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⊃∪∩⊂ Awakening - Funcom's survival MMO

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Strap Yourselves In

Survival MMO Dune: Awakening takes place in an 'alternate' timeline​

Dune: Awakening is set in the year 10199 AG, Bylos said, which is about eight years after the events of 2021’s Dune film. But in the MMO, those events won’t play out quite the same way people familiar with the books or films will remember them.

“It’s similar to the books, but we’ve gone with an alternate history, like a ‘what-if’, if you want,” Bylos said. “We worked closely with the Herbert [family] and Legendary [Pictures], and we found a point, a single point, the single pebble that starts a landslide.”

This point, said Bylos, represents “where if just this one thing was different in the universe then it would change a lot of what comes after, and change it in a way that makes for more of a virtual world kind of experience, where players can see all the familiar things that they’d expect to see.”

Bylos unfortunately wouldn’t tell me specifically what that ‘pebble’ of story was (“I’m not allowed to talk about that yet,” he said) or how changing it would result in an alternative timeline. But this change is meant to allow players in Dune: Awakening to interact with characters from the books they otherwise wouldn’t be able to because “a lot of major characters die” early on in the story.

“If you’ve seen the first movie, you can expect many of those characters to exist in the story of the game,” Bylos said. “I could give an example that’s very clear: Duke Leto is still alive. You can meet Duke Leto.”
Interesting choice.
Jessica doesn't give birth to Paul? Rabban crushes the Fremen? Paul fails the Gom Jabbar? Paul is killed by the Hunter-Seeker? Duke Leto escapes Baron Harkonnen? Emperor Corrino is usurped by Baron Harkonnen and the landsraad?

I enjoyed Conan Exiles way more than I expected.

Paul fails the Gom Jabbar would be my bet :)
 

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Notfuncom again trying their two left hands on an IP they will successfully manage to sink where the pockets of their investors are deepest. It should've given them a clue that their most competent (for lack of a better word) game (ditto) was also their own IP.

I mean, get this (from the Wikipedia article).
Unlike many other MMORPGs, there is no need to stop to use most of a character's attacks and abilities
It just took them until 2012 to arrive in 1996.

But Norwegians aren't learning animals, something they share with their brothers in Iceland. So they've regressed back to 1986. Despite being alive, Frank certainly wouldn't have approved of this game back then.
 
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It this really an MMO? Or it's just like Conan where you can play solo / create your own server?
 

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It will be shit like all their games. Classic FunCom half baked crap, now with crafting and survival and insane amounts of grind and walking.
 

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It this really an MMO? Or it's just like Conan where you can play solo / create your own server?
End of each trailer they've put out says "a Dune open world survival MMO" but who the hell knows when Destiny is considered one by Bungie too these days.
 

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End of each trailer they've put out says "a Dune open world survival MMO" but who the hell knows when Destiny is considered one by Bungie too these days.
Funcom is publisher and developer for Conan Exiles, so there is some hope they will keep that model for Dune Awakening.

I hate pay-to-play model. I'd rather buy the game and play it whenever I wish, without having to worry about "wasting time" on doing anything else than playing the game due to subscription running out. This is my number one reason why I stopped paying attention to MMOs. It is even worse when I don't have that much time to play nowadays, so I also hate needless grind.
 

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End of each trailer they've put out says "a Dune open world survival MMO" but who the hell knows when Destiny is considered one by Bungie too these days.
Funcom is publisher and developer for Conan Exiles, so there is some hope they will keep that model for Dune Awakening.

I hate pay-to-play model. I'd rather buy the game and play it whenever I wish, without having to worry about "wasting time" on doing anything else than playing the game due to subscription running out. This is my number one reason why I stopped paying attention to MMOs. It is even worse when I don't have that much time to play nowadays, so I also hate needless grind.

They have said (at least as I recall) the players count will be much higher this time and it will have factions, so I am doubting it is the private survival server model, as much as I would prefer that.

MMO doesn't mean pay-to-play subscriptions, btw. If anything it's a pretty rare format by this point in time. However what makes it the kiss of death for me as opposed to survival game model is no player customization of the server rules, and the financial structure means if it's not a hit, the servers will go offline and that's it, no more creating your own server and no more playing the game.
 

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They have said (at least as I recall) the players count will be much higher this time and it will have factions, so I am doubting it is the private survival server model, as much as I would prefer that.
"Rival factions" might be NPC-oriented though (Harkonnens, Atreides, Fremen, Smugglers, Sardaukar/Emperor, etc.). You could be establishing "your own faction" as a new rising power on the planet between all the existing ones (sort of how Paul did, although he just hijacked the Fremen).

However what makes it the kiss of death for me as opposed to survival game model is no player customization of the server rules, and the financial structure means if it's not a hit, the servers will go offline and that's it, no more creating your own server and no more playing the game.
Indeed. I am interested but vary for now.
 

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I so far like the art direction and the base concept of starting out as a no one seems at least mildly interesting. And I'm always a sucker for anything sci-fi, consider me mildly interested.
 

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Oh, a new DUNC game?
I love DUNC games!
 

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