personally i can understand where you are coming from with this. yes they had the opportunity to just add in the the current content to the current game, but i think the revitalization of the graphics was more towards breathing life into a 9 year old game with the intent to attract a new players while at the same time merging the two maps to allow all players to travel and experience both the isle of siptah and the exiled lands without needing to run on two different servers. With this being said, yes the enhanced version is full of bugs and ping/lag issues currently (which is to be expected when launching what is currently a brand new game at this point) it’s still an amazingly beautiful game.
i think where allot of people get hung up on when it comes getting things released to consoles is the certification process behind it: Source from nipsapp.com and Source from Microsoft
which can be a bit problematic at times and is costly. Please, correct me if I’m wrong, but i dont think steam has a certification process for releasing or updating games like consoles do. Which in the long run can cut back on costs for the bug fixes which occurs for launching (at this point) a completely new game all together.
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As far as CEE coming to console i believe @Dana had touched on the availability on consoles.
i can see and understand why most console players feel hurt at the moment (i too am a console player) and everyone has the right to express their feelings, but bringing negativity to situations like this doesnt necessarily help when bug fixes and and network hardware issues need to be dealt with to combat the new influx of players.
In all, I’m genuinely happy they upgraded Conan to UE5. this was probably the one thing the game needed to keep it above water. Is the transition from UE4 to UE5 going to be bumpy of course it is, Conan Exiles is roughly a 9 year old game made with a whole engine/code, its essentially a brand new game from the bottom up at this point. There will be bugs and lag at first but as Dana has mentioned every thing that is being mentioned here is being taken into consideration. Personally hoping to see the warpaint buffs come back and a possible thrall leveling system.