Funcom has introduced that the launch of Dune: Awakening–the upcoming open-world survival sport set within the huge deserts of the Dune franchise–has been delayed three weeks, from May 20 to June 10, however a “beta weekend” has been confirmed for subsequent month to melt the blow.
Funcom introduced the brief delay in a blog post on the sport’s official Steam web page. In accordance with the submit, the delay is a results of suggestions the crew obtained from gamers concerned within the ongoing closed beta take a look at, which the weblog calls “invaluable in ensuring [they] can launch a high quality sport.”
“Because of this course of, we’ve concluded that with a bit extra time to prepare dinner, we will act on much more of the suggestions we all know is essential to our beta testers,” the weblog submit says. “This isn’t a call we take calmly, we all know everybody may be very excited to get enjoying, however these three additional weeks will give us the time wanted to make enhancements that can result in a greater gameplay expertise from day one.”
The submit additionally introduced a “large-scale beta weekend” for someday “subsequent month,” through which extra gamers will have the ability to entry the sport and provides suggestions within the sport’s official Discord server. Nonetheless, no particular dates have been set for the talked about beta weekend.
Dune: Awakening is an open-world survival sport set on Arrakis, the cruel desert world of Dune. Gamers will have the ability to craft items–including ornithopters and finally fortresses–and encounter sandworms and different creatures whereas they seek for worthwhile blue spice.
Dune: Awakening will now launch June 10 for PC. Funcom has introduced Xbox Sequence X|S and PlayStation 5 variations of the sport, that are set to launch later this 12 months.