Materially, what this does to the world of Dune: Awakening, is provide you with an Arrakis that’s in the midst of a full-blown battle. The Fremen are nowhere to be seen (we’re instructed they’re at present “lacking”), and the Atreides, who at the moment are alive and properly on this alternate universe, proceed to battle towards the Harkonnen and others over the sources on the planet. This offers you a land that’s ripe for scavenging, filled with wrecked constructions, damaged automobiles, and loads of weapons to unearth.
With the stage set, and with a little bit creativeness, you possibly can envision how Funcom, who’re no strangers to growing huge worlds, might create an unbelievable survival MMO gaming expertise right here. Not too long ago, we obtained to see this world first-hand in a latest hands-off preview construct throughout Summer time Sport Fest: Play Days. Whereas the title continues to be in improvement, you might see the bones are firmly in place to offer us a compelling journey that can allow us to discover huge swathes of the lethal planet Arrakis.
One function specifically, generally known as Shifting Sands, will alter the panorama of the Deep Desert every week, hiding factors of curiosity and uncovering new ones, encouraging gamers to discover these areas over and over, giving the planet itself a way of being alive. There’s additionally Mixed Arms, which is the mixture of ranged and melee skills that can work tandem to create attention-grabbing choices for gamers in how they strategy PVP and PVE encounters in Dune: Awakening. And naturally having the ability to drive automobiles — that features the versatile Ornithopters, modelled after those seen within the latest movies (and Microsoft Flight Simulator).
