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
In the world of Dune: Awakening , war between the Atreides and Harkonnen houses still rages on Arrakis, but the Fremen that inhabit the planet have disappeared . Players start from the bottom, setting out to explore the dunes as prisoners on a uniquely dangerous assignment. If they can survive, however, the game offers opportunities to build bases and grow in power with the riches of the spice trade and the powers of Schools like the Bene Gesserit and Ment
For the last hour or so of our gameplay, Dune: Awakening devs spawned in an Ornithopter for us to play with. It was, by far, one of the safest and fastest forms of travel to this point, although how far into the base game players are required to advance before obtaining one legitimately is unknown. We could cross the entire basin in a fraction of the time it took us to run it. It also made finding scavenger camps, loots, and secrets on top of stone structures much easier. For example, we immediately flew for the tallest landmark we could see and found a downward spiraling cave just begging to be explo
At a high level, Dune: Awakening has some very lofty goals. It is a shared open-world survival game , so players can encounter, work with, and compete with others. The game takes players through four stages that Funcom internally refers to as Survive, Protect, Expand, and Control. This is not necessarily hard-defined elements in the game but a description in which the gameplay evolves. Players arrive on the iconic planet of Arrakis, also known as Dune, as a prisoner and must survive its endless sands, beginning the Survive “phase.” Here, water is a survival demand and Spice is a rarity; by the Control “phase,” players should be able to wield both as resources of political influence in endgame content, player trades, and so fo
Planetologists exist as an additional School in the game, but it’s not an option that appears to be available for a jump start during character creation. Abilities can ultimately be learned from all Schools , with the starting choice simply defining what a character will have access to as they first venture into the harsh desert of Arra
Funcom should lean more into the setting of Dune , full stop. When the game is flavorful, Awakening is at its absolute best, and it goes without saying that **Dune: Awakening ** is a massively ambitious game. How Funcom intends to support it long term, and how effectively it will manage its playerbase and emergent story, is yet to be seen. As of right now, with some tweaks pre-launch, Awakening could be a standout diamond in the rough for Dune f
At the start of Dune: Awakening , you’ll have access to one particular kind of training. You select this at character creation. When you do so, you’ll gain access to an intricate skill tree. However, there are multiple types of trainings avaialble to you throughout the world of Arrakis, and you can unlock and learn skills from all of t
The meta-human aspect of Dune (constantly swirling around the concept of spice, an enhancing/mystical drug of sorts) lends itself well to basic archetypes, without going too over the top. Early abilities are largely locomotion-based , either attempting to close the gap between opponents or pull them toward you. It’s a simple mechanical callback to action games of old, but it makes combat more exciting out of the g
Zantara was injured in the escape, giving us tasks to survive now through a communication device. We acquired some basic armor, began collecting resources with our cutteray, and crafted a Maula Pistol (which uses darts instead of bullets given the shield technology of Dune and how ineffective firearms became). Then we researched and crafted binoculars and a respawn beacon. What we could not scavenge ourselves, of course, we needed to take from others. We identified a nearby scavenger camp with our binoculars and attacked them for resources. Using those, as well as finding more resources, let us craft a Construction T
**Dune Awakening patch notes: Awakening has officially confirmed a release date of May 20, 2025 ** , at which point the game will become available on PC through the Steam client. On the heels of fresh gameplay footage and some hands-on events for press and creators, the game will launch on PC close to three years after Dune: Awakening ‘s announceme
