This is it for this game

This is probably going to be my last time writing here so i really don’t care if i’m silenced again for giving my opinion about the state of this game.

Basically the game has been destroyed with these magic updates. This used to be the best survival game, but that hasn’t been the case in a long while. First of all the PVP aspect. Flying bats, ice bridges and most of all being able to place explosives like any other placeable so they stick to a surface is just ridiculous and diminishes so much of the defenses that you can’t build a proper base anymore. At least i used to build them the way that bombing with jars was very hard. That’s all gone now.

Then there’s the aspect of survival that was the main thing in this game. Now that is basically gone as well. Just a few hits or a spell and you are full of resources and if i read correctly the next update gives you a thrall that harvests for you. I don’t expect it to be much, but still. Then the thralls, just gather a few skulls and you get named workers and fighters just like that. I remember the time you had to actually play the game to get some of them but hey, who has the attention span to do that anymore, right? There has always been foundation spamming going on but with these 4x rates things have gotten completely out of hand. So much that you guys at Funcom can’t even keep up with the reports, it takes you 2 weeks to respond and say that you haven’t had the time to look into them because there are so many. Know why there are so many reports? Because of the 4x rates. Few of the servers i used to play on were riddled with huge walls, some of them filled almost two squares of the map so moving around was impossible. But hey, who cares, right?

Then the content. You create these encounters that only stress the game’s already poor performance with nonsense. No challenge or reward, just useless junk. Yes, yes, i noticed that there’s a dungeon coming but to be honest i’m not holding my breath on that one. You should have been concentrating on making new ones and improving the old ones instead of all this pointless content.

You have made the game WAY too easy, so easy that it has taken all of the fun out of playing. Now that i decided to get a PS5 the game runs almost decent but since the direction is this, the interest towards it is completely gone. You bring in too much pointless stuff and can’t get the simple things fixed like the view direction sometimes locking so you have to climb a surface or change between 1st person and back to unlock it.

You really should make some servers that have this harrypotter nonsense, 4x rates and handing out thralls and such and servers where we’d get to play the original, proper Conan Exiles without all of that. You know, the times when you actually had to play to achieve something. At the moment i feel like i’ve been cheated out of my money with the DLC’s i bought when the game was what it used to be, if i’d known where you are taking this i would have never bought a single DLC from you. And i know i’m not the only one of the long time players who feel this way, of course the newcomers feel differently since they don’t know what they are missing.

But anyways, it was fun as long as it lasted. Silence me, ban me, i don’t care. I’m out.

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Compared to when? Because it’s been ‘easy’ since the game officially launched.

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This game is as easy or hard as you want it to be. How you play the game is determined by you.

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Take your break, it’s necessary!
See you soon!

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Take some time and go play some ARK or Valheim. Maybe even Lord of the Rings Online. Check back in a few years to see if the game survived.

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Sons of the Forest just came out and is pretty fun, highly recommend using some down time to check it out. Monogaming isn’t healthy, it’s good to try other games out and take breaks. Come back when you’re ready, and enjoy your time off.

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Yes, i really believe the same!
I maybe need a break too, it’s too long again i play only Conan. I hope the next update will populate the servers again so i will have a nice excuse to try something different meanwhile! I give my self maximum a month without Conan. I will always find excuses like, no nudity, incomplete building system, no huge storage options, bad fighting system, no climbing… You know cheap excuses for not saying clearly that i can’t relax playing like i do when i play this game :rofl::rofl::rofl:.
You are very right Jumbo!

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Not much has changed, except that you now can do a lot of stuff without getting banned officially. You don´t need to abuse game mechanics in ways as before, it now gets offered on a platter from Funcom as a feature to you.

Pvp got messed up 5 years ago, the day orbs got introduced to the game and nothing has changed since then except that every time Funcom introduced a new “feature” you adapted your playstyle to it and abused it.

This game was initially meant to be played on pvp, no matter what they say nowadays. There was literally no pve in the beginning and nobody I met in 2018 was interested on pve. I think Funcom didn´t had much knowlegde at that time about pvp when they created the game. Their vision of pvp until this day is very different from what pvp in reality plays out in a game like Conan. I don´t think they ever imagined that a pvp community can get this toxic and abusive. They tried to change course several times with no success and gave up. They found out that pleasing the pve community is way easier. And thats when the games focus shifted towards pve content.

Like it or not, money is not made with toxic abusive players that demand stuff all the time and never get satisfied by what gets delivered. The pve crowd is so easy to please. Some events, some rewards, some new skins, items and building sets voila. Job done and money is floating.

I said it when 3.0 arived. Pvp in this game is finally dead. You might still have a handfull of resistent private pvp servers, but population is almost non existent anymore.

