After All The Talk Of Dune: Awakening's Endgame, I Don't Think Many Players Will Ever Reach It

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Harry Alston

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168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dune: Awakening is absolutely enormous. I knew it was going to be a long journey from the moment I stepped foot in the closed beta and saw the various tiers ♍of craftable items and the vast desert of Arrakis spread out before me, but now I’ve spent time venturing beyond the confines of what we saw in those early tests this game is... just enormous.

Yesterday, some guildmates and I spent ten minutes climbing a massive stone spire in the center of the map because there was a Tier 3 Blood Extractor blueprint at the top. One of my friends found a buggy at a point of interest, and we went on a quick drive to bring it back to our baಞse, dodging sand worms and quicksand along the way. I’ve played for over ten hours already, and I’m s🍸till only using iron gear, though to be fair, I’ve been progressing pretty slowly to work on our guild base. There’s just so much to do, and such a massive expanse of sand to cover.

Dune_ Awakening player with a mask standing outside of their base

Some people will love this type of approach. This is a game you can really sink your teeth into. Dune: Awakening isn’t about days of fun, it’s💝 about weeks, possibly even months, of earning that fun. So far, I’m still hooked on exploration and discovery, unlocking unique blueprints to upgrade my gear, and running some of the dungeons (called Testing Stations), to find more interesting bits of loot. We are nowhere near our first Ornithopter, and still hours a♚way from the Deep Desert.

The Deep Desert is the endgame goal of Dune: Awakening, a huge void of sand in which the guilds and houses duke it out over the control of huge spice flows. That is one of the reasons I was so excited to invest time in Awakening in the first 🐲place: I love the idea of massive guild raids, with Ornithopters and buggies and gigantic worms disrupting the whole thing. But now I’ve started, I don’t really know how populated this endgame area is going to be. Only the real diehards are ever going to reach it.

Dune: Awakening Is A Game For The Grinders

Dune_ Awakening lots of players on buggies with an ornithopter

I always knew that Dune: Awakening was going to be a struggle for solo players. You can pro🌠gress at your own pace, but the scale of resources required for some of the endgame vehicles and gear is astronomical. A single max-tier Ornithopter requires 850,000ml of water. That might not sound like much, but Arrakis is made of sand. Water is one of the most important and most difficult to obtain resources on the whole of Arrakis.

The sheer amount of work that goes into pretty much everything in the game is excellent for those who like to invest time in production queues and efficient factory designs, but for the casual solo player most o🧔f this stuff is probably unreachable. Even those who play ꧋casually in a group might take weeks to reach a point where they can contest anything in the Deep Desert.

I’m part of a pretty dedicated, semi-hardcore guild, and I imagine we’ll get our first Or🍃nithopter this weekend. There’ll be others that also reach that point, if they haven’t already (people really like to grind, and I reckon Dune: Awakening is the sort of game that people will play for 24 hours straight, if the servers allow it), but I can see this wall of materials and recipes and research being a bit of a turn-off for all but the most serious gamers.

Much like Funcom’s previous success in Conan Exiles, Dune: Awakening is a🅘 hardcore game that requires a lot of your time. You need to pay taxes on your properties and keep their generators fueled. Vehicles get wear and tear damage over time. They need to be repaired. Wa🐎ter needs to be harvested almost constantly to keep up with production queues, and even though there are ways to automate some of this, a lot of it requires manual work.

The ‘endgame’ of Dune: Awakening feels like a distant thought right now. I’ve got to go and collect sꦫome more iron.