ESO has issues; Fallout 4 has issues; Skyrim, Oblivion, Morrowind, and even going all the way back to Daggerfall, are still in need of bug fixes. Not to mention the abominations that Chronicles, Legends, and Redguard were.
Sorry, mate. But I think Funcom will be just fine.
There is a really compelling, fun and interesting game underneath all of the bugs/glitches/lag/disconnects somewhere. The problem is some of those problems make it so you have no desire to ever find the interesting part of the game.
I havenāt died due to my own stupidity, bravado or simply trying to LEEEEEEEEEEEEEROY JENKINS anything since launch day. Now my deaths are falling down cliffs because the game lags. Or I die because the game freezes and then disconnects. The latest was going into a cave and the game froze, disconnected and I came back in the desert with a message You were killed by crocodile. Good times. What was even more exciting? My body/loot bag was nowhere to be found in said cave. Leaving the area and coming back didnāt fix it.
When you get enough of these deaths due to no fault of your own but due to developer/publisher/server incompetenceā¦it tends to wear on you. Whatās even worse is when you die because of server hiccup, sometimes the map wonāt show where you died, so youāre trying to guesstimate where the game decided you actually were when trying to find your body. Sometimes there is no body to be found. I know several people who simply have gotten to the point that these deaths and then loss of items have made them to simply decide to quit playing the game.
you being satisfied with an incomplete, broken game does not make it a complete game. It makes you happy and that is all well and good, your lowered expectations do not however, make you correct. It is not a matter of opinion at all as there is overwhelming evidence to support my points, and well your flawed (imo) opinion to support your ā¦well points I guess for lack of a better term. In reality, I donāt even know why you continue this discussion. A 3 minute search will illuminate every thing I have said up to now.
Also, if you had actually read what I wrote in my initial post you would see that most of your points are moot anyway as I do enjoy the game, I just think it still needs a lot of work. I doubt you will read that post nor the majority of this one, since you are only arguing to argue at this point. I wonāt be entertaining any more of this.
U must have never had the infinite loading glitch on division that was caused by putting on a backpack that had less slots than u already had. The players themselves figured that one out and told them how to fix it. Still took them over a year to make it where everyone could play again. Hence 1 of the reasons y the player base dropped.
Seriously?! Iām sorry but it is not unrealistic to expect a decently polished game when you pay full price for it. I always avoid early access game exactly because they almost always end up being in forever development and are riddled with bugs and glitches.
This was advertised as a full release. But it really does not feel like it. I played about 20 hours with 2 friends on a private server we made. While we are having fun, here are the issues we experienced.
Game Breaking :
Very annoying :
Annoying :
Honestly I know it seems like Iām ranting. And donāt get me wrong, Iām enjoying the game for now. But to say customer have unrealistic expectation to justify all this is rubbish. Iām not sure why youāre trying to defend this obviously rushed release.
Try the Sand Reaper Queen. Exact same behavior.
Bosses that wonāt even look in your direction while you kill them, yep, definitely a complete and polished game.
Along with the hundreds of other apparently bonus features being reported on these forums. Theyāre features people, not missing content or bugs. Geeze.
Worst thing is, we are only level 30. Canāt imagine all the next problems we will run into in the future. Iām excited for the Purge system, but it seems it bugged for most people. I just donāt understand how they can get away with releasing a game in this state.
This is why I usually only play AAA games from big developers.
Yeah they broke this well over a month ago with the Purge Iteration 2 patch. I had a few nice purges per day before that patch hit, now I get none, like a lot of people. Itās just another feature to keep me safe I guess. Itās a finished product after all (according to some playersā¦).
Hi everyone,
First of all, thanks for discussing this in a civil manner 
I wanted to quickly chip in with a few things:
We really appreciate any and all feedback and suggestions. Itās incredibly important for us to listen to the community about any and all concerns. We are also constantly trying to improve internally but also in how we communicate to the outside. Itās pretty clear that this is something we need to improve on and we are fully committed to do so. As a start, we are working on having stickie status updates for all platform sub forums to let you know about the most pressing issues and what the status of those are.
In regard to some of the issues mentioned in this thread:
The tech team specifically is constantly working on collision/detection/performance/stability issues for all platforms. That is what most of our hotfixes are for
In regards to the QoL improvements. Please make sure to suggest those in separate topics so we can have more eyes on them. We keep collecting those and have already introduced features requested by the community on live and on test (such as whitelisting, Q-targetting adjustments, afk kick system etc).
