Funcom has released a new video for upcoming multiplayer survival game, Dune: Awakening, showing off the way the map changes as you play.
Called “Exploring Arrakis – Secrets of the Desert”, the team says: “Although a desert planet, Arrakis is surprisingly diverse, as showcased in the recent Beauty of Arrakis video. Reveal the resources of your immediate surroundings through your personal scanner and modules attached to your vehicles, or climb the highest peaks to launch a survey probe that fills in a large area of your map, including important points of interest, like shipwrecks or ecology labs.”
The team adds: “Funcom is proud to show the scale and scope of the desert planet, which is inspired by Frank Herbert’s legendary sci-fi novel and Legendary Entertainment’s award-winning films.”
If you want to get a bit of a head start, the team has already released the Character Creator & Benchmark Mode on Steam, which lets you create your character ahead of the May 20th release date. The benchmark tool will also let you see how well the game is going to run on your PC.
The huge, ever-changing end-game area, the Deep Desert, beckons with one hand and threatens with the other, as spice blows and Coriolis storms fill the sky. These fatal planetary storms sweep across the map regularly, changing the map every time, revealing new resources and locations while burying the old. When the dust settles, players can scout the fresh land, making maps to sell on the Exchange to other players.
Exploration is essential in Dune: Awakening, but only part of the whole. Keep an eye out for the next video, which will address Dune: Awakening’s sandbox combat.
Dune: Awakening is coming to PC on May 20th.
