[2019] Did Funcom gave up on Conan?

Originally posted by ElvenNeko

Hello. You know that, for example, "purge updates" are listed in your "future patches" almost since official release, sometimes you mention something about purge in patch notices, but it's still almost never appears on any servers, and when it does, it's often utterly broken, for example - ending withotu spawning creeps, or creeps unable to do anything?

You say "building updates" just as you listed it in one of the previous patches, but all the building system related bugs are still exists, and even spikes take more than minute to load.

I see countless of new weapon variations being introduced. Why? Nobody will use them, people will keep running with spears unless you somehow nerf them. What you currently do is waste of effort. Also people won't just start using dagger\maces\hammers, unless you change them somehow to be viable in combat. So if you nerf spears everyone will switch to axes instead. You need to adress ballance of all the weapons at once.

All i see is TONS of changes that nobody asked for (like writing your character bio), but have you ever adressed at least singular thing i mentioned in this post? You can prove me wrong and do it right now, if you have a few minutes to spare to finally give some answers to the community. For example:

When officials servers are going to be stable? And by stable i mean - have working ai that using shields, notices player in time, attacks and just behaves as intended instead of wildly teleporting around or ignoring the presence of players? And when players won't have a big freeze spikes where any actions they do does not count until freeze resumes?

What are your current plans against cave\tower interiour bases and lollypop bases with god bubbles? How you will solve the issue where raided player is able to place new pieces and make repairs during the raid?

Do you plan to fix climbing bugs?

What about thralls, is there any plans to, for example, not letting players destroy them with bows from a spots too far for them to fire back? Simple fire range increase would solve the issue.

What's your plans on weapon ballancing, to make all of them usable? When every encountered enemy will stop using spears in combat?

What about loot despawning too fast? On some servers bags lie for hours, on others they disappear after few minutes.

What about most simple of issues - farming bosses with yog pit? If you can't change the fire hitbox to not be underneath pit, at least remove that damage, it's super-easy thing to fix!

Also, non-related to this, but will we ever see servers without event log, labeled houses and player list?

Can you give a clear, non-vague answer to any amount of this question, that will sound like "we know about this problem, here is how we planning to fix it, here is when it will happen"?

so please come by the forums or Reddit and report any bugs

And what it will do? Because majority of those problems, like global ai disfunction are gamebreaking. They have been reported since beginning, and you can easy "reproduce" them by simply logging into any official server (if you want to see the worst cases, log into full ones). But they were never adressed since the start of the game, this is why i assume that if you were able to fix them - you would already do that instead of waiting this long.

And if you can fix all this, why didn't you do that in such a long time? And when will you do that? That's the real questions that was never answered by the dev's.

Originally posted by ElvenNeko

Thank you for replying, honestly i didn't think you would do that. I quess they really hire new members, because before that most of the important questions were simply ignored.

That's fixed on Testlive

So, now it will be consistent, and will be able to target any bases, even lollypop ones? Will it appear only when players are online? Because before it was not hard to deal with and served only to annoy people who was offline during purge and got their bases destroyed just because they can't play whole day.

That is also improved on Testlive

I hope so. But in case if you serious about it, i decided to bring some proof (because obviously some people think that i just imagine all the bugs) - here is the easy one, i took time and recorded a small video 10 minutes ago, in fresh build of the game: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kWPB1dweeV4Z10vICFcKlssHf-LaJNPT/view

As you can see, i am able to place the doorway in various spots, but can't place wall in the same spot no matter how i change angle or anything. This is one of the many common bugs related to "you should be able to place piece but you can't". There is also "piece\craft station are white and looks like it can be placed, but when you press m1 nothing happens" that's harder to reproduce. Also, the most famous and easy to reproduce issue: you can't put a foundation near doorway with door until you remove the door.

Is this also fixed or at least adressed?

P.S. Why i concider this an important issue? Well, because destroying your whole base a building anew just because of some unknown error not letting your to place last celling or anything like that is annoying and huge waste of resourses, especially if you are under the pressure.

Spears have been re-balanced on Testlive (see below).

Ok, that's something i missed in patch notes. Sadly, have no time to level up and test stuff on testlive (and actually i have levelup process, why can't we just have all on test servers?), but since live patch will be released next week, i quess we will see if the amount of people with spears will be at least equal to people with other weapons.

