I’ll start off by saying that I love Conan Exiles, and this game continues to have so much potential. Developers have done a phenomenal job with the artwork, coming up with new gameplay ideas, and just creating an overall unique game.
With that said, this last release has just been a kick in the teeth. Never have I thought about leaving a game at this late stage due to the sheer number of bugs (and bugs that are obvious and blatant, with some of them just game-breaking) and I never thought a game could revert to feeling like a day-1 beta, but here we are apparently.
- NPC’s skipping across the screen
- Thralls getting stuck or just sitting there as their faces are smashed in (weeks of effort thrown out the window)
- Accounts banned due to negative crom coin balance
- Thralls falling through the ground
- NPC’s running backwards
- The horribly executed combat changes
- All sorts of issues with Purges
- Rescued thralls from cages totally broken
On top of all the usual bugs (broken hatches, certain weapons can’t hit the hitbox of certain NPC’s, continue button in launcher sends you into a server with the intro playing in the background, screwy blocking mechanics, etc.).
At the very least, this devoted and dedicated community deserves some frank and mature communication with what went wrong and how to move forward so we know whether it’s time to throw in the towel or maintain our hope that things will improve.