Dune Awakening: Does Homeworld and Caste choice have any effect?

No, Homeworld and Caste choice in Dune Awakening have no significant impact on gameplay. These choices influence dialogue and certain story aspects of the game but do not lead to anything specific, such as a certain quest or mission. Overall, picking your Homeworld or Caste only adds to the customizability of your character's background and nothing else.

However, things such as mentor choice make a difference in Dune Awakening. Here's more about it.

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The role of Homeworld and Caste choice in Dune Awakening

Dune Awakening Homeworld and Caste details (Image via Funcom)

Homeworld and Caste choices mostly add to your gameplay experience by making it somewhat distinct. Dune Awakening offers you five Homeworlds, each with its special Dialogue Trait and Emote. Neither impacts the gameplay seriously. These are:

Homeworld	Dialogue Trait	Emote
Giedi Prime	Deception	Harkonnen Curse
Chusuk	Cultured	Chusuk Music
Caladan	Honorable	Atreides Salute
Kaitain	Political	Kaitain Bow
Ix	Technologist	Ixian Secret

These are all the unique differences you'll see in Dune Awakening based on your Homeworld choices. When it comes to caste, you get three different options representing three tiers of society:

• Bondsman: Bondsman Dialogue Trait
• Na-Familia: Nobility Dialogue Trait
• Pyon: Pyon Dialogue Trait

The caste choice adds to the dialogue traits, which generally do not impact your gameplay significantly. Therefore, you can pick and choose whichever sounds attractive to you. Enthusiasts of the Dune films by Denis Villeneuve or fans of the original book series by Frank Herbert may be attracted to worlds like Caladan or Geidi Prime.

This is because these Homeworlds promote the traits of Atreides and Harkonnen, respectively, two of the most important families in Dune, with Paul Atreides, the main character, belonging to the former.

That said, perhaps the choice of Mentor is more important in the game as it allows you different starting abilities and access to skill trees. The Mentors with the best starting abilities are likely Trooper and Mentat, with the former providing you a grapple hook-like ability and the latter, a suspensor buoyed dart protector.

It's important to keep in mind, however, that you can eventually access all ability trees in Dune Awakening later in the game via different NPCs whom you can approach as you play and finish quests.

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