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New Conan Exiles Trailer Shows What You Can Do in the Open Sandbox World

"In Conan Exiles, home is where you keep the hearts of your enemies."

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Funcom today released a new trailer for Conan Exiles, highlighting game mechanics like building, crafting, defending, and fighting

Creative director Joel Bylos and lead designer Oscar Lopez Lacalle discuss these elements and talk about how Exile's sandbox world is stuffed with things to do. Another cool part of the video is the section where it's revealed that players can summon massive avatars of the gods who spawn in to the world to destroy everything in their path.

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"They say that home is where your heart is, but in Conan Exiles, home is where you keep the hearts of your enemies," Bylos said in the video. "Building is a big part of Conan Exiles and you will need to build smart and build strong in order to defend yourself from the environment, cannibals, monsters, and of course enemy players. We are working hard to make sure players have powerful tools to build and defend their kingdoms."

The release of this trailer comes shortly before Exiles' release on PC through Steam Early Access on January 31. The game launches in the Xbox One's Game Preview program this Spring. No date has been set for PlayStation 4.

Lastly, Funcom announced that it will host a livestream for the game on Twitch today, January 6, showing off some of the game's "advanced building and crafting gameplay." You can watch the event on Funcom's Twitch channel, starting at 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET.

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Got to be honest, really tired of open-world, survival sandbox build games. It's like 1 has some slight success, and now there are 1,000 of them. I guess an actual plot and story is too much to ask for these days.

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Looks like Ark. But with more interesting backdrop, imho. Always had soft spot far Cimmerian.

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An Rage Quit game...no ı pass this game. My health is importand.

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I kinda hate myself for not realizing until now how well suited the Conan universe is to a open-world survival game. Whether they pull it off well though, is yet to be seen.

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I've always imagined Conan as a builder.

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I've always been kind of iffy about Funcom. That being said, this does have me intrigued.

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Here's a link for a lot more/better information about the game from the developers for those who are interested:

https://www.youtube.com/user/Funcom/videos

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"...and, of course enemy players."

Aaaand I'm out.

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@giin: For what it's worth, you can play alone or on a friend's private server and set up a ton of rules. Not 100% sure, but you could probably disable building destructibility, PVP, etc. They show it briefly in one of their other videos with options to disable sandstorms and stuff. From what I can tell so far there isn't much of a story component, but I think that's typical of sandbox survival games. I haven't played many survival games though, so I'm no expert. That's why I'm personally going to "wait-and-see" with this one.

Here's a link to the multiple videos released since Gamespot does such a poor job of reporting gaming news in general:

https://www.youtube.com/user/Funcom/videos

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Far Cry 4.5?

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The desert is nice and all, but i'm hoping for more climes (Forest, Mountains, ect.) than the sand/sun..

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I'm listening...

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I'll admit it's looking a bit more intriguing but at the same time the avatar's might break the game unless they make them extremely hard to summon.

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@Abomination713: Early access is major garbage.

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@Abomination713: it's difficult for me to latch onto any early access game and now that you mention it. It does seem like Steam is full of builders in early access.

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