Yes, You Can Ride Sandworms In Dune: Awakening — Kinda

While sandworm-riding is usually the archetypal happening we privation to try, and past neglect at, successful Dune: Awakening, it turns retired that if you're ace diligent and don't caput a small screen-tearing oregon clipping done assets, it tin beryllium done.

No, it isn't an authoritative diagnostic that tin beryllium unlocked — though developer Funcom did seemingly see it for a portion earlier discarding the thought — but it turns retired that if you person lightning-quick reflexes and survey the sandworms' behaviors and onslaught patterns similar they're an Elden Ring boss, you tin ascent aboard.

Redditor SgtDolphin has present shared not 1 but 2 videos of him riding the worm, utilizing a operation of skills and instrumentality similar the super-sprint Bindu Sprint ability, the Full Suspensor Belt, and Emperor's Wings to assistance determination rapidly and amended power his subordinate successful the aerial (thanks, PC Gamer). Once you're on, no, you can't power the worm immoderate much than you tin halt yourself flying disconnected it from clip to time, but Dolphin shows it can beryllium done.

"It's precise glitchy astatine times particularly connected the soil that's being displaced," SgtDolphin explained successful the comments. "Many deaths from the worm to get these rides, it's a beauteous unsafe sport!"

We're inactive successful the process of reviewing Dune: Awakening. While there's nary people astatine yet, and we're inactive a small unimpressed by the gunplay, our reviewer wrote: "After much than 35 hours I inactive consciousness similar I’m reasonably aboriginal into my Dune: Awakening adventure, and inactive person caller zones to visit, haven’t gotten precise acold into the main story, and person lone had a fewer encounters with PvP. There’s a ton for maine to do, truthful look for an update sometime this week arsenic I enactment my mode done to the endgame."

If you're wondering what players are making of Dune: Awakening truthful far, the endurance multiplayer crippled has already acceptable a concurrent subordinate highest connected Steam of implicit 117,000 players. For more, cheque retired details connected the MMO's concern exemplary and post-launch plans.

To assistance you past connected Arrakis, we've got Dune: Awakening assets guides that'll assistance you find iron, steel, aluminium, and more. If you're conscionable getting started, cheque retired each the Dune: Awakening classes you tin take from, and support an oculus connected our in-progress Dune: Awakening walkthrough for a step-by-step usher to the story.

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