Conan Exiles - Funcom, open-world survival

LOL! I was coming back to say… that was quick! Sorry if I was nagging; and thanks!

Observations this morning:

Mobs and resources which seemed not to be respawning correctly before all seem to be back. Unknown whether they will stay back of course.

Overall I have had some occasional issues with rubberbanding and lag; this morning was noticeably worse. I didn’t log off and back on once I got on so it could be a one-off.

I need to get back to this, but I hit a wall of not much left to do but grind while working with Bar and Kono. I may just sit on this for a few months and see what comes of it. Very promising so far, but yeah it is incomplete at this point.

P.S. It would probably help if we had A) more bodies on the server and 2) a bit more competition from each other. Currently I think most everyone belongs to the same clan =)

Yeah, I hit a giant wall of awesome game releases when I came back from my work trips.

The server is open, but I haven’t published it, and the lack of battleye might also be stopping outsiders. We can determine if we want to require battleye on the server, and I can start pushing it out to the different server lists if we want to try and attract more peoples to it?

I have been more or less treating this as a learning experience. If you and others are up for it I’d vote to start anew; that would be the best chance to attract newbies wouldn’t it? Nobody really wants to start fresh on a hostile PvP server that’s been up and running a while? The plan then would be for “us” (Qt3ers) to band together early, crush our enemies, see them driven before us and hear the lamentation of their women, no?

Couple other thoughts

This may be well known and just I didn’t understand it. But I was assuming I could not do anything Steel-related until level 30. I had the ability to build the ‘potion’ cauldron so I did and I am making steelfire in it no problem. I took the steelfire and some iron bars to my forge and was able to make steel just fine. I’m level 28 so that was news to me. Obviously I cannot myself craft things from Steel as I need to be 30 to learn their recipes but still; I can start hoarding it in advance which is nice.

Related to this; points toward recipes. Has anyone played with the Yellow Lotus potion? Supposed to refund all your skill points back? (I’ve seen where users are warned not to do it if they currently have any unassigned points…) Because obviously I’ve learned a lot of stuff (sandstone building pieces) that I’m not going to use anymore (since learned bricks and 2nd tier building stuff). So is this the right play? Get points back to have lots to put into different suff?

If anyone hasn’t connected to the server yet that would like to, here is the direct IP to query in the Steam server browser:

23.236.180.163:27015

And you can look for the server in the game:

Qt3 - Conan Exiles Dedicated Server

Been away the past few days, not due to lack of desire.

Yellow lotus potions do refund skill points only, not attributes. May take more than one to get the reset, it can be buggy. Ive reset skills several times.

Current goals:
To fight some of the bigger pve monsters which need more people. Giant spider, bone dragon, etc.

Stock enough tier 3 materials (ugh ichor) to build a far NW city thrall capture outpost.

I ran into a bug with potions, specifically yellow lotus and aloe. On reentering the game my pre made potions were gone. So, store the ingredients and only make them as needed.

New patch out: Steam :: Conan Exiles :: PATCH 02.03.2017

Seeing some complaints on reddit about bugs that kick you out of the game, so expect another hotfix soon.

Changelog:

NOTE:
Graphical materials and textures were re-calculated in this build, which will result in a large download size (~14gb). We apologize for the inconvenience.

TL;DR (Patch Highlights)
EXPLOIT FIX: You can no longer jump on top of exploding jars -not without consequences that is…
EXPLOIT FIX: You can no longer repeatedly harvest your own body
EXPLOIT TEMPFIX: Temporarily disabled the pike alternate attack while we fix the exploit
Item names and item descriptions localizations are fixed
Servers should now startup faster
Asian servers are now running on hardware located in Asia. The game databases have been transferred over so the only change should be
improved latency / lower ping for Asian players
Added region-specific button for renting game servers from our preferred partner G-portal for Europe, Russia and Asia

