Nobody is safe from sandworms in Dune: Awakening – the survival MMO's players are now being eaten mid-flight, ornithopters and all: "Shai-Hulud can fly"

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

Between calls for Funcom to "fix the Landsraad" and promises from the developers regarding issues with PvP and endgame content, the Dune: Awakening release has had its fair share of quirks – and some of them are as hilarious as they are annoying.

One that immediately springs to mind has to do with sandworms. You know, the massive subterranean creatures that rise up and eat you, causing you to lose all of your gear so far – the Shai-Hulud, as the Fremen call the wriggling beast. After mysteriously disappearing from the survival MMO last week following reports of buggy behaviour, sandworms re-emerged from the sandy depths of Arrakis, much to players' dismay.