This extension makes the minor faction of Smugglers playable. It grants a new look and features to the faction while keeping it feel vanilla.

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Vermins of Dune 1.0.1

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Hello, everyone! Vermins of Dune 1.0.1 is out! You can download it with this link:


This is a relatively small update.

First of all, it applies all the changes from the recent OpenRA Dune release.

Second.. Well before starting, I would like to briefly share my plans.

It is new content that gives a glimpse of the direction I am currently working on. That is the campaign - I want you to be able to enjoy it anew. Worry not, I am not abandoning skirmish. I just feel some changes are safer to experiment with in the campaign. And if you happen to like them, I might consider also adding them to the skirmish.

So.. The second feature that comes with this version is the first of the Culture Building series. This is the Atreides Monument. This building can be found in two missions during the campaign. Whoever owns it unlocks the ability to build grenadiers during that mission.

For the more experienced players the images below will hint at the specific missions you can find this new building in.

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Vermins of Dune: March

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Screenshot of Smuggler Base


Hello guys!

Hope you all enjoyed the beta version of Vermins of Dune I released last month. Since that, I worked on polishing the already existing content, and my estimates are

Vermins of Dune 1.0.0 will arrive before July (hopefully much sooner)


Balance

One of my focuses now will be to make the faction more balanced. I'll appreciate any help on that, please write down in the comments, how you think the balance can be improved.


Upcoming Changes

Installer

According to your feedback, the installer for some of you couldn't download game files, which prevented a successful game installation. To tackle this problem I added an additional mirror for game data, and the mirror list is now stored on GitHub.

Also we now finally have an installer for the Linux version!

Visuals

Several sprite polishes will also arrive in 1.0.0.

  • Smoother Radar Animation for Outpost
  • Polish for Palace Sprite
  • Loading Screen image will feel slightly less flat

Outpost Radar Animation Comparison


Breaking Change

Custom map folder is now relocated to d2k_smugglers/1.0.0 instead of d2k/{DEV_VERSION}

Other

The update will also include some minor fixes like polished encyclopedia entries.


For those of you that want the freshest news the soonest, this changelog is continuously updated. Please note as this changelog is updated more frequently it might contain some nonfinal statements.