Everything Wrong with Conan Exiles (And How to Fix It) - PVP Review and Suggestions

[@louis4563]

I like how you were able to point out flaws and give potential fixes for them without ever sounding like you're just complaining. Great video as always Cero!

[@driklol]

Agreed, It just makes me sad that companies require videos like this to even begin to think about problems these days.

[@jaceclary1612]

I like how you think he's calm about it hahaha

[@MichaelPohoreski]

Anyone can complain; all that does is waste everyone’s time. The sign of a _good_ critic is that they actually _think_ about the problem(s) and offer *constructive* criticism.

[@Zelosykes]

Thanks for making this, Cero. Conan is truly an incredible game and it would be such a shame for it die when it has the potential to be so great. I hope you can get more sponsorships so we can keep getting more and more content like this.

[@sergiohenrique2411]

ok, you too need to make a video together. came back to game after 3 years, found it after all this changes and now im addicted to both of you guys channels :D keek Pls think about this he is a big brain and you are a resiliant pvpr, think of the possibilities, the 2 underdogs wiping alphas :D

[@PfizZz]

Incredible video. Food for thought: You can only god a base when they reach a certain clan "score", perhaps a combination of piece count, value of materials/items in clan, and tier value of building pieces. Lore explanation: the gods do not waste their time on trifling matters like sandstone cubes.

[@Eradicati0nn]

PvP really isn't my vibe, I stick to my RP and PvE building content, but this video is masterfully done. Hopefully Funcom hear this feedback, its definitely worth them taking on board to make the game more enjoyable

[@MrJColeman1987]

Oof, unfortunately hacking/exploits is still incredibly bad. Even one occurrence of someone killing you from under your base and looting all your benches via some kind of undermeshing automatic kill button is game ruining. That's what ended my pvp experience in Conan. Not base wipes, not losing everything to being raided, but hackers.

[@padarousou]

Yea pvp games on PC always have problems with hackers.

[@mdhall04]

At the same time, conan admins base wipe people because when someone can't raid you, they spam report you.

[@815TypeSirius]

Get friends, play with them, white list, remove idiots. You're the kind of person that complains about poop in the public pool.

[@obitronshinobi8163]

Conan needs the Diablo loot system or something very similar for gear AND thralls. Inject some randomness and a game of chance instead of the rigid, cookie cutter system that forces you to farm one or two armor sets, s couple of viable weapons and Teimos or Dalensia. Reduce the time it takes to break a thrall on the wheel and make the stats completely random. No more teirs. Add a level system for bench thralls. Add thrall types for every profession. Animal tamers/trainers, farmers, artisans etc.. Make every armor viable via an upgrade system. I like pictish gear. It's obsolete in 5 minutes. I want to wear it through the end game, PvP etc. Conan is the baddest dude on the planet and he wears fur underwear, leather boots and a necklace. If I wear that -- I'm trash. If I want to spend my time and energy upgrading my fur underwear to max stats I should be free to do so. I could go on forever.. 😆

[@oatmeal8673]

instead of making all armor endgame viable they could make a way to change the appearance of endgame armor

[@obitronshinobi8163]

@@oatmeal8673 I'd be OK with that.

[@black_hand78]

@@obitronshinobi8163 Update 3.0 will allow you to change appearance of armor and possibly weapons.

[@brosef4154]

I started playing single player just so I could see the game, and not risk losing everything in a gank. Just playing PvP left me in a sandstone base on noob river because I was too weak to go anywhere else. Now I feel a lot more knowledgeable about the game mechanics, the map, where all the best thralls are, etc. But what do I gain by going to a PvP server? The chance to raid and get raided. Is that really worth it? Now it's something I have to be in the mood for, and I haven't felt that desire knowing all the grind I'd have to go through to get loot from a base, or lose all mine. So like you said in the video, am I more likely to raid people established on the server, or are they more likely to raid me? So what am I gaining playing on PvP servers? Seems like there's not much to gain there. I played a PvP RP server, and that was more fun because at least there was an RP element that made it more interesting than solo play.

[@weediestbroom]

Play pve-c no base damage from players, no raids, but you still get the purge. And PvP combat is turned on so you can get in fights ect with other players. If you find a good private server that has keep loot on death turned on then you won't even loose anything when you die

[@black_hand78]

@@weediestbroom the “no raids” part is completely up to the admin of the server. I only play PVE-C and I’m currently on a RP PVE-C that is honestly the best server I’ve ever played on and as long as you can enter someone’s base without force you can steal as much as you want but if your caught the player is allowed to defend their stuff. The admins do allow full on clan raids too (as long as both clans are willing).

[@slaayerr1]

Yeeeah kinda did the final uninstall when they did the server transfers and day 1 brought us flying asian hackers 1 shotting structures with picks and opening locked chests on the entire server.

[@archerdavidson6066]

Lmao as a former official ark player ik ur feelings. And i understand them. I just enjoy ur gameplay and how u interpret and explain during a video. Keep up the good work

[@lorthrin]

8k hour rat pvp player here. LOVED the vid. Funcom just dont realize how close they are to having the top open world full loot pvp game. All of your suggestions and changes were spot on. Well done ! We can dream.

[@scythianking7315]

Funcom is INFAMOUS for wasted potential. All their major games had amazing potential, and all ruined by their stupidity. I don't know wtf is wrong with them. I guess they don't like success Age of Conan - Revolutionary MMO back when it released. Innovative fun combat system, best graphics in the MMO genre for it's time, soundtrack was A+ The Secret World - Another great innovative MMO Conan Exiles

[@asuka4901]

Personally, I feel like the problem with dealing with drawbridges weren’t their health, it was the fact that all damage done could be repaired with a single swing of the repair hammer. This is a problem with all building pieces in my mind but drawbridges are the biggest offenders.

[@TheBeardyGamer]

Well as he explained, it was their health because you literally couldn’t stack enough bombs against it to blow them in one stroke. For other pieces they can be repaired yea, but could be blown up in one go therefore stopping any ability to repair

[@asuka4901]

@@TheBeardyGamer True I do understand this but I don’t think not being able to one shot everything in the game is the problem. I think the problem rather is the fact that you can repair any damage done with a single hit. Even on other bases that can have their drawbridges one shot I feel like this would be a better change.

