Dune: Spice Wars fans will be happy to know that another major update is now available. If the previous Air & Sand Update wasn’t enough for you, then this recent patch will surely be.
The developer released a major community update called Line In The Sand. Tons of new content is added and several crucial changes are made, combined with a good chunk of bug fixes and performance improvements.
Highlights of the update are mentioned below.
MAIN CHANGES
- Added End Game Statistics
- Military alerts now appear on the border of the screen pointing in the direction of the crisis
- Military units can now Hold their Position (With C)
- Fremen Harvesting Teams can now harvest Spice in neutral territories
- Map Generation improvements:
- Main Bases and Deep Desert spawning has changed to make maps that are both more fair and varied
- Changed Spice spawn to ensure less spiceless starts
- Military balancing
- Major performance improvements and optimization
GEAR
New Gear:
- Free Company: Dual Guns (Becomes ranged)
- Cerberus: Dual Swords (More damages)
- Gunners: Gatling Gun (High attack speed, no longer demo)
- Wreckers: Bazookas (More range)
- Stealth Probes: Mounted Explosives (Explode on death)
VILLAGES
New Village traits:
- Local Sourcing: 20 Solaris production when the village has at least one Building of each type
- Versatile: +10% production when the village has at least one Building of each type
SPYING
New Operations:
- Defense Sabotage (New): Reduce power of enemy missile batteries and Main Base
- EMP Bomb: Reduce power and speed of enemy mechanical units and missile batteries
- Defense Breaches: Increase damage taken by enemy Main Base
- Fremen Sabotage (Fremen only): Reduce enemy power and speed
Removed Operations:
- Defense Sabotage (Old)
- Gear Sabotage
- Sand Cloak (Fremen only)
REGIONS
New Regions:
- Space Cruiser Wreck
- Mountains
QOL
- Added AoE preview on Units
- Attack orders now continue when the target is dead and units will go to the target's dying position
- Units with a deploy system now correctly undeploy to move when they are asked to attack out of their range
- Harvesters now have to wait for the Sandworm attack to be finished to redeploy
- Improved russian translation with the prepositional plural form
- Some units using rocket launchers now fire visible missiles
- Units refund amounts from the Iakin passive are now displayed in the world similarly to looting effects
- Units now have quotes on certain abilities
You can read the complete patch notes of Dune: Spice Wars Line In The Sand Community Update on Steam.
