Greetings, Exiles of the Testlive lands!

We’re releasing a new patch aimed to iron out remaining crashing issues, as well as server browser woes. We’re also including a couple of exploit fixes as well as a fix to crafting stations.

Thanks again for your ongoing support and feedback. Stay safe!
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Please remember that updates can mess with your installed mods. We suggest taking a backup of your current database before updating to any new patch if you have mods installed.
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• This is a work in progress build and as such, it presents fixes and features that might not be complete or working as intended. Please report any bugs or issues you might encounter in this patch to help us release it in its most stable version.

• Fixed a number of client and server crashes.
  
• Fixed a number of crashes upon joining a server via friends list.

• Fixed an exploit regarding god bubbles.
  
• Improved protection against network attacks.

• Recipes provided by thralls should be available in crafting stations, as intended.

• Fixed an issue that caused servers to show no active players.
  
• Fixed an issue that would cause a server to list its ping as 9999 or ???.
  
• Official servers would sometimes be listed twice in the server browser. This is now fixed.
  
• The Close option in the Friend List tab should no longer be cut off if playing in German. #spellchekkerteamstrikesagainhoohah

Separate TestLive Product on Steam
We heard your input regarding the inconvenience with having to switch back and forth between the main game and our TestLive servers. To make it easier for you and because we really value your testing and feedback, we added a separate product for the TestLive server on Steam.

If you own Conan Exiles on Steam, you should now see a separate Product called “Conan Exiles - Testlive Client” in your library which gives you the option to install an additional instance of the game specifically for the TestLive servers. Please be aware that this will prompt you for a full additional installation.

We are aware that not everyone wants install or has space for two full installations. For those of you who don’t want to play through the additional TestLive Client, you can still access the TestLive servers through our old method.

As with our previous building contests, each one of you went above and beyond our expectations. The absolute creativity and skill you showed in making your vision of the Tower of the Elephant is nothing short of incredible.

We want to thank you from the bottom of Yag-kosha’s heart for taking the time to participate and create amazing pieces. Know that it was a tough process choosing these winners and even if you were not selected, you should be damn proud.

If you are mentioned here, make sure to speak up! And if you weren’t, please share with us your creations on the forums for all to see. Please also note not all pictures entered for these winners are inserted into this post, for sake of space.

Thank you again to the team at Perilous Worlds for providing the really cool shirts and Tower of the Elephant boardgame prizes! We're happy to say that the Kickstarter for the game was fully funded. Check out the page here!


Let’s move along now to what you’re here for!
Here are the 5 grand prize winners who will be receiving the Tower of the Elephant boardgame, and the 10 runner ups! Numbers are purely for distinguishing posts, not for ranking.

An incredible recreation and take on the tower. Complete with a garden surrounding an elephant shaped base! Make sure you take the time to watch the incredible tour that explores inside and out to see all the details.
https://youtu.be/_kUbCZBDIM0

This cross section of the tower submitted by Michael. They created their tower so that it is authentic to the “Conan and the tower of the elephant” manual with its story by Greg Lynch. The tower is 46 metres high; each floor contains a part of the story such as the library, a basement for the armory, and guards.




If you loved the Tower of the Elephant story and are looking for more, you’ll love this entry. Ceyvie over on YouTube has created a story of a new adventurer named Bronk who tries his own hand at the tower. Watch as Bronk infiltrates the tower, battles enemies, takes a bathroom break, and climbs to the top.
https://youtu.be/FwNzbBsEWs4

Mylee’s impressive tower includes a dungeon area with a maze-like pathway to reach the top! Start through the storage room, make your way through the dungeon area with crocodiles, hostile humans, and more until you’ve made it! There were so many photos of this we’d like to share but unfortunately cannot fit into one post.






Our final grand prize winner goes to Morpheanna for an absolutely creative comic made from screenshots of the game and pieced together to tell the story. Here are some screenshots, but you can find the full comic here on Imgur: https://imgur.com/a/xQPWRrj






An Elephant Tower!




An absolutely astounding Tower!




Impressive tower with a beautiful interior!





Beautiful take on the tower!




A beautiful tower complete with a elephant right on the front!
https://youtu.be/sTHog55QkoI

A beautiful tower seen across the land, day and night!





A rather sinister take on the tower.





A beautiful yet deadly tower.




Complete with spiders, a lush garden, and dear Yara.




An incredible comic created by Sage. Here are some pictures included in the comic, but more will be available later.




Again, sincere thank you for being a part of this incredible contest. It was an absolute pleasure to look through them all. We will be reaching out to the winners for prize information shortly!

Hail and well met, Exiles!

We’re releasing a patch that includes fixes and adjustments for various crashes, the friends list and invitations, and healing wrap regeneration.

