In case you’re simply getting began in Dune: Awakening, the ins and outs of constructing it by every day on Arrakis may appear greater than just a little overwhelming. There’s an in depth prologue that walks you thru among the fundamentals, nevertheless it doesn’t let you know the whole lot and leaves loads to the idea that you just’ll determine it out as you go alongside. Dune: Awakening is far more forgiving than some survival video games, however not having to be taught issues the laborious manner means you may focus your time and assets on issues that matter.
We’ve compiled an inventory of Dune: Awakening newbie suggestions and methods to assist get you began on Arrakis, the whole lot from how one can hold hydrated to the very best abilities to concentrate on early within the recreation.
1. Don’t construct your base on the sand. Zantara, your information, solely tells you this after your first development challenge, however in case you construct on the sand, the foundations will get swept away every time a storm blows by.
2. Don’t get too hooked up to your first base, both. You’ll should abandon it after making some story progress, and though demolishing constructions will refund your constructing supplies, carting the whole lot you saved to your new base is a ache.
3. Give attention to elevating your faction repute in between finishing principal and aspect quests. Elevating faction repute is essential to unlocking a few of Dune Awakening’s larger options, together with the choice to purchase your individual Ornithopter.
4. Don’t neglect the principle quest, both, as finishing story quests unlocks new applied sciences and teaches you how one can use a few of Dune: Awakening’s extra nuanced methods.
5. Kill scavengers and extract their blood every time you may. It sounds grotesque, however their blood is probably the most dependable approach to have contemporary water on-hand after you craft the blood refiner.
6. Scavengers respawn after a short while, the identical as assets, so that you gained’t lack alternatives to reap contemporary blood.
7. Take note of the sunstroke bar, and keep away from letting it max out. Sunstroke gained’t kill or harm you, nevertheless it does make you dehydrate extra shortly. Dehydration lowers your stamina and, at full dehydration, you lose well being.
8. Maintain a inventory of purified water on-hand at your base always. The Stillsuit’s hydration mechanism is a useful top-up, nevertheless it prices too slowly to make it your major water supply.
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9. Daytime exploration exposes you to harmful warmth, so if you must exit earlier than evening falls, ensure you plot a path that features areas the place you may relaxation in shade.
10. Ignore your pistol for some time. Zantara makes a giant deal out of utilizing ranged weapons, however they’re extremely weak for a lot of the early recreation. Knife assaults are a lot sooner and safer except you’re coping with greater than two enemies concurrently.
11. Seize all of the granite, plant fiber, copper, and metallic you could find. These supplies are required for constructing partitions, foundations, and most different base- and progress-related machines and crafting recipes.
12. Craft a number of storage chests early, and dump all of your additional rocks, crops, and assets in there earlier than heading out. Your base’s sub-fief has restricted preliminary cupboard space, and also you don’t wish to should waste or discard something you discover on Arrakis.
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13. When you scan an space and might study nodes on the map, search for Intel nodes. Finishing these rewards you with quite a lot of XP, and so they’re often in outposts or different areas with priceless assets to select up.
14. Dying is much less of an impediment than you would possibly assume typically. You’ll respawn with each piece of kit you died with and might return to gather your pack with all of your assets.
15. If a sandworm kills you, although, you lose the whole lot. Plan your journeys throughout open sand fastidiously.
16. You possibly can’t kill sandworms, so don’t attempt. The one choices for coping with them are “get eaten” or “run away.”
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17. Falling from ledges or different excessive place can harm you, however by no means kill you. At worst, it drops your HP to vital, which isn’t supreme if enemies are close by, nevertheless it does imply you may shortly get down from a excessive place with out a lot fear.
18. It’s fully potential to play solo, even when group play makes issues simpler. You’ll simply have to depend on merchandise trades to cowl gaps in your useful resource administration.
19. Mobility is much extra necessary than fight, so make investments your ability factors in motion and survival abilities earlier than spending them on bettering weapon harm.
