No the grind isn't difficult, it's more that it is some out of game mechanic encouraging you to do pointless repetitive stuff that isn't well integrated. All for mostly shitty consumables and cosmetics with the only good ones requiring you paying.. At least if you were willing to pay for cosmetics before you could get them right away rather than having to dance for them.
>encouraging you to do pointless repetitive stuff that isn't well integrated
eeeh
with x10 multiplier you can get levels for easy shit like killing a boss or crafting dragonpowder
Kind of circling the drain with controversialbalance changes and absolute cancer of battle pass monetization. Still reasonably good, though, removal of god bubble and addition of sorcery livened the pvp scene up a little bit.
Probably the best way to go about it, actually, the world is surprisingly decent, and there is even a bit of deep lore action going on. Crank the combat difficulty up, maybe tone down the resource costs or raise the gathering speed to lower the economy grind that is based on multiplayer expectations.
yes, but you want to install mods/fiddle with settings to turn down the grind and at that point its EXTREMELY hard to resist just straight up cheating
good luck
funcom MMOs are usually pretty quality at launch. their problem is they can't keep their MMOs alive and they don't seem to care about it. abandoned Anarchy for TSW, abandoned TSW for Conan, and are now abandoning Conan for Dune. just don't expect it to last more than a few years regardless of quality.
I'm not the kind of guy that wants to play the same game for 10 years, I'm not defending Funcom's shitty practices but what always made keep distance freom MMO's is that eventually it becomes a chore to play, you can't just keep away for 6 months as everything will change so drastically you have to re-learn a lot of shit. If I can get 2-4 years of a fun experice than it will be worth it
The model they thought for it is unsustainable. You basically fight 24/7 for control of a region, and against you own allys who could you backstack you any moment. 99% of the people will nope out in the first week.
>dune as portrayed in all media except the source material
Dude look at these cool sandworms, there is so much devious backstabbing in this intricate political intrigue, woooahhhhh what an epic space opera haha LE HispanicE MUST FLOW hehehe
>dune in the books
holy shit I'm tripping balls, space doesn't matter fighting doesn't matter nothing matters except I can SEE THE FUTURE. Plot? Fuck that there is no plot, there is no space, there is no sandworms, get ready for 60 hours of abstract nonsense
You what? Aside from the parts involving water of life and Paul’s awakening, which are both past the halfway mark, it’s hardly trippy at all. It gets that way in children and emperor, and everyone knows the wild ride that comes after that, but the first book is focused heavily on politics and interpersonal manoeuvring
The first book spends quite a lot of time on politics, militaty strategies and backstabbing, it only gets abstract towards the end and even then there is still a huge battle described
The movie will be interesting and action-oriented because it is a movie. They aren't going to let it be boring. Also the first Dune book is probably the most concrete of them all.
>mfw reading Dune Messiah
What the fuck happened? The quality of storytelling nosedived. I swear the word "prescient" is on every single page
Dune was never about plot or storytelling, it is about Frank Herbert being a drug-fueled autistic savant retard-genius. The series is effectively stream of consciousness political schizo poetry. It only gets stranger from there. Even so, God Emperor of Dune is one of my favorite books and definitely worth sticking it out for.
A big redpill about Dune is that it was only made into a movie/extended intellectual property because studios were trying desperately to churn out sci-fi epics on the coattails of Star Wars' success. They tried to make Dune into something it wasn't with the 1984 movie. Dune was never an epic space adventure for normies, it was always high-concept schizobabble.
It’s going to have to go into at least some detail about the choam company, otherwise they’ll have to completely rewrite the climax.
The source material also has the Harkonen’s threat vastly diminished by the time Paul launches his attack, since the Baron starts to realise just how badly the emperor fucked him, which combined with accidentally treading on a political landmine and being nowhere near as clever as he thinks he is, puts him right on top of Shaddam’s shit list.
Messiah is more of a small novel bridging the gap and setting up Children of Dune, I really liked Messiah though especially the first half or so being basically three people having a conversation and reading body-language and bluffing each other constantly.
>assassination sub-plot went nowhere quick >Paul is just bitter and angry all the time and stays home >gets blinded by a nuke >chani gives birth to twins >paul goes to the desert
Dont get me started on Duncan, it basically went like "i'm not Duncan....ok i'm Duncan"
No, but that guy that you don't really care for will insist that it's good and better than Star Wars just like the books and movies, and that's what truly matters.
There is only one good thing in the dune franchise and that's the first book. After that frank goes full retard. Then his son goes full retard. Both the movies suck, the canceled movie would have sucked, the miniseries sucks. The previous game that came out was below mid. It's over. Dune was good once, 60 years ago.
yeah it's going to be go--- >it's an MMO
nevermind, don't waste your time unless you're a no life fat neckbeard with poor taste in video games and bad hygiene.
probably not but I'm still hopeful because I'm retarded
Same. Honestly, even if it sucks I will buy it simply because i've never experienced an MMO at it's early days and I'd like to try it.
It’s not dune anymore
It's made by the same team who made THIS so yes
Nigga, that's a mod
The only thing modded in that pic is the clothes
I haven't played conan exiles in years. I got it when it was early access. How's the game going?
Same blatant cheating but now with added battlepass grind and worse purge mechanics.
>battlepass grind
i do not understand complaints about BP "grinding"
you can get all 60 levels in a week without much effort
No the grind isn't difficult, it's more that it is some out of game mechanic encouraging you to do pointless repetitive stuff that isn't well integrated. All for mostly shitty consumables and cosmetics with the only good ones requiring you paying.. At least if you were willing to pay for cosmetics before you could get them right away rather than having to dance for them.
