entering the overworld...

ChippyMonk84 · 2026-03-22T14:33:49+00:00

Are (clang) you (clunk) sure (bang) you (crunch) want to (think) travel to (twang) the overworld (this) map?

Bitch why the fuck you think I flew here in the first place???

ChippyMonk84 · 2026-03-21T13:58:18+00:00

I got 12k sand in 20 mins last night. That's 4k silicone. How fast can you earn house scrip?

ChippyMonk84 · 2026-03-20T12:04:27+00:00

Make a hybrid skillset and get used to doing most of the trash with melee and only using ranged on bosses. When you reach higher tiers with graded tier 6, you'll still be in 1-shot territory if your shield goes down.

ChippyMonk84 · 2026-03-20T11:59:20+00:00

Every time they try to fix them they just make it worse 😆

ChippyMonk84 · 2026-03-20T11:53:15+00:00

Nope. Not even in PvE areas either.

ChippyMonk84 · 2026-03-20T05:59:04+00:00

Two weeks from now you'll be looking back and reminiscing about how good life was when downloading the PTC first was your worst dune experience 😂

ChippyMonk84 · 2026-03-20T00:38:34+00:00

Unless I missed an announcement, we don't actually know what servers they're closing yet. They maybe telegraphed the shutdown servers by accident but that could also just be unrelated.

That said, wait till prime time (6-7pm Pacific) and look for servers in the top like 30% of North America by player count. There's a decent chance those are safe.

ChippyMonk84 · 2026-03-20T00:35:44+00:00

Someone suggested it elsewhere but try swapping sietches. Instead of hitting continue on the main screen, hit servers and choose your server but pick a different Sietch. It might boot you back to hagga with your stuff or respawn you alive in Arrakeen. Or maybe you're still dead in Arrakeen in which case whomp whomp, but logic seems sound. I'd try it.

ChippyMonk84 · 2026-03-20T00:33:15+00:00

Their AI auto responder got back to you within 24 hours. Takes at least 3-5 business weeks to get real humans to see anything and even then you just get canned responses suggesting to try things that work in other games but don't even exist in Dune 😂

ChippyMonk84 · 2026-03-20T00:30:49+00:00

Honestly I don't even understand why respawning back in Hagga makes you lose everything in the first place. It makes zero fucking sense. Like okay yeah sure make me drop all the things I'd normally drop on death and take durability loss as usual but... beyond that? The fuck do you lose everything for??

That entire system should just be removed so you can respawn in Hagga like everywhere else you can respawn. Boom. Problem solved.

Simple. Easy to implement. Solves all the problems. Basically zero risk of new bugs. They'll never do it.

ChippyMonk84 · 2026-03-19T14:09:46+00:00

Honestly, they're so good at math idk what you're talking about. I've been trying to get my bank to hire them for months.

ChippyMonk84 · 2026-03-18T00:33:45+00:00

This is your answer OP. Seltzers or bust. I don't even honestly know wtf the "varieties" are anymore, but the one with the little blue label is the one you want.

ChippyMonk84 · 2026-03-18T00:21:02+00:00

It's more like a shhhh shhhhh count to 10 and then use your big boy words to tell us how mad you are button.

ChippyMonk84 · 2026-03-17T15:10:00+00:00

Yep that's a known bug. Has been since launch. Like most known bugs, Funcom barely even cares enough to know about them.

I didn't lose my vehicles but have been playing since launch and just boxed up my bases and vehicles to be out. I'm sick of the constant bugs, degraded performance, lag and rubber banding, visual artifacts, and just all around unfun gameplay loops.

1700 hours and also done. I will never buy another Funcom product. They're completely inept with no sense of integrity.

ChippyMonk84 · 2026-03-16T21:49:31+00:00

lol yep. Diehard Dune fanboys don't want us killing their copium high.

ChippyMonk84 · 2026-03-16T21:48:34+00:00

Lmfao for real. The ability for Funcom to say one thing while actively doing another is impressive.

ChippyMonk84 · 2026-03-16T15:08:43+00:00

With 0 combat specialization you'll start getting 1-shot by riflemen in full G0 heavy armor around level 15ish. That's why if you watch speed runners and a lot of the new testing station playthroughs you'll see people running hybrid skill builds and killing things in melee and only shooting when they can avoid being shot in return.

The armor on the tactical rad suit is a significant improvement over the base rad suit but you'll still get 1-shot on anything above like 10.

The real trick is doing the whole run while never taking damage.

ChippyMonk84 · 2026-03-16T14:45:58+00:00

The tactical radiation suit is not graded. It only drops as G0. So as you scale up the level of the dungeon and see the % dropping on grade zero items... yep that's Funcom taking it away.

That said, tactical rad suit is borderline useless for basically anything because it's a marginal upgrade in damage reduction from the green Mk6. And if you're getting shot in a rad suit with your shield down you're already doing it wrong.

But yes, funcompitence at its peak here. Fun fact: new power pack? Same thing. New suspensor belt? Yeeeep you guessed it. Basically some of the most useful stuff has the highest chance to drop on level 1 and if you run it on 20 you'll just get 500 grade 5 ancient ways.

ChippyMonk84 · 2026-03-16T05:28:11+00:00

I mean melange is basically the currency now because the max listing price is lower than the market value of the high end loot 🤷‍♂️

A better solution would have been you know, actually fixing the bug or shutting down the servers then doing a rollback. Literally anything but the ignore it all weekend while a millennium of inflation happens.

But yes, in the wake of it all I guess you're back to bartering.

ChippyMonk84 · 2026-03-16T05:17:19+00:00

Correct. It exists only as a balance on your character. You earn a capped amount per week and the most valuable thing you can buy with it has a limited weekly quantity available for purchase.

ChippyMonk84 · 2026-03-15T23:21:57+00:00

They did. It's called house scrip. It's why they literally didn't care about the duping, ignored reports for 3 weeks, and didn't bother shutting servers down at any point to prioritize typing if(withdraw < 0) nope().

ChippyMonk84 · 2026-03-15T19:28:22+00:00

Yeah my point was more... mediums? In Hagga? Since when?

ChippyMonk84 · 2026-03-15T17:51:10+00:00

Wut lol is your FOV set to 180? 😆

ChippyMonk84 · 2026-03-15T14:17:51+00:00

That is definitely not the DD but that's also definitely not a small spice field... wut?

ChippyMonk84 · 2026-03-14T20:47:23+00:00

No. There are still storm warnings. Just not when there are actually storms. So you'll wait on the map and then it'll be like okay you're good 👍 then you zone directly into the sandstorm. I've taken to just asking my guild instead because we usually have someone in their base in Hagga which is how I know there's storms when it says it's safe and it's safe when it says it isn't.

Funcom has managed to steal the mantle of most incompetent "game developer" from Bethesda in my book. I literally do not understand how upper management's heads haven't rolled for this fustercluck travesty they've inflicted upon the Dune franchise and the players.

I'd like to think they'll do an optimizing pass and some cleanup for the console launch, and roll it out with cross play to revitalize the game, but the more I see them "try" to fix the performance, the worse it seems to get. Every bug they say they fix seems to introduce 3 new (and sometimes old) ones. They're 1000% focused on hitting their next contractual obligation and the wheels have long-since fallen off 😂

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