The sandbox MMO Dual Universe aims to give players enormous freedom, which is already evident during the pre-alpha stage. Players are building a restaurant of the fast-food chain McDonald’s.
In the current version of the space online game Dual Universe, it is possible to alter the planets and build buildings, spaceships, and space stations. This works similarly to Minecraft. Currently, no resources are needed for this, but that will change soon. Then you will have to mine resources which will be used to create objects.
McDonald’s in Space
Those who are already participating in this early test phase of the game are indulging in the game world. They are building temples around mysterious monoliths they find on planets and entire cities.
Anyone wandering around these cities may even find McDonald’s restaurants or a Subway. These buildings can be entered, and you will even discover menus there.
Later, there should be a bustling activity in these player-created cities when thousands of players roam the universe. Of course, they will sometimes crave a burger.
The building principle currently works very simply:
- You select objects from your inventory that you can freely “stick” together according to your ideas.
- The game independently recognizes what you are trying to do. For example, if you are building the drive of a ship, it must work, or what function the cockpit should have.
- This way, you can easily build objects such as spaceships, space stations, buildings, and entire cities. You are not limited in your creativity.
- Through the so-called LUA system, it is even possible to program. Each object has a LUA scripting window, through which you can give an object a function with a few lines of code. For example, when pressing a button, the autopilot can be activated.
- It is even possible to run a kind of breakout mini-game on a monitor that you can actually play.
- The objects you create can later be sold when the trading system is implemented. For example, you can become a producer of slot machines, which others can buy for their space stations or arcades in cities.
There is still much to do
Currently, the MMORPG Dual Universe is still in a very early development phase and there are still some technical hurdles to overcome. For example, the performance currently drops significantly with too many players and objects.
This should be resolved by the release, because when thousands of players create their objects, the game must not lag. The release of Dual Universe will likely still take a couple of years.
Dual Universe will receive a big update in May that introduces new features.
