Dune: Awakening

Finally! Optional singleplayer!

Great job on the Single Player update and the changes made with 1.5. Fantastic direction for the game, keep doing what you're doing.

Ай да, Фанком, ай да молодцы! Любо-дорого смотреть на развитие их проекта. Сначала урезали pvp, чтобы псих-больные не мешали играть адекватному большинству, а теперь релизнули одиночную игру, дабы вообще никто не мешал. Отличный пример для других разработчиков pvpve игр, что нужно давать выбор, а не пытаться умещать на одном сервере адекватных игроков и нездоровых (которые называет себя pvp). Браво Фанком, би ла каифа)

Если бы разработчики изначально заявили, что это одиночная игра с возможностью прохождения в кооперативе, если бы они изначально заявили, что весь season pass это набор недоработанной косметики, то, наверное, вопросов к ним никаких не было. А так что мы имеем Плюсы: + Сюжет (звёзд с небес не ловит, но кадры поставлены хорошо, история как минимум интересная) + Атмосфера Дюны передана, не без нюансов, но в целом ок. + Дефолтный "выживач" с постройками и уровнями ресурсов и крафтов Минусы: - Оптимизация. Прежде всего это именно она, я уже не говорю о том, что игра может лагать на топовых сборках, проблема в другом. Данная игра ловит очень такие неплохие статтеры, виснуть может буквально на секунд эдак 30, порой они заканчиваются плачевно, с надобностью перезахода в игру. Если данная проблема случается рядом с большими песками, то скорее всего вас сожрал червь... - Очень плохой тикрейт серверов. У вас хорошее интернет соединение, живёте относительно близко к европейским серверам - этого недостаточно. Сервера в загруженной Котловине Хагга не успевают обрабатывать запрос от большого количества построек, результат - потери пакетов и соединения на ровном месте. Порой доходит до смешного, когда на собственной базе полы начинают тиками пропадать и возвращаться. Я уже не говорю о возможности ведения PvP (да и PvE, на самом деле) в таких условиях. - Баланс, которым глобально практически не занимались, не буду расписывать, кто знает, тот поймёт (для PvE игроков данный минус будет неочевиден). Далее пойдет ряд проблем, которые связаны с переориентированием игры. Эндгейма нет. Кто бы что ни говорил, но одни и те же миссии Ландсраада, дабы апнуть очевидно прикольные статы спустя тонну опыта, это не эндгейм. Эндгеймом была ММО, живой рынок, отношения среди игроков. 1. Люди наныли на отмену налогов и возможность сохранять свои базы. Второе решение очень хорошее, а вот первое - нет. Теперь на серверах (которые к тому же сократили) тонна построек, которые могут быть красивыми, но распластываются на тысячи гектар, что нагружает сервер. Стоят они вечно, платить же за них не надо. Это в том числе ломает экономику, инфляция летит вверх. 2. Потом люди наныли сначала на половину ДД PvE, затем - разграничение на две локации. Данное решение ещё сильнее убило экономику, товары, которые итак были не то чтоб редкими, теперь ещё доступнее. 3. Введение системы миссий Ландсраада и появление тиров снаряжения, аугментаций - добивание ДД, теперь туда летают за меланжей и ресурсами. Смысл в краш сайтах и лабораториях в ДД значительно снизилась. Как бы я видел эту игру 1. Вернуть налоги, снизить базовый, но сделать значительную (может быть геометрическую) прогрессию по занимаемым площадям. Ещё есть проблема с расширенным доступом по объектам на базе. Люди, вступающие в гильду и приезжающие на базу гильдии, хотят свой скромный уголок, который был бы только для них, по итогу задать приватность двери или сундука за конкретным персонажем нельзя. 2. Когда-то разработчики обещали отдельную локацию для PvP с бесполётной зоной, эх. А ещё помните, как все ждали PvP арену с выходом новой сюжетной части? Было бы круто разграничить награды получаемые в PvE и PvP, уникальные чертежи давали бы повод заходить игрокам в PvP, но при этом не лишая PvE игроков "эндгейма". Сделать отдельные островки, доступные для застройки (проблема с блокировкой ресурсов). 3. Вернуть относительно нерандомное выпадение чертежей с краш сайтов и лаб в ДД, сделать их уровневыми, как это есть в данжах. Наряду с уникальностью наград это поднимет спрос заходить в ДД не только ради лутки ресурсов. 4. Сделать невозможным убирать разведывательный орнитоптер в карман, ЛИБО сделать невозможным раскрывать/забирать его из/в карман(а) в воздухе, сделать одно пассажирское место в нём. Разработчики уже попытались решить проблему эксплойтов, но есть и другие. Предлагаемые мною решения (за небольшим исключением) не являются каким-либо новым контентом, либо же серьезной разработкой. Достаточно забавно, что обновление, которое мы ждали в мае всем селом, откатилось скорее всего на конец года. Это ужасно, но ждём. Я как искренний фанат верю, что разработчики справятся с данным кризисом, и все мы получим то, чего хотели на релизе. Однако за то, что я написал в самом начале - отрицательный отзыв.

