The Death of a PvP Server - Conan Exiles

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Today's episode covers the final days leading up to the death of the PvP server I have been playing solo on.
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Here are some timestamps if you'd like to skip around:
0:00 Looking for a base to raid
2:01 1v2 against a clan whose base I was scouting
6:56 Fighting a member of an alpha clan
8:41 A battle erupts at Sinkhole between two alpha clans
9:12 An alpha clan is getting raided at the Jungle
11:15 The next day - 1v1 against an archer player
17:45 Two cheaters arrive on the server and start causing havoc on the server population
18:17 I run into an alpha clan and start getting attacked
20:04 Discussing the server politics
21:06 Roaming for some PvP
22:51 I run into the same alpha clan AGAIN
24:34 Alpha clan raiding a base
25:43 Summary of the day's highlights
26:16 The next day - I got offline raided
27:23 Planning a god attack on the alpha clan
29:16 The server is dying
32:31 The next day - The server is dead
Music used in today's episode is courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com, unless otherwise stated:
Will Harrison - Ain't No Fool
T-Shirt & Sweats - Tongue Tied
Will Harrison - No Future
Redeemin' - Bossa Velha
Rocket Jr - High Tech
Power Druid - For the Spectacle
Martin Klem - Disruptive Storms
Sarah, the Illstrumentalist - true authentic self
Will Harrison - Devil on Your Shoulder
Peter Crosby - Pop's Don't Lie
Will Harrison - Charcoal Blues
Will Harrison - Five Star Day

[@Zelosykes]

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[@sergiohenrique2411]

yeah GG to that archer, you should recruit him :)

[@inevitableinsanityy]

Good Fight man, you've gotten so much better at pvp than when we first met, and honestly i should have died in that fight but i made it out by the skin of my teeth lol

[@Zelosykes]

Good fight bro. Your archery skills are insane as always. Our fight was my favorite fight from this playthrough.

[@christians4501]

Made me wanna try to run bow for sure. 😂

[@Aleetoo]

The combination between the chill music, the calm narration and the crazy pvp fights makes you sir the best conan content creator out there by far, keep up the good work!

[@Smilodon_ex]

Keep up the good content your fighting has improve so much taking on 1v2 like it’s nothing 💪💯

[@Zelosykes]

Thank you and thanks for stopping by. :)

[@TheJanemba999]

Perfect way to end a long day at work, much love brother.

[@Herosquadnation]

These videos are fun to watch. I love the chill music and calm narration.

[@Zelosykes]

Glad to hear you enjoy the style of vid. :)

[@hayleysahara496]

Whatever servers you're finding, they seem so much less toxic and less cheater-packed than in the videos I've watched before, and it is very enjoyable to watch people actually enjoy the pvp like you and the people you fought with :) Edit: literally wrote that the second before you started talking about cheaters and clans leaving xD

[@Zelosykes]

Lmao @ the edit. Sadly if there’s an active official server, cheaters will eventually show up to kill the server. The good thing about the server in this video is that it eventually comes back to life.

[@darthmalgus1233]

Love the content keep up the amazing work And what if you start maybe a duo journey

[@Zelosykes]

Thanks for watching. :) Oh and if I ever start a duo journey, I’d need to find the perfect partner first.

[@mycolee8133]

Also I love your content you’re the only conan KZbinr I watch man and where before I wasn’t too into pvp now I’m a demon thanks to you

[@Zelosykes]

Nice bro! Keep getting better! That’s what it’s all about.

[@Korupshn]

What system do you game on? Love to join you on some pvp action. I currently play on a pve-c server on PlayStation, and a pvp unofficial server occasionally

[@honkykong4672]

Man you hate to see troll clans killing servers. I’m vaulted and playing Starfield atm but I’m looking forward to coming back to no bubbles.

[@Zelosykes]

Always good to take a little break from Conan. Enjoy your time with Starfield~

[@gtchrisblue2460]

Same brotha, just got Starfield last night. Gotta say it's lil buggy but feels good so far.

[@user-vy2pp9eb3k]

He withdrew from the field of combat in most appreciation of combat means you rule the field.

