(Updated 30 October) Age of Heroes Known Issues

Selective literacy is amusing.

Here, this one will follow suit and respond to a cherry picked item in what could be used as an intro to straw man class.

No, endorsing firearm violence is not something this one wishes to do.
People like you inciting hostile and illegal activity have brought about the modern spike in murders in schools. Have you no shame!?!

See, it’s easy, and on a certain juvenile level, amusing, to not actually read or respond to what someone says or posts, but instead pick a context free line or idea and throw a tantrum.

Very therapeutic.

But are your thralls back?

No, of course not.

Why?
Because nothing posted here is ever going to be relevant to Funcom.
This is a containment pit. The illusion of engagement. With the occasional player helping or hating on other player.

This one could drone on and on for hours about their lack of esteem for the dev team. For the unsolicited changes, for the half baked and half @$$ed updates. About how this one clucking called it.
That they tacked on an extra chapter, and then doubled length in the name of “quality assurance”, that they axed the battle pass (which this one had no love for, but that is immaterial) in the name of focusing on more content, but that this one expected they were just slowing the pace down to offer us the same slipshot quality with greater lethargy.

And this one is, noting…
Called it!
Same piss poor QA, but now with significantly greater delay.

But does that improve the quality?
Does it inspire anyone to do better?
Does it clucking matter?
No on all counts.

But make no mistake, regardless of whether posters here are making their faces brown to praise and pander, or going crimson and angry posting until their fingers and screens crack…
It is immaterial.

Forum activity doesn’t matter an iota to those at the top.

Money does.
So where is the money?
From selling Crom Crypto and from Tencent.
The only things that can matter are how much people spend on the game, or if one of the masters from Tencent tells them to change.
Dune is where their attention is now, so perhaps do something useful and save other potential customers from investing in a company that will maltreat them. Of Dune flops, they’ll feel it. Their masters may even step in.

But posting here about such matters is like a date with your left hand.
It may be personally gratifying, but it also won’t impact anything meaningful.
That’s energy that could be spent on making progress, either to goad change, or at least spite the ones who have wronged you.
That said, by all means, you do have the right to engage in self gratification if necessary or desired, just don’t expect anyone to praise your particular talents, and don’t pass it off as anything other than what it is.

So if Andy is your boogey man and the best punching bag you can find, sure, go ahead, come up with your best scathing and heartfelt hate posts and unleash them…
And then watch as nothing changes.
As always.

Edit: If this one was the Father of anyone at Funcom, this one would have already found better employment for them. After extracting the details on how they came about, because this one certainly has not sired any spawn, but even if they are the result of stolen genetic material, they still would deserve better than that…

Well most criticism is, as it should be, directed at the decisions and implementations of the company and not personal.
If someone is in that job role at the company, it depends what their role is. If it is an information getter and spreader, then it is done suboptimal at the moment.
If it is purely for appeasement reasons, it is also done sub optimal.
But again, they as a company are butchering a once amazing game idea into something that is neither fish nor meat.
I as a customer am not employed at said company and the best way to make them understand that they are on the wrong path, is with my wallet. I don’t need to “find someone else to talk to”.
Will it help in changing the game? Probably not. Will it kill the game? Possibly.
I am not at that point yet, after a total of 8k hours in the game, but close.
I bought the argossean set on the bazaar, but I said to myself, that if it continues like this, this will most likely be my last purchase and on seeing how customers are treated here and having had a similar experience with AoC before, Dune by now is a 90% pass for me tbh.
But then, that is my personal approach and I don’t claim for it being the correct one, but it is the viable way for me personally

The vote with your wallet happens when you purchase the Crom Crypto.

Anyone who expects that complaining here will make any impact is either new to these forums (in which case, the devs don’t attend much here, bug reports are often ignored, new community managers post for a week or so and then ghost, and the only real resources are other players who might answer questions or post things that Funcom released on their other social media but not their own clucking forums) or refuse to acknowledge the situation as it is.

This one isn’t saying you don’t have a right to complain.
This one also isn’t saying that it isn’t in the Community Manager’s job to engage with the community and ensure clear and coherent communication.
But this one is saying that we have years of evidence that what is right and what should happen are utterly irrelevant to how things will proceed.

If one calls the customer service line at a business and it fails to get results, one may consider escalation. Taking the complaint higher.
If one continues to ring the same customer service line and get the same lack of progress for years… continuing to ring that line is because the customer wants the same result or the customer has, at best, a tentative grasp on reality… oh, or some very bizarre fixation on the customer service agent, but that gets very creepy very quickly, best to leave that aside.

Boycott is great.
Even better for business if that boycott is always going to start after just this one purchase…

But if they are butchering the game (and make no mistake, this one has been hissing about the enshittification for some time) is it not better to end the update process with extreme prejudice before it gets even worse?
Will it kill the game?
Is that necessarily a bad thing if the game ceases active development?
Maintenance mode is boring, but at least maintenance mode comes with no new affronts.
At what point would it be better to end development, and therein end the cycle of every patch making the game less enjoyable than the previous one?

This one would prefer if this good game, which was once great, and has it within it to be most excellent, were better developed, both in different direction and with meaningful QA. But at this interval, the only route forward towards that seems to hinge on someone from above Funcom demanding such changes.

