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Time of India
13 hours ago
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- Time of India
How to betray and change Factions in Dune Awakening?
(Image via Funcom) Arrakis sands are treacherous but so are the loyalties in Dune: Awakening. Choosing between House Harkonnen and Atreides feels like one defining moment, but what if you pledge your sword to the wrong banner? Well, fear not as treachery is woven within the harsh world's fabric, and to change sides is not just possible, but it is a calculated gamble with thrilling Arrakis betrayal consequences and high stakes. Here is how you can navigate the perilous path of betrayal. How to betray and change Faction in Dune Awakening ? If you are feeling a sting of regret or have ambition burning brighter, the physical act of switching your allegiance begins at Anvil Outpost, deep in Vermillius Gap. Here, the representatives stand ready to hear disloyal whispers. So, approach Maxim Kazmir if you wear the Harkonnen colors but are craving Atreides green and black. But if you are Atreides, who's dreaming of Harkonnen's brutality, seek Lieutenant Tolliver. Dune Awakening - Faction Betrayal Quests To speak to opposite faction representatives would trigger a critical dialogue option—a path of betrayal. Selecting it is not like a simple button press. Instead, it comes with a stark warning, and it's your last chance to reconsider your decision. Confirm that the choice and gears of disloyalty would grind into motion, and betrayal would be set. The system of the game immediately recognizes your treacherous and new allegiance. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Scam Exposed: What They Won't Tell You about zero trust! Expertinspector Click Here Undo It is the point of no return that gets initiated via deliberate conversation and not the hidden menu. Note: Once you confirm your decision, the former faction will mark you as the outcast. Consequences of Faction betrayal in Dune Awakening To betray factions Dune Awakening on Arrakis is not taken lightly. Its consequences are permanent and severe. Once you burn bridges with your faction, you can never rejoin them. Their territories would become a hostile ground for you. If you step foot inside, you must expect lethal force. Any guild that's firmly aligned with your former masters would also instantly repel you, and every active contract that's tied to the faction will vanish—canceled outright. If you are worried about missing exclusive gear, the Arrakeen (Atreides) or the Harko Village (Harkonnen) vendors still sell some cosmetics for the opposing faction. You can get it from them. Remember that betrayal in Dune: Awakening will reshape your world and demand careful strategy regarding where you trend or who you can trust next. It's like a political exile but with a spice-laced silver lining. So, choose wiser or simply embrace chaos. Alternate ways to initiate betrayal in Dune Awakening If main NPCs are not offering a betrayal option, you, for betraying Atreides, can seek out Piter de Vries near the Harko's landing zone. For Harkonnen traitors, you must approach Thufir Hawat in Arrakeen. Their involvement here suggests that faction standing might influence the availability of betrayal. Players with level 2 faction standing could trigger a betrayal at the Anvil Outpost. However, the ones with lower ranks might need some alternate NPCs. While the exact mechanics here are unclear, the thing that's certain is, once you make a switch, you cannot turn back. So, will you embrace treachery, or will you stay loyal to the house? The choice would define your fate in Dune: Awakening. Game On Season 1 kicks off with Sakshi Malik's inspiring story. Watch Episode 1 here
Time of India
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
How to collect every faction building sets in Dune Awakening
(Image via Funcom) Building a unique stronghold is quite vital for survival within Dune: Awakening's Arrakis. Beyond some basic structures, players could acquire stunning building sets while reflecting upon iconic Harkonnen faction and Atreides faction. To obtain the prestigious blueprints needs dedication. It's a journey of resourcefulness, commitment and proving one's worth to the chosen House. Here is how you can expand the architectural arsenal in Dune: Awakening to have desert dominion. How to join a Faction and unlock a building set? To have access to faction-specific structures is not instant, but one must at first pledge their loyalty. For it, they must visit Vermillius Gap's The Anvil trade post. Here, the representatives from the two factions await. To align with either House Harkonnen or Atreides will start a questline, and to complete the mission proves one's worth. How To Join A House (Faction) In Dune Awakening | House Atreides or Harkonnen Note: You can join the desired faction via the Landstraad system, and initial allegiance will open the door. Your reputation is key. Every task completed by you will boost your standing, and to reach Tier 2 reputation will unlock the faction's construction set. After you achieve it, head to their quartermaster—Atreides in Arrakeen and