In Dune: Awakening, a mechanic has frustrated the community since day one. A player now explains how to speed it up significantly.
What kind of mechanic is that? Whenever players of Dune: Awakening want to travel from one area of Arrakis to another, they must play a mini-game. The so-called “Overworld” map of Arrakis opens up, through which fans must fly their spaceship from one location to another.
Instead of simply teleporting like in other games, players in Arrakis must go through the mini-game again and again for each individual visit. While a journey barely takes longer than a minute and the fuel and water indicators are completely irrelevant, the mechanic annoys players because it is not comfortable. A fan has now shared a trick to save time and bypass the frustration.
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Using Mouse and Keyboard is Faster
What is this trick? The trick that Reddit user Raumarik presents in his post saves the community a lot of time. Instead of searching for the destination with their spaceship and navigating there with individual clicks, fans should do something different.
He explains that one should use QWASD or Shift and the arrow keys to initially search for the destination one wants to fly to. At that point, one should simply click once with the left mouse button. This way, the aircraft will automatically fly there without further inputs.
To keep an eye on their flyer, the player also recommends pressing the space bar during the flight to recenter the camera on their character. Without another mouse click, one can simply reach the destination without needing to have flown around the map beforehand.
Why is this not known? The Overworld mini-game does not reveal this trick to players. The exact controls are barely explained, and many fans intuitively start clicking around on the map and likely get used to the inefficient playstyle this way.
In the comments on Reddit, it shows that many veterans also did not know the trick after countless hours of gameplay. They have simply flown around the map with the mouse until they discovered their target.
The new method saves unnecessary flight time and also allows players to keep their hands free to check their phones while their character automatically steers towards the target.
The Overworld is meant to allow Dune: Awakening developers to continually add new locations without expanding the existing game world. One of these locations could also be a new planet that players are to be sent to: The developers of Dune: Awakening explain how the game should look in 10 years: “We will travel to new planets”
