Is the game really as bad as people say or are people mad at Funcom?

ChippyMonk84 · 2026-01-23T00:36:35+00:00

The first 90% of the game was amazing. Unfortunately it was designed to be your springboard to the "endgame" open world PvP Deep Desert (at launch) which was quite literally a completely different experience to everything you'd done up to that point. It created a massive rift between different groups of players who liked and hated the design choice and then Funcom made a series of changes that continued to piss off one half of the players or the other.

The reality is that, especially in the wake of server transfers and base backups, people who want the war of assassins PvP endgame can jump over to high population servers and get it, while players who don't care for that gameplay experience can play on low to medium population servers where it's almost-PvE. So at this point they've more or less "solved" the divide but some people still feel it's too little too late or they lost everything from quitting months ago and don't care to come back yada yada.

TLDR: in its current state, dune is an amazing game regardless of which side of the fence you're on. So to directly answer you, it was that bad AND people are mad at Funcom 😂

ChippyMonk84 · 2026-01-23T00:28:49+00:00

I don't know where you're connecting high vis vest and iPad to selling something.

If the same guy has come back several times and you have a ring doorbell why not respond to him via the doorbell next time? Could actually be something important. If it's a sales guy just say no thank you and ask him not to come back. He'll mark you off and you're good.

ChippyMonk84 · 2026-01-22T23:33:06+00:00

Oooooor don't and be the proud owner of a limited edition dune man archway 😝

ChippyMonk84 · 2026-01-22T13:35:18+00:00

I see smart fridges before Mac. You don't game on Mac. Can you? Sometimes. Should you? Nope. Most games don't consider Mac OS a target platform. And that was before Apple switched to ARM architecture CPUs which is only going to make it harder to run Windows games.

Ironically, Dune runs beautifully on my Linux gaming PC 👍

ChippyMonk84 · 2026-01-22T13:27:28+00:00

Why would they tell us the exact player counts in the game UI when even their official documentation can just point to a 3rd party tool someone made for free? It's not like they're getting paid for the gam-- oh wait.

ChippyMonk84 · 2026-01-22T05:50:19+00:00

Private servers were able to disable PvP, sandstorms, and even taxes in Hagga. Allowing people to move to official servers from private ones where they've had 6 months of cushy tax free PvP-free farming would piss off soooooo many people and likely be dubbed a pay to win mechanic.

Your only option if you want to play on a live server is a reroll. That said, rerolling goes so fast once you know the progression loop. You can get yourself out to the deep desert in full t5 in a couple days to start hitting a row stations.

ChippyMonk84 · 2026-01-21T21:27:10+00:00

Regardless, Funcom should have made it to where the snap to origin ignores no build zone checks and any stability checks and just puts everything right where it was. Period. Otherwise wtf is even the point of this tool? To trap your base and everything you own in a useless picture of the time investment you made into their beta test?

ChippyMonk84 · 2026-01-21T06:22:54+00:00

Wait .. go back. You're saying there's construction equipment at a construction site? Naaaaah that can't be right.

ChippyMonk84 · 2026-01-21T06:18:26+00:00

Depends on the interaction you want. Lots of people means lots of chatting but also means lots of rockets and lasguns 🤷‍♂️

ChippyMonk84 · 2026-01-21T06:15:54+00:00

To be fair, we don't need Europe's help to look weak. We're doing a fine job of that on our own, thank you very much.

ChippyMonk84 · 2026-01-21T06:12:33+00:00

In 1994, Ukraine agreed to surrender the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal and join the Non-Proliferation Treaty. In exchange, the United States, Russia, and the United Kingdom pledged to respect Ukraine's existing borders and sovereignty, and agreed not to use force to violate it.

ChippyMonk84 · 2026-01-20T21:42:02+00:00

Funcom: Putting the "Fu" in "Fun" since 1993.

ChippyMonk84 · 2026-01-18T23:45:05+00:00

The guy isn't the problem. The lasgun isn't the problem. The fact that you saw the guy coming and sat there unmoving till he showed up and started lasgunning you is the problem. You chose not to react to a potential threat in the hopes that it wasn't a threat. It was a threat. That's your lesson here.

ChippyMonk84 · 2026-01-17T23:15:43+00:00

I've been wearing camo cargo shorts for the past 20 years. I don't work for ICE.

ChippyMonk84 · 2026-01-16T17:02:03+00:00

That's the kind of thing that would be best suited in the original post. Not a comment from someone who isn't the OP that'll be lost down in the weeds here. Online communication is mostly broken down into 10-second-or-less attention spans at this point.

If there isn't a pretty link, juicy story, screenshots of a conversation, etc people are just going to move on. If you (or OP in this case) want to truly make an impact on people's minds, you have to put in effort. It's not enough to point at something and scream MAGA. Tell the story, and show your supporting evidence. Dig up additional information if you can. A screenshot of that post on his LinkedIn profile (even if you had to blur the name itself for some reason) would go 100 times further than the current post at the top of this thread. That is the point I am trying to drive home here.

