. Selling to players may get you money, depends on your server.

>>528117296
Rebuild, there isn't much else to do and the joy of a plan executed is its own reward.

>>528115428
kek, it's the place to be. i set up my rift mega lair right there at the ramp leading to pinnacle station and all of the aluminum for the same reason. slightly farther away i guess but we're talking ~30 seconds.
>>528117296
don't be afraid to take a short commute. find somewhere vaguely in between all the points you want to visit and prioritize scenery and building space. you could just throw down a productivity cube on all of the major resources, but that's game-y like you said and kinda undermines a major conceit of the genre, which is making a digital home away from home.

>>528108942
Make it a rectangle, remove the nibs from the top, and wa la - you have a steam deck

>>528118616
Yeah around there was another thought of mine because its closer to things like labs and crashed ships, whereas mine is a much further jump

>>528117970
>>528117970
>there isn't much else to do
I still haven't finished all quests, nor maxed out my T5 gear and toys.

>>528118616
Yeah my current base is more or less directly below the Atreides stronghold, but the conceptually cool location is ruined by the 5 bases surrounding me, including some faggot who thought it would be hilarious to build an empty cube around one of the dew fields.

>>528118742
i just love driving down the rift in a buggy like im grocery shopping and snatching up a ton of bandits to melt down into water, fuse cells, scrap, the works. it's all just sitting around because nobody likes being down there for some reason lol. i'm literally the only base in the rift on my server.

>>528118917
>below the Atreides stronghold
nice, that's a cool flat spot. on my server it seems like a guild has started to build a small town of closely situated houses. will have to screenshot it later.

>>528118976
I find the rift frustrating to traverse on foot and confusing to drive through, the only reasonable way to get through it is in a thopter. There are also too few light options, but maybe I should reconsider.

>>528119070
Yeah, I like the spot, but it's not super convenient and I've posted my base before, got some decent advice but I might just have to start from scratch either there or somewhere else.

>>528053330
Please, can you lend me a bit of that rain? It's so fucking dry here.

>>528054203
The vehicle system is completely modular, as long as you have a component that goes on a vehicle type you can attach it.

>>528118917
>including some faggot who thought it would be hilarious to build an empty cube around one of the dew fields.
Holy fuck some absolute asshole did this as well on mine, and its mostly fucking foundation blocks blocking access to a huge water patch.

>>528119392
EU Helios, Sietch Umbu?

>>528100286
Anon, you can't drop quest items for other players, only destroy them.

>>528119345
Not entirely, your treads/rotor blades have to be the same tier.

i haven't used prescience once since the tutorial where they gave it to me. i keep saving it for the right moment and it never comes.

do you actually get intel from deep desert or was that bullshit? 11 probes and nothing

Can you even map out Sheol? Is there anything tall enough for a survey probe?

>>528121029
yea it's one of the easiest zones to map because the only tall points are the string of pillars that connect it to the mainland. the first one after you cross the borderline is tall enough.

>>528120724
the research stations in the pve area of dd has research points, and they apparently reset every week when the c storm happens

>>528121196
https://www.planetologist.app/

just found this DD map, should be added to the OPs.

>>528120724
i just found 30 intel in a lab at A5 (north america)

>>528077121
Ok but, who will play it? All the dedicated PvP weirdos are already in the DD. The people who didn't make an effort to get there by now won't be interested. In fact, once they do get there, and see you people, they'll just quit.

What then?

>>528098732
Its gonna be the Tleilaxu. I mean, clearly

>>528080518
>More people should build in the rift.
kill the locals. join the 0.1%

>>528121196
>>528121340
>>528121820
thankyou

What do you guys think? I lucked out with the serber, its pretty empty. I just plopped down the console, I think this location should have almost everything within easy reach, other than iron. Where's your fav final base location?

>>528128053
the shieldwall is a great spot. I'd be happy anywhere apart from the areas that play that wailing banshee screech sound.
near the edge of the map with aluminum is where i put my final hagga base from the middle, it just saves a lot of time

>>528128053
poo poo base haha

>>528128053
somewhere here

>>528128053
Might have issues placing vertical stake since it will cut into the exit for an act quest.
Look carefully for red no-build zones for expansion.

>>528119471
Na Oceania

watashi wa...kirito...atreides...uchiha...harkooner

I genuinely can't wait for this game to mature for a few months. All the naysayers will be gone and moved on to the next FotM, there'll be more balancing, and the community will be tighter. I really want this to be my forever game.

>>528136043
It's more likely all the pve players will leave.

>>528137768
there's a naysayer now!

>Got mad the Atreides officers uniform was a cosmetic set for civilian clothes only
>Started using civ gear anyway out of spite
>Its become a fun challenge for fights because if your shield goes down its basically game over to any ranged enemy
Kinda fun, still wish it was a skin for loght armor though

>>528136043
Look, I'm one of the loudest whiners here, I even refunded the game at first, before giving it another chance. And I really, REALLY hope you are right.

