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>>527756195God 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.
>Linkshttps://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.
>>527976693What 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
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>>527976993well 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
>>527977117How 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.
>>5279773133/3
>>527977398I consider what I want each room to be before I build it
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>>527977117it's really addictive. I would only stop building to get more bathsalts for a few days
>>527977398Create 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
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don't give up, skeleton
>>527977857This is 1.5x height, right? How do you handle that from the outside? How would you do windows for hollow walls?
>>527978101nta, 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
>>527978101Bottom 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?
>>527976840 (OP)>/vg/ guilds are gay shit.doomtranny faggot already vandalizing our OPs
>>527978528Probably 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
ugh. I wish hark had sloped tiles with dark underside rather than interior underside. How annoying...
>>527978318That 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.
>>527978085he 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
>>527978528Normal, 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.
>>527980758Now 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
>>527981105I 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.
>>527979641this 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.
>>527981105i 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.
>>527981256Its 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 trianglethat 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
>>527981447that'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.
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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.
>>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
>>527986093Pretty 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 inSucks to be you
>>52798657245k water per hour is too little if youโre at duraluminum tier
>>527986691>duraluminumWhy would I bother with that
>>527987015>why would i bother with T5 geari dunno
>heh, yea i play the game wrong, guess i'm too CRAZY for you...
why does /vg/ have so many of these?
>>527977117It's beautiful, Anon. It's what us old Conan Exiles players have always wanted.
>>527987108>i dunnoExactly
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.
>>527987418depends 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.
>>527987506yea probably, need more aluminum than most other ores because it gets used for two tiers, and inflated cost tiers at that.
>>527987506i built on the same rock island as the trade post. seems pretty comfy so far.
>>527987691That 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.
>>527987506I 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?
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>>527988397I 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.
>>527989260they 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
>>527989712lore 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
>>527990068he'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
>>527989712Shai-Hulud giveth and Shai-Hulud taketh away.
I hate the way my character looks. Should I remake
>>527991086depends 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
>>527991181stinky hairy harkonnen armpits
>>527991086just wear a helmet nigga
>>527990329found 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 %
>>527993829it's like wow where you lose 10% durability on all your shit when you die.
>>527994121fuck, the uniques are actually unique here, I wont be getting another quest stillsuit
>>527994443Depends, if the reward is purple it has a blueprint. The green stuff does not
>>527994443If you're talking about the one from Crossroads, you absolutely can
https://www.openworld.gg/dune-awakening/unique-items/maraqeb-stillsuit-garment
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>>527994508I don't know what to do with the green stuff since I can't dismantle it
>>527994443don't be fussed if it's this one I got 2 now, you'll keep finding better gear anyway long before it breaks
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.
>>527997518What armor is that?
>>527998018Harkonnen light armor, I think it's scout
Deep Desert Sectors G5 - Stravidium, H6 - Titanium. Both are high density ore islands.
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>>527994893and 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
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>>528004924This trait works with the cutters too so you barely get slowed when wielding them
babbys first plastone base
>>528004924The 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
>>528006029The 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>>528006203Harko 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.
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so electricity does hurt
>>528007205I could've told you that
>4 deathstills are not enough for duraluminium crafting
Any anons believe that scouts shouldn't have rocket pods?
>>528007854It's fine if they have them but they shouldn't do a lot of damage.
>>527977117>>527977313>>527977510What server are you on? I could swear I've seen something like that on Serpens, sietch Nadir.
>>528007854Scout 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
>>528008012landagraadadads
>>528005212>>528006004>lasgunsFuck. Nothing happens if you hit a shielded enemy, does it.
>>528008274You know all those server issues the game has been having? Lasgun on shielded enemies. The servers simply explode.
>>528007748Basic or advanced?
>>528008274Apparently, the gun has "safety" that turns itself off when shooting shields.
>>528008967Boring. It should utterly melt anything unshielded, but instakill you if you hit a shield.
>>528008274ingame 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
>>528007854It 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
>>528009567In 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
>>528009868yeah it's all 12 plastone per
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>>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 beYou're using gliding, right?
>>528010786Yes, 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 gliding160(162)km/h when proper gliding. Lrn2fly.
>>528010908bro the normal scout orni max speed when gliding is 163 km/h tilt it down until you reach that
>>528011021Nigga I'm tryin
>>528010908>>528011021>>528011023yeah you can't reach max speed with the booster, you have to dip to gain speed
>>528011321Booster is for gaining altitude quickly, nothing else.
>>528007969Solitary/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.
>>528008274They 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
>>528012910the 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.
>>528012910Just go into the mining facilities they usually have areas at the middle full of erythite
>>528006203well there's no questline, just 1 quest. then instant rank 5 harko
>>528007854I 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".
>>528013310Of course they have, and that's even more reason to bring it back
>>528014097My 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
>>528014162Eh, they should bring back Conan Exiles style servers so people can set it as a rule if they want to, same for other stuff
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>>528014124If 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 guilddumb nigger what is even the point then?
>>528014595Because when the game launched nobody wanted to join and I had to invite other people to even do shit.
>>528014428Goes 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
>>528014428I 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.
>>528014876Someone did that on /vm/ and i think it was just annoying.