Server Settings
Added ability to restrict PvP time on a server
Added ability to set start time, end time and specific days for when PvP is enabled on a server
Added ability to restrict when players may damage buildings owned by other players
Added ability to set start time, end time and specific days for when players may damage the buildings owned by other players
Added ability to restrict avatar summoning on a server
Added ability to set start time, end time and specific days for when avatars can be summoned
Added ability to modify damage caused by NPCs
Added ability to modify damage caused by players

Server Browser
Last played server is sorted to the top of the serverlist
Favorite servers are now marked with a star in front to more easily distinguish them
Official servers are sorted to the top when using the “internet” filter
Playercount now sorts by current players first and max players second
Added region-specific button for renting game servers from our preferred partner G-portal for Europe, Russia and Asia
Show Invalid Servers should no longer get situations where it hides valid servers
Valid servers can no longer be shown incorrectly as invalid

Performance and Tech Fixes
Servers should now startup faster
Game client memory optimizations
Fixed crashes related to server startup
Possible fix for an issue with server startup that could result in server wipes. Please let us know if this issue persists!

General Bug Fixes and Improvements
You can now partially repair buildings if you don’t have all the different ingredient types
Placeables can now auto-align with the ground if you press the middle-mouse button. This will be rebindable in the next patch (see Known Issues)
It should now be possible to destroy Mitra and Set altars again
Add stronger hit confirm to arrow hits, both to object hit and to crosshair
Crossbows should now fire properly
Captured Thralls should now spawn once again
Relic rocks in starting desert now have collision
Added item icons to the ingame cheat menu as well as highlighting on the currently selected item

Balance and Gameplay Fixes
EXPLOIT FIX: You can no longer jump on top of exploding jars -not without consequences that is…
Fixed more issues where accessing underwater corpses was not possible
Fixed some issues with Explosive Jar damage to buildings. Some pieces would block damage weirdly, and you could have the wrong pieces taking damage or being destroyed.
Wells should no longer block building around them
EXPLOIT FIX: You can no longer repeatedly harvest your own body
EXPLOIT TEMPFIX: Temporarily disabled the pike alternate attack while we fix the exploit

Text and Localization
New Dialogues and Translations
Add Subtitles to all Voiced Lore objects in the game
Item names and item descriptions localizations are fixed

Visual Improvements
Added two new female hairstyles
Added one new male hairstyle
Fixed various floating rocks and grass issues
Tweaked size of fiber bed and added a destructible mesh
Added missing weapon trails for certain weapons
Various tweaks to river volumes

Known Issues
Newly added binds or redefined default binds from us will not be updated if a player has changed their default keybindings. They have to delete their Input.ini to get the new bindings. We’re working on a fix for this issue.
You can get a female player characters with male voices. This is fixed in the next patch.
Some players are unable to build shrines in single-player mode
NPCs can sometimes chase players into the water.

Today’s patch is causing me to redownload the entire game, it seems. I’m assuming the patch isn’t 14.1GB in size, anyway. :)

Anyone else getting this?

Yeah, they touched graphical stuff this time: “Graphical materials and textures were re-calculated in this build, which will result in a large download size (~14gb). We apologize for the inconvenience.”

Edit: Grr, I turned off auto-updates immediately after launching Steam so that I could still connect to the Qt3 server, and Steam went ahead and initiated the update anyway.

Patching server now.

Thanks! New hotfix, heh: Steam :: Conan Exiles :: Hotfix 03.03.2017

Edit:

Bugs and Fixes

Updated server settings to remove decay on placeables

If you are running a private server you can roll back to a previous game database by copying and renaming the file called “game_build_25635.db” to “game.db” in your Saved folder. We advise you to keep a copy of the “game_build_25635.db” just in case.

Interesting: https://conandevtracker.com/

Checking @ 10am Pacific Sunday and the server does not show up in the list. Tried searching by name, invalid servers and by direct IP (23.236.180.163:27015 and tried :7777 too). Poof.

Yup, server’s been down, PM’d the admin…

Not sure what happened but it’s back.

There was a hardware failure at the host. They had to migrate the server to new hardware and reroute the IP address. Wasn’t much I could do, sorry for the outage.