>>528141657
i'm doing a no shoes run

>>528142710
Cute twink

>>528142710
I want them to introduce sand-walking, with the Fremen stuff. I wont use it almost ever, you can bindu-sprint and suspensor belt the whole map in minutes, but not having the option feels wrong.

Btw, whats the deal with the krysknife? I havent gotten one yet, I heard its single-use only? There MUST be plans to introduce more Fremen stuff like this, surely? Sandwalking and having your own krysknife are a must

>>528120528
>drug withdrawal system
Yeah same. I'd just rather not. I pretend it's not there. Maybe if pvp was a lot less vehicle based.

>>528136043
>>528139754
I like your character annie.

>>528143296
one-use essentially instant-kill knife

>>528120528
>>528146132
It makes low-maning / soloing POI groups of enemies in the DD easier. There are a lot of encounters there that lock you in a room against waves of spawns.

Is the DD actually just an instant gank fest or is it another case of redditors bitching about something they saw in a youtube video

>>528147965
It's both.

>>528147965
Both. It really does happen, and quite a bit at that, but it's entirely dependent on your server and when you play. One constant is that there will always be a few patrols of 2-3 rocket scouts looking for spice blows to kill the people farming them.On my server there are groups with larger bases in the deeper DD that act a like a bee's nest when someone comes near their resource island, and medium+ spice blows have 3+ organized groups of 5+ people in a mix of T5/T6 thopers that actively fight over them; it's a difficult commodity to get a hold of at the moment.

>>528148818
Bases in the DD might not have been the wisest option. They allow a lot of power projection.

>>528148927
>They allow a lot of power projection.
And safety. You can harvest a lot of resources in the area around your base without needing to risk a vehicle, and you have somewhere safe to fuck off to if you're attacked somewhere else in the desert without having to go all the way south. I'm planning to build a small base that I can drop a scout through the roof of just to deal with potential attackers / shorten collection times (flights, possible with an assault, from the FOB to the main PvE DD base would come after and generally be safer).

>>528149596
Your base can be raided though. It's not somewhat safe.

>>528149712
Bases can only be raided in the ~5m after they're hit by a sandstorm, otherwise the fief shield protects them. With that in mind, plastone based buildings can functionally only be destroyed by lasguns under the above condition.

>The AMA backfired and Reddit is burning
Lol, lmao, rofl. Everyone is mad about the proposed PvE content which is; nothing. Literally nothing. They want to focus on PvP only.

>>528147965
Best case scenario is you see no one, worst case you die instantly to a swarm of missiles. Even if you get a fair fight (good luck) you're going against people who have gear 2x stronger than your own, and thats not a joke, the top tier weapons deal 2x more damage than the previous tier. We're in the rosy fresh car smell of the game, give it one more week and the shit will hit the fan as more people realise there isn't a end game at all both the DD and Landsraad are PvP only.

>>528150653
Not really. I think you're basing this entirely on the one post from today titled "This game and the AMA make no sense to me".

>>528152224
Literally 90% of the front page topics are negative but nice try shill

>>528152224
Made me check, he's right, the whole front page is full of rage.

>>528152838
Yeah. Pve players hate being told there are parts of a game not for them and even the slight risk of a pvp death is enough to make them quit.
The DD is huge if they put in any effort to group up and protect each other gank groups would have no chance.

>>528153371
Griefers hate to be told to play fair PvP games and to get good.

>>528153490
Sometimes I think that extraction shooters are just the natural evolution of these survival pvp games that removes the ability for sweatlords to no life the best gear.

>>528153632
That is exactly why they're so successful. But Funcom are stuck in an era where they think its fun to gear up and stomp new players. They literally made end game weapons deal twice the damage of the previous tier, its completely insane and absolutely unbalanced.

>>528153371
PvE players are mad that there are areas of progression in the game they paid full price for that forces them to deal with sweatlord undesireables, yes. I don't want to have to interact with people like you. You are not a useful or pleasant or worthwhile person. You can bring nothing of value to my life, and your only goal in playing the game is to cause me aggravation. Why on Earth would I want to have anything to do with you?

And I do enjoy PvP- with friends whom I can trust to act honourably, and even against strangers on a level playing field, without gear advantages dependant on having no life outside the game.

Face it, dealing with your kind just isn't fun. So we're going to keep asking Funcom to regain their sanity, and if they keep refusing, we'll just move on. Plenty of other great games around. In such case, you will be welcome to your dead game and dead servers. Dune will never become Rust.

>>528154249
There is functionally no difference from the pvp tiers of progression than there is to the lower ones. The entire fucking game is hit rocks to get a better pick to hit bigger rocks. I'm surprised more people aren't complaining about how scavengers in the tutorial area are only slightly different to deserts in the rift.

>>528154249
This and based.

