Conan Exiles - Crush Your Enemies, See them driven before you!

I'm putting this game on my radar, I do like how it's an open world game and thankfully it isn't another northern european environment. Price is pretty decent in my region (SE Asia) at $19.
Few concerns
- How much pve content is there ? quests ? I like co-op pve but am less keen on pvp.
- Archery - just a back up to melee fighting or is it deep enough to play an archer build?

If you're on a PVE server it's all PVE content. Even on PvP servers it's primarily PVE until you encounter another player. No quests i've seen but i've picked up letters that hint at goodies hiding at different locations.

There's no 'builds' but i suspect that there are mobs and armor types that are vulnerable to different type of attacks. So if a mob is vulnerable to piercing the bow/arrow is a valid tool. There's some mobs that i can swing till i die with a sword, but swap over to a bow and they're down in 3-4 arrows.

It is interesting that you have to build a base relatively early to build up so you can engage with mobs in the interior.

Looks like it is $15 a month for 10 slots. If we have interest, we should set one up. The most central US location seems to be Dallas.

My preference would be to make it a PvP server but have rules of no griefing (attacking people that don't want to be attacked).

Played for a while last night. It's as advertised, Conan RustArk.

It's in a pretty basic state, even for early access and there are technical issues (probably with the anti cheat) that are causing nasty latency and rubberbanding.

When things get ironed out the Conan environment is probably unique enough to the genre to carry the day for some fun times.

On the c*ck issue, I wish they had followed Garry's brilliant idea of locking gender, race and genital size to each user's Steam ID in Rust, this is the best kind of social experiment trolling!

Looking forward to see how far they take it and I'll be playing for a while. Happy to chip in if we get a server and I like kazar's PVP ground rules idea.

I would be super impressed if your groin had its own hitbox that did 10x critical damage when struck.

Ok, things are cleaned up a bit and I was able to put some decent time in and progress in a group.

I'm loving it now.

I like the humor this type of game attracts (your mileage my vary of course) so I revel in the ridiculous emergent situations. Strangely enough, this community seems oddly welcoming. I may have got in on a server that is an outlier but it's not Lord of the Flies yet...

so I caved and bought the game.

been trying to get a server running on an extra server i had at home, man it is flaky/finicky. i guess that's to be expected on day 2 of early access.

Kazar finally got his up and running early this morning. It took awhile for the name to propagate to the browser list but it's GWJ

i did that server pop up this morning.

i was mostly just setting it up for fun, but it's too annoying at the moment, maybe after a few updates.

I kind of liked Age of Conan at the time but open world survival (PVP I assume?) is a completely different thing....and really not my thing these days.

JeremyK wrote:

I kind of liked Age of Conan at the time but open world survival (PVP I assume?) is a completely different thing....and really not my thing these days.

The server we setup is PvP, but since it is only goodjers, we shouldn't have to worry about griefing. The policy will be, if someone doesn't want to be attacked, don't attack them. If they want to partake in PvP, then no holds bars. It gives us the flexibility of both game types.

Awesome, thanks for setting this up kazar.

You mentioned GWJers only, is the server passworded?

TrashiDawa wrote:

Awesome, thanks for setting this up kazar.

You mentioned GWJers only, is the server passworded?

Sent you a PM with the password. I also created a curse channel. If anyone needs the password, message me on GWJ/Steam/Curse. Feel free to give the password to other goodjers. I want to keep it out of the forums to prevent squatters especially since it is a PvP server.

Could I get the server password as well. I have the game as well.

need password also

Must....resist...buying....

I'll take a password!

SpyNavy wrote:

Could I get the server password as well. I have the game as well.

sortimat wrote:

need password also

Certis wrote:

I'll take a password!

Sent

Got it thanks. I may try a little this evening. I've got an interview with Amazon tomorrow and I need to do some prep.

I could do with one of them juicy passwords if you please.

I really planned on waiting to get this but I'm tempted to now that I know there's a GWJ server out there.

Rust is the only game I ever requested a refund for on Steam but I'm still intrigued by the PvE aspects. Guess I'll wait to see if it holds people's interest without having to fight other players.

DAMN you enablers!

I'm in. Password me too pls.
Is someone going to set up a Discord or Curse channel?

How much space does the server have? A couple friends and I have been playing on a private server that I host locally. We're not really into PvP, but it would be nice to play with some other (non-griefy) people, and it would be nice not to host a server on my aging computer. I don't want to impose if space is too limited, though.

groan wrote:

DAMN you enablers!

I'm in. Password me too pls.
Is someone going to set up a Discord or Curse channel?

Sent. There is a Curse channel.

BuzzW wrote:

How much space does the server have? A couple friends and I have been playing on a private server that I host locally. We're not really into PvP, but it would be nice to play with some other (non-griefy) people, and it would be nice not to host a server on my aging computer. I don't want to impose if space is too limited, though.

I purchased 15 slots which I believe means 15 active players at a time. It costs a little more then $17 a month for the service. If we start hitting the cap regularly, we can increase it to 30. If anyone wants to help contribute, you can donate. I am working on the details how to do this.

I made the server PvP so we don't remove the ability to have some fun PvP experiences but the goal of the server is for everyone to have fun. So people should only attack you or your structures if you indicate you want to partake in PvP (this includes opting in and out at any time). From experiences with GWJ in the past, I don't think this will be a problem.

Sounds good, I would appreciate a password. I'd be willing to chip in too when you get it figured out.

Tanx!

And ya, setting up a donation box will work

BuzzW wrote:

Sounds good, I would appreciate a password. I'd be willing to chip in too when you get it figured out.

Can't send you PMs yet (Coffee Grinder ). Get on Curse and one of the goodjers in the Conan channel can hook you up.

Will do, thanks!

also i started a GWJ clan on the server. I don't know if it limits PvP in any way, but from what I've read being in the same clan allows you to do shared base building and open doors others in the clan made etc. anyone in the clan should be able to invite.