If you're 'scared of PvP', don't worry: Dune: Awakening's endgame deep desert area has a PvE zone, too

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When confronted with a new MMO where the best blueprints and resources are hidden in a sprawling and deadly PvP zone, a lot of players have one important question: "So, what if I'm not into PvP?"

Rest assured, you'll still be able to visit the 'deep desert' endgame zone of Dune: Awakening. According to Funcom, as shown in today's livestream, while the deep desert is almost entirely PvP, there is a sizeable PvE-only area where you won't have to worry about fighting other players.

The deep desert is where you'll find the biggest spice deposits to harvest, as well as control points to claim and fight over and new blueprints to build from or sell. Every week a massive sandstorm completely rewrites the geography and shuffles up the locations—even player bases built in the deep desert get erased on a weekly basis. It's not a friendly place, but at least there's a pocket of space where on top of everything else, you don't have to worry about getting ganked by guilds.

Chris started playing PC games in the 1980s, started writing about them in the early 2000s, and (finally) started getting paid to write about them in the late 2000s. Following a few years as a regular freelancer, PC Gamer hired him in 2014, probably so he'd stop emailing them asking for more work. Chris has a love-hate relationship with survival games and an unhealthy fascination with the inner lives of NPCs. He's also a fan of offbeat simulation games, mods, and ignoring storylines in RPGs so he can make up his own.

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