Category: Conan Exiles News

Today is a huge day for Funcom and the team behind Conan Exiles as the game moves out of Early Access and into full retail release. There will be a celebratory live stream later today, there’s a bevy of fun and interesting new trailers to see and the full update notes have been released. Patch notes come with some descriptions of the new locations and the more detailed tweaks and improvements that have been made for today’s launch.

Today is a huge day for Funcom and the team behind Conan Exiles as the game moves out of Early Access and into full retail release with over a million copies sold. There will be a celebratory live stream later today, there’s a bevy of fun and interesting new trailers to see and the full update notes have been released. Patch notes come with some descriptions of the new locations and the more detailed tweaks and improvements that have been made for today’s launch.

If you’ve ever wanted to chat with Conan the Barbarian,you’ll have your chance in about 2 hours when he’s live on Reddit for a Q&A. This comes as part of the celebration of tomorrow’s release of Conan Exiles. The event kicks off at 7:00 am Pacific / 10:00 am Eastern on /r/IAmA. The thread will be open about an hour ahead of time for fans to submit questions.

Funcom has posted a friendly reminder on its Conan Exiles Facebook page to remind players what type of official servers will be available when the game launches on May 8th. There will be three official server types, each with unique rulesets: PvP, PvE and PvE Conflict. Of course, privately hosted servers can be tweaked by the owner to provide its players with different experiences.

As part of the growing hype for the arrival of Conan Exiles next week, Funcom has released a trio of hysterical videos pitting a real life Conan against such modern day things as “Scandinavian furniture” ala IKEA, a vacuum cleaner and an airplane. You won’t want to miss these.

Funcom has announced partnership agreements with H2 Interactive and Chunsoft to bring Conan Exiles to several Asian nations on May 8th. Chunsoft will provide distribution services in Japan. H2 Interactive will distribute localized versions of Conan Exiles in digital and retail form in Korea, Thailand, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Hong Kong and Singapore.

The Conan Exiles site has been updated with a post that lays out the team’s focus in the coming days as the final stretch to release has arrived. The most pressing concerns that are being addressed are focused mainly on stability, performance and optimization of the final build. Devs will be on hand on various social media and on the official forums to collate all incoming issues players have discovered in order to find and prioritize any new bugs that have come up.

Conan Exiles has been patched on PC to bring Update 33 on board and is it ever a doozy of a patch. Players can look forward to a number of new features including fast travel, farming and the Purge systems. In addition, combat has been retooled to bring a number of changes including heavy and light attacks, chain attacks, kicks and much more.

The Conan Exiles TestLive server has been updated with a new patch to bring the Purge mechanic on board. Essentially, “the more you and / or your clan builds, kill other players / NPCs, and plays, the more this meter will fill”. Once the meter is filled, the Purge will kick in on a percent chance basis. If you are a solo player, Purge will target your holdings. If you are on a server with a fourth of the clans at the filled meter threshold, you have a 25% chance to get hit if you’re a member.

The Conan Exiles site has been updated with this week’s community letter that provides fans with the most up-to-date news about what various teams working on the game have been doing recently. Most excitingly for fans, the game is nearing release and there are only three more weeks until “content lock” for all of the data that will be in the Gold Build and in the Day 1 patch.