“This update focuses on 1) the implementation of the new Container system and 2) the continued clean-up and optimization of existing content, and 3) the addition of new TGS art assets. We will not be adding new content until our system revamps are in place, but wish to improve the existing gameplay where possible. We have chosen to exclude notes such as spec changes, gloms being added, and other smaller changes that exist in multitudes. Instead, we want to concentrate on larger changes such as end results, new art, scripts etc.”

On Wednesday 13 January 2021 we will release patch A.00.03.16 at 10:00 am EST (2 pm GMT). Container System, updated inventory and more:
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— The Repopulation (@therepopulation) January 13, 2021

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For those who are unfamiliar with just why this is happening, CCP Games explained this past September that this new item requirement was meant to make losing a structure more impactful as well as to deter players from simply building dummy structures as bait. So while that might have been a clever tactic before, as of this new update, it’s now verboten.

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The listing has the expected details such as an M for Mature rating due to all sorts of grody shenanigans that players can get up to in order to survive, but it also points out that the console version is going to arrive to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. This would naturally track with its timeline for port development but also leaves open the possibility that it will likely be backwards playable on the PS5 and Xbox X/S as other titles have been.

Content retrieved from: https://massivelyop.com/2021/01/11/rusts-console-version-earns-an-esrb-rating-indicating-an-impending-launch-on-ps4-and-xb1/.

So what’s to come in early 2021? First up will be a trio of Alpha One test over the winter and early spring. Sharif warned that this is a “true developmental alpha” that will certainly be buggy and incomplete. A brand-new website for the MMO also is coming next month, as is word of whether or not Intrepid will be selling more alpha keys.

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Update 2.2, which promises “a big load of bugfixes” as well as an attack on “some long-standing issues as well as some recently reported problems,” has introduced a slew of adjustments like an update to the stamina system that balances costs and makes it less burdening, adds stamina cost to blocking attacks, and lets those activating shield block regenerate stamina.

Content retrieved from: https://massivelyop.com/2021/01/06/conan-exiles-tweaks-stamina-and-addresses-several-long-standing-issues-in-its-latest-pc-update/.