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No one asks for a bug free game, what's going on with Conan is that with each release we ONLY get new bugs. New bugs making new features unplayable, old bugs reappearing and new bugs on old content. How can anyone assume that Funcom wants these fixed when they have not even tried to fix a single one of them. My estimation for their goals with this is to just let it slowly die while making the minimal possible effort and squeeze whatever money they can out of RPers still playing the game. I love this game so much, even a small bugfix release would buy my respect back for them. But even that seems like an extremely optimistic scenario.
I agree, its an old game and if the player base keeps dropping FC just isn't going to toss money at a sinking ship. I've pulled back from buying things from the bazar and why not, seems they don't really care to fix stuff.
Agreed, even the features that worked fairly well on release have been forgotten because of the overwhelming bugs. AoH C1 is pretty much a bugs-only update 😂 They've tried to fix some of the bugs, the problem is that some of the fixes didn't work, they're too slow on the fix, and they're not really saying what they're doing to work on it.
This is the result of Tencent taking control as they've done this to other games. They focus on adding and changing and dropping new things, but don't actually care about the long term health of the game by making sure those new additions work or that old bugs get taken care of. It's far easier, far more marketable and makes way more money, to add new things then it is to go back and fix old problems. This game could bleed players left and right, have it's population drop to almost nothing, but in the end the casual player isn't who matters. They only players they care about are the ones who will drop money to buy stuff from the store and chances are...those players won't be leaving no matter how bad the game gets. They've already stuck through all the old bugs and bad changes so why bother fixing things when adding new "content" to play and new items to buy will continue to keep them playing a buggy mess of a game. For the record, Conan Exiles was literally one of my favorite games. I played this for thousands of hours and fell in love with the entire survival builder genre because of this game. I happily double dipped on most of the old DLCS (on ps4 and PC) and were very supporting of Funcom back in the day. But after the buyout I knew the game wouldn't be the same and I'm sad to see I'm right. I dropped this game during the Age of War after the Purge "fixes". For every one good thing added, three bad things came along with it. And while I still to this day, have the urge to hop on, buy those new building sets and lose days of my time just making fancy houses, I have to refuse to play this because I know the overall experience at this point will not be fun. What happened to this game is a tragedy.
The other issue is that they release their new "buggy updates" before things like spring break and winter break where you might have more time to play the game. Instead they drop the buggy update and peace out for 2 weeks while everything is broken.
I am a huge fan of Conan Exiles and would like to continue playing. Sadly, most of my friends who used to play the game with me have moved on to other games, primary due to all the bugs. Your review of last year was spot on. I would rather see no new enhancements to the game for the early part of 2025 if Funcom can just fix the existing bugs and make the game stable again.
I get the impression the CM role probably has a lot more responsibilities than we might think, ones that the community doesn't see as plainly as comms. That being said, yeah, comms are weak. Andy did decent with comms at AoH C1 launch, but they fell silent again before the Christmas holidays
YES! 100% I would be so happy for an update without any new content if even the biggest things can be fixed. I got on my single player world and at just one base there were 14 (yes I counted) thralls that were fallen through the mesh way down Ithe void. I love the game but you are right that even when I have reported things it feels like nothing gets looked at.
OMG you are so right! Back in 2020/21 I was playing Siptah a lot & every single time I logged in to my village, more than half of my thralls had fallen into the void under the map. I timed it once, to see how far down my thralls had fallen: it took me 3 solid minutes of Admin Ghost Flying straight down to spot him, like a little pin point, hanging in the expansive nothingness below the map. It took another three minutes of hand holding all the way back up just to replace him on solid ground. Every. Single. Time. I logged in to Siptah. Then it got fixed. For a time. Then it started happening back in the Exiled Lands too. Eventually, I just started from scratch on both files. It was still notoriously bad over by Tellith's Isle, near the river separating the North from the desert. My tiger guards fell through the map there constantly. That was a real shame too as that is arguably the most beautiful portion of the entire map of the Exiled Lands.
Thank you for the Video. I think you spoke for the majority when you said that you are still passionate about the game and the property. We all want the game to continue and prosper. Have an awesome 2025!
Development is the exact same as any other company that bases its income on production. What we have isn’t a dev problem, it’s a management problem. The FOMO bazar isn’t a problem (it’s something I detest but it’s not a deal breaker) but it’s an indicator that cash over quality is on someone’s mind at Funcom, that first order priorities aren’t first order. Nearly every problem in business comes down to bad management or bad management policies (like too many chiefs).
I couldn't agree more. With moral ownership and average management, maybe funcom can hire again devs, instead of the circus of content creators they have now.
@ I hope so. It’s a problem throughout the industry. Too many chiefs and not enough braves. If they would dish out the big bucks for the top tier programmers the product would become real quality and there wouldn’t have to be a side hustle FOMO. a lot of old school devs who can do a month’s worth of work in a day (from an interview I saw with the creator of Fallout and he meant it literally).
We need an Age of Bug Fixes. I don't expect the game to be bug free, but I do expect it to be playable. My girlfriend and I put an insane amount of hours into this game from 2020 till early 2024, over 1000, it was our lockdown game. We got the platinum trophy, bought every dlc, had a private server that we were paying for, did the battle passes, we loved this game. But the bugs killed it for us. She uninstalled it months ago, I don't play anymore, but keep an eye on it still. It's just kinda sad seeing the state of a game we once loved so much. And for crying out loud, give us a native PS5 version already! There's a Series X version, so why no PS5!?
i hope they add a Blueprint System for builders. would be epic. hell, they could even make it a thing for Survival, by having the builder thralls being able to make the blueprints of those buildings in a special crafting station where you choose a blueprint, then you have to add all the materials for it to build it, and then you can place it like you would any other item.
Love the game but dear lord do they need a hard 6 to 12 months of nothing but code cleanup & bugfixes. The problem is that Conan Exiles has been like that since 2017 as there are still bugs from that day and age that are still infuriatingly common now. Looking at you foundation spawn break for certain underground bosses....
Not the worst year... but dropping the battlepass removed one of the larger reasons people had to keep playing. Yes, the bannings and bugs were bad, but people forget about how bad the bugs could be in early Conan.... from enemies just ignoring you completely, to decay timers rotting food in seconds. Old Conan could be a real mess.
The fact we still can't see the player count on servers makes the game looks dead to new players and also frustrating to try and find active servers too. Cant connect conan to twitch coz of bug and cant buy products in shop coz of a bug. So many reasons its dying and its a shame coz its a great game and could last forever with love and attention from the devs😢
Communication MUST be the highest priority. I started to play Conan this year… most is unknown. From content, to daily content, bugs, etc. I own software companies, and I have developed games, apps, and software for 30 years… the optics is that this game is dead. Engage, Engage, Engage. They must engage internally with each other, engage with their partners, engage with is the customers… DAILY! Create a new loading screens with new bazaar content, post news, create NEW EVENTS. I have only been playing for 9 months (I am a big spender on the game), we have our own servers… NO communication and NO content. Again the game is perceived to be DEAD
I asked them for a weekly devlog ever since 2020, but Funcom keeps ignoring. They are not strong enough to make a commitment to us the customers. It is sad but I have to say that the game is already in the "milking" state. They properly only make random cosmetics these days based on their weirdest fantasy then throwing at us. All the "so-called-features" were all stale or made half-heartedly, also not even worked right. I swear that only those dedicated modders, who have their own community, keep the game "fresh and alive" for RP players. Comparing to them, Funcom is like hundred miles away from doing actual works.
@ wow! Since 2020 is crazy! Unfortunately, I am on the PS5 and can’t not enjoy any of the great mods. Was Funcom (not just the devs) ever communicative?
I've suggested weekly or bi-weekly community highlight posts (at least) for years. We generally only hear from the devs when updates are coming, the rest of the time is far too quiet
@@Eradicati0nn that would be an improvement. From a “typical” player perspective, content is missing. All we get are repeated and recycled poor events and (for the most part) recycled building or armor packs. Which after playing for less than a year, I seem to fully own. I have built dozens of castles, “finished” the game on Siptah and Exiles. So much potential, such a great lore. I love the game. Wish they would do more. What’s next?
@@idf-general I might be pre-saging Wednesday's video here, but I think after Dune gets released, I wouldn't be surprised if Conan gets the Ark treatment and is upgraded to a pseudo-sequel. It might actually fix some of the problems with the old spaghetti code that seems to cause a lot of issues. Not that improvements can't be made to the current product, but I think the march of time is potentially outpacing Conan, especially on older systems. That being said, unless communication improves with it, we'll still have relative silence
What we'd need is a map expansion for both, Exiles Lands and Siptah OR a portal, to switch seamlessly between both areas, as the map kind of got small with the invention of constructable portals and the "waypoints". Add questlines with own story to the map, to make it more interesting, maybe including the creation a building somewhere, or a bridge. Stuff like this.