Harkonnen in Harko, to purchase blueprints for 80,000 Solaris. Pro tip: Complete the faction-specific missions in a diligent manner. The tasks quite often involve travelling across some dangerous regions. Required resource investment for building sets To own blueprints is just half a battle. To construct the faction-themed structures demands the use of an advanced material, Plastone. To craft it, you need some significant resources, including precious Silicon Block, 50 water and 200 Basalt Stone. Remember, to have an efficient gathering of resources is important. Basalt Stone can be found in plenty in the rocky areas, including Eastern Shield Wall. The Silicon Blocks need processing of Flour Sand (prepare yourself for risky harvesting), the late-game challenge (zones). Lastly, Water is always important in Dune Awakening. So, refine the components together in the Ore Refinery. The larger refineries would offer you better yields, making all investments worth it for the ambitious builders. Note: To refine yields will deliver 250 Plastone in every batch. It will be enough to start the construction. Beyond blueprints, maximizing faction's rewards To secure a faction building set will cost 80,000 Solaris. It demands some smart economic play. For it, sell surplus gears, unused base designs or materials at the trading posts. Additionally, pursue some lucrative contracts from the mission boards. Diversify the income streams to be able to afford the architectural luxury. Note: To grind faction missions is not just about the aesthetics. It strengthens the foothold within the political war. After the purchase, your creativity will flourish. Mix and match the Faction pieces with the standard blocks to get some unique bases. Also, experiment with functions and layouts. Use Solido Projector for saving designs and enabling easier relocation/redesign. The base of yours with all will become a powerful symbol of the faction allegiance and personal ingenuity on harsh sands, whether you favour Atreides regal halls or the brutalist fortresses of Harkonnen.
Russia Today
30-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Russia Today
Trump is serious about owning Greenland, and his European ‘allies' will just roll over and let him have it
In Frank Herbert's novel 'Dune' – with its blood-soaked canvas of a whole universe of rules-based empire, incessant lying, enthusiastic mass murder, and some very critical raw materials – there's a famous scene featuring a box. Herbert – as most bros reading him for life hacks fail to understand – loved irony of the savage type. That's why the box reveals the truth about you by lying to you: Put your hand in it and you will feel it burning so hot (though it isn't, not really) that you will scream and shrink away (and, if you are a man, you will be murdered, for your pains as it were, by a very harsh nun-witch headmistress). Because you have been found out to be merely human, which the nun-witch headmistress thinks makes you an animal. It's complicated. Or you happen to be a deeply flawed 'ubermensch' produced by thousands of years of obsessively controlled human breeding experiments plus – very Herbert that, again – some last-minute coupling mutiny. In that case, you won't flinch, the headmistress will let you live (though not your father), and you will move on to become a charismatic, vaguely Islamic-looking rebel leader destroying the space equivalents of a perverse, sadistic Zionist death cult (called Harkonnen) and of the American empire, too (here led by the kind of wily, ruthless emperor US President Donald Trump really would love to be, if with a dash of glitzy real estate tycoon, of course). After that happy ending, however, things will get a little out of hand. Read more US government VIDEO promises to 'protect' Greenland But this is where we leave the Herbert-verse and return to our own small, single-planet but no less blood-soaked world. There, a truth box has materialized – a little like that mysterious obelisk among that tribe of screaming, fighting prehistoric hominins in Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' (my last science fiction analogy for today, I promise). And it's called Greenland. For in the unfortunately real world, whoever nowadays goes to Greenland, touches Greenland, or even talks about Greenland, starts revealing the truth about themselves. And, spoiler alert, it's never pretty. Let's look at the self-revealers in turn. First, as is only right for our little planet's empire, there is the US. It has revealed with almost laudable frankness what attentive observers have long known. Washington respects neither international law nor even the fuzzy would-be norms of that amorphous rules-based international (dis)order that has, literally, no rule book. Common decency, diplomatic forms, or elementary ethics – forget about those as well, obviously. Under Trump 2.0, who sees Greenland as a really nice piece of property and a geopolitical linchpin as well, the US has escalated an obsession with acquiring the island. Never mind it already belongs to another country that happens to be a very obedient US vassal, Denmark. 