Hello there guys. How are you all doing? I hope everyone is well. Please note english is not my first language. I am pointing this out because people often judge be for being harsh, but I believe it has to do with my poor vocabulary and limited word selection capabilities.
With that out of the way:
Let’s be realistic… The bigger the player base, the better it is for the game.
Combining all of my steam accounts, I have over 7000 hours of play time in Conan Exiles. I have played conan exiles pvp in pretty much all metas.
I have also quit conan for long periods many times for many reasons.
I am now quitting conan again, and will be back in another 6 months maybe to check on the game again. But before I do, I would like to share my 2 cents.
Although it is my favorite game of the genre, there are some very very annoying things about this game, and I believe every elite conan exiles FAN can relate.
When climbing ANYTHING, as you reach the top, often times you will fall/slip back down instead of completing the climb. This bug has been present for a couple of years at least. Very very annoying specially when you know this is a bug from playing Conan Exiles from the beginning.
When broken “Pay To Win” items are released into the wild, for example the last game pass / bazzar lance with about 100 damage, people will manufacture hundreds of them… Once the item’s broken damage gets fixed by the devs, the ones that were previously crafted, will remain in the wild with the broken damage. The only correct approach to this would be to change the damage on all previously crafted items AND every player should be able to equip the item, not only who purchased it. Only who purchased it being able to craft the item is one thing, but not being able to equip an item when you earned it with a pvp victory is pure stupidity.
Adding this type of Pay To Win items to your game, will have a very negative impact on the playerbase in the long run. It’s nice to do a quick cash grab, I know, but…
This is Total Game Destruction in my opinion and a VERY VERY bad decision by the developers. In other words, if you just started playing conan exiles today, people will kill you with BROKEN weapons which you will never ever be able to own. And these people have several body valts in many different servers with over 500000% encuberance (over encumberance bug which still exists today).
There are 1 hit kill bugged weapons in the wild, there are 1 hit knock thrall items in the wild, there are invincible golems in the wild, there are broken bugged arena champion thralls in the wild… and more… much much more.
Not listening to players and fans. I remember around when siptah was being released, many many players begging funcom to make an addition to the original map… This was never done. Check the server list. Check the Island Of Siptah servers, and look at it’s player base. Siptah is dead. If the devs don’t start making better decisions, soon the original map will die too. Also, what helped to kill Siptah, is the fact that for over 6 months, people were crashing in the lower sections of the map… TOOK OVER 6 MONTHS TO FIX. WOW.
Game crashing… Since I last came back to conan, the game is at (In my opinion) it’s worst state ever. You often crash while switching servers(fatal errors). You often reach an area in the map which will Fatal Error the game(similar to the siptah lower half of the map game breaking bug)… Then you will Fatal Error in that server until the server restarts. The game is very unstable. It’s not the engine’s fault, it’s the over usage of Blue Prints. Please start converting the CORE functionality of your game to C++. Blueprints are easy and convenient, but are a total abomination to any game developed in Unreal Engine when over used. It is just not good, period. You need to start benchmarking your code.
Conan has this LOOT HORDING culture. The fact that the official servers never wipe, made this the main culture of conan exiles… People get so attached to loot… And again, to make things worse, all the bugged items have snow balled into existance. There are people using dirty game bug techniques to go into the limbo. Said people will always come down from the sky / limbo to self trade items to raid your base, and you will never be able to raid these people, because they are keeping their loot in the limbo. So these people have no base for you to raid.
I am currently suffering from number 4 on your list. On an official server, just riding along, and my game crashed. Now I cannot log into the server without crashing right away. Other servers work fine.
I guess i’ll just pray that routine server reset fixes it tomorrow. If not, there goes roughly 100 hours of work gone.
The climbing bug is not actually from the beginning sadly, though it has been around for a very long time. It is easy to get around if you simply hold the climb button and move your camera angle so that it is looking down at you from above. Still, I agree it really does need to get fixed (and I believe Dennis mentioned that there was a fix in the works though I have yet to see one…).
