Sources:Discord Messages

This page is a collection of Discord Messages to be used as sources for other articles, as public permalinks to the discord server are not possible. Each row should have a unique ID (ideally sequential) as well as ALL fields filled out to be a useful "source"

Please Note: These sources are not absolute confirmation or hard evidence. Just because a Funcom employee mentions something as part of a conversation does not make it set in stone. The game is in active development, and things will change a lot.

Discord Messages

ID	Timestamp (UTC)	Category	Author	Link	Message Text	Screenshot
1	2023-09-13 16:27	Announcements	Dune: Awakening	https://discord.com/channels/1006265467754790943/1009464719012278423/1151539765263474798	Sleepers, What do you say we go back to where it all began? Almost 60 years ago, Frank Herbert wrote a book called Dune. It was turned away by over twenty publishers before finally being picked up by a publisher mainly known for auto repair manuals. Sadly, the editor’s risk didn’t pay off as the book sold poorly, and he was fired. However, thanks to word-of-mouth, knowledge of the book soon began to spread. By the next year, it had won a Hugo and a Nebula award. Since then, Dune has become one of science and political fiction’s all time greats. It’s quoted as the best-selling sci-fi novel of all time, and has inspired countless people with its philosophy, rich world, and epic scope. Seeing that many of you were considering reading it for the first time, or had just started it, we had an idea. To better understand and appreciate the classic that inspired Dune: Awakening and Villeneuve’s movies, we decided to start a book club of our own and read the first book together with you all! Just like a Book Club that gathers in a local cafeteria or around a cozy fireplace, we’ll meet every two weeks here on the Dune: Awakening Discord and discuss the part we’ve read. For those of you who might not have the book, we’ll be giving away Kindle eBooks! If you reside in the United States and would like a chance to win, send a message with why you want to read Dune in the ⁠dune-book-club channel! We’ll reach out to winners next week, so make sure to keep an eye on your notifications! You’ll need an Amazon/Kindle account to receive your eBook. We’ll share the section that will be read and run a poll to determine the best date for the discussion in the ⁠dune-book-club channel. Sleepers, it’s time we learned more about Dune and Arrakis – together. Spread the word and invite your friends to our Discord today!	Book Club Announcement
2	2024-02-08 13:50	Skills	Joel	https://discord.com/channels/1006265467754790943/1009449537544396810/1205148697017454723	It only shows you enemies you have direct line of sight to.	jcbylos (Joel): [Mentat scouting] only shows you enemies you have direct line of sight to.
3	2024-02-08 13:51	Skills	Joel	https://discord.com/channels/1006265467754790943/1009449537544396810/1205148836817936384	Now, if you use a scanner to detect life signs first, THEN run the mentat ability...	jcbylos (Joel): Now, if you use a scanner to detect life signs first, THEN run the mentat ability...
4	2024-01-10 08:13	Building	Joel	https://discord.com/channels/1006265467754790943/1009449537544396810/1194554490771210240	The Coriolis storm outside the shield wall will wipe bases, regardless of shields
5	2024-01-24 20:07	Building	Joel	https://discord.com/channels/1006265467754790943/1009449537544396810/1199807692601045072	There is a system but not tied to tiers exactly. Tied more to taxes. Yes imperial taxes
6	2024-01-24 20:03	Building	Joel	https://discord.com/channels/1006265467754790943/1009449537544396810/1199806739906834482	There are no-build areas
7	2024-01-24 20:12	Building/Crafting	Joel	https://discord.com/channels/1006265467754790943/1009449537544396810/1199808902905204866	You can, but you'll probably find some things really hard to craft
8	2024-01-24 19:38	Buidling/PvP	Joel	https://discord.com/channels/1006265467754790943/1009449537544396810/1199800313209704529	Feel like I've said this before but if not - big debate about to start - the focus of this game is not raiding and destroying other people's bases.
