Dune: Awakening's first major free update is live, boasting all-new murders, secrets, contracts and tattoos

Together with the paid Lost Harvest DLC

Dune: Awakening has received its archetypal "major" escaped update, a continuation of the MMO endurance game's communicative pursuing the revelations of Act 3. What revelations were these? Honestly, lads, I ne'er made it that far. My quality is presently a furry chunk of worm jerky, crammed into a half-built shack aft accidentally encasing herself successful the furniture, truthful there'll beryllium nary spoilers from me. But I tin uncover determination are "gruesome murders" to analyse from this constituent on, and further opportunities to excavation up the misbegotten secrets of Arrakis. Here's a trailer.

Also: caller looks! "Re-customize your character, observe caller contracts, items, quality hairstyles and tattoos, and dynamic encounters that respire much beingness into the ever-shifting deserts of Dune," comments the property release. That past enactment astir the ever-shifting deserts rings a small hollow successful the aftermath of Sword Of The Sea's grainy tsunamis, admittedly, but you can't squash radical with ornithopters successful Sword Of The Sea, truthful let's telephone it even-stevens.

The update accompanies the motorboat of the paid Lost Harvest DLC, which comprises a standalone story. "Dig heavy into the lore of Dune and you whitethorn recoil astatine what stares back," explains the property release. By gawd, it sounds Nietzschean down there!

Abyssal ruminations aside, the DLC includes "the caller Dune Man gathering pieces, caller decorations, cosmetic armor sets and weapons, swatches, and the Thumper emote." All that and a caller vehicle, the Treadwheel, this being a benignant of doubled-up Penny Farthing with phat treads. It's got "unique animations and handling" but does not, the developers assure, confer immoderate existent advantages implicit the sandbike equivalent successful the basal game. Here's different trailer truthful you tin ticker the large wheely goof bash its thing.

Dune: Awakening has fallen down the charts a spot since motorboat successful June. In my case, I mislaid involvement rapidly erstwhile I clocked that I was playing a endurance game, with each of the associated grubbing astir for materials and a generic holo-template gathering strategy that felt similar a monolithic discarded of the Dune fiction. Brendy (RPS successful peace) pounded his gavel thusly successful our Dune: Awakening review: "The satellite of Dune is well-realised successful multiplayer endurance crippled format, offering a harsh satellite of unintentional comedy, braindead NPCs, and plentifulness of grindy crafting."

Funcom are letting radical play for escaped crossed September 11th-15th, which includes entree to each the worldly successful this week's update. There's a discount moving thereafter, to lure successful those who've developed an appetite for the sands. I'm not definite I'll beryllium going back, but I'm funny to perceive however you spice miners are getting on. There are 2 much paid DLCs with caller areas and stories coming successful the game's play pass.