Conan Exiles Is Drying Up And Here's Why

[@Firespark81]

I'd bet money that they are putting all their eggs in the Dune basket and sadly I fear its just going to be more of the same things we are seeing them do with Conan Exiles. Great video by the way. Fantastic editing.

[@YumLemmingKebabs]

My inner cynic 100% agrees with you there. Thanks to both of you for all the great CE content over the years though.

[@Rizartha]

This is funcoms MO. All resources go to the new game and the previous one gets left at the wayside, only updates for this game have been monetary and to screw over modders

[@pascaldota]

FIRE SPARKUUUUU DAMN i love ur videos i like to go on ur channel from time to time THIS IS ur ONE AND ONLy fireee sparky 81 here with ur daily dose of video goodness !

[@pascaldota]

WAIT U REMOVED UR GODTIER INTROOO on ur recents videos ??????

[@oneill6291]

I have to agree with that. I kind of have a feeling Dune might not do so well. It seems like people are finally starting to hold some of these companies accountable for the lack of quality and care we've been seeing lately as well as calling out the sense of entitlement these publishers have. Hopefully a few big losses for these people may humble them a little bit. Although I'm not holding my breath on that either, lol. I'm not writing Dune off yet but from what I've seen so far it looks pretty out of touch.

[@MissionControl-]

Top 5 things Conan Exiles needs. 1) A new map 2) A new map 3) A new map 4) A way to travel between maps 5) A NEW MAP FOR CROMS SAKE

[@edwardpaddock2528]

A way to see more than just one map would be very nice. Also, the map is sooooo small . . .

[@MorbidEel]

4 is strange. Do you just make separate characters for each map?

[@Robbyngirl1]

And tie all the maps together!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@TheStraightestWhitest]

Honestly, a way to travel between maps would already be great.

[@karag6556]

Nah, they tried a new map Siptah and it didn't work so well. They need more dungeons and story and additions to exiles map imo.

[@Dufoth]

They need a way to link the 2 maps so you can go back and forth.

[@boredism1327]

Definitely

[@skullbones7452]

Already made "Amunets server transfer mod."

[@einarr7301]

Yes. I dont think removing the bracelet should be the end of your character. It should be a prerequisite for being able to travel to other lands, like siptah. Any part of hyboria could be added and logically traveled to in this way

[@Rellikein]

They need a new map, or an expansion on Exiled Lands, and this is only the beginning of what’s needed.

[@adventuregoddess69]

for sure, I don't like Siptah much, but would go there for it's content if connected. Many custom servers do this.

[@shadowpheonix787]

1. New Maps 2. Mod Usage 3. Alliance and Trade systems 4. Note the creator of crafted items, to inspire trade.

[@shadowpheonix787]

Alliances and trade would make towns possible. Build your house in the same town as a renowned blacksmith, and provide him/ her with a good cook or tailor, while maintaining separate clan/ faction so your home is lockable.

[@whazuesicefang5001]

The mod usage is well and good for pc but. What about the console players where the consoles do not support the mods that pc can? now any new story maps i can get behind and having an active function to have clans ally with one another but that is if the players just dont do single player map instead just to do their own Role Play stories for me I play on single player on my PS4 mainly because i do not have the funds to get PS+ back to play in online servers. But good luck with getting the votes for all 4 you listed but once again console players will be out of luck with the mods part.

[@shadowpheonix787]

@whazuesicefang5001 Fallout4, Starfield, Ark, just to name a few. Mods can be done on console. Will we have to accept that we won't get as many mods as pc? Yeah, obviously. Microsuck won't allow more than half the mods people make for CE on their network. (Most of what i see on YT is adult oriented.) The alliance and trade is stuff everyone had been asking for since launch. Crafters' mark is a bit unique, but would really help drive player marketed goods. The trade system idea is mostly to give a general sense of gold and silver having a determined value. If the only thing people are buying at a set price in game is 20 gold coins for rocknose eggs, you don't have much to get an idea of what a legendary weapon should cost.

[@whazuesicefang5001]

@shadowpheonix787 PS4 doesn't allow mods on ark survival evolved and I've only played with a few mods on skyrim but as a separate save so that I can work on collecting the trophies the whole conan exiles game is the only survival game that I gotten the platinum trophy for

[@scooby45247]

1) finish the northeast part of Exiled Lands map 2) connect in game to Siptah map 3) create new map 4) and make sorcery practical to use and useful to be worth it..

[@lathim66]

Took all those words out of my mouth.

[@edwardpaddock2528]

To be fair, the sorcery in the game is based on how magic works in the books.

[@PJMack10]

@@edwardpaddock2528 Over 3000 hours in this game and never use magic, except for the transport! it's not needed.

[@discofilm77]

@@edwardpaddock2528 That's what they, (The Devs) said on their stream to justify their creation and profit from it- so, it's mostly untrue based on the lore given over the years - including the fact that they claim that there is no vampirism in the conan world- where clearly there are books that illustrate the opposite. ... EG: when conan encountered Akivasha. Just as an example. .. Our sorcery in the game was just one of many ways you could use magic. (But not limited to.) ... Just like Jens Eric used to say - We just make the game. I have not watched any movies of conan or read the books. ... This was taken back in the day when he was the community manager for Conan Exiles. ... thank you.

[@VeridianHerald]

​​@@edwardpaddock2528 Except it doesn't. Read Hour of the Dragon, and then come back and draw parallels. Hyborian sorcery might not be fireballs, but it is earthquakes, plagues, and mind control. The demons summoned are scary and dangerous. It's deliberately gelded in this game. Also, making it magic wand dependent is hilariously bad.

[@triggahapyproductions8177]

me personally i think its the price of the shop items being an issue that contributing to lower player count, people want new stuff and dont want to pay around 30 dollars for cosmetic items that serve no true purpose and will probably be forgotten about a few days later after placed in a base, the old method was the way to go, 10$ DLC with themed items, they did go crazy with the prices and that icon showing that they cut prices in half to get people to buy is also doing too much.. still a great game but they need to control themselves

[@RichyN25]

I blame mainly the greed of the devs now, they used to have great value for their DLC packs, but the Bazaar is downright predatory and drunk on it's prices If they added more PVE content it'd probably bring more players, and if they made their "quests" easier to follow too would help

[@ShellworldGames]

They lost players as all games eventually do, then the marketing department got scared and started demanding to make too many of the important decisions.

[@RichyN25]

@@ShellworldGames yup, Tencent bought Funcom, ever since then it's gone down, they got greedy and tried to milk people for cash with FOMO tactics and predatory and overpriced Bazaar prices.

[@KimSellstedt]

Yeah, I own almost all of the old DLC packs and we loved them. I totaly agree with the PvE content. We are a group of friends who would gladly pay for a new map every year.

[@oneill6291]

Agreed!

[@RichyN25]

@@KimSellstedt I own all the DLC and paid for the battlepass but missed the first few seasons because of life so yay no way to get any of that content. I've been heavily considering playing Soulmask instead, as much as I love the Conan universe and Conan Exiles. I refuse to buy stuff in the Bazaar just because it's vastly overpriced for what you get. I even bought friends the DLC packs back in the day because they were such a good value, you'd get so much for $10, now $10 in the bazaar all you get is like 1 set of armor.

[@johnmacneill8066]

Performance problems. Nobody likes the "falling through the floor" bug.

