Dune: Spice Wars news & patch notes

v2.2.5.32923

Changes

• Fremen - Fremen "Mobile Turret" can hold position without deploying
• Conquest - Secondary objective "Defender of the Law" will spawn renegade bases at the start of the mission, making the objective possible in every case.

Bugfixes

• Fixed "assault" conquest mission timer discrepancy
• Fixed a common crash happening in spectator mode
• Various optimisations

v2.2.4.32914

Changes

Voting Phases

• During voting, it’s no longer possible to see changes in influence, solari, or CHOAM ownership in other factions.
• It’s no longer possible to buy CHOAM Shares during voting
• Selling CHOAM Shares during voting no longer reduces the price instantly. All such reductions are then applied all at once at the end of the council.
• Insider Trading gives +2 -> +1 influence per share sold
• With the development “insider trading”, selling CHOAM shares during voting gives 50% less solari.

Bug Fixes

• Fix “incursion” conquest mission timer discrepancy (the same issue might still appear in “assault” mission, it should be fixed soon)
• Fremen warrior gear “Dry Training” no longer reduces max health with negative Water

v2.2.3.32893

Balancing

Common

• Resolution “Portfolio Scrutiny” (apply to all) rework : Cannot buy CHOAM Shares and Selling CHOAM Shares gives 3 Hegemony per Shares instead of Solaris
• Resolution “CHOAM Dilution” (apply to all) rework : 20% of owned CHOAM Shares are destroyed
• Resolution “Sale Incentive” (targeted) rework : 10% and 30% CHOAM ownership bonus are blocked for the duration, and at the start of next council, lost 20 solari per shares owned
• Resolution “Labor Right” (apply to all) rework : +100% military unit upkeep
• Resolution “Imperial Intelligence”, which allows to use Cell Search outside of an assassination attempt, now also block the installation of new Infiltration Cell for the duration.
• the immediate effect on price of selling or buying a shares is 50% stronger
• sietches now have an integrated missile battery that will only target flying units engaged in combat with their militia
• flying units can no longer trigger the attack on a sietch

Factions

Atreides

• Duncan Idaho has been reworked:
• for each bonus given by an ally unit, gains heroism (+2 power ; +1 armor)
• upon death, all future Duncans gains +3 power and +150 health
• “Duncan’s Last Stand” skill is now a toggle with the following effects:
  • enemy ground units in melee suffer -50% speed
  • +100% speed
  • +100% attack speed
  • keep all your heroism stacks
  • cannot be controlled
  • cannot be turned off while duncan is still engaged in melee
• Trooper gear “Offensive Mindset” has been reworked. It now gives +2 power and increase damage received by +15%
• Heavy Weapon Squad gear “Distracting Flashes” reduces damage received
• by ally around the target by 20% -> 10%, but no longer removes any power
• The Heavy Weapon Squad “Distorsion Umbrella” gear has been replaced by “Whistling Ammo”
• Support Drone gear “Kraken Protocol” removes 2 -> 1 armor when the drone is empty.
• Support Drone gear “Evasion Booster” no longer requires +1 fuel cell
• Warden gear “Cover Tactics” gives +2 -> +5 armor to ally with no target, at short range.

Smugglers

• Lashon Hara gives 2 -> 1 influence production per infiltration level in another faction
• Wrecker gear “Concentrated Toxins” gives +50% -> +75% damage to the target
• Wrecker gear “Traumatic Repeater” now removes 1 more armor to any damaged target, no matter how many health they have.
• Wrecker gear “Stinging Gas” no longer removes 1 power
• The Sniper gear “Distorsion Umbrella” gear has been replaced by “Barrel Cleaner” (previously seen on Ecaz Musketeer)

Fremen

• Jamis gives 80 -> 70 authority on liberation
• Stilgar gives +1 authority production, instead of reducing sietch alliance authority cost by half
• Shimoom gives +4 plascrete production per village producing 12 Water or more, on top of his other effects.
• Fedaykin have 21 -> 22 power
• Warrior gear “Dry Training” has been reworked. It now gives +1 health per Water.
• Infiltrator gear “Focused Mind” gives +1 armor on top of its other effect.

Corrino

• Corrino 10k hegemony bonus no longer gives influence for militia killed in a territory in truce. It still works on neutral units from a raid, and enemy units.

Ecaz

• Fencers have 10 -> 11 power and get -30% -> -40% damage received from target
• Sirens give -10% -> -15% damage to next attack" to enemies they damage with their aoe
• Museum of Unbound Arts gives +3 -> +4 max authority, influence and manpower per masterpieces
• Warbanner gear “Distracting Lights” makes unit targeting the war banner inflict -20% -> -30% damage
• Warbanner gear “Propaganda Machine” has been reworked. It now reduces the damage inflicted by enemy units at range by 10%
• Warbanner gear “Big Banner” gives +300 -> +100 health, but does not increase Command Points requirements anymore.

Vernius

• Resonance Drone’s electrostatic damages affected enemies by 100 -> 120 health per day.
• Fighting Mek gear “Material preprocessor” gives +3% ->+5% power but removes 3% -> 5% attack speed per armor points on the target
• Fighting Mek gear “Anatomical Scanner” gives +20% -> +15% damage against non mechanical units
• Railgun Drone gear “Warm Magnet” is replaced by “Strong Magnet”, which gives +3 power but increases fuel cell requirement by 2
• Fighting Meks and Railgun Drones gear “Smart Armor” and “Smart Lens” have been replaced by “Learning Transistor”, which gives +0.5 Knowledge while tethered in combat
• Suboid gear “Focused Mind” gives +1 armor on top of its usual effect.
• Resonance drone has 4 fully reworked gears :
  • “Fractal Frequencies” : The electrostatic deals +50% damage and requires +2 Fuel Cell
  • “Feedback Gate” : +0.5 armor per ally drone at range
  • “Deep Signales” : ally drones at range deal +10% damage
  • “Repeater Node” : Always tethered ; Drones at range are tethered
• Fight Engineer gear “Whistling Ammo” has been replaced by “Multi-Purpose Parts”, which gives -20% solari upkeep and regeneration cost to drones at range

Miscellaneous

• Vernius Fighting Meks and Railgun Drones get the trooper and sniper icons respectively
• during landsraad, in multiplayer:
  • in "fast" event timer, preliminary phases will last up to 20 -> 30 seconds each, and voting phase will last up to 30 -> 45 seconds
  • in "slow" event timer, preliminary phases will last up to 2 min -> 1 min 30, and voting phase will last up to 10 -> 5 minutes
• “Slow” landsraad is now the default setting in multiplayer.
• The Recon time of POI now has a maximum. It will reduce the time to recon poi that are very far away from the Main Base

Bugfixes

• When placing rally point as a fremen, the correct range is now showed
• The right character will now address the player during the “Hired Help” mission, in Fremen and Smuggler conquest.
• The “Cutting the Head Off” mission will now properly check the infiltration level of the right opponent
• Fixing a bug with overflowing spice, affecting the “Spice Heist” conquest mission
• The “Spice Heist” conquest mission can no longer happen against Vernius, making it almost impossible to succeed.
• Fixing the Accursed Sietch sometimes not appearing in “The Water Thieves” conquest mission
• Some memory leaks plugged
• Some crashes fixed

v.2.2.2.32791

Balancing

• The bonuses for having a completed blue district have been buffed:
  • district 2 gives +2 -> +3 influence and +5 intel production
  • for great houses, district 3 gives +100 -> +150 votes
  • for fremen and smugglers, district 3 gives +100 -> +150 max influence and +4 -> +6 influence production
• The “Water Seller” charter eligibility condition is to have 50 -> 70 Water production
• The conquest secondary objective “Guild Commission” and its Fremen counterpart “Recycling Spree” have been made slightly more difficult

Minor Changes

• Added “Random” map type, that will choose a map type for you from all available ones.
• Added an option to remove the version number that appears in-game on the bottom right of the screen, in the accessibility menu. Please note that when sending screenshots of potential bugs, the version number is crucial information that we need to know.
• The voice actors for Staban and Stilgar have been added in the credits.

