Dune: Awakening's Mid-to-Endgame Gameplay Revealed With Just 5 Days to Go for 'Head Start' Players

Funcom asked america to "let them cook," and going connected past night's Dune: Awakening showcase, the developers did. With conscionable a fewer days to spell earlier aboriginal entree players get their "head start," Funcom enactment connected a livestream showing disconnected Dune: Awakening's mid-to-endgame, and a wide circuit of the Hagga Basin "to stress the size and assortment players tin expect," including the "lush O’odham, the forbidding Hagga Rift, the gangly spires and imposing stone formations of Jabal Eifrit, to sanction conscionable a few."

Inspired by Denis Villeneuve and Legendary Entertainment’s blockbuster films, Dune: Awakening lets players research Arrakis successful an open-world crippled for the archetypal clip ever. Up until now, adjacent beta players person lone seen astir 25% of Hagga Basin, truthful the watercourse showcased "these immense and divers landscapes" successful each their glory.

"Before adjacent considering the immense dunes and dangers of the Deep Desert, players volition acquisition a full-scale endurance game," Funcom teased.

"They volition emergence done the ranks of the Atreides oregon Harkonnen; physique almighty strongholds; brave Imperial Testing Stations; trade precocious schematics; research and harvest successful a assortment of vehicles, and much, overmuch more." Furthermore, the "Landsraad diagnostic allows anyone to lend successful the effort to interaction their full faction, whether they similar PvE oregon PvP."

Dune: Awakening is an open-world endurance MMO acceptable connected the astir unsafe satellite successful the universe. You'll larn to past the godforsaken by learning the ways of the Fremen, and grow your imaginable done combat, spice, building, and trade. It's acceptable to merchandise connected June 10, 2025, connected PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X and S aft a three-week hold to hole issues identified during its beta testing. Players with an "early start," however, get to play 5 days aboriginal from June 5.

"As a longtime instrumentality of Dune, it besides conscionable feels truthful bully to research and larn much astir a satellite that I’m rather fond of, and Funcom has intelligibly enactment a ton of effort into worldbuilding and lore, adjacent contempt taking rather a spot of originative liberty by placing Awakening wrong a parallel world and canon than the books/movies," we wrote successful IGN's Dune: Awakening closed beta impressions preview.

"There are small details that person a monolithic interaction connected gameplay. I won’t spell into spoilers, but this benignant of attraction to item touches conscionable astir each facet of the world, including the factions and characters you conscionable on the way, which should beryllium a dainty for immoderate instrumentality of the setting."

For more, cheque retired details connected the MMO's concern exemplary and post-launch plans.

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