CountAntonius
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Yeah I want one of these with great combat. Just one...
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Conan Exiles Early Access |OT| You shall be my Thrall
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Yeah I want one of these with great combat. Just one...
Aztechnology
Member
Hopefully mods... I'm just thinking of Arma and honestly how terrible Arma II was until the mod scene hit it. Especially since it's using Unreal, we could see some nice animation work, damage tweaks, attack variation etc. I wouldn't expect souls level combat, though.
CountAntonius
Member
A game like this with souls type combat...my goodness I would faint. I've played all of them and i still don't dislike the genre because it has given me some amazing unique experiences I believe are only attainable with these kind of games but the jank of each and every one is just a plague.
GuitarAtomik
Member
Eh. There's no reason a survival game couldn't have deep combat. It wouldn't fundamentally change the core of these types of games other than to make the combat more fun. Larger servers could work too, but I agree that making these fun in a single player offline mode would do more to make them appealing to larger audiences.
man this looks very buggy
Lets see give away game to many streamers for free expect plebs to buy your buggy game not ready for release that can't even support a lot of people with proper sound communication in game
Do I fall for this and purchase or do I wait and miss the excitement bubble. Oh gaming industry you do this to me again.
Lets see give away game to many streamers for free expect plebs to buy your buggy game not ready for release that can't even support a lot of people with proper sound communication in game
Do I fall for this and purchase or do I wait and miss the excitement bubble. Oh gaming industry you do this to me again.
Aztechnology
Member
I'm in complete agreement with you. As to how a system like souls would hold up in a larger server which I'm assuming doesn't have a great tick rate though, is another story.
I would love it though. Dream come true, with dangerous PVE creatures on top of that. Even sporadic world bosses etc occasionally. I really do want an MMO that's a survival game I guess.
CountAntonius
Member
Yeah. It does seem to be a problem with server sizes. Throw in crafting and you have a whole other mess where they become increasingly more buggy the more structures are built.
Stiler
Member
I want an mmo in terms of its world/server structure, nothing else.
Just an open-world sandbox survival game with FUN engaging combat that supports more then 100 players. You don't need to throw in quests or other mmo elements.
Mount and freaking Blade supports 256 players for crying out loud...don't see why survival games have to be limited to private 100 player servers or can't have a larger number of players, especially when they have large worlds that feel very "empty" because of this.
Aztechnology
Member
When is Mount and Blade two coming out btw. I need that, the gameplay looked pretty great. Still Mount and Blade rigid and awkward, but miles better than the first.
CountAntonius
Member
Never.
Plumpbiscuit
Member
I detect a hint of jealousy that their game is on the front page.
CountAntonius
Member
Nice Rust Mod what is it called?
ok wow I realize full well that Giantwaffle has been playing this game for what six hours now but he is now walking around nekkid and mining with his pickaxe and just killing two hyeanas and large turtle without breaking a sweat. I have no problem with the nudity just the fact that he isn't dying or freaking out about his health.
at start of stream they did freak out but now its over and just kill things with pickaxe not even put on yoru sword and shield anymore.
what does that say about the depth of game if you can continue to kill things nekkid with your pickaxe. Is it because the character they are playing has levelled up so high and the stats are so high. Six hours an no fear anymore. Where are the hardmode servers then?
at start of stream they did freak out but now its over and just kill things with pickaxe not even put on yoru sword and shield anymore.
what does that say about the depth of game if you can continue to kill things nekkid with your pickaxe. Is it because the character they are playing has levelled up so high and the stats are so high. Six hours an no fear anymore. Where are the hardmode servers then?
Hoya Destroyer
Member
Havent played a Conan game since that one on the 360 years ago. I still remember the fun combat system and rescuing those topless girls.
I'll add this to my Steam wishlist.
I'll add this to my Steam wishlist.
Plumpbiscuit
Member
GAME IS OUT! GOGOGOGO!!
Downloading as we speak!
18.9 GB download.
Downloading as we speak!
18.9 GB download.
Durrzerker
Banned
I can't find any servers with people in them. All seem to be at 0.
Well if you have time to try out singleplayer I would love to know if its any fun.
I mean, I can't really expect any worse from Wildcard Studios at this point lol.
Maybe they should be working on how to make their game run better. And to maybe decide to add that DX12 renderer they promised a year ago.
Aztechnology
Member
Any GAF server yet? I might grab, but none of my friends are willing to buy EA anymore, especially for survival so...
Plumpbiscuit
Member
Got an hour left to download, think I'm gonna stick to SP for today and tomorrow until the servers are panned out, launch day always has servers that tend to fuck up.
The Ark devs have always been complete shitheads, not to mention liars and frauds.
Enemies get higher level the further inland you and from what I was watching of Liriks stream last night they were hanging around the coastal area where everything was pretty weak.
I watched Cohhcarnage play it for a while and he was really getting into it and make it look really fun so I went and bought it. If anyone wants to play or theres an eventual Gaf server I'm down. I won't be able to play till I finish work for like 8 hours anyway.
