There is no doubt that Dune has conquered the world. His first film, released in 2021, was a surprise to many people and created a new fever for Frank Herbert’s original works. On March 15, the second film premiered in theaters and then it became clear that the franchise is here to stay. Your domination of the screens will be total with the video game Dune: Awakening.
The open-world survival MMO is scheduled for release in 2024. Many Dune fans have been attracted by the idea of surviving in the desert like the Fremen, but the situation in the video game will be much more complicated than in the movies.
The giant worms will be the least of our problems in Dune: Awakening. Funcom, responsible for the project, answered some questions during the Game Developers Conference event in San Francisco. The middle PCGamer points out that they made it very clear that the massive multiplayer experience will be very focused on offering a very aggressive PVP, more than usual.
We think PvP works best when people are competing for resources, or trying to return resources to the base, and fighting over something that’s not as personal as your base. – Scott Junior, executive producer of Dune: Awakening
The idea is that players kill each other in a brutal and fierce fight for the resources of Arrakis. The team is based on the lore of Dune to justify such an aggressive PVP: Spice is one of the most valuable resources in the universe and we must be willing to kill for it, like the Harkonnens. Of course, they want the fight to take place in world events (“Spice Hits”) and not in the classic base assaults, which will have shields and many defenses.
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