New Dune: Awakening update axes "exploit used to get NPCs to destroy other players' building pieces" following fans' reports of "base raiding" and griefing in the survival MMO

Dune: Awakening - two soldiers looking at the mouth of a sandworm during the new game. .

Dune: Awakening is no stranger to exploits, with developer Funcom having previously had to apologize for them and "an unfortunate amount of lost bases and equipment" – but the chaos isn't over just yet, it seems, as reports of player griefing continue to stack.

Although the survival MMO has received a plethora of hotfixes and bigger updates, including a Deep Desert expansion just weeks ago, Funcom isn't done patching things up. Developers have a lot more in store, with 1.1.20 dropping on August 12 – a release that will make riding Sandworms fatal, target Pentashield-only buildings, and perhaps most importantly, address an exploit that allows players to use NPCs to destroy others' bases.