[@BentRodsTackle]

a very very simple fix for this is implement a time before a piece can be repaired after taking damage. problem fixed. Ark's timer is 2 minutes and it works flawless.

[@gr3m_shotzyt144]

I opened this video expecting 15 minutes not 2 hours 😂

[@MEL-TED]

Let's hope for a healthy game and community after this update

[@ebisuezo]

Someone needs to @ this to Funcom.

[@dropbearz4014]

Look at our boy cero already getting sponsors xD

[@ceronesthes]

BIG GAINS

[@TMac-os1hy]

Was missing your content and then you come back with a over 2 hour video? That’s really neat, thanks dude!

[@Zorlont]

It's the decay timer. Conan Exiles requires too much time invested to also have a decay timer that is so unforgiving. I would like to see the stats they have on how many (new) players have joined, built a base, logged off, then returned to find everything gone. How many of those players outright quit after a short conversation in global chat? (Way too many.) That is why the servers feel dead and empty. No casual players hang around. Casual players enjoy Conan Exiles until the exact moment that their base decays. Then most of them realize it's better to spend their free time in another, more forgiving game.

[@Jaceftp]

How quickly does it decay? If you cant be on every raid window(for most of it too) ur wasting ur time anyway. I just got into the game and was playing 10+ hours a day(no job atm). The first and only time i was off for 2 hours of raid window, i was wiped. With the raid time for me going to 2am, hell no.

[@asmajic11]

As great as it is, I think the whole punching trough walls/permastructure to see what's behind needs to be fixed somehow. Its a great scouting tool and everybody uses it, but it defeats the purpose of walls and doors.

[@FrozenSlug]

I've genuinely never watched a video this long on KZbin until now, you didn't make one point that I disagreed with and your solutions are solid. I hope the devs watch this and take notes because Conan is an incredible game "sometimes".

[@Dioxane]

Amazing video as always! Hopefully Funcom and the Conan Exiles devs take this to heart and consider both yours and the communities suggestions and are able to implement meaningful changes.

[@nickeliseman9472]

Never played in my life, don’t even know anyone that owns it. But loved your series so definitely gonna watch it all

[@darksh1ne1]

First of all, thank you for the video! Its been worth waiting. Second, congrats on the sponsor. Here are some of my own thoughts on the matter. Subject I didn’t touch simply have nothing for me to add or disagree with: About poison. As a concept, I think it’s ok to have it as it is, as a second type of dot. The issue lies in its damage and in how easy it is to apply. With feroxic daggers or not. The idea about changing second perk of survival to give immunity to poisons is…. Unrealistic. It would be way too powerful and it would completely discourage any further investment into survival, since bleed isn’t really that much of an issue nowadays anyway. I think it’s more reasonable for that perk to simply greatly reduce poison’s damage. By 50% at least, if not more. Granted, base poison damage should be lowered by itself, to bring it more to the level of current bleed, so the perk would lower it even more. God bubbles. I think the wisest option to deal with permanent bubbles would be not to change the bubbles themselves, but to add a cooldown period after a god bubble has been used. Like, after a bubble is over, another one can’t be activated for the next 24 hours in the same area, even from a different, close standing T3 altar. This way god bubbles would serve as temporary anti-raid solution, but would not grant complete immunity, as they do right now. About avatars. I love them. My favorite mechanic by far, and I agree that currently getting them is a bit too easy. Even without sigil of the gremlin, simply having a religious dagger at all time and farming every humanoid npc you come across, slowly accumulates favor without even focusing on farming it specifically. Nerfing, or rather, shall we say, fixing the sigil so it wouldn’t harvest 3 hearts from a human, is one thing. But if the cost would be raised even more and the priest type would be changed to named only, the sheer investment into the avatar should reward the player with higher chance to be able to use the god. I’m talking about the summoning timer, of course. 1 minute is way too high. It should be brought down to 30 sec, or ideally, 10-15. About server transfer. I think to keep the server transfer of the characters without any loot on them is fine. It’s not harmful to Exiled lands if a person with Eldarium recipes appears on it, since all of those recipes need Eldarium anyway. Yes, there are some exceptions of unique recipes that can’t be learnt on EL but can be crafted without Eldarium, like the Black corsair set, but if they’d simply bring down its armor value and attributes to the level of other light sets, it would be fine. Just an extra fashion choice without any unfair advantages. A server transfer also should come with the ability to change the character name. That’s more than reasonable. Also you missed the opportunity of making fun of the fact that of all things that are currently transferable, emotes are not ^^ About the dynamic building damage. I heard about it and I was asking for it myself on the forums at some point. But… I always was convinced that by dynamic’ building damage people implied reduced damage to buildings during offline, and not complete immunity? With raid time system untouched too. So it would be possible to offline people still, it would just cost extra. Immunity is an absolute absurd of course. That’s not an option. But reduced damage could work, even if the % was not high. Like 20/30%. This way if you got offlined you would at least have the psychological satisfaction from the realization that enemy had to use extra bombs to get through your base.

[@decado7]

The solution with poison is to simply keep it as a game mechanic where you apply or. No weapons should have auto poison or completely nullifies the whole poison/antidote side of things. Or at least make the weapon applying it not super strong too

[@hannahmonroe3094]

I can't believe you killed the baby horse, I think we knew the daggers worked when you showcased them on the rhino. lol horse hater! 😂

[@f.l.o.w.]

For people who dont know this yet farming is kinda sustainable ,1 Aloe seed grows 5 Aloe leaves put 3 Aloe leaves into the drying rack and you get 1 Aloe seed. Works with everything that has seeds except berries.

[@KidCracken]

I hope funcom don't watch the video cos we all know that they're going to overdo and put their own twist on any changes and destroy the game even more.

