My biggest mistake was not hitting space to pause the game while I was reading all of the menus. There I was deciding on what policy to support, meanwhile my entire army got swallowed by a sand worm.
@@M.L.official sometimes your unwatched harvester doesn't read the wormsign in time to escape. I like to leave a thopter with them, haven't lost one to worms since.
just go this game last night and tried to play it with the tutorial and was surprised at how LITTLE the tutorial actually helped. I have never played a 4X game before and the learning curve here in immense. Thanks for the video! It helped a bit but I'm going to have to keep tinkering around to see how this all works.
Yeah 4x has a painful learning curve, i only started playing games in the genre 2 years ago and remember how hard it was to learn the basics, and whilst there are similar aspects between 4x games, they all seem to fet more complex the more you play. Dune has some really confusing systems and requires alot of thinking especially in your first few games.
Honestly the reason I searched this up is because I'm stupid and I was looking at the wrong spice thing, namely the one that requires technology to be built, and was wondering "how do I even get spice?"
Just got Dune: Spice Wars & so far perplexingly loving it lol. Thanks for this awesome guide JumboPixel to help me start out.. so much to learn but already having a blast with it & light years ahead of Dune 2000 I remember. Thanks again man, nicely put together 🙏🙂👍
DUUUUUDE I'm a new player just finished my first game with a loss (on medium difficulty and a large map size over 4 hours lol) I didn't know that the CHOAM > stockpile bar was a slider and I was super far behind my taxes at end game!
I played dune the battle for arrakis as a child on my sega genesis, dune 2000 somehow i did not liked as much, recently i got into this game and i must say i really do like it!
Just finished my first game (as Fremen) and I was just looking in the Hegemony points, was at 24.7k when Atreides got chosen as the Dune Governorship. Had a blast tho, tons of fun.
So that the players can say that "their" race is underpowered and other ones need to be nerfed? So that then the developers will have to make regularly changes to the four races just because some MP fans are not happy with their chosen race? No, thanks. Not every game has to be destroyed by multiplayer. Dune Spice Wars is good as it is.
@@bonjuerltd127 Wow, you have a very pessimistic take on multiplayer games. I see no harm in allowing multiplayer to be an optional choice for this game (Which I believe is happening).
If you haven't been following the development of Tempest Rising you should check it out. It's very C&C inspired and they even hired the composer for old Westwood games
Good stuff, very helpful as the game mechanics is quite complicated with so many things going on and hidden in various menu options and is easily overlooked by newbies to the game.
I talked a little more about this in my review. But generally you can expect 2-3 hours for a successful campaign 😊 - could do it quicker if you were playing fast though.
Spice harvesters don't have spotters to watch for wormsign then? Just have to hope no one nicks your carryall lol. Hopefull that they may add more options such as the Bene Gesserit sisterhood, the Spacing Guild and maybe the Bene Tlelax/tlelaxu as the game gets closer to finished. This early game part reminds me of the original first Dune game (the one where you play as Paul rather than the RTS one) because you would fly out of your base looking for Sietch's to ask to join your side. Wonder if any of the old names made it like Tuono Timin and Carthage Tuek lol.
@@hownowpuncow1546 if you ever make the emperor mad enough to make him come to you on Arrakis, you might lol. (the last level of the old Dune2000 was you against the two other houses and the emperor. i never managed to beat him, always got wasted before finishing his lot. but then, i usualy played as House Atriedes lol)
I like the general layout and Watched most of the tips, but still see no option or way to annex a village after liberating, I can discover a bunch of stuff but can't generate enough resources to progress in anyway. I managed to build one spice processor but it disappeared. And the manpower I'm able to generate is too little to conquer much of anything.
Does anyone know whether early access games also have the 2h steam refund policy? Wanted to test whether my Laptop can run it and I thought maybe early access is excluded from refunds
Is this a good game for a complete noob to RTS/4x games? Like and am somewhat familiar with the Dune universe so figured it would be a good point to test the waters.
Yes Im yet anor. green newb to this game srys So Ive come across a Sietch in a skirmish it doesnt seem very interactive and I am wondering What the hell am I supposed to do about it /with it ??