[@gtchrisblue2460]

Fuck yeah contenttt!!! Lol My conan experience is on hold. 4 body vaults full of my loot. 2 massive landclaims near SA. Server invaded by 10 guys, no jobs looool. Was fun while it lasted.

[@alias46913]

Inevitable is a solid PvPer. Scary with that bow. 😂 Maru from Dafari is good too. I’ve sat at sinkhole watching him absolutely destroy people. That being said, you are solid as well. Going against those guys is tough. 😅

[@saviovega4733]

I actually like the cycle of Conan . Native alphas lose a lot to the swarm of outside raiders though when they win and push back the transfers it makes for an awesome story . Most of the time you body vault and re surface once the toxic clans and hackers have moved on and start to rebuild again . I find myself going back to the same two servers every play through

[@wak4863]

Epic!

[@TippyGunman]

I just stick to one server and just ride out the highs and lows. But i get that it might be boring to some players that want constant conflict

[@Nikola-vj6os]

hey zelos, i hope you answer to this msg cuz i got now answer to my previous one. the corrupted authority build is not any good for pve - conflict servers? of course with right amour. is it better thralls or zombies

[@Zelosykes]

From my experience, I have only seen a few corrupted builds that can work for PvP/PvE-Conflict. I don’t know the full build, but it relies on using one of the Authority corrupted perks which makes it so that when you take damage, your thrall/pet/zombies will absorb some of the damage and help you live longer. I don’t know too much about corrupted builds though since I never use em. I think it’s better to use zombies because they are easier to replace. There are some zombies that have really high HP too.

[@Nikola-vj6os]

great man thank you. take care @@Zelosykes

[@cforth2725]

That Archer fight was epic :)

[@Zelosykes]

Probably my favorite fight from this playthrough. It was soooo fun.

[@bhvgg69]

What the pike you’re using ???

[@TheEldritchAlchemist]

Man! You're doing so well! :D And you can't say you "Fumbled" a fight with a Meta Archer when the guy literally runs out of arrows fighting you. Archers are *so* hard to fight on Official. :D

[@Zelosykes]

Thank you, haha. And that's true. If you're up against a true master archer.... man, that's a tough fight.

[@fourdaysdeep4657]

you better not stop yt !! trust a decent pvp game will come out and you'll blow up !!

[@Zelosykes]

Thank you for the encouragement! I don’t plan on stopping any time soon. :)

[@JoeL91939]

The fact that spear shenanigans is still a thing as well as wall walking says everything a person should know ab pvp servers.

[@nathanielacton3768]

I'm interesting in game balance observations. *In EL the bomb and god economics strongly encourages offensive play. As a solo I can farm up a god and 200powder in a few hours of play mostly just using a few springs+grove loops. So, a clan can generate offensive stockpiles at large scales. *On Siptah high end gear in particular armour is considerably cheaper, so it 'should' cost less to PVP and lose encouraging people to fight rather than bomb. My observation here is that the alchemical brakes you have in EL doesn't exist due to extreme gold availability. With the upcoming changes like gob bubbles and easily killable gods I expect that raising will be highly focused on bombs. Ceiling bases will be less protected and pillar bases dealt another blow after bats and the older treb changes. So to me that means the meta preference would be towards existing build part layering, and arming thrall archers with explosive arrows or ameliorating mines in to the honeycomb for gods to trigger. Sip has few internal bubble opportunities anyway so the loss of god bubbles is unlikely to be a huge negative. IMHO the bomb economics to buildpart honeycomb HP issue remains forcing excessive layering to counter overly cheap bombs (in EL). On Sip bombs are more of a time sink, and gods are nowhere near as easy to whip up so we're likely to see the usual 'giant bases that never get raided' in Sip with lower raiding action. Thoughts?

[@horridfuture3835]

Not sure if it was lag but that “alpha” looked like he was speed hacking.

[@masterdoan]

why you wear bloody agility pants??

[@NightshadeTS]

I look forward to seeing the nature of pvp change when god bubbles get deleted

[@Zelosykes]

Oh yeah... no more unraidable ceiling/hanging bases!