[@rekt_angles5718]

I agree with 99% of your video, with two caveats. 1- if server transfers were naked transfers (and changing your name was easy) then the level 60 creation would be unnecessary. 2- if repairs were "heal over time" effects instead of one-tap-done, then that would alleviate a lot of issues. Especially for drawbridges. Additionally, I don't believe that doors should cost more to compensate for the increased health since you already have to build the doorframe first.

[@KomodoToast]

I just want Conan to be popular cause it’s such a fun game to play when it actually works.

[@KSharp2]

You had a lot of great ideas. They are never going to remove horses since they are already an implimented feature and monetized, and I wouldn't want them to, I love mounts. The game would be in dramatically better shape if they took your advice about the balance changes though.

[@elitereptilian200]

I hate horses in this game but, dor a different reason since I only play single player.. horse riding in conan is more akin to sailing, they are so freaking unwieldy and the turn radius is like six miles wide and trying to navigate narrow spaces is a nightmare and they are absolutely horrendous body blockers.. I only hop on a horse if I need to get to the otherside of the map and I can get there in relatively straight run, otherwise I just jog or run everywhere..

[@Niemandzockt]

What if we ad limitations to repairs? No repairs for a certain time after the object takes damage? No placing objects near where a wall just stood?

[@Roxxigaro]

The inherent problem with these games is that progression of raid power/ efficiency in gathering resources is exponential and new players get priced out of starting a base. It has been a trope in these sorts of games for longer than conan has been out that its not worth it to build a base, and its not just whiners saying it but power gamers who want to dominate the server. The exception to this is Rust which is built from the ground up for PvP. If its not built from the ground up for PvP then the "meta" for players in these games is always going to be playing hide and seek and hoping a larger clan who unlocked the more efficient farming/building tier doesnt find them. Its a meta that is not what people had in mind when they got a game where building big bases was a selling point. This was especially bad in ark when you could spend 6 hours taming a dino then another clan with a big bird could come and pick him up and its gone in 10 seconds, and people defended it because "they worked to get to that point". Its not a good excuse when power disparity gets that ridiculous, it kills the game when the winning move is to not engage with its core system.

[@kaanozkuscu5079]

Game was a Cashgrab at first. but for some reason they had succes, so they tried to band aid fix most of their broken mess. i remember early acces when most of their stuff was lazy storebought assets, literall asset flip. one day i watched their dev log live stream and one of their "genius" devs had the idea to literally steal dark souls style combat and thats why we are left with the shitty combat system. non of the stuff they promised their early bakers got added, like literally non. cutting of other peoples dick? nope magicsystem? nope. a npc town for player interaction and proper trading? nope and dont tell me sepermaru, they added that shit later to save some face, its not even half the stuff they promised. ai and pathing is still worse than on most f2p unity games progression is still boring pvp still feels like they had to put it in for "reasons". this game would be a good game if it wasnt planed from moment uno as a quick cashgrab to save their broke company. wish they went bancrupt instead. and lets not start about the devs...

[@Pillowtap]

I love your videos and I'm glad you're back. =)

[@spacetaco8690]

Oh fun fact, server transfers don't even work now. Your character just goes bye-bye because of funcom being fucking stupid. So a character I've had for literally 5 years just went poof because of funcom's shit.

[@bvonscott]

Best way to solve horseback being overpowered is to allow players on the ground to knock off the rider. A quick spear jab up at the rider and they get knocked off. Like in real life. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@decado7]

Well you can knock them off, it’s just not easy

[@jimzawada9647]

New vid let’s goooooo

[@The0neWhoComments]

I was here.

[@skullbones7452]

At a certain point in the video .I was thinking to myself : Maybe Funcom just hates PVP and they are doing this on purpose.This overreaction to fix a problem is something you often see with mod developers as well.They don't play the game often enough to understand how much something needs adjusting.It is usually also the forums/discords where the loudest pugs get the most attention.i wouldnt be surprised at all if other games/modders motivate fanboys to try and convince developers to make changes that ruin the game/mod.The best sailors are at the docks because the real ones are out at sea navigating and actually solving the problems themselves.I have no high hopes for 3.0 .Its will be unbalanced like all the other updates;Why would it all of a sudden be different? The only solution to all of this. Is modded gameplay.Yes, you have some restricting rules to balance and some admins think they are gods.But you can raid/PVP more in 2 weeks then you can do on official in a whole year.Its great fun and even the people with jobs can play competitive against pros/no lifers.

[@jonathonredacted3396]

Conan pve is just genuinely enjoyable. Its got the best out of every survival game ive played.

[@rekt9226]

sweet video bro u are the only youtuber i trust with opinions of the game

[@monetizationanddemonetizat3260]

Conan some how makes the hellscape that is ARK look balanced which i didnt know was possible

[@Berek71182]

Ez Fix for horse: - Give back the additional bleeding effect on horseback for Axes. Axes and Spear Bleeding effect are helpful for farming. Let mace and other blunt weapon deal serious extra damage against raiders! - Remove Lances from the game entirely, we already got Spears. Still better than removing horses entirely. - The bleeding effect on horses should not disapper at all... Force Player to dismount and wrap/heal their horse to prevent them from bleeding out. another Option: Make slow effect on the Horse (by Sword, Arrow Hit in the legs) more severe. If people demand realisim that a lance can oneshot a human being than add even more realism to the horses too -> If horse break their leg they need medical aid or die! - Make Bow viable against horseraiders: a) Greatly Increase projectile speed 100-200% b) Make Bows combat more punishing for horseraidier by increasing the damage (after armorreduction) by a few percent. + c) reduce projectile damage against people who are holding a shield, meaning fighters on foot will always take reduced damage as long as have a shield in one hand, it doesn't matter if they hold it up or not!! Or give Shields a tremoundes amount of Armor or even armor%+ that only works against projectiles (and Lances!!).

[@kronos4292]

The biggest issue for me has been the hackers, when I sent Funcom a report with over 20 videos showing the hackers they replied 5 months later saying they hoped the issue had resolved itself

[@greggaminger]

Yeah same, until I get guarantees Chinese cheaters/hackers are absolutely never present on Oceanic servers, I'm not wasting my time. It's a real shame, they ruin the fun for everyone.

