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Scott McCrae

Dune: Awakening's players might be 80% PvE, but devs are considering ways to spice PvP up in the future with "faction versus faction" and more

Dune: Awakening.

Joel Bylos, CCO at Funcom, has revealed Dune: Awakening devs are looking into ways to make its PvP more engaging, even as most of its community prefers PvE.

GamesRadar+ spoke to Bylos at Gamescom 2026 and asked about PvP in Dune: Awakening being somewhat optional, and whether that works too much in favor of PvE-focused players at the expense of those who are interested in PvP. Creative director Bylos responded, "I think that probably was the issue with the game at launch, was that we were trying to do too much for too many people."

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