I’ve been on singleplayer (well, 2 player coop really) and haven’t had a single purge since release, despite messing with settings. They came along just fine before release.
Playing on XboneX
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Working on my official server. Skeleton purge happened to me and caused a lot of damage.
Last night another solo and I met up, and his place was in the midst of being completely destroyed by a Locust/Reaper Boss.
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LOL XD has to be an interesting experience.
This convinces me that if purge wasnt as bugged as we can see it is, forums would be full of purge complaints haha.
Forum not full of purge complains? Then it means its bugged for most lol
Thanks for sharing your experiences, hopefully devs will see a thread with so much feedback…
Would you find it excessive to have a dev, community manager or similar to show up here, their official forums, on a close to 100 replies thread about a main mechanic not working, and say we are investigating this, or fix incoming or something? Just asking (for a friend XDD)
The last purge I have seen was in single player. I have yet to see one in multiplayer. Hopefully this will be fixed soon. I like the concept and hope to see it fixed.
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He took it really well, even after being “BOOPED” by a level 60 doing Tower Of The Elephant on unsuspecting farming lowbies in skin suits. Holy moly what a night.
Before we met up, I was farming thralls so I offered a spare T2 Smith. When we returned to his T2 workshop near Claw Outcrop, he was just barely showing me around when the sounds of crumbling were all about us. One giant pink earwig, and his whole 8x8 was gone in a flash. I was on a no-trust mission of goodwill so all I had was a trident, and I have counted more than 212 strikes to get to half health. Eventually my new friend had the idea to kite him up to the outcrop, and N’batu and his dudes took the thing out in 60 seconds. LOL
I got a key (shared one with him), got N’batu and he got a pickaxe and all the supplies I could scrounge for that day cycle. It was off the hook.
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hahaha love to read about this stories, even more as a pve player!
in my official pve server many players offer help to others in case of purges, problem is it does rarely happen xD but I can see how would that enhance our gameplay with funny stories like yours.
Btw, didnt that guy have the purge warning? I cant believe he is trading / doing a tour of his base to a new mate, without telling he was about to be purged XD.
And what did it need 213 strikes to get to half health? A boss?
And those were killed by Nbatu camp, which only has like 3-4 t2-3 thralls?
very interesting info xD which I cant get from myself because despite playing officials since day one, only had a single wave of purge working! deeevs? ^^
I’m having the same issue, I’m playing on an Official PvE server, I’m not in a clan, and my bar is completely full… still no purge…
I live up on a massive pillar in the Jungle, and need a purge to happen to see if my t3 (reinforced, not black ice) can withstand an attack…
I’ve got geared out thralls everywhere outside and inside my house. Problem is they are all at like 25% health and can be killed by players… they really need to address this issue…
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thanks for your message, looks like you have same issues than others!
but…shipt, looks like im almost too well informed.
If your thralls dont regen health, and can be killed by other players in PvE, you are playing in console. Which is getting today a parity patch, that fixes all that, as in the PC release version.
a patch today!!! Thank GOD…
Where can I find these patch notes?
I am…derailing my own thread…about a glaring issue I want devs to take care of…hope mods take note of my…goodwill xDD
you can find it on the same forum:
and the xbox one think gets it today as well, I seen it in their fb fanpage.
Now lets get back on topic, as well, we had that amazing patch you are getting today, since release (3-4 weeks) and this Purge mechanic, core to PvE (closes the pve loop in devs own words) has not been working correctly for a huge amount of people.
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When I logged, in religious observance of The God Raid Window, this fellow had been grinding since about 10 am. He’s one of the adherents to “build small, leave nothing for the raiders.” He’s also a legit leveler, at 45 yesterday. I’ve been 60 for a week so it’s just gravy to farm for 10 minutes of a day cycle and bring him 100 dry wood near the Pirate Ship. That, plus an Ancient Bow and snake arrows, were my simple offering of peace and prosperity. At first.
As the evening wore into my transition down from Obsidian Smelting to Ship Thralling, he broadly queried “What does it mean ‘a plague of locusts is attacking?’” in Global chat. Nobody believed the purge was legit, so everybody laughed it off. I just sort of stuck around, and waited. Truthfully, and this is mercenary of me, but I could not get the dang thing out of Local Chat, so I couldn’t respond, and because of the queue at my wheel I didn’t want to log out…
I have a spare T2 Smith and say “what the heck.” Log out, back in, he’s still there. I’m back in Global. I offer the slave to this guy to announce my impending crash into his existence like a horned red menace. Off toward N’batu I see an earwig and think to myself … “hm.” We go all the way up to the Spillway and an elevator and back before he addresses the bug in the corner of the room.
New player. Woulda been “wiped by Funcom” as he almost called it in Chat. 
Missed the question: after I kited the Purge Boss (I’m calling him a giant pink earwig) away from what was left standing, I hit him with my trident 212 times to get him to half health. I counted it in the recording, just this morning. He was healing faster than my pal’s new Ancient Bow could damage.
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Yeah, my purge issue (I hope is fixed with this patch) is that Its just not happening… my bar is full and I’m in a panic to prepare my base for attack…
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Hahaha shpit If you published a book with conan pvp stories I would get it haha.
It almost makes me wanna go play pve-conflcit (not pvp xD) as I like to trade, group or meet with unknown people, and have some small adventures / happenings like those.
So funny he asked about Purge in global with nobody believing it was a working one!
And the boss…200 times with trident, half health? Was it a locust boss?
This shows how unbalanced purges are, probably they are not yet fixed cause it would be a massacre lol
I cant even imagine my bases being wiped by a purge, but I want the risk anyway! And then after first purge I will come back asking for a rebalance of bosses, I know it xD.
Eeeevery afternoon being concerned about purges happening while at work, and every free day wishing purges trigger so I can see how do they go with my current defenses…but no luck!
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Here’s some advice, as a guy who’s been through two himself, and one with another player: increase your odds. I got lucky on my second Purge. A small 1x1 pillar structure I’d built for a horizontal elevator drew fire away from my base. The skellies treated this non-extension of landclaim as its own independent base, and the bad guys stayed focused there.
@megamadmax84 It is so much fun, man. PVP means a lot when this sort of thing happens organically.
It is also very useful to kite the bad guys to an enemy’s base. I have been fighting a clan for a while. Three of the skeletons followed me to their place, popped two walls for me so that I was able to retrieve the thralls they stole. Again, all situational and organic.
Edit. And essentially, I forgot to mention this. You cannot build during a Purge. This means when an enemy can take advantage of this, she will. Trust me. 
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people say they have had a purge. waiting for tonight to see if it works. leaving everything default seems to work. regards. love your game
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G portal rented PVE server with one clan of 10.
We see purges about twice daily, whenever 3 or more players are online.
The red crossed swords mark the location, but not for players who log in once the purge has started.
Apes, skeletons/bone dragons, npcs, wolves, imps etc… all depending on the location of the base or outpost they are attacking.
They seem to do little to no damage to structures if left alone, but afaik from testlive patch notes that’s about to change.
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Still nothing for my server, am on ps4. Anyone else have better luck?
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My purge still not setting off…stuck at last bar before full…some on my server are getting purged some are not like me…official 1517
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Haven’t had a purge since day 2 of release. I’m on a PVE-C server.
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Purge hit us yesterday, meter was full for about a week, then today a silent legion purge popped on top of my base and leveled my black ice foundations like they were cardboard… not impressed that my black ice is so weak against a purge. Half the base was leveled within a few mins.
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