[@FATHER_KLP1137]

really ? everytime ive ever sent in a report to funcom ive recieved a reply within 3 days at most, im on playstation btw

[@kronos4292]

@@FATHER_KLP1137 Can I ask if it was specifically against Chinese hackers? I have a feeling theyve had some Chinese bias ever since Tencent brought them out

[@FATHER_KLP1137]

@@kronos4292 nah man it was for tribe living in the mesh lol

[@cl1cka]

@@kronos4292 Chinese hackers are pest in most games that allow to play in different regions....Way more than any other group. You do remember when PUBG had to ban 30 000 Chinese accounts right?

[@randallporter1404]

54:17 Has anyone given any thought about using a bolo to entangle a horses legs? Throw the bolo, horse stumbles and falls over, obviously the rider falls off (should be prone so requires time to recover) and the horse looses all stamina. 1:03:48 Great summary!

[@jbwooten89]

You just wanted to see who would watch a 2 hour and 15 minute video. Well, here we are. I think Conan is one of the most gorgeous games I’ve ever played. I could sit in the rain in the jungle with that guitar in the afternoon for hours and be totally happy. You’re completely right about everything here.

[@nathanielacton3768]

*On fence over barrier to entry. It's actually what I liked about conan. Now I'm deep in dev for my own game(not a clone) and Conan's build tree is my guide. I know the pain, but I loved it. IN fact that scramble on a new server to get your l60 fitout together was always one of my most enjoyable processes. *Agree on Food Buff. I just eat honey as the payoff for food doesn't make ti worthwhile. *Agree on tools\weapons you can get with knowledge+cunning without grind. I like to think that I can skip starmetal, steal a hardened steel pick from a random chest and have a crack at obsidian. You just take a cannon fodder thrall to sponge while you put the steel\obsidian in the forge. Disposable work if you are in a rush. *Disagree on Teimos being one skulled. Down in the swamp\jungle there isn't much else down there of value. I had one thing, and army of teimos fighters and teimos archers. I suggest minor adjustments. Observe lian vs Teimos battles and just balance him out. Agree on levelling. I'm a permasolo and shouldn't have a dozen L20 teimoses * Agree on poison. I prefer bleed myself as it cannot be blocked, but the danger of poison is siptah gear which never runs out. * Farming with planters can be tweaked cheaply by buffing the seed drying process too output more. The problem with planters is that the node doesn't do a sky trace. So you can grow food in the basement. The trace only needs to execute when you test for ground placement. Same as the test on whether fishtrap is in water. (The water doesn't exist, it;s just a plane with a shader when you are under it.). Easily implemented, no runtime performance cost. * If you Think Feroxic is bad, look at the voidforge gladius. Investment to get it is about an hour of farming fragments in the grey ones city (along with a few statues). Pretty much guaranteed at the tower. Massive dmg, high speed, stunlock, poison, can be crafter thralled up to nearly 100, and you can run a shield. Why carry anything else? * On PVP in the market I'll answer a different way. I've never PVP'ed every before. I was a Conan single player. The ONLY reason I even considered PVP was because the purge was structured terribly. It;s spawns were stupid, the attacks were nothing more than a line of zombies walking to their deaths. Why can't the purge use bombs, trebs, maybe even a god. Attack at a run, in a group, bigger groups. Don't tell me the AI costs are too high, I'm a UE4 dev have can easily run 100 AI's and still not dip under 120fps (which is the editor max). The purge lore also doesn't agree with the reality. etc. Some much more can be done with this. Wheeled palisades? Purge archers shooting back, etc. * On topic PVP, the problem with 'toxic' players are that frankly they are awesome. Here we have GENUINE evil baddies volunteering for the villan role. Hand on heart nothing get my blood pumping more than that feeling of being hunted by a legit baddie. Hide, build up a bomb lab, armour up.... and the fukker gets banned by someone else. Happens every time. NOT ONCE did I ever get my bloody revenge. Official is meant to the the wild west. Team up, alliances, call in rings in from other servers. A clan with a lock on the server is just a huge target. Oh, and I'm a 50 yo IT dude, with a family, awesome career, etc. * Agree on Clan Size, but 6 won't work. Smaller won't work either. I was on one one server at one point where there were three 10 person deeply allied clans. They were so confident that they just interated the clan name. The would just transfer gear in to each other bases. The only real limit turned out to be clan politics. I eneded up leaving the server as it was just stale gameplay. I could not fight them, and they seemed chill and left everyone alone too, despite sitting on 1000's of powder and having two dozen lit up alters. They were not even toxic, just every night more than half the server was one mega clan, even with 30 people online they had the majority. * Solo perspective on gods. I can't afford bubbles, can just afford gods to attack with but can't afford the tallness of anything but a yog in a compact solo base. Yogs priests for me are impossible to find and I'll have a chest of sets beefore I get one single yog, so they are just tough to use, in particular for any kind of defense. * Transfers. Second last playthrough. I was a solo for 3 months on a quiet server. Took a night off. Came back waking up in a farming base. My main was hollowed out just 45 mins before, looked over the logs, check the player list. My solo base was hit by 8 people, 4 were still on. Then 3, then 2. I checked around, another clan responded, they guys were goobers. Couldn't fight, just raid and run. They left behind a vault. So we walled it off and waited for next raid window. Empty. They logged back on at 2-5am and used a series of mule accounts to empty the loot. I want to know where a transferred player goes if they keep this feature. I want to bring the pain back to the players to delivered it on me. Gimme a gps tracker I can invisibly attach to my loot so when someone takes it I can see what server my loot is on. * Siptah. I don't sttart on siptah, it's just not as easy too gear up on for me. Plus, soome unlocks need gear from EL. So I just transfer a 99% character over there. Set up a farming base, unlock recipies and transfer back after spinning up a placeholder account to keep pulling in unique resources as needed. Then a third accounts whose' job is just to bounce back and forth running 99% loads. Honestly though, even as a solo I just joined a clan on siptah and we just shared lodgings. * If you wipe all servers 100% all at the same minute so I can't recover from bodyvaults... then it won't woork on me. I use 9 body vaults because they are all loaded to 99% and siit in the transfer queue. * Multiple accounts. On Xbox, it'll cost me 1 email address and 10 minutes for new account creation + about 45 minutes per account to get it up to a decent lvl to maximse carry load. If PC matches this feature... realistically you'll just see more body vaults but it'll be cheaper. Yes, on console we get FREE unlimited accounts. * Offline raids. I'm ok with offline raiding providing I can build in a way that means I don't have to be on 7 days a week as a solo. Wall stacking did that I have new methods that are even more aggrevating for attackers. But, I never want to see offline raiding removed. In fact I ONLY offline raid, I'm a solo and just can't raid without encumb spec+fight. So I respeec during raids as I bypass walls, I respect combat, take out the thralls, then respec to encumb to carry the loot. I enjoy the thievery, re risk of a random logon. Exhilarating. * Not sure if regular wipe cycles can work if transfers remain though. Sure, it'll clear out the big old bases but day 1 would be hunger games when all the server transfer pile in for land grab.