>>527976840 (OP)>EU: Spice Rats, SolariaIs it possible to join the guild when I'm on a different server since the DD map pools players from everywhere?
>>528016026I'm not sure, post your name and we'll see
>>528014464>we have normiesFor what purpose?
At hark vendor you can buy a flamethrower (really bad, useless). Does the Atreides vendor also sell that, or some other weapon?
>>528018264that atreides base on the west side of basin has a unique buggy laser, and I think unique scout wings at one point.
>>528016414I saw people from other servers in some random guild I joined so it should work but idk about DD, inv me pls
>>528019278Nope, it says can't find player with the name.
It also won't let me search for the id
>fullscreen screamer spice withdrawal hallucination
Yep. Never letting that bar stay empty again.
>>528019548can'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
>>528021587Only if they look like the ones in Behind the Dune
>>528021104Huh? 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.
>>528022598Depending on your addiction levels, the withdrawal symptoms can get pretty wild
https://youtu.be/_K1vdWQaGi8
>>528017373Pragmatic. I think Dune was intended for everyone on a sietch to work together in the DD.
>>528024101Lmao, I had no idea that was a thing
>>528024947If 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
>>528027608sorry 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
>>528029018And 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
>>528029998They are having fun playing there way.
>>528029669https://files.catbox.moe/0cjats.jpg
>>528030051Their 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>>528029998I 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 exampleLast 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.
>>528030723Try it and tell us
>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 pveare they retarded?
>>528034332If 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 contentIts 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 dyingare 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>>528033145Yep, overhangs get eaten. I should test to see how high though
>>528030603You know, I'd watch that. You might've found a little niche there, desu. Try it
>>528036562There is already a youtube channel with that style of content. Its called Dune WTF moments or something like that
>>528033508They 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.
>>528036416Okay, 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
>>528037024Binos, 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
>>528037024probe launcher literally takes 30 seconds and is practically free, getting up cliffs is really easy once you have a suspensor belt
>>528037246Interesting. Now I wonder if there's an upper limit when the worm won't reach anymore
>>528036562>>528036675There'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>>528037461tested 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>>528037461the game's discord had the answer, damnit that's tall
>>528038006now make a 13 block tall tower so you can make people walk the plank
>>528037246>>528038006>>528038451Make 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 easyI mean sure but so is just flying around in my ornithopter? Or does it instantly reveal everything I discovered before? Not just regionally?
>>528038657if 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 againNow that's a good reason to use it, thanks
>>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.
>>528043157I 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.
>>528043484Oh 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.
>>528044970I 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
>>528046640Made 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?
>>528047896There is. Top left of your inventory, dummy.
>>528047896Open storage and look at the top left, there is a drop down to select vehicle storage.
>>528047896while 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>>528046729i 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
>>528048086Not 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 herefilesize 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
>>528051410don'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.
>>528046640Yeah its fucking stupid and infuriating, 3 active ability slots is dumb as absolute shit
>heaviest rain of 2025 outside my window
>chilling on arrakis
>>528029018wtf are you me?
>>527951904well 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?
>>528042846there'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 slotsit'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 scenariothis is the biggest problem right now, console niggers are to blame for this shit as always
wormsign detected, in my pants
>>528058662aw it is so cute and tiny
i didn't know they got this small anon
>>52805757150 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 sandtroutsanon 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.
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>>528059082>can't even tell someone they have a small cock without b**kfag weighing inwhy 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 houranon you can put any ability in your third slot
>>528059261Pretty sure he meant the prescience thing which is on not on X but would make more sense with what he said.
>>528059261>>528059504https://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
>>528059774So 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>>528059941Yes 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.
>>528052736Once 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.
>>528059941I 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.
>>528062034they 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
>>528058053Nigglet 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.
>>528062489Just saw that. Retarded nigger devs kill yet another game.
>>528057571I 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.
>>528062489if 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).
>>528062094maybe some lag shinanigans?
>>528062489It 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.
>>528058053Its 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 canโt 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?
>>528063752imo 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.
>>528062549That 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
>>528064474theoretically 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.
>>528064407Because it would be considered racist, and would limit the userbase. The fact that it would VASTLY improve the player experience is meaningless.
>>528065241it'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 devicethis 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
>>528066224It 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>>528066224The 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?
>>528065771Just 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!
>>528068312Unironically 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.
>>528068701The 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?
>>528069104They'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>>528006203Reasons 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.
>>528070257There 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.
>>528070257Im pretty sure you can invite to guilds from across Sietches
>>528070257Per 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>>528064058And 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.
>>528070603Yeah, 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
>>528069808Have you done the planetologist stuff yet? He tends to want stuff like that.
>>528071394it's mostly just gank squads and thopter rocket spam right now
>>528068312there are so many options it's insane. are you playing melee or ranged?
>>528072117I wonder if it will get better with more players.
>>528071394The 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.
>>528073845more 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
>>528069104Yeah 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.
>>528070603It'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
>>528074643Unironically yes. But I see now that I was extremely fucking wrong and thereโs zero hope for this dogshit game.
>>528075015They 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.
>>528075598nice, looks sick. especially like the parapets on the towers.
>>528075598looks great anon, there is more than enough depth to prevent it from looking boxy. I like the ramp heading into it
>>528075414Funcom 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.
