Posts by Nicole V(Community Manager)

Greetings Exiles!
Coming hot on the trails of our previous content patch, conveniently titled Followers I[forums.funcom.com], and as announced in our producer letter[www.conanexiles.com], we feel now ready to deploy on all platforms our next game update: Followers II!
This update stems from a month-long collaboration with our Testlive community, that kept us sending feedback over four revisions and helped us improving the update we’re releasing today. Among these changes comes a very long and oft-requested feature, AI stances! We have also added a command system for your active follower, which will let you give direct orders to your companion.
There’s more changes and improvements that come with these new additions that will generally improve how AI reacts and interacts in the game. We have also included a couple of commonly requested quality of life changes that will make your adventures in the Exiled lands even more amazing: you can now have a companion and a horse active at the same ti... Read more
Hey all! We’re doing a dev stream with Nicole (Community Manager) and Scott Junior (Executive Producer) tomorrow. We’ll be talking about testlive, the Followers I[forums.funcom.com] patch that went live, Followers II[forums.funcom.com] currently on TestLive, showing off something new, and some Q&A at the end.
It’s the first one in a while and we’ll be doing it from home! Come for the info and fun, stay for my cats who will inevitably interrupt the stream.
Catch us here!
https://www.twitch.tv/funcom
https://mixer.com/Funcom
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Greetings Exiles!
For those curious as to what's going on on the TestLive branch, you can check out the notes here! Coming hot on the trails of our previous content patch, conveniently titled Followers I, and as announced in our producer letter[www.conanexiles.com], we feel now ready to deploy on Testlive the first iteration of our next game update: Followers II!

Given the amazing reception you all gave to our new commitment to make Testlive a meaningful platform to test and improve upon new features, we feel this is the right time to let you all have a first look at our new batch of changes and improvements aimed at overhauling how you interact with your followers.
Among these changes comes a very long and oft-requested feature, AI stances! We have also added a command system for your active follower, so you can give direct orders such as move and attack. There’s more changes and improvements that come with these new additions that will generally improve how AI reacts and interacts in th... Read more
We hope you're all enjoying the boosted XP! For this weekend only we're ALSO enabling doubled harvesting rates for all official servers! This should make building your dream home or fortified castle a little easier over the weekend. These increased rates will be enabled until April 6th.
Don't forget the Steam sale is also ongoing until April 6th! Get the base game for you and/or a friend at 50% off, or the Complete Edition at 40% off.
Live, laugh, and slay, Exiles! Read more
Hark! A sale comes from the horizon! We're holding a weeklong sale on Steam on the game, its editions and all of the current DLC packs!
Now's the chance to meet up with your friends in the Exiled Lands or beat them up with an array of weaponry, with the base game discounted half price.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/440900/Conan_Exiles/
You can also get a hold of the Deluxe Edition, including the base game and all of the Year 1 DLC packs for a 50% discount.
If you want to go all in, we've also discounted our Complete Edition, which includes the base game along with all Year 1 and Year 2 DLC packs! (sans The Riddle of Steel, also discounted)
And if you're looking to complete your collection or grab that pack you've been waiting on, you can also pick and choose from each of the individual DLC packs, discounted 25% each.
Sale will end on April 6th.
We're also extending our ongoing XP boost event on all official servers until April 6th. Come join thousands of other players with increased XP... Read more
Doubled harvesting rates are now over. But we're going to keep this momentum going! All official servers on all platforms now have increased XP rates until April 3rd.
Live, laugh, slay but at distance of 6 ft. Cheers!
Though you may have been sentenced to exile both in & out of the game, we want to make it an easier time for you.
All official servers now have doubled harvesting rates until March 27th.
Stay safe and wash your hands, barbarians!
Hello Exiles!
I wanted to take a moment to introduce myself. I’m Scott Junior the new Executive Producer for Conan Exiles. I joined the Exiles project in January and I’m excited to work with the development team and with the amazing community we have. There are a lot of exciting things planned for 2020 and I wanted to give you a quick glimpse into what the team is currently working on:
Follower Management UI In today’s update we introduced the Follower Management UI. The goal of this system is to allow players to manage their Thralls in an efficient manner. You can now see where they are on the map, check their stats, rescue them if they end up in a non-retrievable location, and break bonds with them. This is the first step in our efforts to improve how Followers work in Conan Exiles. You can find more information about this feature here[www.conanexiles.com].
Follower Commands Step two is our Followers Part 2 update. The goal of this patch is to allow players to have greater contr... Read more
Happy Monday, all! We're starting this week off right with a week long sale for all Funcom games! From NOW until next Monday, March 2nd, you have the opportunity to check out our other marvelous games such as the cosmic horror Moons of Madness, or roam the Exiled Lands on your mighty stead in Conan Exiles for a discounted price.
You'll find all DLCs discounted as well! Continue traversing the post apocalyptic lands with Dux and the gang in Mutant Year Zero's DLC, Seeds of Evil. Or expand your world in Age of Conan through the Hyborian Conqueror Collection. You'll find DLCs for Secret World Legends and Anarchy Online discounted too.
Check out sales here:
Conan Exiles 50% off
Moons of Madness 30% off
Conan Unconquered 40% off
The Park 50% off
Mutant Year Zero 50% off

