Translations:Dune Awakening Direct/12/en

The closed beta test is now in Persistent Beta - it is running 24/7
The testers have been running in the game from start to end, forming groups and testing the "whole" game and gather feedback
The testers have been breaking the game in wild and wonderful ways, logging into a server and being unable to move
More gameplay will be shown, especially the combat system which has been revamped
The beta is growing larger, and more people are being invited in over the year
The game is an open world MMO, with many players playing in the same persistent world
This has an MMO server architecture, with multiple maps within the same world - breaking with the traditional 1-server-1-world paradigm
The "starting server" is Hagga Basin - the survival map, which are instanced and you can see where your friends are playing
Once you have a thopter you can travel to the "overland" map, which you use to travel to other maps and see many other players outside of your dimension
Two social maps - Harko Village, and Arrakeen. These are in a state of Guild Peace, non combat
There are bars where players can dance, and CHOAM exchanges where they can trade
The Deep Desert is at least 500km squared
The Deep Desert has a strip of PvE space to prevent spawn camping
The Coriolis storm wipes the Deep Desert weekly in the Shifting Sands mechanic
The overland map allows for much easier expansion as they shift away from the one-server-one-map paradigm
Funcom will be at Gamescom where gameplay will be shown "live"

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