Can Conan's Map Ever Grow?

The Exiled Lands is the defacto favourite map for Conan Exiles, but for years now, the community have asked for and debated a possible extension to the map in the north-east. Is it even possible? Today I'm going to try to find out, and break some long-standing myths along the way. Enjoy!

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Contents:
00:00 - Intro
00:43 - Mythbusting
01:46 - Is A Map Extension Possible?
05:38 - What Would A Map Extension Be?
08:10 - Conclusion

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[Eradicatinn]

What are your thoughts on a potential map expansion?

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[Grakaron]

One big thing, connect the Siptah and Exile land maps together through a teleporter like the Sunken City. There is so much content on both maps merging them would be a massive boon of a bunch of assets that already exist

[permag]

I think it's the old consoles that's actually holding the expansion back. Dropping support for older consoles and an upgrade path to a newer one for a small price is one way of forcing people to upgrade.

[Rellikein]

It’s funny that you upload this today, I was looking at that part of the map last night and thought to myself when are they ever gonna expand it North East.

[OKRMetric]

another idea would be to tie the Exiled lands and Siptah together through some kind of a portal.. that would be dope..

[Hohepriester-von-Yog-Sothoth]

I can recommend the Desolate Lands mod, it is a fairly new map extension and probably the best so far (in my opinion)

[daymon]

I think its definitely possible. If memory constraints are an issue it could just be a matter of putting it in a separate world space. Block it off by mountains and accessed only through a few tunnels. A steppe biome could be very cool. Or a taiga. Perhaps a khitan/yama inspired area. My personal bid however is for a large underdark type expansion below the exiled lands.

[Senbei]

I mean... it's doable. There are several mods that expand the Vanilla map quite a lot. The problem is that, once you extend to a certain degree you can see parts of the dungeons floating in the sky. I still remember spotting Dagon floating in the sky as I swam West of Sep.

My uneducated take on this would be that maybe this could be helped by making the border areas quite foggy (to block sight to the assets) or maybe a different skybox?

Edit I think the map mod I was talking about was "the Isle of Tir-Na-nOg" mod. It expands quite nicely to the NE and South. It's not the most polished map mod (or, at least, wasn't when I played on it a year or so back), some of the textures can be quite rough on the coastlines iirc, but does add a lot more places to explore.

[CptVanguard]

Based on the artwork for age of heroes it is possible we might get a map expansion at the end, because if you look theres a distant Zath themed motif with spiders but also a huge castle in the distance on an unfamiliar tibetan style mountain which convinently looks like the jungle biome but more mountainous so it is quite possible we are getting some kinda tibet style region north of the jungle.

Its possible this is intentional, and we might get to go there by the end of the season, with maybe 1 new dungeon as a feature of it and a few new recepies/map stories.

[Jim]

Thanks Eradication!

I don't think a map expansion there would happen as a bigger picture is a new map entirely

The Hyborian map has land there but it is also what map is Canon

I play my toon a bit different as she was sent there by like the dark force that seen in the surges of Siptah and wounding the beast where it dropped her short of destination and she is to free all the exiles from the exiled lands by taking down the green wall and taking the portal from Thot Amon which is mow guarded by the Armies of Zingara until it's destroyed or dismantled.. not bad for a 12 year old orphan girl and her mighty steed Oso

[pwojo]

I feel like it'd also help if they added more to the map that's already there. I've walked through a the highlands a lot and it just feels empty most of the time. Not even like animals or wildlife. Like, it feels like I should be running into more animals, but it's just empty. With the desert, I'm at least tripping over scorpions, rocknoses, enemy camps, and hyenas.

[arcamean]

I wish there was more caves and hard cover you could build within because I love building things that are basically "tower defense" forts for use against purges. You can build anywhere up to 4 before you need to worry about the new and annoying metor summoners.

[TheSietch]

I would like an Alps like environment full of different sized green valleys - where the larger clans can try to take sole possession of the larger ones. The white mountain ranges that separate the valleys should be near impossible to climb and passes (I.e. choke point) should connect the valleys. There should also be room for solos and small clans to live a grubbing life in small pockets between the larger valleys. Maybe a bit PvP oriented concept, but it could work quite nicely for PvE servers also.

[jessicaobrien]

My partner used to work in IT and is a huge gaming nerd (also a long time Conan Exiles player), and he said that the PlayStation version of Conan runs on the original game engine whereas PC and XBox had their game engines updated (a long time ago, but still). Which would make sense as my game looks very different to PC streamers I watch including the Dev Stream, it’s the most noticeable with the water colour and texture on noob river. On streams it’s a pretty aqua colour and has a nicer texture, and the sky looks sunny and blue. On my game, the sky/fog looks grey, the water is very shiny and desaturated and looks like a dark muddy colour in deeper areas. I’ve tried changing the settings on my TV but while it over saturates other colours, the water doesn’t change, and the texture and overall appearance of the water is still different anyway.

His theory is that they can’t expand the map (in addition to the obstacles you listed) because it would require making two different versions of the game for Playstation and Xbox/PC players. What are you thoughts, and can either you confirm or debunk the “different engines” theory?

[DrentheOutcast]

On the RP server I'm on, I recently had an idea for a storyline that involves the amber bracelets! Really cool to see this!

[paollopiettrobrunoro]

Curiouser and curiouser, said the cartographer to the exiled man!! 🧐🤔🤐

[Lost_Elfgirl]

Gosh YES please more grasland with beautiful trees and no conifers, I would freak out!

[Hive_Shadow]

i will love to see a yamatai area with sakurai trees and a small yamtai settlement like the snake city we have and thx for the video

[paulrymer]

What a great idea for an expansion 👏🏻

Hope they do this 🤞🏻

[domdom]

Whether it makes any impact or not, would an expansion like that make sense lore-wise? The whole point of the Exiled Lands is that everybody inside cannot get out, us players especially. The big pillars surrounding the entire map and the green barrier are a proof of that. Now what would adding an expansion outside the boundary of the pillars mean? Would they retcon that part and make the barrier and pillars further out, would be we technically free from the bracelet by the time we get there lore-wise, or would it just be swept under the rug?