Conan Unconquered Dev Tracker

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!

[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.

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

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.

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.

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 :)

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.

Always.

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

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

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.

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.

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.