Aztechnology
Member
I've decided to wait. I'll see what your guys reactions are, and how developer support and mod support play out of the next couple months. I have a ton of games coming in soon including Nioh, Horizon, Mass Effect etc.
ChosenPredator
Banned
game is 40 dollars canadian, I'm holding off a bit because of that, thats just to much
ChosenPredator
Banned
https://www.twitch.tv/mrmoonshouse <---most entertaining person to watch when it comes to survival games because he roleplays
Aztechnology
Member
Ha, he's pretty fun, thanks for linking.
Honestly, I can't imagine this game from what I've seen not regressing back into griefing fests like every other survival game. Which seems a bit off considering it benefits you to work with larger groups because
1. It takes tons of resources it seems to get things going and I assume avatar take a lot to summon.
2. Your diagrams/plans are limited to your level, so having more people to diversify plans is great.
3. Those sweet huge cities we all want.
I'm hoping to see a community sever where they implement some kind of light RP'ing. Large Clan sizes. Maybe some minor roles. Some fun events etc. Games like Arma were made for me by the communities, and honestly I see survival games benefitting from such behavior as well.
Khilandros
Member
yeah, I'm doing the same.
CountAntonius
Member
Are there any detailed write ups on the later game stuff? Not so much from players, obviously, but have the devs put out anythg specific about the high end stuff other than the vague and generalized 'summon gods and build cities'? Would love to have a better idea of how that stuff works.
Aztechnology
Member
Fug me, I caved. I want to play on a light RP type server. Is there anything like that? Like not strict RP character stuff, just some basic rule outlines, events etc?
Conor_Fool
Banned
Wait...the servers are limited to 100 fucking people? Or am I misunderstanding a prior comment?
Can you transfer to another server?
Can you transfer to another server?
Aztechnology
Member
Right now it seems you just make a new character. And yes, have you played survival games before? 100 is quite a bit of people and leads to constant confrontations.
Well for what it's worth you can create your own one
Maybe we can setup a GAF server if there are enough people interested.
Plumpbiscuit
Member
I'll be interested in joining a GAF server on the condition that SP characters can transfer over to MP servers.
Conor_Fool
Banned
I actually haven't surprisingly. Was always interested in Ark but never wanted to drop the money, especially since it seemed there was little to no active community here. I just assumed each Ark server was filled with thousands of people I guess.
I need to get something straight though... A 100 person server is limited to 100 individual players that made a character on that server, or 100 people at a time? Example: 100 people are playing in an unprotected server. 2 people leave. Can 2 random other people then join in?
And if so, wouldn't they just get absolutely wrecked by the other 98?
ChosenPredator
Banned
I think if people want to play this type of game for the best experience RP servers are the numero uno for survival games, it just ramps up the experience but you definitely need some buddies to play this with.
Aztechnology
Member
100 people at any given time, depends on the server and if it requires whitelisting or password protection I guess.
Most these games, its a bunch of tiny groups of a few people, occasionally there's a larger group and yes. Basically a lot of people, especially the larger groups specialize in making hell for everyone else through numbers and resources.
That's why I want a RP-lite server where there's "factions" and some minor ground rules about just raiding for no reason etc. Like raiding someone's tiny startup base when you couldn't possibly need anything from them, just to be an ass etc. I'd like to see more larger settlements, where raids are carried out as more like battles. Instead of people waiting until you are logged off to sneak in and break everything/kill you.
Too often in rust or other games where I was just playing with a small group, I couldn't even finish building a small base before everything was destroyed and all my time was wasted. No one built anything especially cool, even though I wanted to, because it was all about building the base with the absolutely best resources:defence construction. So everyones bases looked the same. Hexagonal.
Aztechnology
Member
Steam only I believe.
Edit: G2A has it, but it's more expensive than it is on Steam.
I put in a refund request, for now, I should have done a proper search for RP type stuff before. Of the very small (a handful) of RP servers that there are, they either are filled and not recruiting. Or are far too serious about the RP portion that I'm a bit put off. As in, write a page+ biography of your character, always stay in character and are required to write weekly updates on your character's story. That's too much for me. I would host my own server, but I simply don't have the time to deal with and setup the server for recruitment and everything right now.
I'm going to do my damdest to enjoy this game.
Played for like 2 hours and have to go to work soon.
Made some kind of house, put on some clothes because first person boobs were getting kinda distracting.
Picked a fight with an ostrich, didn't go as well as hoped.
Ran into a bug that if you die when you are starving or like on the brink of it, you will respawn starving even though the hunger meter is full.
Combat is Skyrim tier.
Game also doesn't run particularly well.
Played for like 2 hours and have to go to work soon.
Made some kind of house, put on some clothes because first person boobs were getting kinda distracting.
Picked a fight with an ostrich, didn't go as well as hoped.
Ran into a bug that if you die when you are starving or like on the brink of it, you will respawn starving even though the hunger meter is full.
Combat is Skyrim tier.
Game also doesn't run particularly well.
Megawarrior
Member
I'm sold.