Gamescom 2024

Gamescom 2024 will take place between 2024-08-21 and 2024-08-25 with the Opening Night Live (ONL) kicking off the event on 2024-08-20 evening, in Cologne, Germany.

Funcom will be at the event to feature a world premiere of Dune: Awakening. There will be a 5-minute gameplay trailer during ONL, a booth every day of the event where visitors can get loot bags and see a giant Sandworm display, as well as "live gameplay" which will be streamed via their partner streamers and have dev commentary, in several languages^[1]

In addition to this, there will be an in-person Dune Book Club session near the event on the Saturday 2024-08-24 09:00 CEST^[2]

Opening Night Live

heat exhaustion
ammo
durability
crosshair
compass and other HUD
"unsheltered"
journeys not tracked
shield "health"?
thumper
rocket launcher
character creation
vehicles
weapon giving "emote"?
climbing
skills consume stamina
shield repell all ranged attacks
shields can be used while range shooting
enemies can be knocked down
hunter seeker range?
blood extraction
wind electricity generation
base
access levels?
crafting station
carpets
floating lights
blood purifier
blueprint system
vehicle modularity
ornithopter ?afterburn?
ornithopter controls and interface + status?
a few locations
a dead worm??
different ornithopters
Harko Village - community hub
spice blow
carryall + sandcrawler
tank with machine gun
suicidal guy with shields on sand
grappling hook
BIG ASS WORM

New Player Experience (27 minute preview)

Character creation options
Story premise
Single-player tutorial/starter cave
Fremkit
Healkit
Scrap Metal Knife/melee tooltip
Glowtube (flashlight)
Moisture sealed entries
Freeform climbing
Sunstroke debuff
Harvesting (scrapping, mining)
Spice withdrawal
Binoculars, marking POIs
Suspensor belt/shigawire mobility
Maula pistol
NPC bases
Gunplay/melee combat
Healing mechanics
Trooper abilities: shigaware cable, grenade
Swordmaster abilities: knee charge, riposte
Mentat abilities: battlefield calculation, hunter-seeker
Co-op gameplay
Downed-but-not-out death state
Exsanguination (blood-to-water transfusion)
Drinking unpurified blood = debuff
Blood sack
Blood extractor
Blood purifier
Base building+
Vehicle fabrication/module options (sandbikes, ornithopters)
Shipwreck instance
Sardaukar night patrols
Flour sand/harvesting
Noise meter/sandworm attraction
Social hub activities (Harko Village)
Social interaction menu
'Dungeons' (testing stations)
Skill tree preview
Flamethrower play
Deep desert/spice blow end-game review

Booth

More details to come on the booth and 30-minute gameplay showcase! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J18oH_FBDYM

Dune Book Club

More details to come on the Book Club!

Gallery

The Dune: Awakening Booth at Gamescom 2024
The giant Sandworm statue at the booth
FlamingMojo giving the Gom Jabbar test to Nicole (Community Manager)
FlamingMojo giving the Gom Jabbar test to Ignasi (Community Manager)
The queue at the booth
FlamingMojo and Storm (Community Manager)
The Dune: Awakening Quiz on stage near the booth
FlamingMojo kneeling before cosplayers under the Worm
The (really long) queue at the booth
Some loot - The Literjon water bottle
Some loot - The cap
Some loot - Harkonnen and Atreides metal pin badges
Exclusive Book Club loot - a poster, a copy of Dune, a FunkoPop figure (of the Princess Irulan) and metal pin badges
The Gamescom Book Club attendees - from left to right: Yor, Joel (Creative Director), FlamingMojo, Asteroth, assasin189cz, Storm (Community Manager)
The loot from the booth (Literjon, poster, cap and enamel pins)