You place a foundation, walls on top of it, ceilings and a door and you’ve got somewhere to hide from the crocodiles you haphazardly decided to settle next to. The system is pretty straightforward, too. Conan Exiles allows you to build your own barbaric abodes. These range from crafting tools to weapons, armor and structures. Every time you level up, there’s also the possibility of selecting new recipes to learn. The level up system in Conan Exiles allows increasing stats which make you stronger, quicker or more adaptable, depending on your choices. So, especially if you’re a solitary barbarian, you’ll want to use caution.Īs you travel inland, you’ll bump into more types of wildlife and resources, while also gaining levels. At low level, Shalebacks, large turtle-like creatures, can kill you in two or three hits. Playing on servers with standard settings, Conan Exile’s world is harsh. One of the lessons you learn quite early on is that, until you get your hands on a sword, you want to steer as clear as you can from the wildlife. As with most survival games, you must scrounge up whatever resources you can (rocks and branches, in this case) and make your way inland. A giant stone slab with glowing characters, a note and a waterskin are all you get. The developers have been working hard, providing constant patches and, in the past week, I’ve managed to put a couple of hours into the game.Īfter spending some time with the character creator, which offers a decent amount of choice, you get thrown buck naked in the middle of the desert. After spending an hour on loading screens in order to join a server, bad performance and the aforementioned lag made sure that I wouldn’t really get far.

During the first few days the game was nigh on unplayable for me. Problems abounded, some technical, other graphical, peaking at the cessation of working with the initial server provider, mainly due to large amounts of lag. The Early Access launch of Conan Exiles was not a smooth one. Funcom’s survival title gathered a decent amount of hype prior to its Early Access release, and, I’ve joined in on running away from crocodiles on a more or less daily basis. Much like one of the players on the server I spent most of my time on, Conan Exiles appeared out of nowhere and started streaking into view.

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