For those that may of missed it:
There are no plans to fix the voip. It was also downplayed as just being mediocre, and choppy, even though most of us have to deal with being completely muted during conversations in-game. Voip is broken in Conan, there is no question about it.
Here are two things I’d like to say, firstly, this is partly the fault of the Voice RP community. Many of us like to complain about things, like the voip, but never actively report them on the forums. I’ve posted this thread several times, in multiple community discords, and out of the hundreds of people experiencing these issues, that complain daily about voip cutting out on them, only about 10 people took the time to come here to reply or even like my post.
I think a lot of people in the RP community expect the developers to just know that bugs exist, and feel that it shouldn’t be their job to report them, but sadly, that’s not how it works, especially when this game was in early access. You know what community is extremely vocal about reporting bugs? The pvp community. Do you know who is getting all of the fixes that they’ve been complaining about incessantly? The pvp community.
Why do you think the combat is getting so much love?
Funcom needs to see that the things they are fixing are worth their time, and money. If only 10 people complain about the voip, while another 200 complain about combat balance, which do you think will get fixed?
It sucks, but that’s just how it is. I am a nobody, I’m not a big twitch streamer, I’m not some community mod that speaks with the PR team or anything like that. My post alone was never going to make a difference, but at least I tried.
Secondly, Funcom, it’s a bug. People literally cannot talk to each other in the game a lot of the time. VOIP is broken, it’s not just mediocre, it’s trash, and it’s a part of your product. I know that voip is a complicated thing to fix, but Conan Exiles is a modern multiplayer game, proper voip should’ve been part of the package to begin with, not something slapped together haphazardly. Not to mention, your text chat system isn’t great either. You pretty much need Pippi mod to make it not garbage.
What was the plan here? For people to just murder one another in the game, was the emphasis always on pvp, and poor communication? Is that part of the game loop? Everyone in the Conan universe is too stupid to communicate properly, because, barbarians?
I just don’t get it.
In a perfect world, Funcom would realize there is value in fixing, investing in and enhancing voip, and that the VOIP RP/streaming community is a community that aides in strengthening the longevity of a products revenue, even long after the game has been released.
I won’t be holding my breath, but I will mourn what could have been.