Dune: Awakening 'quickly' disables Steam Household Sharing, doubtlessly by means of the top of 2025: 'We now have sadly seen this characteristic abused regularly'
Survival MMO Dune: Awakening obtained off to a robust begin in June, however right here on the tail finish of July it is gotten caught in a little bit of quicksand. Even making modifications to the controversial chopper-heavy endgame hasn’t stopped current Steam evaluations from sliding to “Blended,” and regardless of a number of patches to squash exploits and hackers, dishonest and griefing stays an issue.
A bit extra unhealthy information arrived right now: Steam Household Sharing for Dune: Awakening has been switched off.
“We want to share a fast replace on cheats and exploits and inform you that we’re quickly disabling Household Sharing,” writer Funcom posted on Steam and Discord, including that it pertains to the hassle to stop dishonest: “We now have sadly seen this characteristic abused regularly.”
That is gonna be a reasonably large blow to gamers who’ve had entry to Dune: Awakening by means of sharing over Steam from members of the family (and let’s face it, friends), and it sounds just like the disabling of this characteristic may final fairly an extended whereas—as in months, or doubtlessly even till 2026.
“We apologize to our gamers who legitimately used this characteristic,” Funcom mentioned. “We’re actively engaged on modifications that may permit us to re-enable the system as quickly as attainable. Whereas we don’t have an ETA to share in the intervening time, we’re aiming to implement these modifications inside this yr. We’ll let you recognize as quickly as we now have a date.
Funcom did not specify what kinds of exploits we being utilized by gamers on Household Sharing, although members of the Discord speculate it might be by utilizing alt accounts to entry Landsraad distributors on servers managed by the alternative faction, to camp chests with high-tier loot and nab it when the respawn timer expires, or get pleasure from twice the quantity of fiefs and autos as usually allowed to single character.
As all the time, it sucks that individuals utilizing a characteristic because it’s meant would be the ones damage most by it being disabled. Cheaters will all the time discover one other method to exploit, however lots of harmless gamers have simply had their days ruined.
“Along with fixing the causes [of cheating], we now have additionally taken some direct motion towards gamers who used exploits, banning tons of of gamers and eradicating giant quantities of exploited Solaris from the sport,” Funcom mentioned. “These efforts are at the moment ongoing: our investigations proceed and our banhammer has extra work to do.”