Dune: Awakening was designed with “controller in thoughts” based on the one of many recreation’s producers, though the PC model of the sport will arrive earlier than it will definitely launches on Xbox Sequence X|S and PlayStation 5.
Talking with VG247, Dune: Awakening producer Nils Ryborg elaborated on developer Funcom’s strategy when it got here to designing the upcoming survival MMO set in an alternate-history model of Frank Herbert’s legendary sci-fi e book collection. He particularly mentioned how the sport, which is able to see a whole bunch of gamers battling for management of Arrakis and its valuable Spice, was constructed round controllers and consoles.
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“So from the beginning, it is the better means of constructing a recreation, going console-first,” Ryborg mentioned. “A variety of that transitions simply again on the PC, whereas in the event you make a pure PC recreation the place you employ a mouse and keyboard to regulate, it is actually tough to port over. So it has been designed with a controller in thoughts from the get-go.”
Many survival video games normally get their begin on PC, and as soon as they turn into standard, might then launch on consoles. Valheim is a superb instance of a survival recreation making the leap. Having a recreation designed with a controller in thoughts from the beginning additionally opens up the opportunity of the sport being playable on Steam Deck or different PC handhelds.
“Clearly, we’re releasing on PC first, proper?” Ryborg mentioned. “In order that’s the place we’ll have setup, however the console UX-wise, I am not tremendous involved. Clearly it is all of the basic tech stuff, you realize, the place they’re [consoles] a bit of extra restricted in sure {hardware} issues. So it must carry out properly and different tech stuff. It should not be overly sophisticated.”
Despite being made to work properly with a controller from the beginning, the look ahead to the console model of Dune: Awakening might be an extended one. The PC model does not have a precise launch date however is slated for “early 2025,” based on Funcom. Which means the console model will come someday after, maybe later in 2025 and even someday subsequent yr.