Age of Conan gets a free update

Funcom has launched a free update for its massively multiplayer online role-playing game Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures. Update 5.6, or Nights of Lost Souls if you need to give it a name, introduces new in-game seasonal content, new quests and rewards, a new high-level dungeon and the Veteran Points system. In tandem with this update Funcom has also introduced significant discounts on all longer term subscriptions.

The new seasonal content will allow players to acquire appropriately themed loot such as the Unholy Backscratcher weapon as well as a pet demon. Players will also be able to discover a mysterious new location in Tarantia and visit the Iron Tower, a high-level dungeon towering over the rooftops of Tarantia Commons – the city’s slum district. The addition of the new dungeon brings the storyline of Tarantia Commons to its final conclusion. The Tarantia Commons location was added to Age of Conan in an update earlier this year.

The Veteran Points system allows players who have subscribed to Age of Conan for one month or longer to collect exclusive rewards such as mounts, experience potions, teleportation abilities, special equipment and more. All players accumulate Veteran Points over time by staying subscribed, and these points can be used at special in-game vendors. These points are also awarded retroactively, so current and previous subscribers already have points to spend.

Finally, new discounts for subscriptions have been introduced: Adding three months game time to your account now yields a 20 percent discount, six months game time yields a 30 percent discount and 12 months of game time gets you a 45 percent discount.