Is it finally time to roll back to pre-Age of Sorcery? I think it is

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I think it’s time to go back to when the game was good, folks. Time to roll the game back to the good old days. Why? Settle in and I’ll tell you some of the reasons why.

The last few updates have been disasters. Unmitigated disasters and there are no excuses for it. More bugs and issues than ever before. Players falling through floors. Crashing. An unwanted and unnecessary UI overhaul that made the UI worse than it was when the game was in Alpha.

Various essential functions have been removed from the game such as right click to use/equip, tab to show ownership and decay timers without the need for a hammer to see that information, precise stack splitting with shift-drag, and proper inventory sorting settings that save properly when you exit the game.

A broken and unwanted “fatality” system. This isn’t Mortal Kombat and this “feature” is completely out of place in this game.

KB/Mouse users being punished because everything with the control system seems to favour only console/controller players for some unfathomable reason. There’s no reason why the game can’t have two completely separate control systems for controller and keyboard/mouse users.

Constant changes and overhauls no one asked for that make the game worse such as the thrall and crafting overhaul a few years ago, the more recent combat changes, the attribute overhaul that no one wanted and that makes no sense - I mean “authority” is one of the attributes? Come on. That’s just silly.

Missing information that should have been added years ago such as precise heat/cold resistance values instead of vague vertical bars. Inconsistent controls where sometimes you’ll be able to control where you’re facing during a fight and sometimes you won’t. Enemies that glitch and teleport all the time, and that magically heal when you get too far from their spawn point which seems to be a much shorter distance than ever before.

Poorly overhauled journey system that requires players to select a specific journey to advance it. If you complete a step for an inactive journey it will not count. The journey system shouldn’t have been changed and it should not “gate” content (such as certain crafting recipes and crafting benches) behind it like it does. They should have added a separate, and 100% optional, tutorial system INSTEAD of changing the journey system.

Microtransactions, predatory marketing, paid battle pass. 'Nuff said there, I think.

As I said above I think it’s time to roll back to pre-Age of Sorcery. The last update has been the last straw for many of us and we won’t keep playing if the game stays the way it is. It’s time to go back to when the game was good - was fun - didn’t have unnecessary features and didn’t have a battle pass or microtransactions.

If they did roll the game back and started making DLC again I would happily support them. I own most of the DLC already and the reason I didn’t by the DLC that I don’t own is because of what they’ve been doing to the game. Once they added microtransactions and a battle pass, and started down this disastrous “Age of X” road I stopped giving Funcom my money and they won’t get another cent until they make things right. Yes, that includes not buying Dune or any other game with the Funcom name attached to it in any way, shape, or form.

Edit: Crazy idea here Funcom but CD Projekt Red did this with Cyberpunk 2077 so you could, too - put the pre-Sorcery version of the game in the beta tab on Steam, the version just before you started all these terrible “Age of X” game overhauls. Cyberpunk did it, they put the last patched version prior to their major 2.0 overhaul up as a “legacy” version so people could keep playing the game they purchased, and it’s a good thing they did because 2.0+ was a disaster that over-simplified the core mechanics and ruined the game completely for many of us. The same thing is going on with Conan Exiles - you have changed far too much in Conan Exiles and it’s no longer the game we purchased and enjoyed. Give us the opportunity to go back to the golden age of Conan Exiles. A few official “legacy” servers would be nice, too.

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Right… because 2.8 was certainly bug-free…

Oh wait, no, the eight months we had to wait for 3.0 to finally arrive was torturous because of all the bugs that were left in 2.8.

Don’t get me wrong, I definitely agree that there are many new problems introduced since then, but to imagine 2.8 had fewer issues is a symptom of poor memory.

Also, even if they did rollback to 2.8 (which is pure fantasy), they would still keep their current monetization.

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age of golden age :slight_smile:

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No way I am getting back to being an insignificant minion serving my almighty thrall who’s the real master and building a base 10 times slower without the hammer.

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i was building base quicker without hammer, and a thrall that die in 2/3mn to poison/gas is not really almighty :wink:

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Same. Base building was faster and for the most part also better before we needed hammers to do it. The new system is worse than the old. All the new systems are worse. I’m tired of the constant downgrading with these “Age of X” updates which is why I made this post. I want the game I purchased back, not this mess we’re stuck with now.