[@patrickpol6156]

or getting stuck in the cieling, im building higher cielings and roofs now, you live and learn

[@equinox3d585]

I am the modder of Lore_Items_and_Roleplay. All of my assets are 100% made by me, nothing is store bought and I have had so many ideas for new mods, creating a fantasy armour mod to go along with my fantasy weapons mod for RP servers. I've had ideas of creating mods that bring in custom made creatures for the players to use as mounts and thralls. I also planned a mod for players who want to play as a creature (transmog) but every time I start a project I get so deflated because once upon a time my discord server was booming, people wanting commission weapons, players wanting custom decor assets, armours etc for their character and their servers. All of a sudden it just ended, out of nowhere pretty much all communication just slowed right down which got me thinking "Am I wasting my time"? I have so many in the works projects that are left incomplete because I really get the drive to want to make custom assets, from concept, to 3D model, rig, animate, texture, import in to the devkit, test, test, test then release its a lot of work to do for a handful of weapons nevermind all the armours, custom creature creation and my own new and fresh ideas. I was going to make an Underworld esque server with custom Lycan and Vampire code, weapons and outfits that go with that, so many ideas I have such a creative imagination and 3D modelling and game design really fuels that but without that community engagement I get burnt out and im left feeling like whats the point if no one is going to use all this stuff I create.

[@Seddy22]

Me and my friends would kill for an Underworldish server btw. :D

[@KiahOnFireOfficial]

Damn that sounds incredible. This is all stuff that would be amazing for the game, and knowing you it would be top notch (love Lore Items and Roleplay, and have used it many times on my own servers) 100% understand the burn out though, especially when you can compare things to how they used to be. I really hope they breath more sustainable life back into the game and soon, because it is awesome when they do, it is just "if" they do :(

[@MatrixDreamer]

Hang in there!

[@Nvy_Livius]

Are you gonna partake in modding Soulmask? I would love to hear your thoughts and perspective on your opinion thus far? Thanks, please check it out, we Soulmask addicts are trying to gain the attention of all the conan modders to get some traction and word of mouth going!

[@equinox3d585]

@@Nvy_LiviusI can definitely look in to it. I’ve not seen any gameplay or heard of it I’ve been quite invested in my 3D modelling and starting uni soon I’ll check it out

[@charless2450]

I permanently walked away from CE back on July 17th. I had been playing on an official Siptah server with an amazing community, but I had been growing weary of Siptah being an afterthought for so many of the big events, if we even got it. What finally did me in was the ever increasing store prices; paying 3x the cost of the old DLC packs for a tiny fraction of the content? I had been worried about that back when it was first announced that TenCent had bought them out, and I can't say I was surprised that it got as bad as it did. I had been looking forward to their Dune game when it was announced, but after seeing Funcom under TenCent's leadership, that has become a hard pass for me. There's too many other games out for me to play, where I don't feel like the developers are holding me upside down, shaking me until every last penny falls out.

[@patrickpol6156]

avoid ubisoft games their going tencent aswell

[@busti2600]

You’re 100% right about all of this.

[@carldane5252]

I agree with your critical comments. Conan Exiles base game is 20-40 hours and done. It was the building system that kept me. Then I discovered Role Play modified servers. Huge variety. I prefer those servers true to Conan lore. My suggestion to FunCom would be to forget a ghost wall. Simply start adding maps to slowly flesh out Howard’s map. Make the world live for players to create in. Or if rights are a concern…..any world map. And be transparent with content modifier community. Players will make your base alive. Not thralls.

[@Liamleviathan]

20-40 hours? Not a single person plays Conan for story/lore

[@whocares397]

@@Liamleviathan wait there is a story/ lore ? lol who would of guessed

[@roberthanna4882]

0. New Map. 1. Sandstorm - add random spawns and chests when this happens. I would use the Siptah undead and other creatures. 2. Harvesting - when harvesting have a chance to spawn an angry miner or lumberjack, like in Age of Conan. 3. Food. - add stats to all food and drink. 4.Spawns - revamp the spawns on the maps. In exiled lands add Siptah creatures and add random loot. I do this on a modded server using Pippi and kits. 5. Map - Squeeze at least 1 new tile in every Age. Since we don't have boats take away some of the water and add some land. Connect the maps. 6. Npcs - All Npcs should be named. They would have a skill set. They train up through usage. Add a research tree for them. 7. Entertainment. Add a dance, music, and image design for players, look at Star Wars Galaxies for inspiration. This system would provide buffs for the stats system. 8. Levels. Currently 60 add more levels. Increase stats for players. 9. Keep the weekly 3 box challenge system. Add a reward item to each box, coins, tokens etc. I think a unique building set and tool set added here would keep us logging in more. Also add a Daily Challenge that offers a reward. 10. Dungeons. Add some more creatures to them and some crafting scrolls as loot. 11. Add to the magic system. Use Age of Conan as an example. 12. Quests - Recycle Age of Conan quest and its dialogue. Everything old is new again. 13. New base game hairstyles and updated body. 14. Farming - anything new would be nice. I am surprised that the planters haven't been reskinned into building set schemes and sold. 15. Yearly DLC. Have them available for purchase year round. 16. Screw it. Conan Exiles 2.0 start over.

[@HoldinContempt]

I have zero interest in Dune especially with the lazy half assed bullshit they did in Conan exiles. If those pricks think im moving over to their new MMO after being ripped off by this one they are in for a rude awakening. If you wont fix Conan and do right by me and the other people who bought it early access and all the overpriced DLC packs then I will never buy anything else you make ever again. all your games will be left on the ignore list until you go bankrupt as a company. Until I see a "No Man's Sky" on Conan Exiles the company Funcom and its products do not exist in my eyes and will get nothing but negative opinions and scorn from me to anyone who asks about them.

[@brandoneckert5096]

I actually like these ideas and think they would greatly improve the game...

[@rootpower8664]

The Conan lore is so deep and interesting that Funcom could go the Ark route and release map(s) as DLC. Speaking of DLC, while they are at it, they could bring back the previous format of DLCs. The Bazaar really isn't appealing and if anything chased players away.

[@grayel964]

Old style purges. That purple bar at the bottom of the screen creeping up. Official was so much more of a community with everyone on the map running around and helping anyone getting purged. Especially the new players. I know they will never bring it back. Just thought I’d mention how fun it was

[@jaobidan2358]

That bar was so easy to reset. If you weren't in a clan, you could create one then disband it and it would reset the purge meter.

[@chaosgyro]

There are benefits and costs to both systems, but I think the new ones are better overall for sure.

[@gulaggthechampion]

The new purge eliminated the random base attack. I loved building several defensible fortifications and waiting for the attack. The chaos was awesome.

[@runnymedeworks6326]

Skyrim has been completely revitalized by modding. I think that's the big issue. If you're kind of done with developing the game, then why not hand it over to the community to see what they can do with it. Take a collaborative approach, support them, bring some of the more seasoned modders into the fold. Only problem is if you wait to long, there's no one left in the community, they've moved on to other games.

[@whocares397]

it was good for modding then the company said f you modders and updated it to destroy mods

[@dusk1947]

Kiah, you hit the nail on the head. While ARC is a different game. It demonstrates what an adequate amount of content is, for the price Conan is asking for. I personally stopped playing regularly after they moved to over-monetize the game. This game was easy to justify the occasional DLC purchase for, but I found little value in their new monetization scheme which reeked of a cash grab. Chiefly because I have not seen enough regular content updates with any scale to justify it's new price. Instead they've pushed over priced cosmetics, with no effort to build a broader game. The issues you noted were a problem then, and it seems nothing has been done to address any of it since. Aside from overpriced cosmetics and items. There have been zero new maps. There has been no effort to expand existing maps, which should have happened already. The Dungeon system has never been good. The two maps are disjointed and separated, when it should simply be a load screen to travel from one map to the other (with followers and inventory). And from what I saw, the most requested mechanic to be added (a magic system) stupidly focused on utility and ignored proper combat systems. My second most wanted system (passive resource generation, like mines or farms) where dismissed and you got a follower who you had to baby sit while it mined... I played this game mostly for PVE base building. And it was fun for that. But, aside from the PVE raids that were finally added. No content has really added to that experience. They've added cosmetic items which are great, it's good to see things like bartenders. But, there aren't any new locations to build in. I can't create a village with mines, and farms, and smiths to go in the direction of colony simulator (which they should have done). And there has been zero additions to the 'end game' to kept me engaged. It's been the same content for three years with the occasional change of paint. It's stale and repetitive. And the few things I want cosmetically are over priced. So, I moved to other games. I'm providing feedback because I hope they improve it. I would like the Devs to really expand this game, and provide a reason to play again. But all I see right now, is a developer who is milking what exists already, and has no plans on building it over the long-term. Which isn't a game worth sticking around for.