>>528077121Not enough PVP enjoyers in the world to make a live service game survive LMAO
>>528074235They said suspendor elevators are maybe coming at least
>>528075598good 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?
>>528080291The darkness really suits the Harkonnen set well though. More people should build in the rift.
>>528080449you failed the atreides honor test, now you gotta shave your head bald and go harkonnen.
>>528080518here's the beautiful aerial view, lmao.
>>528077121Funcom will fail like always.
>>528065987This, 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.)
>>528077121PVP 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.
>>528080928I hate how limited lighting props are.
>>528081451yea, 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.
>>528082253no, 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.
>>528080645aha i worked it out
nice try, NIGGER
my performance went to shit after the last patch, anyone else?
>>528082128In conan people used them to crash the client/server.
>>528082475get you next time, atreides scum
>>528081357>>528077121>5 tiers of gear and an ignorable end gameBetween 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.
>>528094176i'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>>528094176vehicles 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
>>528095668I 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.
>>528095709And 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>>528095709Make 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.
>>528096480I 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.
>>528095826Dune has vehicular combat dummy
>>528077121their "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.
>>528096550NTA, 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.
>>528098206who will the third faction be
>>528098379all we know is that it wont be House Corrino, per the devs.
so can i play this as a pve game
>>528098412probably, 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.
>>528098518sure. 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.
>>528098453I 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.
>>528069808if 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?
>>528098206Retarded logic, that update may not be for literally years. This is Funcom not good devs.
>>528102079Neither, thats the Emperor's mercenaries hunting Fremen and anyone else that gets too much spotlight.
>>528098518Yes, its not a PvP game and only 1% of the community like that dumb shit mode
>>528102263KILL the Sardaukar
>>528102371Its not Sar, there are so Sars anywhere for some reason
>>528102446They'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.
>>528102191This 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?
>>528103014you 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.
>>528102990Not 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
>>528103014There is this super helpful in-game tool called communication. You should try it sometime.
>>528104626Mine 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?
>>528105041Might be stupid, but I'm no snitch.
>>528105467The 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.
>>528103014hold 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)>picIs this Barons final form?
>>528108180That's the God-Emperor and you'll put some fucking respect in your tone.
>>528106284Ladders 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
>>52810812721 days at minimum, and the upkeep is piss easy
>>528075598how the fuck you make shit this big with just a shitty advanced sub fief?
>>528110003each 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.
>>528110003You can extend the build area
>>528104626>Staking increased base downwardsWhat? 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?
>>528111934Yes, 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.
>>528112383it'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.
>>528110003i 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.
>>528112842Yeah 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.
>>528113251you 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.
>>528113689Yeah 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>>528113816That 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.
>>528114532Don 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
Whatโs the best way to get solari
>>528116189Selling items / schematics to other players. Then chest runs. The latter kind of feeds the former.
>>528115428I 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.
>>528116189Radiation 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.
>>528117296Rebuild, there isn't much else to do and the joy of a plan executed is its own reward.
>>528115428kek, 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.
>>528117296don'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.
>>528108942Make it a rectangle, remove the nibs from the top, and wa la - you have a steam deck
>>528118616Yeah 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 doI still haven't finished all quests, nor maxed out my T5 gear and toys.
>>528118616Yeah 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.
>>528118742i 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 strongholdnice, 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.
>>528118976I 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.
>>528119070Yeah, 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.
>>528053330Please, can you lend me a bit of that rain? It's so fucking dry here.
>>528054203The 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.
>>528119392EU Helios, Sietch Umbu?
>>528100286Anon, you can't drop quest items for other players, only destroy them.
>>528119345Not 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?
>>528121029yea 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.
>>528120724the research stations in the pve area of dd has research points, and they apparently reset every week when the c storm happens
>>528121196https://www.planetologist.app/
just found this DD map, should be added to the OPs.
>>528120724i just found 30 intel in a lab at A5 (north america)
>>528077121Ok 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?
>>528098732Its gonna be the Tleilaxu. I mean, clearly
>>528080518>More people should build in the rift.kill the locals. join the 0.1%
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?
>>528128053the 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
>>528128053poo poo base haha
>>528128053somewhere here
>>528128053Might 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.
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.
>>528136043It's more likely all the pve players will leave.
>>528137768there'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
>>528136043Look, 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.
>>528141657i'm doing a no shoes run
>>528142710I 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 systemYeah 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.
>>528143296one-use essentially instant-kill knife
>>528120528>>528146132It 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
>>528147965Both. 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.
>>528148818Bases 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).
>>528149596Your base can be raided though. It's not somewhat safe.
>>528149712Bases 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.
>>528147965Best 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.
>>528150653Not 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".
>>528152224Literally 90% of the front page topics are negative but nice try shill
>>528152224Made me check, he's right, the whole front page is full of rage.
>>528152838Yeah. 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.
>>528153371Griefers hate to be told to play fair PvP games and to get good.
>>528153490Sometimes 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.
>>528153632That 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.
>>528153371PvE 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.
>>528154249There 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.
>>528154249This and based.
>>528152838>>528152637the 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.
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i did an autism and man buggy is expensive af
>>528162147Yes but it's really good at farming even if you are alone.