>>528152838
>>528152637
the f-f-f---f-ff--f-ffrrrrrooooont page of reddit doesn't like it? nooooooooooooo

t. faggot website that abhors reddit when it doesn't give them cognitive bias.

i did an autism and man buggy is expensive af

>>528162147
Yes but it's really good at farming even if you are alone.

>>528162945
ye

eventually i'll do a write up on bare minimum to tier up in the game from 0 but i feel like buggy is biggest upgrade overall

>>528163157
Biggest frame shift in the game by far. I do no ore mining without it as a solo player.

>>528154802
They're literally the same fucking mobs, just reskinned, with more hp, and some have extra moves, that's IT

>>528163653
Not true the tutorial area doesn't have the big gunners or snipers.

what the fuck are those "lights"

>>528163961
>tutorial area
talk about a bait and switch

>>528164136
If you actually want to light a decent part of a room use the ceiling lights. Also the Atreides glowglobe is pretty decent as well.

>>528164136
Other than the glowglobe mentioned by >>528164640 most of the lights are really bad, either blindingly bright with nearly no falloff or completely dim with strange reflections like the wall light.

They serve as good decor and that's it. Decor that eats into your light limit per fief.

I don't know if funcom's devs are just incompetent or if it was something done to save on some kind of Lumen resource-chewing or what.

>>528164982
the choam and hark ceiling lights are fine enough

bros what is that shield called that people use on the roof to let their ornithopter in and out?

>>528165261
I haven't gotten agave seeds yet to be able to build them, do you have an example pic?

>>528165436
pentashield, gotta drag the shield to make it bigger

WE ORNITHOPTING NOW BOIS!

>>528165648
thankyou

>>528165648
Does that cost extra?

>>528166089
however many gens u wanna throw down

I know it's dawn, but is there a damn clock in this game? what time exactly? how much time?

>>528167679
Press T. The bright blue is sunrise and the blue segment just before that. The very tail of sunrise swaps to poor harvest time but that's like 30 seconds before it all burns off.

>>528165671
grats nig. now do a barrel roll

PVE niggas get 90 hours of content and start screeching the moment they see PVP enjoyers get like 5 hours of it. Kinda glad these devs are ignoring those fags.

Kinda disappointing how the game design willfully spits on the books
Like how water is everywhere and it's a matter of course everybody will need 50k liters sitting around to process aluminum and higher when it's the most precious thing in Arrakis in the novels
or how shields are super important and consequential in basically every combat, the warnings about 'don't use one, it's useless in the desert or you're attracting every worm in a 100 mile radius' is weakened to a light suggestion like 'wash your hands after you piss'.
Not to mention how they decided to remove the lasgun shield interactions with this cheap pussying out about 'safety limiters'

>>528169794
You should design the most boring and annoying game ever you sound like you'd be great at it

>>528169979
And you sound like the weaselly little pussy casual that funcom designed this game around

>>528169794
While I thought the movie was silly when they were using lasers when the Harks were pulling the coup as if they were positive that there wasn't a single personal shield anywhere, you have to admit the concept is kind of dumb if you think too hard. Why not just fire a time delay laser at any fixed shield to instantly win?

>>528170438
It's more a taboo and political thing. Anybody who uses the interaction for military gain is considered in the same light as breaking the great convention of using atomics against people and would immediately turn renegade, the landsraad turning on them

>>528169794
Its because nobody fights on the sand, and there's tons of land that worms dont have access to. The sand is basically just a place you go through to get to safe ground.

>>528169794
You should design the most harsh and cruel survival game ever you'd be great at it.
>Not to mention how they decided to remove the lasgun shield interactions with this cheap pussying out about 'safety limiters'
It was because people were blowing each other up too easily.

>>528169794
it hard to make a proper game with any amount of fun based on being 100% true to the IP. Thats also going to be a problem going forward, so they will have to strike some sort of middle ground like they have already. It IS an alternate timeline/universe.

>>528169794
Look I get you but realistically a video game need to be functional for gameplay purpose. For all the tech a single player can build (i.e almost a small city) then it still make a bit of sens to need a lot of water. Also 50k L is a stretch from your part (if you build literally everything). You think 2000 ml of blood is a lot too lol? The game suffers from every MMOs problem where every players running around is the chosen one. Im not saying that DA is a perfect lore fit but I found most complains to be retarded because it all link back to gameplay for the player in some niche ways. In fact I found people under appreciate the fact that we got a rather well made dune spinoff in current year. But gamers are the most entitle little bitches on Earth so heh what do you know

>>528170707
Yeah well the fremen aren't bound as such, why did they never just nuke Arakeen? Why not laser the Atraiedes and blame the Fremen? I mean the fremen buried shields and got the Harks to accidently themselves.

>>528169794
>Like how water is everywhere and it's a matter of course everybody will need 50k liters sitting around to process aluminum
https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/wsp1330C#:~:text=Water%20requirements%20of%20alumina%20plants,aluminum%2C%20and%20average%2014.62%20gallons.

