Conan Exiles - The Imperial East Pack (DLC)

Let's be clear about what this is before you click buy: the Imperial East Pack is a cosmetic expansion for Conan Exiles, not a content drop. There are no new biomes, no new questlines, no story beats, no dragon fights. What Funcom delivered instead is a substantial visual wardrobe for builders and roleplayers who find the base game's rough sandstone fortresses a little samey. The DLC draws on the Khitai, a civilization in Robert E. Howard's Hyborian world that maps broadly onto ancient Far Eastern culture, and the visual language is immediately distinct from anything in the base game. The core of the pack is 39 Khitan building pieces covering the full construction vocabulary: foundations, walls, sloped roofs, wedge tiles, doorframes, pillars, and ceiling sections. The aesthetic leans on polished dark wood, curved roof edges, red-and-gold color contrasts, and a general feeling of deliberate, ordered craftsmanship rather than survival improvisation. All pieces match existing tier-three stats, so there is no gameplay advantage or disadvantage to going full Khitan, which is the right call. On community and multiplayer servers this architectural set quickly became something of a prestige marker, the kind of base style that signals a player who has been around long enough to care about aesthetics. Beyond construction, the pack adds 15 armor pieces across three sets (light, medium, and heavy, each with an epic end-game variant), anchored by the Khitan Officer Armor. Nine weapons round out the Khitan weapon set, again matching iron-tier stats with epic versions available at end-game. For character customization there are five warpaints in jade, black, white, and red Khitan patterns. The 25 new placeables are where the atmosphere really lands: hanging lamps, cauldrons, carpets, braziers, and a dragon idol that looks genuinely good guarding a courtyard entrance. Everything crafts through the new Khitan Artisan Table, so there is a small organizational hook to it all. Where the pack earns its mixed-to-positive community reception is exactly where you would expect: visual variety and builder creativity. Where it earns the skepticism is equally predictable. If you play Conan Exiles primarily for survival tension, thrall combat, or dungeon progression, this pack does nothing for you. It is decoration, full stop. Steam reviews sit at roughly 69% positive across a modest sample, which feels right, people who wanted aesthetics are satisfied, people who wanted gameplay feel sold a skin pack. The honest read is that Funcom was transparent about this from launch, and the content count is genuinely substantial for a cosmetic release. If you are an active Conan Exiles builder on Xbox, someone who screenshots bases or runs a community server with a theme, the Imperial East Pack pulls real weight. If you are still grinding through the survival loop and have not built anything elaborate yet, park this one until you know you actually use decoration systems. Monika, Scout Team