Dune: Awakening

Good game but it still feels im at the start of the game

:thumbs up:

even if you are playing solo, you can make your way in the desert. But, it is a great community of players to help you along your journey

Everyone is disappointed that the pvp in this game didn't turn out to be what they wanted, I get it, it is not the best pvp in a game. But, I currently have 135 hours in this game and it is by far one of the best games i have ever played. I am not even close to finishing quests or having my base in a true end game state. I have also barely scratched the entire end game loop of the landsradd system talents and dungeon loop. I will surely put 100's more hours in this. What is the price of entertainment? The grocery store currently has steak priced at $50/lb, buy this game and not that steak. Buy this game, play this game, love this game. Give them our money so we can get another masterpiece even greater than this.

It is nice!

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.