

Construct your fortress in the style of your choosing" Hone your craft to become sought out for the finest creations.

Consume spice to conquer your senses and acquire powerful abilities. "Tailor every aspect of your character."Hunt for spice blooms and deploy your harvester, then protect it from opportunistic raiders and rival factions".Avoid or be devoured by the colossal sandworms that dwell beneath the sands." "Build shelters against sandstorms, maintain your stillsuit, and master the old ways to walk even the deepest deserts.These special full-body suits capture all bodily fluids and filter the impurities out so that they're potable, so that should be an interesting feature to play with in Awakening perhaps you'll be able to upgrade your stillsuit in order to increase your water retention? The Dune: Awakening Steam page gives us some clues: True to the lore of the source material, Arrakis-dwelling Fremen have to wear stillsuits in order to survive. We know that Funcom was inspired by action RPG Valheim's water gauge, so we might expect a similar thirst meter in Awakening. Now, the thought of managing hunger and thirst on Arrakis for Dune is daunting as hell. You can capture thralls to help increase your crafting speed or get special crafting recipes and a whole host of other benefits. It’ll be on Steam when it does arrive.įor more Gamescom coverage, be sure to check out our Gamescom 2022 hub for all the latest news, impressions from the show floor and more.Conan Exiles' gameplay requires you to manage hunger and thirst gauges by using natural resources that can be found, as well as fending off dangerous animals. There’s no release date for Dune: Awakening yet, but hopefully it won’t be out 20,000 years from now. Funcom have said there’s a beta coming, and you can sign up for that on the official Dune: Awakening site over here. Calling it now that there'll be at least the three factions of Atriedes, Harkonnen and Fremen to choose from too. I'm hoping that you'll get the chance to pilot an ornithopter and ride a sandworm. Dune: Awakening is definitely going for that vibe judging by the look of today’s trailer. I enjoyed the first half of that there Denis Villeneuve Dune movie that came out last year. They’re known for other licensed MMOs such as Conan Exiles. The game’s coming from Funcom, purveyors of licensed Dune games since 2019. There’s a blue-eyed bloke in a Fremen stillsuit who’s prepping himself to jump aboard one of Arrakis’ gigantic sandworms. The trailer’s narrated by someone running themselves through the Bene Gesserit litany against fear, what with that being the mindkiller and everything. Watch on YouTube Dune: Awakenings is an MMO set in the universe of Frank Herbert's novels from the company who made Conan Exiles.
