Conan Exiles A simple Mess Conan Exiles is finaly out of early access and onto consolesYou start the game choosing your mode, you can play Conan Exiles A simple Mess Conan Exiles is finaly out of early access and onto consoles You start the game choosing your mode, you can play pvp, pve, or offline single player and co op. You then creat your character, all wuth their unique race that gives them an advantage in game as well as a religion. And youre rescued by your boy conan from your cross with a promise yall are gonna meet again.
So you set off into this world to simply survive. This is a survival game, and one that I found to actually feel unique. The survival aspects of this game can be described by saying it’s a simple mess. This is all about recourse gathering and then combinging recourses to create new items and I love how easy it is to find simple food like bugs and materials. Your basic survival needs are extremely accessable and its up to you to take those basics and explore the lands, leveling up and working your way towards better items. You can choose to play this game like a mincearft where youre creating shelter and use it as a base, going out to gather items and come back This is made easy thanks to this game not being some procedurally generated garbage this is a beautifully hand crafted map with secrets caves, caverns, and bosses to encounter.
Reminding me a bit of skyrim at times. A survival based skyrim game. Sounds great doesn’t it? On paper yes. But again this game is just a mess.
Theres just too much going on here under the hood, not enarly as much as a game like ark. But I stil found it all to be overwhelming.
I felt leveling up and earning points to dump into my stats and unlock new items to craft was frequent enough to keep the game feeling rewarding as id play but the crafting menus and recourses needed to craft certain items just felt like too much work to me. Itsn ot like a Minecraft where things are as simple as knowing you need a certain material, go to a biodome on rare occasions where a certain material is found, farm a little until you get what you need and come back. M,aterials for tools weapons and gear beyonds the basic are too spread out theres just too much too much in variety of things to collect. And too much space between them all im a huge believer in less is more, andi just don’t have the capacity at this stage in my life to keep track of hundreds of different materials on top of that if youre not playing offline and on easy mode, youre going to die way quick. I feel like the game almost discourages advanced recourse gathing in that way gathering food of any consequence is needlessly complicated as well. It isn’t as simple as killing an animal and looting its body. Creating a fire and cooking it you need tools to collect the meat after the kill.
Its just not my thing and again needlessly complicated for how harsh the environment can be on higher difficulties I want to feel like I can at any moment decide to start a new camp somewhere and not that I have to take my things back to base and the way the game over complicates things like hunting, I just couldn’t do that here So the way I chose to play this game was going the more explorer route. Living off of plants, I just wanted to battle the terrains and its inhabitents with the simplest items I could craft that didn’t feel like a math equation and I had a decent amount of fun doing this laying down a bed as I felt I made progress so I would respawn there if I would die.
And just keep the simplest materials on me at all times to be able to fend for myself if I ran into any hostiles. Which this world is full of.
From giant spiders to people. Enemies are everywhere I actually really loved the combat mechanics in this game, theyre very third person action witcher dark suls style of attacking blocking and dodging, I most of the time felt like If I took damage in a fight it was my fault. However not all of the time. This game definitely suffers from performance issues. Especially during battle. The game will lag a bit, frames will drop and youll be taking damage from seemingly nothing enemies can also spawn ontop of you out of nowhere. Its makes for a nice scare.
But it also makes for some frustrating moments when your character instrantly dies from a giant spider spawning ontop of them and now that giant spider is guaring y our dead corpse with all of your materials on it. I also found it pretty annoying that after killing enemies you oculdnt take their weapons or gear. Whats the point of righting them then? The combat system doesn’t feel risk reward. It feels just there for survival which quickly brought down the enjoyment and excitement of exploring for me Conan Exiles is a decent survival game. If things were simpler it would even be a good one but they aren’t so it isn’t.
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This is a game though that i don’t think anyone that isn’t really into survival games would enjoy. I give Conan Exiles a 6/10 Expand. Not even close to enough servers for their player base. Seriously only 50 NA PVP servers with 40 player max per server. So only 2000 people on Not even close to enough servers for their player base. Seriously only 50 NA PVP servers with 40 player max per server. So only 2000 people on PC in NA can play at once with official servers even after they sold over 1 million copies.
I dont usually score this harshly but the game really is almost unplayable if you cannot get on a server. This is not the type of game you buy to play offline either as they didnt develop a real story arc. Honestly it does not seem they came through at all on the Lore side of the game.