Bug Fixes

• Iakin Nefud skill Cannon Fodder doesn’t apply to units that cannot gain experience
• Fixed statistics menu sometimes not showing data from finished games
• Fixed statistics menu recording spectated games as if you had actually played in them
• The secondary objective of “Spice Heist” has been fixed
• Fixed development given at the start of a conquest mission not working properly when the effect is instant
• Fixed lobby disconnect issue
• Some memory leaks have been plugged

v.2.2.1.32762

Conquest

• Fremen conquest has been balanced to make the Spice Field liberation objective easier
• Music on the Smuggler conquest map has been improved

Bug fixes

• Units should properly attack villages once all militia have been defeated
• Fixed crashes

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New Conquests

Smugglers and Fremen are now playable in the Conquest game mode. The Fremen conquest brings a unique twist, focusing on the liberation of the planet rather than the traditional Conquest gameplay. You can also engage in three new battles, with two exclusively available in the Fremen Conquest and one accessible in the Smugglers Conquest. Additionally, there are seven new achievements to unlock. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41624136/490e7b75c9d759028d291e17e75b2caf4758572c.png

New Map Types

Six new map types are now available for both single-player and multiplayer modes, each offering unique challenges and strategic possibilities. In Skirmish mode:

• Dune Small, Medium, and Large are the standard maps, each representing different sizes of the northern hemisphere of Arrakis.
• The Great Flat map is a vast expanse with extensive Deep Desert, placing main bases far from each other and emphasizing the importance of mobility and water. Expanding on the Great Flat is challenging due to the large distances between regions.
• The Populous Basin is another large map featuring numerous small regions, ideal for building strong defensive clusters of villages. Here, main bases are placed close to each other near the center of the map, allowing for outward expansion.
• Great Erg is a medium-sized map filled with smaller Deep Deserts and Mountain regions, creating bottlenecks and regions of strategic importance.
• Desert Ridge, designed for 2v2 play, is an elongated map where each team starts at opposite ends, separated by a long ridge and several Deep Desert areas.
• Sandy Valley is a medium rectangular map centered around a valley, well-suited for both 2v2 and free-for-all matches.

In Kanly mode:

• The Standard Kanly map covers the northern hemisphere of Arrakis
• Narrow Pass map is smaller and filled with Mountain regions and bottlenecks, adding tactical complexity to each encounter.

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Statistics Screen

New “Statistics” screen in the main menu, which includes detailed information on your performance with each faction. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41624136/36dc5936ff96bbba0d95acd157ad8e8fe20054cb.png

Balancing

Conquest

• The “Water Gift” secondary objective has been reworked to be slightly more challenging.
• It takes 8 -> 10 controlled territory to validate the conquest objective, in great houses conquests.
• “Spying Initiative” bonus gives +5 -> +2 max agents.

Common

• The “Insider Trading” development gives 1 -> 2 influence per share sold and removes CHOAM selling cooldown and max influence during the landsraad council.
• It is now possible to steal a nuclear warhead by annexing the village where the silo is built.
• 30% CHOAM bonus gives +100 -> +200 max influence.
• The resolution “Landsraad Support” gives 2 -> 5 landsraad punishers.
• The resolution “Spacing Guild Resources” gives +20 -> +10 armor to affected Main Bases.

Atreides

• Rangers have 1 -> 0 armor and 18 -> 17 power.
• Heavy Weapon Squads have 1 -> 0 armor.
• Gurney gives +5% attack speed per level to ranged units instead of +1 armor
• Gurney does not reduce the attack speed of his target anymore.

Harkonnen

• Iakin Nefud rework:
  • When Iakin reach 0 health, he steals the health of an ally ground unit at short range, instead of dying.
  • Any unit death at short range gives +1 power and +0.5 armor.
  • “Cannon fodder” skill:
    • Level 1 ally unit at short range permanently becomes Cannon Fodder, and suffers the following effects:
    • Loses 10% of health every day.
    • Cannot regenerate health in villages or gain experience.
    • No Solari upkeep, and no Command Point requirements.
    • Half of the unit cost is refunded upon death in combat.

Smugglers

• Main Base Extension “Hidden Explosives” no longer reduces the main base armor, instead it makes it unable to attack for a day.
• The “Bounty” resolution modifier gives 20 -> 10 solari per vote placed on a resolution.
• Lashon Hara gives 1 infiltration level in a faction every time a successful trade takes palce with that faction.
• Lashon Hara produces 10 -> 15 solari and 1 -> 2 influence par infiltration level in another faction
• Staban no longer gives any solari.

Fremen

• During Wormriding, sandworm moves at a speed of 15 -> 25.
• Jamis trades 10 authority for 10 -> 30 manpower.

Corrino

• Irulan rework: Every building can be constructed one more time anywhere on the map.

Ecaz

• Can break truce, with a +100% penalty on standing loss and no damage bonus.
• Perfected units cost +50% -> +100% but take +100% -> +50 % longer to recruit.
• Perfected units now cost 100% more to heal.
• Whitmore skill consumes Champion’s Trophy every 5 -> 4 seconds.
• Can no longer build its Garden in a region where hostile units are present. Building the Garden also interrupts any unit that had the order to attack it.

Vernius

• With the development “Automated Defense”, Neural Node attacks with an attack speed of 10 -> 6.6.
• Nuwa and fight-engineers no longer leave repair mode when all drones at range are repaired.
  • C’tair rework:
  • +1 gear slot to every unit, but using that slot increase the unit’s requirement by 1 fuel cell.
  • Ally non-mechanical units at short range are stealthy.
  • C’tair is stealthy.
  • “Evasion” skill: Next attack executes, and removes C’tair from combat.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed building refunds when canceling being incorrectly counted as resource gains, which led to potential exploits with resource gain multipliers.
• Fixed a bug where a harvester on a spice blow could transmit a maintenance-center-like buff to the next region when crossing a border.
• Fixed worm speed during wormriding being affected by the Deep Desert debuff.
• Fixed Chani giving her buff to flying units and sietches.
• Fixed units from discoveries appearing in a shuttle at the rally point instead of directly at the discovery location.
• Fixed conquest bonuses granting units on operation use, causing units to appear at the rally point instead of where the operation was performed.
• Fixed discovery at full progress being locked indefinitely if the reward was no longer valid.
• Fixed the Support Intelligence spying mission not applying to ongoing operations.
• Fixed the Hired Help conquest mission lacking a second phase against Vernius.
• Fixed annexation cost display in multiplayer.
• Fixed various crashes.

2.2.0.32746

v2.1.7.32388

Balancing

• Vernius Combine Harvester Drone regen cost: 350 -> 100 solari for a full health bar
• When an ally sietch's raid is liberating a village, you can attack the village to take over the siege. If you cancel the liberation, the raid will leave.
• Ornithopter "swift" trait that gives "-70% damage received from Missile Battery and Main Bases" now also apply to Vernius Neural Nodes.
• Assassin can no longer be sent to a building to reset an assassination progress. They have to reach the village.

