Nice work, Funcom. A patch for useless decoratives but the game STILL FREEZES ON PS4!! Get a grip and fix the game already. You destroy PvP with magic spells, game performance with god knows what and you expect people still to pay and play. Sad.
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It’s easier to fix something that is simply a matter of changing a numerical value in a database. An intern can do that.
It’s considerably harder to fix something that doesn’t have an obvious, isolated cause. It requires a team of specialists pooling their resources together to figure out what exactly causes a freeze, and how to fix it.
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I am sorry I have to break this down to you, but the game stopped being a PS4 game long time ago, before 3.0 even.
Limit in Thralls numbers helped, but unlimited buildings and placebles (sp?) kill the PS4 (ever since 2019).
If you are lucky enough to find a PS5, and have the money for it, you will enjoy the game again 
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There’s a few twitter accounts I used to track down a ps5 in the past. I recommend following them for drops. My favorite and most reliable is killercam1020 (@CameronRitz). And no, he’s not one of those scammers. He just posts console releases in stores and online vendors.
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But it’s sold as a ps4 game. Maybe Sony should take it from the ps4 store. Or give a message about the problems the game have on old consoles.
Since 3.0 i can’t not realy play and enjoy the game on my ps4. I never was able to do a spell without a freeze or bluescreen online.
And its so hard to login to my server. Sometimes It takes up to 45 min until my doors and chests shown. So login… Wait 45 min… Try to make a spell… Freeze… Wait again 45 min to try it again? Nope I don’t use this magic bluescreen stuff anymore…
Online my quote is 100% fails on spells. But because of this loading issues I don’t realy try it anymore. After every update that’s my first test. Will do it again later today. once i was able to make a ice bridge spell offline. But the second spell I try after this end up in restarting the game.
My friend on a ps5 has all of these problems too. I think only the spells have a better quote to not to fail. But he also need to wait 45 min for all stuff. So it’s not useful at all if 2 of 5 spells give him a bluescreen or freeze.
That’s horrible how funcom release their updates. I think they need a testlive on consoles and only release it if everything works fine…
If this stuff is fixed I realy hope there will never be again a new age of something Update for this game. Or they do it the good way and let it test.
I don’t think the stability issues will be fixed this year so I will only update my decay timers and wait for it. And hoping this age of freeze concept will not bring the next game performance killer.
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Not isolated to PS4. PS5 has all the same issues, even loading times of 5 minutes or more…
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Wario64 is another good one. I got mine when they went on pre-order by spamming target, but I have 3 friends who got one due to Wario64 tips!
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yeah they fixing a bookshelf but climbing is still buggy since nover 1year. 2 times they sayd they fixed climbing and its still BUGGY!
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Too bad 
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I play with my wife’s PS5 every time I can, and yes, some bugs and crashes may occur, but one or two times a day, and compared to the one major crash/hour on PS4, I can tell there is a huge difference on performance and crashes.
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In all fairness, there was a significant amount of folks that were complaining about those decorative items being P2W.
As far as destroying PVP, I believe that is the comment on EVER SINGLE update that tweaks something in the game
The Ps4 issues does need a statement of some kind on what is going on (is it something that can be fixed or has the game evolved past the PS4 hardware and therefore PS4 is left with a halt in revisions and separated from everyone else?). But I believe they are trying to fix it before making any official statement
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I love that people are addressing this issue in the Forums.
The Game is unplayable on PS4 full stop.
The update 3.0 broke what was a fully functioning game full stop.
Would love to hear what direction the company is moving in this regard. Many people hop on and say you can only expect so much, Game pushes the hardware, yada yada yada…
Game was released for PS4, (also Xbox is experiencing similar pains).The company has no official position at this time in this regard. Would love to hear anything other than please be civil in the Forums.
The Forums are amazing but the company has no position,
“we fixed the cabinet”, bully for you,
“we want a spell like magic missiles”, bully for you,
“I would like to change the color of the floor paints” (?seriously?what?).
I can live without many many things. But I would love a working game.
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Less hard crashes probably on ps5, I’ll give you that, but same awful load times since 3.0. TBH 1-2 crashes a day seems a bit much!
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Unfortunately the only fix for PS4/5 is for FC to sit down, strip out a ton of content, put something out in a Playstation (potentially Xbox too) only update that doesn’t look like CE you have and then cease support once its stable enough.
And then you see PC get all this cool stuff going forward that you all will never have.
FC screwed up when they decided to release this game to console. They should never have done that. The scope of the game is entirely beyond the capabilities of those systems. I knew this was going to be an issue back in 2018 when I was running CE on a GTX 970. I had decent performance. Decent. And this was prior to the Jungle and many other content updates.
