Dune: Awakening promises players regular server wipes in the form of weekly Coriolis Storms that completely reshape the map of Arrakis, ensuring that there is always a reason to return to the game and explore once again.
The server wipes mainly affect the Deep Desert, with the regular PvE zone, Hagga Basin, being mostly left alone to ensure regular players who just want to live out their sci-fi desert survival fantasy don’t have to worry about their base being destroyed on a weekly basis. In addition, players who haven’t explored the world fully yet may not even realize where, exactly, the Deep Desert can be found, as the base game map doesn’t seem to contain this area anywhere.
How Does the Coriolis Storm Work in Dune: Awakening
Server Wipes Reset The Deep Desert
The Coriolis Storm is a once-a-week server wipe event that destroys all bases, resources, and items from the Deep Desert, the endgame PvP area in Dune: Awakening. Players who are inside the Deep Desert when a Coriolis Storm comes will immediately perish, and all vehicles and bases that are still in the Deep Desert will be destroyed.
Additionally, the Coriolis Storm will rearrange resource nodes in both the Deep Desert and, to a lesser extent, in the Hagga Basin. After the server wipe, players will need to survey the Deep Desert from scratch to rediscover resources, points of interest, and other useful information, as it will be covered completely in the fog of war. Similarly, certain areas in the Hagga Basin where resources have been rearranged after the Coriolis Storm will also need to be re-surveyed using Survey Probes.
Players’ bases in the Hagga Basin will remain unaffected by the Coriolis Storm. Before every server wipe, players are encouraged to leave the Deep Desert alongside all of their resources into Hagga Basin to save their stockpile. Anything and everything left inside the Deep Desert will be gone once the apex of the Storm arrives.
Private servers also experience Coriolis Storms every week and are not exempt from server wipes.
When Does the Coriolis Storm Happen
The Coriolis Storm occurs every Tuesday at server restart. However, the exact time this occurs differs between servers and regions because server restarts are timed differently. The in-game radio and warning system will alert players about the Coriolis Storm hours before it arrives. The warning functions like a regular sandstorm warning but with a longer grace period to give players the opportunity to leave the area before it arrives.
The Coriolis Storm lasts several hours, and the wipe only happens when it reaches its apex or critical point, which is when everything and everyone in the Deep Desert is destroyed.
Dune Awakening: When Do Resources Respawn
Resources, enemies, and chests respawn periodically in Dune: Awakening, allowing players to gather more of what they need. Here is how long it takes.
What is the Deep Desert in Dune: Awakening
Deep Desert Map Location
The game map in Dune: Awakening is separated into two zones: the Hagga Basin and the Deep Desert.
- The Deep Desert is a massive PvP map north of the Hagga Basin with the rarest resources, the strongest enemies, multiple Sandworms, and the most endgame activities.
- The Hagga Basin includes all of the starting PvE area, not limited to the Hagga Basin South. It includes the Vermillius Gap, Hagga Rift, Jabal Eifrit Al-Janub, Mysa Traill, the Eastern Shield Wall, etc.
To get to the Deep Desert, players will need to cross the Shield Wall in an Ornithopter, which is the blue forcefield on the northern border of the Hagga Basin. This will put them in the overland map section where they can choose to head to the Deep Desert, Harko Village, or to Arrakkeen. The Taxi NPCs in the hub areas do not fast-travel to the Deep Desert; you will need your own mode of transport to get there. To get back to Hagga Basin, you can either interact with special campsites in the Deep Desert or cross over the Shield Wall again.
The Deep Desert map is several times larger than the entire Hagga Basin, though it is much more sparsely populated with resources. It’s split into nine zones, each of which is split further into nine sub-regions, forming a grid with 81 individual tiles. Players will need to individually survey each sub-region to uncover the resources and POIs.
The first layer of the Deep Desert is PvE, but as players go deeper in, it transitions completely into PvP. This is also where players encounter Spice Blows, Tier 6 and 7 materials, exclusive unique schematics, and Landsraad events. Venturing into the Deep Desert without a guild is possible but incredibly difficult to pull off, as the enemies are balanced with parties of players in mind.
WHERE TO PLAY
- Genre(s)
- Open-World, Survival, MMO
- Platform(s)
- PC
