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!

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.. 😆

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

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.

I've genuinely never watched a video this long on KZfaq 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".

I opened this video expecting 15 minutes not 2 hours 😂

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

Someone needs to @ this to Funcom.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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!!).

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.

Look at our boy cero already getting sponsors xD

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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

*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.

Im at an hour and 4 minutes right now, I can't believe this man researched the history of horse use in combat, JUST for this video. It could make a grown man shed a tear the amount of dedication and loyalty this man has to conan. I pray they listen to you boss man

I hear you on all the subjects, but the first problem we ran into was actually meshing.. A friend and me recently returned to conan exiles, on our first day in exile lands(we started in isle of siptah for levels, star metal and explosive arrow recipe) we got meshed into outside of raiding times, everything in crafting benches was lost without anything being destroyed.. While we weren't that far into the game, and could easily get back to the same point that just left us with the thought "So if we continue to play and pour hundreds of hours into a server, it can all just disappear in a moments notice without us doing anything?" The raid times was one of the things that drew us in, not even those are safe now

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.

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 👍

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

Congrats on the sponsor man! Well deserved. I've been watching since the beginning.

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. 🤷🏻‍♂️

This vid is amazing man. You put alot of work into it. with everything you went over my clan had to deal with. Even now just came back from a ban for our base's size but they baned us a week before the place was going to be shut down yet its still open clan is trying to get info. Now with how you feel about mounts freaking funny but I understand. I love my mounts but they make the game a pain. Having for farm while lookin over my shoulder, change my farm routes an times. It was a mess. I'll have to hit you up later down the line I would love to share war stories.

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

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.

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!

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.

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

A tiny thing about daggers. Their light attack hitbox is super inconsistent. Without target lock hitting more than 2 light attacks in a row on a moving/dodging target is pretty much not possible since you don't register 80% of the hits that look like they did connect.

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

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.

Just getting into the game and found your vids. Thanks for all the info and explanation, was unaware of all the hubbub. Seems like I'm jumping in a good time.

At the key hole cant u summon a set or derketo and take out the drawbridge and alter???

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.

So since im not allowed to build an omega base on a pve server... what is my endgoal now ?

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

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. 💪

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

Question. Would making it so you CANNOT repair/build during a window while your base is under attack fix a lot of your problems? No placing stuff without LoS because you can't place anything, and if you can't repair your drawbridge for5-10 minutes after your base takes a chunk of damage would let people set up another round of bombs? I also think, with the new sorcery stuff, having a spell to see storage through walls would alleviate/lessen the problem of hidden loot stashes under floors, you'd still have to get to them, but now you'd know where they are

This is quality work with great insight. I hope to Christ that Funcom has watched it several times. Subscribed.

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

I really like what you have to say about open loot PvP games. The rush you get in them is like nothing else and Rust proves that there is a viable market for them, but I agree that the devs for most of these games cater to what veterans want too much and their player bases die off as a result. For example, if your game requires a lot of exp farming to gain skills you need, there should be something for low skill players to do besides loot corpses for their clan or gather materials. It's not fun to feel useless in combat for months and months. I haven't played Rust yet, but I like how you can accomplish stuff early on in the game even if the odds are against you. I also agree that server wipes are really important because every one of these sandboxes ultimately gets dominated by 1-2 massive clans and the power gap becomes an abyss after a year or so.

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

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.

What if you make a mod (or ask someone to make a mod) that solves most of the issues you mention like removing mount combat nerfing daggers so on and run your own pvp server? I'm sure a lot of people would love to play on that kind of pvp server.

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?