Bug fixes

• In conquest, "The Renegades" battle now launches properly
• Renegades properly establish bases
• Ecaz can properly launch atomics when they are not in truce with any alive factions
• Wardens give their armor bonus properly during last stand
• Wardens properly do not receive any buff during last stand
• Harkonnen "Interrogation Center" now properly removes captured agents from their owner agent list
• Drisq ability cooldown now works as intended
• Various minor fixes

v2.1.6.32344

Balancing

• Hammer attack speed 3.3 → 2.5
• Spirit power 18 → 16
• Spire power 8 → 9
• Orbital Strike has 45 → 40 power per missile
• Admin Burden reduces recruitment and building speed by 80% → 60%
• Attacking a sietch now betrays truce with the Fremen
• Fremen cost to repopulate a sietch : 250 → 150 manpower 3000 → 1000 solari
• Fremen cannot repopulate a sietch if a teammate has pillaged it
• Fremen dev "Stalwart Alliance" adds effect: Allied Sietches Militia have +50% Life
• Fremen dev "Desert Watchers" adds effect: Fremen units also gain stealth near Allied sietches
• Militia and raids from allied sietch are considered as allies and can't be targeted nor attacked
• When neural nodes have the ability to attack, Ornithopters will try to avoid them as they do with missile turrets
• Abandoning a village does not refund building costs anymore
• Fremen are no longer eligible for "Council Representative", the charter that replaces dune governorship when political victory is disabled

QoL

• Added alerts for Fremen players to help them defend ally sietches
• After the game has ended, remaining players now have access to the "spectator" chat
• In Spectator mode, the option to follow a player’s camera will now close the landsraad windows automatically

Bug Fixes

• Fremen and Vernius harvesters are no longer affected by the training speed reduction at the beginning of the game
• Direct messages between Spectators no longer generate a "spoke with" message
• The pillage cost on game pass has been fixed
• Steam and Game Pass versions are synchronised, crossplay now functions

v2.1.3.32281

Balancing

• Gain from being in truce with someone 5 → 4 standing
• Building cost reduction only affects Plascrete and Solari costs
• Low Standing no longer prevents you from doing an action that costs standing, instead you will remain at 0
• Mobile turret now shoots at very long range while deployed
• Mobile Turret 25 → 30 power while deployed
• Spires deal +50% → +40% damage to units outside of their territory
• Spire 5 → 3 armor
• Spire 8 → 9 solari upkeep
• Hawk 270 → 250 hp
• Harpy 5 → 4 armor
• Hammer 360 → 340 hp
• Siren 200 → 230 hp 5 → 4 armor
• Spirit 270 → 230 hp 5 → 4 armor
• Pillaging
  • Pillaging a sietch now takes 0.5 → 6 days
  • Pillaging gains do not longer vary with game length. Base gains are a bit more important in early game and a fair bit smaller in late game.
  • Pillaging gains are no longer multiplied by the amount of buildings in the village.
  • Pillaging no longer gives plascrete depending on the amount of buildings in the village.
  • Pillaging no longer gives plascrete or spice depending on the village production.
  • Instead some buildings increase pillaging gains by a flat amount of a relevant resource. The gains coming from pillaging another faction's village is now more representative of its economic value.
  • The gains from a pillage are computed at the beginning of the siege instead of at the end. Destroying buildings during a pillage does not reduce its bounty.
  • Smugglers underworld headquarter extension "Contraband Caches" can stock up to 500 → 1000 spice, but that reward can no longer be increased by other bonuses.

Bug Fixes

• Players can now chat with spectators once the game is over
• Players that have conceded now get a result screen and can keep watching as spectator
• Players that have disconnected can now stay in the game in a paused state and can view the game summary or save the game
• Players that have disconnected can now join the game again from the multiplayer screen in the main menu
• Fixed AI difficulty not being available in multiplayer games
• Fixed the spectator "spice" tooltips showing the wrong player's values
• Vernius’ combine harvester drone is now properly flying when undeployed which makes it immune to ground-only attacks
• Various minor bug fixes

v2.1.1.32228

• Fixed Corrino dropping infinite main bases.
• Fixed games allowing more than 8 spectators.
• Fixed Irulan +2 crew in harvester being applied twice when two main bases are adjacent.
• Fixed truce not providing standing on council opening.
• Fixed spectators having "Unknown" as their names.
• Fixed territory outlines sometimes vanishing for spectators.
• Various other spectator mode improvements.

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Spectator Mode

Multiplayer lobbies can be set up to allow up to 8 spectators. Eliminated players can keep watching the game as spectators.

Pillaged Sietch rework

Fremen can no longer build in a devastated sietch. They can, however, repopulate them for a large cost, which removes the “devastated” trait. To compensate, Fremen now have 1 more building slot in their Main Base, forming a new 1-slot district. The eligibility condition for Dune Governorship has also been revised to only account for non-devastated sietches. The condition is now:

• control 1/5 of the map
• ally all non-devastated sietches
• at least 3/4 of sietches are not devastated

Assassination UX rework

Assassination UI has been improved with additional information on what you are supposed to do. A new option “Assassination tips” will help with learning the Assassination mechanics through targeted alerts. The option is “on” by default. The “imperial intelligence” Landsraad resolution, that allows Cell Search, even without having detected any assassination attempt, now works properly: you can prepare Cell Search operations, but also use them on your territory.

Spaceship Balancing

All spaceship costs, stats and traits have been balanced to make them worth the cost, without being overwhelmingly strong. Hawk:

• 30 -> 9 guild favor cost
• 15 -> 12 solari upkeep
• 200 -> 270 health
• 11 -> 8 power
• 10 -> 20 attack speed

Kraken:

• Can only attack ground units

Harpy:

• 30 -> 9 guild favor cost
• 15 -> 12 solari upkeep
• 200 -> 270 health
• 8 -> 10 power
• Trait changed to “attack in a small area and executes enemy units under 80 health”

Overlord:

• Can only attack ground units

Banshee:

• Can attack ground and air units
• 40 -> 15 guild favor cost
• 250 -> 360 health
• 25 -> 17 power
• 4 -> 5 Fuel Cell
• 4 -> 5 Command Point
• Trait changed to “Cannot be seen outside of combat and current target suffer -50% speed and attack speed”

Spire:

• Can attack ground and air units
• 20 -> 6 spaceship parts cost
• 80 -> 150 health
• 20 -> 8 power
• 5 -> 10 attack speed
• 10 -> 8 solari upkeep
• Trait changed to “+50% damage against enemy units outside of their territory”

Altar:

• Can only attack ground units

Hammer:

• 40 -> 12 guild favor cost
• 300 -> 360 health
• 20 -> 16 solari upkeep

Cronos:

• Can only attack air units
• 2000 -> 2400 health

Siren:

• 30 -> 9 guild favor
• 200 -> 270 health
• 24 -> 10 power
• 15 -> 12 solari upkeep
• Trait changed “attacks in a small area, and damaged enemy deal -10% damage on their next attack (can stack)”

Monument:

• Can only attack ground units

Spirit:

• 30 -> 9 guild favor
• 150 -> 270 health
• 15 -> 18 power
• 5 -> 3.3 attack speed
• 15 -> 12 solari upkeep
• Trait changed “always tethered and, in truced territory, gain stealth and -40% damage received”

General Balancing

“Defense breaches” operations do not stack. Main bases detect stealth units at Very Long Range. Landsraad units from "Judge of the Council" Charter cost 40 -> 25 influence each to recruit. “EMP Bomb” spying operation:

• -50% attack speed to mechanical units, missile battery and Main Bases
• -50% -> -20% move speed to mechanical units
• “-50% power to mechanical units” has been removed

Gear switching or removal cost 1000 -> 500 solari Development “Border Defense”:

• +1 Missile Battery limit per Village
• Militia have +2 -> +1 armor
• “+30% power to Missile Battery” has been removed

Main Base building “Research Center”:

• +20% knowledge
• +20% hegemony gained from spice tax and daily gain
• “+15% hegemony from all sources” has been removed

AI in multiplayer games never offer trades outside of their team, and are generally more reluctant to accept trades.