[@Jasondawn999]

As a solo player and someone who likes using mods, I really wish Conan would make modding easier and more accessible. A new map is a huge undertaking, but in the meantime more dungeons or bosses would be good, because the current conan experience feels like rushing to 60 and getting a legendary gear and then dominating pretty much everything once you have a proper setup. Not to mention that there are many features that seem... underutilized? Like the race and religion system is cool, but it doesn't do anything. Race grants nothing whatsoever since you can change the cosmetics of the character however you want, and everyone can be in every religion. Like if race and religion selection grants small inherent bonuses, or make certain factions friendly by default it would make sense, but nope. Then there's also the lack of sidequests. I get it, it's a survival sandbox and so there isn't a strict storyline to follow, and that's fine, but that doesn't mean you couldn't introduce small quests to ease the player into the world. If AOC or EEWA can do that, why can't Funcom? The new age introduces something like this, but then it is locked behind the whole waiting system. I feel like small sidequest or radiant quests, or even just more NPC would be great to make the world feel more lived in.

[@whazuesicefang5001]

speaking as a console player whom plays in single player as well where mods are not usable on. while I watch content that uses mods I find myself getting bored of seeing the mods and find myself enjoying playing the base game itself alot more but I get inspired to build in ways that can be done without the help of building mods. I've built a pretty good sea stack castle by looking at documentaries of old scottish castles but the way I see it any player can still have fun with conan exiles game on either map but they just have to let their imagination take hold and they will be able to keep a mindset of not just seeing a story that has "ended" but instead see's a potential to challange themselves like for instance i've fought the arena champion without any high grade weapons which I knew i would win easily against her but i used a stone club and dodged multiple times just to give myself a challange and i even put a rule in place to make a new character after failing to win in each of the dungeons and low and behold I found myself having fun putting challanges in place for myself

[@s4ss1n]

@@whazuesicefang5001 while that is comendable that is not how a majority of gamers want to play, if anything they would more likely just watch content creators do that rather than themselves as it is really still just a repetition excercise. at this stage of conans existance any hardcore players like yourself have already done similar actions, i too have done this, like doing 2 attempts at hardcore mode but after getting so far on the second attempt i didn't feel up to a 3rd as it is way to exhaustive especially with many other games i like to play. i still pop on after every new season starts but the gameplay always burns out quicker than completing the season pass and it just becomes a chore rather than a pleasure. quest aditions for me would help enhance it for a way better experience and adding new maps really shouldn't be out of the park this far in. and to point out siptah really was just a dead end with a long road to it that left a bitter taste too. inspiration for this type of game is everywhere, just look at gta v as the main example, i have played that since it's release on ps 3 and have transported my character over each new console to the current ps5. conan has just been too static with no real deviation from it's original format and no real extra content with a decent life expectancy to it. to expect the average gamer to find ways to "entertain themselves" just means they will find another game that has different challenges already inbuilt.

[@lonewolf49707]

Modding is one of the only reasons some folks still play, only way to keep the game interesting between the slow updates. Some sort of voluntary quest system after going threw the game to give you things to do. Because you can only collect so much stuff and build so many bases before it gets really old.

[@ekulerudamuru]

​@whazuesicefang5001 eeeew console peasant justifying to themselves mods are ""boring"

[@skittlemenow]

The thing that blows my mind is how many people that play Conan are even considering buying Dune. Talk about not learning from previous mistakes.

[@lukrezialaval2406]

Right? I would have loved buying Dune, if it's not made by Funcom (or Snail Games).

[@redsand8289]

We have boats in game. Both maps have heavy water features. Expand the top right of exiled lands. Lean into this zingarian inquisition stuff and the castaway stuff. Add a new npc city and touch up the black hand and black corsairs. Then release the ability to make boats and docks. Call it age of piracy. Then release a ton of stuff in the bazaar for making fancier faction ships and better themed docks. Watch the naval warfare ensue. Bonus points if ships have placement ghosts for thralls to man them and defend it.

[@KiahOnFireOfficial]

That sounds like a lot of fun!

[@Confused_Philosopher]

I think they just wanted to avoid boat visuals. Haven't you noticed that you travel faster by water and your stamina goes down a lot slower? That was their solution to water travel although I don't know why the horses travel waayyy slower in water.

[@RolopIsHere]

For PvP players, this year has been overrun with cheaters more than ever, which has driven many of us away from the game. After years of dedication to this game, I finally gave up-it became impossible to keep up with hackers. While a large portion of the player base isn't focused on PvP, it still had a significant impact on the game numbers.

[@chasevisa0]

Hackers have completely ruined the pvp experience and isn't enjoyable

[@patrickpol6156]

is the situation realy that bad? ive been trying to get into pvp but there's nobody to play with, most servers only have 3 people playing on them even tho their made for up to 40 players. What are these hackers doing to wreck the game so bad?

[@chasevisa0]

@patrickpol6156 if you're on pc, there's a few official pvp servers that very populated. Normally 30-40 in a server at a time. BUT with that said, more people = more chances of hackers, and there was ALWAYS at least one hacker on most of the time. I wasn't on pvp for very long because of it but from my experience, you get one shotted by the hackers and they don't even have to be next to you. I'd also heard of them looting your base without being in it as well.

[@tempestblaze2583]

​@@patrickpol6156I'm going to go ahead and tell you I did some PVP I met some folks they do something called body vaulting they create a secondary PSN account they login they give that guy a bunch of bombs and a couple of kits and then go find a spot outside of the map and they have him they be there in 7 days and then his body will disappear out of the game they literally sent me a screenshot of his entire bag full of millions of materials for bomb making that killed the PVP experience for me right there that means that anybody can do that my wife won't hit their base boom there's no real traps bases don't really keep people out there's no real way to do that without making a bunch of f****** bass pieces around

[@patrickpol6156]

@@tempestblaze2583 Do i need to worry about a psn acount when im on pc? just asking since im still new to these sorts of games and dont have a good understanding of their workings jet but i guess your saying there's cheaters using bombs and explosive's to kill everyone of and loot their bases/corpses repeatedly. Why has'nt anyone done anything about the cheaters? Cant you just report them/get them banned, the sys mods/admins should have that power dont they?

[@Orion-hx9ig]

Sometimes I just spend an entire evening looking for thralls that have fallen through the floor. 😮‍💨

[@fugazinemesis]

Yeah, happens too often. Run away from the area, out of render distance, then come back it will be there.

[@sesimie]

Exactly....I'll be sharing this with several shills that thought I was being too hard on the game. TY Kiah!

[@RiftRavingRogue]

Need to roll all that DLC into a cheaper bundle. $120 ish USD is nuts.

[@Christopher-ro1dl]

That is way to cheap each DLC should be $100 a month

[@JgHaverty]

@@Christopher-ro1dl I genuinely hope youre joking haha

[@Liamleviathan]

Complete edition is £30 if you buy a steam key

[@karag6556]

I just want to see them add to Exiles map, fill in the top right corner. Add more story, including an alternate story path than the current delete character one. Add more dungeons, more random enemies littered across the map and redo enemy placements. Blood moons at night with purges like Terarria would be very cool also. Weather storms for every region, such as blizzards up north, Maelstroms in the jungle perhaps, etc.

