A few ideas. Assets already exist

[CodeMage]

@ZeroGHero

Followers can carry torches. I don’t see why they can’t already when you can program a shield mechanic.

That would be great. The only problem is how to command them to do so. Right now, the follower commands are very limited.

@ZeroGHero

Equipable animal heads, like Blaidd’s helm in Elden Ring.

I haven’t played Elden Ring, so I had to look that up, and… ew. Not “ew” because I’m squeamish, “ew” because it really doesn’t seem to fit into aesthetics of Conan Exiles at all. I can imagine helmets that incorporate animal heads, and I would definitely like to see more of those apart from what we already have, but just plopping an animal head like a mask? Looks like it fits quite nicely into Elden Ring aesthetics, but not in Conan Exiles.

@ZeroGHero

Bonus: Fill the northeast part of the Exiled Lands map finally. Maybe a giant crystal biome or bioluminescent giant flora biome?

Not going to happen. Engine limitations:

@Multigun

The engine literally cannot support any further direction in map size. I don’t know how many more times this needs to be stated (because its nearing a thousand at this point). Physics engine literally breaks down. You can test this yourself using the dev kit.

It’s not a single player game, it’s a multiplayer game. If it was a single player game, you could move the map origin (0,0,0) with the character and have as big of a map as you want. There is no tech in UE4 that allows this in a multiplayer game. Not in 4.15 especially.

Even if that wasn’t the case, all the lag talk about the current servers would be immeasurable.

And yes, I know Dennis said it might be possible, but “possible” is not the same as “feasible”, and his post clearly says it requires “further R&D, which is not currently under way”. For those of you who aren’t software developers, the translation of that is “we have no concrete ideas on how to do this and right now we don’t have the resources to sit down and fiddle with it on an off chance we might figure it out”.

@ZeroGHero

Otherwise, an MMO eventually reaches a critical mass of players interested in that particular content and needs to branch out. FF14, WoW, and more all realized this and found ways to cater to a wider demographic so they continue to generate more players and money.

Conan Exiles already found a way to do that. It’s called “mods”.