Fans of Dune’s spice-laden universe will have to wait a bit longer for Dune: Awakening. Funcom has announced that the highly anticipated PC release has been postponed from May 20 to June 10, with early access starting on June 5. The delay aims to incorporate helpful feedback from players participating in the ongoing closed beta.
Funcom shared this update through their official channels, emphasizing their commitment to delivering a quality experience in this open-world survival MMO. Below is an excerpt from their message:
Dear Sleepers,
These are interesting times, we’re closing in on launch, and we’ve just initiated a major preview beta where hundreds of journalists and content creators are playing the early parts of the game and will be releasing their coverage on April 25.
These past few weeks we’ve been steadily gearing up, releasing the Character Creator & Benchmark Mode back in February, starting pre-orders in March, and continuing to release new livestreams, videos, and details to keep you informed.
We want to thank everyone who has shared in our excitement. It’s been a joy reading all your comments across the various community channels.
Our ongoing Persistent Closed Beta is also continuing in full force, with regular updates. The feedback we’ve been collecting from beta testers has been invaluable in making sure we can launch a quality game. We have a very active Discord going with our beta testers where our developers can interact directly with them to make sure we collaboratively make Dune: Awakening a better game.
Thanks to this process, we’ve concluded that with a bit more time to cook, we can act on a lot more of the feedback we know is important to our beta testers.
As such, we will be moving the release date of Dune: Awakening to June 10, with head start launching on June 5. This is not a decision we take lightly; we know everyone is very excited to get playing but these three extra weeks will give us the time needed to make improvements that will lead to a better gameplay experience from day one.
We’re also excited about the fact that this will allow us to do a large-scale beta weekend next month where even more of you will get the opportunity to play the game and share your feedback. We will release more information about this soon.
Dune: Awakening is a beast of a game. This is multiplayer survival on a massive scale and we’re making gameplay and technical strides not seen in the genre before. We want to make sure we stick the landing.
Also don’t forget to tune into today’s livestream on Steam, YouTube, and Twitch where our developers will be showing and talking more about combat in Dune: Awakening.
With best regards from the entire Dune: Awakening team here at Funcom