Along with this patch, Avatars have been enabled (for real this time). Please also note that beginning last week, decay is doubled to 14 days for the Summer. You can read more about this in our announcement here.


Please remember that updates can mess with your installed mods. We suggest taking a backup of your current database before updating to any new patch if you have mods installed.

• Fixed a number of crashing issues.
  
• Fixed case where “online play is restricted” warning message would show after leaving a listen server.

• Localization to text in the Friend List added.
  
• Fixes to friend invites where invitation would disappear during the game’s title. Also fixed an issue where invite would not be removed once accepting.

• Healing Wraps will not longer break their gameplay effect on movement
  
• Adjusted vertical land claim in certain areas that prevented NPCs from spawning.
  
• Server ping will now refresh properly in the server browser.
  
• The mute option functions once again.

Greetings, Exiles!

We’re releasing a small hotfix that takes care of a number of crashes related to connectivity issues, a fix for the excessive “pong” messages in server logs, as well as improved messaging in regards to FLS errors.

Thanks again for your ongoing support, and stay safe.

Please remember that updates can mess with your installed mods. We suggest taking a backup of your current database before updating to any new patch if you have mods installed.

• Fixed a number of crashing issues.
  
• Removed excessive PONG logging on the server.

• Improved messaging when FLS login fails due to Steam being unavailable (i.e. Weekly Maintenance, Summer Sale overload).

Greetings Exiles!

The time has come! Avatars are coming back to PC official servers, so get ready to engage in new besieging tactics by summoning your favorite deity and striking your enemy where it hurts.

We’ve released fixes and improvements to the avatar system that address some of its major issues, so improve your altars, get your high tier priests ready and prepare to smash your way through your enemies’ defenses with either Ymir, Mitra, Derketo, Set, Yog or Jhebbal Sag. Each avatar brings its own play-style of destruction, so use them wisely and tactically adapt to the dynamic conditions of each battlefield!

We are planning to enable avatars, on all PC official servers, on Thursday, July 2nd.
Please note that this change might apply after each server has restarted and it might be delayed on some servers depending on network conditions.

We are also doubling decay timers on all official servers. Summer time is here, and you might have plans to spend some quality time with your loved ones. On July 2nd, decay timers will be doubled to 14 days. We will announce at least one week in advance when this change will be reverted.

We hope you have an excellent time during this summer, either in the Exiled lands or outside! Stay safe!

Greetings Exiles,

We’re releasing a new hotfix focusing on resolving additional connectivity and performance issues for listen and dedicated servers. We’ve also resolved a bundle of UI issues on the Friends List screen, as well as a new option to start a Single-Player/Coop with joining restricted.

Thanks again for your feedback and support. Stay safe.

• Fixed an issue in regards to increased ping.
  
• Improved friend invite process between clients.
  
• Optimized downloading compressed files from a server.
  
• Server list should no longer be redownloaded when switching server filters.
  
• Fixed an instance where a server would not properly shutdown.
  
• Fixed a crash when leaving the game idling under certain circumstances.
  
• Fixed an issue where connection to FLS would not happen despite having an active connection.
  
• Improved error handling in Peer-to-Peer connections (listen servers).

• Added an option to enable or disable other players from joining a Single-Player/Coop session.

• Fixed an issue where NPCs would leash back slower than they should, leaving room for them to be killed without retaliation.

• You can now cancel joining a server while in progress.

• Fixed an issue with BattlEye compatibility.

• Added age column in the server browser list. This shows how long a server database has been going on for since it was created.
  
• Removed build revision call-out from the bottom corner of the screen.
  
• Display names now show the disambiguation suffix.
  
• The disambiguation suffix doesn’t show on character creation anymore.
  
• Fixed a number of UI issues on the Friends List screen.
  
• Fixed an issue where session invite notifications would not disappear from the screen.
  
• Fixed an issue where the direct connect prompt would remain on screen after a mod mismatch error.
  
• Improved navigation on the Friends List screen with a controller.
  
• Fixed some misleading localizations.

• Combat music trigger is now also dependent on range, further lowering the situations where it would play indefinitely. #slaytothedrums

Greetings, Exiles!

We’re releasing a patch where we’ve bundled in a few fixes dealing with some pending issues, such as AI pathfinding in the Well of Skelos, neverending combat music, some additional hate list issues, as well as server browser problems.


Thanks again for your ongoing feedback and support, and stay safe.

• Made followers a little less prone to voluntarily walk into the lava in the Well of Skelos and be engulfed in fiery flames as if they were walking outside in Oslo these days.
  
• Fixed additional hate list issues in the Warmaker dungeon and the Unnamed city.

• Purge NPCs should no longer try to teleport inside a building when they can’t find their target.