I wouldn't recommend this game if it were free. Definitely do not buy it; it will disrespect your time.

From Ambitious Desert Warfare to Eierless Casual Singleplayer: The Chronology of a Total TrainwreckThis game is the biggest bait-and-switch in gaming history. If you are looking for a hardcore survival MMO on Arrakis, Funcom is straight-up lying to your face. Here is the detailed breakdown of how the developers listened to the loudest forum crybabies, let corporate executives run the design, and systematically executed their own game: 1. The Server & Genre Bait-and-Switch The Cry / The Lie: For years, the game was aggressively marketed as a massive "Survival MMORPG" with 1500 players per server to ride the hype wave and rake in wishlists. The Incompetent Fix: Right before launch, the "MMO" label was stealthily wiped from all store pages. The netcode was so utterly trash that servers imploded whenever they crossed 500 active players. Instead of fixing it, they chopped the world into instanced mini-zones (Sietches) with a hard cap of just 40–60 players. The Consequence: Players ended up stuck in server queues just to enter their own bases. An absolute joke for a self-proclaimed MMO. 2. The Resource Gridlock & Cheater Invasion The Problem: High-end endgame materials (Jasmium, Titan, Stravidium) were artificially scarce. At the same time, unkillable "Lasgun Surfers" (abusing animation-canceling exploits) and rage-hackers flying through walls completely ruined the game's balance. The Incompetent Fix: Massive mega-gilds completely enclosed the few high-tier resource nodes inside the safe PvE zones with their own walls and foundations. "Failcom" ignored support tickets for weeks, copy-pasting automated responses. Meanwhile, the chosen anti-cheat (BattlEye) stood by completely powerless. The Consequence: Progression for solo players and smaller groups was completely frozen for days. You were left standing helplessly in front of griefer walls while hackers teleported into your base and looted your chests. 3. The "Thumper Panic" & The Invasion of the PvE Noobs The Cry: Before the map split, casual players whined on Reddit and Steam for weeks, terrified that "toxic PvP players" would grief them in PvE zones by dropping a Thumper (thumper) right next to them to summon the Sandworm and shred their gear. The Incompetent Fix: Funcom folded to the pressure, completely splitting the Deep Desert (DD) into separate PvE and PvP instances. On top of that, they turned the Hagga Basin into a 100% PvE safe space. The Consequence: A massive swarm of brainless, eggless PvE noobs flooded the risk-free DD instance. Lacking any basic game mechanics, they just held down left-click with their Compactors on the spice fields while keeping their shields active. They pushed the Sandworm’s agro bar to maximum in under 10 seconds. The worm went into a permanent instant-breach state, devouring everything. Harvesting spice became impossible even for pros because the noobs rendered the desert completely unplayable. 4. The Murder of PvP Loot The Cry: Casuals flocked to Reddit crying that coordinated groups were rolling them in the DD and that they never got any loot. The Incompetent Fix: The cold, unforgiving law of the desert (First come, first serve) was abolished. Funcom introduced instanced loot for bosses and stations. Now, any loser who just stood nearby or contributed a single point of damage got high-tier schematics handed to them in their own private UI window. The Consequence: Any incentive to actually fight over valuable resources was instantly murdered. Why would a PvP guild waste resources and gear on a fight when every uninvited bystander gets the same fat participation trophy anyway? 5. The Movement & Stamina Debakel The Problem: The combat system was originally dynamic, highly physical, and heavily rewarded fluid movement, stamina management, and precise timing.The Incompetent Fix: To forcefully bend the game into shape for the console controller release, they massively increased the stamina costs for dodging, jumping, and melee swings in PvP. Hitboxes were also artificially inflated to accommodate controller aim-assist .The Consequence: Combat became painfully sluggish. After two dodge rolls, your character stood panting in the sand like an asthmatic. Whoever landed the first hit won automatically. Movement skill expression was completely deleted. To make matters worse for the upcoming console crowd, traversal mechanics ("passieren") are being almost entirely automated because the new target audience lacks the cognitive capacity to manage an endurance bar. 6. The Death Blow: 17 Weeks of Radio Silence & The Singleplayer Farce The Problem: The game bled players at an unprecedented rate following the casual patches, turning once-vibrant servers into a graveyard .The Incompetent Fix: Failcom abandoned the PC version, delivering zero meaningful updates or bug fixes for over 17 weeks (more than four months). All development resources were secretly reassigned to the console port. To top it off, they confirmed no crossplay for the console launch, leaving the PC community completely isolated. Their grand "savior" feature? Slapping a single-player mode onto a gutted pseudo-MMO. The Consequence: The player base cratered by over 90%. PC servers are an absolute ghost town. And the new singleplayer mode? A stillborn disaster. You run around a completely lifeless, hollow sandbox devoid of any dynamic NPC factions or real story quests, forced to tackle monotonous grind-timers designed for entire guilds all by yourself. The Verdict: Funcom listened to the loudest forum crybabies and clueless spreadsheet-driven executives, betrayed their core community, and drove their own game straight into the dirt. Arrakis isn't a lethal, testing planet here—it's a sterilized, hand-holding playground for casuals. Save your cash and leave this garbage out in the sun to dry!