It has been clear that there simply is either no QA on these items, or a stunningly lack of it.
Their biggest reason for not expanding the map in the exiled lands was a simple one. The infrastructure could not handle it on the older gen consoles (which can barely handle the game as it is). They can add more things to the game without adding more map space so that has been their focus. Was that the right decision? Not for me to say. I have no idea how accurate their claim was in the first place.
I assume you are playing on an official server? Yeah… G-Portal. G-Portal is garbage. I can honestly say that on private servers crashes are not nearly as common (even the ones on G-Portal). But then again, they usually restrict things like building sizes and thrall counts and such and or have scheduled wipes. SO yeah, the servers tend to be more stable than the official servers are. Official servers are… not good in that regard.
Well, if you look at it this way. At one time item X was pretty worthless. Then Funcom made a change to system Y and item X became pretty valuable. So if you had been hording item X you suddenly now had a huge leg up on your opposition. Since Funcom has a habit of changing systems frequently enough the value of items also tend to change. What was once a major in demand resource is now a toss away item. But tomorrow it could change and you may need it again in massive quantities so… you might just want to squirrel it away right? Yeah, they kinda made people think this way with so many changes to so many systems over the years. And again, as you pointed out, official servers don’t wipe.
So yeah, I don’t really disagree with most of what you have to say. I will say thought that SIptah is absolutely BEAUTIFUL!!! It is such a pretty map, I wish it were a bit…better. Though maybe it is just that I have not played on it enough.
I was going to post my thoughts about number 2 (and still might do it) since it has a lot of impact on our gameplay. It’s truly a pay-to-win if paid items cannot be used by users who didn’t buy them. I spent quite a big (and embarrassing) amount of money in the Bazaar and didn’t miss a single BP. If I join a PvP or PvE-C server and just equip paid items there’s no use for most people to kill me. Yes, winning is not all about earning resources and equipment but weakening your opponent, but it’s still pay-to-win if the opponent wins half the prize by dismantling my stuff.
Aside from this, which includes every paid item, there’s also what the OP pointed out: some of these items have buffed stats that make this pay-to-win even worse. Here’s where I say, in response to your comment @Oduda, that a lack of QA must NOT impact the community this much. The funny thing is that we’re talking about paid items, it’s not like they can’t hire people for that… I assume.
I actually feel very sad about that since QA is something that I really like and have wanted to work as a QA tester for quite a long time, but as I’m still a student and only have a certificate from a short course on Game Testing, plus experience is always asked for, I still didn’t get an opportunity yet. So yeah, there’s probably a lot of people who would like to work as a QA Tester here, and we’re talking about something that generates quite a big amount of money I believe, so hiring people shouldn’t be a problem for Funcom.
[EDIT] I hope this was clear and easy to understand, English is my second language and I’m still studying it
I completely agree with you. It should NOT impact the community this much. And yet from the lack of QA checking to ensure the correct number was typed into the correct column which lead to the massively inflated size of the Arcane Curio, to the missing item in the Aquilonian Bathhouse Set (both issues took months to fix), to the inflated damage numbers on specific weapons. There is clearly either no QA, or a clear lack of oversight of the QA process when it comes to these items in the BattlePass and BLB. And yes, in all cases it has had an effect on the people who paid for these items, and for the weapons then on PvP and PvE-C servers it has had an effect on anyone who was not aware (or did not posses) those items and came up against them. The effects have been many and this is now the 5th “age chapter” with no sign of improvement.
That sound awesome and I hope that you do find a job in your field where you can make a real impact. I know the Exiles here would love to have you on board!!! As far as it goes to coasts, I doubt that really is the issue, when they are making so much off of their cash shops in games now. It comes down to “do they value that investment”, which it seems that they do not. We can always hope though.
Unfortunately logic does not apply to Conan - or your logic is wrong. I’ve been playing a few years and like you I really believed it was in the best interest of Funcom’s coffers to make the game good.