By the tail end of Age of War, I was growing tired of the bugs and glitches. I stopped placing down coffers because the Purge system wasn't worth it. When the Age of Heroes arrived, I never even bothered to grab either new companion because I was having massive headaches with the Living World Settlement to even care, let alone bother since I'm more of a solo fighter and rather not risk a thrall, even with the DBNO system. I'm hoping 2025 is a better year, but based off last year, my expectations are very low.
The prices of bazaar bundles have gone up...a lot! And for so few cosmetic items. I miss the old DLCs...it give me something to look forward to like a mini Christmas. Now, I have to wait and see what will be offered in the bazaar with no announcements of new bundles.
I dont experience many bugs. However, when I do it's game breaking. I specially struggled recently with Liu Fei quest disappearing completely. The plant and everything. I had to go look for a mod that pops him back up. And sometimes Freya crashes the game, that's always fun.
Same with me, I've managed to avoid the vast majority of bugs, but I got hit by Living Settlements a bit and got hit hard by the old save bug that (AFAIK) is still happening. I can only imagine what it'd be like for people that run into severe bugs every day
"Their wost year" was it? i didn't notice. The game ran fine for me. There are only 2 bugs that i run into consistently: Disappering followers, who reappear latter. And the pathing of thralls in base who run around as if they're lost. I just turn off the thrall wandering, no need for it anyway. Just left with the disappearing followers, a bug that i come across maybe once every day or two, that fixes itself fairly quickly.
I have given CE a break for a few months now back in the middle of AOW mostly due to lack of interest as I had been putting loads of time into playing. Had fun but when I returned for the AOH it was a buggy mess. I still have yet to recruit a Companion and haven't played in about a month now. Unfortunately the devs are seemingly lacking in the communication department as apparent on Twitter. I do hope the next mid season update brings some of what we are looking for in terms of fixes and communication instead of solely speaking about the update.
I still buy a few things because I enjoy the game but also to hopefully help the devs because I feel xbox still need a patch for the tavern fix but this can't keep going though so I really hope they can come with some good results and dedication because the series deserves no less.
My biggest issues happened when I was required to install Conan onto my hard drive, it ran ok while on game pass, but as soon as I was forced to install, it became crash city, unplayable. Yes , I own it out right and all the dlc but once installed it crashes.
The problem is that fixing bugs doesn't make money. Fixing bugs isn't something they can send to the marketing team to increase player acquisition. Fixing bugs is something that is done solely for existing players who have already paid for the game. Releasing new items in the Bazaar makes money. Releasing new features and getting that small burst of new players makes money. It's difficult to justify the ROI on having your most expensive team work on fixing bugs for a game that's almost 10 years old. In software engineering, we refer to this as tech debt, and it MUST be paid at some point or your product will fail. In a SDLC, fixing bugs falls under the maintenance phase, and it's required for long-term sustainability. From an outside perspective, it looks to me like Funcom has historically appeared to disregard the importance of maintenance. Modern SDLC methodologies have routine maintenance baked in, and it can run parallel to the planning phase. Another benefit dedicated maintenance periods (or "cooldowns" as they're often called) it is that it improves morale for the engineering team as maintenance is often self-directed, which gives them a break from being ticket-takers for the product team. In addition to fixing bugs, they can also work toward improving DX, which can make them more productive in the long term. Maintenance is a requirement for any product, and it's often difficult to stress the importance of it to other teams at the company. Which brings me to what I suspect is the fundamental problem: Funcom's CTO quit and took a few key people with him, including a lead game designer and a senior engineer. Funcom has since failed to fill that CTO position, so they've been without a CTO for 2 years at this point. This is important because it would typically be the CTO who would know how to articulate the importance of addressing tech debt and balance that against the other needs of the company. I obviously don't know anything about the internals of Funcom, but I imagine that the engineering team has been without proper technical leadership for a long time now, and the poor quality of the product is a symptom of that. Take what I say with a grain of salt. I'm just going by information that's publicly available about the company and my own experience with the product and I'm filling in a lot of blanks here. This is simply my theory as to what's happened. But it could be completely incorrect.
I can't speak to the technical input, but at least in my opinion, I could kinda see fixing bugs as making money in a similar vein to how playtime often scales with monetary investment for other titles. Fixing bugs would increase stability, thus allowing the user to play more and feel more secure about playing, and thus spending money. Not sure if that works in practice of course 😂 but that's how I'd think of it
A week before this season dropped I went into my games and put all my Crafters into chests after the download I was unable to load my exiled lands I tried many many times it kept freezing on the load screen and that save was over 4 years old probably close to 2000 hours so I hit start new game and it's all gone
The team behind Conan Exiles insists that the work on DUNE has no influence on Conan Exiles, but that's a blatant lie. When their other old games were dying and new ones were being created, they also said so, but everyone probably knows what happened to Age of Conan and The Secret World and why.
Sehr guter Beitrag, ich stimme dir voll zu. Viel Hoffnung habe ich bei CE leider nicht mehr 🙁. Ich wünsche mir von Herzen, dass es wieder aufwärts geht. Ich habe dieses Spiel über 2.400 Stunden gespielt und es hatte wirklich Spaß gemacht. Jetzt müssen erstmal die Entwickler liefern und einiges (!) reparieren bevor ich mich wieder einlogge. Warum machen die Entwickler das Spiel nach und nach kaputt? Das Verhalten der Entwickler/ von Funcom gegenüber der Community ist keine gute Werbung für weitere "Produkte" aus dem Hause Funcom/Tencent.
My beef with the "devs" is not that they don't communicate their plans, rather that during the age of war they introduced more bugs than features working (of course after patches). For example, if they said nothing about camel mounts, I found it by accident, while playing myself or watch someone streaming doing so, I would be elated; but instead, what we got was a 2 month long advertisement of it and then another month of "dev" effort to make it work, while a modder fixed it in two days... and don't get me started with that moronic design decision about rotating in combat, both for players and creatures, the "head dev" was blabbering about this "feature" for several chapters, and it was (partially still is) the most annoying change they have introduced in the gameplay, since it started, having to slowly roll it back, and of course introducing new bugs in the process, because the team (from ownership to management to "devs") is simply not even average, by the low gaming industry standards.
I actually started playing this year! I've been having a lot of fun till the age of heroes patch came out. Because of that update, some of my most important thralls just disappeared. It made me stop playing soon afterward, which really sucks because I love Conan's lore and setting, and that update killed it for me. Hopefully, they can fix the issues because I really like this game.
2024 has been tough indeed... Where to begin... Maps, Events, Lore and gameplay mechanics: Most players have by now explored every inch of both maps and every dungeon. This would be the #1 thing AFTER bug fixes to bring life to the game. I believe adding/"unlocking a new portion of the Exiled Lands is long overdue, could be above the Jungle and be a mix of Icy/Forest region and have Pictish (in the forest area) and maybe Gurnakhi (in the Icy area) NPC camps. Hell, could even make the Age of Heroes 2 have 2 new Companions from there. Failing that, a new Dungeon would be an alternative. I dream of a new dungeon like Wine Cellar or Warmakers Sanctuary. Looking at the Temple of Frost there are "Portals" that were supposed to lead somewhere. Could definitely expand that and add something Ymir related there. Idk maybe Frost Giants planing to take over the Exiled Lands for themselves and turn it completely into a snow region and you have to stop it. Events are nice, I enjoy both the Head Hunting and the Sacred Hunt but both have been recycled by now, there needs to be another new event before recycling again. I vaguely remember there being Surge like events in the Exiled Lands what happened to those? Lore, seriously the thing that got me hooked was the lore but it kinda stopped being interesting after Isle of Siptah. Age of Sorcery was promising but its utterly under developed. Sorcery is as it is atm. borderline useless. I am not suggesting to add super fantasy fireballs or firing lasers from your eyes, there are more than enough mods to do that. What I think is way easier to do, use what we currently have and improve it. - A variant of Ice Bridge where you summon Ice Spikes, sort of like palisades to block enemies rushing you. - A Variant of Wall of Fire where you split the ground and let volcanic flames shoot out of the earths core to damage foes. - A Variation of Lightning Storm where you summon one big Lightning bolt from the heavens to Strike one enemy and do vast damage. Then there is the demon summoning, like there are the friggn Maelstrom creatures that you could summon instead of the ONE type of demon you have. Age of War was neat in theory but again did not really make it better for me. I like the fact that the Stygians come to collect but I would have kept the original Purge as well. Just have 2 Purges, the regular one where local random NPC's/Tribes/Animals attack your base from time to time. AND the Stygian one you can summon whenever you want to. The amount of terror I felt when a Giant Rocknose was approaching my base is unmatched until this day. Ofc. having updated animations for weapons would be neat, making pets more competetive with Human Followers. Oh yeah and the Bazaar, I buy stuff there regularly but only when I think the price is somewhat justified. Generally speaking the Prices should overall be lower, not half but maybe lowered by 25-30%. The rotations need to be shorter and there should be more to choose from in the first place. That's my 2 Cents. (Funcom should do more frequent surveys too, that would help in the communication department)
It's hard to think of Conan Exiles as 'a game as a service' when we have to wait 6 months between updates that aren't significant enough for such a long wait... even if these new features launched problem free. Funcom has set the expectation that we should wait and hope for fixes. Wouldn't it be nice if us gamers had nothing to do but give feedback about wish-list features or quality of life improvements? If after this first 6 month development cycle the game isn't in a very good state, what's next? A 12 month cycle?
