Dune Awakening Technology Unlock

As products from the same company and both of them are in the same survival genre, it is inevitable that Conan Exiles and Dune Awakening will be compared together. Although Conan Exiles received very low reviews when it was first released, time has proven that it is also a leader in survival games.

So how has Dune Awakening improved compared to Conan Exiles after careful polishing and more resources? Is it just a recover of Conan Exiles? Let’s have a look at the competition between the two games and see who is the winner.

World

The world is the main framework for the operation of survival games. All NPCs, creatures, and resources cannot be separated from this framework. Interestingly, both games use novels as the background of the game to build their own worldview framework.

Conan Exiles is set in the wilderness of “Conan the Barbarian”. You are one of thousands of exiles, and the creatures, altars and other items you encounter here are full of wildness.

Dune Awakening is naturally based on the science fiction Dune. Although players are in the barren desert, they can use various high-tech Dune Awakening items to help you survive.

Dune, which has a more complete world view and an enormous fan base, is obviously better.

Graphics

There is no suspense in terms of graphics, which is better in Dune Awakening. Although Conan Exiles’ graphics are also very good, some of its items designs are relatively old.

Since Dune Awakening has a science fiction background, its architectural style, clothing, weapons and other aspects have a unified art style. It is not so easy to build a technological empire in the desert, but they have done it well.

However, Conan Exiles is not completely defeated. You can see rich biomes here, which are much more pleasing to the eye than the giant sandworm.

Base Construction

Building a base is one source of joy in survival games. Conan Exiles’ base is a traditional resting place in survival games. You can eat and sleep here, repair your weapons and equipment, or decorate the room with various decorations to create an exquisite cabin in the woods.

Dune Awakening is not much different. The difference may be that you are building a high-tech stone fortress here instead of a wooden house. If it is just from the perspective of appearance, it is easier for you to build a cool house in Dune Awakening. In addition, you can use Dune Awakening Solari to exchange for houses designed by other players, saving your own thinking time.

Game Content

Conan Exiles was released in 2018. After several years of expansion and update, its content has been very rich, and the game also supports players to install mods, which further enhances the content of the game. As a pure survival game, it can easily steal hundreds of hours of your time.

Dune Awakening, which was just released not long ago, is hard to match. After all, the developers are still obsessed with fighting various bugs now. If you want to see new content, you may have to wait for a while.

Story

Dune Awakening also performs better in terms of the story. You can unlock more and more advanced Dune Awakening items step by step as the main story progresses, while observing the struggle between the two Houses on this planet, and the player’s actions can also affect the ending of some plots. These contents are fascinating. It can be said that Dune Awakening can keep you addicted in the first 50 hours of the single-player game.

Conan Exiles’ presence in the storyline seems to be relatively weak, because it is more inclined to the survival part, and the plot of the game is not its focus.

Combat

It is really difficult to evaluate the combat level, because the two games are the same. It can be seen that the developers are really not good at this part. Compared with the carefully crafted survival part, the combat part is as rough as the last place in the handcraft competition.

Although both games have melee and ranged attacks, they are obviously not recognized by any action game enthusiasts, and many players hate the PVP content in the game.

Survival

As a latecomer, Dune Awakening borrowed a lot from the design of Conan Exiles and integrated it very well with the background of the game. In the desert world, the biggest crisis that players have to face is the sun, and the most important resource is water. Players need to use technology to solve these needs in exploration. Even in the later stages of the game, when players have all kinds of high-tech resources, they still cannot ignore the threats brought by these mechanisms. These designs are excellent.

Conan Exiles covers all aspects of survival. The threats you face include hunger, thirst, sleep needs and beast threats. Although classic, there is nothing refreshing. But if you like a pure survival experience, or you are a fan of Ark: Survival Evolved, then Conan Exiles will be more suitable for you.

Summary

In general, Dune Awakening is better in terms of overall quality, but it also has some bugs and the game content is not rich enough. As a survival game, Conan Exiles can meet most of the requirements of players. If you prefer to play with other players, then the current Dune Awakening should give you more happiness.

Dune Awakening is a survival MMO based on Frank Herbert’s 1965 science fiction novel Dune. Most players may not have read it in full, but you may have heard of the movie of the same name.

