It also effects all the ps5 players I talk to (myself included) although not right away like the ps4 users. The first 1-5 load screens are super fast like they have been, but after that (usually after 2) it slows down again. Then fine for a few after closing and re-opening the app again.
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@Tamien, I often find myself nodding along with you in your posts, and again I hesitated to even post originally, but as I started writing the words just flowed out.
Is the game broken on PS4? For me, not completely. Can I load the game, yeah.
Are loading times worse and worse and worse, it depends on many things, time of day server populations, how long iâve been playing, is it a frustrating mess where serious gameplay no longer can occur? yes.
Frequent lag/freeze/lock screening even hiccups mean no meaningful play can happen, and issue with accessing containers, even when staying in ones own base are so annoying many activities are avoided entirely.
My point and I probably didnât express it well enough is that Funcom did quite well on console, over the past couple of years, I never joined the Forums, I was enjoying the game. Every free minute I was in game, or watching Youtube videos. And the issues we all had, run/falling in space, thralls sinking through floors etc, long load times for bases, from years of playing, well is was what it was.
But when Every Major Update brings up so many Gremlins from the past, and each patch does nothing, and no word on stability
(I have to qualify this, the first hot patch/stability patch following 3.0 gave some back playability.)
Itâs not even just FreezeLocking at the end of Wine Cellar Dungeon in a boss fight, now its farming up Challenges, or just playing for fun and random lockup an hour in, and the hassle of going back to find and retrieve your body and loot.
- Online it was Play/Freeze, try to summon body, it falls through mesh((because of course it does!), log off.
- Playing with friends one of you will freeze randomly so other waits by your body killing off respawns, it gets old. Gave up on Online weeks ago. Body retrieval is fun when it is my bad. Body retrieval is just a thankless chore when it is Server or buggy code on a 5 year old game. @Cykofonik11 , @erjoh nailed it, I am lucky enough with my loading in, usually, that is it can be quite random, but following death loading can be very long.
Is it unplayable, not for someone learning the game, but so much of the game is frustrating now, playing it becomes a chore. So not unplayable it loads, but the current state sucks the fun out of the experience.
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Maybe the fixes are being stepped out. I would think that the harder patches take longer to resolve.
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Iâve found that the more you travel about, the more ram (or whatever) is being used. It gets overloaded and eventually results in crash. You can tell itâs doing too much when you see skin textures get blurry (you no longer see definition or graininess details to the skin). Prior to 3.0 on the PS5, this only happened when I was out adventuring and finally came back to my base. Usually, a quick restart would clear things up. However, post-3.0, my skin textures work for about a minute or so, then get blurry. It wasnât like this before, so it leads me to believe they messed up heavily on graphical optimization, probably among other things.
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I agree with what you have said here and it all really makes sense. I have had the same ideas about what is happening. Hopefully a fix is en route. I think a lot of people just got really upset (me included) when a patch comes out today and most of the big issues arenât even mentioned.
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Then they should stop selling it on PS4.
Or at the very least stop updating that version.
Until they pull it, it is a PS4 game as much as it is a game in any other platform.
Furthermore, the issues are not confined to PS4.
PS5 users are also having similar issues, just with less pervasiveness. Crashing and freezing every few hours rather than minutes, or allowing one to use Sorcery 3 out of 4 times rather than 1 out of 4.
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I miss the days when consoles were âit just worksâ and PC was the âfubarâ territory. I mean I prefer PC but there was something nice about having a fallback for when you wanted a tested, surefire experience. Of course I kinda saw it coming, which is why the newest console I own is a fat-body PS3 
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@Mikey
YES!! Powerful point. I didnât buy a console to trouble shoot. Turn it on and Play.
Damn Right!
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It will never happen since software companies are protected more than your human rights. They write directions for their own good. Just read EULA and all that mumbo jumbo before you actually install software. Tell me where you as a customer are protected in that?
Software development as a whole needs to change. Today everyone can sell junk like this no matter what.
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I speak from long experience with Sony, both as an application designer and member of their gamersâ outreach panels, they are aware of this issue. It would be my guess they are working with Funcom to create a revision for the PS4 port, and potentially as the final release for the platform. This would be the way many studios have proceeded in the past. Again, a guess from a fairly lengthy background of Sonyâs commitment to the Player above all else. This is why we love the PlayStation, because how we are valued.
Some fixes for âirrelevant thingsâ can also incorporate slipstreamed or unmentionable patches. Patches like this canât be disclosed until the patchset is complete, or the infraction/infection is contained. So we might not see them reflected in the patch, but they have still been applied quietly for security purposes.
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Industry development working fine⊠The problem in game dev is that we are just players and not companyâsâŠ
What do you think would happen if I am rollout untested updates to my customers like funcom do it to console players?
The only one who can make some pressure in this case are Sony and Microsoft.