>encouraging you to do pointless repetitive stuff that isn't well integrated
eeeh
with x10 multiplier you can get levels for easy shit like killing a boss or crafting dragonpowder
Wait there's cheats in it?
Kind of circling the drain with controversialbalance changes and absolute cancer of battle pass monetization. Still reasonably good, though, removal of god bubble and addition of sorcery livened the pvp scene up a little bit.
Can I play this game singleplayer? I don't give a shit about pvp but I like the idea of survival in Conan's world.
yes
there are also pve servers
Probably the best way to go about it, actually, the world is surprisingly decent, and there is even a bit of deep lore action going on. Crank the combat difficulty up, maybe tone down the resource costs or raise the gathering speed to lower the economy grind that is based on multiplayer expectations.
Yeah 100%, I've got 300+ hours in single player only
PvP is fun but can be harrowing at times if you don't know what you're doing
>that collar
i laughed out loud. why are you people so tasteless
yes, but you want to install mods/fiddle with settings to turn down the grind and at that point its EXTREMELY hard to resist just straight up cheating
good luck
funcom MMOs are usually pretty quality at launch. their problem is they can't keep their MMOs alive and they don't seem to care about it. abandoned Anarchy for TSW, abandoned TSW for Conan, and are now abandoning Conan for Dune. just don't expect it to last more than a few years regardless of quality.
I'm not the kind of guy that wants to play the same game for 10 years, I'm not defending Funcom's shitty practices but what always made keep distance freom MMO's is that eventually it becomes a chore to play, you can't just keep away for 6 months as everything will change so drastically you have to re-learn a lot of shit. If I can get 2-4 years of a fun experice than it will be worth it
>that subtitle
was revelation and revolution taken?
>open world survival mmo
too late, that fad has passed
The model they thought for it is unsustainable. You basically fight 24/7 for control of a region, and against you own allys who could you backstack you any moment. 99% of the people will nope out in the first week.
>dune as portrayed in all media except the source material
Dude look at these cool sandworms, there is so much devious backstabbing in this intricate political intrigue, woooahhhhh what an epic space opera haha LE HispanicE MUST FLOW hehehe
>dune in the books
holy shit I'm tripping balls, space doesn't matter fighting doesn't matter nothing matters except I can SEE THE FUTURE. Plot? Fuck that there is no plot, there is no space, there is no sandworms, get ready for 60 hours of abstract nonsense
That's a lot of words just to say you were filtered by the book.
You what? Aside from the parts involving water of life and Paul’s awakening, which are both past the halfway mark, it’s hardly trippy at all. It gets that way in children and emperor, and everyone knows the wild ride that comes after that, but the first book is focused heavily on politics and interpersonal manoeuvring
The first book spends quite a lot of time on politics, militaty strategies and backstabbing, it only gets abstract towards the end and even then there is still a huge battle described
I liked the movie. Is the next movie going to have interesting politics and worldbuilding too or does it turn into space hippies as described by
The movie will be interesting and action-oriented because it is a movie. They aren't going to let it be boring. Also the first Dune book is probably the most concrete of them all.
Dune was never about plot or storytelling, it is about Frank Herbert being a drug-fueled autistic savant retard-genius. The series is effectively stream of consciousness political schizo poetry. It only gets stranger from there. Even so, God Emperor of Dune is one of my favorite books and definitely worth sticking it out for.
A big redpill about Dune is that it was only made into a movie/extended intellectual property because studios were trying desperately to churn out sci-fi epics on the coattails of Star Wars' success. They tried to make Dune into something it wasn't with the 1984 movie. Dune was never an epic space adventure for normies, it was always high-concept schizobabble.
I liked in God Emperor of Dune where he said that being gay was equivalent to being a violent rapist.
I will now read your book
>Frank Herbert being a drug-fueled autistic savant retard-genius
Stealing that, perfect summary of those books.
It’s going to have to go into at least some detail about the choam company, otherwise they’ll have to completely rewrite the climax.
The source material also has the Harkonen’s threat vastly diminished by the time Paul launches his attack, since the Baron starts to realise just how badly the emperor fucked him, which combined with accidentally treading on a political landmine and being nowhere near as clever as he thinks he is, puts him right on top of Shaddam’s shit list.
Read the book
DUNC?
would
>mfw reading Dune Messiah
What the fuck happened? The quality of storytelling nosedived. I swear the word "prescient" is on every single page
Frank must have been on some shit.
it's one long soliloquy by Paul so there's not much story tbqh
Messiah is more of a small novel bridging the gap and setting up Children of Dune, I really liked Messiah though especially the first half or so being basically three people having a conversation and reading body-language and bluffing each other constantly.
>assassination sub-plot went nowhere quick
>Paul is just bitter and angry all the time and stays home
>gets blinded by a nuke
>chani gives birth to twins
>paul goes to the desert
Dont get me started on Duncan, it basically went like "i'm not Duncan....ok i'm Duncan"
That sandworm doesn't look suited to burrowing...
No, but that guy that you don't really care for will insist that it's good and better than Star Wars just like the books and movies, and that's what truly matters.
whats avakening
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1172710/Dune_Awakening/
Dune
NO.
There is only one good thing in the dune franchise and that's the first book. After that frank goes full retard. Then his son goes full retard. Both the movies suck, the canceled movie would have sucked, the miniseries sucks. The previous game that came out was below mid. It's over. Dune was good once, 60 years ago.
yeah it's going to be go---
>it's an MMO
nevermind, don't waste your time unless you're a no life fat neckbeard with poor taste in video games and bad hygiene.
Imagine the blowjobs