Age of War Chapter 4

Conan Exiles General Discussion Players Helping Players
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Last chapter, many players gave the Company a really harsh review (as usually occurs every chapter), and it seems the dev team has responded by making certain things slightly different. Many have complained that the game is just too easy, so the devs have filled the gap and become the most difficult challenge to survive in the world of Conan.
I have spent time in official pve and pvp, slightly modded, and heavily modded servers to test out this new chapter. Here is what I have found. If you want to maintain your thralls, not lose items from drop-all-on-death, or various other negatives, continue reading. Also comment below with your own tips and tricks to survive the devs this chapter.

Intro: Back in the day, you bought the game and it mostly worked kinda. I hope you didn’t assume it would be left in working order. Obviously, one key feature of the next gen gaming industry is to sell you a product and then consecutively and intentionally break it and/or convert it into something that you never would have purchased.

  1. you will probably fall through the floors. Ceilings, foundations, even wheel of pain. In working theory, all built items are now secret traps that will get you and your thralls stuck under and/or inside of. If there happens to be water underneath, you drown. If you have drop-on-death settings, you won’t get your stuff back without considerable effort. Stay off of builds to keep your inventory and your life.
  2. Thralls are now the number one target for assassination by development. Your thralls are not only weaker now, but they also will not agro on the new werewolf that attacks you in the back at night. They will stand there and be killed without resistance. This will occur in your own house, outside your house, in your neighbor’s house, and can be used by your enemies to grief your thralls to death without any cost to themselves. If you want to keep your thralls, stay away from where the thralls are at night, and in pvp/conflict keep watch over them as they huddle in a stronghouse because your player enemies can bring the werewolf to them.
  3. New UI is tiny font, important numbers/info in abnormal new locations, and incredibly non-intuitive. Plan to spend extra time looking all over the screen for that one piece of info that used to be right up in your face.
  4. Inventory: always check your dropped items. If you have anything other than /no sorting/ selected in inventory, you will drop everything except what you want to drop. Be especially aware while using dismantle bench (click play button to stop it before adding items).
  5. The new purge is designed to grief the &^ out of you by destroying your buildings and mass murdering your max level, re-spec’d, 2k+ armor, T4 rare thralls. If you like losing weeks worth of effort and grind in about 5 minutes of game play, go ahead and do tier 9 and 10 purge in a normal manner. Otherwise, I suggest placing the coffer out in an open field and solo it with golems that you don’t really have to work to make.
  6. It is widely known and recognized that foundations and golems cause server crashes, so why not add even more of them? 'nuf said.

There are many more things that can aggravate the living daylights out of the average player, but these are what I found the most impacting.

Development has decided that even though this is a PC game and most players have lives happening even though they are playing, that the game should be more tailored to console gamers that do not have anything happening in their lives and can therefore pay 100% attention to everything in the game at all times. If this is not descriptive of yourself, be prepared to be annoyed and murdered and robbed of weeks of grind at a time regularly by stupid errors in coding, intentional griefing in coding, and just bad coding in general. Remember, the dev team hates you and wants to kill your thralls. The game play itself is no longer the challenge, but surviving the devs is. Keep this in mind and you can still have fun, Exile! After all, we are truly the exiled outcasts, property of the dev team, and subject to whatever discrimination and grief they wish to purge us with.

As I said above, last chapter the forums was filled with hate toward the devs, and they responded with this chapter. Let’s decide if we want worse Conan next update, or better Conan by determining whether we say nice things or fill forums with negativity again. Maybe if we congratulate them and pat their insolent and abnormally ignorant backs, they will make nice things next chapter. Maybe, if we are mean to them and hurt their sensitivities again, they will find more ways to strain our eyes, elevate our blood pressure, and take more from us with even more stupid glitches, intentional grief-coding, and bad design. Remember, we should be using a controller because the dev in charge thinks it’s 1989 and he’s playing Frogger on the Atari. If you have the audacity to play a PC game with PC hardware then it’s your own fault things don’t work right. ETC. ETC.

In conclusion, this chapter has been the most rewarding and excellent gaming experience in history! I really enjoyed the total slaughter of all my thralls, losing my entire battle kit by death to floors, and leaving my stuff in enemy bases because their wheel of pain ate me. I also enjoy getting stabbed in the back by the werewolf boss when my sound is down or off, and also when my thralls and friend’s thralls die to them when we don’t know they are there because why should they be there inside a base, in a house, while we are going through inventories trying to figure out how to drop something? All in all it has been a wonderful experience that has reminded me that gaming is the most fun when your favorite developers are in command of everything you have. Thank you Dennis for the intense effort you have invested into this and for making Conan the most rewarding game experience that could have been imagined. I absolutely love all the new things and stuffs! Please keep up the great work and I hope you continue to improve all the things that even the players didn’t realize needed improvement! The care and attention you have put into the player base just gives warm heart feelings and we all love everything you do (heart shape emoji) (happy face emoji).
And, finally, a big reminder to all the players that are having a hard time finding the positives in this. YOU ARE AN EXILE, (yes you purchased the product and they keep breaking it on purpose but) YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO EXPECT GOOD THINGS. If you can’t enjoy what is provided by your masters, slave, then perhaps you will be more fitted for service in the aviary pits (queue aviary monologue here). You have one goal as an exile, and that is to die unremembered and unloved, stripped of everything you value. This is the way.