Dune world is great. Building Bases is awesome. Combat on pc with controller sucks. Lack of end game and the farming grind for no reason sucks. Needs insta battle grounds or something pvp wise Lots of risk very little reward. Save time and skip this one.

TLDR 1) The early survival/exploration/crafting/base building experience in Hagga Basin is loads of fun. If you are a fan of the Dune IP, buy the game for these reasons. Thumbs up for the early game. 2) The endgame is unevenly designed and implemented and a generally unfun experience that is disrespectful of the player’s time. 2 thumbs down for the endgame. Having played since shortly after release, I think the first 60-100 hours are an excellent example of how to build a fun and engaging survival/crafting game with outstanding use of the Dune IP. I’ve rarely had so much fun exploring, building with varied construction sets, gathering, and fighting as I have in this game. The progression is well designed and implemented, and there was clearly significant time invested on Hagga Basin to build an immersive and challenging environment. I quite enjoy the music as well and have played the soundtrack for the game actively in the background while building one of many bases that I have constructed since release. If you enjoy this type of game play, you can expect up to 100 hours of play just exploring Hagga and progressing your character there. Kudos to Funcom on the early game. While the devs spent significant time after release redesigning the endgame, this is where the game falters badly and completely loses the magic of the Hagga Basin experience. I do want to acknowledge that the Deep Desert was changed to allow for both PvE and PvP instances, which is a step forward for those (especially solo players) who wanted to advance their characters into tier 6 without getting ganked incessantly. And I have never done much with PvP so I will not opine there. But the new PvE Landsraad system is incredibly grindy, unfun, and generally disrespectful of the player’s time. 1) The new Landsraad missions, while not terribly challenging at higher gear levels, are super grindy and not very interesting. You will have to run many hundreds of them over the course of a year or so to fully advance your character with the missions time-gated at 5 a day. And the rewards for this progression system are too powerful to not complete if you want to remain competitive, e.g. 100 combat rating (the max achievable) doubles your character damage and halves the amount of damage taken. This also appears to have an outsized impact on the PvP experience. 2) While I appreciate the creativity behind the overland dungeons, the number of runs needed to obtain advanced weapons and armor and the augments to go in them is excessive, especially with the number of one-shot mechanics at higher difficulty levels. I personally just do not enjoy the dungeons, and I think the loot drops are poorly tuned. If I wanted to play a game where I had to run the same dungeons over and over, I’d just go run keys in World of Warcraft. The add scaling also significantly favors solo runs, further disincentivizing group play, which is a prevalent theme, especially in light of the solo player version of the game scheduled to release Sept 2026. This is supposed to be a MMO but there are few, if any, systems in place to actually encourage group play, short of grouping being advantageous to clear Deep Desert testing stations that are largely irrelevant in the endgame. 3) The augment system design is poor. It’s not enough to finally get a blueprint to drop for a weapon that you actually need, but you then need to obtain 2-3 different augment blueprints to drop as well to fully utilize the potential of the equipment. Moreover, the actual power gain is highly variable and determined at the time of augment creation. You cannot remove nor actually improve the augment after creation nor after slotting in the equipment, i.e. you’ll have to craft an entirely new weapon/armor piece (after finally getting the relevant BP to drop again) and craft new augments (after getting new BPs to drop) and hope they are better than the originals. I sincerely hope this is a technical issue that Funcom is working through rather than an actual design choice. If it is indeed the later it was a poor decision and extremely disrespectful to the time investment of the player. I hope Funcom will continue to evaluate and iterate on the endgame experience as, overall, I find it generally unfun, not respectful of the time I invest in the game, and generally not well conceived. With the endgame ultimately representing the meat of the Dune Awakening experience, I really cannot recommend the game overall to most players, save those who solely want a simple crafting/exploration/building experience in Hagga Basin.