A smart Dune: Awakening player found a wild way to zip across the game’s toughest terrain by messing with how vehicles work. The game hit PC on June 10, 2025, throwing players into a huge online version of the famous desert planet to fight for control.
Dune: Awakening is killing it fresh off its launch, pulling in tons of players with its survival MMORPG style mixed with the super-hot Dune universe. Thanks to the big movie hits in 2021 and 2024, Dune’s been everywhere, with new games and tie-ins in stuff like Fortnite keeping the sci-fi classic in the spotlight.
As players get the hang of Dune: Awakening, a Reddit user named firepixel dropped a bold trick for getting back to base safe. In a video on the game’s subreddit, firepixel floors it off a crazy high cliff in a buggy loaded with valuable aluminum, free-falls for a few seconds, and lands perfectly fine at their base’s entrance. The trick works because Dune: Awakening’s buggies and vehicles don’t take fall damage, so players can just yeet off cliffs to skip proper paths.
Dune: Awakening Fall Damage Exploit Allows Easy Terrain Traversal
Players got a kick out of firepixel’s stunt and gave props for showing off something most folks are too scared to try, fearing they’ll die and lose their loot. Others chimed in, saying the no-fall-damage thing also works for other ground vehicles like sandbikes and sandcrawlers. On the flip side, players on foot can take non-lethal fall damage, so this vehicle quirk feels like a bit of a cheat.
While most thought the trick was handy, they’re torn on whether it should stay or get fixed. Some said fall damage should only hit in PVP zones to stop players from using it to dunk on rivals. Others want it gone completely, arguing it makes Dune’s tough terrain too easy, which is supposed to be a real hurdle for setting up bases and resource routes. They pointed out that if you can just spawn a vehicle and drop off cliffs with no consequences, a lot of the game’s challenges and defenses become kinda useless.
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