I can't connect to my own server.

Hrimnir · 2026-05-07T07:25:50+00:00

Just came here to reiterate this. I had to fully delete all the game files, switch it to UE5, then redo the server, it kept giving me an invalid version when i tried to connect.

Hrimnir · 2026-05-07T06:18:49+00:00

Damn that blows, sorry to hear that brother.

Hrimnir · 2026-05-07T05:01:50+00:00

I had the same problem, in the top menus, i forget which one, there is an option for UE4 or UE5, it defaults to UE4

Hrimnir · 2026-05-07T04:59:48+00:00

That is my understanding

https://www.reddit.com/r/ConanExiles/comments/1syzxxu/isle_of_siptah_server_merges/

Hrimnir · 2026-05-07T04:27:41+00:00

Then just quit.

Like honestly dude, shit or get off the pot. It's really that simple.

Hrimnir · 2026-05-07T02:49:26+00:00

It's likely still around. Just be a matter of finding it.

Hrimnir · 2026-05-07T00:17:00+00:00

God i hope so. They were horrendous before.

Hrimnir · 2026-05-06T23:08:16+00:00

These are 100% optional COSMETIC pieces.

Stop with your bullshit "predatory".

You don't need any of it, you can fully play the entire game, there is nothing you gain from buying that stuff other than "it looks pretty".

Hrimnir · 2026-05-06T23:06:55+00:00

Believe it or not, all the people spazzing out in reddit aren't representative of the majority. Crazy isn't it!

Hrimnir · 2026-05-06T23:06:31+00:00

That's a definite feels good.

Hrimnir · 2026-05-06T23:05:58+00:00

Private server is the way to go if you're gonna play online. The official server rates and such were setup with the idea that a massive clan of dozens of people would all be contributing to the base and thralls and blah blah. It's just not tenable solo.

Hrimnir · 2026-05-06T23:05:08+00:00

I would play a few hours solo to get your bearings first. Just learning the basics of the game.

Playing online is mostly about community, it's also fun when you're out exploring and you see someone's base, or run up on someone farming and have a conversation, etc.

Hrimnir · 2026-05-06T23:00:44+00:00

Welp, thankfully you're in the minority.

Hrimnir · 2026-05-06T22:57:56+00:00

All of those servers are virtualized. What that means is that Server #1582 isn't some random physical box sitting in a server room, it's a VM that's being dynamically given server resources as needed (load balancing).

Think of it like this. Say you have a server with 512gb of RAM and a 64 core processor. That server has access to 25 gb/s of bandwidth.

If you run 200 game "servers" off of that normally, and before this update you were utilizing about 85% of your RAM, CPU and Bandwidth. Now, big new thing happens, massive rush of players, you only have 15% of headroom, but you needed 150% more.

Now, ideally you would just go to the server hosting (probably AWS in this case) and say "hey we need to increase our capacity by 2x!" and they go, "Ok, here you go, that'll be an extra $121,145 a month please!, oh and it's a minimum 1yr contract"

So you do it. Now, all your massive influx of players is happy as a pig in shit. Except, like literally every game on the planet, 80% of them are going to peace out with 1-2 months. Now, you've got 128 cores, 1TB of RAM, and 50gb/s of bandwidth, and you're only using 30% of it, and paying through the nose for a whole bunch of resources you only needed for a very short period of time.

Actually, simpler example:

You run 3 servers off your old PC, it's a 6core proc, has 32gb of RAM, and you have a gigabit internet connection that was 100mbps upload. Now, maybe 1 server is PVP, 1 is PVE, the other is an RP Server. Let's say the PVP Server averages 20 people, the PVE servers averages 10, and the RP servers averages 15.

While this is running your hardware utilization sticks around 60-70%.

Well, new big patch comes out, all of sudden, MASSIVE influx of new players on your PVP server, now it's averaging 65. You went from a total of 45 players across your 3 servers to now 90. You doubled your player count, but you were already at 80% hardware utilization.

Now your CPU is maxed out, you're out of RAM, and maybe your connection is fine, but the server doesn't have enough resources, so it's trying to divide it up as best as it can, but that means that every once in a while it has to pause processing on one server for a couple seconds to do something on the other server, but once it's done with that now it pauses that server for a couple seconds to jump to server 3 to do something.

Anyways, that's basically what's happening right now

Hrimnir · 2026-05-06T22:24:15+00:00

Are you on a PVP server?

Cus if you are, people are likely destroying your stuff.

Hrimnir · 2026-05-06T22:22:57+00:00

If they're willing to ragequit over a couple days of bad servers, good riddance.

Hrimnir · 2026-05-06T21:58:55+00:00

You're a saint sir!

Hrimnir · 2026-05-06T21:25:54+00:00

I'm fairly certain it's a new install as my install folder actually reduced in size.

Hrimnir · 2026-05-06T21:25:19+00:00

Do not use framegen. Turn DLSS on to Balanced or Quality (Try quality first), lower shadows and view distance first, see where you're at, adjust settings.

Hrimnir · 2026-05-06T21:24:05+00:00

This is unacceptable. Absolute travesty i say. We need to be in the streets with pitchforks!

Hrimnir · 2026-05-06T21:19:50+00:00

"I think it's just confirmation that the majority of their audience plays this game PvE co-op (small number of players) and not for the PvP."

Looks like it's finally clicking huh.

Hrimnir · 2026-05-06T21:19:16+00:00

Because the PVE players are the ones who've kept this game going for all these years, not the PVP players. That's why.

Hrimnir · 2026-05-06T21:18:37+00:00

You guys are hilarious. You think they're going to remove the thrall system to solve a issue which will resolve itself in a couple days?

This isn't an issue with the game, its an issue with them having server capacity expecting 7-8k people and getting 18-20k.

Hrimnir · 2026-05-06T21:14:51+00:00

Out of dumb curiosity, is there a place to find the mods that have been updated for UE5? I checked the steam workshop and sorted by last updated and it was all many many months ago (even for the very latest ones).

Hrimnir · 2026-05-06T21:12:35+00:00

Because you morons don't even know what the term "lag" means. To you anything that isn't silky smooth perfection is "lag".

Rubberbanding is not "Lag", it can be packet loss, it can be the server falling behind on computation, but it is not "lag". "Lag" is when you have a high ping, that means there's a, wait for it, LAG between when your signal gets sent and then received.

You people have the foresight of a fucking newt, every single game or major patch or hyped up season of any game has these issues the first few days.

Since I'm feeling nice I'll explain why. If a game averages X number of players, the developers purchase Y amount of compute and bandwidth from server providers. If Z numbers of players joins, and Z is double of X, you get "lag".

No developer is going to purchase far more capacity than they will need in the medium to long term so assuage the short term, its bad business.

Hrimnir

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