[@MrDarksega]

At this point i feel like the game needs to be remade. A conan exiles 2 in UE5. Different combat system, challenging dungeons and an actual gameplay loop since there is none at the moment except for pvp which gets old quickly. The game was fine for 2016 but for today it needs a big overhaul.keep the good parts like the thrall system (improve/change the thrall interactions) keep the awesome building system, keep the satisfying farming for resources but in a new game. We have to face the reality: it is an old game, it feels old and looks old by modern standards. I want it to be improved because i really want to feel excitement about playing it again

[@aresgalamatis7022]

Fix bugs and improve the game's codebase were, are and would be my top priorities. If and when the management invests in these, they will have the capacity for everything else mentioned and a lot more.

[@lxxSwmp]

simply: why is it so expensive just to make your house look nice. skins i dont care, but building pieces are so expensive. And sick of all payer bases looking the same just give us more building parts pls

[@ShellworldGames]

Yes, more build set expansions. Keep increasing the number of options within each style.

[@bluestarseed6705]

Conan Exiles It is too expensive compared to other similar games like Soumask , for the total price of the game with expansions and everything they should at least incorporate more maps, allow moving between maps, and return the traditional combat system

[@dentelos5658]

I feel like we need a Conan Exiles 2 at this point.

[@99midnightgamer]

With upgraded engine

[@shunchase]

for me and my buddies to play this game again what the devs should do is 1 - revert the gameplay to pre-Age of Sorcery (all thoses thrall and gear nerfs man... sad times) 2 - a way to go between maps without creating a new character 3 - fix old bugs like the climbing one that makes you loose your grip for no reason and die 4 - fix mounts movements/inertia that feels like they are sliding on ice 5 - fix the bug with VSYNC on or off so the player character stop sliding when he stops when you have a lot of FPS 6 - listen to the actual community feedback and playerbase not just the lousy karens and money whales 7 - (optional) add a real first person experience not the crap we already have

[@ElDrHouse2010]

This game climbing system is extremely underrated and needs more dungeons and maps in general that take it into consideration, descending in this game is very very very fun. Climbing up not so much, its missing a wall jump. But the clawing when descending and the speed build up is legit fun. also it needs more things to do with gold and silver, more markets of useful things, materials that can reduce the grinding for base building or selling companions online why not, if you rolled 3 great perks on a companion why not sell that companion online to another player's server, etc.

[@lazeera8071]

Great video Kiah. I think that being able to travel back and forth between the Exiled lands and Siptah would be a step in the right direction. Hop on a boat, short loading screen, and voila! New maps are an absolute must if they expect people to pour thousands (I played a lot from 2017-2022 😋) of more hours into this game. Without mods such as Savage Wilds and AoC, I would have been bored to death of this game after a couple of years. I would happily pay the full price of a new game just to get another map the size of the Exiled Lands filled with new places and things to explore. This game could have been so much more. I think that adding the battle pass and especially that bazaar was shady as all hell too. I'm not touching Dune until/unless you and others give it a glowing review and it's free of the bazaar shenanigans that they added to Conan.

[@RobinHood-hk5dk]

Thanks Kiah. I hope Funcom will listen to many of your suggestions. Especially new maps based on Conan lore.

[@boogerparty]

I've been saying for years that Conan needs to take a page from Ark's playbook when it comes to maps. Then again I also pointed out that they forgot to include craftable hook hands in the Buccaneer feat like three years ago and despite getting a response at the time we still can't make them, so I've kind of given up pretending that anyone's listening.

[@endlesstrench]

I am that solo console player who really does love building bases where my main enjoyment comes from watching thralls get stuck on tables. More specifically seeing what happens when you can tweak a build to make tavern thralls spawn in absurd positions like sitting on stairs by exploiting bugs and I love the bazaar content. Here's what the devs could add to take my money cuz I love this game. 1. Ability to colorize decals. I love wall and floor decals but they ONLY come in white. I know color is possible because of the bloody footprints decal. It would be a practical use for that giant dye station. If you could dye placeable clutter you could make that an entire chapter subtitle. Age of heroes Chapter 3: Everything dyes. 😅 2. More debris/clutter for decor. I love Kiahonfire's 1000s of skulls video and I put em everywhere. I'd gladly pay real world crom coin to place other bones, gore, random weapon displays etc, to give bases the lived in war zone feel. 3. Random spawn creatures/merchants. There is SO MUCH empty space on the map, it'd be great to see random animals spawn in random places like in the sacred hunt (which I loved) except more variety. It'd be great to get jumped by thralls in unexpected places. 4. What about rebellious thralls? Allow single players to place thralls which would over time corrupt to aggro against the player. I could then build challenges myself could raid or others. Even a placeable item that spawns an aggro at x time intervals. 5. Hireling quests. Merchants give timed quests for small rewards. Example:bring x item to x spot on map in x amount of minutes for gold, silver, bag of skulls, etc). 6. Use the dead zone in the northeast as a place for a bridge to travel to siptah. I so want to bring back some eldritch bars to the exiled lands. 7. Mod support for console? 8. Poseable thralls. Please please pretty please. It would be SO good to static pose thralls like taxidermied creatures. 9. More types of placeable signs. Possibly with a darker colored font. Conan Exiles is a beautiful game. I'm gonna love whatever the devs put out, but it's got so much more if could do.

[@toddestabrook4869]

Thanks for making this video, I really hope the devs get to see it. I'd really like to see another Age of Sorcery. I loved the first one, but felt like I needed more. Age of Skelos maybe, or Age of the Black Ring. I know its probably unpopular, but I love new cosmetics and building pieces, so keep them coming. Make the marketplace larger. Finally, focus on new dungeons and bosses with all new biomes. The Sunken City was mind blowing when it dropped. The Wine Cellar is amazing. Kurak's Lair feels lack-luster, as does the Midnight Grove. Give us another epic dungeon location. Or, expand on what is already there. It seems like they started to do that with the Dregs, and then just abandoned it. Someone brought up a way to move between Siptah and the Exile Lands, and I second that. Make Siptah a part of the Exile's journey. Invest in modders. Savage Wilds? Amazing. Why isn't this an official third map? Age of Calamitous, while not my thing, is stellar work. EEWA is outstanding. Severe Weather really kicked surviving into high gear. So many modders have left the community and that is a shame. Lastly, I would love to be able to replay the Age of Sorcery chapters. Being able to replay the story by way of chapters should be a part of the Journey system. Anyway, thanks again Kiah for making the video and opening the discussion. I hope it makes a difference.

[@cahawke]

I would prefer new map areas to new dungions, I've nothing against dungeons but how many times can you run them? Kurak's and the Dregs for example, are limited in replayability.

[@Gazbeard]

Thanks for this Kiah - it made me realise that it's four years since I last uploaded a Conan Exiles video ... and that was my first look at Siptah, after which my interest in the game nose-dived. I think that's where the players started leaving in disappointment. p.s. forgot to add - one reason the game started losing players is the prehistoric game save system it has - you can only have one active save per map unless you run a multiplayer server, and then it's just one save per server (fairly normal for any game) but you have to buy a copy of the game for each server you run it as. The fact that Funcom deliberately killed the multiple saves mod via one of their updates does not help in this regard either.

[@joeyblanton6950]

I mean youd think Funcom would've learned from the Skyrim and Fallout 4 communities that modding makes a game last a lot longer.

[@thestormpaladin6714]

I agree with 100% of what it is said in this video. It's time to move on to a new map or something that wil be a huge game changer to keep the players engaged, because from what I've saw from the Devstream, and the comments of it, a lot of people were not impressed with this new age, me amongst them. What you said about the new uptade schedule of 6 months is EXACTLY how I feel, we've been waiting 6 months for a mostly cosmetic mechanic and 2 new followers, yes they will have quests and their own rewards for completing them, but I don't feel like that's enought to keep me and honestly many people engaged into the game for to long of a period, because of another thing said in the video, Ark has a LOT of replayability, as for Conan, it can a get very oversatutrated and repetitive very quicly if you already about most of the mechanics in the game, and if we are going to have to wait another 6 months for an uptade whilst we just get these things mentioned on Age of Heroes, then I feel like the game is trully gonna be doomed.

