[2019] Going Forward and a Thank you :)

Originally posted by TheODriscollsCanWin

The fact that your live team didn’t predict or prepare for the influx is directly on the shoulders of your entire live staff.

It is easy to predict and build for influx...so why didn’t you?

Originally posted by _annamarie

You guys are doing so well! As someone that bought the game when it was first released, I can see the immense amounts of effort poured into the game, and I'd go to the ends of the earth to defend the experience to any doubters lol. It's such an endlessly cool experience. Thank YOU for pursuing improvement. I can't tell you how many times devs have just abandoned ship on a game I had high hopes for. Funcom is badass. <3

Originally posted by DisagreeableFool

I'm having some serious issues with the games performance on the ps4 pro, while my friends and even my own regular ps4 have no issues. Other friends will pro's are reporting the same issues as me, it looks like lag, like the games freezing but its not a network issue. Any word on a fix?

Originally posted by TheODriscollsCanWin

Oooof

As a Release Cordinator, I would have to, again, call out your LIVE team and upper management for the snafu.

Did you run pretest with sims before it? It is marketing’s fault for pushing it before tests were done?

Yeh...poor management

Estimates??? What estimates? Throw sim clients in until the server breaks then you know.

It’s not rocket scientist, but it is science.

Originally posted by Jigsawn

Thanks for the update for us Noobz. I think I can speak for a lot of newcomers that this game was a welcome surprise. Conan went under the radar for a lot of players when it launched and now people who are just trying it because it was free on PSN have realised it's actually really good and are hooked (me included!).

Here are the biggest issues I have seen cropping up for all the players I have met:

I have played for about a week on PS4 and the biggest thing that players I have met are complaining about is actually getting into a server. So it's good news you are adding more and extending the delay. In the EU the official servers are so few and hard to get into in the evening I've had to give up and switch to American ones instead. The lack of a server queue is a massive annoyance as players have to literally sit there and spam the join button if they want to get in the server where their friends or base is.

The other big issue is lag - even on EU servers where I have had pings of 50 and below, there is still a lot of lag and I have heard many other players say the same thing. It's particularly noticeable with NPCs and running animals such as gazelles.

A lesser but still important issue is voice comms. Some people are having issues with not being heard over microphones even in range, and I feel like the volume in-game radius needs to be increased. Unless you are standing literally next to another player in game, it's very hard to hear them on voice comms - which isn't very practical in a game based around combat and exploration. Most of the time people just make parties on PSN/Discord instead to fix the volume issues, but that cuts them off from chatting with random players, so it's something I'd like to see addressed. Also for new players it's unclear that when the mic icon appears when a player is in range, it doesn't necessarily mean they are actually talking. Maybe this could be a bit more clear. You often don't know if you're being spoken to but are out of earshot ingame, or the player just isn't saying anything.

The only other big issue that I wanted to raise is building griefing in PVE/PVE-C servers. I have been on multiple servers where players have walled off entrances to areas containing lore or key enemies. I understand that players should be allowed freedom to build almost anywhere, but it is hurting exploration of the world and uncovering the lore. There is no clear way to report the worst instances of this to admins on the official servers. On a similar note, on PVE/PVE-C servers there are a lot of players who just spam down foundations in huge lines in order to secure whole areas without actually building anything there, usually joined to large bases so it exerts a large area of control and doesn't decay fast. Not only is this very frustrating as whole areas get locked off for building, but it looks terrible and hurts the ambience of the game. I think that there needs to be measures to prevent this kind of behaviour or at least a way to report it.

With those out the way, I'm really enjoying the game and love the sense of scale, the exploration, sense of progression and the base building. Like the best MMO's there is a very epic feel to Conan and the sandstorms, sunsets and sunrises are remarkable. Yesterday we trekked up from the lowlands to the aqueduct and followed it up to the snowy lake shores in the shadow of the volcano. We passed some massive clan bases and the lush ambience in the highlands was so different to the barren plateaus of the south. A storm was raging as we looked across the lake and the whole area was dark, lit only by the occasional flashes of lightning and the red lava seeping out of the volcano. It was a scene straight out of Lord of the Rings and it was awesome. I know the dev team is small compared to the scope of this game and I think you did a great job, keep improving it and I am sure all these new players will be happy to drop money on private servers and DLC packs!