• Fixed an issue where Favorite Servers would not work. They can now be filtered using the Favorites filter.
  
• Steam query port for dedicated servers should work as before.
  
• Added a few changes in regards of how mods are downloaded when required to join a server.
  
• Players should receive falling damage again.

• Fixed an issue where combat music would continue playing if the player’s target leashed back.

It’s time for another building contest! It has been a while since we’ve had one, so we hope you missed these as much as we have. If you didn’t get a chance to participate previously, make sure to check out the incredible winners of the Tiny Homes Contest and Building Recreation Contest.

The contest this time around is a special one! We are working together with Perilous Worlds and Conan Properties International, LLC to celebrate the launch of their board game on Kickstarter: Conan the Cimmerian: Tower of the Elephant. Using the game box and the pieces inside, you will be able to make a 3D Tower of the Elephant right on your tabletop. Take a look at the pictures, gameplay, and many more details on their Kickstarter here! Now see how you can win one yourself!



We are challenging you to build your own Tower of the Elephant in Conan Exiles. In the story, Conan is greeted with lions, spiders, treasures, and more. The details and how you’d like to present them is up to you! You can also take inspiration from the comic books of the same story.

Once your tower is complete you can take screenshots, video, or create your own comic. Just make sure it’s from within the Conan Exiles game. You don’t need to only include the tower; you can also include other aspects such as the garden surrounding it.

Judging will be based on creativity; how will you construct the Tower of the Elephant? The panel of judges consist of Community Managers at Funcom, as well as the masterminds behind The Tower of the Elephant board game.




All entries must be submitted by 11:59pm EDT on July 10, 2020. We will not accept any after this date. Winners will be announced at 1pm EDT on July 17, 2020!


10 Runner up Winners: Tower of the Elephant T-shirt of your choice and an Architects of Argos key. (Total prize value $49.94)

5 Grand Prize Winners: Your very own copy of the Tower of the Elephant board game delivered to you! You will also receive an Architects of Argos key and a T-shirt of your choice. (Total prize value of $99.93)

Choices of shirts are shown here:

• Your entry must include the Tower of the Elephant. We will be judging the inside and outside of the tower.
  
• NO MODS ALLOWED. This is to keep it even between PC and consoles.
  
• You may use the admin tool if creating it on a private server/singleplayer.
  
• You may use Ansel.
  
• One entry per email per person.
  
• Please refrain from sending pictures taken from mobile phone.
  
• You may use DLC.

• Please send us your entry of the Tower to this email address: contest@funcom.com to enter.
  
• If you do not email us here, it will not be counted.
  
• Make sure your subject line is “Tower of the Elephant Contest”.
  
• We will accept entries until July 10, 2020. Entries submitted after this date will not be counted.
  
• In the body of your email, please mention which platform (PS4/Xbox/PC) you built your tower. If you built it on a private server, please mention the name of the server. If built on an official server, tell us the number.
  
• Please also include your shirt size.

Terms and Conditions apply and can be found here.

Greetings Exiles,

We’re deploying an emergency hotfix aiming to take core of some of the critical issues that have arisen after Update 41. In particular, these fixes should address the problem with “lost characters” some players have experienced after playing with the new update. We have implemented measures to prevent this from happening again, and we have added a system to merge the old character with any profile that lost access to it even if those who got affected by it proceeded with the creation of a new character.

We have also addressed a number of crashing issues related to Windows 7, connectivity and logs, as well as optimized some settings to mitigate some of the stuttering problems reported by some players.

With this hotfix, we have also ironed out some remaining issues with the server browser, such as servers with "???" ping (they will now just show it temporarily while they're getting pinged) or listings that would cause a connection failure.

We would like to apologize for the frustration these issues have caused, and we would like to thank profusely all of you who helped us track down these issues by sending feedback and helping us test out some of these fixes.

Thanks for all the support, and stay safe.

Please remember that updates can mess with your installed mods. We suggest taking a backup of your current database before updating to any new patch if you have mods installed.

• Fixed a number stuttering issues.
  
• Fixed a crash that would occur when starting the game without internet connection.
  
• Fixed a crash related to a log file.
  
• Fixed a number of Windows 7 game crashes.
  
• Optimized telemetry rates.

• Fixed an issue where some players would be forced to recreate their character despite having one in that server. This should restore access to the old character for those who lost access to it, but access to the new duplicate is no longer possible.
  
• Fixed a number of issues resulting in the server browser not showing correct information or that would prevent correct access to a server. Servers might still momentarily show "???" latency while they're being pinged, but it will update as soon as the process ends.

Greetings Exiles!

