As a writing, Dune Jagran was going to his last Dev stream on the middle and end game. These large parts of the experience have been largely the longest mysterious, on the one hand from brief mentions of the deep desert and large -scale community efforts are required to interact with the most exciting feature of the game: Landsarad System.
The landsrad system, a supercharged weekly selection of rotating functions, which will require a faction-wide push for some purposes, is to provide a set of goals for every type of player who will have to fill your face with spices. But it has a lot to dig, which is why I sat down and talked to the creative director Joel Bilos that I think the classic wah’s Gates of Ahankiraj may be the best way for community-centered gameplay in an MMO since Gates of Ahankiraj.
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This interview discusses with Joel what PVP means in the dune awakening, and how it covers more than those who stab each other on the sand.
Bilos: This is not really a direct battle, but it is like Atrades vs. Harconon (…), some of them are only PVE objectives, such as crafts this many ornithopters and bring them to this place. When you are doing so as a guild, then there are subjects, let’s say. You complete many tasks and you see that there is another Atreides Guild compared to you, which only makes guild politics within the Atreides faction, and you like, “We want to defeat the other guild that keep coming first.” Correct?
So, it is also that there is a conflict between the two groups, which is, “Harkonon won the landsrad this week. Merchants need to get our S *** together and defeat them for the next week.” Correct? So, it is in the forefront of both those things.
VG247: When I was in Oslo, the comparison made by you was the classic wow in terms of your thoughts. Therefore, using it for its own comparison, it reminds me of the opening of AHN ‘Qiraj Gate, where separate guilds can either go and fight and fight the bugs, or go and go to PVP materials, or they can make strips and make herbism and all contribute to a big attempt.
Bilos: Absolutely. Landsraad is an activity driver, right? It indicates people to activities in the final game. There is something for all. If you do not like PVP, or instead when I say PVP that I always think of PVP, you also do any activity against another player, if it is not if you do not struggle as shooting people on the face, then it is okay that you can contribute by crafting things. There are some landsraad tasks that are to run these PVE areas of the game and kill 30, 300 or 3,000 slaves this week so that you can win our votes in Landsrad.
PVE players can do this. Those who love running Dungon can do so. It is an activity driver who indicates all activities at the end of the game, and it is like the entire point of the landsrad.
VG247: Would you say it is appropriate to say what the players are doing in the final game, once they put in their 100 hours and have got their big basis, it is a landsrad system. I am a PV lover. I like stuff crafting a lot. Bla bla bla blush. It all plays in this one system.
Bilos: Landsrad System, I am dropping it slightly down with this example, but you have a daily search system in a lot of MMO type games, where they “here are some small activities for you.” This we are saying that here are weekly activities that are meaningful and actually change the server correctly, and then it’s fine as let’s work together and compete against other factions. Yes.
VG247: This is interesting because I saw some of the landsrad bonus you received, and I noticed that a damage that was an increase in damage and immediately set the red flag, as if Jesus feels crazy. But I think if the landsrad system is pushing players to crafting and PVE and assemble, then you can say that ok *** we lost last week. They have received a range damage PVP is a bad idea. Let’s pay attention to gathering all this and try and bypassing it. So you got such a weekly dynamic shift, right?
Bilos: exactly that. Even there are bonuses and such things, so the winners can do more crafts. So the match is a favorite (optional) there. I think people think that excite people and scares people, we have full PVP loot in the deep desert. So you can turn the salve rights decree, which means that whoever dies in a deep desert can be looted full PVP …
This is not the base level of the game, but it is an example. In a way I jok up around because I think it’s a very meta level that is actually in the struggle to try PVP players and PVE players and pushed that decree. Harkonon players who want to do PVP are such that we really want to pursue the ability of full loot, and all PVE players who are also on the Harkonon faction, like are, are not hell, not we! So within the faction, they are also fighting who correct the decree and I think it is interesting right? That is politics.
VG247: It seems that you have a deep love for community interaction. Not only the coalition vs. hoarde dynamic stereotypeical type context, but also how to interact with each other with various players and groups and sub -groups. Where does that love come from, and why is the emphasis here?
Bilos: I have worked on most of my career MMOS, right? I started in the age of Conan in 2008 or 2007, then Secret World. I worked a little on a Lego MMO. And then Conan exiled, isn’t it? Therefore, I am doing these multiplayer games (for a while) and I think the strength of these games is multiplayer. If you really want a good open world gaming experience then you can just play a very well polished ghost of Tsushima. Why do people want to play these games with their friends? This is because the social drama is what makes them interesting.
I simply try to make mechanics that bends into it. Endgame I think it is the kind of thing that makes me nerve -wracking, this is the part that you really know until everyone is there – how the endgeam is going to happen. We guess how much beta is closing. We have seen how people are coming to it, but it is also different levels of how people watch things when a game is launched vs how they are in a closed beta. And so it is going to be really interesting.
We have all microoms. We have many worlds. And how are Atreides and Harkonnen going to this server versus this server? I think I really are interested in seeing how it plays all.
VG247: In other sports when super-added players hit the final game, they deposit the amount, which I think may be a fork for the landsrad system. How will you compete with it, so a major faction or player guild will not be ahead?
Bilos: I mean people can hoard, so if you are a small guild that cannot compete, we can save for a time when we actually need it. But 25 specific landsraad functions are done every week, and 600 have a pool that can be drawn. So you can really do not really hoard with intentions. If you say that we are going to hoard then I do not know that delivery requires, it cannot come for eight months. So it is not going to help your guild so much, but you can deposit the precursor material. You can deposit spices.
The second thing is that Landsrad is made up of 25 votes, and it is known what each landsrad messengers want over time, but you can intensify the process by sending people around the world to find messengers around the world and then bribe them with a part of the spice. Once it is revealed, it appears to everyone in your group. But if Harkonon revealed it, it does not mean that atrids get to see it. After all, we do not have it to launch it, but finally the plan is that even those messengers know that they can go to reveal the tasks.
VG247: I have another major topic that is a player expression. It seems that most of the progress is linear progress. As you get more gear, as you get better material to create a better base … In terms of the player’s expression, is it that its limit? If I love PVP. I want to fly around myself and shoot the players of Atrides, is there any system that means any other player I have a Village Nad Go “Yes, that is a Pvper.”
Bilos: So the game has a huge adaptation system. Many Landsraad Awards tie back into that adaptation system. So you can see the kind of person who is working for the diets of the house because he is wearing the colors of the house right so that it comes. Therefore, you can get access to various levels of social status by doing landsrad tasks.
I think there are five types of core archtypes that we follow in the game, in terms of the player’s expression. We said, “Okay, how do these people have a role in our game?” And I think maybe now, yes, yes, I think three of them are very strong and two of them need to do a little more work to get stronger, it is the stuff we will continue to work in post-launch.
Dune Jagran is launched for regular people on June 10, but on June 5 for those who spend a little more on the deal on steam!