[@FATHER_KLP1137]

lower structure limit reduce clan member limit increase t4 structure cost increase avatar costs significantly remove avatars from the list of transferable items enable obelisks being the only option for transferring off server maybe recrease thrall damage while increasing their hp been saying the first four for the past 2 years. i really enjoy conan, despite having quadruple its hours in ark survival i still feel that conan is far superior.

[@TheTournesoul]

i love this game and i only want to play officials but funcom has been extremely ambigious in their rules so they ban me simply for having a base, is iinsane!

[@Illusive_Industry]

Such a good video, keep doing you man. Also you should look into Mortal Online 2. Even if it's not to play I think you'd find it interesting.

[@loglog7]

THAT’S your surfshark ad? Sir I’ve seen someone torture a man and show a bunch of body parts in a bag for their surfshark ad. I expect surfshark ads to make me sick! Mostly joking, love your videos dude! You really show your love of the game.

[@Lost-My-Letters]

On your Transfer Suggestions, having the option just to start at lvl 60 is a fantastic idea. The game itself doesn't really start until you reach lvl 60 in both PvP and PvE. Most dungeons and their rewards are made for lvl 60 characters and the few that aren't have lvl 60 counterparts to the weaker stuff you unlock. The Isle of Siptah was made with lvl 60 characters in mind in its entirely, Funcom has said this multiple times. Starting at lvl 60 is just a natural progression in getting into the game.

[@jacob9373]

They could add bombs that do more damage to drawbridges that way you don’t have to use as many but they would obviously have to cost a lot more

[@quinceykirkland1227]

I also feel the health mechanics of building pieces should be reworked so you don't have to fence stack, or other cheese options that crash the servers so less pieces can be used and also let's building an attractive base(other than huge blocks with tiny interiors) be more accessible.

[@ApocalypseHound]

I have never played Conan, but never going to trust Funcom to fix their games after what they did to Secret World.

[@neverseen2760]

ty for curing my boredom

[@jordzjldn4252]

I HOPE FUNCOM TOOK ALL THE ADVICE FROM this Because there is nothing you missed out that’s broken like come on FUNCOM. If they cannot just balance the game properly after this 3.0, then their heads are definitely up there asses. This game has soo much potential but they just keep messing it up over nothing and stupidity

[@Choom89]

RP servers like Torment have implemented many of these changes, the only draw back is Raid Damage being off until you officially declare a raid which requires at least more work than official servers, still it helps massively with PVP and player retention. Feroxic nerfed, cleansing weapons allowed and dont remove buffs which gives an alternative to crafting and carrying mass antidotes. Variable weapons have been normalized, Draining weapons have been nerfed, some armor has had it's + stats normalized, and much of the food such as feasts, fish and rhino head soup are for sale from NPC vendors.

[@DapperPaperBag]

Honestly, I think if they wiped servers every 3 - 4 months it would stop toxic alpha's from growing to comfy.

[@butterspray727]

3k+ hours, all pvp. Gave the game up about 4-5 months ago. Server stability as been awful for years with no real fixes. Game has only gotten worse. Bubbles have been infinite as well as decay timers being broken. The game needs an update to a newer version of the engine before that actually can use more than 1 core. Also, they fucked themselves by making mods filtered by default on top of using steam workshop. Mods should have been server side.

[@ninvusoogoar6098]

should of compared the game to ARK instead of rust. ark is the most successful of the games in this genre (not by active players but just in gameplay). and conan could learn from base building and static defenses in ark that make it great. conan has animals they can use to raid with as well. ARK pvp is very layered and is not like rust where you run around and shoot people. in ark you use dinos to fight and raid. they can be bred and mutated (stat/color wise) so they become even stronger. soakers like trikes helps you raid static defences. ark shares some issues with conan like exploits/cheaters/dupers and chinese zergs however, its conans inverse. where conan is a PVE game with lite pvp options ARK is a pvp game with pve woven into it. need to PVE in order to PVP in ark. need to breed and tame dinos in order to have the very best mutated soakers to run into bases to increase your odds of success. PVE you have boss fights you have to do in order to unlock tek engrams which are very valuable to players.

[@AbstractVader]

I think Conan would be fantastic if it resembled more Skyrim and ark survival,skyrims combat system and magic,ark survivals maneuverability, taming and knockout system. I think you should be able to tame all living creatures,break all human ones and recreate all undead and skeleton creatures from magic. Would love to have szeth the drunk and ledagara on a team while riding a giant manticore. Also ark survival has a way better stat upgrade system,Conan has the worst in all survival games

[@rimonhalloun7253]

I know at least 15 people who got banned for no reason without any warning some of thdm permabanned, i got banned for 2 weeks.. 2 weeks passed already and im still banned ..they cant even set a date 🤮

[@Mad_GREEN164]

For me 100% is the power difference between a fully buffed and geared pvp player and me farming I know I am dead I just sigh and move on. Honestly just feels as if I am wasting my time since if they want I am dead and lose everything I gathered. Truly am I not asking for a fair fight but I at least want to have another option than just die.

