Dune: Awakening Delayed [Apr 15, 2025, 11:59 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Funcom shares an announcement that goes on and on about the success of various closed testing sessions for Dune: Awakening. This eases the way for the news that all that success is culminating in a delay to the launch of the multiplayer survival game based on the classic sci-fi franchise. The game's previously announced May 20th release is being pushed back to June 10th, with a head-start getting underway five days before that. Word is: "Thanks to this process, we’ve concluded that with a bit more time to cook, we can act on a lot more of the feedback we know is important to our beta testers." Now the plan is to precede the launch with a larger beta test next month:
As such, we will be moving the release date of Dune: Awakening to June 10th, with head start launching on June 5th. This is not a decision we take lightly, we know everyone is very excited to get playing, but these three extra weeks will give us the time needed to make improvements that will lead to a better gameplay experience from day one.
We’re also excited about the fact that this will allow us to do a large-scale beta weekend next month where even more of you will get the opportunity to play the game and share your feedback. We will release more information about this soon.
Dune: Awakening is a beast of a game. This is multiplayer survival on a massive scale, and we’re making gameplay and technical strides not seen in the genre before. We want to make sure we stick the landing.
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Timmeh wrote on Apr 15, 2025, 14:01:
This is very similar to the way they handled Anarchy Online PVP. The greatest MMORPG of all time IMO. I still have an active paid account.
Buggiest launch of an MMO ever, but greatest MMO ever too. 3305 Local Represent!
Yet another samey iteration of Conan, with Dune lore flavoring while Anarchy Online withers.
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As long as it doesn't get totally lost in quicksand...
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I have 80 hours played so far between the wipes over the last 3 months. Needs a little work, but it's totally worth playing if you enjoy survival games. The beta so far is better than a lot of games, and it actually feels like Dune. Amazingly, they pulled it off. Performance has improved drastically since I first played in January.
This seems like the most misguided use of a license since Robocop Farm Simulator.
they concept in interesting but from what i can see its going to look nothing like dune with soo much land mass and dump looking houses everywhere. the concept for dune was the empire would hunt to find settlements but they too easy to see where everything is the empire have to be blind not to see it plan as day. the only cool looking part from what i can tell would be the PVP area
Rhett wrote on Apr 15, 2025, 15:46:
Wish it had proper private servers like ARK/Conan, although Conan is a hot mess that constantly breaks mods. It looks cool, but I hate that they're taking control from people.
The Devs have heard a lot of request for private server's and they did say they are considering it, but I don't think it will happen for a while if it does happen. I also prefer this!!
Don't be to put off on the MMO part, you wont see many other players in the game, each instance only hold 40 people and the areas are really large.
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Wish it had proper private servers like ARK/Conan, although Conan is a hot mess that constantly breaks mods. It looks cool, but I hate that they're taking control from people.
RogueSix wrote on Apr 15, 2025, 12:39:
No delay in the world is gonna unfuck this shit.
Ok, Id like to know why you feel that way?
I'm in the Closed Beta, and I absolutely love this game. Its done really well. and the Devs are listening to our feedback and this is exactly why the game is getting a month delay to polish and clean up some stuff.
And BTW, the MP part is not anything that's going to make the game bad, you do not have to play with anyone else, you can go Solo if you want. The entire map for PvE is larger then Skyrim's map. The only part thats PvP is the Deep Desert.
You are not forced into any of those.
Give me your specifics!!
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Steele Johnson wrote on Apr 15, 2025, 14:52:RogueSix wrote on Apr 15, 2025, 14:11:Timmeh wrote on Apr 15, 2025, 14:01:RogueSix wrote on Apr 15, 2025, 12:39:
No delay in the world is gonna unfuck this shit.
I can assure you that shit is definitely not fucked.
The game is awesome.
Nah. Multiplayer + survival. Could it be even shittier? Yup. It could be Multiplayer + Survival + Souls-like. But Multiplayer and Survival is plenty info enough to declare this as a game that can not possibly be physically unfucked. Ever.
Did you ever consider changing hobbies? Like maybe collecting marbles or something? 🤪
So... if you're not into multiplayer survival garbage then your only alternative is collecting marbles?!? Bruuuuhhh... you sure everything is in order with your marbles??
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Don't get me started on bloody marbles! 
RogueSix wrote on Apr 15, 2025, 14:11:Timmeh wrote on Apr 15, 2025, 14:01:RogueSix wrote on Apr 15, 2025, 12:39:
No delay in the world is gonna unfuck this shit.
I can assure you that shit is definitely not fucked.
The game is awesome.
Nah. Multiplayer + survival. Could it be even shittier? Yup. It could be Multiplayer + Survival + Souls-like. But Multiplayer and Survival is plenty info enough to declare this as a game that can not possibly be physically unfucked. Ever.
Did you ever consider changing hobbies? Like maybe collecting marbles or something? 🤪
Timmeh wrote on Apr 15, 2025, 14:01:RogueSix wrote on Apr 15, 2025, 12:39:
No delay in the world is gonna unfuck this shit.
I can assure you that shit is definitely not fucked.
The game is awesome.
Nah. Multiplayer + survival. Could it be even shittier? Yup. It could be Multiplayer + Survival + Souls-like. But Multiplayer and Survival is plenty info enough to declare this as a game that can not possibly be physically unfucked. Ever.
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RogueSix wrote on Apr 15, 2025, 12:39:
No delay in the world is gonna unfuck this shit.
I can assure you that shit is definitely not fucked.
The game is awesome.
El Pit wrote on Apr 15, 2025, 12:48:
I've read about this that it does not have forced pvp but special zones for this but also read that you better enter those zones because the good loot is only there. I will definitely wait for a few weeks after the release. If this is really a "sort of" forced pvp game (because one day you will have to enter the "Gid gud" areas or stop progressing), then this will be a hard pass.
This is very similar to the way they handled Anarchy Online PVP. The greatest MMORPG of all time IMO. I still have an active paid account.
As with ANY Funcom game it’s best not to preorder and wait minimum 6 months before purchasing.
I've read about this that it does not have forced pvp but special zones for this but also read that you better enter those zones because the good loot is only there. I will definitely wait for a few weeks after the release. If this is really a "sort of" forced pvp game (because one day you will have to enter the "Gid gud" areas or stop progressing), then this will be a hard pass.
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-Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Do you remember Age Of Conan's launch 😉
No delay in the world is gonna unfuck this shit.
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Dune: Awakening delayed
So, Dune: Hits Snooze?
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