It is
That was just people reading into their RNG luck
Ah thatās good to hear ty!
An employer can change an employees vacation days if necessary due to unforeseen circumstances even in Norway. IF these circumstances are really severe on an operational level and cause serious problems and no substitute can be found. And as I recall they would have to reimburse all booked hotels, flights, train tickets.
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Funcom should rethink their update schedule! That an update will cause severe problems can not be declared as an unforeseen event anymore.
I have to agree this is the biggest āoopsieā of Funcom yet 
probably one of the biggest hits on the companies reputation. But this time itās not the game devs fault I think.
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Just tried to do a level 6 purge, got the message "Stygian Commander Challenges You. " Heās nowhere to be seen. Not in the camp, near my base. Nowhere. Just restarted my server, weāll see. Xbox Series X, Gportal.
Update: after restarting, purge works normally. If others are having this issue, a server restart may do it.
These issues, and resulting response, are jaw dropping to me. As a fellow software engineer, I would expect severe repercussions for anything like this release. Sure, itās ājust a gameā. Your customers arenāt losing their businesses or livelihoods over this. But āgamesā are Funcomās entire business. It doesnāt seem to be treated as such.
First, the āaccount suspendedā thing: This should be an all-hands-on-deck/stop-the-presses/cancel-the-three-ring-circus event. Players should NOT be required to reach out to get their accounts back online. This is YOUR mistake. If you seriously canāt use the data on hand to figure out who was affected, then unban all accounts and work your way back from there. Give everyone a positive Crom coin value so they can get into the game. You should never put the effort on your customers to undo your own mistakes.
Next, the coding issues: How did any of these make it past both QA and open Beta? The camel thing isnāt the end of the world. Annoying, but truly a minor issue. The Demolisher thing isnāt. That upends the risk vs reward aspect of a key feature of this release. How difficult could it be to change the damage value in a quick (in other words, not six week) hotfix? The character rotation thingā¦ if it was an intended change, it should have been clearly stated up front. Maybe it was and I missed it. If enough players are complaining about it to make it into this announcement, then something went wrong.
Finally, how did these issues even make it to production? And why do they take customer intervention and/or six weeks to resolve? In a modern world of spinning up cheap servers, QA, test automation, public beta testing, rollback policies, coding standards, etc, etc, etcā¦ how is this level of production release issues and lack of disaster recovery possible? Again, I get that this is ājustā a game. Nobody is losing a business over it. Butā¦ Iām just being brutally honest hereā¦ this feels like a lack of professionalism, a lack of modern software engineering techniques, and a lack of respect for the customer base. None of that is a good look.
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If you want change:
Stop playing the game.
Stop buying stuff from the Bazaar.
Until enough people do that nothing will changeā¦ thatās just how the world works now.
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Think critically for a moment.
- No active player base and no continuous income means they cancel the game and all development.
- To say that stopping playing and buying CC gets us what we want ( which is a proper testing, bug fix period before release, and release on a Monday-Tuesday rather than right before the weekend) is false.
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I really donāt understand what is the logic behind the combat change.
In chapter two you have added the rotations in the combo montages because it was hard to hit mid animation before.
Everything felt smoother than before, because you could adjust the direction of the attacks.
Now you make a change that pushes the whole system to something worse than before chapter 2.
Holding W to rotate mid attack is in direct conflict with the ācancel move windowā in the montages. Which means that during some animations, walking tends to interrupt the montage before the actual animation ends.
It was already harder to make a full combo with the increased stamina drain, and now it is even harder as the clunky WASD adjustment is going to interrupt the combos in the chaos of the combat.
This change affects the dodges as well as they will be less reliable, with the character sometimes dodging backward even when you point forward.
Sometimes the character will get stuck after an attack and walk backward instead of forward.
This change is so bad that feels like a bug.
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Read as get used to 
But hey work around. And when is the NPC fall through bug going to be fixed? Oh ya, work around
funcom, why are you trying so hard to lose players? At this point I swear itās like itās intentional.
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LOL!!! Awww , wanted that to be a secret! 
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Funcom has offices in North Carolina. In fact thatās where Andy is located. Thatās in a country where employees regularly get demoted or fired for taking vacation days or refusing to work on a holiday. Norwegian holiday schedules are no excuse delaying bug fixes to mid-January.
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haha convince funcom of it,.
here is where we at, at this time , they are all resting, no one is going to fix anything or anyone , so they will start again tomorrow, if someone is not fixed tomorrow, you will have to wait till monday, or maybe to january so you can get back to playing, that means bye bye to all your bases thralls and everythingā¦
thats the reality.
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I may use my no dlc purchasing alt for some purge base raiding on ovp. 1 shots to the wall!!!
At this point, the game is as good as gone. Why would anyone continue to pay money to a company that bans them for being a high-spending customer?
The way the last few updates have gone, maybe it is time for Conan Exiles to fall into ruins like that of al-Merayah.
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in the meantime i heard dennis is hiding behind a large rock , so people with the pitchforks and stones do not see him after the biggest funcom screwup update/patch in funcom history.
what happened to the " we will not bring broken stuff to the game" when people asked why siptah did not had the pve siegeā¦ ? will try to find that part when he says that, and post it here.
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The game is far from gone yet, however at this rate itās heading toward a self-inialation, I will give you that.
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What are you fools doing? You NEVER release a patch knowing there are bugs and issues - but you went along and released it anyway making the key features of the game unplayable.
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What in cromās name did you do to camera control for combat? HOW the F did you are a team make such a COLLASAL mistake? Are you ACTIVELY trying to make the game LESS FUN? The micro-transaction cancer was bad enough, the ignoring MULTI-year-old real bugs I figure is just too hard for you fix, but now you are taking what WORKED and ā ā ā ā ā ā ā ā all over it?
REVERT THE COMBAT CAMERA CHANGES.
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hey im on an old school one s and i was wondering does my console still get any support with all due respect but i have always had massive bugs in my game like texture not showing up at all when i go in and out of houses falling thro dungeon floors and dying and my personal favorites wondering to a thrall camp just for them to load in fully when im half way thro the empty camp also invisable enimies are a constant only thing that has not happened is my house disapearing cant say the same for the statue on newbs lake
This combat change is absolutely horrible. It is unfun and makes me want to stop playing the game - bug or not - it needs to go. This is on the heels of three back to back losses in terms of combat development in the game. How about a return to the feeling of combat at the launch of Isle of Siptah?
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