Inventory management is essential for surviving Arrakis. However, it’s also very easy to lose your inventory if you die, or worst case scenario, get devoured by a sandworm. When this happens, you lose all inventory you have on your per
At the beginning of the game, you’ll have the option to have your research tree locked or unlocked, and I recommend having it unlocked so that you have the freedom to forge your own path and potentially add the Shigawire-Sandbike combo to your kit as soon as possi
A: When we say MMO, we don’t mean MMORPG . We’re talking more about the amount of players that you’re interacting with and this endgame system that’s more social. We have different archetypes, as I talked about earlier, with building and crafting. At the start of the game, you need to experience all of these things. However, you can progress if you party up with other people to do things you don’t necessarily want to
Combat can go any number of ways in survival games, and Dune: Awakening finds itself somewhere right in the middle. It is fun and serviceable, even if it is not exactly groundbreaking for the genre. Players can acquire new skills throughout the skill trees, based on archetypes in Dune like the Bene Gesserit , and use those in various combat encounters. Because of my choices at the start of the game, I began with a deployable turret. Throughout my time with the game, it became my go-to skill because it would consistently kill all enemies in the area very quickly. I later acquired a deployable shield wall that would also let me protect myself and let the turret put in the work. The combination was fun, although there were times when I had (or wanted) to get involved myself. My third skill was effectively a poison grenade, but I only used it if my turret couldn’t be deplo
We were supposed to use the sandbike to navigate to the second Trial of Aql, but it was far to the north of our location. While all movement to this point involved us crossing the open sands as little as possible, out of appropriate fear of sandworms, we needed to use the sandbike to cross a large open area. We knew it was a risk, but we did not leave anything behind in the base. Attempting to make that crossing led to our sandbike and us being devoured by one of Dune: Awakening ‘s sandwor
In each phase, there will be different players that can set their own goals in different ways. So, say, at the start of the game, water is a survival pressure, right? It’s a very quintessential Dune pressure of “Water is scarce, and you must get it, and you can never have too much of it.” It’s the only thing that’s keeping you from dying in Du
It took us some time to find this cave, and in the process, we came across one of the underground labs/dungeons. While it wasn’t without challenge, it essentially involved us fighting through groups of enemies to acquire rare components. Afterward, we finally found the cave, grabbed some resources from it too, and then had to go all the way back to the base to purify water and drink it. And craft a stillsuit that would slowly charge with urine for us to hydrate w
Upcoming multiplayer survival game Dune: Awakening deposits players on the forbidding desert planet of Arrakis and challenges them with a single mission: survive. Dune: Awakening players must work together to find water and spice, face down sandworms and other foes, and ultimately create a guild powerful enough to challenge the very Imperium itself. At that point, the mission is not longer to survive Arrakis, but to control Arrakis. Set within the rich world originally created by Frank Herbert, Dune Awakening Guide: Awakening is a sprawling open-world survival game like no ot
If you love the sound of poisonous traps, snipers, and turrets , Mentat is your calling. You’ll utilize skills that increase your rifle and headshot damage considerably, as well as poisonous traps and turrets to place that will help you control areas and have your back when you need it most. The Mentat is for gamers who love strategic think
Being in the sun drains your water reserves incredibly quickly and is one of the easiest ways to die in Dune: Awakening . So, when traversing Arrakis, make sure you stick to the shade as much as possible, even if you have to stop for a bit to let the sunstroke wear off.
So, before you set out on a journey away from your sub-fief, make sure you drink as much water as you can, filling up any water containers you may have, and then deposit as much blood as you can into the system, so that it can filter more water for you while you’re away. In this way, you can rest easy knowing that you always have more water coming your
You can’t play the game as a pacifist. It’s Dune. It’s a violent world. But you can eventually start teaming up with people and taking on a role in a guild that’s not necessarily about shooting and killing. It can be more about harvesting, if that’s what you want. This is something we saw in Conan Exiles that we want to build further on in Dune, which is at endgame, people have the game loops that they really like and en
