Do you remember the lead up to the Siptah drop?
For a paid DLC they left all the XBoX player with a memory overflow that made the game insta-crash if not fail to load entirely… For months.
Letting things fester is entirely on brand.
Ever heard the term “second string”? My opinion funcom moved their A gamers to Dune and left us with interns and part timers.
Of coarse Conan exiles and Siptah can be great but not with who is developing it now. Not said this about any game; as I recall, but I think the Conan exiles title would do better if tencent took it from funcom and gave it to a crew that cared about it. funcom quite obviously doesn’t any more
Lucky you.
It was a gods awful mess.
Memory overflow big made the game unplayable for months on XBoX, radio silence on the slew of bugs on PStato and PC. If it wasn’t Siptah, they just clucking ignored it.
Of course, Siptah has it’s own issues. Despite that laser focus, it didn’t test well during the initial beta. The modifications made were not universally loved and were, as with all of this game, released in a far from complete state.
But that’s the story, isn’t it?
The whole story.
Funcom is working on something else, can’t be bothered to fix what’s busted, and when that something else roles out, it’s in a woefully incomplete state. Noises about finishing it later are made, but instead it’s off to races to prep the next new shovelware grade update. As nauseam.
I’m not so sure a completely new dev team would solve anything. The game team and initial vision have changed enough hands over the years that the resulting spaghetti code is likely making any real solutions really difficult. Part of me thinks the only real solution to a healthy game would be for one unified team to start over from scratch. But that will never happen.
They wouldn’t have to start from scratch, a lot of assets are reusable. But ya, a rebuild/clean up to U5; well 6, and optimization would save Conan exiles.
If they got started on it now it might be ready for alpha testing when Dune starts to fail.
They have to revert the last stamina changes, or at least balance better. PVP combat has suffered greatly since. I know there are plenty of other things for them to fix too but there was quite the exodus of players that timed very closely to that change…
maybe we will hear something soon. been 3 months since last minor fix… unless they break till after Saints Patrick’s day lol. took Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas break. time to get back to work
They don’t care, it’s obvious at this point. Content and gameplay keeps on getting worse, PvP aspect has been destroyed completely, it’s only a role play building simulator as far as Funcom is concerned.