Lets say it straight, Conan without Mods is a lame game for PvP Players only
i would lost my interest in this game long ago, but the Modder scene keept me allways tight to the game, give it what it lacks, athmospere, and options…
on one side of the medal i love the game on the other i hate it for so many things…
lets start with the annoying parts…
fighting pvp
aiming with a bow is lol… u clearly see it was never ment to be used in pvp… cuz arrows hold in mid air, stick on floors air or the target moves to fast u cant simply aim it…
Building
the inconsistent Building system, lets take a look to Grounded from the xbox wich has a well thought trough building system, were u even can forcast ur build to see how it would look like if u place the items, with ghost parts… everythign sticks well is easy to aim, and snapping like it should…
in conan the building system hasnt improved since the early beta days…
snapping sometimes works sometimes not u dont know why, but if u get distance to the part, it may snap…
why do i call the building system inconstistant, lets explain,
nothing is made from one Mold, it seems that many generations and coding had gone over the parts, without reshaping them to one mold,
as example if i put tree foundings on the ground which should have perfekt alligment, and start build with funcoms newest parts the stormglass, u notice as bigger the building gets, the stormgalss dont fit, u get gapsbetween the walls wer u can look through shoot through, and not only that, if the Tree foundings are load wrong half of ur build collapses after server reset, and dosent look good with gaps between walls, all what came in the years was adding a few lame grapic options to the building system plus u have to pay for them… and for what… for old crunky building system that dont work,
why i explain, foundation is based on 3 simple parts square triangle columns but sometimes u build up, the parts placed on them loose conatct to the founding, only by switsch the orientation in half wrong rotation of the colums bottom square is direted forward green, top square is directe backwars what the hell???, sometimes even if u have build everything the same, u get annoying parts wich dont want to get build cuz of that…
u guys should realy take a look into grounded how fun it is to build there, in conan its a pain…
now lets talk about the addons to the building system u pay for stuff wich is inconsistent, lacks of parts,
as example if i build a 6 layerd triangle founding and add rings on it and want to use, the new buildingparts with roofstands, there are only 2 options and they lack the gaps between, cuz forgotten by the makers that u can build this way… not only that, lets take arena parts they lack the roof since the beginning never been added… thats different in groundet, it the Devs there do new stuff, they make shure it not only stacks, they make shure, it looks good works well, with all other existing building parts, and every possible building option is updated to, not partwise like in the DLCs… wich u have to pay for…
private Servers:
another thing the servers to make a private server are way to expencive,
conan needs to much ram, to much space, alot of items hav no decent rendering, ar not choped down to minium size, all funcom servers just lack of ram… and thats only becaus alot ot items never got reshaped, or just forgotten to make small in size, so even a tiny thing has alot megabyte wich isnt realy needed…
so every uptate puts a stress to a players Pocket if he have only a decent Amount of data to download every month, not that the downloads come on end of the month were u have the rest of the old and can start with a new datapacket, allwas mit air, were it cost u the most…
remember when the Devs sayed the wanted to make the building System easyer, and made it more worse with Thralls u dont know what effekt they ad if put into a bench, and new benches to big to fit in small romme, plus u have to use older benches to, because they forgot to ad all recipes to the new benches, thats what i call inconsistent, the devs allways put out new stuff, but forget to handel the old stuff, to rebalance optic and usability… bring it in one line with the new stuff… all that adds stress to cpu playes and playability…
but i wouldnt play this game as there were no modders, most modders know moving torches and light effekts put to much stress on the gamer PCs, Funcome ignores that, seen in siptah were there was a party how good all this extraload of cpu power chauses laags… and we live today in multiple core days, and the spagetti code still works on single cpu core power…
most laaags are not generated cuz the cpu is glowing, its cuz all parts on the world are placed in one datapack been accessed by all players, and with a growing world and chests full of stuff, the datapack grows and takes longer to load, plus it can only be accessed by a certain number of people same time…
the last new weapons gave me a lol as example, what fun dou have in weapons wich only look cool but are much mor wors then others u allready have in game, balancing is not easy i know…
the last nemedian dlc looks good, but again it lacks stuff in building options its just optical new color on the same faulty stones…
please take my lament as options to improve, this is still a early access so take it as bug report
why i love conan
i love it cuz it has such a great fandom and Modder Scene wich is i call it a bit sadistic devote
cuz every funcom update destroys theyr hard labor…need to get fixed to
but regardless of all Problems, even the ftl Bug and the starter wich dont let all players go online
i like the game and thats cuz the modders ad so much fun to the game, wich creates alot PVE Fun and roleplay options
i only wish funcome would focus more on what the modder scene does and wich mods used the most and figure out why what they do better why people like it, why add it to, and instead, making something different, take this ideas in, improve them integrate them make them besser the modderscene is a fountain of free ideas, and options a goldmine but funcom barly sees that, even if they say, they watch the comunity.
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