Hope everyone keeps their blood pressure down and try not to have conniption fits. WE all know the monologue that wants to play on repeat in your head. positive thoughts, happy place, zen


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:brazil: Conan Exiles feedback pc xbox ps4 bug

Melhor solução mas sempre aparece um meme :brain: falando a mesma resposta :rofl:

A solução estå após 1:00 minuto que mostra como resolver fiz um print acima com a opção marcada

Para quem entendeu como se faz poderá jogar sem problemas, quem não soube fazer deixo o F
 :brain:

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No. Ill tell you what ive done, i spec’d into encumbrance, fulled my pockets with t4 thralls and end game resources, and logged off. I won’t be back until i hear they’ve reversed basically everything to do with the ui and inventory system. The absolute stupidity of these changes tells me the people running the show simply do not play video games. Any video game, let alone their own one. Brain dead morons.

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 really? I hope this is a joke.

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The dev team can go to hell, all the changes done are horrible to say the least:

  • I died four times in a row by death through floors.
  • I ask a thrall to hold somewhere the time for me to clear a place, he follow me anyway.
  • The UI? I don’t like it, the old one was much better.

By the way, they nerfed the boss of Al-Merayah so you no longer can instant max level a thrall and i hate it too: Leveling a thrall is the most tedious, unenjoyable part of the game.
This trick allowed me to have fun with the game without worrying about this part, especially since the thralls are weaker and no really capable to defend themselves.
Maybe cutting by half the XP required to max level them would do.

All in all, Chapter IV make me wonder if i should stay in the game or not.
The devs are forgeting that we are paying them to have fun, not to annoy us to the point where we walk away from the game.
But if it’s their goal then keep going but don’t complain if you end up unemployed because you make your customers to flee Conan exile.

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No they are completely serious

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This I have to disagree with - you may dislike levelling thralls, but I much prefer that to simply having it done for me. Stripping away this element from the game would be stripping away a considerable element fo the game for solo players.

That said, the ‘Al Merayah’ method seemed like a good compromise (though probably unintended) - it allowed players like you that don’t weant to level up thralls a quick way to get it done, while leaving the system intact for those of us that do enjoy it. It seems like it would be a good thing for the game to still have some equivalent way to do it (though there is perhaps a concern about how this could throw off balance in PVP).

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I agree, in part. Up to about level 10 for a Berserker is fun. The next ten levels take more time than I have to play.

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I’d like to see thralls earn their own XP. Placed thralls should get XP for kills.
Add more use to the low level purges.

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I like this idea.

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Perfect, i can AFK level my thralls - im in!

Sand reaper queen will be toast and folks will complain my thralls are killiing her all the time- or maybe not

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Could be only thralls on hooks; gates, doors, archers poles ect gain kill XP.

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Sure , so anyone dragging mobs to them will be doing my work for me - im in.

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The method was not without drawback either:

  • Using this mean that i couldn’t use food to try to max a particular stat.
  • It was risky as a thrall could still follow me because the stop command didn’t worked. Something that happened few times with the 20 - 25 thralls / pets i leveled.

Why so much? To guard my base for the day i’ll trigger a level 10 purge. (if the purge base spawn that is)

It was especially useful for my numerous wolves pets as they are like glass canons. Even at level 20 i don’t dare to take one with me so imagine at level 1.

Having this alternate road was useful when leveling thrall / pet became a chore.

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Exactly - it was good that the option existed and, at least from a PVE view, I never felt it was unbalanced (just not an option I wished to use - the food being one of the elements I like to try to ‘get right’ - even though Xevyr has pretty comprehensibly shown that it’s of minimal actual value).

I’ve definitely had the ‘stop’ and then they teleport to me issue the one time I did try levelling a follower without actually having them with me - got my white rabbit up to level 2 and then the bugger teleported to me in the middle of a fight with hyenas (who all immediately fixated on him, of course). I was just about able to get him out alive, and then I had the adventure of having to get him all the way back home again, lol.

And I can certainly understand a desire for a ‘quick’ way to level if you’re levelling a bunch of wolves (or cats) - they are so slow and grindy to level - I usually level a couple in a playthrough, but I don’t have the patience for more than that, especially now that tthey are so much weaker than they were.

As I say - I think having an alternative way to level followers available is a good thing - I just wouldn’t want it to be the only way :slight_smile:

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After this update my server 4521 is down for 3days already

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it’s not a joke, it’s how to keep the post online. Think of it as the opposite that you read.

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I mean the “you’re an exile” part. That’s got to be a joke because if it’s not


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