What is the actual new content in Age of War Season 1?

SirDaveWolf · 2023-06-17T19:45:16.907Z

What is the actual new content in Age of War Season 1?

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Taemien · 2023-06-17T20:33:46.424Z

I’m starting to think they should have delayed the announcement of Age of War by 3-6 months. But not the patch or update. That comes on time. Just call it Age of Sorcery Chapter 3 part 2.

Then have Chapter 2 instead be Chapter 1 of Age of War. Then the community would have been entertained.

No discernable difference in the actual pace of the development. But the community wouldn’t know better.

GodlyVoice · 2023-06-17T21:25:57.097Z

They still need to bring the new battle pass and bazaar stuf.

LostBrythunian · 2023-06-17T22:51:38.719Z

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This one wants to object.
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But if this had been Age of Sorcery, Chapter 4, The Aftermath…
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This one would definitely be less irked.

Alternatively, a transition chapter between Ages might not be a bad idea.
Yes yes, still have a Battle Pass and the Bazaar updates, but use the “Season” between Ages to roll out the QoL or big system overhauls so the next Age can start with a bang might be a grand idea.

Croms_Faithful · 2023-06-18T02:53:21.223Z

LostBrythunian:

But what is the content?

LostBrythunian:

Is it really just the treasure pile?

I do hate to be negative, but I was sitting here pondering this exact point. It seems that the new content is treasure piles and some custom banners. And for me personally, without the ability to create a Crom banner (…despite their being Set options! ) I simply will not bother with the banners. And this leads me to also concur with this point you made.

LostBrythunian:

darthphysicist:

By chapter three

No.
Full stop.
This one’s question was this season, not what is planned for release in 6-7 months.

I completely agree (sorry darth…). Nerfs and rebalance do bot constitute content, but rather tweeks and calibration. It is looking like at this point the Battle Pass is the new content for Chapter 1.

darthphysicist · 2023-06-18T03:12:43.045Z

I guess what may be guiding my perspective is that I dont use sorcery really… I think its good that it was added, but I simply dont use it. I will however make use of (and mod) the emblems and the new weapon rebalancing, so in the end for me personally, this is a more impactful first chapter.

I also dont experience the events/encounters because I play on my maps.

Taemien · 2023-06-18T04:10:17.430Z

darthphysicist:

I also dont experience the events/encounters because I play on my maps.

The fact that statement is plural is gross. You have way too much patience for that.

Croms_Faithful · 2023-06-18T21:29:01.037Z

darthphysicist:

I will however make use of (and mod) the emblems and the new weapon rebalancing, so in the end for me personally, this is a more impactful first chapter.

No that is percectly understandable. All updates attract varying degrees of both interest and likelihood of us using it. Sorcery was something which I was completely neutral on at first. I just took it as it came neither oppositional nor encouraging. But now I have grown to thoroughly enjoy it. Perhaps this will be the same, perhaps not. For me personally, combat was already in a good place, but again, I want to play it when it goes live before judging. And if I may compliment you, I saw you new map in its thread and it looks very cool.

heaven13 · 2023-06-21T21:27:40.834Z

Sorcery isn’t something I always engage in and, of the three servers/characters I play, only 1 uses sorcery. That said, I recognize the impact it can have and the changes it makes to those who do choose to go down that path. Age of War, however, feels like it’s supposed to be more generically impactful and I just wish that more of what’s supposed to be coming in Chapter 2 wasn’t being held off for later.

And I agree with @LostBrythunian. I actually would have been okay if this patch was just a balancing patch with weapons and stamina and stuff. And then Age of War Chapter 1 would be more new content focused and start the Age. We’d then also have 1 patch cycle/3 months-ish where balance can be adjusted, bugs can be focused on, perhaps people could play catch-up with any battlepasses they missed, etc. I think @Tephra mentioned something like this quite awhile ago regarding the chapter cycle.

Tystin · 2023-06-22T01:40:59.031Z

I believe the commitment to the 3 month time frame in between updates, while amazing to have, is too tight of a deadline to meet which it what we are noticing here. I am grateful Dennis gave us a peak at an actual roadmap, which is huge for me to stay positive when i have an idea what is coming next.

