I’m on a private server. I play vanilla though except no building decay. I tried doing the battlepass as an experiment. No freaking way. I’ve been playing for several hours and I’m just now level 7 of 60. I’ve done nothing but farm vulture feathers, kill hyenas, kill humans, skin corpses, harvest trees, crafting 10 stone picks, etc, etc, etc.
This has got to be the most bloody boring thing I have ever done in a game. PERIOD. Conan Exiles despite bugs/glitches and frustrations galore has been in the running for my favorite game of all time for a few years now.
But I can’t do this. I’d rather pay 40 dollars and get all the battlepass crap. Seriously, I would love to decorate my buildings, wear the new armor, etc. It’s one of my favorite things about Conan Exiles. But I’m not willing to destroy my recreational time that is short enough as is, doing these mundane, mindless tasks. There is simply no way.
When people are doing this kind of stuff in CoD for example, they are leveling a gun that they might not otherwise use. They are learning to use a different weapon. They are learning how to strategize against others who may prefer that gun. They are getting a novelty factor from using a weapon they haven’t used before.
None of that is present in your battlepass. It’s the same mundane tasks we did a zillion times getting to level 60. To make matters worse 90% of the time is spent traveling. You’ve got the XP so low, and the requirement so low that we spend 5-10 minutes running across the map to find humans of a faction, or berries, or a specific flower. Then we harvest a whopping 10 of them which takes like 2 minutes. Then we’re headed back across the map. It’s boring, it’s tedious, it’s miserable, it’s disheartening, it’s ZERO fun.
I’m sorry. I’ve been excited about the prospect of being able to earn or buy new armors and building pieces ever since the first mention. But this is not something I can do. I would love to throw money at this game. I’ve enjoyed it enough that I’m willing to do it. However I’m not going to do this garbage to get these items. I’m certainly not going to pay money to make myself miserable instead of just getting to enjoy the game and I’m not going to watch the store like some kind of reseller on ebay waiting for that limited window in the Bazaar when the armor set or the building set I want is actually available or on sale.
It’s NOT happening. You’re completely off target here.
We need direct purchase access to everything in the battlepass in the store. NO, not at some random time over the next friggin year. ALL THE TIME. That way when I roll a new character, I’m in the mood to put a dafari spin on that character, I can go to the store, spend real world money to fund your game by buying dafari themed armor and building pieces. Not 6 months from now, not by being miserable for hours and hour sand hours of killing 10 random enemies 1000 times.
This has got to change.
To make matters worse I activated admin mode and started “cheating” my way through the battlepass. NO. Even then it’s still miserable. Teleporting to a location and god moding down 10 bears is still monotonous and tedious.