Time has shown that Funcom has no ability and little incentive to make the game good, and yet it seems their coffers are doing just fine, especially with the introduction of the much-reviled bazaar.
Well my fellow Exile I understood so you did well. If you had not mentioned it would not have known. Now get out there and start testing! @EnderGirl1500
The game got issues every few weeks.
We are again now facing issues not caused by Mods on our private server making it near impossible to play.
I cant remember how many weeks I paid for my server during major large scales issues where it was not possible to play.
We have tried for years now to keep going with the game on Playstation and PC and decided today to abandon it for good.
Funcom is not capable and willing to work on the real issues to make this a much greater and stable game again. I fear the worst for the Dune project they got after I saw the Alpaha a few months ago. Will be the same poor story coming.
Thank you! It’s good to know that my English isn’t that bad after all. And yes I’m trying to find a job as a QA Tester but I’m currently more focused in my studies. My goal is to study a Master in Videogame Development to acquire a more valuable title that will help me not only to become a QA Tester but anything else that I’d like related to videogames. That’s about 3 years away though - I’ll need to study App Development first. Anyways, I really hope I’ll be working for Funcom one day
Well I wish you all the best don’t pay attention to the naysayers if they don’t have anything useful give the rest of us a break. Running around on the Forum is about the extent of my technological experiences. However I think some one is PM me a recipe. Catch up later
issue, G-Portal is a rubbish host, when the servers in Brazil exceed 10 players, an unbearable lag begins, the best host in Brazil is Ping Perfect, even in the SCUM game, G Portal is criticized for its poor service, isn’t it? I guess it’s the cheapest too, but the developer doesn’t know the saying, what’s cheap is expensive, they’re losing a lot of players because of this, but currently they don’t care about that, they just want to make bazaars and new DLSc.
I literally crash online and locally when I attack. Literally game runs fine when I mine, place beds down craft and even when I am being attacked, but the moment I go to defend myself attacking an npc that chased me down and I crash instantly… I tried with all mods off too and it is still happening to me, this started with the most recent update…
That’s weird… it’s never happened to me. Do you have all your drivers up to date? Did you try to repair the installation via Steam? Or even uninstall and install again? Did you make a report on that? What about your PC specs?
I had that happening to me a couple of weeks ago, on an official server, I had to stop playing until the the server restarted the following morning, Haven’t crashed when attacking since
The broken overpowered weapons (especially spears) have been reverted to their correct stats with the last update, really appreciate that.
For me is currently siptah in a really bad state.
surge npc weapon drops are 1 dmg
vault npcs got a dmg increase but not a hp nerf
the tamed named fighters get killed within no time through 1 or 2 grey ones, which makes me really pissed. The best armor doesn’t help at all.
can’t learn epic siptah armors coz its broken.
In general:
combat vs a few npcs is well annoying now, they all come for you, stun you, may hit you and your thrall (who just simply cant attack coz of stuns from all sides) to death, interrupt every damn attack from you, while you can’t even swing a full combo coz of minimum stamina.
they made them literally similar op as archers, which barely miss a shot (they shoot, you dodge, and the arrow still hits you…since years like that)
thats even worse in level 5+ purges. Melee combat has died for me, and i say that with over 6k hours in the game.
And honestly i got most stuff from the bazaar but my pockets are locked until especially siptah gets balanced/fixed again.
This isn’t a rant, it’s just my recent experience as i wanted to enjoy siptah once again.
This is great news! A few of my friends were upset with me for reporting this issue to funcom. But I don’t care I wish fairness to all!
I hope they never do this again.
Next, I would love if funcom ran daily queries against their server database, to destroy EVERY building items BELOW or ABOVE irregular minimum and maximum Z coordinates.
This would destroy every flybase, and ever under the map base. I was getting sick of getting raided by people that cant be raided back due to being outside of playable bounds.