Xevyr · 2023-06-22T01:45:59.018Z

Tystin:

I believe the commitment to the 3 month time frame in between updates, while amazing to have

I personally dislike it…
A lot of companies, not just Funcom seem to be rushing updates for no good reason… (well… their own personal profits ofc, but at a detriment to the game imo.). People can’t even get into it properly and it’s already changed… and I’m not even talking about the quality issues this rushing leads to.

Tystin · 2023-06-22T01:50:29.058Z

Understandable. I’m less of a fan of it than I was at the AoS release but I’m not quite resdy to jump on the dislike bandwagon just yet. I think that’s because i know every 3 months something is changed or added to this game, which is my main game. In between updates I know i can take a comfortable break to woo other new titles so my burnout on Conan has not hit me. Conan will likely be my main mistress until they drop development or ask for my first born in exchange for decorations.

Raeil · 2023-06-22T01:56:46.915Z

Finally something for the the rollplay community!

Tephra · 2023-06-22T02:11:16.642Z

heaven13:

I think @Tephra mentioned something like this quite awhile ago regarding the chapter cycle.

You would be correct:

A time between Ages and Battle Pass reruns Feedback

I do not know what goes on within the confines of Funcom’s offices, so I can only speculate. However, it seems like the new three-month Chapter schedule is pretty tight for getting new content of acceptable quality standards out in time from my outsider’s perspective. It may be that a Chapter can put out 95% of the intended content, then push the extra 5% into the next Chapter, but then the next Chapter can only put out 90% and then there is 10% to be pushed back. This isn’t very sustainable, …

Tystin · 2023-06-22T02:15:33.090Z

I would be comfortable with a 1 month gap in between ages, not too big of a gap for the players but a bit of a breather for the developers.

Winthor · 2023-06-22T09:07:55.226Z

This updates changes for me are the worst in years. It goes so far that I do not even feel positiv about playing Conan right now. I will most likely only login occassionally and do some battlepass tasks and then log off again. I will not play and not build.

What I am looking for in a game is that I can get creative. That I have choises how I wanna play it. Conan gets more and more restrictiv with every update. All that nerfs are killing the game for me.

I loved my thralls as they where. I try to collected all of them. I loved having animals, loved my camels until they removed their satchel. Now they are so low on health and damage they are completely useless. Its a shame what they did to thralls. I loved sneaking around in the dark with my torches. Now we get this unnatural glow effect that will drive me nuts and no option to turn it off. I loved it that when you enter a camp that a horde of npc´s come running at you. Now we enter and they are standing and sitting still around as if you are not there. You get treasures that you have to walk home… thanks but no thanks. Reminds me of a time where people had to roll home when they where overencumbered. I spend so much time in this game rolling home loot for the clan after a raid, I am done with that.

Rolling thrust and poke with spear: reminds me of old times in pvp that I hated. Now its literally back with just more rolling involved.

For what should I play if they are slowly taking away everything that people love. This new update leaves me with the only option and that option is login in, build a little and login off again. I ain´t feeling it right now.

After the first sh…storm hit the fence Funcom should have acted and revert some of the “changes” back, but instead they go through with it and release a bogus letter to influence people and to defend this questionable changes. To make them look better and more thought through as they are in reality.

Koschgine · 2023-06-22T15:43:58.608Z

Everyone keeps talking about events, they are a complete waste of resources that could be used to actually improve the game and create some actual content. Events offer no challenge and reward you with complete junk, the same junk you get everywhere else. New dungeon would be great, one that has been planned out properly and build with thought. There’s nothing interesting in this update so far, only a huge bunch of stuff that just makes the game easier and ruins the whole concept of survival.

prologue1337 · 2023-06-22T15:58:11.277Z

The combat feels somewhat more realistic, more damage to us, more damage to creatures
The only thing… when playing on a server the mobs don’t react quick enough and gets killed before it moves

syx · 2023-06-22T18:15:40.846Z

Without fitting event accompanying this update feels little bit empty.

system · 2023-06-29T18:16:09.467Z

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