[@OwDoGaming-kx9jo]

I think one thing Funcom can do is look at Modders, thats where they will find what players actually want added. To me it seems that is what TaleWorld have done with Bannerlord. I hope they listen to you Kiah and the rest of the community

[@whazuesicefang5001]

well technically Modders creations do not actually speak for all players look at the console players none of us care about playing with mods we just want stable working content that we can pay for a server to play with our friends and do D&D style role playing on console by building and mix matching armor sets with the illusion function to get a pretty nice looking pirate, paladin, rogue, mage, etc. now we would all like to see the exilelands map actually get expanded and fill out more but as for the console players whom play on the console official servers they just keep new players from joining by building big and taking up the map so once any new players load in they are instantly killed by a thrall left standing guard at each of the first spawning in locations and cause those new players to leave they do not even get the chance to experience the game they just complain about spawn killing players and those players leave and i'm betting the same can be said for the PC official servers

[@OwDoGaming-kx9jo]

@@whazuesicefang5001 all I am saying is that devs should look at what the community is doing mod wise, and the number of downloads said mod gets, to get an idea in which way to improve and develop the game . I’m in full agreement that the north west should be developed in to another area, but have you seen Eradication’s video on creating the area, the devs are concerned (by what I assume) that if they did expand the map it would have negative effects on previous gen consoles. I believe kiah in this video said that it’s pretty much a 50/50 split so the last thing they want to do is ostracise 50% of their console player base. I also agree that they should get things right before adding other shite

[@whazuesicefang5001]

@@OwDoGaming-kx9jo yea I get that but I meant as a future release update that will give players on PS4 and the previous Xbox console players will have a chance to be able to get upgraded to the current gen console but I understand that a lot of the coding can get in the way and cause more bugs with anything that they have which is why I get them increasing the age of heroes chapter 1 being made to end after 6 months so they do not feel highly rushed to fix a lot of the bugs because 3 months made it to where one bug was fixed but 3 more bugs took its place of bugs that was fixed before but got opened back up from being rushed I see it as 6 months is a sound time length where the devs can get more than 1 or 2 people working on a patch to fix a number of bugs but from my experience there has never been a game made that has not had a single glitch I mean just look at the pacman arcade game there is a glitch hidden in it that no one knows it's there until they randomly find it

[@OwDoGaming-kx9jo]

@@whazuesicefang5001 definitely the bugs need addressed especially the ones like the well of skelos end boss, pretty sure that’s been there years. And what’s more I don’t know what they did but now it’s worse than ever human enemies two shot you, I did a dry run before a video and lost a berserker and a Dali in seconds to the ones near the forge, the serpent man just around staring at you.

[@whazuesicefang5001]

@OwDoGaming-kx9jo hmm I have only lost Berserker on servers because of the way the servers were set up with the server settings which made it a challange when npc's can 1-2 shot thralls and the player but in single player server I set my settings to where npc's deal a bit less damage but it still hurts when a boss like the red mother stomps your thralls into the ground and sends my character flying with the swing of her tail

[@ThePersistentNoob]

1. NEW MAP(S) 2. Race perks/benefits 3. World Faction Alliances 4. Trading 5. Player Professions I love the game! I have over 800+ hrs in the game. I know a lot of players have a lot more time played, but my point is that even though I have never hesitated to start completely over with a new game and character (To me, I love a new start in the game) at times, I just feel that I get in a rut like I'm basically playing the same character over and over. A new map, racial benefits, trading, professions and working towards world faction standing/alliances would give the game a little more POP and replayability. Thank you KiahOnFire for bringing this up for discussion. Hopefully, someone on the development team will listen. Keep up the great work!

[@t.s.adrian8785]

"The main pull of a survival game is adventure." So true! FC, this is how you save Conan Exiles: *Player made dungeons.* Picture this: A player creates a zone in on the side of a cliff. It can be a cave, or doors to a tomb. As you zone in, the player can "dig" passageways, deeper caves--whatever--this way and that way. Steps up. Ramps down. Makes rooms. Small rooms, big rooms. Make traps! Pit traps in floors, spikes that spear from the ceiling, huge balls that roll, acid pits. Whatever! Secret doors. Rooms filled with water or fire. Monsters! Undead things! Statues that ask riddles to open doors. Treasures! All kinds! Creative players can build them after known fantasy dungeons: Tomb of Horrors. Mines of Moria. Then, when these places are made, invite friends to do your dungeon. Make them curse your name! "DUUUUGE! WTF, man! How was anyone supposta survive that?!" I'd love it!

[@whazuesicefang5001]

interesting but some of what you mentioned can take alot of focus to the coding and it took several games that used those kind of functions several years of trial and error to get a game running smooth enough to be able to handle all of the stuff

[@MaverickX36]

That won't work. Very silly, actually

[@oneill6291]

Fantastic video and great suggestions. Hopefully they take some of the advice! It's so sad :( This game still has soooo much unrealized potential. I just got into it a few weeks ago and was blown away by most of it. The greed and monetization is also a huge turn off, especially when you've got core game systems that are so awful and broken.

[@basicbill7276]

I used to play a lot of conan but I guess games like X4, mount and blade and Kenshi kind of ruinned it for me. As a solo player the game gets boring pretty fast. I feel like the lack of dynamic world events to keep you on edge kind of hurt the game for me. In a game like kenshi, you cant just sit in one location for hours and not see something wild happen. In Conan nothing happens if you dont instigate it. NPCs act in the traditional MMORPG style where they have a spawn location and thats where they will always be forever. My suggestion is spice things up with the factions we have in game. Give NPC factions the ability roam certain parts of the map and interact with each other and the player. Give them simple diplomacy system where they're ok with each other all the way to "I will go out of my way to screw your over". I get that Conan was made to be a more social game. Where players would play in servers together either in PVP or PVE. But I honestly hated both exeperiences. In my opinion it would have been better off being a solo or coop type game with a heavy development into a dynamic world.

[@MedievalFantasyTV]

That's exactly what I think after I've met Kenshi. Just imagine Conan Exiles with Kenshi squads and dynamic world and factions. Just imagine the Exile lands being a world that exists and evolves despite the player, not because of the player, just like in Kenshi. We could also form squads with out thralls, and there wouldn't be a main character. Your squad would go on when your original character died. Oh, boy, that would be a dream come true...

[@Vagelis1608]

Excellently put together video and some very good points. Great job, Kiah

[@pitmatix1457]

To be honest I haven't played much since they announced the huge changes to crafters and thralls. I LIKE the sound of the changes they are making and will be back into it as soon as they take effect. In the meantime though there doesn't seem to be much reason collecting thralls as I'm not sure how the ones I get in the meantime will be affected.

[@rafar9563]

I would love to see more QoL updates, adding more interactivity with old and new objects, more options of adjustment stuffs - actually making its being as the core engine for fun and imagination. Basic things like a music instruments that could has simple or advanced way to play songs - finding or writing +saving them on paper as themes that can be played by thralls, and creating your banjo gang etc. Gosh I feel this game boring when you have created your whole castle or a tavern - aaaand that emptiness with silence. (crickets) an easel to design your own pictures in a simple graphic editor? I would kill for such things in vanilla game...

[@samantha8701]

Use to play this a lot, got several people to buy into it, spent a lot of money myself but the game is so buggy even after all this time Ive halted it. If they dont want to put some love & money back into fixing the game I wont give them anymore love or money. Even if they didnt add anything & just fixed the mass amount of game breaking bugs id coming running back with friends.