Also, an Advanced deathstill extracts 45kl of water from a corpse, which is very close the the human average of 42kl of water in the body.

So it IS based on realistic amounts and requirements.

>PvP is zerg faggotry and now chinese 'players' train AI to identify orni's in DD
>Landsraad is delivery quests for poopsock grinders
>normal contract are non-repeatable
>unique rewards from them are one-use
>money farm is ridiculous
>building is wonky and limited
its almost like they're doing everything wrong on purpose

>>528172218
Rather, they made some bad choices in development priorities for the launch build. They have to have a robust framework for PVE grind content, and they half assed it in order to drive people to the PVP area, which is not going to work for them. They had better call on there fellow worthless Scandi devs at Arrowhead in order to come up wiht development priorities to keep their game alive.

I really wish you didn't have to shelter thopters bigger than the scout. Having a hangar that looks decent is such a pain in the ass.

how's spice rats on EU solaria doing?

>>528172218
Source on the chinese AI shit? Sounds hilarious

>>528176801
a redditor with 3k karma told me

>>528171861
I mean they specifically say lasguns are very expensive and finicky to maintain, hard to keep calibrated, sand gets in the components, etc.
It's like asking why the Taliban just don't use tomahawk missiles

>>528168480
Thanks anon

Biggest dumbifying casual shit with the shields is the 0.6s autoflicker. If they made it drop longer, as well as buffed ranged a bit, then it would actually be more tactical on when or how you use or drop it, rather than just being a second regenerating health bar (and the more important health bar, basically)

>>528170928
>It was because people were blowing each other up too easily.
That sounds like a lot of fun. Why does FUNcom hate fun?

>>528178693
You're telling me that even though the fremen have negotiated a ban on satellite imagery over the whole planet with the guild and pay for it with a huge ransom of spice, they couldn't buy one lousy laguna?

My point is that you have to have a measure of suspension of disbelief. Bitching that the game makes concessions that aren't consistent with the book is dumb because the book is inherently dumb. The entire point is to justify melee combat, that's it. I find the biggest plot hole to be that despite their inability to use shields, fremen are also melee warriors that use knives just like the great houses. They really should have just shit on the sardukar by being expert marksman because "conventional" war is melee only due to shields but at the end of the day it's fiction.

>>528179152
Because no one wants the end game meta to be "naked dude deletes your DD base by shooting a laser at it and losing just the laser"

>>528171861
>Yeah well the fremen aren't bound as such, why did they never just nuke Arakeen?
Atomics have been banned since the Butlerian Jihad ten thousand years ago. The Proto-Fremen arrived on Arrakis some 3000 years ago, so unless they found an old nuke laying around that's not really in the cards. The punishment for using atomics in war is basically total destruction of your homeworld, but given how much the Imperium relies on spice the Imperial Legion would have probably just settled on putting the Fremen on a holocoaster.

>>528180390
The movies don't ever say jihad, do they? It's odd the game does.

>>528180390
The implication was nuke the city shields by way of laser. The fremen are not a house of the Lansraad, neither are they CHOAMs. They are largely considered irrelevant savages. I guess maybe the answer why didn't they do a big bad was because they didn't want that kind of attention, but pre-paul it's not like one bloodthirsty sietch couldn't have gone rogue and done it without consensus.

>>528181107
Ever since Charlie Hebdo got shot up by radical muslims people have been scared shitless to reference Islamic concepts or its Prophet. Funcom has balls. Hollywood doesn't.

Once the fremen are inevitably reintroduced in some lame expansion reveal there better be a GAY fremen couple man-to-man kissing in front of me funcom
Or else you didn't update Dune correctly for the current era. Or else you're on the wrong side of history

>>528181859
they are pretty true to the IP. In the Reddit AMA, one question is if they could make it so the Deathstill did not require dragging a body up to be placed in it, and the dev answer was along the lines of its a sacred fremen act, etc.

The story is pretty neat. People think it’s over but it’s like they missed the fact that this is live service slop that’s supposedly going to get updated often.

>>528181857
As I understand it, the actual location of the nuclear reaction can be at any point of the laser triggering it. So the explosion can be against the shield, right at the barrel of the lasgun, or somewhere in between. Plus I think it's less a practicality thing and more of a cultural thing. Atomics are a coward's weapon. Fremen are more of the stand in a circle and duel to the death type of crazy.

>>528182570
Having played conan, I'm extremely skeptical on what funcom think is 'often'

I'm not going to log in every week, grinding shit just to pay my taxes to keep my base lights on, when they only release a twenty minute quest every six months.

Once finished with this initial playthrough, I'll probably check in on the game in five years or so, see if it is worth starting over. That's basically what I did with conan

>>528182819
Conan wasn’t a live service game

>>528183062
>>528182819
Toward the end they were playing with it and it basically every six months for major updates.