In all honesty they should consider giving you all Steam keys (and DLC compensations) and cease support. If they are legally allowed to (no idea about what is contracted between Microsoft/Sony).
If you all do decide to switch to PC, stay away from Gamepass like the plague. Do Steam if at all possible.
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Nah I don’t think it’s that dire but last generation machines are definitely feeling the strain and CE isn’t the only game that is having said issues but the other games utilize different coding to maintain older and newer consoles (IE PS4 can play but not at the same graphics as PS5) . I also believe they have separate servers for each. This is something that FC needs to contend with and while PC players can discount their console cousins, FC can’t because I have a very sneaky suspicion that console #'s are equal if not exceed PC player base.
@Tamien
I am loving what you said, I only want to highlight a portion of your thinking to unpack a little bit,
I’m not even gonna disagree, because of course you were talking about the future expansions of the game. I feel the company made out very well.
But the TestLive should have shown that as in any game development they had perhaps hit a point too far. That is fair it has happened many times. Development stops for Fable for the XBOX, and Fable II is only available for the Xbox360, after that Fable III or IV or whatever is only made available for the Xbox Series X-whatever, always moving forward.
FUNCOM had a game it worked. They ported it and the issues were addressed over many years. They made digital magic, and now they have a product that they can continue to support in a limited fashion or not at all. Every game that grows is always going to outgrow the hardware eventually.
The people that maintain those games maintain that fanbase, they make the difficult decisions along that journey. Industry is competitive and ever evolving, and the people paid to make decisions need to make some decisions, and the company needs to wear the consequences of those decisions moving forward.
Treat your fanbase well, they revere you, compliment you, and recommend you. Treat them haphazardly, inconsistantly or ignore them altogether and that gets talked about as well.
Right now I believe Conan is just sitting on many consoles taking up space, and the comments and resentment are… well there is negativity that does not need to be there.
Fix the game, rollback, re-release, do whatever they need to do. But do something, every patch that fixes a cabinet, or piece of headgear is silly especially when every patch unwittingly prevents more people from connecting to server, or spirals user into some freeze screen/ blue screen cycle.
Fix the game, or release a statement and live with the consequences.
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To be fair I am speaking from ignorance here. I don’t have a console that can run CE (NES, Switch, and a non functional PS3 that was purchased for the Blu-ray). So I don’t know what the situation actually is. I mean if I took this thread at face value, the servers should be empty as no one can play.
Is that true? Is it just dead and unplayable? Concerning users on PS4, I assume so considering the hardware. But admittedly I can only assume.
But for all I know it could be like PC, where some have major issues, and most do not. I just don’t see how since all PS4s are PS4s and PS5s are PS5s. Its not like PC where someone has a AMD, Intel, Nvidia, Windows 7, 8, 10, 11, and every combination thereof with different background processes and potentially issues with maleware and bloatware conflating things.
If an issue is causing one PS4 to crash, but not another PS4… then there’s something incredibly wrong happening. But this is assuming consoles are still built with a singular standard (outside of Pro, Series S/X).
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Really the only issue for me on ps5 is after booting up the game, the first 2 times I load in somewhere are super fast. After that we are looking at 5 minutes. It is actually faster to shut down game and restart. The climbing is still awful. The rest of the game is fine other than a few graphical glitches here and there.
My clan mates who have a ps4 have the same issues as me, but blue screen during raids every now and then. Especially if there are a lot of thralls.
All this really sucks, but no one I know has issues that make it completely unplayable. That being said, the 5 min load times and blue screens are unacceptable. I mean if I don’t restart my app, I have like 1/5 corruption from an ob while loading in, unless I get spawn killed…
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Not even remotely. There are probably about 10-20 American pvp servers that are over 10 people on a night and PVE servers are a bit nutty but they always have been.
I see my PS4 friends get crashing a significant amount of time (every other night on average) and I get a hiccup every now and then under the PS5.
What’s weird is that its not all PS4’s so that leads me to think its more than just the system but the system and the server combined to create these special cases.
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What about your load in time after a death, going to an ob, or entering a dungeon? That is my main problem. After a couple loads it is SO SLOW. I am on ps5, we have 1 more ps5 user and 5 ps4 users in the clan that have had the same issue. On multiple types of servers as well. This has only happened after 3.0.
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Oh yea…that freaking sucks for the PS4 folk. I’m throw the load screen within 10 seconds and I see thralls attacking thralls so I move them around to ensure clan wars aren’t started. About a minute later, my friend is active…wondering where his thrall went.
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