[@oddwirdz]

man the only things wrong with conan is not upgrading to UR5 and getting better servers. UR5 would fix a lot of the lag issues it has. its the only game where if there like 15 players its playable but once there more than 30 the ping starts spiking smh so dog shit..

[@DenethorDurrandir]

I had SO MUCH fun playing Conan PVP on The Void server, there was a good set of rules, that can be simplified to: No Offline, No Gods, No God Bubbles, No Obelisk Camping just these 4 changes have gone so far to fix Conan pvp, not perfect, but damn near it (also, horses weren't utilized yet at that point) It was awesome, playing solo was a real option, people were building normal bases and interacting with eachother, griefers didn't last long as they were either run out of the server by locals or banned as they often resulted to cheating, exploiting and breaking rules when the war didn't go their way

[@badxbon3z_gaming]

Dude I think I've watched this video like 3 times now honestly I hope Funcom has also watched your video but hay that probz be a long shot as funcom has already made it clear that money is more important then there community

[@doubleteam905]

They need to change the stamina from the age of war update and revert it back to what it was i dont know who actually likes the new stamina cost on weapons id rather have to wait on the gray if you ran out of stamina than not be able to throw a heavy combo without putting points in grit

[@chrismcfizzle]

This is the reason why on PC I play Conan single player with mods.

[@OBPRafaelSantos]

you should try to reach the devs with that, or other youtubers like wak or firespark, maybe yall together can actually makes the smoke needed for devs change some stuff

[@diogonz7777]

They need different servers with different max clan size and servers with no clans at all for single players. I hope they fix this. A reason i stopped this game.

[@reid2826]

Fantastic points mate. I pretty much agree with everything, and it is nice that we have seen some of these changes come in, horses and drawbridges for example. I really wish they would take a page from rust and do some short wipe servers. A week or a month is too short for conan but maybe 3 months cycles? And perhaps up the exp, harvest rate and maybe boost named thrall spawns a little. Like most official servers are dead anyways, would be nice to see some of them repurposed

[@Jaceftp]

Im new and gather rates are 4x on official pvp now too.

[@RelentlessBG]

considering this game has a ton of the same bugs it had on launch its safe to say they will never fix it

[@drinksanddice6428]

Great video, I'm new to conan and am very intrigued by the pvp aspect of it. My buddies and I are just chilling out in our private pvprp server. Not really a lot of pvp as most of us are new and just having fun exploring dungeons and stuff, but we do plan on dabbling and having gladiatorial arenas for thralls and pvp.

[@JarlAgonyOfficial]

I believe they added a lot of this stuff with the best of intentions, forgetting the X Factor that is players always exploiting. The biggest offender for me is the server transfer. you know something is going great when EVERY reputable player owned server shuts off the mechanic the day it goes live, right? I think Poisons are fine, but you're absolutely right, they need to be more cost prohibitive to craft if they are going to be as impactful as they are. Great video, You make great points as always, and hopefully Funcom sees this and implements some of these ideas...but then they might have to put you on the payroll, so they wont XD

[@reddit3338]

59:55 5 players , 150 ping , 30 server tick rate... Do you guys see whats rong with the game?

[@KeacePeeper]

Man watching Ceros videos I can't decide if I'd like to play PvP or would hate it.

[@Hunter-hr7je]

Hate having to join discord servers just to play the game

[@Hunter-hr7je]

Once decided mhm, maybe I wont join this time. Boom, 6 hours of work deleted the following morning.

[@franciscoclaros8678]

You touched everything perfectly hope devs see this and take a lot of things in to consideration. This game could have easily been the best survival game if they had more pop alone. But that comes with into consideration that thralls. Sabres, horses one shot you making pvp less viable which made lots of players quit. The story is whatever if ove was their choice they should have made it more campaign based.

[@honeyLXIX]

the amount of time, energy, effort youve put into these conan videos is immediately impressive and makes me want to watch more of that content. thank you for that! happy conaning. 💪

[@gibdovegas5291]

I think one big thing to fix the horses would be bolas to trip them and knock them off of it. It could even have the lock on to make it easier to hit the rider or the horse. I know ark has them and it really helps qoth the pvp dinosaurs like raptors.

[@gumbodin9247]

Everything here is amazing great video, I love horse combat but I feel like even a simple pike brace or the lance having a 60-70 percent chance of breaking instantly on impact also if they do anything please wipe the servers. Funcom will be so surprised when there are 5-6 max servers for the first month after a wipe maybe even make some servers that wipe every 3 months or so

[@DJMavis]

I've never PvPed but there was a mention of blocking the lance with a shield (yeah, I didn't use a shield in PvE either) so maybe on a successful shield block chance of breaking is much higher too? And it should absolutely cost stamina to hold up a 2m length of heavy wood by one end.

[@Acharz]

What if the dynamic building damage was to scale with the amount and tier of structures you/your clan has? The bigger and sturdier the base the more time you have for it's destruction after logging out. Idk about alternate accounts though :/ Maybe force drastic increase in decay timers for this feature to make this method more annoying to keep up would help?

[@ethos2822]

It took me two days to get thru this video, I think this is your best video yet. DEVS pay attention please 💪

[@Syrock1]

You're analysis on all the topics is fantastic and very considerate of all the issues present in this game. If all this fails in being noticed by the Devs make a game yourself and I'd play it because it sounds like you know and appreciate the values of balance and counter play in the survival genre of gaming 👍

[@hoddlgunther259]

Really enjoyed you video. You raised some really good points that i hope are going to be considered in the next updates by FC. Was playing some Conan offline till now, was really enjoying it but asked myself how the PvP Situation was. Now that i watched you‘re video i don‘t really feel inklined to try until some balance and design issues are approached. Thanks for the good content, cheers!

