In survival MMO Dune: Awakening, the spice you harvest on Arrakis will play an enormous function in crafting, the financial system, and even the bottom taxes you pay to the emperor. But the famously costly house drug may muck along with your thoughts, and whereas it would not sound prefer it’ll rework you right into a bizarre gross slug monster (just like the guild navigators in Dune), it would nonetheless have an effect in your character while you’re uncovered to it.
Today Dune: Awakening’s inventive director Joel Bylos let a bit extra details about the MMO’s spice system trickle by way of his fingers. See what I did there? Like how Paul Atreides is at all times letting sand trickle by way of his fingers when he is thinkin’ about Dune stuff? That’s the psychological picture I used to be going for.
“If you stand round on a spice blow for too lengthy with out correct safety you begin to inhale an excessive amount of spice and it will get into your bloodstream,” Bylos stated at the moment in the course of the third Dune: Awakening Direct presentation. “And that may result in sure results in your character on this planet and within the recreation.”
Bylos did not wish to get too particular about these results, however not less than one in every of them sounds fairly intriguing.
“As the participant’s blood will get saturated with spice, you may think about how skills may be altered by having the ability to see only a little bit into the long run,” Bylos stated, holding up his thumb and forefinger a number of centimeters aside. “We have a few of these results within the recreation. I will not spoil an excessive amount of of it, however it would have an effect in your skills.”
In the latest Dune films, Paul Atreides was prescient, first in his desires after which later when getting a contact excessive from spice whereas glumly moping round on Arrakis. How will prescience translate into an MMO full of different gamers? I’m unsure, and Bylos sadly would not clarify additional.
“The thought of those visions that Paul has, I believe it is an attention-grabbing factor,” he stated. “We’re positively exploring this type of thought within the recreation. What it’s and what it means I’ll go away for the gamers and their creativeness, and hopefully someday they’re going to discover out.”
Luckily clairvoyance is not the one capacity in Dune: Awakening. We acquired a fast glimpse of some others within the presentation, like an vitality protect capacity that lets the participant arrange a dart-proof deflective barrier they and their mates can crouch behind throughout fight. Another capacity proven on a menu display is known as “Hunter-Seeker” and permits gamers to pilot these tiny remote-controlled needle-tipped drones, which looks like a cool ability for a stealth participant to have.
Another ability is known as “Battlefield Calculation,” which scans an space and offers you info on enemy varieties, traps and turrets, and what sort of injury they do. There’s additionally a flying knee strike that allows you to sprint towards enemies for a fast melee assault, helpful towards enemies whose shields would block ranged projectiles.
You can watch the complete presentation beneath. Dune: Awakening is deliberate for a launch in early 2025.
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