From the perspective of a long time PVP player this update was a mixed bag of successes and failures, and my intent is to make the issues known here (I was having fun with the update until these issues reared their ugly faces).
1.) The lag on servers is untenable and unplayable.
- At 40 players the servers debugHUD shows 500-700 ping at all times and fights are just player models teleporting around (sometimes disappearing entirely during attacks or rolls) and hits are landing from 2 to 40 player models away with any weapon (daggers included). This is not PvP its just a lag fest without skill.
- The NPC’s, Thralls (wild or tamed), horses, pets, bosses, etc are all stationary and lagging out of their minds. The PvE content isn’t even enjoyable at anything above 20 players. This issue hurts both PvP and PvE players
2.) Glutton For Punishment
- This perk is absurdly overpowered and needs a large nerf. Fights are endless and all you need to do is run to heal an entire health bar. Fall off a cliff? No problem. Get cleaved with a sword of Crom for 500 damage? No worries, in a few seconds your health bar will be maxed WITHOUT the use of a single aloe pot.
- The amount of health either needs to be reduced to 40% of damage received is healed over time (and should not be affected by the “50% increase from healing sources” because 60% healing is too much for a perk) or if you are hit (like a normal aloe pot) it cancels out the heal and sets a new heal only for the most recent hit. Yes this would discourage large hitting weapons but something absolutely has to change with this perk.
3.) Bombs
- Bombs currently cannot deal blast damage to targets horizontally (such as a door next to a bomb) or above them. If the bomb is sitting on a surface then it can deal damage to targets below it or that specific surface only. Otherwise its fire damage and pray that it hits whatever you are trying to raid through. I also believe this is an issue with trebs (demonfire barrage). This completely breaks raiding which is a CORE component of raids.
4.) Armor/Weapons
- Very little effort and thought were put into creating meaningful reasons for armor and weapons this patch. This affects PvE and PvP players both. Whats the point in farming weapons from bosses when the perks mean nothing if they even have any after the update. Whats the point of farming for specific armors when most of the armor was basically rendered useless? Sure a “new meta” has emerged but it is significantly less engaging and enjoyable than before. The bonuses and “perks” armor currently gives are so insignificant damage wise that the only things worthwhile are generally going to be health armors so you can stack it with glutton and become invincible
- Example: 55 damage strength based weapon. 20pts of strength would add a 100% bonus of 55 damage, then a full stack of armor (5% per piece @ 5 pieces for 25% total bonus) would add 13 damage because the bonus is based only on the base 55 weapon damage. Now consider armors damage reduction (50% ~ light armor) on an enemy and then armor pen on said weapon (say 20%). Conan does the math simply so 50% - 20% = 30% reduced off that 13 puts us at a whopping 9 damage increase. Full health armor can add 120-200+ health which would be vastly more useful. If we look at damage reduction on heavy armor we get down to a whopping 6 damage bonus (so effectively useless comparatively).
The issues compound on each other to create an abysmal player experience where there is not a point to fight PvE content, other players, or even raid. I find myself (and my teammates) asking “Whats the point to playing Conan” almost daily at this point. I am seeing videos on YouTube crop up about it (bombs, glutton, armor/weapons, unplayable lag, sorcery is broken, etc). I am seeing other players losing confidence in the product or refusing to buy DLC or the battlepass (the main moneymakers for Conan) until these issues are addressed. One of my teammates already has flat out quit the game for the above reasons and more.
I will be blunt. Nobody believes in you FunCom and the incompetence at every level is a constant joke (but not really a joke) to the playerbase. This post is literally my last and only attempt to get something to change. For the love of Crom make people eat their words for once.
Yeah they didn’t think about medium or heavy armour as much they really are useless in most cases. They have to rework the whole armour so that their is a reason to make them. They make you also have to buy anything from battle pass to use it, so I kill an enemy with the armour or weapon skins I can’t even use it??? So what’s the point of killing them might as well let them keep their kit. Their thought process behind anything is all over the place . There never is no balance with this game, there will always be something OP like no point in having a base right now . Just run around naked doing lightning to peoples bases . Makes the game soooooo fun
Since when was PVP about loot? Most legendaries were trash when compared to specific endgame craftables. Even with craftables being looted, it’s the same stuff you already have. There is no logical benefit to looting and it’s just the battling and trashtalking that seems to be the sole point of PVP…farming is far more reliable and provides the same items in the same amount of time. PVP is just inefficient method of gear and mats collection. Sure you can get a good score but the grind to get the raiding mats is the same amount of grind to just make the mats. You are asking about the point of PVP and that’s like asking the point of candy.
I think I speak for most Conan avid fighters when I say it’s very satisfying to win a fight and take the kit. Also why arena severs get boring
Raiding mats? Are you talking about 1 Leather pouch, a magic lighting wand and wings? Because that’s a lot easier to grind than pretty much anything in the game
The idea is that then you would be forced to buy the DLC or the battlepass to get the ability to use the armor skins and thus be able to use the armor. Another issue i forgot to mention is that the promised “cosmetics only” battlepass includes instant lightning/invisiblity/etc spells in a jar that are phenomenal for raids and 100% give an in game advantage. I mention it because you had touched on the lightning (which did more damage than 2 trebs in a recent raid i did).
They should make the illusions break and items return to normal appearances if you die. That would make thematic sense and solve the issue of people getting appearances they didnt purchase.
"1.) The lag on servers is untenable and unplayable.
At 40 players the servers debugHUD shows 500-700 ping at all times and fights are just player models teleporting around (sometimes disappearing entirely during attacks or rolls) and hits are landing from 2 to 40 player models away with any weapon (daggers included). This is not PvP its just a lag fest without skill.
The NPC’s, Thralls (wild or tamed), horses, pets, bosses, etc are all stationary and lagging out of their minds. The PvE content isn’t even enjoyable at anything above 20 players. This issue hurts both PvP and PvE players"
I hope they implement that or just let people use them tbh cause what if your friends don’t want to buy dlc and still use it. Kind of forces you to buy, they should just make the game free too or make it cheap cheap. Seems like they don’t advertise the new update as much either getting A twitch drop going too would be good
Yea the fact that casting spells uses so much utility so it crashes the game…it is just not fun to play on pvp with people who abuse this bug/exploit to raid…just fix this Funcom…
yes this problem doesnt get enough attention from fc. I mean i cant place my horse because it must stand on walkable floor and i must try it 10times to get it work when the servers are laggy. using the new teleporter is cool but when you must wait 3 minutes after teleporting to load the things in your benches and chests its not more funny to use it. When your horse is bugging around like a bouncy ball its very annoyng to see this and hard to use the horse. And there are so much more examples how the game perform when its laggy. But im not hoping anymore to get better servers because im waiting for this over 1 and a half year.
It’s strong yes. But not OP. You will get hp back if you get dmg by a huge amount once. But u wont get it back if u still get dmged. So maybe you not using the best tactic. The other perk in vit tho “last stand” is OP in those terms that you are almost un killable for 5 seconds. 5 seconds is a really long time. And almost everytime some one with last stand can escape and hide inside, then after 1 min have it available again.
I mean last stand is strong but it can be worked around since it would still require the target heals and you can hit them to cancel pots or keep them on the ropes with DOTs (Damage Over Time). Glutton they can just run away and heal on the move which means they dont have to stop and open themselves up for an attack. While yes, Last Stand is strong, it doesn’t really matter when I use a 1 shot build and pop you like a balloon or when I pot cancel you. Pot cancels are a core mechanic of fights anyways so I dont see this as big of an issue as glutton.