[@Deadmare]

thanks was planing to play this online but it sounds like it be better to play singal player or pve

[@stevenmcsteven6693]

There is no fixing those 2001 crackhead animations and 1998 AI rofl

[@kexdce]

Veteran pvp player here. Although i agree with most of your points, i am surprised you haven't mentioned a glaring issue with archery in conan. I quit officials around 2 years ago, and now I play conan on private servers such as TarTar with a team of strong players vs other teams of strong players. I do acknowledge that this way of playing the game may not be the way pvp is meant to be played as seen by the devs, but a ban on horse pvp is almost always in place for pvp focused private servers, db repair is countered by rules that do not allow to block all entrances with and etc. These kinds of rules and regulations make pvp fun and playable. In this stripped down, rules dictated and more e-sports like conan the biggest issue for most pvp players is archery. With a meta archer build one can abuse the bug that allows to partially charge your shot WHILE in a roll. So a bow player with khari bow and 40 acc can 3 shot any player by abusing this roll-shoot bugged mechanic. For me, archers are a bigger problem than horses. A horse you can see coming, and it is really easy to dodge and lure into a position where they are stuck to kill them, if the player on horseback is bad at pvp. Archers however, can introduce huge impact to a fight even if the bow build is being used by a very mediocre player. Simply put - getting good at melee pvp can take months, but a noob who picks up a bow and lands 2 lucky shots can turn the whole fight around. If you haven't played much on privates where people actually sweat it, i suggest you try it out and see for yourself. At least come by to dogs arena and take a look at the tonnes of new archers who abuse the sht out of roll-shooting. I'm just really annoyed that when i need 6-9 hits with a spear to kill someone who can leave me with 60hp after landing 2 bugged shots. Again, very surprised you haven't mentioned how broken bow pvp is at the moment.

[@SirDaveWolf]

Poison is so heavily overused nowadays in Conan. Back then it was needed, because of the roll out and run whilst healing META. Now you can actually kill people because of the healing animations. Zath Spear was a mistake. Siptah Poison weapons too. IMO poison should be only appliable to a weapon by using a bench.

[@SpheraculGames]

Permanent poison weapons are fine as long as their offensive stats are max 60% of same tier equivalent, a player putting effort into applying a poison on a weapon should outclass permanent poison weapons.

[@SirDaveWolf]

@@SpheraculGames Yes that is a way to balance it. But there is no effort of dragging poison onto your weapon mid combat. Simple AHK scripts can do this for you pretty easily and quickly. Back then when poison lasted only 1 hit, a lot of people used scripts to apply poison mid combat.

[@SirBrucie]

Don't forget the viagra potions

[@GriefTheHouse]

Funny you mention Ark in the Dynamic Building Damage section. Most servers I ever tried playing now use offline raid protection (I don't touch official because 1x sucks for small groups and basically only mega tribes play them), which is basically the same thing as the dynamic building damage. ORP has ruined the raiding experience for me and many others as some bases simply are not raidable if even 1 of the base owners are online. The amount 1 player can do to defend against a raid on Ark is immense and turns the tides of a battle so fast.

[@DJMavis]

Ark, even in its basic island version can have a colossal amount of base defence with only one skilled player, good groupings, traps, plants. Nothing gives me greater satisfaction than my death swarm of shoulder pets being unleashed onto an invader

[@jomelledominguez8465]

They should add more people per server cuz honestly the exiled land could hold at least 100

[@KidCracken]

They should probably get better servers first. Game starts lagging significantly when more than 20 people is online 🤦

[@Saskidan]

One of my best geared thralls disappeared and died mysteriously, another went missing and then the log told me I killed him, 2 others I told to guard are now on indefinite returning home status and I had a small camp of 8 chimmerian berserkers and they have vanished. I still had a lot of fun playing but losing my thralls killed the game for me. The style, atmosphere and music are really nice and the scenery has stopped me in my tracks at many times. There isn't any hand holding so it creates a nice level of mystery and discovery and the game is challenging enough to keep me satisfied. The admin panel with all the options is awesome, every game should have that. Combat feels solid, animation and connect of each swing and slice when you're cutting through enemies is fun to see and hear. I really dig the harsh brutal world and the intro with Conan rescuing you off the cross and having to escape the desert sets the tone so well. My gripes about this title is as I mentioned some bugs with my thralls vanishing, also if you choose to upgrade a religious site sometimes it can't finish and it will automatically destroy itself with your thrall and materials. A bit more details would have been nice though, npc's mouths don't even move when they talk to you and some of the voice acting is not great. Breaking rocks or cutting trees down just doesn't feel right, the physics is like there is no weight or momentum. The city of Sepermeru looks nice in ways but the buildings are cut and pasted together with doors and windows merged by rocks or other buildings so it kills the immersion a bit. I think there are only 2 buildings you can enter and there was so much potential for a bustling interesting place but it's just for the most part npcs with nothing to say and buildings you can't enter/explore. Perks needed to be more interesting and significant that dynamically change the gameplay by giving you some new abilities. It's all stat boost crap that doesn't even matter eventually as you get overpowered. I wanted to see run faster perks, hand combat depth, magic abilities, stealth assassin skills, maybe a grappling hook or necromancy staff etc..

[@douglarochelle2620]

I’ve been saying for a couple years that PvP would be more entertaining if siege engines were more powerful, and more prevalent. Bartering rams, catapults, and of course the trebuchet... make them staffable with thralls for solo players, and boost their strength when staffed with other players. Get rid of explosives... I gave up PvP because it just became a naked suicide bombing competition. It was boring.

[@Peagaporto]

I think bombs should be reserved for when you absolutely wants to displace someone. If you just want to steal stuff, siege weapons should be an option for more precision. That way if you get offline raided at least your benches, walls, etc would still be up, so you dont lose everything.

