Dune: Awakening MMO

[terse scaffold]

The new Dune MMO from Funcom is taking interest in the closed beta

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S-l7NySFsI

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DuneAwakeningBeta

[devout totem]

This does look really good 🤩

[azure geyser]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smLziWRO9GU

[terse scaffold]

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Info on grouping/guilding

[terse scaffold]

I got a key for the closed beta, have you tried it out yet @azure geyser ?

[azure geyser]

Did you get to play it yet, did you like it?

[terse scaffold]

Yes and yes, the dedicated servers act like community sized shards and the all of the group content is region wide. So 20 EU shards all math make and enter instanced areas together in groups. Survival element are very environmental like the lore. So the sun is lethal and water is your main struggle in early game. Go running across open desert and the worm will get you (you gets. Warning bar when you're making vibrations. Shooting is a little janky in beta but it's a really clean and beautiful experience so farm. Mmo with full base building and survival elements

Watching a random in the distance draw a worm and get gobbled is something that I hope never loses it's awe factor.

[azure geyser]

Glad you enjoyed it, I couldnt get into it. It was very mundane and missing the WOW factor for me.

[terse scaffold]

Yeah it's 6/10 on everything I would say, but the idea of having survival craft mechanics in a game where there will always be hundreds of people to do content with was what wow'ed me. I wouldn't say any one thing stands out. It does look really good though but that might be my setup

Building a house in an mmo is a big seller for me

[terse scaffold]

20th May release date set and new demo that allows you to create a character and benchmark your PC performance only
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3k4MIgGunI

[willow flume]

are they gonna have dedicated servers like in conan and are you guys hosting one if so ?

[terse scaffold]

No private servers, regional shards with many different instance servers and the ability to travel between. That might change but the game is going to have factional meta games and CC as well as a game wide economy.

[willow flume]

like new world in that regards with factional pvp and towns ?

i should prob go delve into it 🙂

[terse scaffold]

From what I read it's 3 main houses/factions and they have a meta game system. PvP is the deep dessert and is also friendly fire on, which sounds like fun mayhem

[willow flume]

well runs amazing as i expected 🙂 looks good am doing the demo creation now, if we are making a clan or what not count me in

[terse scaffold]

20th May I'll be there

[willow flume]

if i do go for launch will be first time i have in several years

[spice grotto]

So PvP is mandatory to properly progress then?

[terse scaffold]

No, there is a PVP zone and inside it friendly fire is also on.

[willow flume]

only advantage to pvp at current is, increase resource yields including spice which is a major used resource, also as the pve sites will be limited and take time to respawn then only option would be to go into pvp zone to fight it out for the sites in there

[spice grotto]

So basically faster progression for PvP

[willow flume]

yeah

risk for time spent

[spice grotto]

What is lost if you get killed in PvP?

[willow flume]

also if just want to go and have the content, you keep all ya stuff in pve zone

at moment i think its like 50% of carried resources

can build bases in the zone too and have location building for increase yields that ofc people can come attack

its like take in what ya willing to lose and can always fall back in pve

but the pvp zones reset each week like with rust so its not even going to be a big thing, the devs have said its not a focus of game but just an option

[slender furnace]

I just bought this!

@terse scaffold I should of known you'd be trying this out lol

https://tenor.com/view/good-anakin-star-wars-gif-20393945

What server/region you guys on?

[spice grotto]

I think we are both on US server
but I am still not fully committed to it (I may change to EU server)
john is on it too but different Siech or whatever its called

[slender furnace]

Why US?

[spice grotto]

already was on server with when they were forming guild there
and most of the people there are from US

[slender furnace]

ahhh ok

[terse scaffold]

Bizzarley my ping is lower on NA servers.

[spice grotto]

wow
I am constantly getting the icon showing how it goes up above 100

[terse scaffold]

Yeah and I have friends on a ln EU server and it shows their ping as 140+

[spice grotto]

Wow

[terse scaffold]

My bad it was 140ms as I was viewing EU servers from the NA region setting. EU has been <20ms.

[spice grotto]

yeah
tbh so far its ok
didnt do any PvP
game is fun and I didnt really see the need to move to EU so far

[fading goblet]

im on US server greed sietch Kathib

[rich bay]

Sardaukar about to have a bad time

Also, anyone know why some worms have their mouth glow, and sometimes it looks like glowing rocks shoot out of their when they burst out and roar?