Ive been playing single player, is it possible to port your sinle player character over to online or do I have to start a whole new character

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

Sorry for all the comments cuz I’m doing it as i watch, but server transfers can be mitigated if you force players to go to a specific location to transfer . For example ark, after you raid a base (or your Getty g raided ) to escape to another server with the loot you *have* to go to an obelisk to do it, meaning the people you just raided have a small chance to kill you before you leave , and there’s a cooldown timer for items to transfer . For example if you put an item in your inventory , it has to stay there un-disturbed for 15 minutes before your allowed to take it off server (armor, weapons, everything has a timer ). So you raid a base and have to wait 15 minutes before you can leave with the loot, giving the defenders a fair chance of getting their loot back and escaping themselves. Also when someone loads into the server it says it at the top of the screen for everyone to see , so when a whole clan joins you see a bunch of names at once so everyone knows to be ready for an attack, and usually the alpha clans can prepare for attacks quickly .

I’ve seen a lot of your Conan videos now and I have a question I feel like you could give a detailed answer for. I’ve been playing this game off and on since before it was released. I sometimes wonder if that has glitched me in someway to the point that I feel like I can’t get good at it. I used to play pvp on the side of my own server and one thing I’ve noticed in your videos is that you’re never using or farming legendary weapons. I realize you may just cut that out of your footage, but I’ve never even heard you mention it. There’s only a handful of craft able weapons that come close to the effectiveness of even the worst (imo) legendary. If every thrall has a legendary, their effectiveness is nearly doubled. And I don’t know about you but I hate crafting things for thralls. The only advantage is that I can steal it from them at anytime without losing any durability. So, is there an obvious reason for this that I’m missing or do you just not care about weapon stats that much?

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

Hey. Long time fan of your channel, and a huge fan of Conan Exiles initially. I was a huge fan back when the game first launched. I wanna point out some things that I feel, weren't exactly missed, but I don't think get enough attention, and that coincides with the fact that this is a PvE oriented game. The roleplay aspects. I am a massive roleplayer. Anytime I make a first playthrough in any RPG, survival or not, I typically create a character and play as if I am that character. That aspect in this game was actually a really exciting prospect, and like you, I, myself, like the idea of making these large scale invasions on gigantic castles in a medieval setting. I'm surprised that you only partially touched on these aspects, without really directly stating that this is by and large, a PvE game. One of my biggest gripes with the game is how the PvP ends up turning out in practice. Many of the things you pointed out are a few of the issues that I see, but I also feel like the mechanics of the game itself just don't incentivize roleplay in a PvP aspect. For example, you've mentioned honeycombing in your building section, and stacking in general (pillar, foundation, etc.) and find it odd that they removed foundation stacking, but not pillar stacking. Furthermore, you made the statement that "people are just going to make bigger bases to account for honeycombing." But I feel like that, in itself, is a fundamental issue, and is kind of one of the major issues that I have with the mechanics of the game. Because of the systems at play, stacking/honeycombing is a necessity in PvP, there's no getting around that. And that sucks, because as an avid PvPer and an avid roleplayer, I like to make colossal scale builds that are aesthetically intimidating, as well as easily defendable. I feel like this is the aspect that they want to push, and not this building giant, blocky, ugly blobs or rat nests that are, sure, difficult to raid, but just equally kind of bland and uninspiring usually. At least from a more thematic standpoint. And I'm not saying that there can't be thematic situations with builds like this, either- you, yourself, show off that level of legendary storytelling in the videos that you make, I don't want to make the point that it can't be made thematic, I want to more make the argument that we shouldn't have to. Right now, the mechanics incentivize this kind of building. As you said, bombs are just too easy to obtain, going through buildables is just too easy to do using bombs, and if you're not doing your part to implement some kind of stacking or honeycomb, you're just gimping yourself. But I feel that fundamentally clashes with the vision of the game. I think the PvP mechanics as they stand need to be overhauled in a way that incentivizes more of a roleplay mindset, at least where building comes from. I know this is only making a case for how I build specifically (a mix between sound defense and architectural endowment) but with how heavy the promotional material hits the roleplay aspects hard, the PvP experience just overshadows that vision. I have ideas on how they could be altered in order to incentivize that kind of building, but it would involve decreasing the incentive to honeycomb to such a gigantic degree. Things like, increasing the health values of the certain buildables, decreasing the damage of the bombs, implementing different ways of raiding a building (like battering rams, siege towers, actual functioning... ladders... maybe? Funcom? More than just for hatches? Funcom? Please!?). I also think actual damage tweaks overall would be nice in order to make the fights longer, without making them drag out (which is an incredibly slippery slope, my ideas are not fool proof), I feel like combat itself could be overall improved in terms of flow, which would just go back to making a more authentic roleplay experience... I feel like this idea is so undermined, and the game is treated as a joke, in more communities than just one. They call it garbage and a waste of time, and money, and a dying game, and I feel like that just doesn't do it justice. I feel like Funcom has a great foundation to work with, but they're just missing the mark in the PvP aspect because they didn't attempt to implement actual mechanics that play around the roleplay aspects. Maybe I'm just crazy and looking at it weirdly.

