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PayPalDune: Awakening from Funcom is set to release on June 10th, and to ensure their servers are working well they've announced a major public playtest will go live in May.
The Beta Weekend is due to be live between May 9th - 12th. You can already request access right now, by going to the Steam page and hitting the Request Access button:
This Beta has no NDA, so anyone playing it will be able to share all the details. During the event you'll be able to play through the first 20 hours of the game which gives you "most of Act 1 of the story".
They'll also be giving away Beta access keys during the Global Dune: Awakening LAN Party Broadcast on May 10th.
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I do have one major concern for anyone hoping to play it on Linux platforms like SteamOS / Steam Deck, which is the anti-cheat situation. The store page doesn't actually list any, but it appears to be using BattlEye (SteamDB). So unless Funcom actively choose to enable it, this will result in another game that doesn't work for us.
Even if the Playtest works, we've seen plenty of times before where a Playtest / Beta worked and the main release did not. So it will be good to get a firm answer on this. I've tried to speak to Funcom and their press teams, but no one has yet replied to confirm or deny if the anti-cheat will be enabled for us. I've bumped up some emails about this again today, will update on any reply.
At least from the benchmark on Steam Deck, it looked like it might be playable from a performance point of view.
Once we do know, it will be listed on our dedicated anti-cheat compatibility page.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
The only problem it had was for like 1 or 2 months that you had to install AMDVLK (even if you ran with RADV after), but that has since been fixed.
It has gold status on ProtonDB: https://www.protondb.com/app/1172710
[EDIT] Also forgot to mention that Conan Exiles their other game works with Battle Eye without any issues.
Last edited by Stoppable3 on 25 Apr 2025 at 6:11 pm UTC
Liam Dawe 14 hours ago
TheRiddick 8 hours ago
I doubt I will check this out anytime, its likely to shutdown eventually anyway since it relies on players to exist it seems.
Would love a single player RPG like this with tie in COOP/PVP on the side, but as the core part of the game, nar.
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