Stop me if you’ve heard this one: Dune Awakening players are super mad again. But actually, they kinda have a point.

Yesterday, Funcom patched in more adjustments for the Deep Desert and Landsraad meant to make the endgame more palatable for a broader range of people, with more T6 resources on tap, better drops, solo-friendly contribution changes, and a crackdown on annoying border camping tactics. As MOP’s Chris noted yesterday, the patch came with some nasty bugs too, including accidental reversion of chunks of the PvE Deep Desert back into FFA PvP.

And while that last issue sounds like it should be fairly minor, it turned into a massive headache for the players who’d actually built bases in those zones. In one heavily upvoted thread, Dune players chronicle how their guilds are leaving after having been completely wiped out by the bug, as the fortresses they’d erected in safe zones suddenly became open season for the scavenging swarms of angry PvP players thanks to the accidental switcharoo.

“A rollback has GOT to happen,” the thread starter wrote. “This unintentional bug just allowed our base to be wiped off the face of the map. […] Weeks worth of progress deleted overnight because of an oopsie? That shit can’t happen when your entire end-game revolves around Base management and dedication to resource gathering. If there isn’t some sort of server rollback before the patch I can see a lot of people dropping this game as my guild just did. No one would’ve placed the base where we did if we ever thought this could happen.”

A thousand upvotes and nearly 800 comments later, the furor hasn’t really died down, either; Dune players who are also Conan Exiles players chimed in to note that Conan Exiles succumbed to bugs on the regular, and Funcom almost never does rollbacks, so don’t set those expectations too high. Still, it’s not a great look in a month full of not-great looks so far.

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