[@oreroCE]

I'm a modder. My main mod focuses around changing up the endgame by adding set bonuses to armour sets and on-hit effects to weapons, and giving bosses new mechanics - all stuff that didn't previously exist in the game. I have more hours in the devkit than most people have in the game. In a way that puts me in a better position than the players because I can get my enjoyment purely from the satisfaction of what I'm creating without needing the rest of the game to keep up. Anyway, you and the other commentors are hitting the nail on the head with your diagnosis. For a player with no mods installed the endgame is almost exactly the same now as it was in 2020 with only minor differences - maybe one item is better than it used to be, or maybe there's a new way to skip a step, but overall we're farming the same enemies in the same places for the same rewards. The way Siptah was handled, it honestly feels like the map was deliberately sabotaged to justify some manager's position against making new maps in the future. And of course, agreed about Age of Heroes. Thrall sandboxing would have been a nice footnote to cap off a larger update but 6 months of development went into making our thralls get themselves stuck on chairs or in doorways. Imagine what kind of PVE content could have been made with 6 months of development time: a new dungeon with new bosses, some new progression mechanic, a couple of new weapon types, a new sorcery tree, or maybe even finishing off the corrupted attributes. I really don't think any of those would be particularly taxing for a team of developers/artists, even if it's a small team. I made a new sorcery tree and a magic damage system on my own in less time than that while also working full-time. Yes, there have been events, but their transient nature means they have no lasting impact on the gameplay loop. Once the event is complete it's back to the same endgame that we've had for years.

[@edjoshlyn448]

New Map(s) is a forgone conclusion. A robust storyline with low, mid, high tier bosses leading to an ultimate end game....Thulsa Doom!

[@skeksis3082]

it's a survival game, why does it need an "end game" the point of the game is to live in the world not beat it.

[@TattoosByStew]

I've enjoyed your videos for years please don't give up on us exiles yet..

[@hatchet8217]

New map and open the north SSDD

[@retromegabitsegadude]

Such a great video. Stagnant is the right word. For anyone new to Conan Exiles there is a massive amount of really fun content to explore... but for the many of us who have played for years there really isn't anything left worth doing. Each new chapter doesn't bring enough to make the experience worth while. If Bazaar items were a buck or two and the most expensive items topping out at about $5, I'd likely buy it all. But as is, I have bought nothing from the Bazaar. If Funcom really wants Conan Exiles to survive substantial content is very badly needed.

[@Kritacul]

They just need to make another Conan in UE5 and go from there.. It's that simple.

[@colorpraeterita3824]

From my pov as someone who plays exclusively on an official PvE Exiled Lands server and who likes to invest in my character by learning all recipes, collecting legendries and sets etc.: Be able to move between EL and Siptah maps. I would love to be able to take my character from EL to Siptah to do the content there so I can add stuff to my base in EL. My very rough idea is that each EL server would be paired with a same Siptah server (i.e. PvE with PvE) and one can move between the two via a portal learned through the sorcery mechanic, perhaps with a timer and/or resource requirements so it can't be done in rapid succession but not set so high that one can't jump back to the other server every few days so they can reset decay timers. If a new map is developed then that could be looped in with EL and Siptah servers and accessed by the same portal. The following suggestions won't bring in new players but might help stop the hemorrhaging of the existing player base for the time being: 1) Bug fixes, especially the falling through floors/foundations along with server stability issues. 2) More dungeons! 3) More Journey steps to take advantage of added content, which also has the benefit of giving us a reason to do stuff in-game without being grindy like the events tend to be.

[@charlesbales7164]

Add a new map

[@JustaDude-si2mb]

They are busy with Dune and consoles greatly affect the development of the game. So I don't expect much to change because of it. I don't think adding new maps to practically empty official servers won't help much too. I think the real issue is the data management of the assets in the game. The game bogs down a lot when there are a lot of items in the game. It's a huge turn off if players are experiencing lag. People like to collect things and they should work on data management more than anything else. Though my ultimate wish is that they are quietly working on Conan 2. Or at least someone else is working on a barbarian type game that takes inspiration based on this game.

[@spaceranger7683]

Living settlements is going to be a nightmare for people (like me) on last-gen consoles or low spec PCs. I just hope they implement a toggle to turn it off. And, honestly, who asked for this? It seems like something more befitting a "cozy" social/building sim like Palia. I'd much rather get a new map, or even just expanding into the NE corner of TEL map. Hell, just letting me move back and forth between Siptah and TEL on one character would be a massive improvement.

[@KawaiiFive_O]

Living settlements was something proposed way back when Joel was still the creative director for the game. Lots of us were excited for it back then--myself included. I'm personally thrilled it's finally being added. However, I will concede that having it as a main feature without any major content additions right on the heels of slowing down their update cadence was probably not the best idea in terms of planning. But as for who asked for it? I did, at least.

[@donnagardner1615]

excellent !!! I agree! I love this game but a new map and or a way to travel between maps would be AMAZING!!! Keep up the great content Kiah...thank you!

[@kamakazed3747]

Ark creators are focused on game play, Conan creators are monetization focused end of discussion.

[@patrickpol6156]

ive been wanting to check out the latest ark game but i dont know if my pc can pull it since its got some high graphics requirements

[@mikewade777]

Ark controls like a tank in 3rd person. Theres only so much gameplay i can handle when forklifts have better drift control.

[@HieronymousMook]

Hiya Kiah! Been a while since Siptah. Very good points. A lot of temporary fluff that doesn't really improve the core game experience, features that nobody wanted. Siptah was mishandled - it was empty when it should have had the same level of detail and things to do as the Exiled Lands, and - gawd - that ridiculous Leyshrine mechanic.

[@vdanger7669]

The Dune game is not going to do well.

[@TheWorryingWolverine]

Well, look at what they've done to their old games, and you get a sense of what they're going to do with their future games: Anarchy Online: In Death Mode, can't even call that one Maintenance Mode any more. Secret World Legends: More or less in the same bracket as AO, may be a bit better off because it's not that old. Conan Exile: I'd say on the same road as AO and SWL... Dune Awakening: I'm not even going to bother with that one. And i bought pretty much every DLC for AO, Lifetime Sub. for SWL and of course the Complete Edition for CE, but i'm just done with FC.

[@mikenielsen6206]

I actually think the dune game is going to do quite well. It's the first fresh entry into the survival genre in years.

[@slik1977]

It doesn't deserve to if Conan is anything to go by, which is a shame

[@WildJester]

Hi Kiah - you're right! It's tough to think about it and to imagine how much better things could have been for the game if it had a different route. Very well put together video.

[@KiahOnFireOfficial]

Thankyou Jester!

[@WildJester]

@@KiahOnFireOfficial you're welcome ^^

[@shotgunbettygaming]

TRIGGER WARNING: NOVELLA INCOMING I consider Conan my 'Sandbox Building Game' or my 'Paper Dolls Game' where I play dress up with my dolly, nothing more. Knocked the original game content out in 2 weeks and at that point it was 'Now What?' for me. All the follow-up content feels like just more of the same with a 'new look'. And anytime they really feel like they've hit on something awesome...they nerf the hell out of it and make it crap. The great majority of their content is just new furniture or clothes you have to pay absurd amounts real world money for. They crank that shit out like a Willy Wonka Factory Line. Then there was always it's weird style. BEAUTIFUL characters and clothing and char creation, GORGEOUS building system, FANTASTIC physics with the water balloon boobies (it's funny how dudes think they move) and the best hair physics I've seen in ANY game (Vindictus would be a close contender for me) alongside some of the DERPIEST looking grade school drawn animals I've seen in games since the 90's. I mean, wtaf is up with that lion?!😂 There was also not really any fear. You just have to outrun a mob to get away, it'll hit the end of it's leash tether and turn around to go back plus nothing will come off a cliff after you? Never been scary, which means it's never been thrilling or exciting or very stimulating. I don't care for those games or mini-games where you just kill how ever many waves of a creature until you lose or 'beat the level'. I find them VERRRRY boring. Conan feels like that kind of game to me. Just more waves of the same shit. But for $20 you can have a new stylish bed and brazier! Tbh, I stopped playing after they changed the battle pass to make it more difficult to make your money back for the next one. It's a strong arm tactic to try and make me pay for a new one every time OR to hijack as much of my time as they can away from other games or other Life pursuits so I can actually make that money back. Fuck Funcom is how I feel. They've dropped the ball on what they 'could do' with this game so much and so often they're like that fake ass chameleon chick at the party that just makes you roll your eyes so hard you can see your brain.