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Tbh, i really believe the same still. No matter the “pvp side” complaints the game became easier for attracting new players and be more competitive. We must not forget the huge difference a veteran player had from a new. New players stand no chance so they were going away very easy from this game! Only the stubborn players stayed, the casual was like, it’s a trash! So we have a 2 side blade here, casual players must be attracted again.
Not to mention again that the whole pvp community agreed with @Ceronesthes that pvp needs less pve! Now that pve community lost really cool features just for the pvp community to have less pve, we have complaints that the game is too easy :man_shrugging: and it’s again the fault of pve :confused:.
We must be a bit more “stable” i believe to the things we ask, try to adopt to them and stop blaming others for the changes we already ask!

Just to remind you…
@Barnes made devs go off their chair with his building creativity… Pvp player!
@3LiON 2 times champion on building contests… Pvp player!

Yes! This game was made for pvp, but it has unique, beautiful, outstanding pve options!

Is it balanced? I don’t know!
Will ot ever be balanced?
I don’t know!
What i do know is that the pve pvp war must stop! Because if we won’t find balance each other neither the game will my brother Winthor! And just for the record… Do you remember when i told you that Den has aloe leaves drops? They listen to you my friend, now in Den the aloe leaves drop is easier and more, check it.

My friend, believe it or not!
They listen :wink:

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It has nothing to do with pve pvp war. Its a simple calculation for Funcom. Pve brings more money with less effort. Periode. Most pve players do not care if something is balanced, because it doesn´t effect them in the way it does effect pvp players. Pve players have options to ignore stuff that doesn´t work correctly, pvp players do not. That are facts and has nothing to do with pve pvp wars. Pve players complain too, but they do it very differently. They are more forgiving and more patient because they can afford it. Pvp players can not. In pvp you relay on properly working gaming mechanics, you relay on server stability, on bug fixing etc. Its essential. Its not essential for pve. Its good to have it but it won´t kill you if it doesn´t. You have a lot more options to navigate around things. And the pve crowd is good at navigating around. They still defend their captain even if the ship is way under, its their nature, they are more forgiving.

Its not about that pvp players can´t also build beautifully. Its about that Funcom is not able to provide an proper working pvp environment in Conan. They tried, they changed course several times with no success. So they desided to focus on pve instead. Here is where the money lies. Less effort and good money.

Edit: and about the newbie vs experienced pvp player. You will find this in every game. New players are always in a hugh disadvantage, in every game. Its learning by doing and failing and trying again. Pvp is a commitment, its something you need the patients and will for. Its nothing you try out, fail and stop doing. In no game. If you give up easily its your own fault, because you do not have the stomach for it.

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It won’t. In order for the servers to be repopulated it would require real game development which Funcom is ill equipped for especially with the teams spread too thin because of Dune.

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My friend @Sloegin2001 this is a speculation, it has no real basis and we both know this.
Ofcurce Funcom is preparing a new game and maybe devs sometimes have to cover timelines of each progression, so they surely work all their projects! But this doesn’t mean that they abandon Conan exiles that’s so far, if i am not mistaken their more profitable source!
I could accept @Narelle saying that we are getting milked, and (maybe) this milking is supporting the New project too! But abandon Conan for Dune, especially at this time seems not logical isn’t it?
I tell you that and probably you’ll agree with me!
Between Conan exiles 2 with advanced unreal engine and Dune, who do you think has more possibilities for success?

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Bingo. You hit the nail on the head there @nitecat. The player chooses how difficult the game is, and and I am not referring to the civilized/decadent/barbaric difficulty settings alone. If anyone does not know what I refer to I would be more than happy to elaborate.

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My My someone is having a problem. Perhaps you should actually take some time off. Meditation is good for the soul. You seem to need this. Your language is vulgar and not what anyone wants to hear.

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Funny how I recall that most of the people I initially played with all desired PvE… Since the start. But please… keep spinning a falsity.

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That’s interesting, because there was plenty of PvE interest among the people I talked to in 2017.

…ever play LoL? Dota? CS? That list can go on for quite a bit…

Because the PvP community is, by and large, one of incessant whining.
The developers, regardless of game, are nearly always clueless according to them.

Yep, clearly. Hence the multitude of (ongoing) threads on the Bazaar.

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Honestly,
I’d recommend the OP just go fishing for a few days.

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This is why pvp is dying. You aren’t wrong, but that’s not a fun game to the general population. If I want a pvp game, I go with something where everyone starts the same and we all scrounge and scrap until one person is left standing. If I am investing hundreds of hours, I don’t want it destroyed by some person that has no outside responsibilities or a bunch of people that refuse to fight with honor. The pvp environment is toxic and everyone can point fingers everywhere but it doesn’t change a thing…it’s still toxic after 4 years.

ARK 200GB for shit game :v

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:rofl: - i cant justify ark being on my system anymore.

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