Any other Alien monster In Dune?

[Viper]

I only watched Dune 1984 file when I was little and played a game call "Emperor: Battle for Dune"
What Alien monster I should expect in Dune: Awakening?
I recall a sub factions in "Emperor: Battle for Dune". there is a zombie-esque creatures you can build to turn other human to monster and a bigger Alien unit can infect other tank into monster.

[Yhtill]

I think it's mostly/only humans for combat.
https://duneawakening.wiki.fextralife.com/Enemies+&+Creatures

[alan0n]

There were borderline illegal robotics on Ix that could be smuggled in or perhaps rebel, and I believe Harkonnen had some really questionable biotech that could likely be leaned on for some more enemy diversity as well.

Largely depends on how liberal their license allows them to get in game I guess.

[Yhtill]

Originally posted by alan0n:

There were borderline illegal robotics on Ix that could be smuggled in or perhaps rebel, and I believe Harkonnen had some really questionable biotech that could likely be leaned on for some more enemy diversity as well.

In the game? Thinking machines would be lore/canon breaking.

[alan0n]

Originally posted by Yhtill:

Originally posted by alan0n:

There were borderline illegal robotics on Ix that could be smuggled in or perhaps rebel, and I believe Harkonnen had some really questionable biotech that could likely be leaned on for some more enemy diversity as well.

In the game? Thinking machines would be lore/canon breaking.

Would it? IIRC Ix was very very close to getting jihaded due to repeatedly encroaching on taboos.

But again, depends how closely they have to adhere to canon. But considering Paul doesn't exist at all it can't be that close.

[Yhtill]

They explained in one video (Dev stream 3) that they had to do this as an alternative timeline (thus writing out Paul although he was in one of trailers to explain) with Jessica having given birth to a female child so that they could make the player (in theory) the star of the show. So they broke canon to make the play experience more a enjoyable (in theory). Same with the lasguns. In the game but with 'safeties' (supposedly done after the Harkonnen city got destroyed by a lasgun nuke) that auto toggle so people didn't walk around nuking entire teams.

[Martin]

I suppose the IX are borderline monsters in their floaty tanks. But there's nothing else like the sandworm in the books.

[Vasir]

The movie from 2021 mentions trapdoor spiders (dangerous) and giant centipedes (harmless)

I have no clue how lore accurate those are. Maybe a fan that is heavy into the lore can answer that.

[SirusTheMadDJ]

Originally posted by Viper:

I only watch Dune 1984 file when I was little and player a game call "Emperor: Battle for Dune"
What Alien monster I should expect in Dune: Awakening?
I recall a sub factions in "Emperor: Battle for Dune". there is a zombie-esque creatures you can build to turn other human to monster and a bigger Alien unit can infect other tank into monster.

I don't know the full lore from the books, but that sounds like an addition for that faction in the game that's not strictly in canon. I'm sure a loremaster'll confirm or deny that, but the entry I found states the faction that owns that unit only stems from one planet. So, odds are they're probably not in the sand pit with the rest of us.

Who knows? Might be a fun RP snippet to play a character around with if you're into that sort of style of gaming/LPing.

[Angela]

They also might want to add critters on the ground and in sky, make game feel more lively.

[Bazim]

They cannot add anything new so the game will die because of not enough content and variety of enemies because of the IP and rights.

[xaero]

There are no real Aliens in the dune universe...

[lord_vader]

Tlilaxu would be your closest to alien and thats only due to the amount of genetic editing they have done to them self. but still were human at one time.

[Viper]

Well, even though dune doesn't has much Alien in it universe.
For the game, they can create things like genetic monsters, failed mutant creatures, etc., as long as they fit the universe well.

I have always wondered what the main prey of sandworms was before humans discovered this planet. there must be something big enough to feed them right?

Interestingly that Tlilaxu use all their female to create Axlotl tank which the Bene Tleilax reproduced a living human being from the cells of a cadaver, producing a type of clone called a ghola. The axlotl tanks were later engineered to replicate the spice melange, previously only available on the desert planet Arrakis where it was created naturally as part of the life cycle of the sandworms.

Should we expected to find them is up to the developer.

[Artarian]

There are no "Aliens" in the classical sense outside of alien animal life in Dune, it is a very human-centric story with humanity essentially dominating the known galaxy. However, that is not to say there is NO 'aliens'.

The far future of Dune, if not the entire point of Leto the second, was to advance human evolution down multiple paths, so eventually humans of the future of varying degrees might be considered aliens, much like the Navigators might be, as one could barely call them human. Also in some of the books (Frank Herbert) this already somewhat happened with things such as the Futars. Sadly, though that is still in the future of the current setting of Awakening, the closest thing to an alien one might discover is perhaps old Thinking Machines (Or Ixian totally-not-thinking-machines) or Face Dancers. Such things might be possible in the future, as I have heard whispers of House Ordos making a return to Awakening which smuggled Ixian tech.

[Spak]

I hope they add mini house Tleilaxu. Their mutants "Contaminators" (like zombies) and "Leeches" - living tanks, that reproduce with larvae, when they eat vehicle. It is quite possible that the developers' fantasy will give birth to something like necromorphs from Dead Space.
They can add wild "Futar" - a kind of hybrid of people and cats. Externally resembling women with feline features their figure, Futars are distinguished by a wide face and protruding fangs. Their speech is sharp and monosyllabic: "When eat?", "I scratch my head" and "Sit here." (like werewolves)
But these are all mutants...
They can also add all sorts of creatures from other planets, but not as inhabitants of planet, but as population of dungeons or exotic pets.

Arrakis is a very empty planet, worms are its only inhabitants.
No worms, no spice. No spice, Arrakis is no need to anyone.

The rest of the majority, yes, only robots and mutants.