Last year’s Dune: Awakening will get a second chance this fall when it hits consoles and gets a single-player mode.
MMO survival game Dune: Awakening last year at this time she had a solid start. At the same time, almost 200 thousand PC players played it in early access. However, interest in the game was quickly lost. A month later, Dune had less than a hundred thousand concurrently active players, and that number had already halved on the first weekend of the free trial.
Publishing company Funcom has announced that it will give the game a second chance this fall, when Dune: Awakening arrives on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series consoles. The launch of the console versions is scheduled for 22. 9. (yes, in the ninth month), when the game will also appear as part of the Game Pass subscription.
In parallel with its arrival on consoles, the game will also receive wanted single-player gameplay.
Namely, Dune: Awakening is still a survival game with MMO elements, although you don’t have to play it that way. However, the arrival of the single-player mode will open the door to offline play, modifications, etc. There will also be an adjustable difficulty and it will be possible to adjust different segments of the gameplay, from base limits, multipliers of EXP points, sandstorms, etc.
The console version of the game will contain everything that the PC version has, and will offer two performance modes: Performance (60 fps) and Quality. However, there will be no cross-play between platforms, so that players will only ever play with other players “of their own kind”.
Single-player and multiplayer gameplay will also be separate, and there will be no progress transfer between the two. In single-player it will be possible to access the PvP zone, but without other players and without resetting the map and built objects. In the endgame segment, the game will simulate other players to raise the challenge for those who complete it.
The single-player game mode will contain narrative campaign through five acts. Currently, the game contains four story chapters, while the final fifth will arrive on September 22. Existing owners of the PC version will get it all for free, including the story finale and single-player mode.