This one truly does wish that some articulated expression on the forums could accomplish anything. That would be nice.
But the truth is, those who make such decisions do not care what the players want.

If someone doesn’t care, to change their activities, one must find something they care about and use that to influence them.
In the case of Funcom, they have masters. They are property, they sold themselves to Tencent.
Also, money talks louder than the text to speech of forums. It talks to the master and it talks to the subservient.

Perhaps if the game tanks bad enough it can be purchased by people who do care about it.

Nothing to disagree here, except that in todays business environment, i think, the game will just die, official servers will cease to exist and that is basically it

Meu lacaios de bacadas estão morrendo não sei como! 3 dias seguidos que entro e está registrado lacaio morreu



Preciso de ajuda, estou muito frustado !

Although I am no native speaker I think you missed the point LostBrythunian wants to make completely. Because of these possibilities I personally refrain to use Caps or this language in forums…
But on the topic: The decline in “quality“ of programming and communication is really showing and as much as I like CE and try to mitigate all bugs for me and others players, I stopped completely investing a single crom coin. I invest time because I still like playing but that’s it. I rather want not to know the sales figures because CE might not the type of game which can exist because whales. Enjoy what is to enjoy as long as it lasts and then move on.

@AndyB

ok…
but…
the pêrformance on ps4…
30min…
one sorcier which does not appear in the word and banch, but is considered guarded in the list, not found on the map
30 minute and still no loading of my elements, workshop decoration chest…
I have to launch the game on Monday to be able to hope to play it on Sunday?
if there is no freeze?

sincerely…
the bar was already slowing down the game a lot, now it’s worse
I tested
there are some great things
but in terms of stability, performance, comfort and pleasure
I give my rating
0
some friends asked me for my opinion on investing in a server and getting back into the game
my opinion:
no!
Thank you

Gif-Kaamelott-le-top-20-9

From this spot i officialy annouce, if FUNCOM make hotfix to repair most things in next week i buy argossean extend pack from bazar.

I expect trash for other reasons. I’d have paid $20 for it with out a thought, till the fact 90% of funcom’s community reps were playing patty cake on the Dune discord.
I was on there long enough to realize pineapple pizza is more of a hot topic with them then the failing Conan exiles. That discord made it abundantly clear we don’t count.

What messenger?

I do try to point out when I am responding to news it’s not me coming at the messenger.

I can practically guarantee he is parked in the Dune discord.
You wan to talk to funcom reps? Join the Dune discord, it’s full of them.

:roll_eyes:

Tend to agree.

Player pressure valve. Gives people a stage to rant on.

I have issues with people generally, big surprise? I don’t get why anyone would want a job dealing with you all all day. I do try to keep it in mind these are just fumcom reps and not really responsible for the shape the game is in or what is done to it.

Agree, the problem is getting all 9K of us that are left to do it. Like everyone take a Tuesday off, just don’t log in.

What a dipsnot :roll_eyes:

Hate must be your drug of choice.

@AndyB Maybe you could add “AmbientLifeEnabled=false” to all official servers to prevent further losses?

I did this at my private cluster before spinning it up after the update and we have no losses there since yesterday.

I don’t know if it helps when thralls are already placed, but it least its worth a try.

well patrons now are falling quite frequently. that did not happen (that i could see durring AOW)

all of my thralls get stuck in the tavern, they dont sit, and some times (40%) they will stand on top of the table.

promuse?? it is promise?

Yeah, it seems to be a matter of how close their seating is to any other object. Like with many interactibles, you need to be able to walk up to and in front if the area to interact with/get plopped out at when exiting.

Beds for example need room at the foot-end and at the side. You also need to be able to fully walk there.

Chairs need walking room around the sides and front.

Do a bug report, Hansel.

I promuse that they’ll fix it. :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

( I am pretty sure that they meant “promise” )

funny only my thralls has those issues, patrons sits without any issues as far as i could tell.

Unfortunately, the cook in my palace has decided to forever stand on top of the table in the banquet hall instead of doing his job in the kitchen downstairs where I spent time redesigning it for him. His execution is scheduled for the morning.

Omg, why does a simple spelling error anger me so much!?..probably because no one making this game cares about it enough for it to be a good game for their customers while charging crazy prices for the celestial decorations.

If anything I guess this goes to show that the short time between updates wasn’t really the core issue, you’re going to release basically untested (since you never listen to feed back or fix bugs before going live) buggy messes no matter how much time you spend on them.

I wonder if anyone even has any faith left in the Dune project as this point after how much you’ve butchered conan. Especially since a lot of this butchery was testing for Dune anyway. I do understand that Dune is being made by basically a different studio but they must really have all the A-team members because every person on the conan exiles team deserves to be fired and replaced. I mean not even a year ago you released another completely broken patch (knowing it was broken) where the main feature (camels or was it barkeeps???) didn’t even work then went on vacation for a month. Literally insane.

i am redoing lui fei quest, he came to visit to ask me for the ingredients (ancient horn eyes of the innocent brimstone and heart of a hero.

i went visiting with all the ingredients to where the yogplant is (sunken dungeon entrance) , and the only option i got is “goodbye” came to base, and he showed up next to me with the same


no idea how to proceed.

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