Funcom has released hotfix 1.5.15.4 for Dune: Awakening. It comes shortly after 1.5.15.3, which dealt with crashes during The Scourge event. This one is small but covers three fixes, and one of them takes items away from some players. The hotfix needs a client download. If Steam doesn’t pick it up on its own, restarting the Steam client should make it appear. Servers were brought back online shortly after the patch.
Character transfers no longer trigger Error 972
The most serious fix is for character transfers. Some players moving characters between servers ran into Error 972. After that, characters either disappeared or showed up in the main menu as level 0. That’s a frightening thing to see after hours spent in Arrakis, and Funcom says the problem behind it has now been fixed.
The notes don’t say whether characters already affected by the bug will be restored, so anyone still seeing a missing or level 0 character should keep an eye on Funcom’s support channels.
Scourge event fixes and rollbacks
The other two fixes concern contracts tied to The Scourge event:
- Contagion Cowl restored as a reward: the cosmetic was supposed to be a reward for the Containment: Patient Zero contract but wasn’t being handed out. Players who already completed the contract will get the Cowl retroactively, so there’s no need to repeat it.
- “What the Doctor Ordered” exploit closed: this contract could be accepted again and again, which let players farm it. Funcom has stopped that and also cleaned up the results. Blood Marks earned by completing the contract more than once have been removed from inventories, along with any Vials bought with those Blood Marks.
That second change means some players will log in with fewer Blood Marks or Vials than they had before the hotfix. Funcom hasn’t said how it separated legitimate rewards from repeated ones, only that the extra currency and the Vials bought with it are gone.
For known issues that remain after this hotfix, Funcom points players to its Discord server and the Steam discussion boards.
Source: Dune: Awakening official news.
