Dune: Awakening

I like this game. I am not rushing it, just been kinda farming stuff, making my base. I am looking forward to single or PVE only servers. I'm not at end game yet so I am not sure how that works, i've read it's all PVP which is not really my thing. I think this game could go far if they focus on Dune lore and make a really good PVE (PVP Optional) game.

This game is awesome. I cant say how much i like this game. The only thing I wish that they would add is OFFLINE, Please OFFLINE, I will do anything. Runs pretty good on Steam Deck too with the right settings.

Getting up to level 200 was a bit of a grind but the story was enjoyable inclusive of the DLC's. Then came the specialties which you just got on with, but it was like the devs didnt think we had lives outside of Dune. Then they merged servers because of the lack of players which now meant no spice for any new incoming players because so many people were farming to bribe representatives as well as repair or build things. Then Funcom pushed out the Water Wars DlC because the game was porting to PlayStation and Xboxin September. The main problem is still the constant RNG, RNG, RNG for blueprints and mainly specific augments to get the perfect item build and even then, once you finally find one, you the get a random roll which normally nerfs any real benefit really killed it for me. Why Funcom dont look at games like Diablo and Parh of Exile etc, etc to see how they resolved this issue is beyond me. But the final nail in the coffin is the disappearing cargo containers, the amout of gear ive lost is more that some players own. I know its not the Artistic Directors fault some of these issues are arising, its down to the investors and their decisions, but they need to start listening to him because they are not going to have a game worth playing at this rate. I mean compare Dune to 7 Days to Die, currently there are 32,433 in 7DTD and there are 6,700 players in Dune Awakening but 7DTD is a 12 year old game. Personally Dune Awakening is uninstalled, maybe I'll come back in 7 or 8 years time if its still going, and bugloss.

Gutting PVP from this game was the dumbest thing Funcom could have done to it. Instead of solving a somewhat complex problem they took the easiest route possible. Now its just PVE slop and that PVE slop isn't even getting iterated upon or better or harder or anything. So why bother playing?

performance is horrible & all of the servers are dead

I'm not sure about anyone else but when you start walking in the game you don't feel part of the realistic enviroment, it's almost like you're not even physically weighted on the grounded until you damage yourself off a 100 foot cliff and use one bandage and sip a plant... and then a storm comes but it passes... and what is with the servers... what is that? why is that a thing? ~.~ I'm thoroughly disapointed considering this is a huge movie with massive wealthy actors in it. Especially with such a long running title as Dune. This is meant to be coming to Xbox? Really?

Is good yaah

Surprisingly dull and unexciting. This game is so deep into the survival game loop it kind of forgets it's a Dune game. In fact, so much of the game is awkwardly gameified and multiplayer-game-based, it sacrifices any kind of immersion the Dune setting would normally have to make sure you're really grinding that barebone content. Stop me if you've never seen this loop before: You start on the easy part of the map, you craft basic items, then you need a new resource, so you need to move base (no fast travel) along the game-specific progression of zones until you run out of content to upgrade. For some reason, key resources only spawn in "harder" sectors of the map, so that means as the game progresses the map get smaller, not bigger, as you have less and less need to stay in the starting zones as they provide nothing of value anymore. Then your character progression is tied to class-based trainers that are on places around the map, somehow lit up by a magic lamp, and you need to do barebones quests for them (Go to X place, find Y or Kill Z, come back), and you need to do those questlines for EVERY jobs to get access to the full skill tree. And that skill tree (at least for trooper) is almost half 5% incremental upgrades, which is less than the 20%+ upgrades you will get from the next tier of weapon/equipment, so your gear matters 80% more than any skills you have set up. Pair with that that the game has no information on how the scaling of abilities work, or if there are any scaling or they're all flat damage... I just don't get it. The map and setting is really cool, but... again, it's unquestionably sabotaged by how the game is made, where you have no motive to go back to starter areas unless a really barebone quests sends you there. By the point of mid-game, you just drive vehicles around to every island, do all the quest markers, collect all materials, and then go back to base. Rinse repeat. Most cutscenes completely fail to make you feel important, your character basically having no character trait beyond being the new chosen one. The AI and combat is just hot garbage, not gonna lie. Most enemies are just HP sponges from the first fights all the way to the later game fights. You have zero meaningful power spikes that isn't hard countered by how tanky all the enemies are. Do you know why all the enemies are tanky? It's because they are so, so, so dumb that they will ignore cover and stay in the open shooting at you until they die. Except for the ones that rushes you with a knife, but then they also go out in the open and don't use any cover to get in range. The enemies are some of the WORST I've seen in a modern game. There is zero cooperation, zero awareness of each other, zero mechanics tied to one another, they are, even 20 hours in, able to see you through walls through proximity, and then instantly either rush you, or stay and shoot at you in the open with zero cover. I dunno how much more I'll play this - but even when the SP mode comes out, just be aware that THIS game was absolutely made to be some sort of server, always online, MMO-like experience and no amount of tweaking will change that. Thankfully you might be able to skip all the timers and attrition systems.