I suck so much at this game! Even with everything on easy, I'll have the lead for the first 15minutes then I'm at the bottom and my villages are getting raided from all different sectors. there's so much dam reading involved, I don't understand half of what's going on
Maybe you're trying to move millitia units? These cannot be controlled directly, they will stay and defend the place that they are garrisoned. It seems you can select your army by going to your main building, There you can find all your harvesters, ornihthoper scouts, and military units. Good luck, and remember, fear is the mind killer
@@SaiyanMonkeyScumAndProud as you can see their comments are over a year old and it didnt have multiplayer at that point. In you own words, laughing my ass off.
As much as I love dune, this has to be one of the worst games I’ve ever player. After purchasing the game itself, I then had to sign up with some xbox ultimate subscription just to play it, and then it didn’t even work right, where the graphics were only half loading, appearing super pixelated, not playable. Plus the game itself was just way overly complicated, even after going through all their tutorials. Total waste of my evening.
@@Somecommentsfromme Don't feel bad, I've been playing 4x games for almost a decade. The thing you need to know about this game is every faction has different strong and weak points of their economies. If you're struggling, I recommend trying each faction just to get a feel for them, then pick your favourite, then look up some more specific guides. Also, I know he suggests a Small map, but honestly, try Medium. Means you have more breathing room and the AI doesn't gun it for you as much as in other 4x games, so let them fight each, you just pull back if you're having a hard time
I played dune the battle for arrakis as a child on my sega genesis, dune 2000 somehow i did not liked as much, recently i got into this game and i must say i really do like it!
Check out Dune Spice Wars on Steam here! gsght.com/c/islq34
My biggest mistake was not hitting space to pause the game while I was reading all of the menus. There I was deciding on what policy to support, meanwhile my entire army got swallowed by a sand worm.
You can move your troop to the rocks they are worm proof...
I so did the exact same thing! LOL.
I deactivated sandworm. It literally swallows harvesters even if they have auto retreat option. Stupid mechanic
@@M.L.official sometimes your unwatched harvester doesn't read the wormsign in time to escape. I like to leave a thopter with them, haven't lost one to worms since.
😂Feels like I've got...no harvester at all! Stupid sexy sandworms @@M.L.official
just go this game last night and tried to play it with the tutorial and was surprised at how LITTLE the tutorial actually helped. I have never played a 4X game before and the learning curve here in immense. Thanks for the video! It helped a bit but I'm going to have to keep tinkering around to see how this all works.
i agree. This video helped, but I am not sure what the objective really this ...
Yeah 4x has a painful learning curve, i only started playing games in the genre 2 years ago and remember how hard it was to learn the basics, and whilst there are similar aspects between 4x games, they all seem to fet more complex the more you play. Dune has some really confusing systems and requires alot of thinking especially in your first few games.
woah immense learning curve? You should take a look at stellaris, heart of iron, crusader kings...
@@djdm2603 which games in this genre have been your favorite?
The tutorial was about 3 one sentence popups, so dumb and 99% of the people will bin the game after 15 mins because of that.
Who else can thank Game Pass for hooking them up with this game!?
Only reason I’m here rn 😊
Me 🙋♂️
Same here 😂🎉
I’ve started to play Dune after seeing Dune part 2. Wow, what a great movie!
Just got this game because I love everything Dune. Even on Easy, it's way too hard for me - steep learning curve. This video helped though - thanks!
Glad it helped! 😁
This game HAD ME with the Main Menu music 💕
Thanks for this. The game doesn't really do much in the way of its tutorial, especially with the building stuff bits. So thanks again.
Honestly this looks like it’s gonna be really fun as a multiplayer game.
Honestly the reason I searched this up is because I'm stupid and I was looking at the wrong spice thing, namely the one that requires technology to be built, and was wondering "how do I even get spice?"
Just got Dune: Spice Wars & so far perplexingly loving it lol. Thanks for this awesome guide JumboPixel to help me start out.. so much to learn but already having a blast with it & light years ahead of Dune 2000 I remember. Thanks again man, nicely put together 🙏🙂👍
DUUUUUDE I'm a new player just finished my first game with a loss (on medium difficulty and a large map size over 4 hours lol) I didn't know that the CHOAM > stockpile bar was a slider and I was super far behind my taxes at end game!
I played dune the battle for arrakis as a child on my sega genesis, dune 2000 somehow i did not liked as much, recently i got into this game and i must say i really do like it!
