Funcom has just revealed a detailed roadmap for their open-world survival game,Dune: Awakening, which is scheduled to receive multiple DLCs and free updates in the near future. While the game had a great launch with glowing reviews, the gaming community soon began to experience problems with technical issues, cheaters, and a lack of end-game content.
Dune: Awakening is a complex game with a lot of great qualities, includingtop-tier base-buildingand immersive character development, and the developers have been responsive to community feedback and transparent about their plans to fix bugs, ban cheaters, and continue shaping the deep desert.
We’ve identified several core issues; loss of items/vehicles, players feeling that they are forced into PvP, exploits and cheats, and lack of endgame content/grind.
Lost Harvest DLC And Free Update
Dune: Awakening’s latest developer update highlights the free update, The Lost Harvest DLC, and plans for the future with a primary focus on polishing the end-game, but Funcom has also spoken about the important issues voiced by the community.
“We’ve been playing whack-a-mole withbugs, cheats and exploitsduring the July month of summer.We’ve banned thousands of cheaters, fixed a bunch of duplication and exploit bugs and continued working on the stability of the game. We’ve been working to achieve a cadence of patches that allows us time to make stable and consistent fixes, while being fast enough to address issues like exploits before they get too far out of control.”
When it comes to new content forDune: Awakening, first up is the Chapter 2 free update and The Lost Harvest DLC, which will release in unison in September and will add new cosmetics and content. The free update will include new dynamic encounters, deep desert layout changes, and a continuation of the main story, while The Lost Harvest DLC will introduce a new vehicle, additional building pieces and decorations, a new contract chain with unique locations, and more.
Dune fans will most likely have to wait untilearly 2026to see some of the bigger end-game changes Funcom has planned, but they’ve outlined some promising additions to the Landsraad.
As we’ve mentioned previously, the Landsraad is supposed to be the endgame activity driver. Currently it does not have the breadth or depth of content or progression to serve that function.
Here is alist of examplesFuncom has provided of what some of the new Landsraad activities could potentially be:
Aside from thetechnical issuesand an end-game that needs a bit more love, Dune: Awakening still has a solid fanbase and the new roadmap suggests 2026 could be a very good year for Funcom’s latest survival game.
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