The players of Conan Exiles are losing several days of progress because a game bug made their companions disappear.
What are companions in Conan Exiles? In Funcom’s survival game Conan Exiles, human NPC companions play an important role. You can capture them as slaves and turn them into so-called “Thralls”. They are, in a way, serfs who take on certain tasks and assist you.
Thralls can take on different roles within your group depending on their profession. There are craftsmen like carpenters and blacksmiths, priests and artists, as well as fighters and archers.
To make an NPC your serf, you must knock them unconscious with a club, drag them to your base while bound, and then break their will with a torture device. However, you should not forget that you need to provide food during the torture.
In the day-to-day life of Conan Exiles, your enslaved companions play an important role and are a considerable help. It is especially tragic when players lose a number of thralls – possibly even high-level ones – due to a bug.
Game bug becomes the liberator of the oppressed
What kind of bug was it? On September 2nd, there was a bug in Conan Exiles that reduced the decay timer of the thralls to one day – regardless of how much time was previously left on the timer.
If the timer expires because one has not logged into the game for 15 days, the companions are gone.
The bug and the reduced timer led to many players losing their thralls according to “Conan Exiles” developer Funcom (via forums.funcom.com).
Why did the players lose their progress? Although Funcom was able to fix the bug by the next morning, they decided to perform a rollback on the evening of September 3rd due to the lost thralls.
As a result of the rollback, the developers reset the game state of all 780 servers to a backup from September 1st. All players thereby lost the progress they made in Conan Exiles in the meantime but got their valuable companions back.
Additionally, Funcom promised compensation for the inconveniences and the losses incurred over the weekend. Accordingly, from September 4th to September 11th, 2023, the XP gain, gathering speed, and conversion rate of thralls and pets will be increased.
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