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Doesn't matter what ideology you follow. Everyone always tries to push their own, onto others. No matter if it is socialism, kapitalism or whatever. Some use it in order to use others. And most are convinced that their ideology is right, and see all other as wrong. Newsflash, all ideologies are wrong and right. Right if you know how to use it in order to use other people. Wrong if you are being used and only outsiders can tell because outsiders have their own ideology applied to them. Happy to tell you, I am rather right....in using the ideology that I am in. Although, it is a never ending battle in not being used by someone else. And buisness is often finding a middle way in using each other in such way that both benefit from it. Searching a synergy so that you can use each others tertiary group. Like how the US and USSR worked together in the cold war. Increasing the usage of their own population. By pointing to the other side.

I've been playing this release for a couple of weeks now (skirmish only and usually Harkonnen)- I love it! Great work! Playing on Linux, never had any crashes. Everything runs smoothly. Right now I see the following which needs to be improved: - Ornithopter is very OP: it is too fast, has quite heavy armor and is dirt cheap (in the startport). The startport delivery is very fast so it is very easy to spam the battlefield with them. - Starport: units seem to be quite cheap most of the times (?) and units are never out of stock. Fast delivery means fast game play, but it feels out of balance right now. it is very easy to build up a vast army within 2 minutes, making it easy to overrun the computer. I'm not sure if the computer is using the startport at all? - Superweapons: death hand timer seems to be a bit off. When timer reaches 0 the pictogram still shows bit of gray indicating count down is still ongoing. After about a minute the death hand is available (and shows the yellow text in the bottom left corner of the screen). Death hand explosion is *chefs kiss* by the way! The 'accuracy' seems fine! It feels more accurate than original dune 2 though. It seems like that for Ordos and Artreides their super weapons are spawned automatically, would be better if it was manual. - In basically every skirmish, after a while, the computer starts attacking some of their own buildings. - Enemy units trapped in their own base, because they are boxed in by their own buildings. Also happens with harvesters which causes computer to run out of credits. Maybe introduce an auto-pick up system for harversters which are standing still too long? - When a building's health bar reaches yellow add smoke to highlight that repairs are needed. When health bar is red add more smoke effects - it looks nice, but it also a visual indicator repaires are needed - Rocket launchers are key to destory enemy base. However, sometimes they park directly against a building instead of attacking that building. Happens sometimes. - Would be nice to see thougher computer attacks. Right now they go for a building which is in the back of my base, instead of taking out my defences at the beginning of my base for example. Hence computer attacks are not always very effective. It seems right now that the computer is not yet able to prioritize its attacks; why not go for my con.yard, wind traps or base defences instead of my repair facility? These is just my initial feedback! I know a lot of these things are easier said than done  Keep up the good work!

I'm excited to see the 3rd film. Enjoyed the movie, miniseries and now the new movies.

That's a hell of a coincidence; I just finished watching the first two parts a day before this trailer dropped. Right after watching them, I watched this fan edit of David Lynch's 1984 Dune movie, which restructures the plot to make it more chronological and restores a lot of scenes, some of them with unfinished special effects:    Now I just gotta rewatch the Dune mini series, although I remember it pretty well. Those costumes were epic lol, and out of the 3 pieces of Dune cinema, it adapted the most plot from the books  I enjoy all three flavors of Dune movies/TV. They all have their pros and cons. The newest movies are well filmed; the special effects and cinematography are great. But they leave out the most plot and have the least amount of direct dialogue from the book. The overall look and set pieces are drab, but the ornithopters are good. The original movie from the 80's has better set pieces, more interesting architecture and space ships. It's scenes and dialogue are much closer to the book. Then again, the weirding module was invented for this movie. It's not a bad idea but it's hard to make it seem cool 100% of the time. In some scenes it comes across as badass, and in others it's kind of cringe, seems stupid. This is ironic because David Lynch, the director of the movie, thought the original concept of the weirding way wouldn't seem cool to audiences. He thought "karate in space" was dumb, so that's why he invented the sound weapons. Ultimately I'm glad he did though, because "my name is a killing word" is an iconic line and scene. Dune 1984 never finished filming all of the desert scenes where Paul joins the Fremen. That's why that whole arc seems rushed. He joins the Fremen almost instantly. This is where the newer movies are better, they do a good job showing Paul and Jessica's ascension, and fleshing out Paul and Chani's interactions. Same with Stilgar and Gurney. The best part of the newer movies are fight scenes, especially the knife fights/shields. But I was disappointed to learn the director of the newer Dune movies (Denis whatever his last name is) had cut out a lot of character development scenes for the traitor plotline, even though he had filmed quite a few scenes:   

What about the subhouse units? Where are their voice lines? They have group select voices too.