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Dune: Awakening is threatening to turn me into a survival MMO guy after a lifetime as a devoted videogame hermit
Spicy Take The spice must flow.
Survival MMO Dune: Awakening wants to 'pull people away from competing and fighting over bases' and have them battle over spice instead
News Funcom says PvP works best when players are "fighting over something that's not as personal as your base."
Why Funcom didn't give Dune: Awakening an 'endowment slider' like Conan Exiles
News Conan's world is "savage" and "sexy" says Dune: Awakening's executive producer. Dune's world? Not so much.
Dune: Awakening's survival systems might do the impossible: make smashing boulders and collecting water fun
let's rock Harvesting rocks and stockpiling water are usually mindless chores, but in Funcom's survival MMO they look kinda enjoyable.
'A lot of us are old school MMO players': Dune: Awakening's creative director on how Star Wars Galaxies was a 'huge inspiration' for the new survival game
News Part survival game, part MMO, Dune: Awakening is tapping into the bygone days of MMOs to let players carve their own paths.
Why survival MMO Dune: Awakening won't have sandwalking: 'It looked ridiculous and it made you walk really slowly'
news Dune: Awakening's creative director Joel Bylos says "we made an attempt at" the Fremen practice of sandwalking, but it wound up being a drag.
You can claim land for your base on Arrakis in survival MMO Dune: Awakening, but you'll have to pay the Emperor for it
News Here's our first look at Dune: Awakening base-building... but there's no escape from paying taxes, even in space.
Dune: Awakening devs had to get permission from the Herberts to change a tiny piece of Dune lore so players wouldn't constantly nuke each other
News Awakening's creative director explains solving the prickly lore problem of what happens when a Dune laser hits a Dune shield.
