What Factions will game have? Fremen, House Corrino/Emperor, Ix ?

[Blitzwing]

What Factions will game have? Fremen, House Corrino/Emperor, Ix ?

[Blitzwing]

Escrito originalmente por Sarvik:

No point in Ordos then Tleilaxu are basically same thing but also properly fleshed out in books.

Also could turn House Fenring into a proper faction. Count Fenring was a cool character, and while no details were given about his house, it must have had at least some capability to do whole planetary governorship job at Caladan after Artreides had moved to Arrakis.

Hasimir Fenring was just emperor sidekick, House Fenring never had a secure Homeworld,
and was very loyal to the Imperial House. that would be a Bad choice for a faction^^

[Dragonblade]

House Corrinno would be a good choice.
Fremen should be NPC faction you can interact with. Try to ally them like House Atreides or hunt them down like House Harkonnen. Though neither should be an easy task.

[Boofy]

maybe there will also be minor factions (like civ city-states) to represent groups like spice smugglers, etc.?

[ius]

After seeing the announcement trailer I am fairly confident this game will not include any non-canon faction as house ordos[forum.dune2k.com], otherwise I will seriously boycott this game.

The Dune universe is rich in lore and has plentiful interesting factions that can be added, and these don't have to be (Major) Houses only. Just take a look at the (recent) boardgames for an inspirational list: House Corrino, Fremen, Bene Gesserit, Spacing Guild, Bene Tleilax, Ixians. Also many of minor Houses can be considered, if only for npcs.

In addition, surely in campaign mode the Atreides and Harkonnen would encounter Fremen npcs, but of course these people are a faction of their own, and over time in the campaign the Fremen ought to bond together. Many gamers, myself included will be looking forward playing [as] them.

Also the four Factions is just a placeholder, Northgard had extra Clans released as DLCs. You can expect the same thing here to happen.

[Stormfrenzy88]

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Escrito originalmente por Walkerk19:

Ordos was Westwood creation, it wont be here

Nope, it wasn't. It's from Dune Encyclopedia, so there is a chance.

Dune Encyclopedia is not written by Frank Herbert though so it's non-canon.

[NED STARK]

I watched the developer behind the scenes video and I believe they mentioned they mentioned expanded universe. That means there are a couple houses in Brian Herbert's and Kevin J Anderson's prequel novels that are probably extensively fleshed out.

[Silvertongued Devil]

Factions are:
Atreides and Harkonnen.

We don't know who else is in, but safe money is on Fremen and House Corrino/The Padishah Emperor. Those were the other biggest players in the setting.

That said, the old Dune tabletop game had representatives from the Bene Gesserit and Spacing Guild, so they could hypothetically draw from that and work out a very indirect playstyle for them.

For more direct ones, though, you've got House Ix, which would be a solid stand-in for Ordos as they're fixated with technology and rather notably seem to be working for a way to side-step the Spacing Guild monopoly. Bene Tleilax is very insidious and would be a fantastic addition for a subterfuge DLC, IMO, since they're very reliant on cloning and assassination to achieve their goals.


Ultimately, though, we won't know what factions are likely until we see what mechanics are present. Some mechanics would point towards larger houses and more direct conflict, others might point towards the really engaging secondary factions that are playing all sides off one another.

Either way the style, atm, reminds me a lot of the boardgame so I'm sort of hoping it's in that style.

[melkathi]

I wouldn't be surprised if House Vernius gets added. Ix is a name familiar to fans of Frank Herbert's work, so it is the one thing Brian Herbert perpetrated that could be somewhat palatable to old fans.

The store page says you get to vote in the Landsrat. Fremen are not a house, have no vote. So they do not seem to be a player faction. Neither would be Bene Gesserit, Bene Tleilax, the Guild, or smugglers.

[ashbery76]

In my view the freeman should be a Npc faction you can influence.

[Blitzwing]

Dune is a three-point civilization: the Imperial Household balanced against the Great Houses of the Landsraad, and between them, the Guild with its monopoly on space travel.

So only factions from Great Houses of the Landsraad like Atreides and Harkonnen would make sense.

Imperial Household sounds more like end game boss faction to fight. Bene Gesserit, Bene Tleilax, Ix, the Guild, smugglers and Fremen sound more like tech and quest Factions

[thunnah]

Kinda want to see a God Emperor of Dune scenario where you play as Leto II and have to deal with Machinations of various factions. Also some kind of adaptation of the Heretics/Chapterhouse era eventually.

[Jack Greedy]

The more the better

[Mackerel]

i mean you would think it would be leto the first,fat old vlad,paul/steelgar and the emperor with others like the jessirt with DLCs/expansions

[Huggernaut]

Based on the characters speaking in the trailer (Leto / Baron / Chani / Tuek), i think the 4 factions are going to be Atreides / Harkonnen / Fremen and Smugglers.

[Blitzwing]

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Based on the characters speaking in the trailer (Leto / Baron / Chani / Tuek), i think the 4 factions are going to be Atreides / Harkonnen / Fremen and Smugglers.

Fremen and Smugglers should not be factions, simply as they rather fit into gameplay mechanics like mercenaries or traders.

Other Organizations like
Bene Gesserit, Bene Tleilax, CHOAM, Spacing Guild, Padishah Emperor & Sardaukar should clearly be gameplay mechanics, not playable factions.

Great Houses should be playable factions.
Besides Atreides and Harkonnen are dozens of great houses.