Currently the game is broken for cause of stamina stops regening and none of my taskbar keys will work char wont even open doors or jump or run... happens very often and i will die if i meet ppl...
The only thing that they are trying to do with this game is make as much money as possible without giving us anything in return. This is why I don't play official and I only play single player using mods that people who actually know what they're doing make
Thanks Eradication! The thralls dissappear and tracking has caused me a rift with the game .. the game still can be good ans has even more potential but at some point the devs need to put something solid together .. I've played thus game religiously been able make stories of conquest .. and passion but I've had step away for a moment hoping they can fix this
My game on the PS4 crashed and when finished reloading I had lost my ability to use sorcery, lost a powerful thrall, and some random benches and chests had despawned. I looked up the bug online and saw that other people had experienced it, but the site was full of advertisements and there was no clear response that I recall. Conan is a resource management game, and if the hours I've spent getting to level 60 and accumulating resources vanish in an instant, then what is the point of playing? It wastes my time. The game has some great ideas, but you hit the nail 100% on the head - Its about implementation and I frankly don't see the point of adding new material if, every time I load the game I'm taking the chance on a catastrophic loss. Most of the time these crashes just threaten to respawn me in a bad location disconnected from my thralls, but this latest crash has me looking to other hobbies.
Love the game but it has become tedious for me. The inventory revamp hit me hard. I held out for a reversion or some other fix and/or was hoping maybe I would get used to it. Afaik the team hasn't acknowledged the boondoggle. The need to remove all my gear for afk or logging out is tedious. The last thing for me is playing whack-a-mole replacing t4 crafters. I can't do it anymore.
as you say its not about the content its about the bugs but many people love to make the new content we getting blame it all on what they seing is it the content their is the bad guy and not the bugs, and allso i hope this video people can see its the bugs and not the content,
The official servers are terrible. Huge amounts of lag, glitches and not even being able to log due to ping spikes keeps me from spending any $$$ on this game.
nice build but id use half walls to make the build higher and therefore the front roofs a little bit higher as well, makes for actually walking around a lot better and camera going wild a little bit less :D
Please tell me I'm not alone. I play on PS5 official server. I get this bug where my action buttons just stop working, attack, jump, etc. even while on a horse it will not jump. Sometimes the attack will start to animate but then stops. The stamina will be used, but not regenerate. This will stay like this until the server resets, restarting the game on the PS5 has no effect. I can load a different character in the same server and it will be fine. This bug can pop up almost immediately upon playing, or sometime after hours of playing. It's happened in my busy base, and while out in the middle of nowhere. I'm just curious if this is one of the known game breaking bugs. Is it on all platforms?
I bought this game on release day, I can confirm that a lot of things never got fixed. The bugs are my main complaint with the game, they never seem to get fixed. I recently got it on Series X, and it's been pretty frustrating. Some things I've run into are enemies becoming immune to knockback and stuns, and thralls pushing me off of cliffs. The enemies seem to slightly sink into the ground, which gives them 100% immunity to any attack that has knockback. When I'm riding a rhino and have a thrall following, it's ridiculous that a thrall can toss my rhino into the air and off a cliff so I fall to my death. I don't think funcom play tests anything or listens to community feedback. That is going to be their downfall, I personally wouldn't buy another game from them. Don't get me wrong, I like the game and have supported it from launch, but their lack of communication and refusal to listen to players has really tarnished their reputation with me.
Every thing the devs introduce is just a some paint over a change designed to push more people to over priced micro transactions. a great example is the inventory rework -> a check system so players cant use items made by other players they haven't paid for. If the goal was actually to make the game better they would not have so much trouble these systems.
i agree on its the bugs their killing the players on the game and if they hade their beta test servers open to people tehir wanna help improve they could opdate things over their and when it was good to go they could realse it on the main servers, but have the main servers open mean while the beta test servers is open instead of oonly have them open 1 month before the chapter comes live, if they doing this it will help alot more becuse they can get feedback frome the test servers constaly and not have to worry over we not sending the reports so they can fix them but fix them when the hole update is on the main server can destroy the gameplay becuse you kinda using the main servers as beta testers and not letting them enjoy the game becuse of the bugs i hope you see what i saying thx for the video lets hope this new year 2025 is gonna be good
Age of sorcery was so awesome and then... idk what happen or what Dennis is cooking over there but it honestly feels like they dont give a crap anymore. Like CE didnt meet live service milestones and they are looking for a way to abandon it will still collecting cash.
Great content as usual. Wrote a comment that turned into an essey. Too long. I summarize instead, but this is also long. If you wonder how I came to a certain conclussion I do have an explaination for that. Ask in that case. I need to go through one thing - What is a game? It is defined (by wiki) as something you may do for fun. Sure, but every game you have played, or participated in, have an element of achievment and resistance. There is a goal and there is an opponent, or environment, that tries to stop you reaching that goal. That challange, and overcoming that challange, is fun. In PvP, like hockey, it is to outscore the opponent. In PvE games, like the board game Pandemic, you need to collaborate and reach the goal before the before time runs out. In creative games (that are not really games imo), like Minecraft, they offer an accessable tool box to the player may use. Like a starter kit from the art store. Usually, like 99,9% of games, there is a goal that the player shall achieve and something that hinder the player, a struggle, to reach the goal. If you fail, game over. What game is Conan Exiles? What is the goal and what is the struggle? It is classified as a Survival RPG MMO, but where do the player struggle? All community events are centered around building, so it is really a building simulator? To me CE is a mess from a game design perspective, "Jack of all trades, master of none". I think that is a reason for all the bugs. To summarize: Funcom needs to... - Define the game. What is the core of CE? What is the goal and struggle? Everyone in the team should know the game (struggle and achievment) - Focus on the game. Every release should target a certain aspect of the struggle and improve that aspect. Be disciplined. Be true to the game. What aspect of the game did Age of War target? What aspect of the game is Age of Heroes target? How do they combine? - Establish best practise regarding QA. Read some QA books and take some courses. Make the core of the game solid and bug free. - Take the Culture talk. Too many major bugs at every release indicate there is a culture issue within Funcom that needs to be resolved. Someone with mandate needs to take the talk and walk the walk. - Communicate honestly. I feel communcation from Funcom to the Community often is arrogant and bloated. Get to the point and understand that the Community is smarter than you. Dennis once said that we must "understand they do things for a reason" but madness can be a reason, too big of an ego can be a reason, having no plan can be a reason. What is the reason?
What about bugs with battlepass or shopp?? No major isues, fixed fast if needed. We all know history of the developers and share holders. So defending them and giving doupt is pointless. Fast adding things that bring new people and sell untested items for a full game price with all the predatory tactics in cosmos. Well shipp sayeled. Game has promise and potencial but not with this managment.
The Problem is I see it is admitting there is an issue, and taking away time top fix those issues, will continue to just ultimately piss off shareholders big corpos dont wana hear there are problems, they want to hear the game is perfect and making a profit, they want it to look like new thing is being released, it dosnt matter on our end when theyre simply pleasing a boardroom of corpos who only wana hear they are making more money.. It does not speak well for the Dune game's development either, if theyre struggling on this project. We sadly dont live in a society where games are published based on player approval, and while it holds the game back, the game is dead if the higher ups decide it. Just like every other live service on the market today,
As predicted, the "we're now spacing more the updates and get rid of battle pass TO WORK BETTER !" was in fact "we don't care anymore, only the overpriced bazar matter now (well, more than ever) Ah yes, and Dune too, even if we said "LoL DiFfeReNt TeAmZzZzZzZz !"