House Atreides

Trooper unit:

• Trait changed: ”+2 -> +3 power under the effect of at least one allied bonus”

Ranger gear “Automated Weapons”:

• +50% attack speed
• -25% -> -30% power

Support Drone:

• 15 -> 12 solari upkeep

“Peaceful Annex” is no longer possible on devastated villages. "Veteran Militia" development:

• -15% damage inside territory
• militia have +100% -> +80% health
• “militia have +50% power” has been removed

"Proud Liberator" development:

• Non-mechanical units get +2% -> +1% max health per 25 -> 20 standing
• Units liberating or annexing a village from a faction with less standing heal 20% -> 50% of health for free

"Sustainable spying" development:

• Agents assigned to choam, landsraad and spacing guild slots produce +100% -> +50% of their associated resources
• Agent traits present only once on an information field apply their effects twice

Councilor “Dr Wellington Yueh”:

• +2 knowledge
• non-mechanical military units have +10% -> +15% health
• non mechanical military units regen 30% faster

House Harkonnen

Combat Probe:

• 5 -> 4 solari upkeep

Councilor “Umman Kudu”:

• +2 manpower prod
• units take -20% -> -30% time to recruit
• units in a region with an active harkonnen operation gain +1 armor

Hero “Iakin Nefud”:

• Military units in the region get +5% -> +10% attack speed per active harkonnen operation
• “Survival of the Fittest” skill gives +100% -> +200% power to the next attack, which only stacks once, but has a much lower cooldown.

The Smugglers

Councilor “Stabban Tuek”:

• full headquarter produce 5 -> 4 solari per neighboring headquarters
• +1 slot in headquarter

Councilor “Lingar Bewt”:

• produces 10 -> 12 Water
• unlock the Water Network and Water Seller headquarters extension

Councilor “Lashon Hara”:

• gain information in other faction by trading any resources
• information level in faction reduce 50% slower
• gain 10 solari and 1 influence per information level in another faction

The Fremen

Skirmisher:

• 7 -> 5 power
• Trait: +15%->20% damage per enemy unit in damage radius

Mobile turrets now have xp. Balancing of spaceship parts looted from enemy vessels. Combined with cost changes, Spire are overall cheaper to produce from destroyed enemy ships. Councilor “Shimoom”:

• Each village producing at least 12 Water gives -3% -> -4% solari upkeep globally
• Villages produce 1 water in empty slot

Councilor “Jamis”:

• gain 50 -> 80 authority on liberating an enemy village
• military unit inflict +10% damage outside of territory
• can trade authority for manpower

Councillor Mother Ramallo’s ability “Incite rebellion” cost 80 -> 50 authority

House Corrino

Artillery Drone:

• 25 -> 20 solari upkeep

Councilor “Princess Irulan” now only affects villages neighboring a main base Councilor “Zum Garon”:

• Military units have +15% power per active Truce
• Imperial Mandate has no cost

House Ecaz

War Banner:

• 15 -> 12 solari upkeep
• The “Big Banner” gear now increases the banner range of effect.

Hero “Whitmore Bludd”:

• If multiple champions deal damage to the same unit, only the last to damage it will get a trophy
• the “Frightful Champion” skill gives +1 -> +0.5 armor per trophy

Councillor Ibbo Vipp’s ability “Landsraad Immunity” cost 20 -> 30 standing on negative resolution and gives 10 -> 30 influence on positive resolution

House Vernius

Fighting Mek:

• 350 -> 400 health

Railgun Drone:

• 220 -> 320 health

Resonance Drone:

• 350 -> 400 health
• 25 -> 20 solari upkeep

10k Hegemony Bonus:

• Can obfuscate a single researched development
• Each knowledge point increase production of all other resource by +0.1 -> +0.2%

“Physical Wiring” development:

• Unlocks Assassins
• Infiltration Cells adjacent to a connected neural node gives +2 knowledge, as well as +5 solari production and +1 intel production per Statecraft building in the village
• “Infiltration cells adjacent to a connected neural node do not count in the maximum of infiltration cells allowed” has been removed

“Automated Defenses” development:

• 2 free Automated Militia in any village with a connected neural node
• Connected Neural Nodes attack enemy units in the region as a rapid-fire single-target defensive building.
• “enemy units in the region suffer -3% health per day per node connected through this region” has been removed

Lobby QoL

• A player kicked from a lobby cannot join again for 1 minute.
• quick start can no longer be used in kanly, and the option is no longer visible

Bug fixes

• Truces are no longer broken if the target of an attack (village) is captured by another faction before the attack takes place.
• AoE damage no longer breaks truces unless the actual target is in a truce.
• Units are no longer eaten by a worm in a region protected by Decoy Thumper
• Fixed landsraad votes being blocked when trying to set more votes than the maximum
• "Next Mainbase Building is Free" event should no longer be lost unfairly
• Fixed the updating of villages neighboring the enemy after a change of owner (for data center and listening post purpose)
• Warden in Last Stand can now be saved by support drone
• Harkonnen redfluid gear no longer triggers during occupation (if no other enemies are around)
• Harkonnen combat probes’ health is no longer reduced for no reason when using the torture tool gear
• Communication Jamming now removes Defense Breaches and Administration Burden properly
• Drisq passive no longer applies stealth to units engaged in combat
• Fixed some traits not being applied correctly when leaving wormriding
• Fremen raid from stalwart alliance now engage units contesting the liberation
• Buildings in a destroyed Corrino Main Base no longer prevent Corrino from building the building again in another Main Base
• Corrino Main Base building “Emperor Monument” is now properly deactivated if the development to unlock it is no longer active.
• After Corrino is eliminated, the “administrative consolidation” modifier on a village is now properly removed
• Dropping a Corrino Main Base on a Masterpiece no longer completely breaks the game
• Obfuscation of development giving agent slot now removes the slot properly
• Hidden Backdoor now works properly on enemy mechanical units. They ignore all previous orders.
• The Folder Relay can no longer teleport units to invalid location
• Fixed a rare case in the first tutorial where the Harkonnen trooper can kill your units, softlocking the tutorial.
• A few visual and sound bugs have been fixed
• Fixed Steamdeck launching the game twice for no reason (affecting performance).
• Rabban millitia now count towards the "You shall not pass" achievement
• Losing an Overlord’s sting no longer prevents you from getting the “Prudent” achievement

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v.2.0.7.31913

• Fixed tutorials 1 & 5 not starting
• Fixed detect stealth alert triggering with your own units
• Fixed Skirmisher and Infiltrator Gear "Camouflage Fabric" giving free supply for no reason
• Fixed icon of the "Assassin gear" trait

v2.0.6.31902

Balancing

• Added Annexation costs per ongoing Annexation, that are equals to cost of owning more region, but do not benefit from cost reduction and is never refunded.
• Atreides Peaceful Annexation takes 10 -> 5 days.
• Detection of a stealth unit now gives an alert.
• The ranges for detection of stealth units are not longer smaller at night.

