It seems everybody is headed to Arrakis for the summer, as Dune: Awakening's player count is higher than anyone expected. The MMO is set in an alternate timeline where the Fremen are missing and Lisan al Gaib never showed up. The planet is engaged in a constant war between various factions.
The Deep Desert isn't the thrilling PvP experience thought it might be in Dune: Awakening.
While the bulk of the game revolves around survival and base building, Dune: Awakening has some PvP elements too. If you're not busy running from sandworms, another player might come along to steal your moisture. However, it seems the community is fed up with a particular tactic that seems like it's straight out of the Harkonnen playbook. Thankfully, Funcom has announced that it will soon be addressed.
It seems the ornithopters in the game are much sturdier than the ones in the movies as players have been using them to literally crush their enemies. The tactic involves simply smashing your vessel onto an enemy player over and over again till the enemy is dead. The fact that the ornithopter takes little to no damage when it smacks the ground only makes this sort of...
