With Conan Exiles’ early access launch just around the corner, you can better believe that the community has a mountain of questions about the survival sandbox. Funcom’s Joel Bylos stepped into the Xbox One Reddit yesterday to tackle many of these, although some, like queries about pricing, he declined to answer (Conan Exiles won’t have microtransactions or a sub, however).
Bylos said that the primary inspiration for the game comes straight from Robert E. Howard’s books. “Conan Exiles has a tighter focus on melee combat, a world that can be explored to find lore and stories, a religion system that allows access to magic and god avatars, a thrall system that allows you to enslave and turn your enemies into allies,” Bylos said. “Oh and no flying mounts, because those tend to make the world too small.”
Players will have a wide range of rulesets from which to choose, with each server hosting up to 70 players apiece during the early access period.
Bylos was also questioned about the fate of Anarchy Online during the AMA, to which he replied, “Anarchy Online has stood the test of time and will continue to do so.”
