The final quest in the Dune Awakening main story, Searching for Answers, directly follows on from The Jackal and has us finally starting to get the answers to many of the questions we have.
After ending the Jackal, we are contacted by Ari for a rendezvous at the local bar in Arrakeen. We also get a chance to chat to our good friend Zantara once again, who pops up to explain how dire the situation is.
Once the cutscene is complete, we are issued the Searching for Answers quest. We need to head over to Harko Village this time.
Note: This is the final quest in Act 2 of the Dune Awakening story. It takes around an hour to complete, and you are locked in once you start.
Quick Links:
- Checklist
- Searching for Answers Location
- Find A Way Inside The Base
- Exploring The Facility
- Finding Zantara
- Finding Answers
Before You Start - Preparation Checklist
- Make sure you have time - This mission locks you into the quest, so make sure you have time to finish it (around 1h).
- Suspensor + Cutteray - Bring a Suspensor Belt (Full ideally) and a Cutteray.
- Decent gear and meds - The arena section in this mission is "hard" compared to what has come before so be prepared for combat with your skills + gear.
Searching for Answers Location
To start the quest, we need to head to Harko Village and find our contact. Once we meet up with Zantara, he will begin the quest.
Pro tip: This is your last chance to prepare and back away. Make sure you have everything you’ll need first, as this is a “locked-in” quest. Once we say “I’m ready,” the quest will begin, and we’ll be sent to the quest location after a short cutscene.
Find A Way Inside The Base
Now we need to make our way inside the base. The first hurdle is the large fan and broken bridge. This is where our Suspensor Belt comes in handy.
Pro Tip: As you can see in the image above, there is a dead body just to the right of the jump that contains some helpful items if you forgot to bring them.
Jump across the gap and head into the maintenance room. At the end, you’ll find the fan controls, which we need to turn off so that Zantara can jump down. Once that’s done, follow him to the bottom of the fan.
Pro Tip: Use the Suspensor Belt to land safely, or just slowly go down the parts of the fan that stick out to land safely.
Shortly after, we will get split up from Zantara as we learn about the facility alone.
Exploring The Facility
Now we are alone, it’s time to find out what’s going on. Our first mission is to unlock the door, but the key is behind an area drenched in radiation. If you have a Radiation Suit, put it on; however, the area is small, and the game provides us with a few Iodine Pills in the chest with the key.
Once through the door, a brief cutscene will play, and we’ll need to fight. After the initial wave of enemies, we are presented with a door, but make sure to swing right first for some loot (this will trigger a small ambush). Go back to the door and cut it open to continue.
Once again, move through the next area until we meet another door. Going right again will offer another path which provides some additional lore.
Progress onwards to trigger another cutscene with the Reverend Mother which gives us some more details about our own past. This will also reveal the full nature of the facility. Now it’s time to meet up with Zantara.
Finding Zantara
This is where the mission gets tough, so be prepared. We will enter a huge arena and have to fight off five large waves of enemies. They will come at you fast, and hit you at the same time. Use your stamina to dash away so you can reload and heal between waves.
Once you survive, the path will open so we can find Zantara. A few lore updates on the way before we meet up with him and continue.
Finding Answers
It’s cutscene time again. Once that’s over, we need to escape quickly. We have enough time to run back to our ornithopter, you can just avoid the enemies.
Once that’s done, escape to the closest safe area and this will trigger the quest to end. This officially marks the end of Act 2 of the main storyline in Dune Awakening.
For now, that’s it. We await Act 3 in future as the story of Dune Awakening continues.