I cannot believe I watched this whole damn video. I am having a hard time believing that you could make a 2 hour video about fixing Conan, interesting. I own the game but have never played online, yet I've seen all of your videos. You have an uncanny power of some kind and have visibly shaken me. Congrats.

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.

Hey brotha! Keep in mind, it may seem like this content is for only 100 players but think about all the pve'rs and people like me starting out one pve servers to learn the game before jumping into pvp. We love your content and appreciate the time taken

I don't do PVP but I have a tactics/tech quesiton re: Horses - IRL the solution to dudes on horses was dudes with long ass pointy sticks stuck in the ground. It created zone control, and strike back opportunities. Also, attacking the horse itself was a fairly stock tactic. Would the problems you're laying out be meaningfully addressed if horse health got nerfed a lot, and pike type weapons were added to the game? Like, does counter play become a thing if the poison dagger cheese you mentioned can realistically kill a horse and you can't necessarily just charge in with your lance wang out?

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.

i love how many whacky places you were able to find to record in hahaha As a 3k hour rust player who's been playing since back in the unity 3 days (legacy rust, as it's lovingly been named), your points and comparisons were very much perfect. To add to some of your points, making a play as a naked is valuable for the most part because those plays simply can't be made when you're geared. Things like daggers should be much the same way - they should feel like the double barrel, which is a gun that's essentially useless when you're geared but is a god send when you're a grub, and it's upgrades are much the same with the spas-12 being pretty much useless outside of narrow corridors. make higher tier armour resistant to poison or make the stamina cost extremely high for daggers when wearing med/heavy armour or whatnot, you know? Ima be honest, if conan pvp had a monthly wipe schedule and smaller group sizes, i'd play it on the first week. There's nothing quite like the mad rush to fight over valuable positions and resources, or scraping together the lowest amount of explosives in the hope that you can cause critical damage to a neighbour before they get big enough to end your whole career. Zergs kill games. Zergs almost killed rust back in the day, and they routinely kill smaller modded servers, it's just that the playerbase doesn't reflect it anymore because server hopping is more popular than it used to be. The insta-level 60 thing would be incredible, as there really shouldn't be a required grind investment in a pvp environment. you should be free to only *have* to do what you want to do and you should not be allowed to get a leg up on your opponent just because you spent more time hitting gorillas. levels should be superficial at worst, where you get all your stats on login and the levels are just to indicate your time spent no lifing a server. server transfers shouldn't be able to be done with any items in your inventory, or better yet just not at all, which would be easy if levels are superficial. The general design philosophy of these types of games should always be "how do we squish the highest tier and the lower tier together so that talented low tier players have a chance against unskilled high tier players". If a dev misses the mark on that, they end up supporting the high tier and ignoring the low tier, or they end up with no tiers and have a homogenized esport (which i'm not against, mind you, but it's not what they're looking for lol)

I watched this when it came out but I can’t remember… did you talk about the harpy spear and how it has a broken cripple status? And the duping of bombs?

Enjoyed watching every second of your feedback, Thanks man. Great work and we can see you have a gaint heart for the game

a lot of good stuff covered, lots of good ideas-tons of the building/zerg issues could be solved with wipe cycles. thoughts on that?