[@Delta8Alex8Gar]

Pvp is over in this game

[@holarndius]

How on earth was your stamina reaching 0 but instantly regenerating? Even the screen indicator that shows you were Out of Stamina would only show up for a half second before youd start regenerating while fighting.

[@Zelosykes]

The stamina system was completely reworked with the latest update “Age of War”. Stamina pretty much instantly regenerates now.

[@holarndius]

@@Zelosykes Oh hell if thats true i might actually reinstall. i hated the previous stamina system.

[@reprehensiblereptile1138]

"We suck, so come fight an alpha..." Ok Karen...

[@DmytroBogdan]

Huh, I've seen both those players on different servers😊 22:16 after 10+ relic fragments runs you'll know it like a back of your hand

[@chuckberry1979]

For the bigger Projects you should consider to ally with another Guild.

[@mycolee8133]

Wish you were on PlayStation bro we would be perfect together

[@Ralticz]

many people gripe about it but i love the new stamina system, i love that as a solo, i love the fact i can take on bigger groups by myself

[@Zelosykes]

Everyone hated the new stamina changes at first, but after a few months, it just becomes the new "normal" and we all get used to it. The infinity roll is still a bit goofy, but honestly, I'm kinda enjoying the new stamina changes as well.

[@draelos8570]

The dexterity changes are awful for the state of the pvp combat, roll-stalling is near unpunishable in most situations, and the max dex perk makes a roll meta to set up no stam attacks. It reinforces the bow spear meta, ESPECIALLY outside of dueling arenas where you have no spacial limitations to your rolls and are basically unpunishable by most other weapon types.

[@greenchilistudioz4537]

@@Zelosykes Nah, still hated it and makes playing warhammer feels rough, doesn't help anyone that complains about changes get silence in forums and conan exiles unofficial discord server.

[@69Killz69]

You could've joined in with us, juat holler at me lmao I was crips.

[@therealDR_N1CK_Z]

Why do I feel like this is 1530? Haha

[@ds222]

My PVP server is dying because of one clan constantly raids people the moment they go off-line every night. It’s no fun. no one can make any progress. Those guys are just dicks.

[@ellindar1]

If I had to play on graphics that shit I wouldn't play

[@Zelosykes]

The graphics for this game are way better than my video shows. I just play on low graphic settings cause it helps keep your FPS from dropping as much and reducing lag. Game can be very laggy on official servers.

[@leonardofontes7007]

ppl swap servers even though they don't have a character there? its like indefinetly swaping to the most popular server? my server is dying im sad don't wanna levelup and learn everything again. Hope they bring back the server transfer

[@bouz07]

It takes a maybe a hour or two to get to max level on official servers if you do it right. This game is shit pvp take a look at this dudes video all he does is raid and pvp and wonder why people who just wanna play the game how it was intended just drop out. Yeah whatever metas will be created but you people who play this game are stupid enough to keep playing a broken system.

[@RIPTIDE2034]

PvP in this game is just roll away attack miss roll away

[@steezwts9093]

The dafari are okay as an alpha. At least they dont cheat

[@jmarino715]

Watching this made me realize why I prefer PvE in Conan even though I thoroughly enjoy PvP in every other game that has it. In addition to the drama, etc... PvP fights in this game are extremely boring with the roll mechanic, and you can literally see through walls using exploits. This game just seens like the PvP wasn't well thought out and I would prefer a PvP arena or something than fight other players on the map. Thank you for helping me come to this realization - much appreciated!

[@HelloMoto393]

The biggest problem i have with Conan is Alphas pretending to be new players and raiding all the friendly players... i guess this is just what happens when you are restricted to 1 sever per character. I don't mind the deed in itself (raiding everyone) but to pretend to be somebody els is just so lame 😅 Idk maybe its different on NA servers but on OCE its bad lol

[@Zelosykes]

In NA, there’s two groups of players. The casual players and the hardcore PvPers. The casuals just play the game regularly whereas the hardcore PvPers just go around server hopping with their usual clan and fight other hardcore clans. The PvP community is so small, it’s usually always the same old players on different alt accounts.

[@Zelosykes]

Haven’t really encountered many people pretending to be new players on any of the servers I have played on.

