Here's Why Dune: Awakening Won't Constantly Kill You With Nuclear Explosions

Phil Hornshaw
3/4/2024

Survival MMO Dune: Awakening means to put you on the sands of Arrakis, fighting to keep your water in your body--fending off both the harsh arid climate and the weapons of other players in some of its PvP gameplay. Developer Funcom is including a whole bunch of different weapons and technologies for you to use in combat, including shields and the knives and swords that can penetrate them, vehicles like ornithopters, and projectile weapons.Dune: Awakening will also include "lasguns," powerful laser-like weapons that are depicted in the recent Dune movies to be devastatingly powerful. Good news, though: As creative director Joel Bylos confirmed at a Dune: Awakening hands-off preview event last week, using lasguns in the game won't get you annihilated by a nuclear blast.If you're not familiar with Dune lore, that might sound like a weird thing to be worried about. It's something the characters of Frank Herbert's novels are very worried about, however. In the story, the interaction between the laser-like rays and forcefield-like defensive shields--which are used on everything from ships and buildings to individual people--creates a massive nuclear explosion. Use a lasgun to shoot somebody wearing a shield and you'll take out yourself and everyone in the vicinity.Continue Reading at GameSpot...

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