Dune Awakening was one of the more impactful launches this year, but can Funcom keep momentum and interest in the survival SANDbox going? That’s the hope behind a recent AMA on Reddit, during which several of the game’s leads came out to answer community questions earlier this week. Of the greatest interest was the immediate future of Dune Awakening, to which the devs said that players won’t have to wait very long for the next patch.
“We have an update in testing that contains a lot of [quality-of-life] updates, which we are aiming to release in early July,” posted Executive Producer Scott Junior. “It contains too many changes for me to list here, but you’ll be seeing it soon! For PvE plans for the future, each of our major updates will always continue new story content and new PvE content, which will release at the same time as our DLCs come out. Our goal is to have these release every 3/4 months.”
The team also said that it’s working on more dynamic encounters, storage container naming, dueling, more maps, a third faction, and new contracts “across the board.” Performance is being looked at, especially in regard to PvP where there are currently “issues with movement desyncs and rubber banding.”
Funcom added, “We intend to keep you in the loop on what’s coming and will share our mid to long-term plans soon. However, they may not take the form of a static roadmap asset.”
There’s a new trailer as of this morning too:
