May 30, 2022
Roady Life - Legomenon
  • Fix invisible landscape on Hoochewan Hills map
  • Rename iron mines on Hoochewan Hills map
  • Slightly increase traffic on Istia map
  • Improve trailers attachment on Val102 truck
  • Cap maximum requested amount on contracts
Conan Exiles - Nicole V(Community Manager)

Credit to Liderpina for the background images used for this contest!

We asked for your best outfits to show off on the runway, and we’ve been DAZZLED. To say you all have delivered for this contest is an understatement. Every single one of you went all out to show what you got and blew us away with the creativity and thought put into outfits. After a long, long, LONG deliberation from our judges, we finally have the winners here for you today.

Please know that even if you do not show up here, we acknowledge the time, effort, and passion you put into your entry. It was clear to see! Please feel free to share your outfit here so others can see it as well. Also note that pose, picture composition, background, and such were not taken into consideration; only the outfit/character itself was judged.

If you see yourself featured, feel free to reply here!

Now…let’s get into it!

Unmodded Winners

First Place - "The Druid"

She’ll mend your wounds, or put venom in your blood if you dare cross her.

You can see more pictures here.

Outfit details:
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Clothes:
  • Vanir Fur Cap
  • Pictish Wizard Robe
  • Voidforged Dragonbone Bracers
  • Aquilonian Infantry Pteruges
  • Aquilonian Scout Sandals

Weapons:
  • Pictish Longspear
  • Pictish Daggers
Accessories:
  • Warpaint - Neca Warpath
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Second Place

Snake? Snake?? SNAAAAAAAAAKE!!

You can see more pictures here.

Outfit details:
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Clothes:
  • Head: Khayne’s Helmet
  • Chest: Reptilian Chestpiece
  • Belt: Derketo Acolyte Handwraps
  • Legs: Kambujan Shaman Wrap
  • Feet: Derketo Acolyte Sandals

Weapon:
  • Brittle Edge
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Third Place- "The Zingarian Seafarer"

The heart-throb of the high seas, indeed. Captain Swag here can shiver our timbers any day.

You can see more pictures here.

Outfit details:
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Clothes:
  • Hair: (#14 Using the Orb of Nerghal)
  • Facial Hair: (#11 Using the Orb of Nerghal)
  • Head: Eye Patch - (Undyed)
  • Torso: Barachan Reiver Buff Coat (Dyed - dark brown, forest green, black, white)
  • Hands: Claws of the Harpy (Dyed - light grey, white)
  • Legs: Black Corsair Leggings (Dyed - dark ash, blighted green)
  • Feet: Buccaneer peg leg (Dyed - muted brown)

Weapon
  • Nemedian Katana

Warpaint
  • Snake
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Modded Winners

First place - By Dark_Overlord

This desert dweller dares dangers of the dunes. Dashing, no?

You can see more pictures here.

Outfit and Mod details:
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Clothing:
  • Head: Slaveforged Sacrificial Facemask (Siptah-DLC)
  • Body: Khari Raider Chest
  • Hands: Gloves of Jhil (Siptah-DLC)
  • Legs: Skelos Cultist Skirt
  • Feet: Relic Hunter Boots (Siptah-DLC)
Mods:
  • Head (Accessory): Cloaked Hood (Immersive Armor by Cookiejar)
  • Shoulder (Accessory): Hyrkanian Pauldron (Immersive Armor by Cookiejar)
  • Belt (Accessory): Leather Belt (with dagger) (Immersive Armor by Cookiejar)
  • Hands (Weapon): Staff of the Forest (Immersive Armor by Cookiejar)
  • Back (Accessory): Leather Cloak (CAS :: Customizable Attachment System by Thraxerrrr)
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Second Place

“Do you like the way your bones feel inside your body No?? Why don’t I take them out for you?”

You can see more pictures here.

Outfit and Mod Details:
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Clothing:
  • Pict Ritualist Vestment
  • Baron’s Royal Harness
  • Fur Lined Belt
  • Cannibal Raider Gloves
  • Mountain Barbarian Drapes
  • Vicious Boots
  • Zealot’s Sacrificial Club

Mods:
  • Barbarian Barbed
  • CAS
  • Fashionist v4.2.3
  • Pippi
  • Stoja’s Warpaints
  • Accessory Wardrobe 4.1.3b
  • Akuba’s Salon
  • Beyond Theatrics
  • Immersive Armor
  • RA: Character customisation
  • RA: Visual Tweaks
  • GrimProductions
  • Nocturnal Gods: Clothing
  • RA: Fantasy Extension
  • Toned Tones
  • VeloXs Tattos
  • WARRIOR Mutator for Conan
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Third Place

Yes, queen! Slay! SLAY YOUR ENEMIES! SEE THEM DRIVEN BEFORE YOU!

You can see more pictures here.

Outfit and Mod Details:
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Clothing:
  • Turanian Bow 5205
  • Khari Soldier Tasset 92213
  • Slaveforged Guardian Gauntlets 1452
  • Pictish Wizard Moccasins 6114
  • Bejewelled Chains 4111

Warrior mutator :
  • Derketo Ceremonial Headdress 8586156
  • Kushite Tribal Headdress 8586377

Immersive Armor :
  • Epic Serpentine Wraps 29980274
  • Lemurian Queen Pauldron (L) 199802295
  • Lemurian Queen Pauldron (R) 199802307
  • Stygian Skirt 199802409
  • Khari Poncho 199802422
  • Lowerback Quiver 19980293
  • Stagian Collar 199800236
  • Tribal Armwrap (L) 199802387
  • Tribal Armwrap (R) 199802389
  • Zamorian Headchain 199802162

Mods:
  • Immersive Armor
  • Exiles Extreme
  • Warrior Mutator
  • Barbarian Barber
  • RA Aesthetics
  • CAS
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Honorable Mentions

Lookalike

Unmodded
Assassin's Creed - By Elloway

Where’s a haycart to swandive into when you need one?

You can see more pictures here.

Outfit details:
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Barachan River armor
Executioner’s Hood
Dyed white
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Modded
Kratos - by Thyris

BOY

You can see more pictures here.

Outfit and Mod Details:
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Armor:
  • Head: Nothing (War Paint: the Silken path)
  • Chest: Light Highland Jacket (Immersive Armors)
  • Arms: Aquilonian (Vanilla)
  • Legs: Light Silent Legion (Vanilla)
  • Feets: Vanir Heavy (Vanilla)

Weapon:
  • Aesir War Axe (Immersive Armors)

Accessories (all Immersive Armors):
  • Leather Harness
  • Medium Exile Pauldron (L)
  • Ragged Swashbuckler Belt
  • Leather Bag
  • Carryable Waterskin

Mods:
  • RA: for Scars and wrinkles
  • IQoL: for some sliders
  • Immersive Armors
  • Fashionist (for the coloration and to separate the war paints)
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Social Outing

Unmodded

“I call on those who live in the shadows!”

You can see more pictures here.

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Clothing Details:
  • Kambujan Shaman Helm
  • Zingaran Freebooter Vest
  • Skelos Cultist Master’s Handwraps
  • Voidforged Dragonbone Kilt
  • Kambujan Shaman Boots
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Modded

“Oh, hello. I didn’t see you there…”

You can find more pictures here.

Outfit and Mod Details
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Clothing:
  • Coat: Count’s Coat (CoH mod)
  • Pants: Count’s Pants (CoH mod)
  • Boots: Count’s Boots (CoH mod)
  • Hat: Top Hat (LoD Cosmetics mod)
  • Gloves: Shemite Gloves
  • Glasses (LoD Cosmetics mod)
  • Cane: (Thrall Wars mod)
  • Hair: (Akubars Salon mod)
  • Poses: (Devious Desires mod)

Mods:
  • RoleplayRedux.pak (Some poses)
  • LoD_Cosmetics.pak (Top Hat, Sunglasses)
  • NoSlaveBracelet.pak (For no bracelet)
  • Chains of Hyboria (Kali Count outfit: Coat, boots and pants)
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Battle Ready
Please note, we chose 2 winners from the unmodded category for Battle Ready, as there were no entries for the “Funniest” under unmodded that fit the category.

Unmodded

Hyboria’s first Avenger

You can see more pictures here.

Outfit and Mod Details
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Armor
  • Aspect of the Bat
  • Guardian Chestguard
  • Slaveforged Guardian Greaves
  • Gloves of Jhil
  • Poitain Cavalier Boots
  • All pieces were dyed

Warpaint:
  • Darfari Cannibals

Weapons
  • Incarmine Shield
  • Incarmine War-Axe
  • Incarmine Great Sword
  • Incarmine Daggers
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Assassin Raya

Local goth goes mushroom foraging

You can see more pictures here.

Outfit and Mod Details
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  • Zamorian Thief Boots
  • Zamorian Thief Gauntlets
  • Skelos Cultist Skirt
  • Skelos Cultist Hood
  • Slaveforged Ceremonial chest
  • Serpent man Daggers
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Modded

You can see more pictures here. (slightly NSFW for boobies, don’t get in trouble at work)

Clothing and mods not mentioned besides RA Character Customization (will update this when more info received).

Funniest
Salt Bae

He’s ready to season your meat

Outfit and Mod Details
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Clothing not mentioned

Mods:
  • Immersive Armor
  • Beyond Decor
  • CAS - Customizable Attachment System
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It was a close call with all of these entries, and it was near impossible without the help of our volunteer group of Exiles.

We will be contacting the winners of these shortly to get details of your prizes. Additionally, we’ll be in touch with many of you in the coming days who we couldn’t show off here, but would absolutely love to on the Conan Exiles social media accounts.

Thank you again to EVERYONE who participated and we hope you will again for the next contest.
Cheers!
May 30, 2022
_keyboardkommander - Geovonix
Our new update is live and includes a feature where you can play through any novel that is uploaded as a Text document. Even non-english novels are supported. For non English characters simply type the accent mark and then the character you want to write. For example to type ñ type ~ and then n.

To upload a novel, copy the full path to the text document and paste it into the upload text box on the main menu.

We've also improved the UX such that you can see more text at a given time enabling expert typists to type faster.
Tiny Combat Arena - Why485
v0.8.3.3 is now available on the testers branch. This patch was to specifically address the biggest complaint that the weapons camera had, which is not being able to view munitions you've already launched/dropped.

This also fixes another bug that specifically happened with bombs dropped in the weapons camera. It was pretty difficult to track down, but it also lead to fixing the source of several other problems the CCIP bomb piper had so it was worth it.

For more information on the tester's branch and how to join it, please see this Steam event post.


Improvements: - Weapons camera can view the most recently launched munition Bugfixes: - Weapons camera no longer sometimes looks at the wrong location - CCIP bomb fall line no longer glitches to "no solution" for random frames - CCIP bomb sight should be slightly more accurate
Dead Estate - 2 Left Thumbs
This has been in the works for a LOOONG time, and we are so excited to finally be dropping Trading Cards into the game! We didn't want to just copy and paste existing game assets onto cards, even though that could have easily been done months ago when this option was first made available to us.

Instead, we loved the idea of working with the Dead Estate + Newgrounds communities, as well as fans/friends of the Milkbar Lads, to commission unique pieces of artwork that exist solely to show off in these dope new cards! It took far more time and effort to put that all together, but the results speak for themselves!
Be sure to "inspect" the cards, clicking the images to see the full artwork! The card only displays a fraction of the full artworks that were created.

The cards are named/described in such a way that you can quickly and easily see the name of the artist who created it. For example, the Jules card was created by Arzonaut!


And also for your convenience, here are links to all 12 of these artist's Newgrounds pages where you can look at their entire portfolios of amazing artworks!

Chunks - gingrjoke
Cordelia - Speedoru
Diavoloa - MiistNiight
Digby - Cinnabunn
Fuji - Lunydoobles
Jeff - Frossty
Jules - Arzonaut
Luis - Tomonaku
Lydia - BombsAhoy
Mumba - Ennuikal
Roselia - Ehjur
And a special guest card by chromxtic, who won an art contest we host ahead of release!

Hopefully you enjoy collecting the cards, crafting badges, swapping background, and all that good stuff. But ideally you'll also find some exciting and talented new artists to follow as well.
May 30, 2022
Detect Dan The Dog! - wromeo
Haunted forest is down and has addressed some issues in the main menu
May 30, 2022
Downtown Drift - ThatMadProgrammer


After having to postpone the initial release of Update 2.0, I unfortunately have no other choice than to delay its release once more. However, there are good news: the current state of the update is playable on the beta branch right now! The reason for the delay is that there are still some bugs and issues that need fixing. So if anyone would like to help out finding more of them, please go ahead and play the beta.

You can switch over to the beta branch by right clicking Downtown Drift in your Library and selecting Properties. Next head to Betas and select beta - beta in the dropdown menu.
Now Steam should automatically update Downtown Drift to the newest beta update. If there is no update available restarting Steam can help with that.

Once all bugs are taken care of Update 2.0 will roll out immediately. If you want to report bugs please consider joining the Discord!

Best,

ThatMadProgrammer
May 30, 2022
Sovereign Syndicate - Isaac (Crimson Herring)
Hi Everyone!

Thanks so much to everyone who took the time to play our recent playtest. We had over 500 players and we’ve been overwhelmed and humbled by the quality and quantity of feedback we received, and the passion and excitement from our community for the game we’re building.

We also crossed a significant milestone recently with over 10,000 wishlists! Thank you for supporting us and sharing our content. We can tell that we’re on to something here that people are really excited about and we’re committed to making the best game we can for you.

As I mentioned our playtest generated a lot of great feedback, both positive and constructive, and we’ve spent the last month reviewing this feedback and creating a plan of action to move the game forward. Here’s an idea of what we’ll be working on over the next few months.

Adding character customization options:

While we don’t think a full blown character creator is appropriate for the game we’re building, we do think we can do more to allow players to choose their starting stats, back story, and tarot cards. We have some interesting ideas on how to do that that we’ll be iterating on.

