Forgot to mention I am on an official pvp server and after the purge finished and left my base in ruin the meter shot right back up to half full…
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Thats why many of us start to think they didnt “fix” it as fast as we would have liked or expected xD because if it was correctly working, it would have wiped half of the playerbase haha
From what I see, like this thread, or asking to everybody in my server daily, I would say purge isn’t correctly working for more than 25% of playerbase xD
Okey, i made it work 5 time on my dedicated server.
1- still thinking it’s related to server location
2- apparently, when purge is annonce, if you are not near the place where purge will pop befor the wave 1 come, wave is instant kill.
YOU have to be where the red cross is to make purge work
EDIT : question, i’m able to move the limit to trigger the purge with setting.
is it possible to incrise rate of thing that fill purge ?
thanks for your comment and investigations!
1- by server location what do you mean? The phisycal location of the server?
2- I can confirm this is not the case, based on my experiences. As you can see in this screenshot of my latest “failpurge”, the red cross is exactly on top of my player marker. I was there when the warning popped, didn’t move from there in the 10 mins preparation time, and then I got the notification of purge failed.
So while its very good we try to reach conclusions, I think its a very complex bug, given the variety of player reports which don’t seem to clearly follow any pattern.
for point 1 what i mean is same as wear ligth armor journey step that is not working if you server is not configure in EN.
is this journey step working on you server ?
Ahhh now I get it. I heard lots of people say we don’t get rain effects due to the language my game was set in (spanish) and I was mind blown.
Now, the server location (its an official pve eu, located in germany) also messes with that bugged light armor journal entry and also the purge? Would be sick XD but not impossible
Regarding that I can only say that in my server some people got working purges
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I’m running a private server since the second or third day the game went live. I’ve only seen one Purge announcement when the server was new and have not seen another and I have not seen any purges. I’ve asked my friends on the server if they have seen purges when they were on and they all have said they have not.
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My server is using the Age of Calamitous mod(which is great, btw). Before we started using it nobody ever got a purge. Now that we’re using it we, well, we get announcements that a purge is going to happen, then within 30 seconds it states the purge has been defeated. Every so often someone on my server gets an actual wave attacking, but it goes fast.
What sucks is that’s the only way to get the mod thralls for crafting stations. So, unless you’re given one by an admin, there’s almost no chance of getting one thanks to purges not working.
Hey,
We had a purge!
Like 3 time we had the message you wrote about, but after one warning a sh*tload of northmen attacked our base.
Honestly wouldn’t ve been able to defend alone^^
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Good to know haha. I want a purge this weekend please Funcom, can I bribe you or something?
Jokes apart, what you say confirms my thoughts, that if Purges worked “as intended” since release, without bugs / failed warnings etc, it would have been pretty negative for Funcom, as many many people would have been wiped and would be pissed.
I see they have a nice…apocalypsis? with the ps4 / x1 parity update, apologizing as you rarely see because they wrote some wrong patch notes, and have lots of crashes etc…
So I can see why this Purge is not working since release, or not been fixed in any way since then. Would have made happy a small part of playerbase (those which are ready for em) but pissed most of em, adding more problems on top of the existing xD
Is now 2 weeks with completely full purge bar, and our clan is still not getting any purge at all, on official pvp server.
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yep, when i got “frozen purged” i was very enthousiastic at the begining when i saw 3 frostgiants, 3 mamoths and 2 sabbercats spwaning, but like 20 sec later, 3 more mamoths,2 sabberthooths,2frost giants and the frost giant boss as bonus (and of course the first ennemies were not even already dealt with), and it kept on adding more and more evrey 20 sec untill a point i could not see my character anymore lost in the hordes while my buildings were being rekt.
The only thing that came into my mind at that point was: “this is just BS!”
Fortunately i’m the admin, so even if i hate doing that i was able to keep my char alive thanks to “god mod” (and i can tell you it didn’t take me long to make that decision :D) while trying to aggro the maximum amount of mobs to prevent my base from going down.
i can guarantee you, that a non admin solo player would have lost everything here: the entire base+thralls+ stored stuff.
So yes it needs to be fixed/balanced and show a detailed description of each setting available (like how many players should handle each purge lvl in each map area and if several bosses can spawn in your area with the setting you chose…etc)
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LOL XD very informative indeed.
Yes, the purges aren’t any balanced, and well, what a surprise! As they didnt work properly on testlive (albeit probably better than on release) and they just rushed this mechanic, which they dared to say “it closes the loop on pve” without any proper testing or balancing.
I have 3 very well defended bases, but I know they can be wiped, maybe not totally if the 30 mins timer runs out, but probably.
On my single working purge wave (just a wave xD) black gorillas spawned. But it was the same, a crazy copy paste of like 30 gorillas at once. Luckily I had already asked help to some level 60 mates (thanks Xianlung!!) which came to help, and even with that, it took a good time with the 3 of us fighting xD.
The problem imo, is not only the massive spawn of the waves, but the boss itself, which negates any possible defense if the player is not there.
So I think they have a big mess, and that’s why they are very silent about it. Purge bugged + unbalanced, at the rate they fix things (and im one of the positive people that say they do fix things xD) I think we can have working purges by mid summer xD
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Yeep i agree, the mutiple boss spawns indeed negates any kind of defense if you’re not there, since a descent boss can kill 30 or 40 high lvl combat thralls with ease if he is immune to any stagger effects. Frost giant king is easy, my 6 berserker chicks kicked his ■■■ while i was busy, but some died in the process and everysingle one of my thralls died during the second wave which was still the begining of the purge, so i felt alone pretty quickly :D.
The scorpion king for ex which has a pretty low HP pool but which is immune to stagger effects can kill at least 30 or 40 thralls before going down, so just imagine when you face several of these or some undead dragons lol.
On the opposite, the locust queen is a total joke for a large group of thralls since she can be staggered indefinitely.
if you think we can finally have a “working” purge around mid summer, then i say you’re probably a very optimistic guy (no offense meant), personnally i highly doubt it, but the near future will speak for us, will see :D…
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Same issue on my server. I really want purge to happen as it is a key feature of the game and seems cool. Hope this gets fixed soon.
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Wednesday I helped one lad to defend his base from a hyena purge. I’m in the SA PvE-C.
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I was wiped by a purge while offline. Trust me, you don’t want this feature working, it’s as dumb as the gods/avatars “feature”
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dont get me wrong, but that is exactly how it should work. Wiping noobs from the map. So you can learn from it and rebuild and also make sure you are online next time to defend your base.
So i am happy that you shared your experience with us. IT means it works (at least for someone)
The Purge is the final reason why Conan Exiles is not meant for solos. Get yourself a pal, and make it quick, because you’re not gonna make it alone. If it weren’t for The Purge I’d be fat and happy. As it is, I am no longer surviving on my server of choice. Last night, while I played elsewhere, my last remaining lumber camp was purged by skeletons. That makes two secondary base wipes for me so far.
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Do thralls work against Purge? If I put some T3 fighters and archers will they defend my base?