Originally posted by DarthTenebrous94

I really want to avoid being one of “those” people but I can’t seem to enable nudity offline? I’m based in the UK. I’m not one of those people who only bought the game for the nudity, I’m a big Conan fan and a fan of the game but after a while away I’ve returned and I can only enable nudity when I’m online? It just doesn’t work for offline solo for me. It’s not a game breaking thing I just think having the option of making the game more adult makes it more immersive

Originally posted by Washingtonkid35

add full nudity on ps4 USA

Originally posted by Beefer_sutherland

As a newcomer to this community, and coming from Ark’s community, it’s great to see this level of communication.

A couple of ideas from a PS4 player that I haven’t seen on this thread:

Is there any plan to improve some of the UI interface stuff? Like with crafting and the hot bar radial wheel thing? For instance:

Having a folder view for craftables would be great. Once you start learning lots of feats, you have to scroll through a huge list of stuff. While you can filter it so only some stuff is highlighted, you still have to scroll through tons of stuff. I often times find myself scrolling past something. Perhaps a search feature here would help too.

An easy way to move single items to another inventory. If I have 500 wood and want to put 10 of that in a campfire for fuel, I would have to split it up a ton of times. Or just move it all and take it back when I’m done.

If the radial wheel would remember what was in it last and would auto fill, that would help a lot. That way if you go get your body bag, you aren’t sitting there going through all your stuff to fill the radial wheel back up while the wolf that killed you is getting closer again.

The ability to use more things from the inventory screen. I have most of my tools and weapons in the radial wheel and have to keep swapping out the one free slot with the structure I want. The ability to use building pieces from the inventory would speed things up a lot.

Any chance of multiple beds with a naming feature? So I can choose to spawn at the south bed or north bed for example?

I’ve also noticed a bug on PS4 where the last text entered will auto fill on the next text. So if I search for a feat, and then later on I go to name a chest, that search is still there and I need to delete it.

That’s about all I got. I’m loving this game and keep up the good work!

Originally posted by D-Raj

Great communication, thank you. The only thing that hasn’t been addressed is the loading bar bug. I feel like this is a separate issue than the max server capacity, as my server is 22/40 capacity but the bug doesn’t let me join. I don’t mind waiting a bit if the capacity is full, I understand you’re working hard and I’m patient to get in. But it’s frustrating to not be able to join my server for several days even though there is plenty of space.

Originally posted by ExplicitSmegma

(PS4) Why not increase capacity for EU servers? At least make it 50. The only time player count hasn't been an issue logging in is like midnight to like early morning. Then it's 40/40, 39/40, 38/40 for the rest of the day and I have to spam favourites from anywhere like 2 minutes to half an hour, once it had taken me an hour.

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Also I don't know if you take suggestions here but perhaps in the friendly NPC city, give some of the merchants a bit more items you can buy with silver/gold because only 1 item is a bit lame.

And on Co-Op, add player markers so I don't have to get tethered constantly and as I can't see the other players if it's a dense area.

On PS4 you can't use a lot of weapons in first person like PC. Would be nice to use bows in first person as well.

Lastly, it would be nice to be able to leave my OWN clan without losing everything I own.

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Less serious (But still welcome):

Another suggestion, can we have more arcane/mystic clothing/weapons/decorations etc... added? Like the Witchfire torches and map room etc...

And for player creation let us choose the pointiness of the ears so we can make elves, as you can already change the eyes to get an elf look.

Originally posted by xPipokidx

I recently joined in as well and I have to say, that even though I f**king hate the spiders, the community is actually quite friendly, every si glen player I've met is quite mature and friendly, some of them just wanted me to kill them but anywho. I'm LOVING this game so far, it's also super awesome with friends as well, I know I'm gonna enjoy this game for months to come.