>>528162945ye
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
>>528163157Biggest frame shift in the game by far. I do no ore mining without it as a solo player.
>>528154802They're literally the same fucking mobs, just reskinned, with more hp, and some have extra moves, that's IT
>>528163653Not true the tutorial area doesn't have the big gunners or snipers.
what the fuck are those "lights"
>>528163961>tutorial areatalk about a bait and switch
>>528164136If you actually want to light a decent part of a room use the ceiling lights. Also the Atreides glowglobe is pretty decent as well.
>>528164136Other 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.
>>528164982the 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?
>>528165261I haven't gotten agave seeds yet to be able to build them, do you have an example pic?
>>528165436pentashield, gotta drag the shield to make it bigger
WE ORNITHOPTING NOW BOIS!
>>528165648Does that cost extra?
>>528166089however 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?
>>528167679Press 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.
>>528165671grats 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'
>>528169794You should design the most boring and annoying game ever you sound like you'd be great at it
>>528169979And you sound like the weaselly little pussy casual that funcom designed this game around
>>528169794While 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?
>>528170438It'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
>>528169794Its 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.
>>528169794You 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.
>>528169794it 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.
>>528169794Look 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
>>528170707Yeah 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 aluminumhttps://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
>>528172218Rather, 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?
>>528172218Source on the chinese AI shit? Sounds hilarious
>>528176801a redditor with 3k karma told me
>>528171861I 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
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?
>>528178693You'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.
>>528179152Because 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.
>>528180390The movies don't ever say jihad, do they? It's odd the game does.
>>528180390The 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.
>>528181107Ever 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
>>528181859they 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 itโs over but itโs like they missed the fact that this is live service slop thatโs supposedly going to get updated often.
>>528181857As 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.
>>528182570Having 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
>>528182819Conan wasnโt a live service game
>>528183062>>528182819Toward the end they were playing with it and it basically every six months for major updates.
>>528183125I 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.
>>528183850Id love a fucking sort by type like in every inv management games ever made
>>528122296Speaking 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
>>528162147If 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
>>528186530Technically you just need a good high level cutter + knowledge + your pocket vehicule to start over
>>528186962>1People get thopters and they basically completely invalidate bikes. They're faster and they can ignore terrain.
>2Higher 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.
>3End game crafting material. You need a lot of them.
>4You 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.
>>528187951Thank you. Still gonna make an epic sandbike because fun
>>528187271the 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.
>>528187951Not 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.
>>528169794I 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 โ 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.
>>528188837The 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
>>528189725Not 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 contentthat'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 anyway30 slots, no volume cap
>>528189725no downside. the engine especially is helpful because going fast is about all the trike is good for.
>>528190257>no volume capThats 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 isnโt on flat ground? Iโm guessing Iโm 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.
>>528190789haha 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)
>>528190257There 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.
>>528191660I like that, well done
>>528192258Nah 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.
>>528191660I don't hate it. I also don't like it.
>>528193826I 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.
>>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?
>>528195372maybe read the fucking book it was based on, crazy idea I know
>>528195372It 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.
>>528191817I 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
>>528195372In 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
>>528195372Just 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).
>>528195901you forgot the new bene g tv series
>>528195767>I think you don't pay taxes on non advance sub fiefyou'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?
>>528197248they 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.
>>528197616not even. 3 max.
>>528021272You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.
>>528197813>>528197843is that globally or 3 in basin, 3 in deep desert?
>>528198016good 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
>>528198872It's best to segregate your vehicles out of sight and out of mind.
>>528195901Contrarians sucking off the Lynch movies when even he hated them is so fucking funny
>>528201381You 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.
>>528201775Timothy 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?
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>>528202058The 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.
>>528202058>DUNC bestMiniseries blows both out of the water. The only flaw was that Jessica's actress changed between Dune and Messiah/Children.
>>528202424Chani 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.
>>528202058I 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.
>>528202670I haven't seen the miniseries in decades. I should find it to have on the second screen while I play this
>>528202764I don't think either of them can act well. In anything.
>>528201775I'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.
>>528203015Acting 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.
>>528203073I wholeheartedly agree. The movies were good but without gender politics they could have been so much better.
>>528203073yup. this was kinda outta place too. the i love you
>>528202112Why? 3 walls and roof is all your buggy needs to be safe. Just put in a door for the rest of your cube.
>>528203425Take 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.
>>528203904The walls are just in case someone jumps in and figures a way to push it out.
>>528203073Cutting 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
>>528204915My first time through I was doing a tour on bike with zero protection. Died, respawned near bike, picked up my shit and went home.
>>528202670The 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
>>528202807Its 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.
>>528202112Just use a wide door, the buggy fits through
>>528195372The 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.
>>528205576Huh? Isn't the door way too low for the mining laser?
>>528206290It looks goofy as shit but yeah, it works
>>528195372Watch the 2 new movies.
>>528206290Vehicle bits are weird that way. Your Thopter's deployed wings don't even have to fit in your hangar.
>>528206152Currently reading children of dune and this shit is actually schizo tier. Still very enjoyable.
>>528204061Park 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 shitWell, then it's no good alternative to the pentashield.
