Conan Exiles Enhanced - Community Update #7

[Dana]

Greetings, Exiles!

The past few weeks have been very busy for us as we’ve been working on the UE5.8 upgrade, new Legacy of the Giant-Kings content, new Bazaar bundles, wrapping up the Modding Contest and so much more.

Patch 2.2.0 is now live, bringing Unreal Engine 5.8.2 and Iris, helping lay the groundwork for future improvements.

The adventure continues on October 6, when The Legacy of the Giant-Kings: Part Two arrives, bringing new mysteries, challenges and secrets to both the Exiled Lands and the Isle of Siptah.

We’ve also celebrated our first-ever Modding Contest, with the community voting for the Top 10 mods, while creators across the community continue to impress us with incredible work across the Exiles Lands.

Read all about what’s been happening in the Exiles Lands in this latest Community update!

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Patch 2.2.0 - Engine Upgrade

Patch 2.2.0 is here and with it comes Unreal Engine 5.8.2, bringing the game onto the latest engine version and laying the groundwork for further improvements.
This patch also has Iris enabled – making further improvements to the game. Iris will help with alleviating performance bottlenecks on dedicated servers.

So far we’ve seen servers experience roughly half the lag they did before Iris was enabled.
Iris replaced the old UE4 networking layer so a server keeps its speed as it fills up. Before the update, every extra player cost the server more time: a quiet server ran at full speed, but a full one took eight times longer to do the same work.

We also want to hear your experience with the new engine upgrade and Iris.
Have you noticed a difference in performance, good or bad? Feel free to provide your feedback on the latest patch HERE, we are always working on improving the Conan Exiles experience so your voice matters!

Additionally we are aware that this latest update forced a recook on all mods. That is because of serialization changes in the base engine.
The net effect is the same - mods being flagged as out of date until the authors recook them.

Good news is that modders have been made aware of this situation before hand so they are working hard on recooking their mods.

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Legacy of the Giant-Kings Part 2

On October 6, The Legacy of the Giant-Kings: Part Two continues the ongoing new four-part story arc, taking you deeper into the mystery unfolding across the Exiled Lands.
Mysterious rifts are spreading across the lands. What lies beyond them and what ancient secrets are waiting to be uncovered?

The Legacy of the Giant-Kings has only just begun to reveal its secrets. Gather your thralls, friends or enemies and prepare for new challenges in both the Exiled Lands and the Isle of Siptah.

Check out more bout the upcoming content here: Legacy of the Giant-Kings: Part Two Arrives October 6 - Conan Exiles

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Public Beta Client - Join the ranks

Thank you all for joining the Public Beta and for helping us dig up bugs.

For everyone that participated in the 2.2.0 Public beta testing, you will be receiving your Golden Pickaxe soon
The team is currently collecting all player ID so they can send the pickaxe your way. You will be receiving this directly in game (live version) and you will find it in your ancestral knowledge.

The Public Beta Client servers are now offline but these we will back up once the next update is ready to be tested by you.
If you are interested in participating in our next Public Beta, check out the Conan Exiles - Public Beta Client here: Conan Exiles - Public Beta Client on Steam

Your involvement matters and it will help us improve the game in the future!

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Console updates

At the beginning of the month we’ve experienced some crashing issues with Xbox official and private servers. These issues have since been resolved but we wanted to give you a bit more insight into what was the root cause of this issue.

A problem occurred with some legacy middleware used in the MS platform versions of the game and this caused the servers to crash.
It was disabled and we pushed the fix out as soon as we could but as mentioned before, since this was a client fix, we had to wait for Xbox certification to approve the new build.

As always, thank you to our Xbox player community for being so kind and patient while we worked on resolving the situation.

When it comes to console announcements, we know you all want to know about - When will Conan Exiles Enhanced come to consoles?
While the wait has been long, we ask that you wait a little longer. October is right around the corner and more will be revealed then.

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Modding Contest

Our first ever Modding Contest happened last month and the Top 10 modds have been voted on by all of you!
Thank you again for everyone that has participated in this contest and to all of you who have helped us choose the winners.

If you would like to know more about the winning mods before trying them out, check out KiahOnFire video showcasing all these - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86nzb3J5Wag

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Community highlights

Our community continues to create amazing things in the Exiled Lands. From breathtaking builds and epic adventures to helpful guides and unforgettable moments, you’ve continued to impress us with your creativity.

We want to highlight some of the creations shared by our community, but these are not all, there are so many more that deserve to be seen and we encourage you to do just that by checking out our forums and reddit.

Check out this amazing Map of the Siptah Figurines made by Ardenaso and Tephra. A great tool that can help both veteran and new players.