Bug fixes

• Fixed fremen dev "Desert Watchers" so the unit stay hidden between regions.
• Fixed fremen dev "Arrakis Secret" so the harvester can be attacked right after undeploying, if you can detect them.
• Fixed Assassin reseting assassination progress factor even when the infiltration cell has been removed.
• Fixed the text explaining which faction is affected by an ongoing operation.
• Fixed the "World Museum" achievement in conquest.

v2.0.5.31873

Balancing

• Overkill damage is now applied to Executionner with "Meat Armor" gear
• Executionner "Meat Armor": heal 50 -> 40 hp per stack

Bug Fix

• Fixed Atreides Sustainable Spying not working on the second traits from Thuffir Hawat
• Fixed recruitment cancellation on multiplayer
• Fixed Village textures not being updated when annexed by a faction on multiplayer
• Fixed Harkonnen Gunners' "Blood Thinner" gear removing 50% life instead of 25% in some situations

v.2.0.4.31850

Balancing

• Harkonnen Councillor Umman Kudu gives +3 -> +2 manpower prod
• Corrino development "Administrative Consolidation" gives -15% -> -20% upkeep on villages with 4 buildings of the same type
• Landsraad charter support: the efficiency of supporting a charter on the agenda depends on the time left before the next council. It gives 20 Priority for 10 Influence at the start of a period and only 2 Priority for 10 Influence at the end.
• Resolution "Controlled Markets" can no longer appear during the first 2 councils

Bug fixes

• Fixed airfields not being updated when using Vernius / Bronso
• Fixed Fremen hero first recruitment costing Solari
• Fixed refunded cost being divided each time we open the refund dialog
• Fixed not being able to choose a hero when no recruitment slot is available
• Fixed Fremen harvester recruitment being blocked if no recruitment slot is available
• Fixed not being able to cancel recruitment when refunding in a particular order
• Fixed Vernius not giving unlocked developments to teammates in 2v2
• Fixed agents gained via Sietch alliance not being removed if they were assigned to a Sietch
• Fixed Jamis receiving no authority when liberation is canceled from abandon of the village
• Fixed Executioner not receiving Bloodthirst stacks when there is an enemy drone nearby on the fight. (also apply to Adrenaline Addiction)
• Fixed Executionner not getting stacks from suicidal drones nor from executed units (also apply to Adrenaline Addiction)
• Fixed Fighting Engineer receiving XP multiple times for each drone in the range and in combat (and for itself too)
• Fixed Fighting Engineer not receiving XP bonus in some situations
• Fixed Paul first Sietch bonus being lost when the first Sietch is hostile
• Fixed sending a message with enter unfocusing the chat box in the lobby
• Fixed Neural Grid sometimes disconnecting neural nodes
• Fixed Corrino Frigate having 500 more hp while deployed
• Fixed some units briefly losing stealth when changing regions

v.2.0.3.31764

Balancing

House Atreides

- Development “Political Entente” gives 5 -> 4 guards on betrayal - Warden’s Gear “Cover Tactics” gives +20% -> +30% speed

House Harkonnen

- Councillor Cron Vatia gives +2 manpower per empty building slot on oppression, on top of his other effects - Councillor Umman Kudu produce +3 Manpower on top of his other effects

The Smugglers

- Councillor Lashon Hara now gain information in faction when trading intel or influence and gain both intel and influence from information level

The Fremen

- Councillor Mother Ramallo gives 0.5 authority prod per active harvesting teams, on top of her other bonuses

House Corrino

- Rework “Solid Materials” development: - +15 plascrete production - Village buildings have +1000 health - Rework “Megalopolis” development: - +3 Water in village neighboring main base - Building cost 10% less plascrete and solari to build in MB and neighboring villages - Rework “Imperial Administration” development: - Effects of villages quirks are applied one more time in village neighboring MB - Unlock the “investment office” village building - Rework “Administrative Consolidation” development: - Village with 4 or more buildings of the same type reduce solari upkeep by 15% - Unlock the “emperor monument” MB building - “Integrated cost” development: -50% -> -30% solari upkeep of major building around main base - “Maintenance Center” village building is no longer available.

House Ecaz

- “Museum of unbound art” gives +5 -> +3 max influence, manpower and authority - “Garden Resort” +0.5 -> +0.2 influence prod per masterpiece in neighboring regions - “Artistic Aspirations” development gives 100 -> 80 solari on building a masterpiece - “Political Art” development gives 15 -> 8 influence on building a masterpiece

House Vernius

- Councillor Cammar Pilru gives 30 Landsraad whenever an opponent declare Conflict or break a Truce, on top of his other effects - Councillor Tessia Vernius turn 50% of knowledge into intel and solari when no development is in progress - Patent dev cost 800 -> 600 Solari - Harmless gadget treaty cost 200 -> 100 Solari - Analytical machine cost reduced by 100 Solari each

Other

- Balancing of hostile sietch raid (unit stats and numbers of units) in conquest - Sietch demo raider has 7 -> 6 power - Spying operation “Scavenger Team” now gives 25% of dead units max health as solari instead of scaling off power.

Bug Fixes

- Fixed “Political Model” Atreides Conquest Bonus - Fixed “Automatic Weapons” Ranger gear - Fixed no war grace period with Lady Jessica - Fixed “Omnipresent Fanaticism” Harkonnen Conquest Bonus - Fixed “Painful Lesson” Conquest Bonus interaction with “Red Fluid” gear - Fixed “Activist Heardquarters” Smuggler Main Base Extension - Fixed “Stalwart Alliance” Fremen development: Only one raid per Sietch at the same time, that can only help to Liberate - Fixed “Political Arts” Ecaz development blocking charters after House Ecaz death - Fixed “Sobering Medication” Squire gear not displaying its bonuses correctly in multiplayer - Fixed C’Tair skill - Obfuscating the “Counter Measures” development properly unassign the third agents in counterintelligence - Fixed being able to queue multiple devs without checking their requirements with Vernius 5k hegemony - Fixed water regulation resolution being scaled by villages - Units are not dragged into combat by aoe anymore - Fix Crew Training Program was apply 2 times (on faction & on harvester) - Fix conflicted input after rebind + add feedback when there is a conflict - Fixing assassination tooltip showing wrong message when only free infiltration cells where remaining - Fixing landsraad confirm button getting disabled after each resAction - Fixing rally point and hero alerts in dedicated servers - Fixing stealth units remaining stealth if they are the only one sieging - Fixing AI when trying to defend itself

v2.0.1.31677

Known Issues

• Vernius’s harvester in range of the Experimental Alloy Furnace will get a trait with texts in english, even if it’s not the chosen game language.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Fremen AoE damage factor issues
• Fixed AoE issues for Skimisher (center of explosion, aoe radius and aoe fx radius)
• Fixed loot display not appearing correctly
• Re added idle harvester alert
• Fixed robotic voices in conquest
• Alloy furnace works on Vernius Harvester
• Fixed popup appearing when using a patent or obfuscate when it should not
• Fixed Epic Quest Operation
• Fixed player being able to place a infiltration cell when faction target is already being assassinated by player
• Fixed free main base building effect when having a pending building
• Ceremonial caves now works properly on great volcano
• Fixed sniper trait
• Some fixes in aura levels (fedaykin, incinerator, siren, overlord stings and hark drones)
• Also adding filter so armies in truce won't get damage from aura levels
• Fixed repair cost for vernius ship
• Fixed radius for Incinerator gear and Feydakin
• Fixed cost applied not being what is shown in refund dialog
• Fixed being able to unlock “Patent Troll” achievements when not playing the required faction
• Fixed uncontrollable unit not auto engaging in combat
• Fixed LifeReformation gear being active when regenerating at a safe place
• Fixed uncontrollable units not loosing Rabban's passive when they become controllable
• Fixed incinerators badly applying burn. Also fixing the gear that accelerates the burn
• Reduced allocations and perf CPU
• Fixed Conquest Battle generation
• Fixed Agony for Vernius and also fixing random bug that spawns uncontrollable raids of my faction around my mainbase
• Fixed stakkanov prod increase on craft workshops

