Dune: Awakening will obtain a gentle circulate of recent content material, with main updates deliberate to launch each three or 4 months, in response to developer Funcom.
In a Reddit AMA, Funcom outlined its imaginative and prescient for the way forward for its in style survival MMO set in writer Frank Herbert’s sci-fi universe. Government producer Scott Junior mentioned every main replace can be free and embrace new story and PvE content material. These updates can be launched alongside the sport’s paid DLCs, which will be purchased standalone or collectively as a part of the sport’s season go.
Junior moreover talked about Dune: Awakening will obtain new PvE maps for gamers to discover sooner or later, although it is unclear if these can be included free of charge as a serious replace or come within the type of a paid enlargement.
As for the extra speedy future, Junior mentioned an replace is coming in early July that may comprise “too many” quality-of-life modifications to checklist. Junior did not go into element on what these modifications can be, however mentioned to anticipate the patch notes when the patch is nearer to being prepared for testing.
Funcom dove into loads of different matters as a part of the AMA, starting from plans to make it so gamers can title storage containers and autos to its ideas on potential modifications to Dune: Awakening’s PvP-focused endgame. Lots of gamers’ complaints are targeted across the heavy reliance on autos within the sport’s endgame Deep Desert zone, a lot in order that PvP encounters are largely between flying Ornithopters quite than on-foot encounters the place the sport’s melee and firearms can come into play. When requested in regards to the potential of a Deep Desert zone the place solely floor autos can be allowed, artistic director Joel Bylos shot down the thought however did say Funcom is trying to make some modifications.
“The present stability between autos and on-foot just isn’t tuned to our liking and there are a number of modifications within the pipeline to deal with this,” Bylos mentioned.
Different additions gamers can anticipate in Dune: Awakening’s future primarily based on Funcom’s Reddit solutions embrace an choice to duel different gamers, a deposit all choice for water, modifications to the endgame PvE Landsraad system, extra contracts to finish, and a 3rd faction that “will change your complete dynamic” of the Landsraad, in response to Bylos.
Dune: Awakening is discovering main success on Steam, having surpassed 140,000 concurrent gamers. Its most up-to-date replace addressed a few of its endgame PvP issues by making it so autos now not deal harm when colliding with different gamers, in addition to elevated respawn timers in PvP zones. Dune: Awakening continues to be slated to launch on consoles, however not till 2026.