Today we’re releasing our new update, focused on re-balancing a few aspects of the game. We’ve focused on followers and world bosses, making thralls slightly less of a powerhouse, but also toning down bosses’ health pools accordingly. The goal of these changes is to increase player power compared to Followers. We’ll continue to look at ways to re-balance the game, and we can’t wait to show you what’s coming in the near future.

With this update we have also fixed many of the issues that affected the avatar system in the game, fixing some exploits that abused them as well as re-balancing some of its core mechanics. They are still not enabled in official servers, but we will let you know in advance once we flip the switch during the upcoming weeks.

Additional to these changes we have also implemented the Funcom Live Services into the game that aims to create a smoother user experience while playing online, as well as removed Denuvo from the game. And together with all these changes, we have also bundled fixes for crashes, server optimizations, some exploit fixes, fixes to Argossean pieces, gave the Abyssal Remnant a wake up call and much more!


Thank you all for your ongoing support and feedback. Stay safe!

Please remember that updates can mess with your installed mods. We suggest taking a backup of your current database before updating to any new patch if you have mods installed.

• Introduced a number of server optimizations for code and logs.
  
• Added a number of optimization and database maintenance features. This may decrease the size of database files.
  
• Fixed a number of crashing issues.
  
• Removed Denuvo from the game.

• Fixed an issue where rules of engagement of a server could be overridden to cause unintended damage to structures.
  
• Fixed an issue where certain pieces could be stacked.

• Implemented a new Funcom Live Services system. This includes functionality for an in game Friends List and improvements to the Server Browser.

• Fixed alignment issues with Argossean Vaulted ceilings.
  
• Fixed collision issues with Argossean beds.

• Fixed an issue where follower commands would not function correctly in certain sections of the Sunken City dungeon.
  
• Fixed a number of issues with world NPCs regarding the hate list.
  
• Fixed an issue where followers would not teleport correctly when leaving a dungeon.
  
• Archers should corrrectly use power shot when wielding a bow now.
  
• Ramps and sloped roofs are AI friendly now.
  
• Fixed an issue where thralls would not damage other thralls with ranged attacks.
  
• Fixed an issue where players could get stuck inside a rhino’s mesh.
  
• Adjusted leashing distance for the Red Mother. She can now travel a longer distance before returning to her initial position.
  
• Fixed an issue where thralls could be commanded to damage other players, but could not be damaged back.
  
• The Abyssal Remnant went out of its slumber and is engaging player characters as intended again.

• Purge NPCs should now respond correctly to targets placed on an elevation.

• Summoning tokens now have a 6h expiration (down from 48h)
  
• Summoning tokens can no longer be transferred between inventories. As an exception, they can be looted from a player’s corpse.
  
• Re-balanced followers HP and damage across the board.
  
• Reduced HP gain by an average 33%. Some high tier followers received an additional 16% reduction on their base values.
  
• Reduced melee damage by an average 40%.
  
• Reduced ranged damage by an average 30%.
  
• Removed the penalties for thralls who use attacks outside of their specialization.
  
• Reduced the HP for world bosses, dungeon bosses, and group content bosses by an average of 35-40%. This brings the engagement length of high level PvE content to similar values as before this patch, but increases the contribution by the player.
  
• Avatars should no longer be able to damage structures inside a protection dome.
  
• Players are now vulnerable to projectiles while summoning an avatar.
  
• Avatar summoning time has been increased to 60 seconds (from 20 seconds).
  
• Avatars of the same kind can’t be summoned at the same time by different players.
  
• Reduced health regeneration for critters returning to their original spot after having reached their maximum leashing distance.

• Fixed an issue that would make a player unable to attack, jump or dodge under specific circumstances.
  
• Lures should be working correctly now.
  
• Fixed an issue where a protection dome could remain active even after the destruction of its shrine.
  
• Fixed an issue where voice chat muting wasn’t working as intended.
  
• Some world workstations could be missing in listen servers. This is now fixed.

• Fixed some missing animations while on horseback.

• Fixed an issue that would render a follower’s health bar invisible after taking damage.
  
• Nameplates should now be visible when on horseback.
  
• Followers that have been renamed will now show their custom name instead of the default one in the event log.
  
• Fixed some spelling errors in Argossean descriptions. #spellchekkerstrikesback

We heard your input regarding the inconvenience with having to switch back and forth between the main game and our TestLive servers. To make it easier for you and because we really value your testing and feedback, we added a separate product for the TestLive server on Steam.

If you own Conan Exiles on Steam, you should now see a separate Product called “Conan Exiles - Testlive Client” in your library which gives you the option to install an additional instance of the game specifically for the TestLive servers. Please be aware that this will prompt you for a full additional installation.

We are aware that not everyone wants install or has space for two full installations. For those of you who don’t want to play through the additional TestLive Client, you can still access the TestLive servers through our old method.