On the first day the game was released on the Playstation, three of my friends and me were right there.
I’ve never played a game like this before. I’m usually the sports game guy. The game got all three of us hooked.
After a while, however, the game had massive problems and we stopped playing. Game Over!
then i rented a server with 20 slots for one year … so that we can start again and have it a bit in our hands. The settings were almost like on an official pvec. I had also opened a small forum for this purpose. As a developer I made a small web tool to do trading. I also hid a few signs with number codes for the other players on the map. The players could then submit this via the forum and received a prize for it (steel bars, gold, armor, etc.)
After two months the fun was over. The server had massive problems. I contacted G-Portal to solve the problem. About 6 clans played regularly on the server and unfortunately the problems remained even after a wipe.
G-Portal then moved the server. Everything was fine for two or three weeks, then an update came and we had massive problems again. Invisible opponents and stuttering were the norm. Same on a fresh empty server.
Some were mad at me if I didn’t restart the server immediately when there were problems again. However, the reboots didn’t do anything either.
After 7 months I decided not to extend the server beyond the year. Game over again!
My friends didn’t want to play it anymore, but I couldn’t quite get rid of it. I had all the DLC’s and we never managed to beat the game. So after my server went offline I decided to start fresh on a PVE-C that I was on for the first few weeks of Conan. I was playing solo and just wanted to build a good base and do as little as possible on the map alone. My hope was to get my friends back here someday.
So I built a base and gathered resources and just did what was necessary to unlock everything to have an easy start.
Then it started… the server got massive problems again and that led to the “Never ending loadingscreen story”
At some point you just couldn’t get in anymore and all my work was gone.
Game over again!
I started on another PVE-C and unfortunately the problem then spread to all other PVE-C servers as well. After these server types stopped working for almost a year, Siptah and the updates came out. I started on a PVE server…
Sometime after the PVE-C bug is fixed I’m back on my old server. I had a horse and two companions there. The rest had fallen into disrepair… for whatever reason…
I started again and built a base. Meanwhile I had a decay bug on my pve base. After 4 days everything was gone. Actually another game over! But I wasn’t upset about it as I preferred pve-c and I was glad the mode worked again.
So I built a base on the PVE-C and managed to get two of my friends back into the game (!three or for weeks ago!). Except for minor issues on my PS4, the game was stable and we played for hours almost every night.
We got companions and other pets to level up. Set up a second base because unfortunately mine didn’t have any purges. In order to get even better purges, I planned a base in the north.
I was just in the process of constructing it when it was destroyed by the admin yesterday.
Hmm ok… quite a bit of work gone in a second. So ok… no new base. But I already knew what was coming. I can’t log in today…
We weren’t finished with the game yet and we were already looking forward to the upcoming update. We’ve had a lot of fun over the past few weeks. But now it’s game over again!
We’re going to lose everything and then have to start all over again? I’ve been here in the forum for a while and I know the rules. They are not very precise and I have always tried to stick to them. We didn’t build bridges or anything like that. We had two functional bases. I was planning to give up one of them and move north. I have already asked via Zendesk what was wrong with the north base and am waiting for an answer.
It is very likely that I will return to this game at some point. Maybe i on my own rented server again if they are now running stably. But I will probably never see my friends play Conan again.
I’ve persuaded a fourth friend to finally buy the game over the last few weeks. Yesterday he bought a psn card… Luckily it hasn’t been redeemed yet, otherwise I would have had to pay him for the game
This would be my third purchase of this game. I acquired it on disc and later digitally. I also own all the DLC’s and I’ve enjoyed checking in here daily and reading along with the discussions about the lore and everything else.
And now it’s all over and it makes me sad. The way that happened is even worse. In the end, I’ll probably never know what exactly the problem was.
I also know that I won’t get any help or an answer here, I just wanted to get rid of my frustration.
This makes no fun (com)