Dune Awakening aims to be a true survival MMO - first by making you survive Arrakis, then by making you survive politics
Preview | Funcom wants this to be the culmination of a legacy in both survival games and MMOs
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Regardless of the opportunity to select the size of your character’s naughty bits, Conan Exiles was Funcom’s first survival game, a notable departure for a studio that had primarily been known for MMOs up to that point. With Dune: Awakening, the company aims to combine those legacies, finally building the full survival MMO that it’s felt like the industry has been on the cusp of for years. The formula to make that genre combo work sounds pretty simple: survival is your origin story, but the endgame is politics.
Surviving Arrakis (Image credit: Funcom)
Dune: Awakening builds directly on the survival and crafting mechanics of Conan Exiles, but introduces improvements like co-op building, where you can place down a hologram of a construction and have other players help you build it. You can also save your builds as blueprints, which you’ll …