Translations:Dune Awakening Direct/17/en

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  • Recap of basics of known game mechanics in the early game
  • New tagline: "Survive, Expand, Control"
  • Survival:
    • Heatstroke mechanic
    • Dynamic day/night cycle - stick to the shade during the day, travel by night
    • Stillsuits and Stilltents
    • The Trials of Aql - How the Fremen survive, and how we unlock Fremen survival recipies and techniques
    • Hiding behind the shadow of a rock while you're harvesting it
    • Handheld scanner
    • Finding Treasure in the sand after it's buried by a sandstorm
    • Customisable building sets - CHOAM is the basic - upgrade and get faction sets (Atreides, Harkonnen)
    • Harkonnen very HR Geiger, dark
    • Atreides is more castle-like
    • Can combine both/all styles - expression is one of the pillars of the game
    • Floursand is soft sand, fine grained and white (Fremen like placing their tents on it) Used for crafting
    • Static Compactors collect all the floursand/spice in an area - but will make noise and attract the worm
    • Both Spice and Floursand can be gathered by hand or static compactor
    • Using a Harvester is much more effective
  • Expand:
    • Spice is all around, inhaling spice for too long will induce spice visions
    • Spice Residue is used for crafting fuel in the base
    • Spice is used a lot in endgame crafting
    • Spice is used to pay taxes for bases
    • Spice is the primary "currency" used for power in the landsraad
    • Spice can be sold for huge amounts of
    • Push-and-pull of various different combat techniques
    • Shigawire claw, Knee charge to traverse towards the enemy
    • BG Voice can pull enemies towards you
    • Suspensor - low level to fall slowly, high level to nearly fly like Baron Harkonnen (sidenote: Joel's Baron technique)
    • Using momentum with shigawire claw / dance / suspensor
  • Control:
    • Still don't have to engage with the Landsraad or join a faction - but it will be around you at all times
    • You can assist those in the landsraads/aligned with a faction
    • Atreides have an 'AWOO' battle cry!
    • You can leave factions, and backstab/betray solemn oath to the Red Duke - although they might not look to kindly on it
  • Beta Updates - still persistent, adding "MANY" more players to the beta soon, although no news on open beta testing yet