Thanks for the video Mate. I haven't been able to run the game for three months. Devs are deaf to our complaints and requests. They may be doing something to fix the problem, but they don't tell us anything about it. For me, Age of Heroes was the funeral of Conan Exiles. In your material, you propose how devs should solve problems with their game, but I think they should start by hiring programmers, because apparently they don't have any on their team. I haven't uninstalled the game yet, I still have some hope that within a few weeks the problem with running old saves will at least be fixed. If not, there are plenty of other games that work.
the issue is that with the start of the bazzar being a foma machine one of reasons is was created was to bypass the dlc cost to upload it on a site like xbox or steam. if it was all there when they added it and reasonanbly price rp and fans would be way more all of it. secondly the foma with free content made the game feel like a job when in a single player world. the lack of perminant content hurt the game alot. thirdly as age of war hit it made earlier content worse like cruption perks were you sacrofice your health and stamina and other perks for new perks that arnt out right better for what they ask. removing content like witch doctor minion and giving us a fading magic system that was ruined in age of war. lastly funcom ignoring the pvp comunity has made way more pvp players leave and they make a decent part of the population for this game. as for bugs they need to sit down and actualy sit down and fix them all
I can't even load up my single player game since the last update. Funcom is pathetic. That's just all there is to it. This game has kept on going despite the clown show. Imagine what this game could be with just a half-way competent dev team. Buckle up for Dune.
I stopped playing Conan in 2022 after playing for years because of the minor "boegs"..books? you mention. However when I started playing again last month in hopes of getting a decent patch that fixes them I found the game to be completely broken. I've had to restart from scratch 12 times and I can't get beyond mid game because you lose acquired knowledge, hard won weapons and armor making it a complete waste of time. I'm not even talking about the extreme lag. I thought my system was just too weak and was already considering upgrading it that's how much I enjoy this game. I've started a replay of another game (Hogwarts) and found it works perfectly. This game is over. If they are unwilling to even communicate about fixing something as basic as first person playthrough than why should I bother? Why should anyone. Furthermore if they are using this garbage engine for the upcoming Dune release why should I bother to buy that? I'm quite frankly not going to. These Devs are shooting themselves in the foot. Fix your game before you roll out these fancy new game elements that don't work regardless.
Great game. Terrible company maintaining it. I've all but given up on CE, and I was excited for Dune...but this company doesn't fill me with confidence.
This could have been a short. 9+ minutes is too long to say the reason for a rough year for CE is even more bugs than the ones that were already there. Some still persist even from launch.
I quit playing back in 2023 because of the changes that affected pvp balance but most importantly, Funcom is terribly disrespectful to their customers and they are incapable of gracefully accepting any feedback or criticism. Their awful interactions with players is what ultimately made me come to this decision.
Pft. 🙄Game still soulless. Every NPC is brainless robotic, bodies still fall through the floor, getting up after knock down animation still looks stupid, food variation was dumb down, armor for suited weather was dumb down, nothing is actually new at all in the game accept cosmetic builds. I have very simple suggestions to make the game more alive but I'm pretty sure they don't actually care and their DUNE is probably going to be as soulless as Conan and you can bet a kick in the balls about that. 🤣 Seriously I hope some Korean, China or Palworld Japanese devs makes a wanabe version of this game then we'll see what happens.
Stamina changes, legendaries no longer repairable, nerf of Thrall hp, enemies hit harder and easily stagger you with quick death, as well those dang bugs and lack luster new features that are poorly executed, I am not interested in Purge system, makes Age of War feel lack luster and Age of Heroes feels the same, especially when I don't care about Named thralls that have gender and appearance lock, especially when people expect you to obtain 40+ Dalinsia Snowhunter, but I want to use other thralls like Cannibal Brutes, RHTS and other tier 3 thralls in general. So I have little interest in new named thralls that have dumb 8 hour timers on single player . . . BRUH. Don't get me started with people obsess with min maxing stats and what weapons to use . . . glad to never play private or official server for potential toxicity, but the lack of new stuff and lots of bugs, game crashes, I feel less and less playing the game.
Game breaking bugs or significant bugs affecting ability to play and enjoy. Stopped buying stuff and since April I’ve probably played 40 hours since then when I used to play 20+ min per week ……. I’ve grown to hate the devs ruining my game
Battlepass has been detrimental to the game in the longrun sure they made a quick buck initially but pissed off lots of players. Its never been close to popular enough for a battle pass and the bazaar is an overpriced joke
Ever since Tencent took over the game has gone farther and farther downhill. Communication has gotten worse, the actual content has become non existent, the game has become less fun to play as time goes on, its more of a chore to play with every 'balance' patch they release, all shop items are insanely overpriced, hell they dont even add stuff to both maps at the same time. All i do anymore is log in to reset my offical timers. I want to play again but between the bugs, lack of content and constant 'balance' patches its just not fun right now.
Look it's fairly easy: If Funcom abandons the game, the players will eventually abandon it too. Saying that Conan Exiles has "devs" would suggest that something is being developed. I can tell you right now: the only thing being developed are more overpriced bazar items. For my part: I've moved on to better pastures.
Before watching... my predictions on your video. At least, the top few reasons this game failed for me and I've stopped playing it after over 4000 hours. 1. Live Service burnout (biggest reason) 2. FOMO with the store and no means to complete sets outside of baby sitting the bazaar. They need to just open a store, the FOMO crap is dumb. 3. Unfinished or incomplete building sets or ones that are still bugged and haven't been fixed such as the tent set. 4. Too many exploiters on official servers, if you want to enjoy this game it has to be on a private server. 5. Development team appears to be non - existent and it's just an asset introduction team at this point. They all on Dune now?
(WARNING PERSONAL OPINION DON'T TAKE IT PERSONALLY) Ancient and outdated that's why. It's not a fun game to play, the combat is DREADFUL, the story is dry and mostly hidden, and most of all, it's just a clunky, buggy, badly optimized mess. It quickly runs out of content and charm, and the largest communities left for the game are all 18+ servers. The only thing that keeps most people playing are mods, and they can only do so much with the ancient framework the game is built on. I for one only use it, stacked with mods for character concept art, and base building on single player. I used to admin a server for YEARS, i watched population drop off like a stone in 2024 and it never recovered, So when the server owner stopped paying for the server, i walked away. Like i said, all that's left are the ERP servers full of degens.
Honestly Conan Exiles has gone downhill ever since the Bazaar and Battle Pass system was introduced, the devs prioritize money over the game now. First played the game in around early 2019 and pretty much quit a couple months ago. I've put in 1000+ hours put in that time. Used to enjoy the game back then but I don't anymore. Optimization is terrible. Still don't get how al-Merayah was a good idea accessible to last-gen consoles. I'm also curious where the 60fps on ps5 performance mode is which xbox series x/s got around 3 years ago? Overpriced and scummy bazaar items+micro-transactions. An always bug filled game. It's frustrating to log on into this game just to encounter issues which have existed for 3+years. Usual mid updates which bring in more bugs then content. For updates with grand names such as the "Age of Heroes", I'd expect something BIG like an expansion to the top right of the Exiled Lands map and not yet another change to the follower system. I doubt Funcom will change their current ways, we can only hope really. I respect the community still sticking with the game and content creators still pumping out the awesome content. Gonna observe and see how Dunes goes, if it ends up like the current state of Conan then welp🤷
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No one asks for a bug free game, what's going on with Conan is that with each release we ONLY get new bugs. New bugs making new features unplayable, old bugs reappearing and new bugs on old content. How can anyone assume that Funcom wants these fixed when they have not even tried to fix a single one of them. My estimation for their goals with this is to just let it slowly die while making the minimal possible effort and squeeze whatever money they can out of RPers still playing the game. I love this game so much, even a small bugfix release would buy my respect back for them. But even that seems like an extremely optimistic scenario.
I agree, its an old game and if the player base keeps dropping FC just isn't going to toss money at a sinking ship. I've pulled back from buying things from the bazar and why not, seems they don't really care to fix stuff.
Agreed, even the features that worked fairly well on release have been forgotten because of the overwhelming bugs. AoH C1 is pretty much a bugs-only update 😂 They've tried to fix some of the bugs, the problem is that some of the fixes didn't work, they're too slow on the fix, and they're not really saying what they're doing to work on it.
This is the result of Tencent taking control as they've done this to other games. They focus on adding and changing and dropping new things, but don't actually care about the long term health of the game by making sure those new additions work or that old bugs get taken care of. It's far easier, far more marketable and makes way more money, to add new things then it is to go back and fix old problems.