The Longest Journey 60% off
See all listed games here! Read more
And with that, the holidays have ended. We hope everyone had an amazing New Years as well! We got some pretty impressive and creative entries to this year’s Holiday Contest. We will contact the winners listed here about their prize. This is also posted in the Funcom forums here[forums.funcom.com]. Here are the winners!
Grand Prize Winner The Addams Family A super creative recreation of the opening scene to the Addam’s Family movie! They even replaced the text with names of their characters from their private server, Hyboria.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCGldo9p8e8
Original Scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A_aLgc9bJ8
9 Runner Ups Christmas Cottage
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation You'll need to click this link to see the gif.
https://imgur.com/a/4PDJHh9
South Park
Morozko (also known as Mrazik)

Original Scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD63WRvX3nw
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
A Christmas Carol (2009)
Polar Express
Polar Express
Bad Santa
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Ahh, December. The time for giving, maybe decorating a dying tree with shiny things and leaving it up until March, lighting candles and setting your enemy's house on fire for warmth on a cold day, and siting upon King Conan's knee telling him what you want.
Besides those traditions, what better way to celebrate than watching your favorite Christmas/Holiday movies? Yes, Nightmare Before Christmas counts. IT'S A CHRISTMAS MOVIE DAMMIT.

We want you to recreate a scene, a building, person, iconic item, whatever from your favorite holiday movie. You could build the town of Whoville, make a character resemble Scrooge in his dark cold mansion, a screenshot of Tim Allen killing Santa, or so on! The judges (community managers) will judge based on creativity and how well it compares to the movie.

The contest will run from today until December 31st, 2019. No more entries will be accepted after this date. The winners will be announced on January 7th, 2020.

