I realize Funcom’s new staff cares about the players even less than Joel did… but… MY GODS… revert the change.

When this thread is full of “This person hasn’t posed in 1 year, this person has posted in 4 years, this is a new person” all coming in to say these changes are bad… that is telling you these changes are bad.

I started a new play through a week or two ago. (first time since 2020 I think) It took me a while to get used to the New Journey steps that are frankly needlessly annoying but actually better than the old chapters in process. (Having to manually switch for duplicate steps and having to do the steps in exact order is dumb is silly)

However over all the changes and new mechanics were fine. Seeing bugs that are 7 years old and new bugs as well was a little annoying. However over all I was having fun.

These new changes are monumentally dumb. Enemies basically q lock and you can’t manoeuvre. This seems to be Funcom sitting around thinking how to make combat more difficult. …oh lets take away side dodging and combos from people that don’t use q lock. That way fighting multiple mobs is more difficult for players… they won’t be able to easily see the enemies coming, they will be disoriented and it leave them vulnerable and open to be stun locked by low level NPCs until they find new ways around it.

I mean literally this is just removing functionality. This isn’t fixing a bug. And the NPC q lock just removes side rolling or even side movement as a viable manner to fight many if not most enemies.

The workaround in this thread is ok… but it still leaves the simple fact that Funcom made a bunch of changes and didn’t make sure… or didn’t care… if they were actually good.

Age of War Chapter 3 isn’t out. They put out a 15gb bug ridden patch. Where Purges are broken (unless you cheese it) where combat is broken, where logging in is broken, where camels are broken, where because of the Broken Combat the PvE raid is broken.

Funcom would have been better to say… there are some bugs and QA issues that may arise and we need time to fix it. The team needs a rest for the holidays though and so we are going to push back chapter 3 to mid January. We are adding the new Aseir set to the bazaar today though and making it 50% off until the Chapter 3 officially launches.

But now… let rush it out the door… and hope for the best. This is how you destroy good will.

I’ve literally played since 2017 It is the most I’ve played any game short of EvE and WoW. No other game keeps me building like Conan Exiles. Yet… I can’t wait for a game to surplant it. I really hope Enshroaded or Light No Fire will hold my attention.

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