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

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I can make up to T3 armor now. I guess it's T3 if you count the plant fiber armor you start with. Or T2. Whatever. At any rate, I'm happy to make you some in game. I really need bark if I do the leather / iron set for you though. That's my pinch point.

I've pushed up the river from ranalins place toward the north center of the map. Got chased by a mastodon into two crocodiles and finally finished with three spiders spitting goo at me. Found a hole with a small pond and managed to set up my one foundation and three walls to block the monsters until I got my health back up. It's kind of a cheat move imo, but it saved my skin. Might be worth considering if you too go out exploring a new area.

Anyone else having issues with using the 'e' key to interact with the story elements? Mine won't work for some reason.

What's up with crafting when it shows that my queue is full when I craft only one, say armor piece and then 8 ghost pieces show up in my bench. Is that universal or just me?

BlackSheep wrote:

What's up with crafting when it shows that my queue is full when I craft only one, say armor piece and then 8 ghost pieces show up in my bench. Is that universal or just me?

i think it's related to some larger inventory system ui issues, for example:

i've found it's actually got the correct number no matter what it shows. for awhile whenever i cooked something it showed up as either 6, 8, or 10 instead of 1. But when you eat it it gets treated like 1.

a couple times i had problems when crafting stuff it would just disappear. once i log out and back in it was all there.

when i repair armor it generally doesn't show repaired until i leave the inventory screen and come back.

Lost 100 iron spikes and 500 wood equivalent due to client crashes... i died of starvation because the game kept crashing and i couldnt get to my storage. 3 more crashes and when i get back in my corpse is there, but empty

I want to move forward and explore more but i'm determined to finish my 'castle'. It started off as 3 distinct pieces and i'm trying to line things up properly so i can finish the roof. So tore down a LOT of my existing walls.

FYI if you plant foundations under the ground you're unable to destroy them. So that's part of the problem i'm having getting things to line up correctly.

I ran into the same thing with the foundations on my latest build project. Got disgusted that I couldn't line them up and they wouldn't Lego together either. So annoying, but I figure when I get back on tomorrow I'll get back to making a waypoint for northern road travel that will be a safe place from the critters and a spot to drop a sleeping bag as you explore. Will put a tanner and a smelter in there too so that we can use those facilities in a pinch to repair armor, weapons and tools as needed

There's a decent bit of iron and coal around and it's maybe a 5 minute run from there to the hand near ran's castle

ranalin wrote:

Lost 100 iron spikes and 500 wood equivalent due to client crashes... i died of starvation because the game kept crashing and i couldn't get to my storage. 3 more crashes and when i get back in my corpse is there, but empty

i've had my corpse teleport other places. i died of starvation and knew i wasn't going to make it so parked somewhere specific, came back and no corpse, found it randomly like a 20 sec walk away with everything thankfully.

i've also had it generate two corpses, one with nothing and one with all my stuff.

i guess the lesson is if you die and something doesn't work right wander around the area and see what you can find.

I have been playing on a different server with a friend but have not found any of the story content other than the first two pieces before you even get on the map. Are they hidden or is it supposed to be obvious where to go to further the story?

There are some temples - a few wandering guys. Unfortunately, the e key isn't working as intended on the gwj server. There is one I found hidden in the river near the stone Pikemen that is underwater.

On a side note, I broke my first thrall! Yay! Need to find a dancer so I can raid that temple for a little corruption.

Early access = update, and update often!

They're pushing 2-3 updates a day a seems.

Tempted because of fun times during early AoC (before we all ran out of content). But I think I'm staying away from this one. Survival stuff just isn't usually my thing and I'm in the middle of too many games at the moment.

lancejt wrote:

Tempted because of fun times during early AoC (before we all ran out of content). But I think I'm staying away from this one. Survival stuff just isn't usually my thing and I'm in the middle of too many games at the moment.

Primary reason why i jumped in (along with being a fan of the setting). That and Landmark closed it's doors so i'm out of a place to get my build on when i need a non mmo/shooter to play.

It was mentioned in chat today that someone built a wall that blocks access to a temple. The person is in another tribe then the main GWJ tribe. If said person reads this, can you build an archway that lets people pass through. Thanks.

BURN THEM!!!!

If anyone wants to add me on steam, Demeaner [gwj] feel free, and please shoot me the password as well!

Hopefully I can get a dedicated server setup in a couple of weeks so no one has to pay for an official one.

I also can't wait til we can have a server running without needing the anti cheat software running.
Those protections are good for pubbies, but we should all be gentle-people and not need it, right?

Is Ran tiered up enough to go wreck their wall? I'm guessing yes, yes he is.

TrashiDawa wrote:

Is Ran tiered up enough to go wreck their wall? I'm guessing yes, yes he is.

I dont have it trained yet, but yea i just hit high enough levels for explosives. So did BlackSheep i believe.

Conan Exiles has sold 320K copies, all costs recouped."