This game could bleed players left and right, have it's population drop to almost nothing, but in the end the casual player isn't who matters. They only players they care about are the ones who will drop money to buy stuff from the store and chances are...those players won't be leaving no matter how bad the game gets. They've already stuck through all the old bugs and bad changes so why bother fixing things when adding new "content" to play and new items to buy will continue to keep them playing a buggy mess of a game.
For the record, Conan Exiles was literally one of my favorite games. I played this for thousands of hours and fell in love with the entire survival builder genre because of this game. I happily double dipped on most of the old DLCS (on ps4 and PC) and were very supporting of Funcom back in the day. But after the buyout I knew the game wouldn't be the same and I'm sad to see I'm right. I dropped this game during the Age of War after the Purge "fixes". For every one good thing added, three bad things came along with it. And while I still to this day, have the urge to hop on, buy those new building sets and lose days of my time just making fancy houses, I have to refuse to play this because I know the overall experience at this point will not be fun.
What happened to this game is a tragedy.
The other issue is that they release their new "buggy updates" before things like spring break and winter break where you might have more time to play the game. Instead they drop the buggy update and peace out for 2 weeks while everything is broken.
What makes it worse is that they are working on another IP which who to say that funcom won't drop Conan exiles in favor of the new IP
I am a huge fan of Conan Exiles and would like to continue playing. Sadly, most of my friends who used to play the game with me have moved on to other games, primary due to all the bugs. Your review of last year was spot on. I would rather see no new enhancements to the game for the early part of 2025 if Funcom can just fix the existing bugs and make the game stable again.
Better communication would be amazing. the "community managers" never talk to the community, so I am unsure what they are managing.
I get the impression the CM role probably has a lot more responsibilities than we might think, ones that the community doesn't see as plainly as comms. That being said, yeah, comms are weak. Andy did decent with comms at AoH C1 launch, but they fell silent again before the Christmas holidays
YES! 100% I would be so happy for an update without any new content if even the biggest things can be fixed. I got on my single player world and at just one base there were 14 (yes I counted) thralls that were fallen through the mesh way down Ithe void.
I love the game but you are right that even when I have reported things it feels like nothing gets looked at.
OMG you are so right! Back in 2020/21 I was playing Siptah a lot & every single time I logged in to my village, more than half of my thralls had fallen into the void under the map. I timed it once, to see how far down my thralls had fallen: it took me 3 solid minutes of Admin Ghost Flying straight down to spot him, like a little pin point, hanging in the expansive nothingness below the map. It took another three minutes of hand holding all the way back up just to replace him on solid ground. Every. Single. Time. I logged in to Siptah. Then it got fixed. For a time.
Then it started happening back in the Exiled Lands too. Eventually, I just started from scratch on both files. It was still notoriously bad over by Tellith's Isle, near the river separating the North from the desert. My tiger guards fell through the map there constantly. That was a real shame too as that is arguably the most beautiful portion of the entire map of the Exiled Lands.
Thank you for the Video. I think you spoke for the majority when you said that you are still passionate about the game and the property.
We all want the game to continue and prosper.
Have an awesome 2025!
Thank you Neal! Hope you have a great 2025 too :)
Development is the exact same as any other company that bases its income on production. What we have isn’t a dev problem, it’s a management problem. The FOMO bazar isn’t a problem (it’s something I detest but it’s not a deal breaker) but it’s an indicator that cash over quality is on someone’s mind at Funcom, that first order priorities aren’t first order. Nearly every problem in business comes down to bad management or bad management policies (like too many chiefs).
I couldn't agree more. With moral ownership and average management, maybe funcom can hire again devs, instead of the circus of content creators they have now.
@ I hope so. It’s a problem throughout the industry. Too many chiefs and not enough braves. If they would dish out the big bucks for the top tier programmers the product would become real quality and there wouldn’t have to be a side hustle FOMO. a lot of old school devs who can do a month’s worth of work in a day (from an interview I saw with the creator of Fallout and he meant it literally).
They haven't done much to fix, especially on consoles. Almost 3 months, Age of heroes and no update to fix all their screw up.
We need an Age of Bug Fixes. I don't expect the game to be bug free, but I do expect it to be playable.
My girlfriend and I put an insane amount of hours into this game from 2020 till early 2024, over 1000, it was our lockdown game. We got the platinum trophy, bought every dlc, had a private server that we were paying for, did the battle passes, we loved this game.
But the bugs killed it for us. She uninstalled it months ago, I don't play anymore, but keep an eye on it still. It's just kinda sad seeing the state of a game we once loved so much.
And for crying out loud, give us a native PS5 version already! There's a Series X version, so why no PS5!?
i hope they add a Blueprint System for builders. would be epic.
hell, they could even make it a thing for Survival, by having the builder thralls being able to make the blueprints of those buildings in a special crafting station where you choose a blueprint, then you have to add all the materials for it to build it, and then you can place it like you would any other item.
That's actually a really great idea, so long as they don't make the game auto build the blueprint or done such nonsense.
Love the game but dear lord do they need a hard 6 to 12 months of nothing but code cleanup & bugfixes. The problem is that Conan Exiles has been like that since 2017 as there are still bugs from that day and age that are still infuriatingly common now. Looking at you foundation spawn break for certain underground bosses....
Not the worst year... but dropping the battlepass removed one of the larger reasons people had to keep playing. Yes, the bannings and bugs were bad, but people forget about how bad the bugs could be in early Conan.... from enemies just ignoring you completely, to decay timers rotting food in seconds. Old Conan could be a real mess.
The fact we still can't see the player count on servers makes the game looks dead to new players and also frustrating to try and find active servers too. Cant connect conan to twitch coz of bug and cant buy products in shop coz of a bug. So many reasons its dying and its a shame coz its a great game and could last forever with love and attention from the devs😢
Communication MUST be the highest priority. I started to play Conan this year… most is unknown. From content, to daily content, bugs, etc. I own software companies, and I have developed games, apps, and software for 30 years… the optics is that this game is dead. Engage, Engage, Engage. They must engage internally with each other, engage with their partners, engage with is the customers… DAILY! Create a new loading screens with new bazaar content, post news, create NEW EVENTS. I have only been playing for 9 months (I am a big spender on the game), we have our own servers… NO communication and NO content. Again the game is perceived to be DEAD
I asked them for a weekly devlog ever since 2020, but Funcom keeps ignoring. They are not strong enough to make a commitment to us the customers. It is sad but I have to say that the game is already in the "milking" state. They properly only make random cosmetics these days based on their weirdest fantasy then throwing at us. All the "so-called-features" were all stale or made half-heartedly, also not even worked right. I swear that only those dedicated modders, who have their own community, keep the game "fresh and alive" for RP players. Comparing to them, Funcom is like hundred miles away from doing actual works.
@ wow! Since 2020 is crazy!
Unfortunately, I am on the PS5 and can’t not enjoy any of the great mods.
Was Funcom (not just the devs) ever communicative?
I've suggested weekly or bi-weekly community highlight posts (at least) for years. We generally only hear from the devs when updates are coming, the rest of the time is far too quiet
@@Eradicati0nn that would be an improvement. From a “typical” player perspective, content is missing. All we get are repeated and recycled poor events and (for the most part) recycled building or armor packs. Which after playing for less than a year, I seem to fully own. I have built dozens of castles, “finished” the game on Siptah and Exiles. So much potential, such a great lore. I love the game. Wish they would do more. What’s next?
@@idf-general I might be pre-saging Wednesday's video here, but I think after Dune gets released, I wouldn't be surprised if Conan gets the Ark treatment and is upgraded to a pseudo-sequel. It might actually fix some of the problems with the old spaghetti code that seems to cause a lot of issues. Not that improvements can't be made to the current product, but I think the march of time is potentially outpacing Conan, especially on older systems.
That being said, unless communication improves with it, we'll still have relative silence
What we'd need is a map expansion for both, Exiles Lands and Siptah OR a portal, to switch seamlessly between both areas, as the map kind of got small with the invention of constructable portals and the "waypoints". Add questlines with own story to the map, to make it more interesting, maybe including the creation a building somewhere, or a bridge. Stuff like this.
By the tail end of Age of War, I was growing tired of the bugs and glitches. I stopped placing down coffers because the Purge system wasn't worth it. When the Age of Heroes arrived, I never even bothered to grab either new companion because I was having massive headaches with the Living World Settlement to even care, let alone bother since I'm more of a solo fighter and rather not risk a thrall, even with the DBNO system.
I'm hoping 2025 is a better year, but based off last year, my expectations are very low.
The prices of bazaar bundles have gone up...a lot! And for so few cosmetic items. I miss the old DLCs...it give me something to look forward to like a mini Christmas. Now, I have to wait and see what will be offered in the bazaar with no announcements of new bundles.
I dont experience many bugs. However, when I do it's game breaking.
