Dune: Awakening's Chapter 3 replace features a 'fully revamped Landsraad system,' a brand new 'specialization expertise system,' and eight new overland maps to go to
Funcom has begun revealing particulars of the Chapter 3 replace coming quickly to survival MMO Dune: Awakening, and it seems like a fairly substantial one. Talking with sport director Joel Bylos final week, he advised me the replace is geared toward giving endgame gamers extra to do, and can embrace a ‘fully revamped Landsraad system,’ a brand new ‘specialization expertise system,’ plus eight new places to go to on the overland map, plus a handful of recent testing stations. Sounds spicy.
Earlier than you envision your self constructing new bases at faraway places, the brand new maps are usually not “wherever close to the dimensions of just like the Hagga Basin,” Bylos mentioned. “They’re smaller one-kilometer-by-one-kilometer maps in measurement, and so they include very particular actions.”
Every of the brand new specializations have “100 ranges that you could spend in any of those 5 bushes. So it is 500 ranges complete, which is quite a bit,” Bylos mentioned. “And you then make investments factors into every of them, and it unlocks new traits on your character.”
These traits may embrace issues like rising your piloting ability so autos eat much less gas, or incomes higher yields whereas harvesting, or doing extra harm when headshotting—relying on the place you spend your factors. “It lets you develop your character down sure paths primarily based on the actions you want within the sport,” he mentioned.
There’s extra within the replace, together with an augmentation system the place gamers will be capable of use a brand new crafting machine to supply mods for his or her weapons and armor. These augments might be obtained by defeating bosses, that are additionally new: “an in depth boss system with completely different phases for the bosses, well being bars, issues like that,” Bylos mentioned. There are additionally 5 new repeatable testing stations within the replace, with “escalating problem for added rewards.”
Whew. All that goes a protracted option to exhibiting why Chapter 3 is the largest replace Dune: Awakening to date. Alongside the free replace, there is a paid DLC with dozens of recent constructing items and several other new armor units. Take a look on the trailer.
