Materially, what this does to the world of Dune: Awakening, is provide you with an Arrakis that’s in the course of a full-blown conflict. The Fremen are nowhere to be seen (we’re advised they’re at the moment “lacking”), and the Atreides, who are actually alive and effectively on this alternate universe, proceed to battle towards the Harkonnen and others over the sources on the planet. This provides you a land that’s ripe for scavenging, filled with wrecked buildings, damaged autos, and loads of weapons to unearth.
With the stage set, and with a bit creativeness, you may envision how Funcom, who’re no strangers to growing large worlds, might create an unbelievable survival MMO gaming expertise right here. Just lately, we acquired to see this world first-hand in a current hands-off preview construct throughout Summer season Recreation Fest: Play Days. Whereas the title remains to be in improvement, you may see the bones are firmly in place to present us a compelling journey that may allow us to discover huge swathes of the lethal planet Arrakis.
One characteristic specifically, often called 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 mix of ranged and melee skills that may work tandem to create attention-grabbing choices for gamers in how they strategy PVP and PVE encounters in Dune: Awakening. And naturally with the ability to drive autos — that features the versatile Ornithopters, modelled after those seen within the current movies (and Microsoft Flight Simulator).