Dune: Awakening hits over 1 million sales making it Funcom’s fastest selling game, end-game changes coming

Excellent news for MMO followers on Linux platforms, Dune: Awakening is clearly right here to remain because it’s Funcom’s quickest promoting sport to this point. Very nice to see it doing properly for the reason that developer truly enabled the anti-cheat for Linux platforms together with SteamOS and Steam Deck.

ICYMI: see my initial review of the game.

In a press launch they famous over a million gamers have joined in making it “Funcom’s fastest-selling sport ever”, to place some perspective on it their different sport Conan Exiles took a complete 12 months to hit that. On this case although, they’re backed up by the trendy Dune motion pictures.

The sport has repeatedly smashed participant counts too. It hit a peak of 189,333 on-line 3 days in the past, placing it repeatedly within the prime 10 most performed video games on Steam.

With the information they shared an infographic exhibiting off that over 60,000 gamers died to a sandstorm and over 800,000 deaths had been to the good worm (fairly just a few of these being mine). Over 120,000 guilds have been fashioned too.

It hasn’t been with out points although, a few of which the developer has been fast to patch, like gamers stomping on others of their Ornithopter which grew to become fairly an issue. Funcom have now disabled car harm to forestall such points occurring.

A recent message from the Artistic Director of Dune: Awakening additionally touches on PvE and PvP, noting they by no means need to “pressure PvE gamers to work together with a PvP system that they might have no real interest in”. The issue is that the present Deep Desert end-game is firmly PvP targeted, so solo gamers and small groups simply get obliterated continuously by greater guilds and groups ready for them to cross their path. So with that, their new plan is to regulate it so as to add some areas of the Deep Desert as PvE however a whole lot of it’s nonetheless firmly PvP targeted.

For the reason that Deep Desert will get reset weekly they mentioned it’ll permit them to “iterate and experiment with totally different layouts and setups”. If one thing does not work, they’ll change it for the subsequent week, with out touching the opposite elements of the sport.

On prime of that extra end-game actions and extra PvE content material are deliberate for each free updates and paid DLC.

I am nonetheless pumping hours into it, largely solo, and I am nonetheless totally having fun with it. I respect that I can do a fast couple of minutes to choose up batteries to guard my base for a number of weeks at a time. It is an MMO, so there’s a particular grind to it, but it surely’s far much less punishing than others.

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.