[@KiahOnFireOfficial]

water balloon boobies xD hahaha!

[@MEKAYVA]

Hello Kiah, I really appreciate all content you're posting mainly Conan-related topics. I’ve just thought of some random ideas for this game which I would like to know your thoughts on. First, I would like to say that a new map is a huge demand for almost all of us, but I do understand that (most probably) because of the small player base that this game has, they can't add a new one in the meantime since only few servers are full.. the rest are almost dead with some players going online just to reset the decay timer or spend an hour or 2 playing on a daily basis. *Things to be added / reworked: ●New balanced stats for weapons and armors (such as crit chance/dmg, etc...) Let us have several playstyles without sticking to one meta build & equipment... ●New fighting thralls (so we have a variety to choose not only Cimmerian being the most powerful one) ●New thrall classes (such as sorcerers as companions so they can fight along our side by doing some sort of magic damage instead of only equipping a sword or axe, etc.. AND by adding them, new magic weapons with new magic stats should be introduced/ other example is a medic thrall with healing stats that can heal players or other thralls in fights). ●In addition, some thralls should have numerous different unexpected stats. for example, getting a normal t3 thrall with a maxed hp of 500 but having a damage multiplier of 3.0 or even 4.0 so we here can choose whether to take the risk of running a low hp thrall or sticking to the more balanced ones with good HP and high dmg modifier. ●Alliances/clans/guilds: do some adjustments and additions to make them more active and have life so players have more duties to do as a team (my suggestion: add levels and some tasks in which these tasks can give clan XP and each level can enhance a % of your stat or your building hp for example / another addition to the levels would be a Clan leader thrall that can act like a normal thrall just with some additional buffs (it can be knocked or killed while defending or attacking / many other similar ideas can be added) ●For me, the Age of Sorcery killed a great pvp part of the game and that's because of the introduction of Bat rides. Building up high has no significance anymore as it can be easily reached. What will be the counter for this? Well, add a new machine to the game like the Ballista in which we can use or (most importantly) put an archer thrall on it in which this machine increases the archer's accuracy so they can shoot all flying targets and can hit almost all the arrows shot. ●Add training camps for thralls: a new buildable item like any other bench in which you can put a limited number of thralls where they can train to get level xp. As long as you keep them inside it, they’ll keep on getting xp. (low Xp gain rate for sure) ●Add random weekly challenges for each player that give special rewards or unique items. These challenges should be hard or grindy. For example: kill 100 crocodiles & craft 500 obsidian bars & kill scorpion queen 10 times, etc… to get an enhanced sword/axe/spear or any better version of any gear. ●Add Npc settlements that can be occupied by players to get special buffs that will last for the whole occupied duration. After being controlled by players, these settlements can be raided by other players during pvp times. ●Add growth stages for all pets. It is fun to watch your pet growing up day after day (from a little cub to a fully-grown pet) ●Add a new trading system that can be done through a "Market/Trading" bench in which players can trade among each others and to avoid abusing it & have it balanced, trading can only be done with items of same type or value. For example, 1000 wood for 1000 stone / an Axe for another Axe. Here players can offer what they have and select what they're looking for in return. Moreover, include npc market where we can trade for some items but for high requirements, like: 10k wood to get a 50 steel bars. ●Make fishing possible and not just by putting traps. We should have fishhook, harpoons & fishing nets so we can go fishing rare fishes that give strong buffs. ●Make saddles paintable.

[@KiahOnFireOfficial]

Love the ideas!

[@Tacobobo1]

I totally agree with your video. Spot ON! The problem is that CE is on Unreal4 engine, to be able to stear this game in the right direction they would have to export it to unreal5, relaunch it, change the direction of the where the game is heading, small stuff here and there wont work and appeal the players. It won't attract new players either. IMHO the game is surviving due to the modders and player created maps. Without those the playerbase would declined a lot faster. I say THANK YOU to all content creators/modders etc that keeps the game alive. I have quite a lot of knowledge about the Hyborian world and created a MUD back in the 90-00's based on it. I have a vision what I would do with the game, involving Hyboria and all its lore. Here are some suggestions, just to start and scratch the surface a tiny tiny tiny bit.. 1. A big world/possibility to jump between the maps. 2. If staying in current map state cooperate with the modders. Make the game better! 3. Fix the darn bugs for heavens sake.... they have been there for AGES! 4. Increase server capacity, when there are 10+ players online the servers starts lagging a lot. 5. New maps and quests to do. 6 .. and A LOT MORE!!! Please get in contact with me and can discuss this. I love the Hyborian world and would love to see a game that really really thrives and grows in playerbase. You have me as one of your follower on Twitch. Just pop a PM. Thanks.

[@ShellworldGames]

More maps, map-linking as a feature, better mod support, and more kinds of sorcery. At present, Sorcerer cannot be played like a strength build, agility melee or ranged builds can from what I have seen. I would like to see more of the Conan lore types of sorcerer play added. Sorcery is basically regional in the lore, but Demonology gets fire magic and demon summoning, and Necromancy can do ice magic in addition to crafting/summoning undead. Stygia has it's own combat sorcery that includes lightning attack magic and giant snake shapeshifting. We only get two limited and unique to the Exiled Lands and the Isle of Siptah - Kurak and Golem Crafting. I would especially like to see Stygian Sorcery added, and in a way that scaled with the existing combat system.

[@Kalazar88Gaming]

I wish there was a toggle for the purge style. Me and the friends really miss the old purge raiding your base randomly style.

[@cordeliacentauri1737]

Hey kiah, it was your videos that got me into conan exiles and managed to clocked in about 260hrs. But the game has so much issues like bugs that are years ago that are still there and there's only so much thing to do on 1 map..

[@PictishPrince]

Some of us play another thing called DayZ all year round and use Conan Exiles and other things for a small break, and have done so for over a decade now.

[@elivean]

You are quite right. I am by no means a serious gamer who knows about many games nor spents hours and hours playing. I got drawn to Conan a couple years ago, loved many things about it. I finally joined a modded server, and it added playing time for me, but I am starting to be bored out of my mind. To me having more armour sets, weapons and even some events helps for 2 months, but not being able to explore new dungeons and new maps it's what makes me have to divorce it, haha. Oh, well.

[@kbxbogdan]

I have almost 2k h in this game, loved Siptah because it was new and you are soooo right! Players need new maps, some permanent quests, new gear like on Siptah and some nice Bosses with unique mechanics. The old DLC system was better. I bought all of them before the Bazar. Also bought the game on PS and PC. Now.. because of the lack of new maps or real content I have moved to other games like Fallout 76 and Once Human lately...

[@arcuscaelestis8994]

I agree with you and many commenters that a new map is needed. I will say that it could use a good story. One thing I did like about the Exiled lands is how there's a rich histroy you can discover and the misdirection at the start. I remember starting Conan Exiles many years ago and touching the speaking stone near the spawn and thinking the message was for me. I've never really got into Siptah, because I didn't see or hear of a story like the one in Exiled lands. If I am mistaken i'd love to hear about it in the comments. A new map doesn't just help long time players, but is equally fair to new players. Another thing I would suggest is allowing multiple saves per map.I mainly play solo, I like to build stuff, but the effort to backup my save files just to be able to have a different character with a different build style on the same map is hassle that's not always worth it. Making sorcery useful and even available from the start would be great. I'd love to play a rival sorcerer to Toth Amon exiled out of cruelty.

