Dune Spice Wars Introduces New Smuggler Faction
The upcoming real-time strategy game Dune: Spice Wars has announced its new smuggler faction. Dune: Spice Wars was initially announced late last year during The Game Awards, and is scheduled to enter Early Access on Steam sometime in 2022. The new strategy game based on Frank Herbert's iconic novel, as well as last year’s movie from Legendary Pictures and Denis Villeneuve, is being made by Northgard developer Shiro Games and published by Funcom.
Dune: Spice Wars' gameplay will combine both real-time strategy mechanics as well as the 4X elements of “Explore, Expand, Exploit, and Exterminate.” According to Shiro Games, Dune: Spice Wars will be able to achieve its hybrid gameplay by providing a slower-paced RTS experience while also including pause and fast-forward time mechanics. It will also feature exploration, territory control, economic growth, combat, politics, and spying, which covers all the elements of a 4X game. Shiro Games gave fans a glimpse of what that would look like in a Dune: Spice Wars gameplay trailer released last month.
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In a new press release, developer Shiro Games revealed the smuggler faction as the latest group that players will be able to choose to play as in Dune: Spice Wars. According to Shiro Games, smugglers focus on infiltrating the economies of opposing players for their own benefit. Since they start near the polar regions of Arrakis, they can also take advantage of polar water trading. In battle, the faction specializes in drawn-out battles in neutral territory by reducing the supply of their targets and taking advantage of both starving and fleeing units by utilizing their unique units such as the Scavenger, Wrecker, and
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