Well made my friend, well made. I rarely agree with everything someone says but you hit the nail on the head.

i was watching this found alot of it kind entertaning tbh food does heal alot of u craft the right ones e.g yog feast and set feast and when u have 50 in vit it helps a ton and they are a super easy farm when you know how to farm them all u need for yog feast is to take a zath knife to a bunch of spiders and it will give u a zathite bag and u then have all u need 1 run that takes me around 15 min will get you around 2k feasts 2nd ah base is a easy enought farm with a black blood pick and a oil of bounty when doing the loop between the 4 gold rocknose you can get around 3k gold ore in 30 min and it will only use 2 min of pick and just a final tip if u find a bugged starmetal get a sandstone foundation put it over it remove it and shoot a new arrow it will work 90% of the time

I've thought a lot about a fair way against offlining and I think the best idea is to create a new type of box/chest which costs very little to make has a ton of health but is limited to 1 per clan AND has higher health if players are offline. I would also scale the health of it to the number of a building pieces a clan has. It would protect what little you have when starting out and make it not worth the investment of bombs to blow it up. But once you have a big base and more stuff it's relevance goes down as does it's health. How exactly it would be implemented, like how many inventory slots or how much health is something to be balanced and discussed.

I learn so much from u bro thanks again

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.

Props 🙌🏻 hopefully funcom listens it would make for a much more enjoyable time in Pvp and I would assume more vids for us to watch :)

So has this feedback been actioned in anyway now? I am coming from Last Oasis and looking to get into a game like this.

19:10 Back in the day orb raiding was the norm. You get 2 people to toss 10 of the grease orbs to max stacks and then watch it burn. It was mostly silent, so you didn't even know you were getting raided. Then to keep it burning at max ticks just keep it alive with 1 more grease orb. It was so much more cost efficient that you could just carry some stacks on you and wipe all the vaults on the map. That said, unofficial servers with active admins that wipe each month or so have been the bread and butter for my conan experience. I also enjoyed the modded servers a lot as well.

Agree 100% nice video ceronesthes we missed you ! hope the game will be fixed !

I want to get into conan a bit more but 2 hour long video on issues? For me this game looks great and im looking forward to play it with my buddies, but is it any good?

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

On the idea of Horses, a idea you didn't mention could be Horses take Bonus dmg from spears and polearms and riders take bonus Archery dmg. And also on the Transfers you mentioned ARK.. all be it you can upload items however.. you drop all items and gear on your person at the moment you upload your character so for Conan maybe just make it you upload the character and your inventory is dropped on the ground (as if you died). Just some ideas to help solve the problems :D I really want to see this game thrive and grow.

My favorite full loot pvp game is Albion Online. There are several reasons for this which would make this comment too long. But it’s also a sandbox mmo and not the exact same category as Conan. When I played Conan it was 12-18 months ago and was wiped daily despite building in strategic and/or off the grid locations. It was this or live on dead servers. I enjoyed listening to this video and nodding in agreement the entire time as if you could actually see me lol I came back briefly to try the new map on an unofficial server it was great until we encountered players who learned they could just transfer from single player worlds with end game everything, give it to themselves and then repeat as needed. Respect to you for sticking it out with this game through all the problems I’ve seen on your videos

So i started playing Conan 2 years ago and fell in love with the game instantly to the point i started a youtube channel and played nothing else for those 2 years but i deleted the game about a month ago it just doest feel satisfying anymore its like half the risk is gone and its just boring now no risk no reward man . This is a great video and i think you cover the main issues perfectly i really hope they can implement some real fixes because i miss the experience

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.

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

i know it might be a problem to implement this, but in atlas there is horses and the counter for them is to have a weapon to dismount the player from the horse. I suggest a horse having the crippled effect will forcibly dismount it's rider and not be able to be rode again until the effect disapear (balance: make the cripple effect on horses last longuer or shorter depending on its utility)