>>528206902Yeah, I want things to look right.
>>528206908It gets so fucking weird, man.
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>>528165621a bit late but here, the round hark one lights up indoor spaces really nicely
>>528211959Those are pretty nice, you're right, I need to get out to collect the mats for this stuff
is the secret a gaping anus?
>>528214862It's the secret of Ixian Goatse. Deepes Lore.
>>528215558Anis' 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?
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damn the harko buggy is cool
>>528223380it seems useless against NPC's more of a incredibly niche pvp tool that'll probably just get you killed more often than not
>>528223380It 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
>>528223957We really need four abilities. Three just isn't enough when stagger is so important.
>>528224020Or the ability to switch out of combat between two bars, so I can have mobility and combat
Sold 2 radiation mk5s for 25k each
>>528220096I 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.
>>528227459Having 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.
>>528228403That 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.
>>528195901Dogshit opinion.
Books > Villeneuve > Garbage.
>>528195901>>528201381>Lynch movies>movies>pluralWhat?
>>528228403Too far from the world map border.
>>528230981?
it's like 1500m away
>>528230981I 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
>>528231502I 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.
>>528232442Did 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.
>>528233607yeah 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
>>528228403I 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.
>>528233267idk 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
>>528234760That's sounds sick, I found some spice while running around in hagga basin, off to make some edibles
>>528235383https://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.
>>528235664I 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>>528236964NTA, but it's in my history from yesterday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K1vdWQaGi8
>>528234529Eh, 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>>528237350I 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
The creepiest background/ambiance music has to be the bell tolls. It's dusk in-game and freaking me out.
>>528237197I've noticed the sound changing but had no idea what was triggering it. that's probably it. I'm used to ignoring the flashing red things because there was a worm breech around my old base every few minutes
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anyone hit 200 yet? I spent days just building getting no xp
>Want to enjoy this game
>realize after 15 hours that the gameplay loop is going to remain absolutely identical for 95% of the game, and then change slightly once I reach the deep desert and then never change again
>Don't even have the luxury of getting to fight new enemies
I really, truly do want to enjoy this game but it's just so... well, "barebones" really doesn't seem like the right word considering I can see that there's a colossal amount of stuff to occupy my time, but "static" or "stagnant" maybe. The scenery is pretty as hell, the movement is excellent, the setting is pure kino, but it just seems kind of hollow when I realize the gameplay loop outside of autismaxxing my base will be so stifling.
>>528238669Yeah. Come back in five years. See how it's gone
>>528238669>realize after 15 hoursI doubt you're in the Aluminum zone where enemies start using a range of weapons and abilities that fuck your shit up easily.
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new hanger with nipple lights completed. I love these fuck huge chests
>>528239008I'll stick it out a while longer, but if the only interesting thing to look forward to are more generic bandit/slaver/scavenger-type humans with a few new weapons and abilities that don't appear until the ass end of the progression chain, then that's not terribly motivating. It seems to me like the devs wanted difficulty to ramp up through enemy capability rather than the standard bullet sponge approach, and I personally love that conceptually, but in this case it has come at the cost of rendering literal real-life days of game time prior to that point astoundingly boring.
>>528238379172, done that same as you, building for the last week or so
>>528238379same but i'm at 169 (nice)
So the intro mission for these two has you picking one to side with, who to give the intel to. Does this initial choosing of sides then lock you out of the other sides story somehow? Or does the entire thing just reset somehow when you betray?
>>528239894anon, if you read the books, you would realize that what you see is all there really is, and Funcom had to go alternate universe to add what they did. Dune as a setting is human on human, and with limits to tech. Its going to be very hard to add the varity you want to see and remain true to the spirit of the IP.
>>528239326your hangar has nice tits
>>528240989You can defect later on, don't know the specifics beyond it's possible.
>>528240989I don't know what happens if you defect before finishing the quest chain, or if you even can defect before finishing it, but I just became a instant rank 5 of the other faction and cannot start their quest chain
hey look there's an eagle flying up there, or maybe it's the spice
>>528239894You're simply playing badly, prioritizing the wrong things and being a miserable loser desu
It's not getting better...
>>528244169Demolish it all and start over.
>>528244169Kino but weird. Instead of a flat base, you should just build one big tower upwards, and then level out in sections where you have your base.
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>HOW DARE THEY PUT TITANIUM SOMEWHERE I COULD BE KILLED BY ANOTHER PLAYER
>I NEED THAT RIDICULOUSLY FUCKING STRONG ARMOR TO KILL THE 3 BANDITS NEXT DOOR
>IT SHOULD BE AS POINTLESS AND BANAL AS THE TRANSITION FROM IRON TO STEEL
>>528246467It kinda sucks that thereโs not much to do once you reach T5 except hope you donโt get killed by your local chinese zerg guild while you gather
>>528246467who are you quoting
>>528247163that'll be why i don't recognize the quote, haven't spoken to her in years
>>528246846fuck i hope this doesn't get an RMT scene
chinks will dismantle this game if it is allowed to happen
>>528246919NTA, but I've noticed a couple people angrily ranting in the game's discord because the game's store page says "PVP is always optional" and they're mad they can't get the highest tier of items without going to DD. I don't think it occurred to them the current tier of DD equipment will probably be equivalent to the tier of the next story update or whatever.
