Extra Dune Awakening information has hit the web, courtesy of a fast breakdown from Funcom on the sport’s publish launch plans. As well as, PC specs have been launched in an official publish on the sport’s Steam retailer web page.
The quick video, narrated by chief artistic officer Joel Byros, goes by means of the plan for the sport’s life after it launches on Might 20 later this yr. In it, he declares on behalf of Funcom that Dune Awakening is not going to have a subscription like different MMOs. As a substitute, the sport shall be supported by optionally available paid DLC packs that’ll come out alongside free updates.
These free updates will include high quality of life updates, new options, new story content material, and all the good things that retains a reside service sport going. As for the optionally available DLCs, there is no phrase on what they’re going to include, however we do know which you can both purchase them standalone or as a part of a season move that’ll include a number of issues in a single package deal.
Byros additionally revealed that, in some model of the sport of us will be capable of purchase, gamers will be capable of get a headstart over the poors (that is a joke), which is able to enable them to leap into Dune Awakening early on the Might 15. Bylos acknowledged that this may enable early entry for gamers, but additionally 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 spite of everything.
Alongside this quick video comes the aforementioned Steam publish, which gave us the next data on minimal and really useful 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 accessible 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 accessible area
As well as, the publish peels again the curtain on some cool PC options gamers will be capable of 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 when 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 as of late, and having a sport that I can simply purchase and are available again to each on occasion fits me greatest. It is why I maintain leaping again into Guild Wars 2 each on occasion. So yeah, no complaints from me. It additionally appears like we’ll get some extra information quickly, courtesy of a gameplay stream on March 24 talked about on the tail finish of the Steam weblog publish.
Tell us when you’ll be hanging round within the sand come Might 20 (or perhaps, 5 days earlier) under!