>>528183125
I think they said 3 months in the AMA, which is basically the norm for all other live service slop

I'd love a sort by durability button in the repair machine.

>>528183850
Id love a fucking sort by type like in every inv management games ever made

>>528122296
Speaking of the Tleilaxu, there's an Tleilax NPC at I think Pinnacle Station that says your character makes him feel like he's back home that reminded me of the way your class teachers all say it's like you already knew what they're teaching you
Considering they mentioned the possibility of more classes, it makes me wonder

>>528162147
If you have a faint inkling of what you're doing, that's fast.

it just occurred to me that if you wanted to store resources in the bank for a quick start after periods away from the game.. you'd have to carry those resources in and out on your person at a max of 175v per trip, completely naked. you'd have to eat two load screens and the world map each way, too.

Some questions from a noob

1) why people say sandbike is not worth pass mk2?

2) I keep using the first suspensors and it breaks so quick, is the higher versions worth investing or they break just a little bit less than quick

3)what are melanged spices for? Revive when down??

4)if you lose your copter in DD how do you get out ?

Thx

>>528186530
Technically you just need a good high level cutter + knowledge + your pocket vehicule to start over

>>528186962
>1
People get thopters and they basically completely invalidate bikes. They're faster and they can ignore terrain.
>2
Higher tier have more durability, yeah, but I still have mk 2 treads on mine. They're pretty damaged, but I didn't ride it enough to wear them completely out before getting the thopter.
>3
End game crafting material. You need a lot of them.
>4
You call a friend or you enjoy the interior or shai hulud's stomach. Or you can respawn elsewhere on the map, like a sub fief or another vehicle if you have one set up out there.

>>528187951
Thank you. Still gonna make an epic sandbike because fun

>>528187271
the whole point would be skipping that part though. packing up a disassembled buggy will cut a lot of that time, too, but even waiting on ~300 ingots to cook is literally an hour or two of real time. this could be fixed by allowing your thopter cargo to be accessible via an inventory tab when in the bank window, like other storage sources.

>>528187951
Not him but what would be the downsides of only upgrading the engine and psu? Hull and chassis are just hp, no? I know treads have grip but they all have 15 vibration rating and grip doesn't seem to matter all that much.

>>528169794
I agree on some of these, and I have some gripes myself like storing an Ornithopter up my ass. I find it convenient but anti-lore. The water, however – you know that there are thousands of liters on Dune saved underground by the Fremen, as seen in the films? Now imagine you go there, and you learn all the Fremen tech, but instead of using the water to feed the great reserves, you use it to build your own short-term infrastructure, fuelled by tech you get from the Bene Gesserit (who sent you to Arrakis) and/or the faction you join. Not the worst offender in an alternate universe, I'd say.

>>528188837
The whole point of engaging with any mechanics in this game is to gather resources. If you come back later and completed all missions its the only thing left to do outside upcoming content. Beside you can save a build of your base and high level cutters have better yield.

Whats the bank capacity anyway

>>528189725
Not that guy but I found a mk5 bike engine in a chest somewhere and upgraded. Rest of bike is mk2. Seems fine as far as I can tell while being faster than it used to be.

>>528190037
>upcoming content
that's exactly why i would want to cut out gathering old stuff that i already completed. so i can hop back in and try the new content without doing basic bitch gathering that i wouldn't have to worry about if they didn't have a system in place to delete all my shit if i don't play every week and no local hosting option.
>Whats the bank capacity anyway
30 slots, no volume cap

>>528189725
no downside. the engine especially is helpful because going fast is about all the trike is good for.

>>528190257
>no volume cap
Thats cool. But I understand your platitude of carrying things over. Personally Im more excited for more biomes than anything else. Im up to aluminum and squat my friend base with no fief as a true desert hobo + no taxes

Its free real estate !

How does saving a base even work if it isn’t on flat ground? I’m guessing I’m totally fucked if I built my base around terrain and will be either forced to try to fiddle it onto the exact same spot or have half the base missing due to stability issues.

>>528190789
haha nice, i have a three fief megacomplex so i have to pay ~40k in taxes. that's why i'm concerned about storage because i know this isn't sustainable. i get bored of games really quickly and fuck off for ~6mo at a time, generally speaking. i'm also excited for new biomes. would love either a deep/massive cave or underground biome or the polar ice caps that seem to be coming next year.

new enemies are definitely needed, too, though. i don't see why we couldn't fight juvenile sandworms, tleilaxu experiments, or even preserved thinking machine units from the butlerian jihad (just say they got eaten by a worm and it died underground with them inside or something)

>>528190257
There needs to be a way to take a break from the game without having to start from scratch. Pocketing a Thopter is probably a good start, but beyond that, how would you ever bank the resources you'd need for a fresh start? It really feels like it's a 'keep playing forever or never start playing again' type of deal, especially with two separate resource drains you need to upkeep to ensure your shit doesn't disappear. It reinforces sunk cost too, since I have to cough up 18k every two weeks, which isn't nominal if you're not actively playing.