When asked where the Fremen went Ari speculates they went south. I took that as a pretty blatant tease for what's coming out next but whatever. If the screenshot for the Season Pass' questline is anything to go by the next map might be salt beds left behind by Arrakis' ancient pre-sandworm seas.
>>528247961>in the game's discordso go back, gaywad
>>528247262>i hope this doesn't get an RMT scenei haven't seen it myself, but i've heard people complain about gold(solari) sellers already
hopefully they'll stop when they realize there isn't anything to buy
>>528248452Like telling someone to go back to a Steam Group Chat. Retarded.
>>528247262too late. they're establishing themselves now. expect server wide ad blasts within a few weeks.
>>528064407
>>528248798whatever. go groom kids somewhere else, discord troon
>>528246846>localyou mean the combined population of every subserver(sietch)?
>>528205991Meds are the way the control you, Anon
>>528249197I pity you for being more interested in trannies than in the context of the greentext post, or even discussion of gear progression et al.
Hereโs how to not get raped in the deep desert:
bring a lasgun
>>528204123Yeh, really, a lot of the movie only made sense if you read the books. Too much cut content.
>>528246846i've made 8 trips in the past three days, only met friendlies wandering the desert, sometimes they fly too close but i turn and they don't follow. i got softstep boots and a unique compactor that lets me harvest like 10 times. i was expecting epic dogfights.
>>528206908The Butlerian Jihad is great, too. Not great books, but a great story.
>>528249738>no upathetic tranny
>>528244342I agree, just don't know how, logistically. So much stuff in there, and sandstorms come through regularly enough that I don't want my shit in the open while I try and rebuild.
>chuck grenade
>walk over to it
>die
The AI can be pretty fucking dumb at times
>>528249960you can just make a temp big box next door and move all your chests over. moving bases is only a pain when it's on the other side of the map
>build one tile too far into open sand
>worm breaches
>oh shit
>hop on roof
>worm pops out to snack on my ramp
>it sends me flying crazy high
that was exhilarating
>>528251047Took me half a day to move my last base. It was only 2k away too.
>>528250982Just wait until you meet the Sandflies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iPwZno6f7c
>>528250982in fairness, I might be pretty disoriented too if some escaped prisoner bum rushed me, stabbed me in the stomach, and slashed my neck
I've been having this game open as background visuals and music while I read the books.
I'm a bit into Dune Messiah now.
I'm honestly not much of an MMO guy, but I really enjoy the loop of playing for a few minutes to refill my water and collect some materials every 30 minutes as a break from reading.
Do I have autism?
I preordered the game and have only just built my first sandbike.
>>528253762It's not an MMO, you do have autism, and it's fine to enjoy it at your own pace.
The endgame is complete and utter shit right now, early and mid game is where it shines.
>>528253762The longer you take to progress, the better the chance the endgame won't be utter and complete shit by the time you get there. That said, its gonna take like 5 to 8 years for Funcom to unfuck it properly, so do take your time
>>528254805Conan never got fixed, what are the chances of them doing it this time?
>>528255306they're gonna add double D breast slider update
Prime worm-watching real estate right here
>>528255934I am reminded of how the textures became low res when stretched over the max breast size in Conan
>Past the 'what is this even going to look like' stage to this is actually working stage
Honestly excited to see what this turns into
holy fuck almost got eaten because a sand rat ran in front of me forcing my grapple to auto target it like it's a enemy. it threw me off and I didn't even get a chance to grapple the rat
>>528255306Eh, true, but it is better than it was. Borderline enjoyable, just super dated by now
>>528256364looking great so far, and being atreides architecture kind of makes it look like a natural part of the area and part of the big atreides base.
>>528257291Yeah that's what I hope for, I've been taking notes from the atreides base to make sure it fits in with the same style
wtf these guys in deep desert are so tough all of a sudden
are there stronger and weaker ones or have i fucked something up?
>>528257837NPCs? Once you get out into the open DD they become ridiculously strong compared to those in the PVE areas.
>>528257837they have A LOT more health. I went into 1 random poi and could barely kill 1 unarmoured npc with my heavy attacks. even with t6 weapons they are tanky af
>>528256107are you luring it there with a thumper or does it just naturally breach there?
>>528196140I don't think I'll get to T6, which is a shame. Maybe some more knowledgeable anons can make a guide for brainlets like me how to prep for a break on T5, because I have the sneaking suspicion I would overvalue the wrong things while forgetting vital stuff.
>>528259028I just place a cheap piece of foundation instead of wasting a thumper
>>528259078too lazy to write up anything formal but just break down a buggy and ornithopter into parts (~10 parts each, bank storage has 30) and spend the last 10 slots on your best hand cutteray, your best compactor, and a stack of 500 of the major crafting materials: iron ingots, steel ingots, aluminum ingots, duraluminum ingots, cobalt past, and silicone blocks. maybe throw in a stack of plastone for slot #30. obviously also deposit all of your solari.
>>528257837You're used to using weapons on the same level or better than AI. Each upgrade is 2x damage from the last.
