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Over a hundred thousand Dune Awakening players got swallowed by the sandworm | Massively Overpowered

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Cool! Finally an MMO with consequences that hurt. It makes a game more exciting, like Ultima Online back in the days:)

Isn't it being OP kind of the point?
- massively overpowered is the name of the website lol
  
  I'm ded, return my water to the sacred well.

Praise to Shai Hulud. May his passing cleanse the world.

I didn't even know there was a Dune game?!
- I think it’s a closed beta. It’s an open world survival with pvp elements.
  
  They would have over a hundred thousand players on a closed beta game? Goddamn that seems like a shit ton for a beta but I've also never looked at any game's player count.
- It's by the same folks that made that quasi-mmo Conan game. The bones were in it. It was just unpolished and sparse. If it's the same core team and they've learned their lessons the Dune game should be pretty dope. I'm hoping it shows other MMOs that MMO isn't a playstyle.
  
  Oh shit did they make the Conan with the directional attacking and blocking? Age of Conan? I remember that game making my PC bleed, but I forced my way to play it at less than 30 fps.
- There are a number of Dune games.
  
  I never knew of any non-RTS Dune games until now.

is this a good game?
- I played the beta weekend, I liked it. I want to play it again once it's out in June, although there were annoying parts. The sun gives you heat stroke or something as a status meter, and it makes you dehydrate faster until you get to shade. With how often you're out doing stuff in the sun, it was kind of annoying, because I just had to keep going on blood harvesting trips through NPC camps, to proccess it at my base to keep my water stocked. But in the full game with better tech unlocked, I'm sure it ends up being fine.
  A lot of people also got pissed at the sandworm because if you get eaten, all your stuff is destroyed with no way to recover it (unlike a normal death where you can loot your corpse), and sometimes it can feel abrupt when they breach. That said, I never got eaten ny the sandworm in my ~15 hours of play during the beta.
  
  The games with death like that are much better, because they force players to care. From what I played, in Eve online you would really think before doing something stupid, because player killers would wreck your ship without caring that you grinded for 2 months to buy it.
  Same was a thousand years ago in Ultima Online where you could get ganked and eaten by an ork bandit. That led to me taking a chance and run through a forest naked, because I had a house deed in my pocket, and I didn't want to look like an interesting target. It ended up in a bandit chitchatting with me and letting me go with the words: "I wouldn't walk around in these parts" - yeah, no shit.
  Great experiences!
  It's just at some point gamedevs started catering to middle-school kids who would buy in-game stuff with their mom's card and got upset when it wat taken from them.
  Edit: typo (shop/ship)
  
  I never got eaten ny the sandworm in my ~15 hours of play during the beta.
  He shall know your ways as if born to them ...
  Clearly you are the Lisan al-Galib

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