If you're relatively new to Buy Items Dune: Awakening, contracts can be intimidating: multiple objectives, hostile territory, risk of death. Search and Retrieval is a perfect contract to cut your teeth on, but only if you prepare well. Here’s a beginner‑friendly guide to help you survive, complete objectives, and enjoy the mission.
Understanding the Objectives
Before you set off:
Locate multiple Kirab camps in Hagga Basin.
Collect Spice Miner’s Guild Tags from each.
Find and examine the discarded comms device.
Return to Chief Hanso with your findings.
Knowing these helps you stay focused—don’t get distracted by loot or side fights unless you have buffer time/resources.
Gear Up Smart
Essential tools: weapon (balanced, ranged + melee), sufficient armor, healing supplies.
Hydration & environmental protection: bring water or items to mitigate heat, be aware of shade.
Inventory space: ensure you have space for tags, loot, device. You don’t want to pick up the evidence only to be forced to drop items later.
Start Close, Grow Far
If you’ve not unlocked fast travel, pick camps closer to your current safe zone first. It lets you ease into the contract without being overwhelmed.
Learn the map: know where rivers, rocky outcroppings, shade, trees are—these help navigation & cover.
Stealth & Engagement
Use night travel or foggy/sandstorm conditions to your advantage.
Move slowly between cover; avoid running unless you have to.
Be ready to disengage: retreat if overwhelmed rather than fighting every guard.
The Device & Tag Hunt
When looting, search all bodies and containers — tags often are hidden in less obvious spots.
The coms device: check surroundings of camps. Sometimes just outside the walls or near the guard huts.
Don’t linger too long: because carrying evidence might provoke further enemy attention or risk being caught by surprise.
Dealing With Combat
Pick your fights: sometimes it’s safer to isolate enemies rather than take on full groups.
Use ranged weapons to thin numbers, then close in.
Healing items: use them early rather than waiting until you’re nearly dead; avoid deaths which cost you much more.
Survivability Tips
Save often if the game allows (or use respawn / checkpoints appropriately).
Use vehicles or Ornithopter if available, especially for travel between camps.
Always have an exit plan: know where you came from, where you can go if things go wrong.
Return Strategy
Once your objectives are met, retrace the safest route.
Use speed + cover; avoid open ground.
If you have extra loot, decide whether it’s worth the risk to keep fighting + carrying or return early to make sure you don’t lose everything.
Estimating Cost vs Reward
Expect some resource use: healing items, time, ammo, maybe some repair.
But reward is decent: XP, maybe some loot from camps, and the satisfaction of mission completion.
If new, you might not get perfect times, but learning the layout, guard patterns, and locations will serve future runs well.
Common Beginner Mistakes
Going in under‑prepared (not enough supplies).
Charging in loud without assessing camp guards or perimeter.
Over‑collecting loot that slows travel or limits room for required items.
Ignoring environmental hazards or forgetting to hydrate.
Final Encouragement
Don’t worry if your first run is messy. Search and Retrieval is forgiving enough that you’ll learn. Each failure teaches you a new route, a better hiding spot, or smarter timing. And once you’ve completed it well, it feels great — the tags, device, the Dune Awakening Items on sale here return — you did something meaningful, not just loot‑grind.
If you like, I can put together a “best path for beginners” map with screenshots to minimize confusion. Interested?
