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I’m starting to understand why Early Access exists.

It’s certainly a great way to have gaming companies get their bug tests done for free.  The game in question? Conan Exiles. I figured out how to mitigate some of the REALLY annoying aspects of gameplay – mostly involving turning off that stupid ‘you lose all your stuff when you die’ feature – but dear Lord but the building crafting system needs work.  The combat is likewise not all that inspiring yet.  And I am not entirely thrilled with the concept of being a slaveowner, even though it’s certainly a part of the Hyborian Age.

But it’s still fun. Steep learning curve, but fun.

My Day One Reaction to Conan Exiles.

This ‘die and lose all your stuff’ mechanic is kind of annoying. It would be infinitely less annoying if you could create permanent spawn points instead of one-shot ones. Or do what The Secret World does, which is simply damage all of your stuff whenever you die. Or even let you keep the pick-axe, thus allowing you to quickly gear up again at the lower levels. Or… a bunch of other things, really.  Mind you, this is all Early Access, so hopefully they’ll start adjusting this soon.

Moe Lane

PS: Yeah, I bought it.  It’s FunCom, after all, and I am still a Secret Worlder even if the last original-content update was kind of lame. I can only hope that they’ll go back to updating TSW with stuff in the near future…

This Conan Exiles video game article will unleash your inner 13 year old male. (Links NSFW!)

Why?  Well, because of this (DO NOT CLICK THAT LINK WHILE YOU ARE AT WORK, unless your boss has a similarly low sense of humor) reveal: “While no Early Access launch date was given for Conan Exiles, this open world survival game features a character creation menu which allows players to choose which level of nudity they want, and there is also an “endowment slider,” where players can decide how large or small their character’s penis is, or, for the female characters, how large or small their breasts are.” …And then, just in case you were wondering whether they were exaggerating in any way, shape or form, the author provided some handy pictures.  And some animations from the game demonstrating the, ah, physics involved.  Apparently, you can adjust the clothing levels, from tasteful to, well, nekkid.

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