[@the.wayne.b]

i left conan after about 6000k hours playing, for rust, its funny how a game with raid times sucked up a lot of my life, while a game with no raid times i played when i had the time. plus at this moment in conan, ive done it all, i've owned all the loot, i've controlled officials, i've taken over officials, all i play for is the pvp, and i tend to keep fighting the same people over and over. that sucks (im so over these no lifing weirdos)lol. but with rust i get overdosed on pvp. so much that i actually start rping for some fun. conan is more of a political game when you really think about it. unless you just want to fight everything that moves like i try to lol

[@Arrctv]

Feels good to know I'm not the only one who thinks Conan pvp is like dark souls, I swear being good at dark souls pvp is the only thing that saved me in Conan pvp, was fighting ppl with 4x my time played and winning

[@anathemanitt10]

On the subject of horses, it sounds like the mechanics for mounts needs to be expanded on instead of nerfed or deleted. Make the equivalent of holding the block button while using a spear into the brace for charge mechanic that has the potential to unseat someone from their saddle. Or large shields mitigating damage from a charging stallion. You could even add a thrown weapon like bolas that add the cripple effect to a mounted player denying the horses sprint abilities a short period of time. Lance, armor and shield on top of a horse vs lance, armor and shield on top of an opposing horse should result in getting unseated a fair bit of damage and complete stamina drain from getting knocked into the dirt backwards from a full gallop. Instant one shot kills are never "fun" to be on the receiving end of, I'll give you that. Also consider that there's a limit to the suspension of disbelief even in a videogam with eldritch gods and fantastic creatures. A horse is a thousand pounds of meat and bone with a 200 pound man on top holding a pointy stick. This is as close to a medieval tank as it gets. Perhaps a riding skill should be passively gained over time when using a given weapon? Mounted archers getting better the more they do mounted archery, and stearing a horse while holding a lance should be much harder. Also consider the horse itself has to remain viable for their time cost to aquire. Having different breeds that you can raise depending on their food. Rouncy horses for general purpose, pack horses for carrying materials, and chargers for combat. The chargers being the only ones that will run down a human, they're timid prey animals after all.

[@DJMavis]

Bolas for a horse, like the at-ats in empire strikes back. I've not had to PvP a horse, but it absolutely should be the case that you have a braced spear attack.

[@anathemanitt10]

@@DJMavis I think that the mechanics in the game now can be shifted a bit to not just undo all the work and dev time put into making mounts in the first place. A fully kitted player on horseback should, by all rights be something to contend with and. It just nerfed into pointlessness in the pendulum of PvP combat. A bit of background I worked for years with some friends who raise horses and more specifically for jousting. The tech level of real jousting armor is way beyond that shown in exiles, and lances do not just break after the first hit. That's "sport" jousting where the way points are scored is by solid hits on a specially attached shield called an Ecranche. In war you'd use long spears to stab at enemies as you rode in and the bulk of the horse itself trampling people underfoot is what does the line breaking damage. Impaling someone with a spear or lance likely means that weapon will be stuck in their dead body and the rider has to let go or risk falling off the horse themselves. Translated to game terms you'd either want to use long spears to make multiple passes and whittle down health or use the lance like a javelin where the heavy attack inflicts a lot of stamina damage and knocks the target down but you always lose that lance with the light attack being the ride by and slash and thrust. Both give the person being attacked multiple chances to evade or u horse the attacker since no one method will ensure a kill with one hit.

[@anathemanitt10]

@@DJMavis additionally, the longer you're riding with the lance lowered the harder it is to control, both horse and weapon. There's a lot of skill to the technique and timing as the knight drops and sets the lance into position which is why they're so heavily counterweighted in modern and historical examples. If you want an example go down to your local diy store and grab a 12 food long pine dowel and try to hold it under your arm from the back, now imagine running at full speed like that and trying to hit a Mellon squarely. That's an easier task than riding at full gallop and hitting a person. Again to translate to game terms the act of lowering the lance should be deliberate and slow so that you have to time it. Only getting a few second window where it's not draining stamina and wobeling all over the place unable to get a solid strike. Putting skill into the horsemanship is just as important as giving the player on foot a counter.

[@blade960]

The problem is the hackers in official and funcom no do nothing

[@timreserve]

God I wish Funcom see this, and take as much as possible into account. I've always said, Conan is the best game that no one plays, it's demoralizing every time I feel like playing.

[@d-vicious1931]

I agree with 100% of this video. Maybe there should be servers without horses? And make the servers wipe every 6 months?

[@newbossbro3180]

Recently played Elden Ring. Gotta say I miss so many things there when playing. It's a PvE pov btw. Personal opinion: I want various things to be reworked. Probably most of the game. My thoughts: 1. Remove Encumbrance and rework it with Grit. It just feels very annoying switch between 2. Remove/Rework Survival. I just don't get it why it is there. I think Survival is almost similar to Arcane of Elden Ring. Atleast that has combat value with certain builds there. Survival will be used for farming only and being such silly is ugh. 3. Rework NPC damage output. I just don't get it why NPC can give riddiculous amount of damage to one shot you. You will just use a thrall to cheese the boss. It just takes away the fun of fighting boss. Boss doesn't have much unique movesets. At the end of the day you will try to fight the boss with thralls and sit there or at best will try to dodge the boss when battling against bosses and its all about not getting one shot or lag delayed. I didn't get the enjoyment of killing bosses and get its gear to do much about it. Repeated boss farming not fun at one point in this way. 4. In this game I find Spear/Dagger with Bleed/Poison to be the only useful thing. Game doesn't have much unique buildups. Bleed is just damage reduction overtime and Poison is just the same but faster. I'm not sure how good corruption can be. 5. LAGS. That's the only thing to know 6. I hope HP and other stuffs get scaled a bit longer. Balance NPC accordingly in similar fashion. Buffs that you get after levelling up attributes gets reworked somehow. Similar to Soulsborne fashion with rings or scaling up in various way. I think Sigil does feel the similar role to Ring/Talisman there. But change many of them a bit. 7. Tbh, I don't find much value in early game. Game doesn't give you every single thing until you reach lvl 60. Before that like 70% of the things. I hope that something needs to be done there. Make something enjoyable in that part. I know I am just judging it too much from SoulsRing POV. But various side kind of makes me ehhh at certain point. Combats doesn't become that enjoyable at one point.