Dune Awakening Apologizes and Will Reimburse Players Over Deep Desert Issue

Funcom is rolling out reimbursements to Dune: Awakening players who recently lost vehicles, equipment, and bases during a patch, and the game’s cheaters are also being dealt with firmly by the developer. Dune: Awakening was released back in June 2025 and plans to release PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series ports in 2026. The survival game takes place in an alternate timeline on Arrakis, where Paul Atreides, from author Frank Herbert’s source material, never existed. Players can enter into political powerplay, scavenge for resources, build shelters, and encounter the franchise’s iconic sandworms while braving the unforgiving desert.
Dune: Awakening recently released an update for July 2025, which deployed a fix for the damaging resource duplication glitch, an increased spawn rate for sandworms around recently harvested spice fields, and more unique weapon schematics were added to Asmara Efendi’s shop. Players can also look forward to a plethora of post-launch content, including free updates, optional paid DLCs, new content, features, and enhancements.

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PostsSurviving sandstorms in Dune: Awakening’s Deep Desert has been the least of players’ concerns recently, as a recent patch caused several sleepers to lose bases and equipment. Addressing the community in a blog post, Funcom apologized for players' “unfortunate amount of lost bases and equipment” in the Deep Desert while the endgame territory briefly changed from PvE to PvP. The team confirmed that they were “working to reimburse vehicles and items (to the best of our ability),” and players will be able to recoup the lost items through the in-game ‘Claim Rewards’ tab by the end of this week. Furthermore, the devs also addressed players' loss of vehicles and other resources as a result of in-game bugs, and Funcom is developing tools to “better reimburse players for vehicle losses due to bugs.”
Dune: Awakening Players' Lost Items to Be Reimbursed After Patch Mishap
The backlash surrounding the Deep Desert’s faux pas comes on the heels of Dune: Awakening’s griefing fiasco, which saw rival players being taken out by others’ Ornithopters while farming. Within the same blog post, Funcom also addressed the issue of cheating, noting that the devs’ “primary focus, which continues over the next weeks and months, will be to remove all identified exploits.” Additionally, the statement confirmed more improvements would be implemented in due course, including quality-of-life features and fixes to critical gameplay issues.
CloseDune: Awakening’s promised move to support both PvE and PvP aids the game’s endgame longevity, as some players weren’t happy about being subjected to PvP gameplay to bag the game’s best loot. Funcom is seemingly working hard to eliminate ongoing frustrations while players explore Arrakis, which is a vital and transparent move for the developer to maintain the successful start the game had after launch.