Today we are kicking off our Halloween event, which will run throughout the game during the next week. Welcome, exiles, to the Night of Lost Souls!
The sky will darken as perpetual dusk falls upon the landscape, casting it in black shadows and blue light, tearing at the boundaries which separate the world of the living from the realms of the dead. The clouds will part. A new face will appear upon the moon’s surface. It is the face of death, keeping watch over whatever might stir on the ground below.
During the Night of Lost Souls, stones will fall from the sky in multitudes, striking the earth in a flurry of colored smoke and debris. Adventurous exiles can break open these stones with whatever tool they have available. Inside, they will find a plethora of crafting ingredients, both rare and common, doled out at random by the spirits lingering inside the stones, anything from Plant Fiber and Meat to Explosive Glands, Arrows and Steelfire. It all depends on the spirit’s goodwill.
Inside the fallen stones you will also discover the Potion of Lost Souls, a special brew only available on this hallowed night. Imbibing the Potion will grant you certain benefits at random. Drink one and see what happens, but don’t drink too many or your body will suffer the consequences. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.
After a week, the Night of Lost Souls will pass and the sun will once again rise on the Exiled Lands. The restless spirits will be calm, yet their gifts will remain with those who received them.
Highlights
- The Conan Exiles Halloween Event is now live and will run until the 6th of November
- Added new music, sound effects, Main Menu graphics and changed the lighting to make things more spooky
- Torches now burn with a purple light
- The moon’s face is now different
- Meteors will fall from the skies, containing different kinds of loot and goodies
- The Potion of Lost Souls can be harvested from meteors. Imbibing them will grant you a number of buffs and effects
Devkit
The devkit will be made available shortly after this patch goes live, no later than an hour after patch time.
Change log
New Content
- The Conan Exiles Halloween Event is now live and will run until the 6th of November
- Added new music and sound effects
- Added new Main menu graphics
- Changed the lighting to a perpetual, gloomy twilight
- Torches now burn with a purple light
- The moon’s face is now different
- Meteors will fall from the skies, containing different kinds of loot and goodies
- The Potion of Lost Souls can be harvested from meteors. Imbibing them will grant you a number of buffs and effects
- Opening doors will cause bats to fly out
Halloween Event Server Settings
You can use the following console commands to control meteor spawns and decay where X is the multiplier for time.
- SetServerSetting HalloweenMeteorDecayTimer=X
– The higher number, the rarer meteors are. Set this to a low number for more or less constant meteors. - SetServerSetting HalloweenMeteorSpawnTimer=X
Bug fixes
- Fixed an issue where the message “Pet/Thrall is no longer following you” would pop up randomly, even if you didn’t have pets following you
- Thrall hunger should no longer reset upon server restart, in both single-player and online play, but you may need to visit your abandoned thralls so the hunger timer updates to the proper time (due to the game’s Level of Detail settings)
- Fixed a bug that let you equip armor on pets
- Fixed a bug where an Animal Pen would not be able to craft Pets after clearing the queue while a Pet was being tamed.
- Fixed a bug where a new character’s gender could not be selected
QoL updates
- Event Log will now log damage, death and destruction events made by pets, thralls and non-persistent NPCs
- Added GUI/filter options for event logging
- Toned down the damage caused by explosive arrows as they were a bit too powerful
- Disabled file handling caching in FGenericAsyncReadFileHandle for editor builds. This is needed by the mod devkit as it mounts pak files while still being an editor build
Known Issues
- Sometimes the Halloween meteors will disappear after hitting the ground. This is fairly uncommon, but might affect some of you.
(which is in around 40 mins from when I posted this).