What exactly is the purpose?

[Taemien]

@Oduda

@Ignasi

Changed Potion of Midnight crafting location to a crafting station near the Werehyena that teaches the recipe.

• This station is the only place where the Potion of Midnight can be crafted.
• Previously crafted/stockpiled Potions of Midnight have been removed due to the change in how they are crafted.

The Potion of Midnight did not need to have it’s crafting location to be changed, especially not to have it changed to only one specific place on the map nor did you have any need to go into peoples inventories and delete their current supply of said potion. For what purpose was this done? This was clearly not done for “player enjoyment”. No one enjoys having a potion which they were previously capable of crafting at their own base suddenly being gatekeeped to a pre-determined location for…reasons? And I can guarantee that no one enjoys having their previously crafted items just suddenly yanked out of their chests and poofed away. So for what good reason was the justification behind this done?

I think they didn’t go far enough on this one. The Potion of Midnight can still be used as a bit of fast travel (in PVE as well as PVP) that its not really meant for. I think it should just put a short buff on the character that gives you enough time to talk to the Werehyena and then if you have this buff you get the option to go to the Grove.

@Oduda

@Pliskin

• Control over follower behavior has been removed from the follower radial and replaced with a new menu in the follower’s inventory panel
• Follower Command Radial has been reworked for ease of input
• “Stop” command has been removed

The entire new “radial” system on PC is a massive downgrade over what existed previously. It most assuredly is not a “rework for ease of input” as it is honestly more difficult to use than it was previously. Furthermore the new “menu” system is also not intuitive nor easy to use at all. But more imporatly it brings up another issue all together. Why are we adding MORE STEPS WHEN THEY ARE NOT NEEDED to achieve the same results we were able to achieve before in an easier and more intuitive manner? Why complicate things for the sake of complications sake? Also, what was the freaking reason for removing the stop command?

I personally haven’t had any issues with this. And I do like that I can visually see what mode my followers are in instead of second guessing myself. The stop command has been improved and renamed ‘Flee’. Before the thrall would stop their agro for a second but still stand next to a foe and simply reagro, basically not doing anything. The flee command has them stop, and regroup making them actually run out of danger if used properly.

@Oduda

@Pliskin

Dye Changes

• The dye functionality has been moved to the dyer’s bench, with a new inventory slot where you place your armor and then press the “dye” button to open up the available options.

Another completely unnecessary change which was unneeded and has only added steps, complicated the process of accomplishing that which was previously a relatively easy method. And the reasoning behind it was, frankly, insulting.

This is another one they need to go further with. My biggest issue with the dye bench is that its only functionality is to create dyes and dye armor in the current state. If we’re going to use a bench, I would like for dye profiles to be something we can save to use multiple times. I’d also like the ability to see how dyes look on a piece of armor on a different gender to myself. And finally I would like to see the removal of individual dyes and replaced with just general dye reagents so we don’t need 80+ recipes and items to dye our stuff, instead you use reagents and then pick a color from a list, or make a new one using sliders.

This way with some simple materials you can dye an entire army’s worth of gear in quick succession, dye the colors you want (meaning you can match colors even if the tints are off based on base material of the item), and can see exactly what everything is going to have.

Now with that said, I’ve also played Funcom games since 2008, including Age of Conan, as well as a bit with Secret World and obviously the thousands of hours in Conan Exiles, as well as some of my other contributions that the devs and community team are already aware of. And while some of the stuff in the last year have been rough (I do agree that bugs need to be worked out and the sooner the better), not every change listed here in the thread and elsewhere are universally considered bad.

The one’s I listed as coming up short also detail my suggestions to take them a bit further and what I consider a positive direction. It may not be in line with what the OP likes, but that’s fine, as differing opinions are okay and valid.