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 brief video, narrated by chief inventive officer Joel Byros, goes via 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 won’t have a subscription like different MMOs. As a substitute, the sport will probably 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 great things that retains a stay service recreation going. As for the optionally available DLCs, there is no phrase on what they will include, however we do know which you can both purchase them standalone or as a part of a season go that’ll include 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 is able to permit them to leap into Dune Awakening early on the Might 15. Bylos acknowledged that this is able to permit early entry for gamers, but in addition states that this permits the crew to “stability the server load” for the absolute best expertise when the sport launches. Nothing hurts an MMO greater than a shaky launch, in any case.
Alongside this brief video comes the aforementioned Steam publish, which gave us the next data on minimal and advisable 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 to fiddle with, together with NVIDIA’s DLSS 4, making Dune Awakening one of many first totally 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 enjoying the sport on PC, you have acquired 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 today, and having a recreation that I can simply purchase and are available again to each on occasion fits me finest. It is why I preserve leaping again into Guild Wars 2 each on occasion. So yeah, no complaints from me. It additionally seems 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 publish.
Tell us should you’ll be hanging round within the sand come Might 20 (or perhaps, 5 days earlier) beneath!
