I think the problem boils down to we didn’t buy dark souls. If you want to play dark souls then go buy dark souls.
Arena champion is a perfect example of a mob that hits WAY too hard. In full god breaker armor and maximum vitality you can get killed in 3-4 hits. If you die in this location you basically can’t get back in unless you have spare keys just lying around.
When people go in their first time they aren’t prepared for this and will basically lose everything and die in 2-3 hits.
This isn’t the only location in which this happens.
You don’t make a huge change like this to the core of your game and claim that this is part of a bigger change that is coming at some point in the future. The game isn’t even close to fun anymore. I honestly don’t see how any further changes could be made to make the game entertaining again, but if it is possible then all of these changes should have been made at the same time.
I run a server for this game and it is basically dead now. We went from 20 active players down to 1 in a single day. No one wants to play anymore.
There was nothing wrong with the way the game was for PvE. You should at the very least have made this part of the difficulty setting or an option that you can turn on or off for private servers.
This game was going in an amazing direction. We already have an Ark survival out there that basically completely focuses on PvP for their content. The fact that this game had a lot more focus on PvE was amazing and then content was fun.
Yes, the thralls were overpowered but that still hasn’t changed. The threat table needs to go back to the way it was and the thrall’s power needs to be decreased. People depend on them too much because they hit too hard.
The good thralls are also WAY too easy to get. A good human purge will have up to 10 Cimmerian Berserkers in it and they aren’t even top tier but they handle like one. Treasure Seekers are a dime a dozen in the unnamed city and they are basically top tier as well.
Make good thralls RARE. Drop the attack power of all thralls by a significant amount. Just the fact that your thrall can’t 2 shot enemies anymore will make the game harder. It will be easier to get overrun, especially with the new A.I. of the enemies. The threat change was completely unneeded.
Right now you can just turn your thrall loose ANYWHERE and it can solo all day. Nothing about this has improved any complaint in the game at all. It has only made it no fun to play anymore.
Sure you CAN kill the arena champion, but there is nothing fun in that play style for people who came here before the game was turned into dark souls and had no interest in that style of game.
I own dark souls. If that is what I wanted to play I would be playing that and not Conan. This game was different and it was great for it. If you want harder battles then do PvP. Games that you slip up one time and you die and basically lose all your stuff are not fun for people who enjoy PvE and aren’t fans of dark souls style games. That was not the agenda for this game originally when we bought the game.
If these types of changes are going to be made to the game to where it goes 100% a different direction then people should be offered a refund. This is not the game that I bought and I am extremely disappointed in it. Two weeks ago I spent 187 hours in this game. Since this patch has come out I’ve spent less than 20 hours in it and the time keeps dropping. We have one player who still plays regularly and he only does it because he’s mad that he just paid $100+ for the game and all it’s DLC because we all loved it so much and he doesn’t want to feel like he was ripped off.
My wife, myself and many of our other friends have stopped playing almost completely and we are all in the same boat. Quite a bit of cash played on a game that is completely destroyed in our opinion.