'Escalated' because it's an old – if often dormant – project going back to the 19th century, as Russian President Vladimir Putin has just noted in a speech at the International Arctic Forum. Denmark, you may well say, should not be owning Greenland anyhow, in any shape or form, 'self-government act' home rule or not. The overwhelming majority of Greenland's very small population – about 55,000 or 0.00068 percent of humanity – are Greenlandic Inuit , who have nothing in common with Danes ethnically and have had plenty of bad experiences with them, too. Greenland still being attached to Denmark is simply a late outcome of European colonialism. As such, this status quo is overdue for a swift, unsentimental end. Read more Vance delivers Trump's 'message' to US troops in Greenland But none of the above means that the Greenlanders should end up under the control of the United States. For one thing, historically speaking, America is one of the worst outcomes of that same European colonialism, with the difference that in the US case, the ethnic cleansing and great white replacement of the indigenous inhabitants was almost total. In more contemporary terms, there simply is no reason why Greenlanders should not be genuinely independent – as far as that is possible in the real world – with a state they fully own and the international political, commercial, and security relationships that would result from a combination of their own decisions and the necessities resulting from their place on the map. In other words, simply due to proximity, the US is likely to play a large role in Greenland's future anyhow. Its current ham-fisted, carelessly brutal approach, however, reveals more than its usual overbearing meddling. Even if also motivated by grandstanding for a domestic audience, silly, provocative performances such as Vice President J.D. Vance's visit show that Washington has entered a phase of immature I-must-have-it-all-and-I-must-have-it-right-now imperialism. The other thing this reveals is that the new, no-frills exercise of brute American power is openly contemptuous of Washington's European vassals. No surprise there, you may well say, but still, let's note that America's new rulers are going out of their way to show just how little they respect the European underlings. And to be fair, isn't this deserved? Read more US has been plotting to annex Greenland since the 1860s – Putin Because here is what the Greenland truth box is telling us about the Europeans: Denmark's foreign minister, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, has found ' drastic ' words, so we are informed, for Vance. For Vance's 'tone,' to be precise. Way to start! That'll teach the ugly American! Do not focus on the substance of what he is threatening you with but on his tone. Really? Tony Soprano walks into your cod liver and whale meat restaurant making a change-of-ownership offer you can't refuse, and your response is to ask him to say it more nicely? Anyhow, Rasmussen believes that Vance's – that is, Washington's – tone 'is not how you speak to close allies.' Oh my God! He is sooo close! Will he ever realize that this is precisely the issue: Denmark is not a 'close ally.' It's not even an ally. The most polite label with any connection to reality would be 'client'. The most truthful – 'vassal'. That's an exaggeration? A bit harsh in, you know, tone? Not at all. How do we know that? Two words: Nord Stream. Remember that pipeline that the US blew up – who cares whether on its own or with or through other steadfast allies, the Ukrainians, for instance – in a (barely) covert military attack and the largest act of ecoterrorism in European history? And that Washington is now thinking about acquiring and repairing to add some more injury to an already richly packed insult-injury sandwich? Read more Trump has 'gone too far' – Danish defense minister Because of Nord Stream's location in the Baltic Sea, Denmark was also directly affected. And like all other Europeans, it just rolled over and showed its belly. Its 'investigation' (yes, scare quotes) 'found' (ditto) that while the explosions were sabotage, there were not enough grounds to go after anyone . In other words, there were plenty, but going after the US and its Ukrainian or other accomplices was too scary. So much for Danes getting tough. Or Western Europeans as a whole. At the time, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the Danish cop-out ' close to absurdity .' True, if mildly put. But the absurdity wasn't the worst part. That was the deliberate abdication of any remaining shred of practical sovereignty and therefore of any hope for respect from other states. And disrespect has consequences. For this is the most fundamental revelation of the Greenland truth box: In the deeply Hobbesian world of states, cowards damage themselves the most. That is why the Greenlanders are right to tell the US to get lost . The way things are, they may not prevail against the biggest bully in the known universe, and they would be wise to settle for what they can if they must. But one thing we know for sure – they won't get anything from just rolling over European-style. There, too, it's time for Europe's colonial legacy to disappear.
