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.