I would say Instread of it being an RTS game with some 4x elements, It's a 4x game with some RTS elements
Just finished my first game (as Fremen) and I was just looking in the Hegemony points, was at 24.7k when Atreides got chosen as the Dune Governorship. Had a blast tho, tons of fun.
Oh soooo close! Nice one 😁
I want this game to add multiplayer so bad
So that the players can say that "their" race is underpowered and other ones need to be nerfed? So that then the developers will have to make regularly changes to the four races just because some MP fans are not happy with their chosen race? No, thanks. Not every game has to be destroyed by multiplayer. Dune Spice Wars is good as it is.
@@bonjuerltd127 Wow, you have a very pessimistic take on multiplayer games. I see no harm in allowing multiplayer to be an optional choice for this game (Which I believe is happening).
@bonjuerltd127 fucking nerd. Glad multiplayer is in a RTS. Oh the travesty
@@bluepolarbearlol mutiplayer has been added
I am glad I watched this. I was expecting a more "Westwood Studios" type of game. Dissapointed, but I hope this game succeeds.
If you haven't been following the development of Tempest Rising you should check it out. It's very C&C inspired and they even hired the composer for old Westwood games
This is exactly the basic start up help I needed. Thank you!
Good stuff, very helpful as the game mechanics is quite complicated with so many things going on and hidden in various menu options and is easily overlooked by newbies to the game.
super helpful, thank you!
What's the time length for a game match? (For Exp Northgard: can take around 1 hour 1hr 30mins.)
I talked a little more about this in my review. But generally you can expect 2-3 hours for a successful campaign 😊 - could do it quicker if you were playing fast though.
Short, but nonetheles informative, well done, thanks!
Thanks! I was wondering how I sell more spice to CHOAM
Good luck making all that sweet cash now!
Thanks. This is a great intro to the game.
Thank you for short explanation and jump start for players to start play this amazing game.
Played last night for the first time with friends and ai. I was first to lose can’t wait to get back into it tonight and whoop some butt
I’ve jumped right into it and have about 10k rn but having problems now defending bases cause I’m expanded to fast with no idea of what to do 😂
Thank you Mr. Swanson (Joe). It was very useful
this game is getting better and better! the spice must flow!
True.
I finally found some time to explore Arrakis and discover this game for the first time two days ago.
It looks so good and entertaining!
Thanks, this video was very helpful for me to get started.
Man, that was super helpful.
Thank you!
*subscribed*
How the hell do you assign an agent as an emissary to those special villages in the game I can't remember their name. I can't figure it out.
This looks like a dune mod for civilization 3
Spice harvesters don't have spotters to watch for wormsign then? Just have to hope no one nicks your carryall lol.
Hopefull that they may add more options such as the Bene Gesserit sisterhood, the Spacing Guild and maybe the Bene Tlelax/tlelaxu as the game gets closer to finished.
This early game part reminds me of the original first Dune game (the one where you play as Paul rather than the RTS one) because you would fly out of your base looking for Sietch's to ask to join your side. Wonder if any of the old names made it like Tuono Timin and Carthage Tuek lol.
I'd like to see the sardukar make an appearance
@@hownowpuncow1546 if you ever make the emperor mad enough to make him come to you on Arrakis, you might lol.
(the last level of the old Dune2000 was you against the two other houses and the emperor. i never managed to beat him, always got wasted before finishing his lot. but then, i usualy played as House Atriedes lol)
@@silverbane8065 yeah I played that too back in the day. Good times
@@jakobinobles3263 then my Fremen will have fun, because they are good fighters (their words in the first book lol)
Playing hark Nuked housed corrino last night and had sardukar come at me was not fun 😂
Has anyone been able to ride a spice worm? it pops up.. everyone jumps on and then jumps off ... lol
I like the general layout and Watched most of the tips, but still see no option or way to annex a village after liberating, I can discover a bunch of stuff but can't generate enough resources to progress in anyway. I managed to build one spice processor but it disappeared. And the manpower I'm able to generate is too little to conquer much of anything.
They don't have House Ordos as one of the factions as in the Westwood games but smugglers instead 🤣
looks cool i'm convinced to get it
The ai is next level
Does anyone know whether early access games also have the 2h steam refund policy? Wanted to test whether my Laptop can run it and I thought maybe early access is excluded from refunds
Yes mate 2 hour refunds no matter if its early access or not
@@T1MeAsSaSs1n cheers
thank u
There’s some Thing!… on the Wing
The other guys are attacking me with artillery and siege weapons how do I get them
Does militia cost upkeep? Upkeep is killing me :p
i can't build in any village a refinery also if there is a spot of spice. Why ?
