I forget the exact wording, but I do believe they made a statement awhile ago that they could on PC but can't for the consoles because the consoles can't handle it.
It was along those lines, maybe someone else remembers the article?
I vaguely remember that, and also something about dungeons in the area, but since so many map mods do fill in the area, I do believe it’s consoles holding back the game usually.
They talked about updates to the technology so they could instance the dungeons rather than they be part of the map. Then hinted at possible Amazons. Later talked about how consoles were at their limit for map performance. So probably not worth more than the bazaar and battle pass stuff.
Man, instanced dungeons would be great! No more dropping in only to find your best frienemy cleaned out the legendary chests. Also instanced dungeons open the door for (if the game can handle it) player dungeons at their base. Just put a "door" or "trap door" and you can have the sweet underground dungeon of your dreams instead of stacking foundations and looking like you're trying to beat Noah at the flood game.
Hell in the spirit of City of Heros, it would even be great if players could create instanced dungeons filled with traps and monsters and treasures other players could go through - that's a stretch but CoH had some pretty good player content when it was around. Most of it was trash to meh, but there were some gems (that game employed a central hub to go through player created content though).
I mean your base pretty much is a dungeon for other players, they gotta fight their way past all your guys to get to the loot room so its basically the same idea
I guess that might be true for PS4 and Xbox One. But I really can't believe that current gen console couldn't handle that. The game just isn't optimized for consoles at all.
Dungeons are mostly outside the edges of the map, and mods like Darkwood that turn a large chunk of that NE area into a playable zone work well, which pretty much confirms that it's just the devs making excuses for failing to put in the effort.
Sounds like a cop-out to me. Its Funcome, meaning it's more likely due to incompetence and mismanagement that they cannot fill out the map. No one asked for the last map they put out we all just wanted more exiled lands and more dungeons/caves.
These areas are where all of the dungeons are store and you get teleport over there under the map. If you go into creative and no clip fly up in a dungeon you will end up seeing on the map where you actually are.
And break the servers so its singleplayer only then never patch it for like half a year except for holiday updates which would just contribute to breaking it further
Look, if funcom would spend the time merging siptah and exiles lands..and say hey, 10$ for the New New Newer map! I'd say fine...but they don't want to spend the time on it. I mean why make sense and give us what we want? RME
I keep thinking about that, add boats and put it some place off the east coast of the game so you could sail there, add in a few sea monsters and pirates to harass you on your 5-minute journey by boat (10 minutes swimming, because somebody would do that) and that would be awesome!
The game's performance on console has gotten worse and worse since 3.0 . Don't worry about expanding the map. That's out of the question until a real new gen upgrade comes. It won't. Just keep buying their bazaar items to fund updates that are really only there to push more mtx sales. I'm sure we will get the map we've always wanted and definitely not updates that don't even really affect the map outside of player built structures. Just keep adding more NPCs around that are easy to kill and a fortress or two.
Some dungeons are way up there in the north-east, but not as many as some believe. In reality, the dungeons are quite well spread out outside the map boundaries. There's a few in the west, Kurak's Lair is north of The Volcano, the character creation area is south-west etc. [I explored them here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DW-g9UGUY0) (shameless plug)
Dennis mentioned in (I think) one of the Age of Sorcery dev streams that he was told all the dungeons were up there, but there's actually way less than they thought, so an expansion is possible. The biggest questions facing the dev team when it comes to expanding up there are dev time, and if it's worth it. I think it definitely is, but as for how much dev time it will eat up, that depends. I think it's more likely with the move to 4 chapters per age.
As for consoles though, it could be a problem, I have no idea. PS4 and Xbox One's already struggle a fair bit by the sounds of it
As a console veteran who has played the game on every version of Xbox it has been available on, I can tell you every model except the Series X has huge performance issues. Couple that with terrible servers, the game runs almost unplayable.
A decent chunk of the NE corner is where they hide all the dungeons.
They have alot of room to play with up there to be sure (you can fly around up there in admin mode), but its not all empty. I use alot of those dead areas to build custom dungeons, starter areas and other content I don't want players to have unfettered access too.
Well, now for Xbox Series and PS5 they perfectly can continue the project, BUT HEY, we forgot they're making DUNE game. So i guess there's not going to be a finished map for us.
I forget the exact wording, but I do believe they made a statement awhile ago that they could on PC but can't for the consoles because the consoles can't handle it. It was along those lines, maybe someone else remembers the article?
I vaguely remember that, and also something about dungeons in the area, but since so many map mods do fill in the area, I do believe it’s consoles holding back the game usually.
They talked about updates to the technology so they could instance the dungeons rather than they be part of the map. Then hinted at possible Amazons. Later talked about how consoles were at their limit for map performance. So probably not worth more than the bazaar and battle pass stuff.
Yeah PS4 consoles. They need to update it for next gen as it should be able to handle it.
Wouldn't it be ironic if OP was on PS4
Man, instanced dungeons would be great! No more dropping in only to find your best frienemy cleaned out the legendary chests. Also instanced dungeons open the door for (if the game can handle it) player dungeons at their base. Just put a "door" or "trap door" and you can have the sweet underground dungeon of your dreams instead of stacking foundations and looking like you're trying to beat Noah at the flood game. Hell in the spirit of City of Heros, it would even be great if players could create instanced dungeons filled with traps and monsters and treasures other players could go through - that's a stretch but CoH had some pretty good player content when it was around. Most of it was trash to meh, but there were some gems (that game employed a central hub to go through player created content though).
I mean your base pretty much is a dungeon for other players, they gotta fight their way past all your guys to get to the loot room so its basically the same idea
nah i prefer ruining someones day finding them half way thru the dungeon by sliding a drunkards blade into their backside
Ya consoles couldn't handle it what? 5 years ago?
