Faction imbalance is an issue as outdated as MMOs themselves, one should solely take a look at World of Warcraft servers being dominated by both the Alliance or Horde for example of how gamers love flocking to the faction main the pack. Dune Awakening isn’t any totally different, although based on inventive director Joel Bylos, the workforce has an answer within the works to fight it: a 3rd faction.
In a press Q&A earlier this month, I requested Joel about how the workforce hopes to battle this drawback, to which he responded with the next: “That is an important query. Oh my god. It is the everlasting query I’d say. In our beta, we see a 7:1 ratio between Atreides and Harkonnen. We have all types of cool stuff we will do to try to change these ratios.”
Bylos elaborates: “We have now a 3rd faction in thoughts that we want to introduce to the sport, that I do not know if we’ll be including to the sport at launch, or barely after launch. I feel the strategy we’re taking with the third faction will guarantee a degree of steadiness within the different factions. That is type of our aim, to design round this taking place.”
“I imply it is at all times a troublesome factor, proper? We’ll should see the place we find yourself. I feel the opposite factor we will do is sort of fascinating. We have not gone too far down this path but, however we will at all times attempt to inhabitants steadiness by connecting totally different maps to totally different deep deserts, and work out how gamers truly play collectively. So if there’s big faction imbalances we will incentivize each side to vary. There are arbitrary mechanics within the recreation, you possibly can change factions.”
He concluded with a enjoyable quote from the closed beta Discord: “Harkonnen have the very best drip.”
This raises all types of fascinating questions, essentially the most urgent being: who would this faction be? Effectively, there are two fundamental forces that stand out. The primary can be some sort of Fremen faction, although it has been established that they’ve largely been worn out from the area Dune Awakening takes place in. I might slightly place my wager on some sort of imperial faction, one excited by protecting each Atreides and Harkonnen at roughly the identical degree of energy, so neither discover themselves ready of energy towards the emperor himself. That is simply me although: speculate away!
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