Dune: Awakening Hands-On Preview

As you'll be able to mix-and-match skill-trees as you progress through the game, and also the ability to reset your skills, there's a lot of forgiveness if you've changed your mind about things, so the most important factor when choosing your first character class is what playstyle you enjoy the m


Every camp will have a mixture of melee and ranged attackers, and with a kit based around parries and deflecting projectiles, you'll start to think that bringing a knife to a gunfight isn't such a bad idea after


Q: The game is "divided" into four phases: survive, protect, expand, and control. Is there a different sort of goal for each phase in terms of how it relates to the player, what you're expecting the player to


Arrakis was a very large constraint. Because in most games like this, you go from the forest biome to the desert biome to the tundra to the volcano region, and we can't do that. What we do instead is change how the desert looks, change how the lighting in the desert looks. We do try to push things a little bit further than the movies do, to be closer to what the books


Because, when Herbert is describing Dune , he's talking about the beaches in Oregon, which have quite a bit of vegetation coming up through the sand dunes. We have some regions further in that have cacti and shrubs and other things there. It's difficult not to just be sand and rock all the time, but the art team, I feel, has done a really good job of using what we can with the game to make the areas you go to look differ


Dune Awakening Guide: Awakening is branding itself as " the most ambitious survival game ever made ," and whether it lives up to those lofty expectations or not, it's certainly swinging for the fences. The basic survival gameplay loop depends on the core tenets that define Arrakis , forcing players to avoid the sun's intensity, extract and preserve water, and steer clear of sandworms. The desert itself isn't stagnant, either, with Coriolis storms used as a mechanic to change up the environment and opportunities week by w

While not the best strategy for making your way across the planet, you can place Respawn Beacons all over the map (as many as you can craft) and use these to traverse long distances. First, craft the Respawn Beacons, then place them where you wish on the map.


A: It's not being a Bene Gesserit; it's having them be your trainer. It's similar to Paul Atreides. Paul's not a Bene Gesserit, but he's got the ability to use the Voice and things like that. That's where we're drawing from. You, as a male, wouldn't be part of the Bene Gesserit in the IP, so it's more of who your trainer was, what you started with. Even if you don't select that, you can find another Bene Gesserit trainer in the world, and she will teach you some of the tricks and unlock that skill tree for


Another thing we could use is how shields work in Dune. In the books, they talk about how guns just don't really matter anymore because they've come up with this Holtzman shield technology that can stop high-velocity things. Anything high-velocity coming in, it just completely nullifies it, right? It's like dueling has come back, everyone's fighting with melee instead, but we wanted to make a shoo


We need to monitor those things so that it feels like the IP - where water is scarce at the start, but, eventually, at the end, it's just like in the movies. The Atreides , they're not scouring for water. They have tons of it. They have palm trees entering into Arrakeen, you see that in the movie, so yeah, it's getting that careful balance between the early game and the later g


One of the things that makes this class an extremely fun and powerful starting choice is the incorporation of health regeneration passives like self-healing and recovery. These passives give the class the perfect touch of sustainability, which is incredibly useful, especially early on in the g


All of this, of course, is happening alongside a developing story that we won't go over here to avoid spoilers for those interested. However, it's worth noting that players do encounter a figure by the name of Zantara who acts as a guide for the duration of their journey. In Dune: Awakening 's earliest moments , he chimes in with frequent advice, with those calls becoming less frequent the further players progress through the game. Once the initial tutorial concludes, players are brought to Dune: Awakening 's open world and its first major zone: Hagga Basin So


I've found that using turrets and mines to clear camps is a really efficient way to level , making it one of the best starting choices in my opinion. There's a lot of focus on increased ranged weapon damage, as well as headshot damage, so if your aim is good, you can clear camps like a pro, especially if you've set the scene with traps and turr


The trooper class will give you big advantages when it comes to weapon maintenance and damage buffs, crowd-control, and mobility , but the skill tree is unlocked early on in the game, so it might be considered advantageous to choose a different class first and then synergize with it la