Warpaint when I’m wearing full armor is currently useless…HOWEVER…What if warpaint made you “invisible” to thralls of that faction and an immediate enemy if you’re wearing the wrong faction?

Also, it would be awesome if you added a “stealth” feature. Like, if I’m crouched and walking slowly I don’t agro enemies OR I could sneak up behind a NPC/PC and do a backstab for an instant kill or something like that?

Go to play Hitman. You can play a lot of stealth in that game. This game is for barbarians. Like Conan the Barbarian.

Huh, thought it’s spearmen vs bowmen simulator.
My bad.

May actually become a thing in chapter 4 or next age when they drop executions update.
There’s already some takedown animations in devkit and some look like stealth kills.

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Thanks for keeping the post alive with an ignorant response. It is legit a missing element of Conan when it comes to the combat. Why even give us a crouch animation if it does NOTHING.

Honestly can’t figure out why someone would be against either of these ideas. Hitman is nothing like Conan. And Barbarians would most certainly NOT go charging into every fight. They would sneak up on guards and cut their throats and kill every enemy they could without disturbing the rest of the clan and long as they could. Have you never seen a Viking episode or movie in your life?

And warpaints…Well, what is the point of them if they don’t do anything? Yes, the buff ones are okay but what about the dozens of others? They do absolutely nothing. Waste of code space right now. However, if you made it so that, if you’re wearing a Dogs of War warpaint, you should be able to walk through a Dogs of War camp unharmed…Until you attack one of them. If you’re wearing that and enter a Dafari camp, you agro a greater number of the camp.

If you’d read the books, then you’d know that Conan would often scale walls/mountains/towers etc just to avoid using the front gate, to fight against less enemies and avoid as many possible traps as possible.
It was even implied in some stories that if possible he’d avoid fighting even one enemy, and just sneak past and still achieve his goal.

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Buff paints aren’t buff paints anymore. They are all useless now since the sorcery update.

You can do this in Conan Exiles, no need for a “sneak” mechanic that breaks the game. You can already path to avoid enemies and line of sight.

Crouch allows you to fit through tight spaces, avoid falling off ledges, and reduce visibility. It has plenty of uses.

How does it “break the game”?

And in the vanilla game the distance that NPCs will aggro you is ridiculously low, since one of Funcom’s big updates. It’s really unimmersive and extremely easy - so no wonder you argue that a stealth mechanic “isn’t needed”.
But this is a problem inherent with the game balance itself, and it wasn’t always like this, because in earlier updates, NPC’s did aggro you at further distances - just like in this popular mod below:

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Wrong. I’m using the strength one right now. And I don’t know what you think Sorcery has anything to do with them.

Explain how being stealthy would break the game? It wouldn’t. Enemies agro from a pretty good distance. Apparently, you haven’t been playing recently.

Yeah, tight spaces YOU create. Avoid falling off ledges? Yeah, it does do that…More times than not, it gets me killed because I get stuck on a ledge I’m trying to jump away from enemies. Reduce visibility? LOL…If you say so. I can still see someone crouched from across the map.

@dniezby

Hate to break it to you, bro, but any benefit from wearing the attribute war paints you think you’re getting is imaginary. Those were disabled in the Age of Sorcery update. The paints remain, but no longer give any mechanical benefit. The reason for that, ostensibly, was due to the change in how attributes work. They updated all the equipment to give a stat boost instead of an attribute boost (i.e.: Melee Damage +5% instead of +1 to strength, ect), but didn’t do the same for warpaints. Those just had their effects removed.

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Another bad decision btw. Farming all that stuff was rewarding before AND looked cool.
Now it’s only cosmetic and sometimes it even just disappears!

Did anyone else notice that issue?

Anyways it’s ridiculous, to farm pointless things only for it to disappear for no reason. :man_shrugging:

I wish there was a way to to use the Thaumaturgy bench to illusion warpaint over our armor, some really awesome designs that can not be used, or at least I will not use since my armor cover them and I aint running around half naked

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Well, you can work around this with illusions for your armor, if you use an Illusion of an armor that doesn’t cover much you can still see it.
But as i said the warpaint sometimes just disappears for no reason, on playstation at least. I don’t know about other platforms.
However in pvp that’s a waste of time, nobody farms for cosmetic stuff there.

Ys, I believe they disappear on PC as well, at least the use to, have not really used one in sometime. Yes there are armors you can use, like the War Court Choker or Vanir Settler Vest

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Man they are so incompetent
Reducing a once useful AND visually cool mechanic to something cosmetic, and then it’s not even working properly. :person_facepalming::joy:

This is so embarrassing

The warpaints last an hour that’s why they disappear.

I use illusion for my gurnaki armor. I am literally wearing jewelry and bracelets for my hot chick character. Or so it seems. muahhahaahhhaa…

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I don’t know if that’s true, at least for me on ps5 it’s completely random. Sometimes i have a warpaint on my character for days. And i‘m on a server btw.
And warpaints on my thralls disappear at random as well. Some of them have it for days (or my bartender even weeks), while they disappear on some of my fighters.

One could argue that the timer is maybe bugged, but it still wouldn’t explain why some of them have the warpaint for so long.

But why having a timer in the first place? It’s a cosmetic item anyways. :man_shrugging:

Whatever it might be it doesn’t make any sense.

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You do know Conan was a thief who snuck into fortresses regularly, right? He was pretty darn good at being stealthy when necessary.

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