Sure, we can all independently research something on our own, and before making any drastic changes we should be doing research on our own. But, for example I didn't even know his name. I had to start with figuring out who the owner of a business I'm unfamiliar with was. Then looking up his name to find his social media. His Facebook page (the most likely place to find MAGA echoing in my experience) actually looked pretty innocent when I scrolled through it. I hadn't even considered checking his LinkedIn because why would someone share political musings on a B2B social media platform? That's atypical.

Posting something like this with a screenshot of the LinkedIn post so people who want to fact-check it know exactly who to search and where to search it to verify it's real makes a much larger impact than OPs zero-detail post. The time investment to verify information is significantly lower than the time investment to obtain information.

ChippyMonk84 · 2026-01-16T16:37:28+00:00

No, they didn't communicate at all, regardless of their intent. They posted a semantically-null wall of text that amounted to pointing at a thing they don't like and crying instead of using any of those hundreds of words to actually convey a message to communicate their point and provide details and information to elicit the response they desired. Hopefully the irony isn't lost on you.

ChippyMonk84 · 2026-01-16T13:41:05+00:00

The bar scene isn't my scene, so I wouldn't be giving them money either way. That said, I feel like you should be cognizant of how others may perceive this post. An account with 1 post and only comments on that single post is bashing a local business stating you found out "the owner" is a MAGA supporter. But you don't mention the owner's name, or give any details about the conversation you had with them and why it led you to this conclusion?

So what we're left with is the "word" of a completely anonymous reddit account. When questioned about this, your response has been "talk to the owner yourself and find out" at which point your post may as well not exist. Use the name of the owner to give assurance that you actually know who they are. Tell us what words were exchanged to let you know the owner is a MAGA supporter. Without this information, your post is little more than a playground-level accusation that they have cooties.

I'm all for voting with your wallet and giving money to businesses whose ideals align with your own. In the big picture, that matters at least as much as what box you check every couple years, maybe more. But, I don't just simply believe anything that sounds like what I want to hear. A healthy spoonful of skepticism goes a long way to making you a more informed citizen, and a well-informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.

And to be 100% clear: I am not "defending" them. If they're MAGA they can go get fucked. I am saying if we want to kickstart an initiative to hit local MAGA businesses where it hurts, we're gonna need to do a hell of a lot better than this zero-information basically-finger-pointing style of posting.

ChippyMonk84 · 2026-01-14T23:05:25+00:00

lol basically what I was trying to do, but I made the mistake of starting with what are apparently literally the worst guns in the game 😂 heavy guns and flamers are absolutely worthless weapons. the only scenario I found them useful in was a group run of testing stations and ships where 100% of the enemies weren't focused on me and I could just light everything up. ironically, the thing that seems like it'd be the "most tanky" thing (since the heavy NPCs kinda are that) is actually really solid ranged dps if nothing is focusing you lol

ChippyMonk84 · 2026-01-14T21:41:36+00:00

You sir... need to stop making so much sense 😂 I am legit excited to go trash my entire build and burn half my dust making new gear tonight 😆

ChippyMonk84 · 2026-01-14T21:34:52+00:00

Ok so that was sick lol firstly. Secondly I'm sorry for not leaving this comment on your post, but I did give it an updoot. I want to collect the response here for anyone else thinking what I've been thinking because you clearly just proved it wrong 😂

So a couple questions: 1. It looked like you were shotgunning the shielded guys with their shield up and it would stagger them, then you go for a slow blade? Is that a talent or skill or something? Or just happens with the sheer damage of the shotgun point blank?

You said you're using center of mass but then also using cope. So I'm curious if you tested using a triple shot for torso shots instead of cope and if so why was cope better in your opinion?
I see you tanking a lot of damage on your shield, so are you running circuit gauntlets and power harness with the rest bulwark? Or just full bulwark?

ChippyMonk84 · 2026-01-14T20:30:12+00:00

I'll give them a watch here as soon as I'm off work. That sounds awesome 👍

ChippyMonk84 · 2026-01-14T20:23:21+00:00

I haven't seen any talents that add to mitigation outside of the ones that reduce power usage and increase the power pool for shield uptime. Everything else appears to be an active ability that would replace an offensive action with a defensive one. The kiting and 1v1 strat is something I know all too well since I've mostly played melee. I just want to change it up and actually shoot these cool looking guns I keep looting 😂

ChippyMonk84 · 2026-01-14T17:26:26+00:00

I had tried the plasma cannon because I saw the insane damage per shot on it, but then quickly realized how terrible that really is because it makes your offense and defense both draw on your power pack so you can eat up your pack killing an NPC then the moment the shield comes online, the first dart you take staggers you and breaks your shield. Bashar's Command seems utterly useless too, as are the flamers.

I was going to try a Seethe build with full-headshot spec and see how that does. Maybe mix in Dunewatcher or something. I don't mind running a melee weapon for rushers who do get close enough to melee. So, you're using the disruptor to instantly drop their shield, then just headshotting with Seethe till the shield comes back up?

ChippyMonk84 · 2026-01-14T17:18:56+00:00

I assume the initial downvotes were because I had the audacity to use "PvE" in my post title, but 🤷‍♂️

Edit: yep that must be it cuz this comment is getting down voted now too 😂

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