[Review] The Return

Conan Exiles General Discussion
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So i havnt played this game for nearly 1 year. and i came back to see how the game is going. here is the return review.

-Servers, are dead, and are over run by those that either cheat/exploit/abuse.
It is wonderful to see the cheaters rule of funcom, But we know they are focused on their new games so it is understandable to want to watch their own work burn, as they stand over the ashes.

-Server Transfers, are now being used and abused, ofc they were going to be, who didnt see this coming. make a base, and transfer to another server to raid. go back to your own server, either drop the loot or store it for later transfer. Woot free loot, that cant be raided.

-Weapons, how the Poison Daggers have yet be nerfed is beyond me as they have been broken a year ago. but hey is combat and raids is auto lock on and spam daggers that apply 2 POWERful poisons is what PvP is. you did it right.

-Blacksmith, because giving everyone free steel was just a great idea to create ingame inflation. you get a large free base, and you get a large free base, EVERYONE gets a LAG LARGE BASE FOR FREE!

-Seeing there is no one on any servers, why not just fuse all of the servers maybe there will be 1 server with 40 players. and no one can run and hide.
and maybe wipe servers while youre at it. you know there are 1000s of duped shyt in people body vaults that you clearly care about.

Being able to jump over fences was always the right idea, of an anti climb. because jumping isnt climbing after all.

E*-Offline raiding is still the main source of PvPvE (i put the extra P in there because the building is owned by a player.) You guys said you would add Offline protection, and when ever youre online you can be raided. good to know your word is worth as much as this game.

E*-Night,(in IoS) is nearly unplayable. mealstorm come way to often, and has no reason in the game. Everyone should want to go to the middle when it happens, now it is just a joke. all it does it makes the game dark, again. even during day. 80% of the time is night. sure, use torches, is cool and fun. but wtf, even in real life you can see better in night then conan.

But good job on the good things you did. at least something was fixed.
-Stopping heal when you get hit.
-Thralls only doing 4x as much as a player instead of 8x.
-Nerfing horse combat, so that you cant 1shot, 2-3 hits isnt so bad. while making sure we all know rhinos have no purpose in a horse ruled world. at least they look cool.
And ofc my favorite, My Katana change that infact made it even more powerful than it ever was. sure you removed the utility of the weapon, but it is SO much more powerful.

Honestly i didnt think much when i came back to goof around, ofc no one knows how to fight, still. but if you win with the simple stuff, why use skill. spam wins.

Enjoy

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Best comment ever. I couldnt agree more. They dont do anything about the bombs but stacking is a no no lol. This game was better when dealing with pork thralls n undermesher.

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While your review resonates with me in parts, at times I find myself in firm disagreement with you in many others. As such, I thought I would provide a review of your review.

You know, if I had a dollar for every time I have heard this here on the forum, I could have a great vacation with the proceeds. Of course there is no substance or validity to this claim, it is purely hyperbole.

Of course because that is what growing companies do right!? They become weary of their own wildly successful, income generating assets and sabotage them intently. Then could you please explain to me why Funcom is devoting time, money and resources to actively developing Update 3.0 which is being teased as massive!?

Depending who you speak to, many members of the PvP community would agree with you. However, I would also make an important point here. There are currently four viable metas in PvP; daggers, spears, bows and horse-lance combination. Perhaps more. You still have some level of recourse available, and are not in an unwinnable situation. Furthermore, other PvP players have already discussed ways to counteract daggers here on the forum.

If a player or clan is building an excessively large base which is causing server lag, then you are encouraged to create a ticket at the Zendesk. Funcom has been getting tough on this behaviour recently, and I would wager that the prospect of them have their base wiped is high. Blame the individual, not the feature. What you offered is tantamount to suggesting that it is the fault of sandstone building pieces that we have server lag. :crazy_face:

Or you could build a base without glaring security flaws. Prevention is best course action. Ensure that your walls are high enough that they cannot be jumped over.

I disagree with you again. While I generally do like the overhaul to the healing mechanics as a whole, this particular change was uneccessary, and detracted from the overall fun factor of an otherwise enjoyable game. It had a negative impact on other modes, rendered wraps and bandages redundant, and made healing feel less intuitive, and more like we are fooling an algorithim. And frankly I do wish they would revert it.

I agree that the thrall to player damage multiplier setting was a fantastic idea. :+1:

There will always, and I do mean always be a meta in regard to weapons. And there will always be a meta mount also, which will become more discernible if and when other beasts such as Camels make the transition to fully fledged mounts. Just because they are not as good as horses, it does not mean that they have no purpose. Especially on PvE, Singleplayer, roleplay or private servers. But you are indeed correct that they look cool!

Soooo none of our talented pool of PvP players knows how to fight?? I would personally beg to differ, we have some outstanding individuals and clans in the PvP community. But I will let other players indulge you further in that domain.