Originally posted by kendakari

Use to play ark with friends. Heard about Exiles before it dropped but decided not to pick it up because my pc is a potatoe and could barely handle ark. Was pleasantly surprised a couple days ago when it was on ps+. Hadn't even known it was available on console. Been playing the last couple days and I like it. I feel like it improved all the parts of ARK that frustrated me, and because of the npcs I feel like I won't miss out on most of the experience if I play single player.

Originally posted by Sabreflurry

Loving this game since psn drop. I hadn't heard of it tbh, but I've found myself dropping my other games and all I can think about is progressing on conan, not been this addicted to a game since swg back in my pc days 2003. So much fun.

Originally posted by Thunderstr

I dont know if this question even has an answer but I'm an NA player that had trouble finding a decent NA server with spots. After not finding any servers ne and my friends started playing on an Asia server, we connected well and rarely lagged. Everything has been good for the last week, until the patch today, now every time I search for my server it says its invalid with skyrocketed ping.

Anyways, my question is am I just out of luck now? Or is this something that happens from time to time?

Originally posted by Bambalamboozled

I've only been playing a couple months (payed full and no regrets) and I love the game. Looks like I missed out on a lot of problems though, so I may be a bit biased.

And as primarily a single player gamer of Exiles, all I ask is you give us some love too. Better server options, balancing, etc. I realize we may not be your "core" audience, but we exist and enjoy the game too.

Still, awesome work from what I've seen so far guys. You're pushing out better content faster than some AAA devs are.

It's appreciated .

Originally posted by Ciercy

No thank you for this wonderful game. I already bought the Yamatai DLC pack as a thank you.

Originally posted by saiyanheritage

I just did earlier today too lol all about that samurai life

Originally posted by Nekela

I'm probably gonna get my head chopped off for this - but have you looked at Rust?

Maybe something like their tool cabinet mechanic could help lessen foundation spam - in the way that if the blocks donw have a cabinet in range they decay faster. I have some few raw ideas how that could be, I can mail them to you guys or send a PM or whatever is easiest.

Seriously love the game, thank you and thank you to the team from Denmark <3

Originally posted by Nekela

I dont think it should have a limitation either, its what makes conan so diverse in terms of buildings and designs etc. An idea was that activity buildings act like tool cabinets / decay slowers. So fx - if there are blacksmiths or carpenter benches (basically all the placeables that players interact with) near a block it decays slower - if not it decays faster - and the less there is in x radius range the faster it decays. So if you build a wall thats 2 km away from your castle with no interaction buildings in x ranges the wall decays faster. and the rate of that is then connected to amount of activity buildings and activity interaction ? something somthing, im no expert - just had a brain fart XD

Originally posted by zuck515

Can you make it so that when it rains outside the stuff inside my house doesn't get wet?

Originally posted by Nekela

No of course not, I didnt mean to imply that either. You guys are the experts and Im just throwing ideas that's all. I have full faith in you and your abilities - and know that these things are incredibly complex.

Thank you for giving me a few moments of attention and hope you also know it's all meant

in the best way possible, out of support and love for the game and you guys' work :)

Originally posted by Jigsawn

Thanks for the reply and the community communication. If we do see particularly egregious instances of building griefing (walling off bosses, only routes into some areas, etc), how do we go about reporting that to you?

Also I have been getting a bug where in some parts of my base it says the land is already claimed, even though I already have crafting stations there. I discovered this when I removed some crating stations to reposition them and now I can't put them back down where I need them. If this continues should I report it to your dev team and if so, how should I do that? Thanks.

Originally posted by Rebbe_n

Hey there i wanted to ask somthing to the pro's how long does taming take because i was raising a schaleback and overnight it died can sombodey tell me how long it takes to raise your pets

Originally posted by Rebbe_n

Can they die from hunger and how long does raising take