Balancing

• close range and most aoe range: 10->7
• Patent dev 1000 -> 800 solaris
• Atreides Support Drone 13 -> 14 power
• Harkonnen Combat Probe 60 -> 100 hp
• knight gear:
  • vow of fervor +30% -> +20% damage
  • vow of heroism +2 -> +3 CP
  • vow of bravery: -3 -> -2 armor
• Fremen dev Stalwart Alliance: the amount of unit in the raid have been reduced
• Harkonnen Overlord stings:
  • 80 -> 150 health
  • Lose 50% -> 40% health per day
• Duncan Idaho: unit at short range inflict +10% -> +20% damage
• Vernius Resonance Drone do not attack with aoe anymore
• Fedaykin nerf 180 degrees -> 120 degrees
• Sietch raid units have been balanced
• Incinerator, Fedaykin and Siren aoe have been fixed to start from them instead of the unit they target. Angles have also been adapted to fit the visual not too badly.

Heroes

The characters of Dune now walk the sands of Arrakis. After reaching 10k Hegemony, each faction can choose between 2 heroes to recruit as an unit that will influence their whole military strategy:

• House Atreides: Duncan Idaho or Gurney Halleck
• House Harkonnen: Glossu Rabban or Iakin Nefud
• The Fremen: Chani Kynes or Otheym
• House Corrino: Wensicia Corrino or Captain Aramsham
• The Smugglers: Drisq or Bannerjee
• House Ecaz: Whitmore Bludd or Ilesa Ecaz

When your hero dies in battle, you’ll be able to bring them back as a Ghola, if you’re willing to pay the cost to both your bank account and your reputation.

New councillors

Heroes that were previously councilors have been replaced by two new councilors per faction:

• House Atreides: Dr. Wellington Yueh and Young Paul Atreides
• House Harkonnen: Umman Kudu and Cron Vatia
• The Smugglers: Lashon Hara and Stakkanov
• The Fremen: Jamis and Shimoom
• House Corrino: Mother Helen Gaius Mohiam and Zum Garon
• House Ecaz: Rivvy Dinari and Ibbo Vipp

Combat Rework

• Combat systems have been reworked with an emphasis on making army composition deeper and more diverse, with every unit having a role to play, without increasing the need to micromanage too much.
• Units have a more diverse range of armor values. Armor can no longer be shredded, but every faction has a unit that reduces armor value by a flat amount, as well as a unit made to kill high-armored opponents.
• To increase diversity, units now have different attack speeds, and Elite units are available earlier in the game, at 5k hegemony. Gear are also more specialized and easier to access: they are free to install and only cost Solari to remove or swap.
• To increase the strategic possibilities, both on the offense and defense, it is now possible to change the position your units appear on the map by placing a Rally Point anywhere within Airfield range. The Fremen use allied sietches that have not been pillaged to place their Rally Point.
• To accommodate those changes, almost all units' stats, traits and gear have been changed, as well as many military buildings, development and operation.

Stealth Rework

• We’ve made Stealth a more powerful, advanced mechanic.
• Stealthy units are no longer detected by everything. They will often remain hidden until their first strike in combat. To detect a stealthy unit before they strike, you will have to rely on Probe Setup, a new village building called Monitoring Station, or a rare Gear or Hero effect.
• On the other hand, most units are no longer stealth as a base effect. Most but not all of the units that were previously stealthy have a gear that grants the effect. It can otherwise be granted by some faction’s spying operation, development, or heroes.

Intel Mini-Rework

To make intel, operation and faction infiltration more valuable we removed the production of 1 intel per non-faction information field. We also restricted Data Center to regions neighboring an enemy, like the Listening Post, and reworked the Observatory Mountain special region: it allows you to build both Data Center and Listening Post without constraint and increase their production by 50%.

House Vernius of Ix

House Vernius of Ix can appear as an opposing faction in every game mode.

Other Changes

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kgajYkMYh6QC1wzq8RQfmYiiNiTF7-svVo3t1nQmE0I/edit?usp=sharing As always, let us know what you think of the new content! In the meantime, feel free to join our awesome (and passionate) community on our Discord server, Reddit page as well as Twitter.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2807090/Dune_Spice_Wars__House_Vernius_of_Ix/ https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/38656/Dune_Spice_Wars__The_Ixian_Edition/ House Vernius of the Ixian confederacy is the main provider of spacefolding ships in the galaxy. Their obsession with technological progress clashes with the prohibition on thinking machines imposed by the Butlerian Jihad. They've mostly managed to stay within the letter of the law until now, but a monopoly on spice could free them of these petty restrictions. House Vernius of Ix is playable in every game mode, in single player and multiplayer.

House Vernius of Ix

Leader: Earl Rhombur Vernius

Starting Bonuses

• Spice Fields in neutral and controlled regions can be harvested by Tethered Combine Harvester Drones.
• Factions in truce get the effects of unresearched development that have been researched by Vernius.
• Mixed S-Vault districts are split to give district bonuses

Starting Malus

• Villages not connected to the Nodal Network through Neural Nodes suffer -50% ressource productions

5k Hegemony Bonus

• Can File Patent on researched developments that no other faction has researched.
• Can research 1 development without having researched its requirement.

File Patent (Development Ability): Every other faction will have to pay Vernius 500 Solari to research this development. Patents can be filed on developments that only the House of Vernius has researched. Filing a patent cost 1000 Solari.

10k Hegemony Bonus

• Can Obfuscate a single researched development.
• Each Knowledge point increases the production of all other resources by 0.2%.

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Councilors

Bolig Avati

• Can build multiple Main Base buildings at the same time in the same district of S-Vault
• Removed Main Base buildings in S-Vault are reimbursed fully
• Gain 1 Knowledge per district bonus

Bronso Vernius

• Villages neighboring a single Vernius region cost -20% Authority to Annex
• The furthest connected Neural Node generates an Airfield

Cammar Pilru

• Maximum Influence increases by 5 per Knowledge
• Immediately gain 200 Influence when entering Conflict with another faction

Tessia Vernius

• Infiltration levels required for spying missions are lowered by 1
• While no development is in progress, 50% of Knowledge is turned into Intel

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Heroes

Nuwa Cenva

• Hero trait:
  • +20% drone recruitment speed
  • Spying operation launched in Nuwa’s region last 2 days longer
  • Nearby Tethered units have +1 armor and move 20% faster
• Skill: Nuwa’s Repair Station
  • Can deploy a repairing station that heals nearby drones. Cannot move while the repairing station is active.