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Granny Gamester is back! So happy to see you back creating videos
If you haven’t yet, go check out her channel and show her support for coming back and for continuing to create content for the community. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfUxJsTRwzs

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Eradicati0n has done it again! Check out this amazing PvE base made using the Vassal building set - youtube.com/watch?v=DwZWQMLe4w8&pp=ygUMY29uYW4gZXhpbGVz

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This amazing build by MALPATINE - My ATLANTEAN SWORD CASTLE.

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This beautiful Vendian Palace and School of Sorcerers build by Arthemis_Bright.

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Who knew the Exiled Lands could be so cozy. Look at this Tree Hollow Base made by simsekcountr.

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As always, thank you for being such a passionate, creative, and welcoming community. Whether you’re exploring the latest content, building incredible creations, developing mods, sharing videos and guides, or taking the time to provide feedback, every contribution helps shape the future of Conan Exiles.

Until next time, Exiles, stay safe, keep your blades sharp, and we’ll see you in the Exiled Lands!

[erjoh]

October? Well this is a first affirmation..ish I have heard…an actual target set for a statement. That just so happens to correspond to a month after console release of some other game.

This makes me optimistic. A lot more than I was yesterday

[Despair147]

Is this the same update that went live a couple days ago? It killed the performance, I used to be able to play on high to ultra settings. Now I’m getting severe FPS drops on medium, especially when it’s snowing etc.Anyone found a workaround?

[Veker]

For the next Community Showcase, I’d definitely recommend checking out Rica Sunfire on YouTube! She’s a smaller, up-and-coming creator, but some of the monumental structures she’s built are absolutely amazing and definitely deserve some recognition.

[Cannipals]

yeah true - now there’s a when instead of an if

[mirayama]

Same for me. I could play on high/ultra settings just fine and now it gets overly laggy with FPS drops even on low.

[Bourbon86x]

Hot damn an update on consoles. While I’ve never given up hope that it would eventually make it to PS5/Xbox Series, I didn’t expect we’d hear anything this year.

[Tintamar]

Im actually getting better FPS but I did have to go back in to my settings. I was playing with DLSS on before and after update it auto shut it off. I turned it back on and im getting 20-30 more FPS than I remember. With DLSS off im a lot lower, but it looks good and runs smooth with DLSS on and all Ultra.

Edit: Im using a 5070 (non Ti) 12gb VRAM and im hitting 150-199 FPS with DLSS at 4x and at 2x Im hitting 80-100 FPS (this is all testing in my large base with a lot of items/buildings pieces/thralls. If I move away from the base I get about 10-25 more FPS on 2x and with 4x away from base around 230-240 FPS (Which is odd because I have it capped at 144 because of my monitors but thats what steams little fps thing shows)

[Raeil]

The extra high fps may be a framegen thing if you have it turned on. Mine is capped at 60 and 60 is all I get with framegen off but with it on it can go well over 100.

[Despair147]

Good to know. I have AMD FSR on, I’ll tweak it to see if it works better. At least until they fix it.

[delirium]

Here’s the problem. You screwed console players by announcing server merges would happen in May and then you did nothing about it. No one knew if their server would get shut down or not. Why build or harvest anything if there is a chance you would lose most of it due to transfer space limitations? It’s now five months later. My servers are dead now. Clans that have been around 7+ years are gone and bases are decayed. I log on once every 9 days to reset decay timers because I worked too hard to get what I earned, but all three of my official consoles are dead because of the lack of communication. A vague announcement fixes nothing. The last vague announcement we got was Jan 2025 and we all know how that went for console players.

[Xxx34444444444444444]

When they spoke about the merge they meant merging between siptah and exile ( enhanced release ) but things didnt went good - so now there’s no merge till we got the enhanced update

[delirium]

No there was also an announcement that they were doing server merges on low population servers for Legacy. The list was supposed to come out in May.

[Xxx34444444444444444]

yes they meant siptah servers

[erjoh]

Delerium is right. However I think the pushback they got over leaving consoles behind gave them significant pause…plus I think they may have gotten some things working. In UE5 that will work really well with current Gen consoles and the feasibility of console porting opened up nicely. We will see but if they don’t abandon console, I will probably invest on Dune.

[arthurh3535]

Still waiting on the announce about Consoles something that is coming.

[DelRioServerMaster]

I’ll say this, both my servers’ performance has been amazing since the update. Everything loads in lightning-quick on login.

[delirium]

I noticed that when I logged in too. Not sure if it was the patxh or all the mega bases gone from my server lol

[Raeil]

Loads much faster and now that I’m getting the graphical settings dialed in to my preferences it’s looking amazing too $

[HNBCScotty121]

If consoles don’t end up getting the enhanced upgrade and stay as legacy are you going to offer any kind of account crossover like what Elite Dangerous did? Ive had Conan since day 1 on release and own every single dlc and pretty much every bazaar item, would kinda suck to have to buy the game and all that dlc again to play on pc if we don’t get the upgrade to enhanced.