Conan Exiles

Developer
 Publisher
 Genres
 Engine
 Platforms
* **PlayStation 4**,*PlayStation 5* 1(PlayStation Store - Info)
* **Xbox One X / S**,*Xbox Series X / S* 1(Microsoft Store - Info)
* Physical retail (Store)

* **Xbox Game Preview**:August 16, 2017
* **Full launch**:

May 8, 2018 (All platforms)
April 24, 2018 (Physical retail)
August 23, 2018 (JP PS4)
 Code name

***Conan Exiles*** is a survival game developed and published by Funcom, set in the brutal lands of Conan the Barbarian and based upon the writings of Robert E. Howard. The events in *Conan Exiles* take place on Conan's timeline between the stories *Xuthal of the Dusk* (*The Slithering Shadow*) and *A Witch Shall be Born* (following the Dark Storm chronology).

In January 2016, Funcom announced it was working on *Conan Exiles*, an open-world survival game based on the *Conan the Barbarian* brand. The game released on Steam PC Early Access on January 31, 2017 and launched on the Xbox One as part of the Game Preview program in August. At the end of the month, Funcom teamed up with Koch Media/Deep Silver, which handles physical retail for all three platforms since the full release. The game was finally released in physical retail on April 24, 2018 and digitally, for all platforms simultaneously, on May 8, 2018.

On April 27, 2018 Spike Chunsoft and H2 Interactive were revealed to release *Conan Exiles* digitally and in retail in Japan, Korea and several other territories in Asia. On August 23, 2018 Spike Chunsoft released a separate PlayStation 4 version in Japan titled ***Conan Outcasts*** (Japanese: コナン アウトキャスト).

## Description

### Long description

*Hungry, thirsty and alone, your first battle is against the harsh environment. Grow crops or Hunt animals for food. Harvest Resources to build Weapons and Tools. Build a shelter to survive. Ride across a vast world and explore alone, or band together with other players to build entire Settlements and Strongholds to withstand fierce invasions.*
*When strong enough, march into battle and wage war against your enemies to dominate the Exiled Lands. Sacrifice enemy players on the altars of the gods and shift the balance of power your way. Unleash your fury in savage, fast-paced combat and execute bloody and bone-crushing attacks that will see heads rolling and limbs flying.*
*Survive. Build. Dominate. Play alone in single-player mode, or forge alliances and make enemies online on both public and private servers. Will you dominate the Exiled lands, or will your enemies sacrifice you on the altar of their god?*

## Voice Actor

* David Sobolov - Arcos the Wanderer, Warmaker Klael
* Robin Atkin Downes - Mek-kamoses, The Archivist
* Neil kaplan - Nunu the Cannibal
* Benjamin Diskin - Gilzan the Treasure Hunter
* Bill Millsap - Petruso the Sandstorm Maniac
* Matthew Waterson - Conan
* Dawn-Lyen Gardner - Jamila the Pirate Queen
* Karen Strassman - Muriela the Artisan
* Fryda Wolff - Razma of Shem

## Features

### Languages

Interface and subtitles are supported for the following languages:

* Simplified Chinese
* Traditional Chinese
* English (Full audio)
* French
* German
* Italian *(Added on release)*
* Japanese
* Korean
* Polish
* Portuguese-Brazil
* Russian
* Spanish
* TurkishUpcoming

### General

Taken from the Official Website:

* Exploration
* Survival
* Building
* Combat - among others Clans, siege weapons and Explosives.
* Thralls
* Gods - among others altars and avatars.
* Single-player (PS4: 'Remote Play'), (Online) Multi-player/(Online) Co-op/Dedicated servers

*Multi-player requires Xbox Live on Xbox and PlayStation Plus on PS4.*
### Steam

Taken from the Official Steam Store:

* Achievements
* Full controller support

**PC**: Steam Controller
**PS4**: DualShock 4
**Xbox**: Xbox One Wireless Controller
* Steam Community Market
	+ Badges
	+ Trading Cards
	+ Backgrounds
	+ Emoticons
	+ Animated Avatars
* Steam Workshop
* Remote Play on TV and Tablet
* Family Sharing

### Xbox

* Xbox Live (presence, Xbox Live clubs, Xbox Live cloud saves)
* Xbox One X Enhanced (console specific enhancements)
* Xbox Game Streaming Upcoming
	+ Project xCloud (Cloud to mobile device, no Xbox One required)
	+ Xbox Console Streaming (Xbox One to mobile device)

### Servers

*Main article:* Server Configuration

* Funcom Live Services (Social features)
	+ Microsoft Azure PlayFab.
* GPortal (Server Hosting and maintenance).
* Pingperfect (Parternership, 70 Player Server Provider and Renting).