[fading goblet]

idk honestly... something they put in the game

[spice grotto]

idk
maybe they are sick?

[terse scaffold]

@earnest igloo

So i started out on a US server but recently switch to EU. Im on Daxos - Sietch Tabr, if anyone wants to join me you are more than welcome. Guild name is Melange a trois. IGN is John Ramble

[rich bay]

iirc, we can only travel between Sietches, right? Not servers?
On Steel atm, but that's easy to reach again with the knowledge I now have

[terse scaffold]

Yeah im on the hunt too after looking up Daxos and its unoffically Polish and chat is dead

So im hunting around myself

[spice grotto]

so you gonna be changing again?

[fading goblet]

you can travel to any sietch in your server group. you can create bases on any of them. your world server for DD/hubs will stay the same though

[rich bay]

Do you know if the 3 base cap is server or Sietch specific?

[fading goblet]

Pretty sure it's 3 period

[lethal oxide]

Is there a MG presence on a certain server?

[terse scaffold]

I have had to stop playing, we didn't have an official one now. Just a few of us on different servers. My advice is find an active guild online and join their server so you know you won't spend 40hrs getting to end game to find it empty. It's really hard to look for guilds on a specific server.

[fading goblet]

unfortunately we never got together for this game... theres a few of us across several servers. if you need pointers ask

[lethal oxide]

ok, thanks all

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[rich bay]

yeah I wish there was. Sadly even private servers share a deep desert, even if they're unrelated.

If anyone is on Tantalus server, I'm on Sietch Tal'ab

[terse scaffold]

Private servers DD are normally very quiet and only shared between their blades/shards/servers. So if your on nitrado you'll share a DD with 16+ other private sietch's

[fading goblet]

Private Servers share the DD with up to 25 other private servers or all of them... can't remember which of the 2 it is

[brave jolt]

My friend rents a server. So each group has several Hagga Basins but not all the privates servers. There are several of these clusters. (This is the main chunk of the leveling map). They share only the two main cities and the deep desert.

[abstract agate]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1172710/view/515218419125060282

[rich bay]

found a reddit thread talking about good servers where people at least know English, and found Numenor - Sietch Rifana to be pretty nice. I tried a few private servers, but the player exchange market is dead in those unfortunately. And I like the market aspect of the game xD

[rich bay]

ironically the only reason I like Harkonnen xD

[fading goblet]

i saw that option and laughed... i honestly would have be Atreties if it wasn't for the guild i was joining from beta because they went harkonnen

I absolutely hate this "market"... its god aweful. they need to ditch it and come up with somehting else

[rich bay]

What's bad about it?

[fading goblet]

First the markets are either flooded with duped goods or controlled by people who duped solaris. Second people aren't selling Mk6 outside the high demanded for MILLIONS. Third the percent cost to list is just out right robbery. Half of my old server literally did trades in the DD chat over losing money on trying to sell on the exchange and hoping someone will see and buy it. If they wanted to charge a fee it should have been only when someone bought the item allowing people to list for price/days as they wanted... the cost would come out after purchase making it still a "tax" without screwing the players

overall its not worth using unless you spend hours at it and have the solaris to back up the fact your probably not going to see a return on half of it

[rich bay]

Trading outside the market fee is normal in all mmo/multiplayer games with an ingame market tbf. Though yeah the duped stuff is terrible. I think the reason is partly because most people will only farm the most in-demand items.

Would be nice if they found a way to remove all duped items and solari, or track those who did dupes /:

I think the market was amazing when I started on a new server, someone sold a good durability mk6 power pack for 1000 solari xD probably a mistake, but it helped me greatly xD then bought a Full Suspensor for 3k xD

Though yeah it does definitely have issues, but I'm still glad it exists. very much agree they need to work on it heavily to fix the issues though yeah

[fading goblet]

yes i do agree that the trading outside the market has been something in all games for the most part. the issue is it wasn't a huge loss if you choose either. this is you will lose a ton of solaris if that item doesn't sell if it was listed at any significant price

[rich bay]

Is the fee 10% of listed price, or 10% of what most vendors would buy the item for?

[fading goblet]

the fee is based on number of days and the price you are trying to sell it

[rich bay]

aah gotcha! I've yet to try and sell anything on there