>>528191887
>There needs to be a way to take a break from the game without having to start from scratch.
their answer right now, is unironically and with a straight face: use a private server. imagine paying $15/mo to NOT play a game.

>>528186962
>if you lose your copter in DD how do you get out ?
There is a fast travel npc in each section of the pve part of DD, can be a bit hard to find sometimes. It requires money, but you can go into the research stations and loot some money to pay.

>>528191660
I like that, well done

>>528192258
Nah I like this stance. If you're not playing for weeks, then fuck you, you're taking up space. You're playing something else anyway. You gonna come back? Yeah right. You'll leave again in a week or less.

>>528191660
I don't hate it. I also don't like it.

>>528193826
I feel the same way. It's still just 4 cubes, just on pillars and mushed. And not even thought out. But experimenting with ideas now at tier 2/3. I like cascading bases, tiered stuff. Pagodas but off center levels. I dunno, still messing with it.

>>528194475
Homey.

>>528193429
>You gonna come back? Yeah right.
well you got one thing right, at least.

Alright lads I've gotten pretty into this game now and I know Jack shit about the Dune universe. Where should I start? Is the in-game lore tab unironically decent?

>>528195372
The movie.

>>528195372
maybe read the fucking book it was based on, crazy idea I know

>>528195372
It gives you the right ideas. Both the old movie and the new ones also have their merit but bothe of them also have their issues when it comes to lore. Honestly if you have the time, just read the first book and if you enjoy it also the second one.

>>528191817
I think you don't pay taxes on non advance sub fief. Consider turning two of your bases to smaller ones to lower your upkeep if that become a problem.

Id like more enemy variety too but I found all the humanoid variants descent and fun to play against so far, mostly because the gunplay feels visceral and right to me

>>528195372
In order of decent to least decent:

book (1, 2, 3 only, rest are meh) > og Dune game > Emperor Battle for Dune > Lynch Movies > Behind the Dune > TV Miniseries (2001) > Dune 2 and Dune 2000 > Dune Spice Wars > Nu-Dune movies > Dune Adventures in the Imperium

>>528195372
Just put on the audiobook while playing this game. It's like 22 hours long and I have 80 hours on this game so far.

>>528191887
>how would you ever bank the resources you'd need for a fresh start?
you can easily fit what you need in the bank at Arakeen/Harko, its just a pain in the ass to do so. You really dont need that much to restart, at the top tier, since you only need to store a few resources. The bottle neck is water, and the quickest way to get that up and running would be dew harvesting or deathstills (with a proper dew harvesting set-up the quicket depening on timing).

>>528195901
you forgot the new bene g tv series

>>528195767
>I think you don't pay taxes on non advance sub fief
you're correct but my autism is such that seeing even a single player base in any direction from my own would cause me to no longer want to be there, so the space maxing subfiefs are mandatory. i'd be on my own private offline server if the game allowed it, but i'm not paying someone else for a service that i could do myself if i wasn't be arbitrarily blocked from doing so.

What imperial station has the best loot?

How many fiefs can you have in total? Only four?

>>528197248
they all have the best loot for the tier that you're in. the deep desert ones all have the best loot and they're randomized weekly if you want the question answered literally.

>>528197616
3

>>528197616
not even. 3 max.

>>528021272
You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

>>528197813
>>528197843
is that globally or 3 in basin, 3 in deep desert?

>>528198016
good question honestly, i haven't tried to set down a fief in the desert yet. will try in a few and get back to you if someone doesn't answer first.

We already made this place huge and it still feels too small

>>528198872
It's best to segregate your vehicles out of sight and out of mind.

>>528195901
Contrarians sucking off the Lynch movies when even he hated them is so fucking funny

>>528201381
You don't understand anon, new Dune movies were successful so they must be terrible which also automatically makes Lynch's version a misunderstood masterpiece. But only a connoisseur of true kino would get this.

>>528201775
Timothy Chalamet and Zendaya were some of the worst things to happen in recent cinema. I'm in my 40s. I hate that this is probably going to be the best rendition of the books I'll see before I die and it's that fucking twink's face I'll remember.

Once you meet the Duke is that the end of the faction story content right now?

I haven't managed to get enough paste for a pentashield yet. This is what i do.

>>528202058
The new trailer has a voice over that sounds sortof like her, I'm wondering if they'll include her in the game despite all the other characters having new likenesses.

She is atrociously miscast ofcourse. Chani should've been played by any number of the extras they had playing the other fremen women in the second movie.

>>528202064
Yep

>>528202058
>DUNC best
Miniseries blows both out of the water. The only flaw was that Jessica's actress changed between Dune and Messiah/Children.

>>528202424
Chani is just a girlboss movie OC for oscars. However, she's very popular so funcom might want her but they probably can't afford her.
Remember, at the end of the day this is a movie game because apparently that's all funcom can make anymore.

