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Here is the precise point in my hands-off Summer Game Fest Dune: Awakening demo that I whispered a soft"Oh no" to myself. It was when our demo-er, in a spice-fueled fit of pique, butted up against the wall of a Harkonnen stronghold and immediately began climbing it, Breath-of-the-Wild-style .
This means, somehow, that the Harkonnens don't quite manage to pull off their decisive decapitating strike on the Atreides that they do in the films and books. Duke Leto is alive and very upset, and Arrakis is in the grip of a destructive War of Assassins. As a newborn Dune-head, it's one of the most interesting parts of the game, opening up all sorts of cool opportunities for narrative experimentation in Herbert's universe.
Parts like, for instance, plumbing the various wreckages that litter Arrakis' surface. That War of Assassins is making a right old mess, and the great hulking starship corpses it's left all over the place are ripe for plundering. That means fighting your way through whoever you find there, including other players if you're in the proper PvP zone.
Our enemies dead, we opened our end-of-dungeon crate and were rewarded with some materials—Microflora Fiber—and a one-time-use rifle schematic, a bit of familiar MMO-ness in the Dune-iverse.But the bulk of Dune: Awakening's MMO stuff, in Funcom's eyes, will take place in its Deep Desert: An enormous 450 km area that can house hundreds of players, and which will get wiped out weekly by"Coriolis storms".
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