C’tair Pilru

• Hero trait:
  • A single unit can get +1 gear in the armory
  • C’tair has stealth near ally non-mechanical unit and ally villages
  • C’tair’s first attack executes inside ixian territory.
• Skill: Evasion
  • Leaves combat and becomes stealth
  • Must be near an ally non-mechanical unit or an ally village

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Ixian Units

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Buildings

Main Base Building - Spice Laboratory

• +2 Knowledge per exploited Spice Field
• -2 Fuel Cell Requirement for Combine Harvester Drone

Main Base Building - Neural Core

• Connected Neural Nodes produce 1 Fuel Cell
• +2% knowledge per connected Neural Nodes

Village Building - Neural Node

• Connect the region to the Nodal Network, Tethering drones in the region and neighboring regions.
• Can only be build in region where exactly 1 neighbor is connected to the Nodal Network

Developments

Entropic Engineering (replaces Modular Parts)

• Can spend up to 2 Fuel Cell in Combine Harvester Drone to increase their production
• Unlock the Spice Silo
• Unlock the Spice Laboratory

Spice Enlightenment (replaces Crew Training Program)

• Can spend up to 4 Fuel Cell in Combine Harvester Drone to increase their production
• +0.5 Spice production per Knowledge

Water Batteries (replaces Army Logistics)

• When out of fuel cells, Water is used in its stead
• Unlock the second gear slot in the armory

Guild Collaboration (replaces Recruitment Initiative)

• +5 Command Point
• Agents assigned on Spacing Guild Information produce 2 Fuel Cell
• Unlock the Command Post

Automated Manufacture (replaces Military Propaganda)

• +10 Command Point
• +0.5% recruitment and regeneration speed per Knowledge

Technological Exchange (replaces Intelligence Network)

• Gain +5 Standing on Council Opening per active Truce
• +2 Knowledge per active Truce

Heretical Computing (replaces Spying Logistics)

• Unlock Analytical Machine Agent and get one for free
• Unlock the Harmless Gadget Treaty
• Unlock the Intelligence Agency

Holistic Thinking (replaces Nefarious Contact)

• +1 Knowledge per information field with at least 1 Analytical Machine Agent
• Information level increases by 1 in factions that have accepted a Harmless Gadget treaty

Physical Wiring (replaces Spying Mastery)

• Infiltration Cells neighboring a region connected to the Nodal Network do not count towards the maximum of Infiltration Cells
• Unlock Assassins

Sequential Thinking (replaces Local Dialect Studies)

• The Nodal Network can optionally connect across Deep Deserts
• Each node in the longest path of the Nodal Network gives +1 Knowledge and +2% authority production

Neural Tropism (replaces Native Customs)

• Enemy factions pay +30% authority to capture a region neighboring at least 2 region connected to the Nodal Network
• Unlock the Neural Core

Automated Defenses (replaces Border Defenses)

• +2 free Automated Militia in Village connected to the Nodal Network
• In controlled regions, enemy units suffer -4% health per day per node connected to the main base through this region.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41624136/64941d8b32567b842ef899245298165628977032.png As always, let us know what you think of the new content! In the meantime, feel free to join our awesome (and passionate) community on our Discord server, Reddit page as well as Twitter.

Heroes

The main purpose of Heroes of Dune is to introduce even more of the Dune universe into the game. We already had a healthy amount of Dune characters in the game (31 characters in total), but they were only present in interfaces. Heroes of Dune will bring some of them in flesh onto the map, alongside your military units. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41624136/f57c73423cd32de9b7e095a108df461918ece73a.gif Prominent figures of the Dune universe like Duncan Idaho and Glossu Rabban will be playable units in every game mode, and will have a tremendous impact on the battlefield. The heroes are:

• Duncan Idaho and Gurney Halleck for House Atreides
• Glossu Rabban and Iakin Nefud for House Harkonnen
• Drisq and Bannerjee for The Smugglers
• Chani Kynes and Otheym for The Fremen
• Aramsham and Wensicia Corrino for House Corrino
• Ilesa Ecaz and Whitmore Bludd for House Ecaz

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41624136/5be7d3d1023753d482cbb85545033f3c68cd0af1.gif All heroes have been redesigned compared to the version currently in conquest. They are designed to have a significant impact on the military orientation of the faction. They all have a global effect, several more localized effects, and an active skill. They are more complex units than the other units in the game.

Councillors

All heroes were previously councillors. Heroes and councillors are now distinct entities, which means that each faction has "lost" two councillors. To compensate, we will add two councillors to each faction (for a total of 50 named characters from the Dune universe in the game, including the DLC House Vernius of Ix). {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41624136/d92c6ce45889acbbbe91b8e86381ce8795259824.png

Combat Rework

We have revamped the combat system and all units in the game with the following objectives in mind:

• Make army composition richer and deeper by ensuring that all units have a place / a role in the army.
• Direct military micro-management towards positioning at the moment of engagement rather than micro-control of units during combat.
• Make gear more fun and unique.
• Slightly simplify combat onboarding with simpler basic unit traits.

As always, let us know what you think of the upcoming content! In the meantime, feel free to join our awesome (and passionate) community on our Discord server, Reddit page as well as Twitter.

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Who are House Vernius of Ix?

House Vernius of Ix positions themselves at the heart of the Ixian Confederacy. This faction of scientists and engineers pushes the boundaries of technology while navigating the political and diplomatic landscapes of the universe. While challenging the restrictions of the Butlerian Jihad, they create self-learning machines and sophisticated combat drones, all while denying any form of artificial consciousness. Their technological expertise is unmatched. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41624136/c3cf4d7cae6f095d26f38439eb386a09eea26a62.jpg

Councilors & Heroes

The faction is led by Rhombur, a cyborg whose survival depends on cybernetics. He’s supported by figures like Tessia Vernius, a Bene Gesserit with a strong espionage capability, and Bronso Vernius, a youthful rebel and historian. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41624136/47c07461b42a805d9bcae1e5aa114333a02e8b4e.png

Diplomacy

Diplomacy takes centre stage as you’ll need to navigate an intricate web of alliances within the Landsraad. House Vernius of Ix excels in the art of negotiation, offering unique opportunities to leverage strategic collaborations for mutual benefit. From technology sharing to resource allocation, every diplomatic decision carries the potential to shape the course of the war on Arrakis. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41624136/ac7d40db5f6b958ae65d336d9cd71c31fe4a692b.png

Patents

House Vernius of Ix's patented technology system enables you to secure exclusive rights to groundbreaking developments and dictate the pace of technological progress. With patents at your disposal, you'll wield unprecedented influence over the direction of the game, ensuring that victory is always within reach. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41624136/5036eb227b03b80ca3fe6bc7da32ffd218eb56c1.png

Nodal Network

House Vernius of Ix introduces the Neural Node system, offering a dynamic new approach to expansion and conquest. Strategically construct your network of Neural Nodes to enhance defense capabilities, optimize resource management, and gain the upper hand in battles. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41624136/5b11b468e481f34f96de3aec17129c27dd46468b.jpg

Main Base

The main base of House Vernius of Ix offers a unique gameplay experience, with district specialization and strategic bonuses. Optimize your base layout to maximize efficiency and gain strategic advantages on the battlefield. From technological superiority to diplomatic supremacy, every aspect of House Vernius of Ix's main base reflects the faction's unwavering commitment to excellence. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41624136/18789ecfd3186a22286664ee0a0a089b1a533c16.jpg

Conquest

House Vernius of Ix will be available in Conquest mode at release. Lead the proud technological faction through a 15 hours campaign that will reach every corner of Arrakis. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41624136/d9aec27fe9a1ef9cf53c33648cc142906a8edbb8.jpg As always, let us know what you think of the upcoming content! In the meantime, feel free to join our awesome (and passionate) community on our Discord server, Reddit page as well as Twitter.

