How to unlock and use Augments in Dune Awakening

Augments have been added to Dune Awakening as part of the Chapter 3 updates, allowing you to customize your endgame builds by modifying your high-tier gears.

The Augmentation system lets you improve your armor and weapons by increasing their power. However, your enhanced gear parts will have less durability, which makes it a fine balancing act. This guide will provide you with all the required information for you to improve your T6 gear parts.

How to unlock Augments in Dune Awakening

If you’ve just started playing Dune Awakening, there are plenty of hours of content you’ll need to clear. The Augments only work at Mk6 tier (or tier 6), and you’ll need to reach that point by clearing main and side quests. You can add Augments to gear that are at Plastanium-tier only.

• Play the new Challenge Mode testing stations that are repeatable events. Completing them will help you to get various schematics and Augment blueprints.
• You can use the blueprints to craft the Augments with the required resources (more on this later in the guide).

To start earning the schematics and blueprints, you’ll need to participate in the Challenge Mode testing stations. You can find the testing stations on the Overland Map, and they range from difficulty 1 to 100. To get the best rewards, you’ll need to reach Level 40; all levels beyond that point only raise the difficulty.

It’s advisable to play at higher difficulty levels since you’ll have a better chance of getting higher-quality blueprints. All blueprint and schematic rewards are random.

How to craft Augments in Dune Awakening

Once you’ve obtained an Augment blueprint, you can start the crafting process. You can craft exactly one Augment with the blueprint. If you want to craft the same Augment again, you’ll again need to find its blueprint.

To craft, you’ll either need the Advanced Garment Fabricator or the Advanced Weapons Fabricator. If it’s an armor, go for the Garment Fabricator. If it’s for a weapon, go for the Weapons Fabricator. Once the crafting process is complete, you will need an Augmentation Station.

The Augmentation Station can be built with 15 Spice Melange and 75 Plastanium Ingots. The station allows you to slot in augments on any gear/weapon of your choice (as long as they’re eligible).

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Nioh 3 is a truly visual masterpiece that’s better played in high graphics, but the performance in the early hours hasn’t been smooth. If you’re on a PC, you can easily tweak certain settings to get more out of your hardware.

We already got an early taste of PC gameplay, all thanks to the demo that’s available for free. While a massive benefit is continuing the main story on the full version, it also gave us an idea about what the best set of visual settings might look like.

Best Nioh 3 graphics settings

Before I dive deeper into the settings, here’s how my setup looks.

• AMD Ryzen 5600G
• NVIDIA RTX 3060 12 GB
• 16 GB of DDR5 RAM

Here are the settings I rolled with on my PC.

• Display Mode: Borderless
• VSync: Off
• Resolution: 1920×1080 (depends on your setup)
• Frame Rate Cap: 60 FPS
• Graphics Presets: Custom
• Upscaling: DLSS
• Sharpening: 1.0
• Rendering Resolution: 65%
• Dynamic Resolution: 60
• Minimum Rendering Resolution: 50%
• Maximum Rendering Resolution: 65%
• Frame Generation: Off
• FPS Dynamic Adjustment: On
• HDR: Off
• Post-Effects Resolution: Standard
• Motion Blur: Off
• Chromatic Aberration: Off
• Len Vignette: Off
• Noise Filter: Off
• Mach Band Noise: Off
• Color Precision: Standard
• Depth of Field: Off
• Lens Flare: Off
• Bloom: Off
• Subsurface Scattering: Off
• Shadow Quality: Standard
• Ambient Occlusion: Very Low
• Model Quality: Standard
• Model Texture Quality: Standard
• Number of Models Displayed: Few
• Wind Sway: Off
• Anisotropic Filtering: Off
• Effects: Standard
• Motion Quality: Low
• Screen Space Reflection: Very Low
• Background Mesh Quality: Standard
• Terrain: Low
• Grass Density: Low
• Volumetric Cloud Quality: Low
• FPS (Cutscenes): 30
• Cutscene Quality: Standard
• Global Illumination: Standard

There are two pointers to note.

• I kept Vsync off because you reduce the load on your system but sacrifices very little in return. Hence, it’s best to keep it off.
• Keeping the FPS capped to 60 gave me the best results. There were no lags, no stutters, and the performance held steady at 60 FPS. However, you can choose to go for uncapped if you have a better system.

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