Small update. It’s a holiday weekend here so my days have been a bit busy and I’ll be going hiking this afternoon.
Going all in on 100%ing Conan Exiles.
Rented a small private server for my friend and I to play on – we started on a co-op game but it really limited me because I could never log on and play when she wasn’t online. Plus the game keeps your character tethered to the game-save owner’s character, which was a nuisance when you want to harvest crafting supplies. So I ponied up for the server, tweaked the server settings to be livable for a casual non-survivalist player like me (upped the harvest multiplier, toned down death penalties, slightly faster XP, etc) and we’ve set ourselves up with a pretty nice starter base along the river.
- Conan Exiles
74.2 hours playtime
9 of 25 achievements
The long game with this is not only to 100% the Steam achievements, but (hopefully) finish off the game’s Journal Steps and to officially beat the game. It will be a multi-month project since this is an open-ended game that I’m setting definite goals for.
But, we ran our first dungeon last night and had a blast too! Got our thralls killed though.
So far, I have not been tempted by Steam sales. This is progress. I’ve seen a lot of cool stuff the folks on my friends list have been buying, and I may have wishlisted a couple things. But right as it stands my cart contains only two DLC for short games I’ll be playing in the near future. [EDIT: Bought 2 DLCs and a few movies that were cheaper on Steam’s sale than on Amazon Prime which is my usual streaming service.]
Feeling pretty good about this all, despite not having too much measurable progress to share yet.
Have a great weekend, BLAEOs!