Hello everyone! We're extremely happy to finally share with you that the first DLC for Dune: Spice Wars, House Vernius of Ix, will be available for purchase on March 7th. A Steam news article providing a brief overview of the new faction will be published tomorrow, March 1st. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2807090/Dune_Spice_Wars__House_Vernius_of_Ix/ A free major update will be released on the same day as the DLC, bringing the much anticipated Heroes of Dune content to the base game as well as addressing community requests and feedback. Another Steam news article will give you a sneak peek into the contents of the update on March 2nd. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41624136/a0e98d1bef11969d73fe7151f2c34b16aef68b04.png We hope that you will be as excited about this news as we have been throughout development! In the meantime, feel free to join our awesome (and passionate) community on our Discord server, Reddit page as well as Twitter.

Dune: Spice Wars has been honoured with the title of Strategy/Simulation Game of the Year at the 27th DICE Awards! Congratulations to the team here at Shiro Games who have poured their passion into creating an exceptional gaming experience for fans of both the Dune universe and strategy games. A special thank you to our community, your support & contributions over the last couple of years have been instrumental in helping us reach this incredible milestone. - Shiro Games

Hey Everyone! Community Update #2 has arrived on Arrakis! As usual, the changes are based on community feedback/sentiments, read on to find out more...

Conquest

Faction specific councilors with text dialogs & voiceover have been added. They will appear when launching a new conquest, during every mission, and at the end of each conquest. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41624136/3e677aa6199d27083335630adab14d178edd4881.gif The goal is to improve both the immersion and personality of each faction, and give a better narrative feel to the conquest. A new mission, “Skirmish”, has been added. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41624136/f9d11e402499c184aecb8b6826e7d2b8620d491c.jpg

Faction Selection

The single player faction selection screen has been improved, adding new shortcuts & making each faction more visible. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41624136/af0dde5eaf6b5a4fddc5b7fb6418377c92c87e99.gif

Quick Start

For experienced players that want to skip the early game, we’ve added a “quick start” option, available both in single player and multiplayer skirmishes. You start with increased resources and more map knowledge. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41624136/27d5b696faf717396ac7a537e091d720c740bd93.png

Multiplayer

We’ve dramatically reduced the bandwidth use in multiplayer, in order to decrease lag, especially during the endgame phase.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a crash on startup that affected new versions of the Steam Deck
• Fixed a crash when starting a lobby

Full changelog here - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZXpuWBrSc2Zp64P02O7baujPmmeAeJyYV84W4GORpys/edit?usp=sharing Thank you all for your feedback and suggestions, we can't wait to hear your thoughts and feedback on this update! - Shiro Games

v1.1.0.29441

Bug fixes

• Fixed a crash caused by some usernames
• Fixed a crash when hovering over some keywords
• Fixed a crash when recruiting specific units
• Fixed an issue where some buttons could vanish after clicking them
• Fixed an issue where the Landsraad pop-up could be dismissed
• Fixed an issue on gamepad that could lead to locking the player on the Victory or Defeat screen

Others

• Changed how siege actions are displayed on the Village's banner when using a gamepad
• Removed the light freeze before the Landsraad council opens
• Reduced light freezes when moving the camera

Hey Everyone! We’re proud to announce that Dune: Spice Wars is available now on the Xbox Series X/S! You can check out the release trailer below.

Hey Everyone! Community Update #1 is now live! With this update, we have made a number of changes based entirely on the feedback and suggestions of our players since our launch out of early access! Check out the full list of changes below…

Controller Support

The game is now fully playable with a controller, crossplay with XBOX is supported. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41624136/fa08faaa3b79e0888468047baebae1c922d5b9b4.png The wheel menu has been added to provide a seamless experience for controller users. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41624136/3e61b22b0d0690c4eb34e64ba169ee6abf11a9be.png

Keyword Tooltip

It’s now possible to hover over most keywords to open a tooltip, a much-requested feature.. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41624136/bb7c59222f14aa20c5f12303afe547a3dccc6368.png

Landsraad Rework

To make the Landsraad council less of a strain on your attention, we’ve condensed it into a single event that happens every 20 days. It puts the whole game on pause, and contains every landsraad phase in short succession. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41624136/4016f7c593cf5441a473e3498bcb44f5acf6e1b8.png

Other important changes to the Landsraad Council:

To make strategy involving Charters less subject to luck, we added a new system: Charter Priority, letting players choose which Charter will appear on the ballot thanks to their influence. We added many new resolutions and improved the way they were picked to make the proposed resolutions more relevant to current situation. We improved the visual representation of political power, and voting results, as well as a tutorial for the Landsraad Council. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41624136/45552689eb02c9aff073c6c8ea43077537de1911.png

Harvester rework

Harvesters no longer require to be manually deployed. To keep the thematic element of risk/reward involved in Spice Harvesting, they now have two modes: Greed Mode and Safe Mode Safe Mode is only available with an ornithopter attached. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41624136/c1bec9ad59c6b0c20a9fcc7600e57a19f131ae91.png

Conquest

Many Atreides, Harkonnen and Corrino bonuses have been reworked to be more enjoyeable & fun. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41624136/173c0f3c591b52a5580b067c9186968859cc8c8a.png

Main Base Buildings

We've added 3 new Main Base Buildings: Recycling Vats, Fusion Plant and Landsraad Quarters. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41624136/e20c217f238580eac2c2237c61bc57e1c7d15c31.png

Water Balancing

The development that unlocked the “windtraps” building felt mandatory in the previous patch, which is why we removed it completely: “Windtraps” are now exclusive to the Fremen. “Dew collectors” have been balanced accordingly, and new avenues of Water production have been added. Full changelog here - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QmWNzn2EZRnSK6aSaGYouYr_FQ6OErj1FFhZtxvY8NI/edit?usp=sharing Thank you all for your feedback and suggestions, we can't wait to hear your thoughts and feedback on this update! Enjoy the update and stay tuned for news about what's next for Dune: Spice Wars! - Shiro Games

Hello everyone! Nominations for the 2023 Steam Awards are open, and we would love it if you would vote for Dune: Spice Wars in the ‘Outstanding visual style’ category. Navigating the challenges of a revered universe like Dune, we embarked on a delicate dance between uniqueness and homage. Breaking free from existing materials, we forged our own expression within Herbert's legacy. The diverse desert biomes of Arrakis became our canvas, injecting vitality into procedurally generated maps and avoiding the monotony of endless sand dunes. As a mark of our commitment to innovation, we're proud that Dune: Spice Wars was honoured with the Best Technological Innovation award at the 2023 Pégases, recognizing its groundbreaking procedurally generated maps. “There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe. It has symmetry, elegance, and grace - these qualities you find always in that the true artist captures. You can find it in the turning of the seasons, the way sand trails along a ridge, in the branch clusters of the creosote bush of the pattern of its leaves. We try to copy these patterns in our lives and in our society, seeking the rhythms, the dances, the forms that comfort. Yet, it is possible to see peril in the finding of ultimate perfection. It is clear that the ultimate pattern contains its own fixity. In such perfection, all things move towards death.” - Frank Herbert, Dune Thank you all for your continued support, Shiro Games https://store.steampowered.com/app/1605220/Dune_Spice_Wars/