The mk5 sandbike is so much fun holy fuck
>>528259416What happens to my inventory? Shouldn't that just be fine even with me not logging in for a few months? That should allow me to shove a thopter up my ass and keep a bunch of tools equipped without blocking the storage slots.
3500 SPICE MY BIGGEST HAUL
I think my cloak is broken
>>528263627this shit terrifies me because it's what dying GPUs used to (might still) do with the wacky rendering stretches
>>528247262>>528246846i've had 3 unsolicited whispers from 'solari sales now' sites and i'm on an absolutely dead as fuck tiny server, the bugmen are already afoot
tried to add a more grand front door to my pyramid. did i fuck it up? i'm not sure how i feel about it. (1/2)
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im on the 7th trial, explored the map and can make an ornithopter. am I at the end of the game for a solo pve enjoyer?
>>528267717i would complete the trials. there's a whole second campaign after the first one that steps up the story and cutscene quality pretty substantially.
The top landing pad phallic object is probably too much, but it is cool what sort of shapes you can pull off with all the special pieces if you play around with them
>>528203073>>528201775i'm still mad they dumpstered Liet Kynes' character into some random african woman for virtue points and then proceeded to go even further off-script by making it die in a michael bay action sequence
the part where Kynes' father is lecturing him atop a spice mass is the best piece of the entire book, and they squandered it for nothing more than forgettable black girlboss bullshit
i will die mad about this
>>528268007i'm really mad at myself because harkonnen have this giant statue face gate that would fit great with my pyramid but it's 3 blocks across, meaning it will only fit to odd symmetry. i built the pyramid on even symmetry, so i can only fit it inside.
>flying through dd
>camera detatches from ornithopter and watch it soar into the big nowhere
>relog
>its fucking gone and im standing in the sand
Don't go there unless you have spares, I guess.
>>528268589Demolish everything and start again
PVE players really don't like the idea of any pvp, do they?
>>528269405I'm a PVP guy and I hate the pvp in this game. It's not just them.
>>528269636Anon I'm keeping track of what people say and there's a large vocal minority that clearly want a pve deep desert.
>I hate the pvp in this game. The ground pvp looks fun as hell and thopters are at least cinematic.
>>528269820>The ground pvp looks fun as hellUntil you actually get to it and do it long enough, it'll start to show the same flaws the shit thopter pvp offers.
>>528269820>The ground pvp looks fun as hell it's also about 1% of all pvp interactions because everyone's just getting facefucked by rocket scouts
then they'll nerf rocket scouts and everyone will be getting facefucked by fleets of rocket assaults instead
they just need to remove vehicular combat even if it technically exists in-setting lore, its presence completely diminishes any presence of character and makes your person meaningless
>>528270009>>528269925I hope you're wrong. pvp battles with gunfights that isn't rust have been something I've wanted to see for a while.
an arena like in dune 2 would be pretty cool
>>528269820i haven't posted about it ITT but i don't like the idea of losing my thopter or my stuff in open/asymmetrical pvp. it makes unfair situations feel twice as bad because you lose but also lose time/stuff. probably irrelevant for a guild that can bring a ton of manpower to bear to replace stuff but as a solo player, i'm just not up to replacing ~500+ ingots per death and gaining nothing if i win.
>>528270175>~500+ ingots per death and gaining nothing if i win.this is the shittiest part to me
even if i down one of the clowncar retards camping the border, there's nothing to show for it and four more on the way
>>528270486i'd be willing to endure the shittier parts like replacing my stuff if there was more of a structure to everything. i don't like sandbox pvp. imo there should be fixed teams (atreides/hark) and rotating objective events, like king of the hill style spice harvesting where the worm doesn't interfere for a few minutes and ground combat can happen with the new tanks they're adding, or a CTF style event where you need to get containers of spice out of a big wreck in a time limit so player-to-player combat and melee can happen and our talent trees can get put to use. idk the options are limitless and all of them are better than what's there now imo.
Is a mk5 scout with cargo for 25 melange a good deal?
>>528270090>gunfightsThe only thing you'll experience or do is >teleports behind you and permastagger into melee.
is it better to sell your trash or just recycle it, I don't think I've sold anything to the vendors yet but I see they buy almost everything and have a different demand price for it
>>528269405Dune doesn't have PvP, it has griefing.
>>528269405Not a single complaint is against PvP. Its again the idiotic form of PvP this game has. Everyone wants duels, custom built arenas, fight clubs in trade ports, ect.
No one wants to go into the DD where whichever guild no lifed harder now controls, who deal double the damage you do because they have the end game gear, while spamming infinite scout thopter missiles at you.
If they put in a mode where you get put with other faction members and deployed using standardized gear to harvest spice in a team of 10 while an enemy team of 10 tries to kill you I would play the living shit out of that mode until my eyes bleed. But I will not spend days grinding a sandcrawler just so 10 guys I wouldn't be able to beat in any situation as my trio can blow me up for absolutely no reason.
Funcom are fuckwits and they have proven they only care about enabling griefing. If they weren't handed such good IPs they would have died like every other fuckwit dev studio who enjoys raping under-geared and under-staffed teams.
>>528272887>If they weren't handed such good IPs they would have died like every other fuckwit dev studioTo be fair they kept Conan running forever at what must have been little to negative profit
>>528271569Oh yeah I saw that. That teleport ability seems really popular. It's crazy how pvp is so similiar to conans despte guns existing.