Is this a good game for a complete noob to RTS/4x games? Like and am somewhat familiar with the Dune universe so figured it would be a good point to test the waters.
its very basic so yes
This is my first 4x game and it is kicking my butt
@@dislikecounter6392 lol... me, having played rts games before, was still lost.
It is about as streamlined a 4x as you could hope to find. Streamlined doesn't necessarily mean easy though.
Yes Im yet anor. green newb to this game srys So Ive come across a Sietch in a skirmish it doesnt seem very interactive and I am wondering What the hell am I supposed to do about it /with it ??
Thank you so much im ready to dominate xbox S/X
very helpfull video.
I suck so much at this game! Even with everything on easy, I'll have the lead for the first 15minutes then I'm at the bottom and my villages are getting raided from all different sectors. there's so much dam reading involved, I don't understand half of what's going on
I was excited for a new dune game. Seems like this is just unnecessarily complicated and frustrating. Sad to see that
HOW DO YOU GET WATER?!
I cannot get my units to move at all and I’m getting so frustrated. SOMEONE PLEASE HELP HOW TF DO YOU TELL THE UNITS WHAT TO DO 😭
Maybe you're trying to move millitia units? These cannot be controlled directly, they will stay and defend the place that they are garrisoned. It seems you can select your army by going to your main building, There you can find all your harvesters, ornihthoper scouts, and military units. Good luck, and remember, fear is the mind killer
@@BartvG88 after much frustration I figured it out lol thank you for your help and may the spice rain down upon you 🤘
I literally play the game on maximum difficulty but without worms.
I would play this if it was multiplayer. Shame..
at least it’s going to have it in the future
Same. Will be waiting until multiplayer releases
Then enjoy getting rekt when multiplayer drops, by all the people who learned singleplayer
Multiplayer is a thing lmao
@@SaiyanMonkeyScumAndProud as you can see their comments are over a year old and it didnt have multiplayer at that point. In you own words, laughing my ass off.
I really loce hoi4 and i thought this game would be similar but holy shit this is way too complicated for my liking. Great review tho!
I can not figure out how to sell spice
The purple/gold bar on the top left or you can trade it with other factions
easy councilors? nah, I like my councilors like I like my women. (hard)
lol the first thing you do is go in the OPPOSITE direction of the spice field visible? lmao.
😃😃😄😄
As much as I love dune, this has to be one of the worst games I’ve ever player. After purchasing the game itself, I then had to sign up with some xbox ultimate subscription just to play it, and then it didn’t even work right, where the graphics were only half loading, appearing super pixelated, not playable. Plus the game itself was just way overly complicated, even after going through all their tutorials. Total waste of my evening.
"You should always play on Easy"
Me finishing my third playthrough on Hard > "Wh-What...?"
Go get ‘em, tiger
How, I legit can't get a good economy off the ground or can't field a strong enough army. This is my first 4x game tho
@@Somecommentsfromme Don't feel bad, I've been playing 4x games for almost a decade. The thing you need to know about this game is every faction has different strong and weak points of their economies. If you're struggling, I recommend trying each faction just to get a feel for them, then pick your favourite, then look up some more specific guides. Also, I know he suggests a Small map, but honestly, try Medium. Means you have more breathing room and the AI doesn't gun it for you as much as in other 4x games, so let them fight each, you just pull back if you're having a hard time
Dude obviously got paid to do a review;p
Can people please stop saying that. He wasn’t paid just because he likes the game.
you said nothing new, if you play the game for 5 minutes you know more that what you said in this 20 minutes video...why so bad?
Not a fan of cartoon-ish graphics
What parts look cartoonish to you? The only thing I can see as cartoonish is the unit scaling. And even then how does “cartoonishness” harm the game?
How does this game hold up against other games, and even the classics, in this genre?
cool video tutorial many tnks
finished game spells losing as "loosing" in the tutorial..
just brutal
I played dune the battle for arrakis as a child on my sega genesis, dune 2000 somehow i did not liked as much, recently i got into this game and i must say i really do like it!