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.
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Fighting is customization
When fighting enemies (NPCs or other players, since this is an online game), you’ll have a number of different ways to do it. There are various classes focused on melee, firearms, or arcane skills, giving you special insight into your opponent’s abilities. There are some extensive skill trees, and it seems like you can pick abilities on the fly to deal with any situation.
For example, shields are an important part of combat. Traditional firearms that use bullets are not effective against shields, so you’ll need to craft dart weapons or focus on close-range melee combat. Some enemies will be shielded, so you’ll need to constantly pay attention to changing your skills and arsenal.
Build for yourself or a friend
Once you get the hang of survival, you’ll want to stake your claim on the land in order to establish a base of operations. First, you need to craft a special item that allows you to build on a piece of land, and then you need to pay taxes to the emperor. Buildings can be visualized through holographic 3D floor plans and built by you or online friends. Your favorite designs can be saved and used anywhere else you decide to build, or you can sell them to other players.
Once you have a base, you can start crafting machines that allow you to purify blood into drinking water or build vehicles. Land vehicles can travel across the desert faster, while flying vehicles will unlock more Arrakis.
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wider world dune
Once you have your aircraft, you can access the Player Center. These are the larger social spaces in the cities of Arrakis. The Player Center allows you to connect with other players to trade or form a guild. In these hub areas, there are also vendors to purchase and story-driven quests to pursue.
The Nexus is also home to the two main factions in the game: the Harkonnens and the Atreides. You’ll be able to pledge allegiance to either faction to shape the future of Arrakis.
When teaming up with friends, you can challenge test stations. These are wakeversion of dungeons and offers challenges to tackle with friends. In addition to some of the best loot and resources available, each test station has its own story that you can unlock as you eliminate enemies.
this is the ending
The final part of the gameplay reveal was teased wakeThe endgame is tough as nails. This will center on a spice explosion deep in the desert. Since spice is a sought-after resource, these explosions will draw every player around to collect them, turning resource races into massive high-level battles against players and the environment. If you’re in dire straits and want to throw a wrench into the battle for spice, you can even summon one of the game’s giant sandworms to set a timer for how long players can stay nearby before being eaten. long time. These large-scale events seem to be highlights Dune: Awakening.
When you arrive, you’ll be able to conquer the Arrakis Desert yourself Dune: Awakening It launches on PC early next year.
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