Duke Leto's survival could also provide Dune: Awakening the setup for a continued war between the Atreides, Harkonnen, and Fremen on Arrakis . New footage from Funcom's 15-minute Dune: Awakening Direct showcase showed some of this ongoing conflict, with players searching the wreckage of vehicles on the battlefield for scraps and resources, which they could later use to build bases across Arrakis. The aforementioned PC Gamer interview with Bylos also suggested that players could get a chance to align themselves with Leto depending on the choices they make, and who they opt to help up to that point, which also implies that players could join forces with other factions instead.
Afterward, we were tasked with gathering copper ore, creating a refinery, creating a survey launch to find resources, and crossing the dunes again to visit an Outpost. At these locations, players can trade and interact with NPCs, as well as acquire contracts. The contracts we received were all outside the available stomping grounds for us now, but find and defeat, deliver X, and other standard contract work was available to us. The main reason we were sent with the outpost was to acquire a literjohn schematic, which is essentially a flask to carry purified water in. After that, despite not having the stillsuit for very long, we were tasked with researching and crafting scavenger armor, followed by a sandbike (with its own tool research as we
Then, as you progress, things start to "elevate more into a story and become connected to the wider story and the wider story arcs. Players will develop their own storylines that will integrate and form larger clans, larger groupings, and drive things in the deep desert gameplay, where you want them to sort of create their own storylines, but there still is that big overlap in story that players will interact wi
It is not Minecraft where punching trees can result in resources; this is Dune. dune awakening weapons is complex and hard to translate to any other medium, so working with tools like cutterays and various fabricators is something new, surviving the sands of Arrakis is complex, and engaging with all of its features is intensive. Teaching players how all of this works is a must, and the early hours of Dune: Awakening are wholly focused on teaching players to survive the hostile pla
Dune: Awakening begins with character creation that lets players decide what they will look like. It was intuitive enough to make someone look like Paul Atreides or even the hairless and pale Harkonnens of the Dune movies, and it led to a scene with a Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother asking us questions about our past. This would determine our starting skills before she tasked us with finding the Fremen and shipped us off to Dune. Our prisoner transport was shot down by a mysterious figure who would save us from the rubble, introducing us to the world of Dune: Awakeni
It is "one of the challenges with regular sandbox survival games," Whelan said. "You know, you rub sticks together to make fire. You cut down a tree for a stack of logs. It's a very organic, understandable, relatable thing. In this universe, we just don't have that. And we're not underestimating the intelligence of our players. They can figure this stuff out. They know that there are technologies that are available to th
As an MMO, the multiplayer component is obviously a defining element of Dune: Awakening , expanding the scope of Conan Exiles , Funcom's previous multiplayer survival game. That also means that Dune: Awakening is sacrificing the ability to take on its challenges in single-player, so anyone looking for a solitary experience on Arrakis might have to turn to one of the various Dune strategy games made over the ye
When talking about future plans, "you can go places," Whelan said vaguely. "There's nothing really stopping us from doing that. There's nothing technically stopping us from going to other planets in the future. It's such a wide universe that they've created. I just want to work on a place with trees, so there's no end to what we can do. It's great. It's a great license for th
Anyone planning to play Dune: Awakening at launch might do well to take advantage of the early Character Creator release, as there's more to do than just swap out some hairstyles. The Gom Jabbar test makes an appearance in the character creation process, as do the options to choose background characteristics like home planet and caste. A mentor can also be chosen from the available Schoo
"Working on movie licenses is problematic. I've worked with movie licenses in the past, and it's always hard to get information from the production team," Whelan told me. However, he said that Legendary has been "very good at keeping a connection with us. Feeding us information, giving us concepts, giving us production designs, all the way through to talking to the cinematographer, Greg Fraser. He’s a fantastic guy, really easy to talk to once I got past my fear of who he is, a double Oscar winn