Dune: AwakeningSurvival MMO is set in Frank Herbert’s iconic sci-fi world, and it looks massive. Developer Funcom, the team behind Conan Exilesappears in gamescom and lots of new game screen upside down. In addition to giving an early 2025 release window, the footage also highlights nearly every major system you’ll be dealing with in the sand survival MMO.
Here’s the most important thing we’ve seen during this period Dune: AwakeningHuge game appearance.
Character creation gives you a lot of sliders
The first thing the new gameplay footage shows off is wakecharacter creation process. It starts with the appearance of your protagonist, which you can fine-tune or choose from a range of presets. Preset characters feel right at home Denis Villeneuve moviesthe developer said this was intentional. But if you want to make your hero your own, then you’ll have a ton of sliders to customize to your liking. These include age, height and finer features such as neck length.
Character creation does involve a much larger area dune The second part of the lore requires you to choose your history. The biggest choice will be who your mentor is, as this will determine your starting stats when you finally enter the world. While mentors rotate through quickly, there seems to be a mentor for every potential play style you might want to try, such as the sword master who focuses on melee combat, getting up close and personal with enemies.
The whole world wants to kill you
After creating our character, we’ll see the first steps into Arrakis. Waking up in a cave (pun intended), you’ll have a chance to get used to the game’s action and basic crafting before being thrust into the dangerous desert. Once you venture out into the sunlight, you’ll face a series of environmental challenges that need to be constantly addressed. Heat, sun exposure, and moisture all affect how you move and fight in the world.
Navigating the desert’s shadows is necessary because the longer you stay in the sun, the closer you get to one of the many debuffs the game can throw at you. You’ll also have to find ways to suck water from plants and even the blood of enemies to stay alive. Dune: Awakening It’s essentially a survival game, so you should always be ready for the world to strike back. These include giant sandworms that can appear when you’re walking in the desert. Just like in established lore, when these giant beasts appear (not at first), there doesn’t seem to be much to do, so you just have to rush to safety as quickly as possible.
The spices will flow
a status effect Dune: Awakening Teasing is about spices. You could become overexposed to the Arrakis drug and succumb to some mysterious effect that the developers only teased in previews. Because of how spices are connected to a more mystical side dune Lore-wise, I think spices might unlock special powers or narrative secrets, though you might have to pay some price for this forbidden knowledge.
Movement mechanics let you zoom anywhere
One of the coolest parts of the gaming showcase was seeing all the motion technology wake Both in and out of combat. Free climbing allows you to scale any surface you see, grapple-like tools allow you to quickly crawl across large spaces, and slings allow you to hover over gaps.
Dune: Awakening It looks to be an extremely smooth game, with a surprising amount of verticality. This extends to combat, allowing you to move quickly around the arena to attack enemies. Even in the desert, where you might think everything is flat at first glance, you can use mobile technology to zoom in on the rocky outcrops scattered across the map.