
Multiplayerīeing an MMO, Dune: Awakening will obviously have a major multiplayer focus. Spice will serve as your way to pick up new skills and abilities, perhaps leading to a system of needing to choose whether to use it on yourself or as a currency. Your character, again, will be completely custom. Trading, subterfuge, and combat are all listed, as well as creating your own faction with enough resources and influence. There will be some form of NPC factions you can interact with. Battles can take place on foot as well as on land and aircraft. Alternatively, you can attack other players’ harvesters to claim what they’ve gathered - if they don’t do it to you first. This wouldn’t be a Dune game without spice, of course, which you can search for using a harvester. While unclear how it will work, it is stated that the coriolis storms will alter the landscapes over time. However, sandworms are always a threat.Įxploration will take you to ancient ruins of science outposts, shipwrecks, and abandoned sietches. On the survival side, you will be building shelters to provide protection against sandstorms, maintain a stillsuit, and kit yourself out to venture further into the desert. It will apparently be so vast that thousands of players will share the same world.

While the trailer showed no actual footage of the game, we can once again turn to the official site for a smattering of tidbits and hints as to how the game will play.įirst, as stated explicitly, Dune: Awakening is a survival game that aims to mix the gritty, crafting nature of the genre with the social elements of a large-scale MMO. The only small aspects we can gather is that this will indeed take place on Arrakis and you will play as your own custom character in the Dune universe with a journey that you will shape yourself. The only other details available come from Dune: Awakening‘s official website, but being a survival MMO, the story and plot are either being kept a tight secret - more likely, they will not be a major component. The trailer ends with him extending his weapons and leaping into the sand to attack, with the final narration being, “Only I will remain.” The text fades out to tell us this will be a Dune open-world survival MMO.

We finally get a look at the man’s face as he pulls out two hook-like weapons, steps away from the edge of the pit, and readies himself for the worm. The pit opens up, in fact being a huge sand worm, and consumes the object.

Fear is the mind-killer.” He watches a pair of massive insects fly by as a storm looms over the nearby horizon before gazing down a sand pit at a strange mechanical structure. It opens on a man in the desert recounting the famous Dune quote, “I must not fear. Our first trailer for Dune: Awakening is the CGI-only announcement trailer from Gamescom 2022.
