Survival MMO Dune: Awakening releases subsequent month on Could 20, and Funcom is churning out details about it quicker than a sandworm poops out spice. (Wait, is spice simply sandworm poop? It should be, proper? Gross.)
In a latest livestream, members of the Dune: Awakening staff answered questions from chat, and curiously a type of questions wasn’t about what occurs whenever you play Dune: Awakening, however what occurs when you do not play it.
“There shall be timers for bases to decay like in Conan Exiles?” was the (form of) query from a livestream viewer.
In Funcom’s different sandy survival recreation, Conan Exiles, the items of your base have a timer that causes them to decay if you have not been round it for some time—on official servers this may be between one to 2 weeks. Wander inside rendering distance of your base, and the timer is reset. In any other case, when the timer runs out, your base is marked as “deserted” and after one other 24 hours, should you nonetheless have not returned, it disappears. (This is a prolonged publish about it.)
On the livestream, Funcom defined a bit in regards to the distinction between how bases in Conan Exiles and Dune: Awakening work.
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“Sure, now we have some decay mechanics for the bases,” mentioned Dune: Awakening lead producer Ole Andreas. “So long as your base is powered, it’s shielded. And so long as it is powered and shielded, [it can’t be destroyed].”
However what should you take a break from Dune: Awakening for a couple of days, or longer?
“You may gas your base up proper now within the beta for weeks, after which come again once more,” Andreas mentioned. Dune: Awakening’s world director Jeff Gagné added: “I believe it is 21 days.”
That offers your unattended base every week or two longer than the timer on Conan Exiles official servers. The opposite distinction is, whereas different gamers in Conan Exiles are a menace to your base, in Dune: Awakening it is one thing else.
“As soon as the defend goes down, the sandstorm will begin tearing at your base,” Andreas mentioned.
“So it isn’t going to be like in Conan,” Gagné mentioned. “However now we have one thing much like ensure that we eliminate issues when individuals go away the sport for too lengthy.”
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In some methods, it form of stinks that you may lose your base should you’re away for some time, although three weeks feels fairly forgiving for prolonged absences. I undoubtedly see the necessity for eventual base decay: loads of open world multiplayer base-building video games run into points the place the panorama winds up completely affected by half-built and deserted creations. Full server wipes aren’t precisely enjoyable, both, so having the desert finally reclaim your deserted base appears like a good various.
Extra particulars about Dune: Awakening’s bases are deliberate for a separate constructing livestream within the close to future. You may watch the Q&A portion of the Dune: Awakening livestream on YouTube.
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