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Christopher Livingston

Dune: Awakening patch fixes the ornithopter 'goomba stomp' problem in PvP, just not in the way I expected

An ornithopter landing near people in the desert.

Dune: Awakening's 1.1.0.15 patch makes a couple of notable changes to PvP, including a fix for the notorious goomba stomp meta where players were squishing each other with ornithopters.

How did that work? Well, since players realized that 'thopters take no damage from collisions with the environment, there was zero risk in repeatedly slamming the flying vehicle into players running around on the ground in PvP zones. It was a viable strategy that doesn't require mounted rockets or even getting out of the choppa to put a sleeper to sleep—but it didn't feel particularly fair, either.

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