I specially struggled recently with Liu Fei quest disappearing completely. The plant and everything. I had to go look for a mod that pops him back up.
And sometimes Freya crashes the game, that's always fun.
Same with me, I've managed to avoid the vast majority of bugs, but I got hit by Living Settlements a bit and got hit hard by the old save bug that (AFAIK) is still happening. I can only imagine what it'd be like for people that run into severe bugs every day
Awesome video, love Conan just want the bugs to be fixed. The thralls are fed up massively and I constantly get stamina glitches.
"Their wost year"
was it? i didn't notice.
The game ran fine for me. There are only 2 bugs that i run into consistently: Disappering followers, who reappear latter. And the pathing of thralls in base who run around as if they're lost. I just turn off the thrall wandering, no need for it anyway. Just left with the disappearing followers, a bug that i come across maybe once every day or two, that fixes itself fairly quickly.
On public servers the lost thralls die and cannot be recovered. Playing private solo has far fewer permanent issues.
Such an objective, observant video. Communication is everything
I have given CE a break for a few months now back in the middle of AOW mostly due to lack of interest as I had been putting loads of time into playing. Had fun but when I returned for the AOH it was a buggy mess. I still have yet to recruit a Companion and haven't played in about a month now. Unfortunately the devs are seemingly lacking in the communication department as apparent on Twitter. I do hope the next mid season update brings some of what we are looking for in terms of fixes and communication instead of solely speaking about the update.
Thank you.
Quality assessment.
Class act!
I still buy a few things because I enjoy the game but also to hopefully help the devs because I feel xbox still need a patch for the tavern fix but this can't keep going though so I really hope they can come with some good results and dedication because the series deserves no less.
My biggest issues happened when I was required to install Conan onto my hard drive, it ran ok while on game pass, but as soon as I was forced to install, it became crash city, unplayable. Yes , I own it out right and all the dlc but once installed it crashes.
are you on PC or Xbox
The problem is that fixing bugs doesn't make money. Fixing bugs isn't something they can send to the marketing team to increase player acquisition. Fixing bugs is something that is done solely for existing players who have already paid for the game. Releasing new items in the Bazaar makes money. Releasing new features and getting that small burst of new players makes money. It's difficult to justify the ROI on having your most expensive team work on fixing bugs for a game that's almost 10 years old. In software engineering, we refer to this as tech debt, and it MUST be paid at some point or your product will fail.
In a SDLC, fixing bugs falls under the maintenance phase, and it's required for long-term sustainability. From an outside perspective, it looks to me like Funcom has historically appeared to disregard the importance of maintenance. Modern SDLC methodologies have routine maintenance baked in, and it can run parallel to the planning phase. Another benefit dedicated maintenance periods (or "cooldowns" as they're often called) it is that it improves morale for the engineering team as maintenance is often self-directed, which gives them a break from being ticket-takers for the product team. In addition to fixing bugs, they can also work toward improving DX, which can make them more productive in the long term. Maintenance is a requirement for any product, and it's often difficult to stress the importance of it to other teams at the company.
Which brings me to what I suspect is the fundamental problem: Funcom's CTO quit and took a few key people with him, including a lead game designer and a senior engineer. Funcom has since failed to fill that CTO position, so they've been without a CTO for 2 years at this point. This is important because it would typically be the CTO who would know how to articulate the importance of addressing tech debt and balance that against the other needs of the company. I obviously don't know anything about the internals of Funcom, but I imagine that the engineering team has been without proper technical leadership for a long time now, and the poor quality of the product is a symptom of that.
Take what I say with a grain of salt. I'm just going by information that's publicly available about the company and my own experience with the product and I'm filling in a lot of blanks here. This is simply my theory as to what's happened. But it could be completely incorrect.
I can't speak to the technical input, but at least in my opinion, I could kinda see fixing bugs as making money in a similar vein to how playtime often scales with monetary investment for other titles. Fixing bugs would increase stability, thus allowing the user to play more and feel more secure about playing, and thus spending money. Not sure if that works in practice of course 😂 but that's how I'd think of it
A week before this season dropped I went into my games and put all my Crafters into chests after the download I was unable to load my exiled lands I tried many many times it kept freezing on the load screen and that save was over 4 years old probably close to 2000 hours so I hit start new game and it's all gone
Fucnob only cares about Dune: Awakening now
Are they making the Dune game? Oh no! thats all we need!
The team behind Conan Exiles insists that the work on DUNE has no influence on Conan Exiles, but that's a blatant lie. When their other old games were dying and new ones were being created, they also said so, but everyone probably knows what happened to Age of Conan and The Secret World and why.
@piotrgruszka9128 the Development teams might not work together but Corporate oversees all of it and dictates what gets specific resources.
I dunno if that was intentional, but calling Funcom 'Fucnob' cracked me up.
@@AXIDNT66 You should see the anagram for isle of siptah
Their crappy netcode made me lose a base I spent 1500 hours building. I just couldn't do it anymore after that.
Funcom's code control is terrible. That needs to be addressed before we can expect any movement on bugs.
FC isn't going to toss any real $$ at this game, it's too old and not a strong player base. Great vid as always Erad. Peace
Sehr guter Beitrag, ich stimme dir voll zu. Viel Hoffnung habe ich bei CE leider nicht mehr 🙁.
Ich wünsche mir von Herzen, dass es wieder aufwärts geht. Ich habe dieses Spiel über 2.400 Stunden gespielt und es hatte wirklich Spaß gemacht.
Jetzt müssen erstmal die Entwickler liefern und einiges (!) reparieren bevor ich mich wieder einlogge.
Warum machen die Entwickler das Spiel nach und nach kaputt? Das Verhalten der Entwickler/ von Funcom gegenüber der Community ist keine gute Werbung für weitere "Produkte" aus dem Hause Funcom/Tencent.
My beef with the "devs" is not that they don't communicate their plans, rather that during the age of war they introduced more bugs than features working (of course after patches). For example, if they said nothing about camel mounts, I found it by accident, while playing myself or watch someone streaming doing so, I would be elated; but instead, what we got was a 2 month long advertisement of it and then another month of "dev" effort to make it work, while a modder fixed it in two days... and don't get me started with that moronic design decision about rotating in combat, both for players and creatures, the "head dev" was blabbering about this "feature" for several chapters, and it was (partially still is) the most annoying change they have introduced in the gameplay, since it started, having to slowly roll it back, and of course introducing new bugs in the process, because the team (from ownership to management to "devs") is simply not even average, by the low gaming industry standards.
I actually started playing this year! I've been having a lot of fun till the age of heroes patch came out. Because of that update, some of my most important thralls just disappeared. It made me stop playing soon afterward, which really sucks because I love Conan's lore and setting, and that update killed it for me. Hopefully, they can fix the issues because I really like this game.
2024 has been tough indeed...
Where to begin...
Maps, Events, Lore and gameplay mechanics:
Most players have by now explored every inch of both maps and every dungeon.
This would be the #1 thing AFTER bug fixes to bring life to the game.
I believe adding/"unlocking a new portion of the Exiled Lands is long overdue, could be above the Jungle and be a mix of Icy/Forest region and have Pictish (in the forest area) and maybe Gurnakhi (in the Icy area) NPC camps.
Hell, could even make the Age of Heroes 2 have 2 new Companions from there.
Failing that, a new Dungeon would be an alternative.
I dream of a new dungeon like Wine Cellar or Warmakers Sanctuary.
Looking at the Temple of Frost there are "Portals" that were supposed to lead somewhere.
Could definitely expand that and add something Ymir related there.
Idk maybe Frost Giants planing to take over the Exiled Lands for themselves and turn it completely into a snow region and you have to stop it.
Events are nice, I enjoy both the Head Hunting and the Sacred Hunt but both have been recycled by now, there needs to be another new event before recycling again.
I vaguely remember there being Surge like events in the Exiled Lands what happened to those?
Lore, seriously the thing that got me hooked was the lore but it kinda stopped being interesting after Isle of Siptah.
Age of Sorcery was promising but its utterly under developed.
Sorcery is as it is atm. borderline useless.
I am not suggesting to add super fantasy fireballs or firing lasers from your eyes, there are more than enough mods to do that.
What I think is way easier to do, use what we currently have and improve it.
- A variant of Ice Bridge where you summon Ice Spikes, sort of like palisades to block enemies rushing you.
- A Variant of Wall of Fire where you split the ground and let volcanic flames shoot out of the earths core to damage foes.
- A Variation of Lightning Storm where you summon one big Lightning bolt from the heavens to Strike one enemy and do vast damage.
Then there is the demon summoning, like there are the friggn Maelstrom creatures that you could summon instead of the ONE type of demon you have.