They donât even need to remove the game in first step from stores. Just give a warning that the game has issues that are not fixed now.
I think the other way would be a sh*tstorm on social media. But FC and Conan are too small that someone would listen and also I saw how good they are in ignoring the anger and just do the same on the next update.
I am not sure how to make a long term stable version of this game. I mean we are in a testlive situation on productive systems. Maybe they get everything to work in the next three month⊠But they will release new untested content in the next age of something and here we go again⊠Waiting 6 month for fixing issues.
I am console player from the first day and they never release something that works in the first month after release.
To be fair I am not thinking that FC is here the biggest problem.
Someone made a businessplan where on 1.sep the bp and bazar have to go liveâŠ
Devs, testers and community maybe says thatâs not a good idea the game is not working on consoles⊠Just look at the 90% of textures that was invisible at releaseâŠ
I can not imagen that nobody seen this before release. But I am sure the businessplan guy says that gamers has no lawyers and Sony donât care about their players if its not a game like cyperpunk. Speaking for consoles I donât think any of the Devs is proud of their work at this moment. They can do better but they need time and not pressure after releasing a not stable game
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I really hope they will go this way. It should be done before 3.0 but I understand that they want the bp and bazaar in this last ps4 revision
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It played fairly decent before Age of Sorcery. Alot of patches fixed stuffâŠbroke stuff, fixed stuff⊠broke some more.
Fixed⊠There was diffidently a time it was âreallyâ playable after patches.
Age of Sorcery was a major breaking point, and patches have done little in terms of bring it back.
I wish they had rolled back update. But to late nowâŠ
Hopfully by next year theyâll get it fixed. Or 2025⊠and they restart Season 1, so people can actaul enjoy the game working⊠and not staring at random blue screens from crashing.
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Yes, the EULA and other legally questionable means of denying culpability.
None of which actually over rule even local law.
But thatâs rushing directly to the truncheon.
No need for that.
This one is very old and views litigation as the venue of last resort and threatening it to be acceptable only as a courtesy notice to itâs actual use.
But this one would still yet leave it aside.
In the hierarchy of expressions of dissatisfaction, this one is about to close the book on pointed request. Which comes only after statement of concern. Litigation where things like âRightsâ and âArbitrationâ are the keynotes are not even in their infancy. Not the way this one likes to solve their quarrels. However, this one does not judge how others wish to pursue resolution and will assist when requested, as even if methods differ, goals do not.
There is, to be certain, a plethora of sicknesses in the industry. Some of which are merely reflections of a sickness within our greater society. Others a reflection of sickness within economic models. But how to fix these afflictions so that the patient and others suffering are given the most salubrious care while also ensuring long term relief from the most odious of symptoms?
This one is far from wise enough to see the route of greatest success.
So, when in doubt, this one follows the pattern that has kept them alive long enough to enjoy the silver sheen in their mane, and their wealth of scars and stories.
Which is, always acknowledge the problem, but give carrot every apparently reasonable chance before reaching for stick.
Perhaps course correction can take place because it is the correct thing to do, without requiring an authoritative mandate.
To see if someone will be decent, this one likes to give the opportunity.
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The only console I own is a PS4, which I got solely for the purpose of playing a remake of a 32-year-old game. (I got the PS4 for free, and havenât actually got as far as to play the game yet.) Iâve been a computer gamer since 1986.
Well, technically I do own a Pong console from late 1970s, but I have no idea where I have stored it. My home has a similar design to my Conan Exiles bases - random storage spaces with unknown capacity here and there, with contents often not related to where the storage space is located. And Iâm afraid I donât have a display or TV that could be connected to the console anymore.
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I LIKE IT! ~ guy from RoboCop
Your workroom with the Thundercats DVDs in the background among other things is awesome. Donât ever think about changing.
Both of my PS4s have Western Digital Blue 7200 RPM. They were bought locally in Colorado, new at GameStonk. The PS4âs CPU is another matter, not really worth getting into in this thread. Point being, up to Conan Exiles 2.9, PS4 runs really quite admirably, despite all weâve been through. It plays really quite nicely. (Edit: Not as nicely as 1.??, which is where my den PS4 is locked in time, but stillâŠ)
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I think they do understand. Iâm not going to get into it any more than that, but letâs just say, people can make bad assumptions at one time, and in life, you deal with it as best you can to keep moving ahead. Funcom will always have my respect because we can sit here in the forum and criticize all day with perfect 20/20, but they had to make hard decisions many times over and deal with all the blowback with minimal public appreciation. They canât come out and defend themselves, and the echo chamber can say what they want. People can call me a white knight all they want, but the fact is I love the game and understand how business can go⊠Iâm just happy to play this game and have new stuff continuing to come out.
LOLâŠoh my Crom! and after that,
the theme of this thread still drops meâŠ
This thread, so "OOF !
âhey guys, hey guys, I Fixed the bookcase!â
lol. Iâm dying!