With all of this said, we hear and see you and we are really thankful for your ongoing support and patience
@Tascha Thatās good news. Just seeing issues get acknowledged like this will make a lot of us happier, Iām sure.
Thanks Tascha, Itās nice to see you guys are reading and working on the issues reported by players. I hope this translates into real improvement for the game. It has so much potential.
I will make sure to post a QoL topic after brainstorming with my friends tomorrow.
Cheers!
I think probably all people saying that bugs are so few just are too young to remember the old time of games and specially MMOās. For sure each release was a mess the first or second day, but after, every feucking bugs were just smashed. The content was there as promised.
Anyway, people seems to keep illusion about video games today. This is just now business marketing, investors come, give the cash for a product and want the money back after x years. More time needed for the development, they just donāt give a feuck about that.
This is the only reason why video games are so trash, and of course, people are buying, so what do you want more ?
Yeah I certainly remember the release of several MMOs, my first being FFXI.
They had some bugs but the vast majority of the issues were server related.
Out of the several hundred games Iāve played over the past 30 years, I have never encountered one that was even close to as broken as this one was upon official release. (I never played No Manās Sky but from what Iāve heard, it would be a close contender.)
Iām not sure I understand your question though.
And I think the Assasin Creed Unity/Bugity is more buged. I think the most bugs should be delated in BETA
Bugs and annoyances are one thing but my biggest concern is how FLAT this game is.
There is literally nothing to do in Conan, content lasts for 20 hours of gameplay if you play PVE, maybe some more if you go PvP. My buddies and I dominated and wiped 2 PvP servers in 10 days and basically called it quits.
My biggest gripe with Conan is how much potential it had to be the first survival game with some meat on its bones, some cojones, some substance, instead it falls flat in ājust another survivalā category. Letās look at the new areas weāve got on release and in the free āDLCā The Frozen North to illustrate my point further
Jungle: Amazing theme, Xulan architecture inspired by Thailand/Cambodia looks freaking amazing but the entire area is empty and pointless. Not only its void of resources but monsters are just lazy remodels using same animations as Shellback/Crocodile/Rhinos. Instead of Lemurian camps, we are getting Black Hand which feels like a beta-placeholder since we are not getting a single spawn of Derketo priest or a single Lemurian camp other than those 10 mobs surrounding an Derketo trainer NPC. The boss fight is disappointingly easy and short. On PvP servers Jungle is a perfect hiding spot because NOBODY BOTHERS TO GO THERE. Only allure of the zone might be building your own tree-house, but thatās pretty much it.
Volcano: pretty fun area. Compared with jungle itās kinda packed with content. Unfortunately, there is no reason to spend time there other than getting gold from obsidian spawns. What we got is 2 pointless weapon tiers: Serpent-Man and Obsidian that nobody uses because they are inferior to what people usually have by the time they can survive volcano heat. Dungeon looks amazing but is ridiculously pointless, you have two options: run towards the boss for 10 minutes ignoring everything on your way or make a lucky jump and get to the boss in 50 seconds. The boss fight itself is boring and easy requiring no other skill than swinging axe heavy attacks around. If you can get your hands on silent legion early (clanmates) I bet this dungeon can be done solo @lvl 40. Zero challenge.
The North: Yeah I know it was released way before the official release but that is the expansion, that in my mind, completely ruined the PvP balance. Introduction of steel to the mob loot tables made Tier 3 buildings ridiculously easy to reach. You donāt even have to prepare/level up before going to New Asagarth if you have few buddies (if you donāt just pull mammoths around and collect the steel). Whoever dominates Asagarth area dominates the server. Since this update, I have not spent a SINGLE steelfire to create a steel-bar making it easier to stockpile ridiculous amounts of bombs pretty fast. When it comes to dungeons, The Temple Of Frost is pointless since the Black Ice weapon tier is useless and Black Temple got its traps removed making the entire dungeon nothing but a 10-minute walk around a damp cellar. Boss: disappointing, can be bugged on the stairs and killed with a bow. Silent Legion is way too powerful and removing hearts from the recipe was another HUGE balance mistakes. Altho there are very specific builds that can go against a silent legion in 1v1, in group scenario clan packed with iron-clad silent legion players will always stomp players in other sets. The sheer amount of armour you can get and versatility of this set (and how ridiculously easy it is to get loads of +stat legendary weapons by farming Rocknose) makes any other set obsolete, not to mention it does not require any perfected paddings etc. Oh, did I mention that Ymir faith is still not fixed after the shard-gain nerf?