Age of War was neat in theory but again did not really make it better for me.
I like the fact that the Stygians come to collect but I would have kept the original Purge as well.
Just have 2 Purges, the regular one where local random NPC's/Tribes/Animals attack your base from time to time.
AND the Stygian one you can summon whenever you want to.
The amount of terror I felt when a Giant Rocknose was approaching my base is unmatched until this day.
Ofc. having updated animations for weapons would be neat, making pets more competetive with Human Followers.
Oh yeah and the Bazaar, I buy stuff there regularly but only when I think the price is somewhat justified.
Generally speaking the Prices should overall be lower, not half but maybe lowered by 25-30%.
The rotations need to be shorter and there should be more to choose from in the first place.
That's my 2 Cents. (Funcom should do more frequent surveys too, that would help in the communication department)
It's hard to think of Conan Exiles as 'a game as a service' when we have to wait 6 months between updates that aren't significant enough for such a long wait... even if these new features launched problem free.
Funcom has set the expectation that we should wait and hope for fixes. Wouldn't it be nice if us gamers had nothing to do but give feedback about wish-list features or quality of life improvements?
If after this first 6 month development cycle the game isn't in a very good state, what's next? A 12 month cycle?
Currently the game is broken for cause of stamina stops regening and none of my taskbar keys will work char wont even open doors or jump or run... happens very often and i will die if i meet ppl...
The only thing that they are trying to do with this game is make as much money as possible without giving us anything in return. This is why I don't play official and I only play single player using mods that people who actually know what they're doing make
Thanks Eradication!
The thralls dissappear and tracking has caused me a rift with the game .. the game still can be good ans has even more potential but at some point the devs need to put something solid together .. I've played thus game religiously been able make stories of conquest .. and passion but I've had step away for a moment hoping they can fix this
My game on the PS4 crashed and when finished reloading I had lost my ability to use sorcery, lost a powerful thrall, and some random benches and chests had despawned. I looked up the bug online and saw that other people had experienced it, but the site was full of advertisements and there was no clear response that I recall. Conan is a resource management game, and if the hours I've spent getting to level 60 and accumulating resources vanish in an instant, then what is the point of playing? It wastes my time. The game has some great ideas, but you hit the nail 100% on the head - Its about implementation and I frankly don't see the point of adding new material if, every time I load the game I'm taking the chance on a catastrophic loss. Most of the time these crashes just threaten to respawn me in a bad location disconnected from my thralls, but this latest crash has me looking to other hobbies.
Love the game but it has become tedious for me.
The inventory revamp hit me hard. I held out for a reversion or some other fix and/or was hoping maybe I would get used to it. Afaik the team hasn't acknowledged the boondoggle.
The need to remove all my gear for afk or logging out is tedious.
The last thing for me is playing whack-a-mole replacing t4 crafters. I can't do it anymore.
as you say its not about the content its about the bugs but many people love to make the new content we getting blame it all on what they seing is it the content their is the bad guy and not the bugs, and allso i hope this video people can see its the bugs and not the content,
The official servers are terrible. Huge amounts of lag, glitches and not even being able to log due to ping spikes keeps me from spending any $$$ on this game.
nice build but id use half walls to make the build higher and therefore the front roofs a little bit higher as well, makes for actually walking around a lot better and camera going wild a little bit less :D
Please tell me I'm not alone.
I play on PS5 official server.
I get this bug where my action buttons just stop working, attack, jump, etc. even while on a horse it will not jump. Sometimes the attack will start to animate but then stops. The stamina will be used, but not regenerate. This will stay like this until the server resets, restarting the game on the PS5 has no effect. I can load a different character in the same server and it will be fine. This bug can pop up almost immediately upon playing, or sometime after hours of playing. It's happened in my busy base, and while out in the middle of nowhere.
I'm just curious if this is one of the known game breaking bugs. Is it on all platforms?
3:49 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019…. Not only are the worst bugs ever present but they make PvP changes that make the game less enjoyable.
If everyone stops playing for three months at the same time - one full quarter. They'll fix the problem
is hard to fix bug in conan exilse due old code mix with new code together.
His sword grew floppy
I bought this game on release day, I can confirm that a lot of things never got fixed. The bugs are my main complaint with the game, they never seem to get fixed. I recently got it on Series X, and it's been pretty frustrating. Some things I've run into are enemies becoming immune to knockback and stuns, and thralls pushing me off of cliffs. The enemies seem to slightly sink into the ground, which gives them 100% immunity to any attack that has knockback. When I'm riding a rhino and have a thrall following, it's ridiculous that a thrall can toss my rhino into the air and off a cliff so I fall to my death. I don't think funcom play tests anything or listens to community feedback. That is going to be their downfall, I personally wouldn't buy another game from them. Don't get me wrong, I like the game and have supported it from launch, but their lack of communication and refusal to listen to players has really tarnished their reputation with me.
Every thing the devs introduce is just a some paint over a change designed to push more people to over priced micro transactions. a great example is the inventory rework -> a check system so players cant use items made by other players they haven't paid for. If the goal was actually to make the game better they would not have so much trouble these systems.
i agree on its the bugs their killing the players on the game and if they hade their beta test servers open to people tehir wanna help improve they could opdate things over their and when it was good to go they could realse it on the main servers, but have the main servers open mean while the beta test servers is open instead of oonly have them open 1 month before the chapter comes live, if they doing this it will help alot more becuse they can get feedback frome the test servers constaly and not have to worry over we not sending the reports so they can fix them but fix them when the hole update is on the main server can destroy the gameplay becuse you kinda using the main servers as beta testers and not letting them enjoy the game becuse of the bugs i hope you see what i saying
thx for the video lets hope this new year 2025 is gonna be good
changing the controls
Age of sorcery was so awesome and then... idk what happen or what Dennis is cooking over there but it honestly feels like they dont give a crap anymore.
Like CE didnt meet live service milestones and they are looking for a way to abandon it will still collecting cash.
Crashes alot on siptah ps5 pro. Alot. Seriously more than should be allowable. Surprised sony hasn't pulled this from the store.
Great content as usual. Wrote a comment that turned into an essey. Too long. I summarize instead, but this is also long. If you wonder how I came to a certain conclussion I do have an explaination for that. Ask in that case.
I need to go through one thing - What is a game?
It is defined (by wiki) as something you may do for fun. Sure, but every game you have played, or participated in, have an element of achievment and resistance. There is a goal and there is an opponent, or environment, that tries to stop you reaching that goal. That challange, and overcoming that challange, is fun.
In PvP, like hockey, it is to outscore the opponent.
In PvE games, like the board game Pandemic, you need to collaborate and reach the goal before the before time runs out.
In creative games (that are not really games imo), like Minecraft, they offer an accessable tool box to the player may use. Like a starter kit from the art store.
Usually, like 99,9% of games, there is a goal that the player shall achieve and something that hinder the player, a struggle, to reach the goal. If you fail, game over.
What game is Conan Exiles? What is the goal and what is the struggle? It is classified as a Survival RPG MMO, but where do the player struggle? All community events are centered around building, so it is really a building simulator? To me CE is a mess from a game design perspective, "Jack of all trades, master of none". I think that is a reason for all the bugs.
To summarize: Funcom needs to...
- Define the game. What is the core of CE? What is the goal and struggle? Everyone in the team should know the game (struggle and achievment)
- Focus on the game. Every release should target a certain aspect of the struggle and improve that aspect. Be disciplined. Be true to the game. What aspect of the game did Age of War target? What aspect of the game is Age of Heroes target? How do they combine?
- Establish best practise regarding QA. Read some QA books and take some courses. Make the core of the game solid and bug free.
- Take the Culture talk. Too many major bugs at every release indicate there is a culture issue within Funcom that needs to be resolved. Someone with mandate needs to take the talk and walk the walk.
- Communicate honestly. I feel communcation from Funcom to the Community often is arrogant and bloated. Get to the point and understand that the Community is smarter than you. Dennis once said that we must "understand they do things for a reason" but madness can be a reason, too big of an ego can be a reason, having no plan can be a reason. What is the reason?
What about bugs with battlepass or shopp?? No major isues, fixed fast if needed. We all know history of the developers and share holders. So defending them and giving doupt is pointless. Fast adding things that bring new people and sell untested items for a full game price with all the predatory tactics in cosmos. Well shipp sayeled. Game has promise and potencial but not with this managment.
