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Keeping yourself alive is a major part of Dune: Awakening, Funcom’s upcoming survival MMO, but once you’ve got your water discipline under control and you’re walking without rhythm to avoid sandworms, there’s a mess of other sandbox elements to think about. One of those is combat, because while Arrakis is a harsh world, it’s the warring factions–and other players–that may well pose the biggest threats.
In Funcom’s first Dune: Awakening Direct video about the game, creative director Joel Bylos gives a sense of how the game’s third-person combat system actually works. The system looks to incorporate all the fighting elements that appear in the Denis Villeneuve movies, from hand-to-hand battles to vehicle engagements.
“We do this thing we call ‘combined arms,’ which is like, we have melee, we have ranged, and we have abilities. We also have vehicles, so players can use any combination of these in combat.” Bylos explains in the video. “So it kind of creates this interesting dynamic, so you can learn abilities from the Great Schools in the universe, and learn how to be a Bene Gesserit and compelling your enemies to come close to you so that you can stab them with a knife. You’re combining melee with abilities there, or you can be a swordmaster and leap in with a knee charge, knocking people to the ground and then stabbing them. Or you can choose to be a trooper, and you use your shigawire reel to pull you up like a grappling hook to pull you to high places, where you can shoot down on your enemies with sniper rifles and shotguns.