O bug de escalada já foi ajustado além disso você como personagem deve fazer um esforço para não cair… Por exemplo, se está usando o teclado pode usar a tecla de andar automático para escalar. Vou ensinar a todos como subir em qualquer escalada… Todas as vezes que chegar ao topo você como jogador deve sempre olhar para baixo funciona no controle e também no teclado e mouse
PC Servers & Clans
Concordo que isso realmente funciona sim em todo servidor oficial g-portal “público” servers . Meu antigo CLÃ mantem ferramentas da época que o jogo lançou ferramentas de 2x então basta logar com a conta e farmar com a ferramenta que fica muito quebrada por que são 2x junto com óleo para farm e quantidade do servidor de farm. Em resumo quando a FUNCOM promove o farm para 4x minha ferramenta passa a ficar com 6x isso sem qualquer BUF então vou resumir cada uso da picareta pego mais de 100 unidades em servidores “público” oficial g-portal… A FUNCOM deveria sim excluir os personagens armazenados em nuvem por estar guardando ferramentas quebradas @Funcom_Community
Em resumo todos que jogam PVP sempre vem aqui reclamar sobre o mesmo assunto a cada 6 meses mas o PVP não muda somente o meta que está mudando Conan Exiles lembrando que os jogadores não estão saindo de conan eles apenas fazem como você “pausa de guerra” eu mesmo já me aposentei das guerras agora aprecio o jogo com MOD em meu servidor mod
Lembrando que servidor G-portal são públicos então recomendo jogar em servidor privado que são melhores pois ainda entendo que g-portal é apenas para demonstrar que o jogo funciona ao jogar em multiplayer porém todos entende que é obrigação de ser melhor quando na verdade não são
Se foi ajustado, nao foi arrumado. Antigamente nao prescisava ajustar a camera “olhar pra baixo” para completar uma escalada. O ajuste feito parece que foi adicionar um pulinho no final, mas quando esse BUG nao existia, o personagem conseguia escalar sem esse pulinho automatico no final, sem ajustar a camera. Intao o bug continua
Sim, conheco varios servidores que sao melhores. Eu rodava um privado que ficava estavel em horario de raid com 75 pessoas (SERVER BR CONAN) num 5950x 64GB RAM, 1Gbps Upload / Download. Acho que a gportal usa algum tipo de maquina virtual, deve estar dividindo 1 CPU pra hostiar 10+ servidores pq a performance e lixo.
O problema maior de servidores privados e o famoso “Admin Abuse” e “Amiginhos de Adimin” no server. Recentemente fui banido do Immortal Lands por ser bom no PVP. Acho que o admin nao queria perder o player base, e agente estava wipando todo mundo do server. Dai o admin prefiriu banir meu clan, e ficar com o playerbase.
Eu ja joguei em varios servers privados… Ate hj nao achei um unico que nao tinha algum tipo de admin abuse…
A problema real e que a funcom deveria contar com seus proprios servidores para manter a playerbase feliz, e nao nos servers privados.
Todos os jogos que eu conheco, Escape from Tarkov, Rust, Arc … Toda vez que tem um server wipe, Todo mundo que tinha quitado do jogo, volta a jogar.
Olha no steam charts o playerbase do Rust toda quinta feira (dia de wipe 1 x por semana toda quinta feira). Pode ver que claramente a galera quita quando toma raid, e fica sem jogar ate que o server reseta.
Interessante, você consegue dar WIPE em um servidor e não tem mecânica para escalar … Espero que consiga resolver sua escalada pois já informei até mesmo como fazer para fazer uma escalada melhor com minhas dicas acima Isso não é um BUG é apenas a mecânica de jogo recomendo treinar, bom jogo!
Qual configuração de sua máquina “PC” e qual configuração você está usando em seu jogo conan exiles? Poderia compartilhar o print de sua tela de configurações dentro do mapa que está jogando ou gravar um clipe mostrando o servidor junto com suas configurações aqui?
We can always hope though. 
