Extra Dune Awakening information has hit the web, courtesy of a fast breakdown from Funcom on the sport’s put up launch plans. As well as, PC specs have been launched in an official put up on the sport’s Steam retailer web page.
The quick video, narrated by chief artistic officer Joel Byros, goes via the plan for the sport’s life after it launches on Might 20 later this yr. In it, he broadcasts on behalf of Funcom that Dune Awakening won’t have a subscription like different MMOs. As an alternative, the sport will likely be supported by optionally available paid DLC packs that’ll come out alongside free updates.
These free updates will comprise high quality of life updates, new options, new story content material, and all the great things that retains a reside service sport going. As for the optionally available DLCs, there is not any phrase on what they’re going to comprise, however we do know that you would be able to both purchase them standalone or as a part of a season go that’ll comprise a number of issues in a single bundle.
Byros additionally revealed that, in some model of the sport people will be capable to purchase, gamers will be capable to get a headstart over the poors (that is a joke), which can permit them to leap into Dune Awakening early on the Might 15. Bylos acknowledged that this could permit early entry for gamers, but in addition states that this permits the crew to “steadiness the server load” for the very best expertise when the sport launches. Nothing hurts an MMO greater than a shaky launch, in any case.
Alongside this quick video comes the aforementioned Steam put up, which gave us the next information on minimal and beneficial PC specs:
Minimal:
- OS:Home windows 10 64-bit (or newer)
- Processor:Intel Core i5-7400, AMD Ryzen 3 1200
- Reminiscence: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics:NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (6GB), AMD Radeon 5600XT (6GB)
- Storage:60 GB obtainable area
Really useful:
- OS:Home windows 10 64-bit (or newer)
- Processor:Intel Core i7-10700K, AMD Ryzen 5 2600X
- Reminiscence:16 GB RAM
- Graphics:NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 (8GB), AMD Radeon 6700XT (12GB)
- Storage:75 GB obtainable area
As well as, the put up peels again the curtain on some cool PC options gamers will be capable to fiddle with, together with NVIDIA’s DLSS 4, making Dune Awakening one of many first absolutely launched video games to make use of it, AMDs FSR, Intel’s XeSS 2, and Razer Chroma RGB and Razer Sensa HD Haptics. So should you’re planning on taking part in the sport on PC, you have obtained some neato instruments to make the sport look and play higher.
What do you consider this enterprise mannequin? I really feel like I’ve so many subscriptions nowadays, and having a sport that I can simply purchase and are available again to each every so often fits me finest. It is why I preserve leaping again into Guild Wars 2 each every so often. So yeah, no complaints from me. It additionally feels like we’ll get some further information quickly, courtesy of a gameplay stream on March 24 talked about on the tail finish of the Steam weblog put up.
Tell us should you’ll be hanging round within the sand come Might 20 (or possibly, 5 days earlier) under!