*Official servers are maxed at 40 players to ensure server stability, where private servers may set it up to 70.*
* Dedicated Server Launcher
* BattlEye (anti-cheating measure), which is required for Official servers.
* Rcon compatibility (Remote Control).
* Wine compatibility (Server Configuration tool for eg. Linux).

### Modding

*Main article:* Modding

* Automatic Downloading of Mods
* Unreal Engine 4 DevKit

### Technical

*See also: Guide.*
* Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Runtime.
* Unreal Engine 4 (for the frontend / client).
* DreamWorld Technology (for the backend / servers).
* Simplygon 3D asset management.
* Graphine's Granite SDK (Supports HDR & 4K textures, engine component).
* NVIDIA Ansel (Screenshots).
* NVIDIA GameStream (TV gameplay at up to 4K HDR).
* NVIDIA GeForce NOW (Cloud service).

### Other

* Early Access (Steam co-promotion).
* Game Preview (Xbox One co-promotion).
* "The Way It's Meant to Be Played" (NVIDIA co-promotion).

## Game pre-orders

**Conan Exiles** was released on May 8, 2018 and is no longer available to pre-order. There are different pre-order incentives for digital and retail versions of the game.

### Digital pre-orders

The **digital pre-orders**, as well as existing owners of the Early Access or Game Preview version, will receive -upon redeeming a code- an in-game **Conan's Royal Armor**.

### Physical pre-orders

The **physical pre-orders** will receive -upon redeeming a code- an in-game **Conan's Atlantean Sword**, limited to the Day One Edition of the game. The Day One Edition also contains a **full-color printed map** of the world of Conan Exiles.

### Limited Collector's Edition

The **Limited Collector's Edition** depicted on the right, includes the following:

* **15 cm polyresin figurine** of Conan modeled after Conan from the Conan Exiles cinematic trailer.
* **Full-color custom print comic book** which tells the story of Conan on one of his adventures in the Exiled Lands.
* **Three Conan soundtrack CDs** featuring the music from Conan Exiles as well as Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures and Rise of the Godslayer.
* **Full-color print artbook** with production artworks the developers used to guide their vision for the game.
* **Full-color printed map** of the world of Conan Exiles.
* **Six digital Conan comic books** from Dark Horse Comics, featuring the entire "A Witch Shall Be Born" story arc.
* **Digital pen-and-paper Conan RPG rulebook** from Modiphius.
* **"The Coming of Conan" eBook** illustrated by Mark Schultz.

## Conan Outcasts Survival Guidebook

The **Survival Guidebook** is a physical book included in the *Conan Outcasts* release. It guides players on their journey in the Exiled Lands.

## Game support

Conan Exiles Wiki is focused on creating the definitive guide to *Conan Exiles*. But while we make an effort to be complete, we are not an official game support channel.

Funcom does not provide classic MMORPG bug/issue-tracking. Instead, reports may be made through the forums and using several report forms.

Report issues through their respective page listed in the Issue section of useful links.

Originally, support tickets for all Funcom games, including *Conan Exiles*, went through the Support page on Funcom's website. However, this is no longer the case and it is now only used for issues with the company itself.
## Reception

* 480.000 units were sold during the first month of Early Access and 1 million units1 across all platforms during Early Access. In total the game sold more than 1.4 million units1 including retail sell-in before the May 24, 2018 Q1 presentation.

1: *PC refunds not excluded.*
* It was awarded "Recommended" by Eurogamer.
* It was awarded Spillprisen 2018 "Best technology".

## Notes

* Below is a list of age ratings per region and their respective organisations.
	+ US: M (17+, ESRB); Blood and Gore, Nudity, Language, Use of Alcohol, Intense Violence, Online Interactions Not Rated by the ESRB
		- In the US, full nudity is disabled by default.
	+ EU: 18 (18+, USK and PEGI); Violence
	+ JP: Z (18+, CERO)
		- For the Japanese version, the title has been changed to *Conan Outcasts* for various reasons. In addition, the developers removed the functions and effects which the screening organizations define as banned expressions:
			* The semi-naked setting (the female character's chest exposure expression). (Even if you remove all the equipment, both men and women will wear the minimum clothes.)
			* The option in character creation to set the size of male characteristics.
			* The male characteristics drawn on some monsters.
			* Other Gore expressions are the same as the PlayStation 4 version released overseas.
	+ AU: MA (18+, ACB)
	+ NZ: R16 (16+, OFLC)
	+ AS, SA and other regions (18+, DJCTQ)

On Xbox, full nudity comes with the free Nudity DLC and is only available for the digital editions that are indicated in the store page and if you're in a region that allows for it. For physical copies, whether the full nudity option is available or not depends on the region of the purchased disk.