Dune Awakening follows a different timeline than the movie and the novel. In the game’s timeline, Paul Atreides was not born, and Jessica gave birth to a woman named Ariste Atreides, allowing players to participate in the struggle between the two Houses when there is a power vacuum in Arrakis.

Despite the different storylines, the production team still did a good job of restoring the world of Arrakis and left some Easter eggs pointing to the original novel.

Ghanima Cavern

Ghanima Cavern is located in Eastern Vermillius Gap, specifically on the cliffs above Anvil Trading Post. There are only some ordinary cave Dune Awakening items here, but the Easter eggs actually come from the name of the cave.

Ghanima Atreides is the daughter of Paul Atreides and Chani in the original story, but Paul Atreides is not born in the game timeline, so she cannot appear.

Halleck’s Pick

Halleck’s Pick is a Tier 6 unique blade, and its blueprint appears in the weekly rotation of Deep Desert. It has an attack power of 138.52 and an attack speed of 139, making it a very deadly melee weapon.

The name Gurney Halleck appears in the description of Halleck’s Pick. He is a bard who is good at swords and music, and is also Paul Atreides’ swordsmanship teacher in the original story. However, in Dune Awakening, he is not involved in the main storyline, but only appears as a background introduction.

Liet-Kynes

Kynes is probably the most important planetologist in the game. He appears a lot in the movie and the first novel. He eventually dies in the desert from a spice blow.

Although he does not officially appear in the game, when you look for Dr. Derek Chinara and unlock the planetologist class, he will mention Dr. Kynes.

Thufir Hawat

Thufir Hawat is one of Paul Atreides’ educators and the assassin master of Mentat. Unlike Gurney Halleck, he is a direct NPC that players can find, and you can even get quests from him.

You first have to join Atreides House, and after completing the faction-specific quests, you can meet the senior commander of Atreides at the end of each game. He is near the hangar on the west side of Arakeen (which can be reached by using 2,500 Dune Awakening Solari at any trading post). He will assign you the following quests:

• On the Tainted Trail
• A New Cultist
• A Center of Learning
• The Hunt for Skorda
• Skorda’s Last Stand
• The Tainted Spice

Duncan’s Dojo

Duncan’s Dojo is obviously related to Duncan Idaho. He is a loyal swordsman of Atreides House. He is good at swordsmanship and hand-to-hand combat. Duncan Idaho died in the first novel and was later resurrected. He is a very important character.

Duncan’s Dojo has no special facilities in the game and is a bit boring. However, Duncan Idaho may not have dead in the timeline of Dune Awakening, so the developers may arrange his appearance here in a later update.

Idaho’s Charge

This unique Tier 6 light armor also comes from Duncan Idaho. The description of this item shows his powerful aerial and melee abilities. This item also has no fixed drop location. It is one of the weekly rotations in Deep Desert. Its blade protection performance is outstanding, which can resist 12% of melee blade damage for you.

Bene Tleilax

Bene Tleilax and Bene Gesserit are two different factions in Dune, and they are very different. The common point between them is perhaps that they are both extremely xenophobic. Bene Tleilax controls many advanced genetic technologies and can change their appearance and even imitate the appearance of others.

Players cannot learn the skills of Bene Tleilax in the game, but you can find merchant NPCs of this faction. Although people hate Bene Tleilax’s research, their selling Dune Awakening items are very popular in the universe.

Maud’Dib Constellation

When the player smokes too much spice, they will see some hallucinations. You can see some illusions about Maud’Dib. This does not refer to Paul Atreides (he used Maud'Dib as an alias), but to a kind of gerbil living on this planet.

When the player first enters the game, the constellations that appear in the starry sky also include Maud’Dib constellation. It points the way for the people of Arrakis at night, just like the North Star. This is mentioned in both the movie and the novel.

The above are some of the Easter eggs in Dune Awakening about the original novel. As a game that shows tribute to Dune, there must be some content that has not been discovered, and some content may even be added to the game in future updates. Maybe it’s an NPC from the original work or maybe it’s an item. As a fan of Dune, it must be very satisfying to see these NPCs and items in the game.