Monday, August 18, 2025

Dune Awakening -- Onward to the Endgame!

I've now been playing Dune Awakening for a couple of months. As for a gauge of where I am in the journey, I have completed the main story quest as far as I can progress it and crafted a mega-base, complete with an MK5 Assault Ornithopter landing pad.

You just fly down through the old Pentashield rooftop!

Inside ol' Tree Trunks McSkinny's base you'll find all the trappings needed to process Duraluminum. As for processing spice and higher-quality metals, Dylan and I combined forces and located our high-quality refinement machinery over at Skip Legday's base.  It's a relatively short hop over to his house from my place, so no complaints there from me.

Skip's old Dune Buggy Entrance before he widened it a bit.

The real fun in-game now seems to be tempting death in the Deep Desert. The mobs hit harder, and the grind is grindy-er there, which also seems to be slowing our interest in continuing to play this game. There are plenty of side quests and faction quests I could complete still, so I have plenty left to discover.

Speaking of that, I've really enjoyed doing the quests in this game. The storytelling has been fantastic, which is to be expected from a game based on an entire series of books and movies. It doesn't disappoint.

Sounds like a Friendly Necromancer's dream

What I also love about this game is how you can get into a meditative state while grinding away on whatever your next crafting goal is. It's that sweet Zen state where your brain shuts down partially while you mine ores, suck corpses of their blood, dodge worms while gathering spice, and finally craft that full set of sentinel gear you've been collecting.

It's a pretty sweet look. FYI puzzle solution for the Footsteps of the Fremen Quest in case you need it.

Hopefully the team of Skip Legday and Tree Trunks McSkinny can start farming a bit of the Deep Desert together. I'd like to get a set of the best armor in the game at some point, but on the other hand . . . just playing Dune to this stage has given me 137.3 hours of enjoyment. I'm good either way.

Happy Dueling!

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