On PS4, there is no Nudity DLC available; US regions disks only support partial nudity, whereas UK and Oceanic regions both support full nudity on PS4.
There is no region lock on PS4, so users are able to purchase disks from other countries and play them on their console, unlocking full nudity. Using a disk from a different region than the one your account is created in will restrict your access to the PSN store and you will not be able to purchase any DLC. However, the region specific disks install separately on your PS4, allowing you to play with full nudity on one disk and purchase DLC from the store on another disk.
* By September 17, 2018 there were 1159 official servers available over all regions and platforms. At launch there were only 225. They are not moderated, because there are no monthly subscriptions or paid in-game shops to provide the necessary manpower and infrastructure.
* There are over 20,000 dedicated servers hosted by players themselves.
* Linux is not supported, but the game is compatible with it. For setting up a dedicated server with Linux, see Dedicated Server Setup: Linux and Wine.
* There are no plans for a Nintendo Switch port or VR support. Splitscreen support on consoles will not be added,. Cross-platform has been considered, but at the moment it is not technically feasible for the developers to implement it.
* Consoles receive the same content as PC. However, some features (e.g. text chat) are not available, as they either already exist as platform feature or are not feasible on consoles.[*citation needed*]
	+ The developers did not have time to optimize for console, which is why it only runs at 1440p even though they initially said it would run in 4K.[*citation needed*]
* *Conan Exiles'*  Early Access was planned for September 13, 2016 but was delayed two weeks later due to sufficient feedback, expectations and additional funding for the studio. The Xbox Game Preview was planned for Spring 2017, but was postponed to Q3 2017 (later August 16, 2017). The reason for this is unknown.
* Italian was not shown on Steam until after May 9.
* Originally, the PC version did not come with the ESRB edition of the Limited Collector's Edition.
* *Conan Exiles* was partly inspired by the European migrant crisis.

* The developers have not mentioned details on ties between *Conan Exiles* and *Age of Conan* yet. See above quote.

***Terraformers** – The Terraformers team is made up of designers and artists working on the next biome for Conan Exiles. Their focus is new content and areas – you have seen the first touches of their work in The Dregs dungeon that we patched just before April. Their primary focus is the new biome and all of the work required for that.*
***Featurama** – The featurama team are focused on the new features that we want to add to the game. This includes mounts, sorcery etc. In addition, they are also heavily focused on further iterating features that already exist in the game, for example, combat. You see their work with every new feature that makes its way into the game (for example dyes and trebuchets) and there is a lot more to come over the coming weeks and months.*
***The art team** – The art team supports all the studio teams with artwork, animations and fx.*

* In older newsletters, the team has been adressed differently. It consisted of several smaller, more specific teams. Individuals from different teams would often work with one another, which likely led to abandoning the concept entirely.

* *Conan Exiles* is Funcom's third game made using Unreal Engine and its first non-experimental implementation. Funcom has made Unreal Engine 4 a soft requirement for future pitched games. In combination with this, they will be using DreamWorld Technology.
	+ It is currently not planned to update to a newer Unreal Engine version. This requires a lot of resources.
	+ Tether distance will probably not get limited. This is mostly a UE4 limitation. It is definitely not possible for consoles, because of memory constraints.[*citation needed*]Could not find this answer.
* Denuvo Anti-Tamper, a 3rd-party DRM which provides anti-piracy protection was removed on June 16, 2020.
* Red Shell, a third-party tool which collected data on players (eg. store country) was removed after full launch.
* Trailers are made in Oslo, Norway (motion capture) and Uppsala, Sweden (CGI motion capture).

*Conan Exiles had its third highest population overall (using internal metric data) with the mount launch. With Covid-19, they are also seeing high numbers from that as well. Conan Exiles is very healthy, Scott says, and they intend to continue working on it for a long time.*

* As of April 2020, the developers plan on continuing to work on *Conan Exiles* for several more years.
* *Conan Exiles* made back its initial development cost during its first week in sales. However, that does not mean that all the money made after that is pure profit, nor that all of it is funneled back into the game. Some of the money was put into the game when the developers saw it was a success, meaning they extended the development time and were able to hire more people. As of October 2018, Funcom is a company with over 100 employees, split across 2 studios, all of whom need to earn a livable wage and about half of them are working on all their games.

* *Conan Exiles* is one of Funcom's most international releases ever.

