Dune: Awakening Chapter 3 is "not going to please everyone," but it's only the start of many changes for the survival MMO – including melee tweaks, an endgame PvE overhaul, and private servers

Dune: Awakening - two soldiers looking at the mouth of a sandworm during the new game. .

Funcom is ready to breathe some fresh life into Dune: Awakening with Chapter 3, it seems – a good few hours of new content are underway, including a faction, building kit with over 70 pieces, an overhaul of endgame PvE gameplay, and much more.

Although its player count has been dropping, things look to be turning around for Dune: Awakening, with tools like the long-awaited Base Reconstruction Tool arriving and Chapter 3 on the horizon. Ahead of the survival MMO's upcoming changes, I got to sit down with production director Ole Andreas Hayley and game director Viljar Sommerbak to discuss some of what Funcom has up its sleeve – and boy, is it exciting.