“A lot of sandworm jokes though.”
And, presumably much more importantly for Conan fans, there’ll be no penis sliders either.
There will be sand-walking, though, and there’s no ruling out of sandworm-riding down the line.
It’s just a very strong technical cost, and also a very - it needs a purpose.
So yeah, we don’t have that yet."
It’s worth contextualising that a bit.
Dune: Awakening will differ from the somewhat brutal, player-on-player violence of Conan: Exile.
“You don’t lose a lot of items unless you get eaten by a Sandworm.
We’re quite cognisant of trying to make it approachable to players.”
There’s a level of like, very raw humanity to it.
Dune is much more philosophical, it’s science fiction, right?
So really, it’s a lot more abstracted."
Bylos continued, jokingly, to explain the team’s own philosophy when approaching Conan.
- what would Conan do?
“What is the Dune version of this?
How do you approach this in Dune?
In Conan it’s a bit different; we have the IP.”
I’m just thinking, is there any nudity at all?
This preview and interview is based on a press trip - Funcom covered travel and accomodation.
