Shelter & Sandstorms and some bugs

Conan Exiles General Discussion
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So, Im out in the middle of the day - Sandstorm comes and kills off my character. :frowning:

It said Shelter… hmm, suppose not good enough, but you know - I had a house built, roof and all, and died from a sandstorm. (Hey, I like windows!) :slight_smile:

Anyway, I was in the city in the West when a sandstorm hit - you got it, dead.
Of course it said shelter and the NPCs were all alive and fine… :stuck_out_tongue:

Same with the guys in the tents, at the top of the cliff where I died in my sheltered rock! lol!
Ah… the immersion. :wink:

For me its a bit immersion breaking having NPCs just kinda stick it out.
Since this, I have read its a magical storm to purge the player character - personally, not seeing it.
Having the sandstorms not come in one second and kill you the next would be a nice start.

Clarification on shelter - maybe mark it partial shelter, you can heal slowly.
Full shelter, no healing needed. As it is now, I cant heal at all when a sandstorm hits.

Ah, and forget about going under the water - that sandstorm will kill you. Truly magical! lol!

I really enjoy playing Conan Exiles, but this would be nice to have tweaked.
Sure, I can turn it off, but the concept is nice, just needs to be set more realistically.
Im up for the challenge, but with a bit of realism.

side note:
Some other things that would be nice to have fixed:

  • NPCs still get stuck in water.
    Used to animals would spawn in water. Now its mainly just human npcs getting stuck.
    Sometimes a croc will. And its weird, you can hear them on land like they are beside you.

  • starting a new game, the nudity is set to server none… yet, its single player.
    I have had to go to two settings to fix this, and then it reverts each time I open the game, it seems.
    (Never had mods, fresh install, new game - happened after last weeks patch.)

  • Thrall just stands in front of my house… doesn’t move.
    I equip him with weapons, he gets rid of them when I come back.

Another thrall issue… duplicate merchant standing on top of herself in the city in the West.

Essentially a lot of small bugs, that would be nice to have squished - a little balance/realism for pve in single-player, and the game would be good to go. (As we know Sorcery is now coming!)

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hi, i never thought about diving into the water during a sandstorm, as have always been in desert areas when it hits, but here is some info on what i found so far from (less than 50 levels of character)…

  • Shelter has different levels of protection (like quarter, half, and full shelter etc)

  • if you are going to be in an area for a fair amount of playing time, try to make a simple sealed room. (i say sealed, as in you can still have a sandstone frame with a little window icon but any doorway arch needs a simple wooden door, and a roof.) i had this room with about 3x3 tiles, and a small campfire for light, with several windows and it protected me enough.

  • try to look at your Feat selections, to see how far away you are from being able to make a SandStorm Mask, as those are very good as protection without a room. (you might need to get some feats leading up to it depending on what you have chosen, but theres also a yellow lotus potion you can make to help you re-select things.

  • ive seen some other players use the side of a cliff, to give them some shelter, and then build half a room around it, for at least half shelter. that could help you.

  • also, if you try and keep a handful of snacks on you, or always try to make any healing items (even a mitrean Ambrosia if you have it), you might be able to regain a bit of health (while having a bit of cover), inbetween hits from the sandstorm :slight_smile:

as far as i can tell, the sandstorm seems to hit more softly the first 1 or 2 times it hits, but then during the third, i didnt have enough time to sit and craft 15-21 sandstone pieces intime to survive the storm, with foundations etc, but just about managed to run into my mini-shack with some food healing and barely survive it) :slight_smile:

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ooh, has anyone ever tried running ‘into’ the storm, like where it comes from…maybe that will help to get through the storm, more quickly, because the graphics seem to show it blowing from one direction, and then it moves away from you?