Storytelling in Conan Exiles

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In a recent interview by Pixelcave. Lead Designer Dennis Douthett and Lead Content Designer Matt Fleming said that they wanted to add more storytelling to Conan Exiles to make the world feel more alive (the Grave Matters Event is a result of this) and that they are interested in hearing our ideas. I think this is great, so I thought a thread to discuss a few ideas would be a good idea.

Of course, I have a few ideas myself:

Freeing prisoners
Everybody loved the idea of freeing prisoners to make them your thralls. Unfortunately the execution could have been done better in my opinion. The thralls are generally worthless and that makes the entire exercise pointless. What I would suggest is that after freeing a prisoner you can open a dialogue window with them and they give you an assignment. After completing the quest the thrall (a T4 worker or fighter) joins your ranks.

Emotes and customization options for thralls
Everybody loves to make their base look great. But on official servers the thralls are just standing around, always in the same pose. Moders have developed some really great options for thralls to emote. It makes you base look much more alive and that’s what Funcom wanted: make the world of CE feel alive.

Better journey steps
This is one of the most underrated parts of the game. You get a ton of XP for completing journey steps, but they are meaningless. In Exiled Lands you can’t even finish all the journey steps because you can’t leave the Exiled Lands without deleting your character and you can’t destroy the Mummy of the Ring because he’s not in the game. Even worse: when you transfer from Exiled Lands to Siptah you simply have to start over again. Making journey steps more meaningful would be a great way to make the world feel more alive and it’s a great chance to tell a story.

Dialogue with Conan & Valeria
As far as storytelling goes, being able to interact with key characters, such as Conan and Valeria, would give the player the feeling that he/she is involved in the fictional age of hyboria. Currently all the dungeons in the Exiled Lands are just places you go to. Why not have Conan and Valeria send you to places and tie that in with a new journey step system?

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At the very least, may we have some cutscenes? When we stumble into Razma’s house.

Or if we try to get in a barfight with Conan. What about making the tavern feel alive, and then a glorious cutscene of rollicking good times that wind you up drunk, half health, gold coins stolen, in the Wine Cellar?

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Haha, nice. I’m down for that :stuck_out_tongue:

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Some of the stories the NPCs tell are interesting, but too short. Maybe have a lore master NPC that talks about some of Conan’s adventures using excerpts from the real stories by Howard.
Also, make Conan taller please, he is a midget.

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The main storyline of the Exiled Lands is actually pretty interesting in itself and very well written in my opinion. The fact that a lot of the lore is “hidden” and has to be pieced together is part of the allure.

I really liked the way they did dialogues in Age of Conan. Something like that would be great in Conan Exiles. The short stories priests, like Mek-Kamoses, tell you are pretty cool, but short like you said.

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