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 conflict. The Fremen are nowhere to be seen (we’re advised they’re at the moment “lacking”), and the Atreides, who at the moment are alive and nicely on this alternate universe, proceed to battle in opposition to the Harkonnen and others over the assets on the planet. This provides you a land that’s ripe for scavenging, stuffed with wrecked constructions, damaged autos, and loads of weapons to unearth.
With the stage set, and with a bit of creativeness, you’ll be able to envision how Funcom, who’re no strangers to creating huge worlds, may create an unbelievable survival MMO gaming expertise right here. Just lately, we bought 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 possibly can see the bones are firmly in place to offer us a compelling journey that may allow us to discover huge swathes of the lethal planet Arrakis.
One function particularly, 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 time and again, giving the planet itself a way of being alive. There’s additionally Mixed Arms, which is the mix of ranged and melee talents 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).