Improving flow and readability of dialogue:

We’re working on some improvements to the dialogue panel. Increasing text size, font and colour changes, improving overall flow, and adding additional context to skill checks and dialogue results.

Game systems design improvement and simplification:

While people were intrigued by our character sheet and the combination of phrenology, skills, humours, and tarot cards, the initial design was somewhat convoluted and confusing. We’re working to simplify our approach and make the systems work together in a more cohesive and easily understandable way. Here are a few examples to give you an idea of where we’re headed.

- Removing the underlying skills and focusing on the brain regions / internal voices
- Utilizing humours as experience gauges to level up associated brain regions
- Associating dialogue choices and card decks with specific brain regions
- Using colours to thematically draw these elements together better
- Simplifying tarot card draws and moving Major Arcana to a separate mechanic

We’re excited about these changes and look forward to having the community do another playtest in the coming months. As always, you can catch us over on Discord if you want to chat and stay up on all the latest developments.

https://discord.gg/vrVrE3vBSx

Until next time, Take Care!
Familia - Joseph
UI / UX Upgrades




Huge changes to Familia's user interface on this patch. Many more big UI / UX changes to come. I've also made big changes to the style dialogue and choice menu's are displayed.

Additional UI / UX Updates
  • Removed text cloud icons over NPCs during cutscenes
  • Added community page and exit game button on the main title menu
  • Removed remove to the title when saving game+ games
GAME+ / Endgame
  • Made, many many class and stat fixes
  • Refactored leveling system which will reduce lag when leveling for mastery levels
  • Fixed bug where red Glen’s game+ fight does not show two Glens at the same time
  • Fixed bug where Lono lost levels after fighting glen
  • Increased max mastery point allocations to 1000 per stat
  • Reduced mastery points gained per level to 1 point per level
  • Removed tutorial content from Game+ Intro
Reach
  • Added more snakes to random encounters and snake encounter only room
  • Named reach save point so it displays on saved games
  • Fixed bug where people could use reach translocator during reach transitions
  • Updated dialogue in Reach to fit new UI / UX, Mastery Menu
Map / World
  • Fixed bug where Poki was the wrong size during the burning house scene
  • Increased all character sprite sizes in Kalbi dungeon
  • Retimed autosave timing for more optimized map transitions (hopefully)
  • Fixed bug where the player couldn’t save in Kalbi Refuge
  • Fixed bug where the player didn’t receive the legendary ninja weapon
  • When finishing Keeria's section of the game, you now have an option to confirm you want to proceed
Battles
  • Cleaned up Shogun fight and scene dialogue
  • Mother boss is now just mother in every form (not mother 2,3)
  • Conjurer fight no longer unintentionally changes tint/color pallet
  • Kalbi Summit fight, now randomly will put you against an all new Blood Knight
  • Kalbi summit fight has additional dialogue content and cleaned up player switching
  • Added special battle transition for Abrams, Noway, and reach boss fights
  • Remove the bug where Muffins and ninjas speak at pirate beach fights
Skills / Items
  • Minotaurs and mother’s cave enemies all take increased light damage and reduced shadow damage
  • Added icon to Curse ability
  • Soothing Wave and Soothing Splash can only be used in battle
Achievements
  • Shogun’s pirate kill achievement fixed
  • ‘Go outside IRL’ achievement should be fixed (untested)
Patch Video


Community

This month I had the privilege of participating in the Twitch Hawaii St. Jude Play Live 2022 Charity Streams. At the the time of this post, we raised nearly 7000 dollars. Looking forward to participating in future years.



Also, make sure to follow the Maui Game Studio Franchise Page on Steam. It's new.

Thank yous
Reforged TD - Tower Defense - YKSMAI
A new day, a new patch!

I have received some feedback again, some of which I have already been able to implement.

Here are the patch notes:
- Fixed a bug where the maximum lives in challenge mode were increased every round.
- On the map "A Breath Of Spring" the stairs now also have a collider. This means that abilities can also be cast there.
- The units "Toon Reaper - Magenta" and "Toon Ghost - Blue" now have a death animation.
- Corrected the description for Upgrade 3 for the Arcane tower.
- Fixed a bug where the unit "Seed Dark Treant" did not respawn after being destroyed.
- Items can now be stacked even if the two inventory slots to be stacked would exceed the maximum stack. In that case, the target will be filled up with the stacks from the source.
- Fixed a bug where the slow effect of abilities stacked whenever they were used.
- Added the map "To The Village" to the challenge mode.
- The default setting for the text overlays, e.g. when units receive damage or you receive crystals, has been increased. In addition, the range in the settings has been adjusted.
- The game speed no longer resets after pausing the game.
- Fixed a bug where you could visit the merchant more than once.
- A maximum wave count of 25 has been set for the map "The Winter is coming" in challenge mode.
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