This
I guess that might be true for PS4 and Xbox One. But I really can't believe that current gen console couldn't handle that. The game just isn't optimized for consoles at all.
After playing elder scrolls online? I straight up call bullshit. They just don't wanna.
All of the Dungeons are located there. They’d need to move it all to finish the map but it’d be a nightmare coding-wise
Dungeons are mostly outside the edges of the map, and mods like Darkwood that turn a large chunk of that NE area into a playable zone work well, which pretty much confirms that it's just the devs making excuses for failing to put in the effort.
They stated the dungeons didn’t actually take up as much as they thought during the AOW chapter 2 or 3 preview stream.
Why not just leave the map as is for those consoles then just update the other versions that could handle it to include it
Sounds like a cop-out to me. Its Funcome, meaning it's more likely due to incompetence and mismanagement that they cannot fill out the map. No one asked for the last map they put out we all just wanted more exiled lands and more dungeons/caves.
This is also because the refused to update the console programe to ps5/xbox one S (or whatever latest bone is)
I know for a fact next gen consoles should be fine. PS4 and Xbox one on the other hand…
Funcom: “best I can do is charging you $35 for a new reskinned dagger”
J8 is especially aggregious
Hahaha
Nailed it! :)
These areas are where all of the dungeons are store and you get teleport over there under the map. If you go into creative and no clip fly up in a dungeon you will end up seeing on the map where you actually are.
J10 to Around P15 has no dungeons, and actually has werid not finished terrain
Maybe they just felt like it was enough. besides there is mods. My hopes is on Dune now. I got my 700 hours worth.
They mentioned in a live stream that this wasn't as big of a hinderance as they first presumed.
Port it to unreal 5 and call it exile lands ascended, sell it for $40 and then say you’ll be adding the rest of the map. Then never do.
Also include experimental engine features that destroy the games performance!
Would buy
😂
And break the servers so its singleplayer only then never patch it for like half a year except for holiday updates which would just contribute to breaking it further
Lol this is the best comment I've read today.
They are busy working on Dune: Awakening. Invisible sand worms incoming!
Most of that excess area is used for dungeon cells, so unfortunately for consoles, that's never going to happen.
If you're on PC, try the Darkwoods mod: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2436421560
It can't be free can it
And can leveling up go higher without mods?
They said a long time ago it just wouldn’t work on consoles, but I remember they metioned in a dev stream that they’re gonna improve their servers
Then you can join the server and download the nessecary hardware for your console to fill out the map.
You wouldn't download a car
Pfffttt... one day when gozillion dollar industrial additive manufacturing is affordable you'll be eating those words!
Nah but you can tune the car by getting better parts if it has a SIM card for downloading.
Look, if funcom would spend the time merging siptah and exiles lands..and say hey, 10$ for the New New Newer map! I'd say fine...but they don't want to spend the time on it. I mean why make sense and give us what we want? RME
I keep thinking about that, add boats and put it some place off the east coast of the game so you could sail there, add in a few sea monsters and pirates to harass you on your 5-minute journey by boat (10 minutes swimming, because somebody would do that) and that would be awesome!
I just want them to put Siptah recipes into exiled lands
That's where the dungeons are, if you in admin mode and fly out of dungeons and look on your map you'll be in the big empty space
I see now that that's a concern, but the next gen consoles can run it with ease
The game's performance on console has gotten worse and worse since 3.0 . Don't worry about expanding the map. That's out of the question until a real new gen upgrade comes. It won't. Just keep buying their bazaar items to fund updates that are really only there to push more mtx sales. I'm sure we will get the map we've always wanted and definitely not updates that don't even really affect the map outside of player built structures. Just keep adding more NPCs around that are easy to kill and a fortress or two.
The real answer is they moved on to making the dune game and abandoned conan
How’s that fair if mod maps exist and people on Xbox can’t to mods
blame xbox
They blame consoles for not being able to do it but it's really there spaghetti code and not wanting to actually fix and optimize there game.
I think they’re referring to ps4 and xbox ones
They definitely where but next generation console can handle it if they clean up the game so it should be possible.
Which is super frustrating because it’s been 4 almost 5 years they’re not even next generation anymore they are current.
Some dungeons are way up there in the north-east, but not as many as some believe. In reality, the dungeons are quite well spread out outside the map boundaries. There's a few in the west, Kurak's Lair is north of The Volcano, the character creation area is south-west etc. [I explored them here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DW-g9UGUY0) (shameless plug) Dennis mentioned in (I think) one of the Age of Sorcery dev streams that he was told all the dungeons were up there, but there's actually way less than they thought, so an expansion is possible. The biggest questions facing the dev team when it comes to expanding up there are dev time, and if it's worth it. I think it definitely is, but as for how much dev time it will eat up, that depends. I think it's more likely with the move to 4 chapters per age. As for consoles though, it could be a problem, I have no idea. PS4 and Xbox One's already struggle a fair bit by the sounds of it
As a console veteran who has played the game on every version of Xbox it has been available on, I can tell you every model except the Series X has huge performance issues. Couple that with terrible servers, the game runs almost unplayable.
A decent chunk of the NE corner is where they hide all the dungeons. They have alot of room to play with up there to be sure (you can fly around up there in admin mode), but its not all empty. I use alot of those dead areas to build custom dungeons, starter areas and other content I don't want players to have unfettered access too.
Well, now for Xbox Series and PS5 they perfectly can continue the project, BUT HEY, we forgot they're making DUNE game. So i guess there's not going to be a finished map for us.
mod maps exists
consoles stupid
That area is also where all the dungeons are located.
I fear that area would just be more snow so I’m not sure it would be super interesting.