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It's a game with nothing but broken servers. Skip it.

Requiring a PSN account for a game that never needed it is kinda scummy.

I tried to like Elden Ring. From the get go the game wouldn't work right. I had to fix easy anti-cheat, remove steam overlay, add a /nolightfx command to launch properties fully update everything just to get the game to launch. Following this multiplayer wouldn't work with friends. Tried for 20 minutes and gave up. There is no way to invite friends, find friends, play with friends, do anything with friends. The game had some rough frame drops off and on when switching to new areas or going back and forth. (the game is open world though, keep that in mind)

I just thought since I liked G.R.R Martins work I would try this with friends. Yeah just avoid it if that's your reasoning. Game is overhyped, and underdeveloped.

Fault is a throwback to what Paragon was. With that said, if you liked Paragon, you very well may like Fault. I wanted to like fault. I support the devs and bought a masters pack. However the game is by far ready to be in the hand of players. The sound often doesn't work. When you go to purchase a hero, there is no way to view their skills or anything. You make a purchase based on the character model. The "card system" from paragon is still in the game, really with not much of an explanation and there's no art model for any of them. You should picture more of a placeholder.

With that said, you can play the game. If you can get into a match and find it stable. I played a few matches and it functioned with severe amounts of stuttering and lag on lowest graphical settings which is sad because of the gaming PC that I own.

My advice for people looking to purchase: Please support the devs if you enjoyed paragon but also realize that this is not Paragon, never will be paragon, and basically at this point is an asset flip more or less. At the time of writing this, there is no original heroes/skins. It's all rewashed from what Paragon was. (someone correct me if I am wrong here)

The map has been slightly reworked, but is basically the Paragon map at it's heart. To any person interested but not willing to fork over the cash, I have a spare key from my masters pack that I would gladly give to a fan.

I want to like this game. I do. I will say that the game is in early access. That should warranty it some value to save itself here. there was no option for middle ground review.

Here's why short and sweet why I don't recommend the game in it's current state as of 4/6/2017:

It runs like ♥♥♥♥ on every system that it is tried on. There's no help. There's no way to get a decent fps, no way to deal with the breaking lag.

I will say this in it's defense: What it does do, it does well. The game plays on very low settings. The matches are fun, when you can play a good one with little lag. The shooting is clean and clear. Weapons work. However one of the downsides, once you pick up a weapon melee is no longer an option. If you have a gun with 0 bullets you are basically useless.

Conan Exiles is the latest Sandbox Survival game by Funcom. With that said let's dive into my review!

I have spent a few hours playing. Let me start with my play style. I am a twitch streamer. The game was live streamed all through my experience. I went through the setup of my own server to play on. This was a feat to set up a server and took me numerous times of going through the server setup making small changes each time until the server popped online. (from the server launch to showing up is roughly 10-15 minutes total)

Once the game was launched and online I noticed a couple small problems. If you searched for servers and then clicked the refresh, I basically had to shut down the game and log back in to have servers show up. Exiting out of the game often caused a glitch where it shows "running" in steam. Which forced me to use the task manager to close the game in order to launch it again.

Once I had all the minor things smoothed out I went to actually run the game! Which I noticed the game when running basically shut my internet off in anything OUTSIDE of Conan Exiles. No google chrome, no Edge browser. No anything. It was like it shut my internet off outside of the game. This was a small annoyance. With a small deal of patience though I noticed that it worked itself out. It still does this at the time at writing.

When in game connected to my server everything worked flawless making my character and logging in. Once in game I noticed a small bit of rubber banding and lag (my ping to my server fluctuated from 4-40 depending on my music playing etc.)

The game itself plays like a standard survival game. You are left to your own devices and must survive. I will say that death seemed to come swiftly the first couple minutes of the game until I had the swing of it. I am a MOBA player mostly. So survival games are not quite my thing. This is no fault of the Devs. I found no real fault in playing the game however. Everything functioned how it was supposed to.

I did notice when killing a mob I got a lore piece named XX_lorepiece_10. This is expected in an early access game. Be aware that they do exist.

When I had an issue with server setup (going back a small bit) I was able to find all the answers on the forums or in a short google search. Through trial and error all was well. Please be patient and try different things. DMZ is your friend as you set things up and get the server running at first. Do not leave it DMZ'd however. It just removes a massive amount of issues.

I want to give the dev's a +1 to all the floppy dongs and bush in the game. Is it necessary? Absolutely not. Does it add something to the game? Yes. Tons of laughter as a sword and board equipped naked barbarian runs up on you and twerks while saying "Look at it! Rawghghrhrhr"

Would I recommend the game? Absolutely. As long as you have patience and realize that the game is EARLY ACCESS. It will have issues. If you are impatient. I would say to pass it up and wait for a more stable build.

Funcom seems to be active in the discussion threads. Throwing advice out regularly and keeping the community going. The server support (although windows only) and the mod support at launch of early access is a great addition. Being able to use my own server in my home and play my way increases the value of the game. At 29.99 the game is about industry standard and competitively priced.

Load up your rigs boys. Extend your package, open your boxes and hit that desert naked folks. You won't be disappointed, even with the bugs.