Dune: Awakening features enormous, dangerous, and often overwhelming distinctive desert locations, Arrakis. Walking across the planet can get tiresome due to the dangerous sandworms and lengthy distances. The good news is that the game has a fast travel function, which isn’t obvious and can’t be accessed from the map.
Gamers can eventually acquire their own transportation, including sandbikes, jeeps, and even ornithopters, fast travelling is still useful to reach areas visited previously very conveniently.
Unlocking the Fast Travel Option
To unlock the fast travel system in the game, players need to play through the A Touch of Civilisation mission and reach Griffin’s Reach Tradepost. You automatically receive a side quest called A Wider World, which leads you to a certain character hidden within the settlement.
There is a Civilian Ornithopter Pilot located in the main building, across the contract board and just next to the merchant. The NPC provides fast travel which allows you to get a ride to locations you have already visited. Imagine a taxi service you’d see in the desert but made for seasoned survivors.
Destinations Available for Fast Travel
When a player speaks to the ornithopter pilot, he/she gets three options.
- Hagga Basin – This region has several fast travel points linked to previously discovered locations.
- Arrakeen is the Atreides stronghold and is crucial for faction-related actions.
- Harko village – The equivalent of the Harkonnens, used regularly in Landsraad and other faction events.
Marking a tradepost such as Griffin’s Reach will allow your fast travel but you have to go to a pilot to start it. You can’t activate it directly from the map, so you need to reach the travel point manually.
Other Methods of Traversal
Fast travel is nice, but it doesn’t work everywhere on the map. That’s where owning personal vehicles becomes essential. Players can unlock.
- Sandbike. Lightweight and easy to tame. Perfect for slow rides through wide-open sand.
- Jeeps are robust vehicles that oftentimes transport a team or explore an area.
- Ornithopters are flying machines that allow for fast travel to remote inaccessible areas.
These vehicles offer an alternative mode of transport for players who want to reach places not accessible via fast travel.
Conclusion.
In Dune: Awakening, learning the fast travel system will be beneficial to your progression. Players can spend less time travelling and more time exploring, fighting, and resource gathering by locating and identifying the role of ornithopter pilots. Traveling through the desert can be done via the sky or dunes. In either case, Arrakis is significantly easier to deal with.