Future updates for Dune: Awakening will seemingly include “Hagga-Basin-like maps”.
Revealed by community manager Iggy in the Dune Awakening Discord server, he wrote: “I think Joel kinda leaked in the past that we plan to add more Hagga-Basin-like maps in the future as part of new content”.
Iggy refers to pre-launch developer vlogs in which Dune: Awakening spoke about the roadmap for future updates. Creative director Joel Bylos stated updates for the game would be free, with only optional cosmetics, battle passes, and especially large expansions being sold.
Iggy later echoed this point, stating: “Content will come as part of free updates, as far as I am aware. If it ever comes as part of a paid package, I imagine it would be because it’s something big.” Iggy continues “But for now I think we have said we plan to release content for free, and then optional stuff via optional DLCs so we can actually afford rent, lights, and pineapple on pizza.”
Dune Awakening has proven exceptionally popular since its launch on Steam, breaking 150,000 concurrent players and popping off among the higher reaches of the Top Sellers list alongside Stellar Blade. A recent patch for the game provided several quality of life fixes, and ended the practice of crushing players with orniphopters in PvP.
Eurogamer’s recent review of Dune Awakening, which scored it four stars, offered praise to the progression through Hagga Basin. It features the following: “[…] the process of gathering material around the starter area of Hagga Basin, refining your haul at your handcrafted base, and manufacturing new gear is made endlessly compelling with an unwavering faithfulness to the source material.”