Dune: Awakening is now accessible on PlayStation 5 and Xbox consoles. Funcom’s open-world survival recreation is now accessible on new platforms and has additionally acquired a serious replace. The console launch provides a full single-player mode, customisable gameplay settings, and new story content material, whereas additionally together with a number of modifications made to the PC model over the previous 15 months. The replace makes PvP non-obligatory, provides new development techniques and expands the endgame. A brand new Filmic Archive DLC, impressed by the Dune movies, can be accessible throughout platforms.Dune: Awakening will get single-player modeThe console launch introduces a full single-player mode masking the sport’s content material and options. Gamers can select between three issue presets or customise particular person gameplay settings.These embrace harvesting charges, expertise acquire, dying penalties, sandstorms, constructing piece limits and merchandise sturdiness. The goal is to let gamers regulate the expertise to swimsuit how they wish to play.The replace additionally concludes E-book One of many recreation’s story. The Nice Conference Half III introduces the ultimate chapter, permitting gamers to play the whole story from starting to finish in a single run.Current story missions additionally obtain new rewards, together with swatches, weapon and armour variants and placeable decorations.PvP turns into non-obligatoryDune: Awakening can now be performed solely by means of PvE, permitting gamers to keep away from PvP with out lacking the sport’s content material, mechanics or rewards.The Deep Desert endgame has separate PvE and PvP situations, with the PvP model providing greater dangers and rewards. The Landsraad faction endgame has additionally been rebuilt round missions and will be performed in each multiplayer PvE and single-player.Gamers can progress by means of 20 ranks linked to the Atreides and Harkonnen factions whereas unlocking rewards.The replace additionally introduces Specializations, permitting gamers to speculate factors throughout areas similar to crafting, gathering, exploration, fight and sabotage. Gamers can add augmentations to distinctive Tier 6 weapons and armour.Fight and development up to dateFuncom has made a number of fight modifications, together with an elevated parry window, revised NPC animations, rebalanced enemy stamina, and improved enemy AI. Dashing can now move by means of enemies, whereas heavy assaults now deal the identical harm as gradual blade assaults.Two weapons, Twin Blades and Pyrocket, have additionally been added, whereas the Rapier has been reworked as a parrying weapon.The replace additionally reduces a number of methods gamers might beforehand lose development. Bases and autos can now be backed up, whereas the dying penalty has been diminished and taxes have been eliminated.Filmic Archive DLC provides Dune film-inspired gadgetsThe Filmic Archive DLC is accessible for $9.99 throughout platforms. It provides gadgets impressed by Dune: Half One and Dune: Half Two, together with the Caladan Stormcoat, Aegis of an Unwalked Path armour, Harkonnen Cataphract and Atreides Hoplite armour units, the Longhaul Stillsuit and three Sardaukar armour units.The DLC additionally consists of weapons, emotes, 73 Sardaukar constructing items and 17 decorations.Dune: Awakening will get new places and optionsThe replace expands Arrakis with seven new mission places, six Imperial Testing Stations, extra contracts and dynamic encounters. Gamers can even totally customise their characters in Arrakeen and Harko Village, with new hairstyles and tattoos accessible.On Xbox Sequence X|S, the sport provides Efficiency mode focusing on 60fps with Dynamic 4K decision and High quality mode focusing on 30fps with Dynamic 4K. Xbox Sequence X additionally will get greater native decision in each modes and enhanced visuals.The sport is accessible by means of Xbox Sport Cross and helps Xbox Play Anyplace, permitting development to hold throughout Xbox consoles, Home windows Retailer, ROG Xbox Ally and Xbox Cloud Gaming.Cross-play coming after launchFuncom says full cross-play between platforms will arrive after the console launch. The corporate additionally plans to launch the Polar Cap later this yr as a free replace, including a brand new survival map, an icy biome, new assets, loot, craftables, survival mechanics and a standalone storyline.Gamers who entry the sport between September 17 and October 22 will even obtain the Matron’s Decor launch reward package deal.