[@ChubbiesGaming]

It is still a really good game and the freedom to build and do what you want is probably the main thing keeping it alive. Recent additions perhaps didn't help with thralls going missing etc but at least they are still updating the game and adding new things. Keeps it fresh somewhat. Would love to see the northeast part of the map completed and haven't started any of the companion stuff yet so still more for us to do there! ⚔ Good video as always! 😀

[@windmark8040]

Players who join existing servers need something to do, other than craft, as most of the good spots are already built on and developed. New maps would be a great start. Also adding more mobile NPCs on the maps would add more life to the maps. Roving bandits, traders and even quest-givers would be cool.

[@Anabriella]

You nailed it. Well said, kiah 👏

[@dragonsbane6502]

Lovely video as always Kiah! Hope Funcom reads all of the comments. All I can add is without EEWA and Hosav's hard work and a great community to play it with, would of stopped playing years sooner than when AoS finally killed my desire to play.

[@GamerxDevision]

Wagons that can be pulled by animals, the wagons can have a small cabin for customizing and a bed for respawn. "look up wagon mobile homes" they existed back in the cowboy age, its not much of a stretch for a game like this to have...

[@KnittyKitty215]

I agree with others on connecting the Exile map to the Siptah map. It would be cool too if the Siptah map were fixed. I still fall through mountains and just ride my horse through sides of hills. It's not good but I still love the game play. They should find a way to incorporate the caravan traders into the game permanently. I'd love it even if they just put in a couple of the caravans to travel to. So far I like the Age Of Heroes. It's a bit early to know for sure but I'll always play Conan no matter what. It's like you said my favorite building system too.

[@imreportingcebugs]

This took guts Kiah, thank you. You have presented many contentious issues that have been waved away by a small vocal part of the community and taken as fact, turned it around and posed a well thought out opportunity for dialogue. I set out on the Beta for Age of Heroes to answer a question: just how many bugs are there? 86 reports later and counting, I've barely chipped away at the top of the iceberg. I agree that the game has stagnated and that isn't just in lack of meaningful, replayable content. It is also in how Funcom has treated its community. It has been a long, insulting, punishing experience while grasping at REHs world, a semblance of the survival sandbox genre, and as a PVP player, denigrated. I say all of this but I still love the game; however, it isn't doing me or itself any favours since AoW.

[@BEYPlaysGames]

Kiah is on FIRE with this vid🔥🔥🔥

[@gcgamer]

Linking the two maps is not enough. Isle of Siptah has been slow with updates and changes. Also as you said, modders cant use their assets. As a result, siptah servers have been empty lately. I have been on the same official server for years. It does get stale, I would like to move to a modded map/server. Problem is, once I get use to the mods, changes, and extra features, it will very hard to go back to vanilla base game. This game desperately needs a new map and a way to connect the maps together similar to the server transfer feature (but not with items). Great video that can bring up discussion.

[@CooledCross]

Your 100% spot on Kiah

[@discofilm77]

Hi Kiah ❤ I love your channel. In my humble option with 6100 hours in conan- I could not agree more with you. ... For me, I wish we had a champion system with rewards and buffs, jewelry, better farming, and enchanting would be nice. All those features are part of the lore and also implemented in one way or another through the conan books saga over the years and cartoon series long ago. ... Thank you again for your amazing content and community.

[@KiahOnFireOfficial]

Thanks for sharing!!

[@Bubbles99718]

Would like a "Sepermuru" type town in each biome. Would give us a reason to go to some more desolate places. Have some officials, pve, set to Barbaric, and even add Berserk Barbarian level of difficulty. As a veteran, once I level up halfway I can take on pretty much everything. Also, generally speaking they have made the game simply too easy; thrall revives have made losing thralls almost impossible. Removing risk removes fun. Lose the revive, or allow only 1 perhaps. Although I have heard u can turn that off, is that correct? Putting so much and all loot on fallen enemies removes a huge chunk of the reason to explore or at least travel the map. Without a reason to go somewhere we don't go. I put outposts in the seldom traveled spots. It gives me a reason to be there. I mean, this is a beautiful map, I love wandering around. Would rather see an expansion of Exiles map vs a new one. Don't know the tech feasibility of that though. And yeah, connect Siptah. Love the game but like all things it ebbs and flows in popularity. I cycle out of it every now and again, it's gonna happen. Still love it

[@adammyers3453]

Quarterstaves (aka agility spears) Cosmetic items for sorcery (why can’t I cast rock bridge instead of ice bridge) Attracting merchants at tavern A sorcery “tavern”/“treasure room” Just to name a few.

[@K9emerald]

Man you have some great editing.❤

[@KiahOnFireOfficial]

Thanks 😁

[@craigwhite1491]

I agree, Kiah. I'd also add that, as a console player (Xbox), many of us feel like FC stopped listening to us years ago. " I don't want new stuff until you fix what's been broken for YEARS" is a common comment on several online forums. I just started playing again after quitting shortly after AoW chapter 4. Not only are the same old bugs still an issue, some that I thought were fixed (falling at the top of a climb) are back...... or still there?!? I really like the game but their competition is going to end them. Honesty, the only reason I came back was I'm in between games now, so i figured I'd get ready for AoH. Just in case they actually fix it. Which.... unfortunately...... I doubt.

[@user-sv9je7bz4j]

The upcoming update looks pretty awesome - being able to let the thralls go off on their own working in your settlement is going to be huge for qol.

[@Ulward47]

2:44 Not to mention, that beside 7 maps Ark also have a map generator. If only Fucom implement map generator, that would be a big step forward imo. Yes, It will be not easy to implement, probably impossible, but totally worth it

[@a.bettik8698]

It's very true what you say about Funcom not learning from Ark, and not understanding the importance of modding for the game's life cycle. And I'd say, to look even further, Bethesda and TES -- like they were 20 years ago. In many ways those game have something of the feel the original Elder Scrolls had : open map and gameplay, original and interesting world to delve in, agency and making your own story, replayability etc. Mods played a fundamental role in catalysing this, and Funcom should really get inspiration from Bethesda's former achievements. Nowadays Bethesda, on the other hand, could learn a lesson or 2 from Conan and Ark...

[@saiyenne2594]

It be engaging for the community to be able to vote on some aspects of the next map/dlc/cosmetics pack etc. A ~weekly vote of : "Hey Exiles, here a list of possible destinations ( new maps). Which one is calling you?" / " This weeks, we are voting for a new mount" etc.

[@insurrectusresistus]

Excellent points. I love the basic mechanics of the game, but I find the latest "updates" relatively boring and not inspiring enough to play often.

[@AtamaKizu]

Reading these comments I agree with most everything being said. One thing no one has pointed out is the hackers. I know pvp doesn't interest most people but they are a sizable group and when hackers a bragging day and night that they have 60+ accounts in reserve it casts an ugly light on the company.

[@wesleymatthews390]

What I would love to see: "Finishing" the game leading to a new map in Hyborea. You spend a fair bit of time finding and collecting the items to escape the exiled lands. Why not expand on that and REALLY escape to a new map instead of just wandering off into the sunset. This would allow a free hand in where they could develop next (using existing maps from modders would help them on time / cost of production). Older players get somewhere new to go and visit, newer players get the original experience and know they have an end goal in the game. That alone would go a long way to keeping older players and engaging new ones. Add in some of the other system ideas people are proposing and the game takes on a new life. My thoughts, from Melbourne Australia

[@datastorm75]

A large number of maps, or a great procedural map generation system, can add a LOT of legs to a game's life.

[@foobiedoobiedoobar]

This game has come a long way so I'll keep this short. All we want is for the same first map to keep growing like it has been with recent updates. Keep adding more Dungeons to explore and we'll buy the cosmetics you can bet on that. Also keep adding more to combat. You're doing great 👍👏👌🙌 praise yog ert.

[@thestormpaladin6714]

Hey thanks for adding my forum discussion! Really apreciate it 😊

[@paul1966nov]

Its too bad Conan original game and exiles could not combine style wise. I loved the original game, and the graphics of the new.