>>528202058
I mean I get your hate for Zendaya but I found Chalamet actually somewhat fitting, especially for the first movie where Paul is supposed to be a scrawny twink.

>>528202670
I haven't seen the miniseries in decades. I should find it to have on the second screen while I play this

>>528202764
I don't think either of them can act well. In anything.

>>528201775
I'm actually rewatching the movies rn, and they're not bad. They have some stunning visuals, even better audio, and they're mostly faithful to the source material, with some glaring mistakes, like the way Thufir got done dirty in the second movie by being erased from existence, and Chani being a disgusting muttoid cuntbitch bossbabe who gives Paul nothing but attitude and grief. They had to make her that way, of course. Making her the supportive partner of Paul, the second pillar to Usul, would be akin to the Original Sin. It would make the hollywood Jews and American women shit and piss themselves with incandescent rage

There were also some pretty goofy and cringe moments, like the vision voiced talking to Paul- that sounded like a five year olds impression of an acid trip, just silly. And they made Stilgar into some weird comic relief, in the books he was absolutely badass. But again, they had to make the male patriarch into a goofball, for the same reasons they had to make Chani into a raging bitch.

Anyway, other than such things, the new movies were pretty okay.

>>528203015
Acting is not their purpose, their purpose is to be avatars of the current zeitgeist. They're supposed to be what young men and women are these days, do you see? The agender twink with the testosterone levels of a tadpole, and the peculiarly ugly, bossy, frowning muttoid harridan. They are what kids are supposed to aspire to be when they grow up.

Acting has nothing at all to do with any of it.

>>528203073
I wholeheartedly agree. The movies were good but without gender politics they could have been so much better.

>>528203073
yup. this was kinda outta place too. the i love you

>>528202112
Why? 3 walls and roof is all your buggy needs to be safe. Just put in a door for the rest of your cube.

>>528203425
Take heart- the culture is pivoting away from that shit. Consider that the movies that will come out next year have been made a year ago, and approved for production two or three or more years ago. There is a substantial lag. That's why it all feels so out of sync, the culture is barrelling ahead like a tweaked out steamtrain on acid rn, everything feels like a fever dream, and the movies are just talking about nonsense that nobody believes in or cares about anymore.

It would take a real Kwisatz Haderach to guess where the culture is going from here. Terrence McKenna had an inkling, but he died from a brain tumour before the fun started. Go figure.

>>528203904
The walls are just in case someone jumps in and figures a way to push it out.

>>528203073
Cutting the dinner party was huge oof. Also cutting Yueh's motivation and diving into how the Baron turned him just kind of made that part retarded.

Welp, i learned the fucking hardway. Dont go to Sheol without radiation protection

>>528204915
My first time through I was doing a tour on bike with zero protection. Died, respawned near bike, picked up my shit and went home.

>>528202670
The mini series is solid but holy fuck a lot of the costumes, props and cgi suck ass
Doesn't help that William Hurt sounds like he's falling asleep during half of his lines, at least there's nothing like that in Children of Dune

>>528202807
Its hard to find at a decent resolution, you may be able to dig up an old dvd of it someplace. I think there was an upload to youtube but it had ass grades of compression.

Don't forget it has the second book included in the miniseries, its a cozy watch, through and through.

>>528202112
Just use a wide door, the buggy fits through

>>528203391
Meds.

>>528195372
The first book is one of the greatest pieces of original science fiction literature ever written. Start there, then see how you like the first Villeneuve film after that. The books get increasingly arcane and obtuse, and the second film is already a step down from the first one.

>>528205576
Huh? Isn't the door way too low for the mining laser?

>>528206290
It looks goofy as shit but yeah, it works

>>528195372
Watch the 2 new movies.

>>528206290
Vehicle bits are weird that way. Your Thopter's deployed wings don't even have to fit in your hangar.

>>528206152
Currently reading children of dune and this shit is actually schizo tier. Still very enjoyable.

>>528204061
Park it against the wall then. I had a cuckshed for a buggy on top of the shield wall in the middle of where everywhere set up and nobody even looked at it sideways.

>>528206639
>It looks goofy as shit
Well, then it's no good alternative to the pentashield.

>>528206902
Yeah, I want things to look right.

>>528206908
It gets so fucking weird, man.

>>528165621
a bit late but here, the round hark one lights up indoor spaces really nicely

>>528211959
Those are pretty nice, you're right, I need to get out to collect the mats for this stuff

is the secret a gaping anus?

>>528214862
It's the secret of Ixian Goatse. Deepes Lore.

>>528215558
Anis' gaping anus

Planning my base, I have a horizontal and vertical stake, from what I understand if I place a vertical stake it will add space up and down on all owned tiles which looks like it could be problematic here because if I want to build up, but horizontally I am over this road, its going to block me isn't it?