For me Conan is a game with no real endgame and no challenge (unless its PvP but even then I rarely find it challenging since people seem not to grasp the concept of PvP on PvP servers and usually donāt fight back, crying on global channel instead) and the only challenging things (like one-shot spike traps in Black Temple) get nerfed quickly because someone got their bloody feelings hurt.
It seems that, at some point of development process, there was an idea to introduce some lore and story (various lore items, NPCs, ghosts, lore-stones) but the idea got dumped half-way-through and all weāve got is some remains and tidbits of a bigger project that never really worked out. You can see bits of unfinished lore everywhere, from Hyena brothers to portals that lead nowhere in Temple of Frost and Tower of The Bats, it looks like someone took napkin scribbles of someone responsible for the story then threw them in without any coherence.
For me its a game only a roleplayer or a compulsive castle-builder can enjoy (tbh I donāt know why I have seen games in alfa stage with better building mechanics than Conan, for example, Dark and Light) for longer than two weeks, which is really disappointing since I had so much faith in Conan to deliver us a PROPER feature and lore packed survival game. Conan Exiles is a shell, a hollow product lacking any substance, a proof-of-concept of a greater game.
Was it worth the money?
If I had played on PvE server Iād say no. Thankfully Iām a PvP player that managed to abuse game imbalances to terrorize few servers to gather loads of salt from people that donāt grasp the concept of PvP servers so - yes, it was worth the money. However, it is not the game I was hoping for and I wonāt be supporting it with any DLC/cosmetic purchases because I donāt believe that FunCom is capable of delivering any significant polished and fun content to that game.
Clearly pressure from the top.
with the unbalanced armor and weapons on this game u can solo any boss
there are plenty of videos showing people doing it. Some bosses are easier than others, but yeah every boss has been soloād. Itās not an MMO where you have rage timers if you donāt get the kill in a certain amount of time. The mechanics are minimal itās just a matter of patience.
It needs more that that. Those two things wonāt fix their janky servers.
What, you didnāt like grinding cannibals in the Eggy Mountains for 15 levels? Or running Villas over and over because there was no other good content to level? AoC was fun, but it wasnāt great. It couldāve been amazing if Funcom actually finished the game before releasing it. I will say the dungeons in AoC are some of the coolest Iāve seen in an mmo, but they dropped the ball by releasing an unfinished game. CE is unfortunately shaping up to be the same way. Not nearly enough to do once you hit 60, which is a shame because the game couldāve been so much more. Itās brimming with potential, but Funcom wasnāt able to fully flesh the game out before release and now people are already leaving the game. I havenāt played in a couple days because the only thing to do now is grind mats to make explosives to raid bases, but honestly thatās not even worth the effort. Gathering resources is so frigging easy that itās not even worth it to raid other people. On top of that, you can literally play for hours without ever running into another player because the map is way, way, way too big for only 40 players. The actual PvP with other players is a lot of fun, but againā¦ you can spend a significant amount of time in the game without encountering another player that is actually willing to fight you to the death. If not, well theyāll just run away and thereās absolutely no way to catch and kill them if they donāt want to be killed. Thereās zero danger when it comes to gathering for that reason alone. I played Rust for a while years ago and that game was much more exciting for the fact that you could actually be easily killed while out gathering, so you had to be on your toes all the time looking out for potential gankers. Kind of dissappointed with CE. It was so amazing when I first started playing it, but the more you play, the more you realize that there just isnāt enough to do. Oh and the bossesā¦ what the hell Funcom. The Barrow Kings attacks are too high and rarely ever hit you even if your standing still at his feet wailing at him. The king animals are no different than their lesser counterparts other than they have a bazillion HP. That does nothing to increase the excitement of fighting them. They take too long to kill, their mechanics are a snooze fest and the legendary items from the chests arenāt even better than the endgame stuff you can make way easier than spending 20 minutes attacking a boss animal.