Greetings, Exiles!
As you know, thralls don’t act as they should, especially recently. We messed up some things that made them behave like they don’t remember their time in the wheel of pain!
We have mainly noted reports of thralls getting stuck, not following, not performing combos, and floating around like balloons instead of walking. We hear you and are working on solving and improving their behavior.
One issue is teleporting/pathfinding which we hope to be able to address in a hotfix before update 2.4. Another is a bug we have actually had for a while but that has become significantly worse in Siptah as several NPCs spawn with the wrong type of weapon (1-handed instead of 2-handed and vice versa). This issue will be addressed in 2.4 so that followers can use both types of weapons with combo chains.
In the meantime, there is a workaround on the combo issue exclusively for fighter thralls: swapping their 2-handed weapon for a 1-handed one (or vice versa) will make them able to perform combos again. However, this is limited to fighters and won’t solve it for other thrall-types such as archers, orb-throwers, and bearers.
Besides the thralls issue, we had a great experience with 2.3 and we only had a few items to address on the latest hotfix. And that’s all thanks to you who helped us by joining Testlive and reporting everything back to us. We really appreciate it!
Update 2.4 will be released for Testlive in the very near future and it will follow the same procedure that we had for 2.3: testing, receiving your feedback, patching, and testing again!
At the moment we are aiming for the 2.4 live release next month with several improvements to the Exiled Lands, and for Isle of Siptah the highly awaited New Lands. Stay tuned on our main channels to read first-hand what’s to come with the update.
The Conan Exiles Team