Weekly Community Newsletter – Two Handed Swords 23 January 2018 Funcom has finalized the 2018 road map and development milestones for the Early Access of Conan Exiles.
WEEKLY COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER – TWO-HANDED SWORDS BERSERKERS
Hey, would you look at that! Two-handed swords! These are scheduled to come out at launch, and players can craft them out of Stone, Iron, Steel, Hardened Steel and Starmetal. Much like the hammers, they’re big and heavy, taking a long time to swing, but also deal a lot of damage once they connect to an opponent. Secondly, sprinting with weapons and tools is back! This was removed a while back, partly in order to deal with lag jousting, where players would use server latency to win combat encounters. The other reason was to highlight the difference between being in and out of combat. Sprinting away from an encounter is the defining factor that differentiates being in, or out, of combat. However, after both taking your feedback into account and seeing that lag jousting is essentially eliminated with the new combat paradigm, we’re making it so you can sprint with weapons and tools again.
We fired off a second combat playtest on Friday, with a ton of changes and updates from the previous test (like sprinting with weapons!). There’s still experimentation going on in terms of stamina management, health regeneration and damage numbers, but we’re steadily moving towards a version that we think will be balanced and fun, and once we are at that stage we will deploy to Testlive servers to hear your feedback and suggestions! VANGUARD In addition to this one of our Vanguard designers has finished up work on the new perk system, which will add improvements and modifiers to your character based on how you’ve levelled up your Attributes. Examples include things like a double jump skill, better stamina consumption, quicker healing, and now, a ricochet shot, for all you Hanzo mains out there. They’ve also shown the system for dying and respawning some needed love in order to improve the experience for players. Player corpses should now reload more consistently after a server crash. Death Markers should also be less prone to breaking. NPC and player corpses now have different expiry times, and they’ve added a neat little glowing green light that emanates from your character’s bracelet when they die. Last, but certainly not least, is a quick loot GUI to help you take things from players and NPCs much quicker than before. TERRAFORMERS Project Content Rebalance has been going well so far and we got to experience a sample of the changes during the Friday combat playtest. This rebalance involves tweaking the NPC population and resource nodes in order to provide a more diverse and challenging experience to players. Being used to the previous “shotgun approach” to NPCs and resources the game definitely felt different, but in a positive way. Creatures and NPCs were sparser, which made meeting other humans feel more special, like the Exiled Lands really were a place only the strongest can survive. In terms of new content there’s a lot in the pipeline that’s coming in for launch. We’ve mentioned skinning daggers before, and there are 5-6 of them of different materials, planned for the Gold Build. New bows, swords, axes, maces, spears, armors, arrows, resources, crafting materials, deities, trophies, and some secret things are all scheduled to come out in the final, launch build of the game. WRAPPING UP And that should be it for this week! Thank you so very much for reading, for continuing to support Conan Exiles and being a part of this amazing community. Sincerely,
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