As a survival fan, I appreciate what Funcom has done with Dune: Awakening's water and hydration system. I played about 25 hours of the beta over the past couple of weeks, and water is a major concern right out of the gate—not a surprise on the desert planet of Arrakis. And each time you solve the problem of hydration, another wrinkle in the system presents itself.
After crash-landing on the desert planet without so much as a spare pint of hydration, initially all you can do is slurp water from a few scattered plants that will only hydrate you to about a third of your capacity. If you don't stay out of the scorching sun and stick to pockets of shade, you dry out even faster. Creeping around between spots of shade while licking plants? Paul Atreides never had it so bad (though in this alt-history Dune, he was never actually born.)
