Would been nice

[UNITED STATES OF SMASH]

New DUNE RTS game would been cool this is just sad

[Wokelander]

Originally posted by DAWN OF THE DEAD:

omg not ♥♥♥♥ this game will not rewrite dunes lore ...

It totally does though

[Captain Worthy]

Originally posted by Wokelander:

Originally posted by DAWN OF THE DEAD:

omg not ♥♥♥♥ this game will not rewrite dunes lore ...

It totally does though

No it doesn't, the game takes place completely inside Paul's mind as he's observing an alternate past, present and future. Nothing we do in the game is going to rewrite the lore of Dune.

[Rhoklaw]

Dune: Awakening according to Funcom is a sandbox survival MMO. How much of an MMO it is depends on how many players are actually able to function in the deep desert map. As far as what Funcom has stated, it's 100's or even 1000+ players playing on each desert map. That would qualify as a true MMO. What Dune: Awakening is not is an open world MMO. It's a 4 maps, 3 smaller hub style maps and 1 giant desert map where all the PvP takes place.

If you don't like games like ARK, Conan Exiles or similar games of that genre, than this game isn't for you.

[Mick Savage]

Originally posted by Rhoklaw:

Dune: Awakening according to Funcom is a sandbox survival MMO. How much of an MMO it is depends on how many players are actually able to function in the deep desert map. As far as what Funcom has stated, it's 100's or even 1000+ players playing on each desert map. That would qualify as a true MMO. What Dune: Awakening is not is an open world MMO. It's a 4 maps, 3 smaller hub style maps and 1 giant desert map where all the PvP takes place.

If you don't like games like ARK, Conan Exiles or similar games of that genre, than this game isn't for you.

Actually that's not an MMO and this game will have multiple servers like Conan Exiles, also not an MMO.

[N3tRunn3r]

the MMO aspect will happen at the endgame PvPvE map called Deep Desert.

as rumours tell, that Deep Desert map is 9x as big as the conan exiles map, which will include 1000's of simultaneous players at once, meeting from different server shards/dimensions of a region together .. for example from an whole European Server.

for once every week, the Deep Desert map becomes wiped and formed new ..
however, i am not sure if it is a procedurally generated map .. but changed for sure.

so if an european server #1 includes 20 server shards / dimensions which can host somewhat about 100 or more players each, all european players from the EU Server #1 of all 20 shards/dimensions will eventually meet at this single and huge Deep Desert map to fight for end game content ..

this is then in where houses and wars become mandatory .. for territory control for a week ..

so, a main server as EU Server #1 holds 1000's of players, contains maybe 20 server shards aka dimensions which holds 100+ players each, and a huge Deep Desert map for everyone on that general EU Server #1 to join ..

EU Server #1 and its 20 shards wont be connected to a EU Server #2 and its 20 shards, nor to NA servers .. possibly

Additionally::

Originally posted by N3tRunn3r:

official stuff:

the large-scale MMO aspect is PvPvE, an isolated "end-game" map you need to travel to, it is called "Deep Desert". the Deep Desert is wiped once every week by the Coriolis Storm ..

the regular MMO map is called "Hagga Basin". it has a dozen regions. each region has a little crashsite. this crashsite enables PvPvE within these zones .. it acts like an arena ..

everything else is pure PvE, can be played pure solo as well as in groups / clans

there are server shards, the regular MMO "Hagga Basin" map which keep the player masses divided in "parallel dimensions". a server shard can hold a few hundred players at once. however, each of these single server shards are all connected to the "one" isolated large-scale PvPvE "Deep Desert" map to fight for final tier ressources . . .

then there are social hub maps, isolated again you need to travel to. these social hubs include a marketplace "exchange" controlled by players. so you can gain any ressource or item you like on a later stage .. important for solo players as well as for any guilds of course .. how or if these marketplace exchanges are connected to each server shard or limited to a single server shard you have started on, no idea.

there is somewhere an official video clip from last summer which explains this, and stuff might be changed until release, not being final ..

edit, found the shorter official clip, look closely at the in-game details which are shown. this official short 5 minutes clip explains what i have written up .. ::

Dune: Awakening – What Makes Dune: Awakening an MMO?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KYT2SssNPQ

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1172710/discussions/0/604149124789498032/#c595142002438308865