IN CLOSING:
The game could probably do with a few tweeks and balances. It is not perfect and sure it has its faults. However, overall it is an immensely satisfying experience, had provided years of highly enjoyable entertainment, and I for one cannot wait to see what Update 3.0 has to offer. I award your review 2 stars:

‘Too many logical fallacies, not enough style or substance’
:star: :star:

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Dude, when i see 5000+ players and i click a server list that is 0/0 for 10s of pages. that is a dead server. Sure PvE and Private RPG have some players, and maybe the only ones. but dont tell me servers are flooding with people when even, Funcom is fusing them together because they have no one else playing.

Ofc they move to new games, but that doesnt mean a successful game is dropped. WoW is still played and added to. they know Conan has hit its peak after IoS, and they have no idea what to do with it, so they use the ashes and move on. and if they are coming out with 3.0 awesome. but i doubt it will be anything more then reskins.

Dagger spam is cheap and extremely powerful, ofc there are meta after meta, but when something is blindly radiantly obvious, it should be [easy] to make an adjustment. aka HotFix.

it is always great that funcom will ban those that make something big on a server that lags it, that took them time, that is within the games rules. it makes alot of sense. yea ban those people instead of the cheaters they cant catch. because they are off the server after they wipe in a week. you can support that action too.

… Ofc people do. WTF? We always try to counter exploits. wtf… that isnt the point. are you trying to comment to comment to be on a side of debate or was that really your opinion. because if you legitimately the way that you think, im no longer going to respond.

i dont care if you disagree with the healing, auto healing was always garbage, it always has been, always will be. If other items need to be adjusted to be more fun, then do that. you being able to pee while spelling your name, and fight at the same time, is flawed.

Once again, Meta exist because of the lack of. which is the point of the Dev. to balance. If something is strong, you make a counter for it. in other words, a Meta for the Meta.

Honeslty no, i have not been impressed by the fame of the elite. inwhich most of them use scripts and/or meta items. But if being an Elite is to do the META and script, cool. then im not one of them, and im glad of it.

Dont get me wrong, i think the game is one of the best that has ever been created. hence why i even came back a year later. but with the flaws of, it will never be.

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Alaion,

I am in agreement with everything you said. Thank you for your post.

This game could be so much more. Saddly pvp servers are overrun by scripters, abusers and cheaters. While I mostly encounter scripters and abusers in pvp on privat servers, I lately have seen new cheater accounts of old known cheater characters (that where banned years ago) reapear on official servers which worries me a lot. I can not tell names, since it is forbidden to do so, but there is a character that is fearlessly openly cheating on officials, even runing around in kind of a godmode, hitting you from far away, do not take damage when you hit him, and he was also filmed on dogs of desert training server runing an aimer. What worries me the most ist that this people do not even fear to get recognized as old cheaters. They use the same name, almost the same cheats as in the past and even openly admitting cheating because Funcom is more busy banning people for building violations then anything else.

While I am not a fan of most pvp players either, their fightings skills and also behaviour, which by the way are the most egomanics I have ever encountered in any competitive game I played so far besides cs:go, or the dogs of the desert servers itself I do understand where their frustrations and also actions are coming from. Not even in this forum you will find enough people that will back you up with what you have said. Most likely your post will be taken apart and derailed. And if that is not enough to shut you down you will get silenced or even suspended by mass spam flag attacks.

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Great comments, I couldnt agree more. Taking away builds all your left is hidden shacks which in my opinion makes raiding boring. I wanna raid a castle not a backyard sheld. People are saying that big bases are old times but those are what survive and fun to raid. The stackinh been around so long that we know how to counter it. Usually a god will do. The bases became so weak now and days that there no need to even hit a base with a god.

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official servers are dead. He is not saying game is dead, which i agree is not true. But servers (official) are no where near as populated as early on.

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Main problem is servers can bearly run half server full.

This game be awesome if remove lag reduce grind

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Use to not be like this before even with mass bases. I think the servers been down graded.

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I dunno… It’s been like this for at least a year though. I played on a private unlisted 5-man dedicated server for the 1st 6 or 8 months and then officials for the past year. After going to officials I noticed the game begins to chug quite noticeably with 20 players connected - even on very low ping servers. With 30 or so it’s better to just log off and wait. The few times I experienced 38 to 40 players it wasn’t really possible to play (well).

And yeah, while I’m sure it contributes, I highly doubt it has all that much to do with people’s basses one way or the other.

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This is not including updates that degraded performance as well. I seen developers wrote bad code before. Always end up having to optimize it.

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So now i would like to hear from you guys, what are some things that you would like to see Funcom be accountable for.

Because if Dune is a reskin of Conan code. im out.

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There’s almost no such thing as a reskin of a game. A music player or utility, maybe. That terminology as it applies to applications and games is just user ignorance.

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Well if you only change textures or models in a game, then it is a reskin.

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If… yeah, sure. Percentage of cases where that’s happened without code changes? 0.0X% maybe.

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