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Conan Exiles has been a huge success for Funcom, selling nearly half a million copies in its first month,and grossing $1 million in its first hour on Steam.
The game’s entire development budget was recouped in under a week, and now Funcom has announced it will invest a further five to ten million dollars into the game’s development.
This investment will enable the creation of six major content updates, a Game Preview release on Xbox One in Q3 2017, and a full release in Q1 2018 on PC, Xbox One and PS4.
The six content updates will be free to players and rolled out during the Early Access period.
Siege Warfare: Players can attack each other’s settlements with powerful war machines, such as siege towers or trebuchets, and fling rotting corpses over the walls of their enemies to spread pestilence in their streets.
The Purge: Hordes of NPC warriors will sweep down into the Exiles Lands and attack player settlements. Players must ready their defences against this brutal attack, but can also go on the offensive and capture new thralls and strong gear.
Mounts: You will be able to enjoy mounted combat on horses and capturing camels, rhinos or even elephants to be used for pack animals or crushing your opponents walls. Mounted combat will also make its way to Conan Exiles.
Sorcery: Embrace the dark corruption of magic to summon demons or raise the undead to create an army of skeletons. Magic in the world of Conan is more than shooting fireballs out of your hands: it’s dark, terrible, and twisted.
Settlement System: Create a living city, where you command your thralls to guard, patrol, craft, gather or trade based on your own schedules. Build roads, set up schedules for your thralls, and breathe life into your settlement.
Highland Biome: An all new area expanding the existing map into the highlands, with new creatures, armours, religions and a temperature system. Explore vast forests and scale tall mountains in this rugged, weather-beaten part of Hyboria.
Source: Funcom