I think the solution is if I build the main fief control panel back, add a stake towards the road but not into the road, then when I build up/down I wont hit the road and wont have to reset the entire base from scratch.

I wish we could reclaim stakes, this would have been fine but 15k each is a lot even at mid/late game.

Has anyone found a use for the Hunter-Seeker at all or is it as useless as it seems?

damn the harko buggy is cool

>>528223380
it seems useless against NPC's more of a incredibly niche pvp tool that'll probably just get you killed more often than not

>>528223380
It one shots anything without a shield, and for players it will always break their shield and most their HP bar, apart from that probs not

>>528223957
We really need four abilities. Three just isn't enough when stagger is so important.

>>528224020
Or the ability to switch out of combat between two bars, so I can have mobility and combat

Sold 2 radiation mk5s for 25k each

>>528220096
I ran into a similar problem. It doesn't matter if you expand vertically, you'll never be able to expand horizontally "over" that road because there'll always be some overlap

Hmm. I vote for this spot being the best spot for your final base. It is:
1) close to an outpost for easy deathstill bodies
2) close to a trading post for quick fast travel
3) right on top of aluminum
4) close to map borders for map travel
5) a short flight from Sheol
6) close to all the late game dungeon type areas for easy pre-DD uniques
7) has easy access from the dunes via the ramp just to the east side
8) you can drive a buggy off the edge of the cliff and follow the shield wall to reach the rift for access to etherite
9) can drive a buggy off the cliff if you ever need to get t1-3 mats for anything

The etherite is the furthest stuff, but if you load a buggy up with it, you probably won't need to go back for a long while.

>>528227459
Having messed around I accidentally placed a stake, not realising you have 60s to pick it back up which helped me speed the process up.

It seems like for me in this spot, no matter what I do I cannot expand towards that road, no matter how far back I was the stake would never go down (it wouldn't say it was blocking anything, it just wouldn't deploy). So I ended up moving the fief as close to the road as possible and ill stake backwards away from the road instead. Its not perfect and I can't overhang on the wall as I wanted but it is what it is.

>>528228403
That entire ridge line from that spot to the Atr base is pretty much the best spot not just for location but aesthetics, you get a great view.

>>528195901
>book (1, 2, 3 only, rest are meh)
Imagine getting filtered by the God Emperor himself.

>>528195901
Dogshit opinion.

Books > Villeneuve > Garbage.

>>528195901
>>528201381
>Lynch movies
>movies
>plural
What?

>>528228403
Too far from the world map border.

>>528230981
?
it's like 1500m away

>>528230981
I built right on the edge and now I get 0 warning sandstorms. they give me about 15 seconds to hide somewhere if my luck is bad and i'm out collecting corpses at the time. doesn't seem to happen often though

>>527976840 (OP)
How does the spice tolerance thing work can we overdose on that shit or what

>>528231502
I find it far less annoying being right next to it when transporting multiple flights of materials from DD to hagga basin. Future content will most likely require world map travel too.

>>528232442
Did you build on the East/West edge? Sandstorms usually travel horizontally so if you build on the North/South edges you won't have this issue.

>>528233607
yeah it's coming from the west, now I understand why everyone built on the north border lol. oh well it's kind of fun having an immediate danger instead of the weather just been a minor annoyance

>>528232442
>me, chilling in my rift base with my vehicles strewn about carelessly outdoors as a storm rages harmlessly ~150m overhead

>>528228403

I came to the same conclusions but I built at the bottom right so I could get to carbon and iron without driving off a cliff.

A lot of people recommend northwest iron works. I think that's maybe the best from start to end so you don't have to keep moving bases. You also do require a lot of complex machinery. There's really not much difference I guess when you get the ornithopter since it moves so fast.

>>528233267
idk but i know if you can get withdrawal hallucinations that include things like giant burning giraffes or 40 ft tall shadow people standing in formation staring at you outside of your base

>>528234760
That's sounds sick, I found some spice while running around in hagga basin, off to make some edibles

>>528235383
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ayBo9fCnqA
only video i could find but someone posted that kaiju sized burning giraffe somewhere, just can't find it.

>>528235664
I really need to start taking spice more often...

>>528232442
>I built right on the edge and now I get 0 warning sandstorms.
You get earlier warning than the verbal alert; the red diamond warning on the compass hud will show up long before you get the verbal warning, and it will show the distance its from you and you can tell the geneal direction of it before it even shows up on the map. Also, the default background music subtly changes the instant the red triangle appears, and does so again as it get closer.

>>528235383
>>528235664
>>528236964
NTA, but it's in my history from yesterday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K1vdWQaGi8

>>528234529
Eh, I haven't had to harvest iron/steel in forever. Went out like once after starting the base here and filled up a buggy. Haven't even gone through what I've got. Mostly use it for chests

>>528235664
>>528237350
I walked out of my base in the Eastern Shield Wall earlier today and a small patch of the ground was on fire, no idea if it was a spice hallucination or just a graphics bug