### Barbarian Edition

*Main article:* Barbarian Edition

*This DLC bundle has been discontinued as of March 7, 2019.*

### Modiphius sourcebook

The "**Conan Exiles**" tie-in sourcebook for Modiphius' 2d20 "Robert E. Howard's Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of" tabletop roleplaying game is a full-color 112 page hardcover illustrated with concept art and screenshots from *Conan Exiles*. It adapts adapts areas and gameplay from *Conan Exiles* and the community development system from "Mutant: Year Zero" to the Hyborian Age. The sourcebook was announced in a press release by Modiphius Entertainment on March 16, 2016.

## Official links

Listed in the left sidebar of the wiki under *Conan Exiles Links*. The listed discord is unofficial; it can be found under External links.

* Steam Community Hub
* Site
* Forums
* Twitter
	+ Conan Outcast Twitter (JP)
* Facebook
* Instagram

* YouTube
* Twitch

## External links

*Main article:* Useful links

* *Conan Exiles* on Wikipedia

## Media

*Main article:* Conan Exiles/Media

* Loading screen.
* *Conan Outcasts* logo.

## References

1. ↑ EpicData
2. ↑ "Dev Blog #9: The world and lore of Conan Exiles" the dev team, Site - January 16, 2017
3. ↑ Funcom and Koch Media Partners to bring Conan Exiles to stores around the world - August 21, 2017 (Press Release)
4. ↑ Conan Exiles, PEGI
5. ↑ Conan Outcasts Twitter post
6. ↑ PS4 Release Dates - Gamespot FAQ
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Dev Blog #1: An update on Conan Exiles" the dev team, Site - November 15, 2016
8. ↑ Twitter - April 27, 2018
9. ↑ Privacy Policy, Site (As of January 28, 2020)

Also, an interiew with Natascha Röösli. (Zeuz' Site)

12. ↑ https://www.conanexiles.com/blog/tackled-texturing-large-open-world-conan-exiles-short-amount-time/
13. ↑ Games, GeForce, NVIDIA
14. ↑ Games, GeForce NOW, NVIDIA
15. ↑ Steam Store
16. ↑ https://www.nfi.no/aktuelt/2019/try-apt-games-vant-nm-i-gameplay
17. ↑ Site (bottom)
18. ↑ IMDb Parents Guide
19. ↑ Hugo, Funcom Forums - May 1, 2018
20. ↑ Tascha, Funcom Forums - September 17, 2018
21. ↑ "Weekly Community Newsletter: The end is nigh" Jens Erik Vaaler, Site - May 2, 2018
22. ↑ https://forums.funcom.com/t/no-admins-on-officials/39574/8
23. ↑ "Harassment and Griefing Issues" Tascha, Funcom Forums - June 7, 2018
24. ↑ https://survivethis.news/en/conan-exiles-no-plans-nintendo-switch/
25. ↑ https://forums.funcom.com/t/developer-stream-recap-october-10th-2019/90032
26. ↑ Funcom Forums FAQ
27. ↑ Twitter - January 15, 2020
28. ↑ Kruttmusa, Funcom Forums - June 22, 2018
29. ↑ First EA release ETA
30. ↑ Second EA release ETA
31. ↑ Twitter - March 3, 2017
32. ↑ *"REALLY? ALL LANGUAGES BUT NOT ITALIAN?"* Reply #10, Community Manager (Nicole V)
33. ↑ ESRB Collector's Edition - Funcom FTP
34. ↑ Joel Bylos, PC Gamer
35. ↑ Q: Will Conan Exiles have direct ties to Age of Conan like The Park had with The Secret World? (29.01.15)
36. ↑ Scooper, October 12 Twitch Stream (Twitch VOD)
37. ↑ https://forums.funcom.com/t/pc-update-16-06-2020-update-41-followers-re-balancing-avatar-fixes-and-more/124915
38. ↑ https://forums.funcom.com/t/why-are-conan-exiles-sending-data-to-redshell/5043
39. ↑ IMDb
40. ↑ "Developer Q/A with The Cursed Sands Server - Recap" Multigun - April 16, 2020 (held on Discord)
41. ↑ https://forums.funcom.com/t/where-the-magic-funcom/41137/29 - Jens Erik Vaaler, Funcom Forums - October 13, 2018
42. ↑ Conan Exiles Is Heading East, Rui Casais - April 27, 2018 (Press Release)
43. ↑ "Modiphius & Funcom announce CONAN EXILES a new sourcebook for the Conan tabletop roleplaying game" Modiphius Entertainment - March 16, 2016