9	2024-01-29 09:59	Building	Joel	https://discord.com/channels/1006265467754790943/1009449537544396810/1201466611106861056	A lot of vases - I gave the 3d prop team some schtick because we have soo many vases on a planet without too much vegetation	jcbylos (Joel): A lot of vases - I gave the 3d prop team some schtick because we have soo many vases on a planet without too much vegetation
10	2023-11-09 18:31	Building	El Heffe (J-F)	https://discord.com/channels/1006265467754790943/1009449537544396810/1172241962976428084	That has indeed the atreides stamp.	El Heffe: That has indeed the atreides stamp.
11	2024-11-01	PvP/Melee	Joel	https://discord.com/channels/1006265467754790943/1009449537544396810/1195128298607476777	I dunno how specific I should be without spoiling too much 🙂 But if you have basic melee combat, but then learn some advanced moves, you can build a pretty solid melee character. And melee will almost always be your only option against shielded enemies, for example.
12	2023-11-16	Alt	Joel	https://discord.com/channels/1006265467754790943/1009449537544396810/1174758217864204339	I saw someone who theorized we made an alt timeline because we think we know better than Frank...which is actually the opposite. I'd rather be very clear that we can't do 100% of the lore so we branched off to avoid tainting the originals. Like Lasgun/Shield interactions are fun, but we can't let players have that
13	2024-01-11	PvP/Shields/Melee	Joel	https://discord.com/channels/1006265467754790943/1009449537544396810/1195128566271197324	I can imagine everyone will have a shield late game, but shields have massive disadvantages as well 😄 So it's a big tradeoff when to use them or not
14	2022-09-22	Shields/Melee/PvP	Joel	https://discord.com/channels/1006265467754790943/1009449537544396810/1024708505007038565	Shield can be used to force melee engagment, at least
15	2024-01-11	Abilities/Melee	Joel	https://discord.com/channels/1006265467754790943/1009449537544396810/1195127517363838977	It's weird, because I think you can choose to be a melee character and combine game elements to make that so. But it isn't just in the melee system itself. Swordmaster abilities will change how you play a lot, for example
16	2023-12-10	Building/Server	Joel	https://discord.com/channels/1006265467754790943/1009449537544396810/1183510894202851451	If you keep your house shields charged, you'll be fine 😄
17	2023-06-12	Flight/Vehicles	Joel	https://discord.com/channels/1006265467754790943/1009449537544396810/1117933125788500099	We're definitely skewing "arcadey" on the vehicle feel. Flight Sim is about to do the sim version 😄
18	2023-06-12	Vehicles	Joel	https://discord.com/channels/1006265467754790943/1009449537544396810/1117930124705267776	4 man ground car (which is how Herbert described things, Groundcar)
19	2023-06-12 22:31	Vehicles	Joel	https://discord.com/channels/1006265467754790943/1009449537544396810/1117929105678147594	I will tell you two things about Sandbikes (1MGC's as I call them after the herbert naming) - They don't start off that fast but with upgrades... - They can never outrun a worm
20	2024-03-07	Mining	Joel	https://discord.com/channels/1006265467754790943/1009603288511025182/1215297337597890560	It's (mining laser) got aim assist, I don't think it is a visual acuity test
21	2024-03-06	Building/PvP/Shields	Joel	https://discord.com/channels/1006265467754790943/1009449537544396810/1214975119231942686	Like offline base raiding - keep your shields up, you'll be fine. Except if you're somewhere sandstorms can impact shields.
22	2024-03-04	Vehicles	Joel	https://discord.com/channels/1006265467754790943/1009449537544396810/1214315339664461864	So uhhhh, can we fly the big big ships? Like the one doing the flyover of the character sneaking? - Joel: No
23	2024-03-07	Worms	Joel	https://discord.com/channels/1006265467754790943/1009603288511025182/1215418345961291786	Lazercat: Just realized the devs are in chat! While you are here, do you know if you plan or hope to add sandworm riding at some point in the future? - Joel: We want to yes
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