The Problem is I see it is admitting there is an issue, and taking away time top fix those issues, will continue to just ultimately piss off shareholders big corpos dont wana hear there are problems, they want to hear the game is perfect and making a profit, they want it to look like new thing is being released, it dosnt matter on our end when theyre simply pleasing a boardroom of corpos who only wana hear they are making more money.. It does not speak well for the Dune game's development either, if theyre struggling on this project. We sadly dont live in a society where games are published based on player approval, and while it holds the game back, the game is dead if the higher ups decide it. Just like every other live service on the market today,
As predicted, the "we're now spacing more the updates and get rid of battle pass TO WORK BETTER !" was in fact "we don't care anymore, only the overpriced bazar matter now (well, more than ever) Ah yes, and Dune too, even if we said "LoL DiFfeReNt TeAmZzZzZzZz !"
Thanks for the video Mate.
I haven't been able to run the game for three months. Devs are deaf to our complaints and requests. They may be doing something to fix the problem, but they don't tell us anything about it. For me, Age of Heroes was the funeral of Conan Exiles. In your material, you propose how devs should solve problems with their game, but I think they should start by hiring programmers, because apparently they don't have any on their team. I haven't uninstalled the game yet, I still have some hope that within a few weeks the problem with running old saves will at least be fixed. If not, there are plenty of other games that work.
the issue is that with the start of the bazzar being a foma machine one of reasons is was created was to bypass the dlc cost to upload it on a site like xbox or steam. if it was all there when they added it and reasonanbly price rp and fans would be way more all of it. secondly the foma with free content made the game feel like a job when in a single player world. the lack of perminant content hurt the game alot. thirdly as age of war hit it made earlier content worse like cruption perks were you sacrofice your health and stamina and other perks for new perks that arnt out right better for what they ask. removing content like witch doctor minion and giving us a fading magic system that was ruined in age of war. lastly funcom ignoring the pvp comunity has made way more pvp players leave and they make a decent part of the population for this game. as for bugs they need to sit down and actualy sit down and fix them all
they honestly should remove stamina from the self cruption
Upvoted for truth.
I can't even load up my single player game since the last update. Funcom is pathetic. That's just all there is to it. This game has kept on going despite the clown show. Imagine what this game could be with just a half-way competent dev team. Buckle up for Dune.
Foundation bug is getting old.
It's going to get worse. That Dune game will flop big time.
I stopped playing Conan in 2022 after playing for years because of the minor "boegs"..books? you mention. However when I started playing again last month in hopes of getting a decent patch that fixes them I found the game to be completely broken. I've had to restart from scratch 12 times and I can't get beyond mid game because you lose acquired knowledge, hard won weapons and armor making it a complete waste of time. I'm not even talking about the extreme lag. I thought my system was just too weak and was already considering upgrading it that's how much I enjoy this game. I've started a replay of another game (Hogwarts) and found it works perfectly. This game is over. If they are unwilling to even communicate about fixing something as basic as first person playthrough than why should I bother? Why should anyone. Furthermore if they are using this garbage engine for the upcoming Dune release why should I bother to buy that? I'm quite frankly not going to. These Devs are shooting themselves in the foot. Fix your game before you roll out these fancy new game elements that don't work regardless.
Great game.
Terrible company maintaining it.
I've all but given up on CE, and I was excited for Dune...but this company doesn't fill me with confidence.
This could have been a short. 9+ minutes is too long to say the reason for a rough year for CE is even more bugs than the ones that were already there. Some still persist even from launch.
I still have not even played the age of war.. I think the game is dead! for me at least!
we got a bunch of great updates some people just want everything and are never satisfied 2024 was a great year
I quit playing back in 2023 because of the changes that affected pvp balance but most importantly, Funcom is terribly disrespectful to their customers and they are incapable of gracefully accepting any feedback or criticism. Their awful interactions with players is what ultimately made me come to this decision.
i think we're finally seeing the long term effects of tencent acquiring funcom.
Pft. 🙄Game still soulless. Every NPC is brainless robotic, bodies still fall through the floor, getting up after knock down animation still looks stupid, food variation was dumb down, armor for suited weather was dumb down, nothing is actually new at all in the game accept cosmetic builds.
I have very simple suggestions to make the game more alive but I'm pretty sure they don't actually care and their DUNE is probably going to be as soulless as Conan and you can bet a kick in the balls about that. 🤣
Seriously I hope some Korean, China or Palworld Japanese devs makes a wanabe version of this game then we'll see what happens.
Stamina changes, legendaries no longer repairable, nerf of Thrall hp, enemies hit harder and easily stagger you with quick death, as well those dang bugs and lack luster new features that are poorly executed, I am not interested in Purge system, makes Age of War feel lack luster and Age of Heroes feels the same, especially when I don't care about Named thralls that have gender and appearance lock, especially when people expect you to obtain 40+ Dalinsia Snowhunter, but I want to use other thralls like Cannibal Brutes, RHTS and other tier 3 thralls in general. So I have little interest in new named thralls that have dumb 8 hour timers on single player . . . BRUH.
Don't get me started with people obsess with min maxing stats and what weapons to use . . . glad to never play private or official server for potential toxicity, but the lack of new stuff and lots of bugs, game crashes, I feel less and less playing the game.
Game breaking bugs or significant bugs affecting ability to play and enjoy. Stopped buying stuff and since April I’ve probably played 40 hours since then when I used to play 20+ min per week ……. I’ve grown to hate the devs ruining my game
Over 8K hours, quit.
How can you see how many hours you’ve played?
Battlepass has been detrimental to the game in the longrun sure they made a quick buck initially but pissed off lots of players. Its never been close to popular enough for a battle pass and the bazaar is an overpriced joke
Once I play 6k hours on PvP but long time ago we done with PvP we know when they put season pass they will broke all game
Why fix bugs that make your players miserable when you can just charge 30 dollars for a banner in the Bazaar instead?
Ever since Tencent took over the game has gone farther and farther downhill. Communication has gotten worse, the actual content has become non existent, the game has become less fun to play as time goes on, its more of a chore to play with every 'balance' patch they release, all shop items are insanely overpriced, hell they dont even add stuff to both maps at the same time. All i do anymore is log in to reset my offical timers. I want to play again but between the bugs, lack of content and constant 'balance' patches its just not fun right now.
Look it's fairly easy: If Funcom abandons the game, the players will eventually abandon it too. Saying that Conan Exiles has "devs" would suggest that something is being developed. I can tell you right now: the only thing being developed are more overpriced bazar items. For my part: I've moved on to better pastures.
Before watching... my predictions on your video. At least, the top few reasons this game failed for me and I've stopped playing it after over 4000 hours.
1. Live Service burnout (biggest reason)
2. FOMO with the store and no means to complete sets outside of baby sitting the bazaar. They need to just open a store, the FOMO crap is dumb.
3. Unfinished or incomplete building sets or ones that are still bugged and haven't been fixed such as the tent set.
4. Too many exploiters on official servers, if you want to enjoy this game it has to be on a private server.
5. Development team appears to be non - existent and it's just an asset introduction team at this point. They all on Dune now?
(WARNING PERSONAL OPINION DON'T TAKE IT PERSONALLY)
Ancient and outdated that's why.
It's not a fun game to play, the combat is DREADFUL, the story is dry and mostly hidden, and most of all, it's just a clunky, buggy, badly optimized mess.
It quickly runs out of content and charm, and the largest communities left for the game are all 18+ servers.
The only thing that keeps most people playing are mods, and they can only do so much with the ancient framework the game is built on.
I for one only use it, stacked with mods for character concept art, and base building on single player.
I used to admin a server for YEARS, i watched population drop off like a stone in 2024 and it never recovered, So when the server owner stopped paying for the server, i walked away.
Like i said, all that's left are the ERP servers full of degens.
Abandoned for dune that's why.
Honestly Conan Exiles has gone downhill ever since the Bazaar and Battle Pass system was introduced, the devs prioritize money over the game now. First played the game in around early 2019 and pretty much quit a couple months ago. I've put in 1000+ hours put in that time. Used to enjoy the game back then but I don't anymore.
Optimization is terrible. Still don't get how al-Merayah was a good idea accessible to last-gen consoles. I'm also curious where the 60fps on ps5 performance mode is which xbox series x/s got around 3 years ago? Overpriced and scummy bazaar items+micro-transactions. An always bug filled game. It's frustrating to log on into this game just to encounter issues which have existed for 3+years. Usual mid updates which bring in more bugs then content. For updates with grand names such as the "Age of Heroes", I'd expect something BIG like an expansion to the top right of the Exiled Lands map and not yet another change to the follower system.
I doubt Funcom will change their current ways, we can only hope really. I respect the community still sticking with the game and content creators still pumping out the awesome content. Gonna observe and see how Dunes goes, if it ends up like the current state of Conan then welp🤷
Yeah it’s just not a great game.