1 Grand Prize Winner
Year 2 Season Pass AND al... Read more
If you attended this year’s TwitchCon, you may recognize this goofy group! From left to right we have Andy, Nicole, Natascha, and Eirik who manned the Funcom Twitch booth through the weekend.
Let us start off by saying it was an absolute pleasure meeting everyone who stopped by to check out Conan Exiles or see what’s new. Everyone was incredibly kind, welcoming, and happy to talk with us.
We had a very large amount of people who came to the booth that were Conan Exile fans! It was such a pleasure to speak with them and talk about what they do in game or things they’d like to see for the future. Many of them were from private RP servers, so hearing about their characters and backstories was absolutely amazing. In particular many players from the Hyborian Age RP server showed up!
We also were able to meet up and chat with a lot of great and notable streamers of Conan Exiles. Here are just a few. You can click their name to be taken to their Twitch channel!
SvalaGaming[www.twitch.tv]
CletusBue... Read more
We’re coming for you San Diego! Community Director, Natascha, and Community Managers Andy and Nicole will be at TwitchCon this year showing off Moons of Madness and Conan Chop Chop that attendees can play.
We’ll also have Conan Exiles on the floor showing off a little something special. ;) Come say hi to us, try out these awesome games, and get free stuff. See you there!
We’re introducing the test branch to Conan Unconquered! This will help with updating the game with new additions or changes and get your input on them before we push it to the live branch.
Please visit the thread HERE on how to access TestLive as well as posting feedback or bugs you find.
GENERAL FIXES:
  • Added a cap for all advanced, elite and siege wave enemies to prevent instances where the number of attacks can be overwhelming. Handles 30+ Large Spiders on Co-op Mission #5 (for example) in Co-Op and Unconquered Modes.
  • Corpse catapults will now block nearby structure placement as intended.
  • Additional check added to Avatar of Mitra to prevent him attempting to attack while in summon animation (and breaking the summon).
  • Fix for a case of units getting stuck with a protected order, unable to receive new orders from the player. Basically, fixes issue where player units can no longer be controlled.
  • Adjusted targeting settings for all player ranged units (Javelin Soldier, Archer, Heavy Ar...
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Hey all! We got another patch in with various fixes. Hope everyone is having a great week so far. :)
Patch Notes
  • Unit & Enemy speed increased by 30%. Player can now more easily get out of their base to explore and game generally feels “faster”.
  • Rewards page fixed for UI with 4:3 aspect ratio.
  • Fix for some players not being able to select King Conan skin on hero selection UI.
  • Fixed issue in Co-Op where Player B was unable to build a research in player A’s research building unless player A had enough money to make that research.
  • Fixed challenge map history displaying 40 waves rather than infinite waves for level 3 wave count
  • Fixed: Difficulty for scenario maps could still be selected after clicking the Battle button.
  • Fixed text related to “Infinite Waves” on map select screen.
  • Intro video(s) to game have been split into their own separate movies and can be skipped individually.
  • Appended text to the Attack-Move button tooltip.
  • Hero abilities with a target select do not move the hero into range ...
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Good Morning to some and Good Evening to others! More improvements inbound, details below:
~GENERAL~
  • New UI created for hero selection at scenario/map select screen.
  • Placement of structures no longer slows down FPS while grid is shown.
  • Fix for units being unable to move if they exit a guard tower too close to a wall.
  • Player is now prevented from building structures on top of summoned snakes, skeletons and spiders.
  • Adjusted attack range and settings to fix instances of Shem Asshuri’s attack damaging targets through walls.
  • Fixed issue with missing particle on corpse when player units die due to fire.
  • Fixed issue with Kalanthes heal visual effects not playing.
  • Adding lightning effect to show connection between Custodian of Yoth and Healing Stone.
  • Fixed issue with King Spiders in custom 10 wave matches not properly blocking structure placement.

~MISC~
  • Solved issue where remapping an existing key to another key would cause two key actions - one for the press and one for the release.
  • Fixed bug...
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Greetings everyone! We’ve made some more changes, hopefully addressing some of your concerns, details below:
GENERAL EASY MODE
  • Time between waves has now been extended on Easy Mode.
  • Player Unit damage to enemies set to +20% (was +50%) on Easy Mode.
  • When playing in easy mode score modifier appropriate set to their difficulty level.

GAMEPLAY BALANCE CHANGE:
  • In Co-Op, houses will no longer split Thrall resources. Instead, both players get the FULL amount from any house build by either player.
  • Dwelling wood build cost reduced from 8 to 2.
  • Manse stone cost reduced from 10 to 2.
  • When choosing targets, Kalanthes should now properly prioritize in the following order: Attack > Heal > Fires. Manual targeting will always override this.
  • Players will now correctly receive a wave completion bonus to score after wave 40 in Infinite Mode.

MISC
  • Repaired missing wave tracker icon in top center after resuming a saved game.
  • Chest randomization is now stored properly within the challenge system. Now, all ...
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Conan Unconquered is out NOW! Developed from the Command & Conquer veterans at Petroglyph, this survival RTS will challenge you to build your army and defend your stronghold against waves of savage hordes. Play today!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/989690/Conan_Unconquered/
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Written By Multigun
Dev Stream - 05-09-2019 - Written Summary
Link to official forums post here[forums.funcom.com]
Opening Statement
Boy, aren’t you all lucky. Two streams back to back, means poor Multi get’s to wear his poor fingers down to the bone typing up a gazillion notes. At least my typing skills continue to get plenty of practice! Also sorry this one took so long, some RL stuff came up this week, but also there was a lot to bloody type out (all Rob’s fault).
Something new in this write up is I decided to add some spoiler tags, so just click on the black text if you want to see what I wrote for the appropriate sections. There is a bloody lot to cover, so let’s get this show on the road.
Links to Bulletin Summary if You Prefer That
These are just notes I take during the stream, I clean them up a bit for public viewing but generally, the written information below will be more organized and informative. The PDF is provided as well as I use Adobes Accessibility Check on it in case some...
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Good Monday, Exiles!
Just a very small announcement to keep you in the loop.
The official PC servers will be coming down in just a moment to attempt another fix for the invisible building issue. Servers will begin reappearing once updated. Thank you very much for your patience with these!