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I will neither confirm nor deny that I was among those miffed that a powerplanning mistake got their base pillaged and destroyed in Dune: Awakening, but I will say auto-run sure could make the recovery process from such an error less painful. Funcom must’ve heard that complaint more than once too, as Dune: Awakening has a new auto-run toggle on the way.

The blessed new keybind was included in the latest version of Dune: Awakening’s public test client and outlined in the patch notes. Behold:

“Implemented auto-run toggle which automatically moves character/vehicle forward.”

But yeah, truthfully I did screw up the power on my smaller mining outpost and felt so annoyed by the whole ordeal I put my Arrakis adventuring on hiatus. Auto-run was one of the first things I looked for when I started playing to make a quick alt-tab in and out of the game less annoying, and little quality-of-life goes a long way—I’ve been wanting to get back into it.

Of course the update doesn’t just center around auto-run. Dune: Awakening’s upcoming build also added new rewards for completing the Advanced Trainer Contracts with an “exclusive armor set specific to each trainer,” and players already done with those questlines get the goodies retroactively.

There’s also new quests for the journey storyline—remember you gotta find the Fremen and all that jazz—plus a Character Recustomizer for those of us who want a makeover without creating a whole new character. Funcom says they’re available in Harko Village and Arrakeen City along with new hairstyles and tattoos, though altering your appearance isn’t free. Can’t wait to skip out on my taxes after spending too much on tattoos.

A few other noteworthy highlights include:

Assault Ornithopters storage capacity increased to 20 slots/2,000 volume
A new Duraluminum-tier weapon, the Adept Missile Launcher
Easier organization from the Placeables and Vehicles menu with a new renaming function

The “improvements to mismatching and glitching building pieces” also has me itching to jump back in, but that could be such a small change I don’t even notice. It’s no secret I can be a bit of a base-building snob, but sometimes my building blocks misbehaved in some wild ways.

Anyone can try out the new patch through the Dune: Awakening Public Test Client, and Funcom is asking for player feedback before it pushes this update to the live build. If the patch keeps the same cadence as others, then I’m assuming it’ll be one or two weeks before I can auto-run my way straight into a big ol’ worm’s maw.

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No Man’s Sky‘s next big content drop is here and it continues the sci-fi survival sim’s journey to give players more tools than ever to play around with. Called Voyagers, update 6.0 will let fans make custom starships with enough space to walk around in them and crew them with friends. Whether you want to recreate the Normandy from Mass Effect or pretend you’re smuggling Dilithium across Federation borders in Star Trek, it’s another impressive step forward for a game that originally launched on so many broken promises.

No Man’s Sky: Voyagers arrives after a year of major reworks to the game that overhauled how its worlds are procedurally generated and rendered. Now Hello Games has retrofitted the way players will travel between them by introducing starship customization that sounds essentially like base-building for zooming around the galaxy. And unlike the traditional fighter-style craft players have been exploring planets with up to this point, these new ships will be much bigger.

They’re being called Corvettes and will come complete with hulls, wings, landing gear, cockpits, engine parts, thrusters, and all of the necessary living arrangements for the crew. Those include sleeping quarters, med-bays, war rooms, teleporters, and more. Players can choose how to design their new ships and what to include, whether you want to build a warship or something more modest and cozy.

“Adding bigger weapons to your Corvette increases your firepower,” studio director Sean Murray wrote in a press release. “Add sleeping quarters and a mission radar, and you are ready to welcome a crew of friends on board. Add a mission radar and you are ready to adventure. A teleporter and you have an away team. Or just add a window…and suddenly there are these special moments, watching as the universe flies by outside at warp speed.”

Players who are just starting out won’t unlock Corvettes until a bit into No Man’s Sky, but a special Corvette expedition added in the update is meant to help streamline the process so players can get it started as soon as possible. You can even have players flying multiple Corvettes over a planet together. Murray promises you can skydive between them. And of course all of this ongoing work in No Man’s Sky cross-pollinates with Hello Games’ upcoming fantasy survival sim Light No Fire. We still have no date on when that will be ready, but it sounds like it’ll benefit from all of No Man’s Sky‘s improvements rather than starting over from scratch once it arrives.

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Auto-run is enough to get me to reinstall Dune: Awakening, but customization do-overs and trainer fashion sweeten the deal

No Man’s Sky Goes Full Star Trek In Massive Ship Customization Update