“Goodbye, giant green poison balls of death — you will be sort of missed,” Funcom’s Erling Ellingsen wrote of today’s Conan Exiles patch, live on Steam today. The update is intended to fix several main menu bugs, improve the database, fix spider projectiles (!), and buff voice chat. What’s not in it yet? Fixes for the explosive jar exploit, stack sizes, and archery issues.
New servers are on the way too. Over the weekend, Funcom announced it had abruptly region-locked official servers for the game, sending legitimate international communities into turmoil. The studio claims it was choosing to divide players along East/West region lines because of language barriers and timezones, even for those on PvE servers; players maintain that it’s Funcom’s solution for various countries’ players’ midnight raiding activities on PvP servers, and not a lot of folks were happy about the sudden implementation, especially folks who were cut off from all official servers in the interim.
In any case, Funcom says today, “Asian region servers are being brought up right now. These servers will have 2x XP and 2x Harvesting for 1 week [excluding Blitz PvP servers]. These servers are physically located outside of Asia. We are still waiting for new server hardware to arrive in Asia. Once the hardware has arrived we will move the game databases onto the servers located in Asia.” Meanwhile, the studio reports, “Middle-Eastern countries have been moved out of the game’s Asian region.”
