Hello everyone thanks for coming! We'll be getting to the questions in a second.

1. Since the game is based on the Black Colossus story, there are no Aquilonian troops. The game uses mostly Khoraja, Shem, Stygian and other southern Hyboria units along with some non-human enemies.

1. Not currently no.

1. Not sure on this one. No one has mentioned a demo to me. That's likely a FunCom decision.

1. Not at launch. The random map generator caused some pretty massive changes to our map editor as well as a whole host of new requirements for a map to even function. It would take us a while to get an editor ready for public consumption, and there's just not enough manpower or time to get something out for launch. It doesn't mean we can't do something post-launch if there's demand.

1. No map rotation in the game currently. It is full 3D, but allowing rotation has ramifications in art and other areas that add time to a project.

1. Disease is caused by the pile-up of corpses as well as certain units that can cause it. It's contagious and must be actively cured to be removed. Fire will spread and gain strength if not put out. Sandstorms are mostly visual, but will affect sight range and can unearth buried treasure.

I'm not sure that the popularity drop is necessarily due to the genre of RTS, instead it could be that the RTS games being delivered in the last decade didn't evolve to fit the changing tastes of the audience. Many niche RTS games that cater to specific playstyles are doing well.

To kind of roll with the previous answer, I think niche games have done very well for themselves. It allows you to stick to a specific goal and polish it. It's hard to say where RTS will go in the future, but I think the genre will need to evolve and come up with new mechanics and styles to gain more popularity than it already has.

As far as I am aware, this was pure (but happy) coincidence.

I think I already answered the first few. We don't have any launch plans for Workshop or player made content, but it could come later.

1. Our feat system is linked to Steam achievements. Whenever you unlock a feat, it adds a bonus or other element to the game to help you progress. If you were having difficulty completing a match, unlocking feats will help you progress. Feats also unlock new modes such as Crom Mode (pause is locked out), Greater Artifacts, Elite Creeps, etc.

1. The feat unlock system helps here as well. The custom match system has multiple sliders and toggled elements to help you change up the gameplay.

1. Most players from playtesting tend to field around 40-50 units, not counting static defenses. Enemy units can be in the 100s.

1. There is lite target priority picking, but player control is always the better option.

1. There is no concept of missing in the combat system except for position targeted weapons (such as catapults) which can be dodged.

No knowledge of Conan lore is needed to enjoy the game. If you are familiar with RTS or tower-defense games, you should be fine. For those interested, a comic-book version of the Black Colossus story will be available to unlock in the game which will give you the story on which the game is based.

We do not have a campaign in the traditional sense of the word. We have a five scenario set which is meant more to teach you the different mechanics of the game in ascending difficulty. Once you finish those, the majority of play will be using the custom match system for solo or coop play.

I don't think that's possible. He's just that good.

Always.

I'm pretty sure Arnie is outside our budget :)

There is no PVP in the current game. It's more of a score-based competition. To that end, you can play a match and create a Challenge Link. You can then send this link to a friend or post it on your stream and challenge players to beat your score using your exact custom settings and map. Each Challenge Link creates a leaderboard to show how people do.

1. That is roughly accurate.

1. See answer above. There is no traditional RTS-style campaign.

1. No. I haven't actually seen Joe in a long while. If he's reading this, hi!

1. To smite your enemies, see them driven before you, and heaing the lamentations of their women. I think I got that right :)

No rotating buildings, sorry. You can rotate units though!

I guess that depends on your definition of romance? I suppose with good RP skills you could fake it. Nothing in the actual game supporting it however.

The only fantasy game that we've worked on in RTS is 8-bit Hordes (I guess Mytheon sort of fits but not quite) so it was nice to get a change of pace, at least for me. Fantasy is my favorite genre and I grew up reading authors like Robert E. Howard and Edgar Rice Burroughs. Working with Conan and Funcom has been awesome. Creative freedom wasn't really an issue since we have a lot background material and we can extrapolate from there. We also had Funcom's previous games as reference such as Age of Conan and Conan Exiles to pull ideas from. Funcom was very open - as long as it was fun and made sense, it wasn't an issue.

There's nothing we can really say about this at this time. Funcom will announce anything they come up with.

[Joe] Taking the concept of survival RTS and melding it with the Conan universe. Conan is not really the first thing you think of when considering that type of game.

[Pat] I'm mostly a systems designer, so for me it was great fun coming up with the complex systems that go into this kind of game. It's WAY more complicated than any of the 8-bit games or even Forged Battalions with respect to economy, game flow and the role of the random map generators.

That looks to be all of the questions, so we're going to wrap this up. Thank you for coming to talk to us! We hope you enjoy Conan Unconquered when it releases later this year!