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What are you talking about? With high “Authority” your thralls are all able to be extremely overpowered now. You can even have TWO of them at the same time making you the sidekick in that scenario because they’ll dish out way more damage and can take a lot more hits than you ever will. You can even stand back and let them do all the work in boss fights if you want to.

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No one’s saying prior versions were bug free. I’ve been playing since 2017, have 1200+ hours and I can tell you with confidence that the game has never been bug free, I just prefer having those old bugs over having both the majority of the old bugs and also all the new ones…

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Its unplayable in the current state. Roll it back to before this update.

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Exactly. Roll back to the golden age that we had just before Age of Sorcery was implemented. Time to put the Fun back in Funcom, folks.

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While there are many things you’ve said that I broadly agree with (and I’ve expressed several times that I would like to go back to pre-AoS), I’ve got to disagree with this one. And this is speaking as someone who dislikes the hammer and actually preferred the really old build system - no pickup, slowly (and I mean slowly) crafting build pieces in inventory etc. Despite my personal preference, the hammer is objectively the better system for speed and convenience - it just needs a proper search function and, ideally, listings for required components. If you are still finding it slower, I recommend trying the ‘copy building piece’ function (sorry, I can’t give you the correct key binding, because I rebound it), it makes switching between the pieces you are using much quicker. The only sense in which building by the older systems can possibly be jusdged as quicker would be if you ignore the time taken to craft the build pieces. I’d still happily go back (as I said, I prefer the really old slow inconvenient version) but I can easily understand why many builders wouldn’t.

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If you really wish to play the game as it started, join the club…

I love the updates, i like where the game is going and i will follow it till the end. That doesn’t mean that i forgot what game i fell in love with.

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As long as we got boobs and penises in this game, it’s fine. :wink:

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You can actually download it already if you are on Steam. @SirDaveWolf knows how to.

Even host your own servers. Make Conan Exiles Classic just like they did in WoW.

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While I dislike the age of war overall with what it’s removed and gutted, I wouldn’t want to go back to pre age of sorcery.

Love the build hammer. It is so much smoother and easier than the previous hand crafted and placed system.

Loved the craft overhaul. I know it was pre age of sorcery but it was mentioned by OP so I’m touching on it. The overhaul made crafting gear more interesting and made crafted gear more worth while (at least until they nerfed the living shit out of crafted gear in age of war basically undoing the point of the crafting overhaul…).

I prefer the new attribute system to the old. The new perks and stat combos are more fun and interesting. Authority was an excellent solution to deciding if you wanted your followers to be a major part of your gameplay or not.

I prefer the new journey system to the old. The old one didn’t really seem to have much logical direction and there was 0 incentive to do it. Giving us new recipes as unlocks is excellent incentive to actually do it. Not to mention the new journeys explain how shit works much better.

I love what sorcery added overall. I pretty much exclusively run corrupted builds and find them refreshing and fun. I also love a bunch of the spells and what they add to gameplay and qol.

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Oh, I know you CAN get the old versions but I don’t see why they don’t just make it easier for us to roll back by putting the pre Age of Sorcery patch up as a “legacy” version just like CD Projekt Red did with Cyberpunk 2077. The Age of Sorcery was a major overhaul, changed a lot of core mechanics, and ruined the game for a lot of us. Many would like to go back to that version. Why not make it easy for us? I mean, that version is the game I bought and the game I want to play while the current version is not…

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I agree that I dislike the Age of War for what it’s removed and gutted, don’t really agree with the rest of what you said though.

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I forget what 2.? hacked me off bad enough to quit and play BRs for over a year. Came beck for 3.0; and pubG went F2P. Been more then once I was ready to head for the door.

Is Conan the survival adventure game it was? Hell no. It’s gotten way casual. But I think it’s more fun, more to do, more to see. I’m task oriented so love the journeys and battle pass. So I don’t want it rolled back because pre AoS, in my opinion, Conan was wallowing in it’s own mediocrity. It’s why I left.

What I see now I find encouraging. Maybe some one has remembered who they are making this game for. I’ll stick around to see.

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Too much is broken. Too much is under “investigation.” Too many of these issues were reported during testing and ignored. Too many of these changes were done for no reason.

Roll it back.

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