"In addition, all of the costs directly related to this game have been recouped and the project is now operationally profitable. [...] Direct costs are considered to be those related to salaries, social security and equipment for the development, technology and marketing teams, external PR & Marketing expenses and other external consulting or licensing expenses directly attributable to the project."

I guess people really like dicks.

kazar wrote:

It was mentioned in chat today that someone built a wall that blocks access to a temple. The person is in another tribe then the main GWJ tribe. If said person reads this, can you build an archway that lets people pass through. Thanks.

I found a short way around and walled it to make sure there was access. And had a base built right next to his. I haven't started building explosives yet, though I could. I think I'm level 28? Now

The access is up the river from rans place on the right where the narrow point is as the river loops out. It'll get you through. Those mitran priests make great entertainers by the way

It's also a very pretty base. I'd hate to wreck it out - he's got quite a slave making factory over there

i'm getting huge lag when i enter the game now.

it'll take a full 20-25 secs for my base to load, then another 20-25 for Ran's down the river.

funny the game had no problem loading gators who could attack me before my walls appeared though.

sortimat wrote:

i'm getting huge lag when i enter the game now.

it'll take a full 20-25 secs for my base to load, then another 20-25 for Ran's down the river.

funny the game had no problem loading gators who could attack me before my walls appeared though.

Yea it was brutal past couple of days. I'm going to wait to head back in until there's another patch or two

Demeaner wrote:

If anyone wants to add me on steam, Demeaner [gwj] feel free, and please shoot me the password as well!

Hopefully I can get a dedicated server setup in a couple of weeks so no one has to pay for an official one.

I might be upgrading my machine soon and am thinking of turning the old one into a dedicated server for games. The only downside to hosting it yourself is you don't have the tools to manage the server. With the current host I have it restart the server every night and it does updates every hour if nobody is on.

Demeaner wrote:

I also can't wait til we can have a server running without needing the anti cheat software running.
Those protections are good for pubbies, but we should all be gentle-people and not need it, right?

Our server doesn't need the anti cheat. I run without it all the time.

Could somebody give a non multiplayer newb a rundown on this server business for Conan ? My limited understanding is that Funcom have various free public servers (pvp,pve,roleplay?) and then they also rent private servers to people if they want to limited/control the environment ? But what Demeaner and kazar are talking about is a private server at no cost?

kazar wrote:

It was mentioned in chat today that someone built a wall that blocks access to a temple. The person is in another tribe then the main GWJ tribe. If said person reads this, can you build an archway that lets people pass through. Thanks.

Sorry that's us. By temple do you mean the Mitra shrine? I didn't know the temple was important. We've just been periodically killing them for hearts for Set. My friend built the walls, but gave up at some point, so there are ways around them, but I'll try to get it sorted next time I'm on. I don't know if our thralls will attack on sight, they don't seem to have any settings. So if anyone kills one who comes at you, no hard feelings. (They aren't very strong).

BuzzW wrote:
kazar wrote:

It was mentioned in chat today that someone built a wall that blocks access to a temple. The person is in another tribe then the main GWJ tribe. If said person reads this, can you build an archway that lets people pass through. Thanks.

Sorry that's us. By temple do you mean the Mitra shrine? I didn't know the temple was important. We've just been periodically killing them for hearts for Set. My friend built the walls, but gave up at some point, so there are ways around them, but I'll try to get it sorted next time I'm on. I don't know if our thralls will attack on sight, they don't seem to have any settings. So if anyone kills one who comes at you, no hard feelings. (They aren't very strong).

Lol, no worries. It was a bit surprising to get plugged by an arrow there. I was in desperate need of a performer and the one reliable one I found is the priest at the mitra shrine. I knocked them out and then carted them all the way around to my own base, only to get pig piled by about 5 creatures and have them die in the furious sword swinging.

After scouting, there is another way to the plateau if you travel north of that city/temple on the river that I used. I might have walled it off just to make sure I had continued access. You have a really nice place there by the way.

Brownypoints wrote:

Could somebody give a non multiplayer newb a rundown on this server business for Conan ? My limited understanding is that Funcom have various free public servers (pvp,pve,roleplay?) and then they also rent private servers to people if they want to limited/control the environment ? But what Demeaner and kazar are talking about is a private server at no cost?

They put out server software to run your own. I set one up running on a VM on an extra server I had.

Or you can pay someone (there are a few different companies) to run one for you. Advantage there is they have some tools for server management. If you roll your own it's still manual, and I found it to be flaky and annoying so far, not all the setting work right, etc.

There are also "official" servers out there, though I think a lot of those are still down, I know they were switching providers, and the game DBs got corrupted, not sure if those were related.

After several hours in game, and a little help from a fellow player... I am enjoying the game, but with a few caveats.

I think they do need to rethink some of the early overly repetitive grindiness and have an option to not drop backpack materials on death. (I know you need a penalty for dying, but making me go and collect the same things over and over and over again - and not very quickly at that - makes me insane)

Its an excellent start and I look forward to seeing what they can do as far as polish and balance now that they have a metric ton of player data coming back to them...

How many different enemy types are there?

If there's a GWJ preferred server could we get it in the OP?