>>528271523Nothing is worth trading spice for
>>528272347in my fairly limited experience with the recycler, i have found it to be completely worthless holy shit
might as well have the money
>>528272887>Funcom are fuckwits and they have proven they only care about enabling griefing.this
this x100
all the fuckheads arguing in poor faith that this game has any sort of redeemable future, keep in mind that Funcom is the developer who thought (and doubled down on) including offline, unstoppable base-bombing was a good mechanic for their game
they basically created a permanent cycle of one elite group keeping entire servers stomping players back into the stone age progression-wise, and insisted upon it
nearly every funcom game is essentially a rape simulator by design
>>528275021>nearly every funcom game is essentially a rape simulator by designtumblr legbeard post
>1st DD trip: forget to bring cutters. Fly around for 5 minutes and then go home
>2nd DD trip: find some good nodes. Get lax and forget it's a pvp zone. Get jumped by rocket scout. Sprint back to thopter. Spend the next 10 minutes doing evasive maneuvers back to border. Run out of fuel 1 grid away from safety. Spend 5 minutes dodging thopter smashing until I get eaten by worm
WHELP
>>528275414non-argument
funcom has a really fun habit of enabling very specific types of sociopaths who exactly wish to grief and ruin you rather than fight you - they deliberately foster unfair environments that only the most terminally-online sick motherfuckers can thrive in
i just wish they had a little more finesse with it
>>528274908It's good because you get so many worthless spare bike parts you might as well break them down for an extra one or two parts. But the ratio is really low.
>>528247262That started 4 days before actual launch, man.
>>528259028Build far enough into the sand and mr worm will say that's enough of your shit and do that. Figure out just how far you can build and you have your own perfect way of making solicitors go away forever.
>>528275021>Funcom is the developer who thought (and doubled down on) including offline, unstoppable base-bombing was a good mechanic for their gameThey introduced raid windows (first survival game to do that iirc) and later added offline raid protection. Why are you so disingenuous in your hate? A better criticism would be how useless thralls were in offline base defense, but even in games with robust defense options like Ark and Rust, no matter how good your defenses a determined raider is going to get in if you're not there.
>>528276931They did. It was pretty clear the DD was meant to be so big that gank squads just wouldn't be realistic but they misjudged how much fuel people are willing to waste on flying up and down the border looking for people to kill with no chance for reward.
>>528276931>and later added offline raid protection. Why are you so disingenuous in your hate?huh?
none of that matters when the designated giga-clan of your server decides to summon a god (or three) on your base while you're offline
>>528276931No one gives a shit what cope Funcom tries to sell with their grief simulators. Good PvP games dont do dumb shit like allow clans to grind infinite resources and deny access to higher tier gear that deals TWICE the damage.
Your average fucking LoL match is more balanced and more skillful than anything that DD can offer in any situation. Until thats fixed, there is no valid PvP or end game.
>>528278410>Until thats fixedThis is their vision.
I wish my pc wasn't so terrible, game looks and runs fine until I have to go at speed, then it looks like this
>>528278895Go faster become one with the mess
Finally saved up enough to buy Atreides fortress style on top of the Harko style, so my base is black and green. There is nothing else to do in the game other than some trainer quests but I have to wait for my respec to unlock.
so how do you produce raw solari efficiently once contracts are done? my server is too small/retarded for marketplace interactions and i need some way to futureproof the base taxation
>>528285194I just did the bottom row PVE in deep desert, then sold everything to a trading post. The things that really sell well are high level guns, I think any grind to collect a lot of them is the way to go. Also, do the wrecks, everyone in A row is a pussy and won't go near them so they're easy pickings, and you can collect a couple hundred of the plasteel microflora which will net you a neat stack of a few hundred solari.
>>528285194just run easy hagga basin facilities over and over for the 2-3k from the end chest. 45minute loot respawn
Where in the fuck are you supposed to hunt for rats?
>>528286872You find them in the open sand
>>528285194Rad suits go for 7k each
Well its been hours but I think I've done justice to the style, now to grind a mountain of crystals for the shields and it'll be done(ish)
Where's my mass Fremen orgy, bros?
It's not fair that we don't get the mass orgy
>>528289380That would be against water discipline.
>Advertise four DLCs
>One DLC is just a couple of animal statues
ohnononono paypigs
Where is a good place to farm diamond dust?
>>528286872>>528288950I never once saw one of the lil fuckers
>>528289934The game is up on cdkeys now. I could have saved ten bucks.
>>528288950>Earliest and weakest spice food>Hardest to gather ingredientsWhat did they mean by this
>>528277142God summoning was actually the great equalizer that allowed solos to wipe large clans. So yeah, you have no idea what you're talking about. Probably just regurgitating some nonsense you saw on reddit.
>>528291587>What did they mean by thisIt's more for atmosphere than anything else. Go nab your grilled Muad'dib from raider camps.
>>528278410Is this your first survival game? They're all like this. It's by design. Struggle and overcome or quit like a little bitch.
im liking this game. the atmosphere is great. is conan exiles worth my hard earned bongbucks?
>>528289934>Gave a shady company money for an unreleased product