A lot of people asked for that, specially the RP community.

Well, i am sure they did, but i also think that majority of players are just playing on pvp, and, as someone said - silently leaving the game instead of trying to ask for improvments when they are disappointed with patches. I have 800 hours on various pvp servers and i saw a lot of those.

But ok, why not giving role-players a little nice things. After all, it should not take much time to develop.

The status for those issues you've listed are available on our Trello board.

I remember that board when you started it, i quess it was past summer or something like that? And there was a post regarding the server lag and issues it brings. But so far nothing was resolved... I remember one of the patch even saying that npc ai problems were resolved, but nothing really changed. They still lag around just like in first hours of early acsess, especially on full servers.

And, what's worse, you don't have any ETA on it. You say "some issues are resolved on tesltive, and some are wip" - but that means little to the players, all we want to know is when it will be gone.

Year after release we still can't even have 100+ players servers because even empty ones starting to lag hard once enough players build their stuff around the map. I don't remember when it was a last time i saw an npc properly reacting to me or even using a shield. Will it happen after this test patch deployed to live? I would enjoy that, but, after all this time i have little hope about it.

Undermeshing has been fixed on Testlive. God shields are being re-balanced on Testlive.

Reballanced how? There will be a way around them? Or they will just require more grind, that is not a problem for big clan?

And what about interior bases? Deserter's gutter, Lake Tower, various caves? What's your official position on them? Even a single person with enough resourses can deffend such places because raid block isn't existing.

Also, why developers ALWAYS avoid to talk about raid block? Or at least explain, how instantly spamming new blocks around the raider can be concidered fair or fun? If you think this is needed - why not explain why you think so?

You will have to be more specific with that.

Suddenly falling when you climb surfaces and not being hit by anything. Or unable to climb up in lots of places - character performs "climb over boarder" animation, and then simply falls down, again and again. I probably can record a video with that if you want to.

If you have any specific circumstances -like the one you mention- that you feel should get worked on, please let us know through our usual channels of communication.

Well i did. Pets are useles since anyone can just spam them with poison arrows. You can protect thralls from that with masks, but players simply shoot regular arrows on them from afar, when thralls cannot respond to long shots even if they have bows. All this makes thralls an easy pray to any attacker since they can't find back. Nothing changed regarding this so far.

Our team is looking into an issue that seems to display decay timers inconsistently.

It's not just a displayed timer. On one server i logged today and see loot bad that was left tomorrow, when it should despawn. On another (official one) - if i don't pick up items instantly during raid, and wait few minutes instead, the bag will despawn instantly when i try to open or loot it. It seems like interaction casuing them to despawn.

We're aware of that issue, but since it only seems to affect single-player games

Can you explain please, how farming dozens of keys not affecting pvp servers? We talking not about issue where you run with the pit. We talking about issue where pit placed on sandstone foundations, then middle of it is removed and players luring bosses underneath it for instant kill. My server have this counstructions around every single boss spawn, for example. Ofc, legendary weapons are all around.

So for the time being, we can only say that these changes are coming soon.

Ok, i can understand this. But why not say what changes? "This is changed" says very little to me.

And i do post feedback and suggestions on forums. But just seeing that nothing changes regarding very obvious and gamebreaking issues like ai behaviour on any server that's not fresh, or all those unraidable bases and whole raiding system that supports only offline raids are frustrating, especially concidering that developers not only not changing it, but also not even saying why they think it should stay in the game and how players are suposed to solve it.

P.S. Another question - will flying vaults be fixed in testlive also?

Originally posted by Aurelius_Augustinus

I would like a headsup or anything that the dev team is aware of the huge t3 building spam problem. (vaults, vaults, vaults, foundation terrasses that put macchu picchu to shame)

Edit: Just a thought: When we were able to build flying bases on trees, everyone was upset about that exploit. A tree flying base however is not nearly as overpowered as a pillar base since pillars can be significantly higher and you can prevent climbing in an equal matter. Why would you prioritise fixing the first but leaving the pillar base without counter in the game?

Originally posted by Gjetarguten

Make sure the devteam know they are doing an awesome job :) I think most of us believe this game will be the best survival game in the end, don't let the vocal minority make you doubt your talents, the potential of this game is just crazy so that's why many of us are scared.