[@HelloMoto393]

@@Zelosykes On OCE nearly every person has an ult that they use to raid there allys... rather then pretending to be somebody els they should just use there main account and not be so sleezy.

[@giovannidfana1628]

Lmoa that arena by clan or ______ was us we're also one bombing Maru vault we sadly all quite game Cuz of cheaters and dafari cannibals we're known to skybase on every server they went on

[@confusedfood5299]

Where new video 🐓

[@Zelosykes]

Almost done editing the next episode! Should hopefully be out tomorrow or the next day.

[@Zelosykes]

Just finished it actually! Should be up tomorrow (9/19/23).

[@DadsOP]

8k hours here, i quit because you have NO IDEA how bad the cheating is until you see it. The top pvp clans would always resort to lagging servers and duping god tokens. If you know you know If funcom says they fixed it they are fuckin liars

[@boblee1902]

I used to play conan back when a thrall would one shot you lol pvp look's alot better now. Obelisk camper's were alway the reason that a server died for us, my group/clan would usually become a alpha clan unless we were greifed by people completely wiping a base with a God. I remember being a solo player and litterly having my base completely wiped not one foundation left people can be wankers

[@Zelosykes]

Thralls are pretty much useless nowadays for PvP… makes the fights more fun since there’s no OP thralls like back in the day.

[@boblee1902]

@@Zelosykes yeah getting one shot by them was always annoying they had much more health too especially purge thralls or a named bearer with a sword of crom one swipe and you were two pieces on the ground lol. Pvp looks more balanced now in other ways too like healing as well.

[@masterdoan]

and you need to crAFT FEAST OF YOG OR SET COME ON BRO WHAT U DOING it give you stam regen and hp regen

[@Zelosykes]

I usually stick to gruel cause it's easy and cheap to make. Feast of Yog takes a bit more time to make and I'm just too lazy, lmao. But if there's ever a slow day on the server, I take the time to make some.

[@leonardofontes7007]

ppl will make a 10 head clan, ruin everyone else's fun and then leave....so funny

[@williamgelinas1115]

lol its 1530

[@mazuzu3880]

why don't u use leggings of kurak?

[@Zelosykes]

I used to use the Kurak Legginga before, but with the Age of War update, there really isn’t a point to adding more stamina to your build. Your stamina bar generates almost instantly. I rather use the Light Dragonhide Kilt for extra Health points.

[@mazuzu3880]

@@Zelosykes ah oke makes sense. Great videos, keep them coming pls

[@febrini2]

Best thing i have ever done was stop playing this game.

[@DevildogGaming-uv5sj]

Scrub alpha clan if you wanna call them that

[@samjohnson6828]

Tame some horses lol

[@Zelosykes]

Haha nah. Horses and thralls only get in the way of fights. :p Being on foot is also better for scouting.

[@samjohnson6828]

Just givin you a hard time, I usually end up with my horse just following me around and not even riding it. Useful for dropping some loot and running away though. @@Zelosykes

[@Zelosykes]

Oh yeah… actually, in the next episode I do use a horse for that reason, haha.

[@whisperill7597]

How boring pvp in conan exiles. Runing runing runing...

[@DevildogGaming-uv5sj]

Screw that cheesy so called alpha who cant pvp and gotta use a thrall lol.

[@level9drow856]

All PvP servers die. LOL. It's the nature of non linear PvP. When you get a bunch of sociopaths who revel in causing human misery and stick them together they can't stand that there are no sheep to hunt and only other wolves, so they end up leaving when the toxicity starts and they aren't on top. Cheating is also an inevitability in PvP. The nature of PvP is to dominate other players and beat them. Whatever players can do to achieve that goal they will. No honor, no self consistency, no sportsmanship, just winning over other people and reveling in the fact that they know you won over them. Cheating will ALWAYS happen, always. Thinking it shouldn't or won't is akin to thinking lions won't use claws and teeth to kill gazelles or the nature between airplane wing shape and aerodynamics are not related.

[@alias46913]

Sociopaths is a good descriptor for most sweats on pvp servers. Dudes are nutty. 😂😂

[@gerhardlaubser9875]

I need someone to teach me how to fight properly. Is this something you can assist with? Thx bro. I love your vids