Only a day after Pearl Abyss’ announcement of the assorted enhancements it stated have been coming quickly to Crimson Desert, we have now a brand new patch that provides a lot of them already — and even a couple of modifications followers hadn’t anticipated.
The highlights of the patch, as detailed on the Crimson Desert web site, are a brand new weapons show choice, which implies you’ll be able to cover weapons from the again of your character (so lengthy, protect!), the addition of expertise for the secondary playable characters, which makes them extra viable to play, and varied person interface enhancements.
However there’s so much within the replace (patch notes beneath) that Pearl Abyss hadn’t talked about. For instance, Pearl Abyss has improved the usability of the Greymane camp (I received’t say how precisely, to keep away from spoilers), made the Abyss puzzles simpler by including extra hints and making it simpler to acknowledge when sure gimmicks can be found to be hooked up by utilizing Drive Palm, and gave Kliff a completely new capability referred to as Targeted Aerial Roll.
For me, the spotlight of the patch is the enhancements to Damiane and Oongka, who I’ve just about ignored up so far due to their restricted performance. Now they’ve just about the identical talents as Kliff, so that you’ll have the ability to use them to finish a lot of the open-world gameplay. The principle story nonetheless revolves round Kliff and also you’ll want to make use of him for almost all of it, however clearly Damiane and Oongka are extra viable now.
The patch additionally improves quick journey so it may be used whereas mounted, falling, swimming, or climbing partitions, which implies you’ll be able to just about quick journey at any non fight level now. And there are some welcome high quality of life enhancements, too, reminiscent of icons for treasure chests already obtained now being displayed in another way, visited and unvisited caves at the moment are displayed with completely different icons, and restored and unrestored Abyss areas at the moment are displayed with completely different icons.
So, a lot to dig into with this newest patch, whereas there are nonetheless many enhancements to return, as outlined this week. We are able to count on new pets and mounts, new outfits, and important modifications to storage, ‘re-blockading,’ and new issue choices, too.
As I’ve stated earlier than, the tempo of those game-changing updates is so fast, you do marvel how Pearl Abyss is managing it. Crimson Desert has bought 4 million copies thus far, making it a giant hit for the developer, and it’s exhibiting outstanding endurance by way of Steam concurrents. So gamers are sticking with it, pumping a whole bunch of hours into its open world, and it continues to promote. A giant a part of that success is all the way down to the updates launched over the previous few weeks, which have all have made important enhancements, serving to to shift the blended reception at launch.
Clearly, there are much more to return.
Crimson Desert replace 1.03.00 patch notes:
Content material
- Improved the usability of the Greymane camp.
- Fastened points that occurred when finishing sure requests whereas being within the ‘wished’ standing.
- Improved normal dialogue scenes with out letterboxing in order that fast-forwarding is now out there.
- Added a Quick Ahead Velocity choice beneath Different > Language & Gameplay, permitting gamers to regulate fast-forward pace.
- Improved Abyss Nexuses in order that they’re simpler to find.
- Improved comfort for sure Abyss puzzles.
- Improved readability in order that it’s simpler to acknowledge when sure gimmicks can be found to be hooked up by utilizing ‘Drive Palm’.
- Improved lanterns and ‘Blinding Flash’ in order that they supply extra hints.
- Improved the doorway path to the Spire of Hovering.
- Improved terrain in sure Abyss areas.
- Modified financial institution performance whereas being within the ‘wished’ standing in order that financial institution providers stay out there, however depositing gold bars and updating funding funds are not attainable.
- Fastened a problem the place requests couldn’t be accomplished at a sure step when destroying the totems after finishing Chapter 9, ‘Sanctum of Mortification’.
- Fastened a problem the place sure requests couldn’t be accomplished if associated quest objects have been obtained earlier than the request was activated.
- Fastened a problem the place Gunter (Tools vendor), Harry (Blacksmith), Bronton (Stablekeep), and Lola (Seamstress) in Pailune would get replaced by completely different NPCs after a sure quest.
- Added 3 new base music tracks throughout the continent of Pywel throughout fight (The Crimson Desert and sure different areas excluded) throughout [Patch 1.01.00].
- Added 1 new loading display music monitor.
Controls & Fight
- Improved teleportation by way of the Abyss Nexus in order that it will probably now be used whereas mounted, falling, swimming, or climbing partitions.
- Improved the lock-on mechanism throughout boss battles.
- Improved the onerous lock-on in opposition to bosses in order that it’s maintained from additional distances.
- Modified the lock-on mechanism in order that it not applies to sure bigger bosses.
- Added the brand new capability, ‘Targeted Aerial Roll’ for Kliff.
- Prerequisite talents: ‘Focus Lv. 3’, ‘Flight Lv. 2’, and ‘Aerial Roll’.
- The ability might be activated by utilizing ‘Focus’ throughout flight after which urgent the dodge key.
- Improved Damiane and Oongka in order that they’ve extra talents helpful for open-world gameplay.
- Added ‘Axiom Drive’, ‘Nature’s Snare’ and associated talents for Damiane and Oongka.
- Improved Damiane’s ‘Protect Toss’ and Oongka’s ‘Scatter Shot’ capability in order that they’ve the identical impact as Kliff’s ‘Drive Palm’.
- Modified the management inputs for Damiane’s ‘Skystep’ and Oongka’s ‘Vertical Flight’ capability.
- Fastened a problem the place the character would sometimes transfer at an abnormally quick pace throughout sure capability chained combos.
- Fastened a problem the place the ‘Blinding Flash’ capability wouldn’t stay energetic whereas transferring on a mount.
- Improved interactions with units reminiscent of partitions, buttons, and cranks so {that a} devoted animation now performs after they can not be pushed.
- [Keyboard/Mouse] Improved the controls for ‘Axiom Drive’.
- [Controller] Fastened a problem the place ‘Nature’s Snare’ capability would activate throughout ‘Focus’ by tilting the proper stick in a single path.
UI Fixes & Enhancements
- Modified the colour of faction quest icons.
- Improved the listing of Reminiscence Fragments of the Visione in order that it solely reveals the listing of at present obtained Fragments.
- Added a perform that processes all objects without delay when grouping or ungrouping objects within the bag.
- Improved the UI in order that merchandise particulars can now be seen within the storage part as properly.
- Improved the comrade listing UI so {that a} test icon is now displayed on the chosen comrade.
- Fastened a problem the place the Assault and Essential Fee of sure tools, reminiscent of necklaces and cloaks, have been displayed as doubled when viewing character stat particulars from the stock or Fast Slots.
- Improved the world map and minimap in order that icons for treasure chests already obtained at the moment are displayed in another way.
- Improved the world map in order that visited and unvisited caves at the moment are displayed with completely different icons.
- Improved the world map in order that restored and unrestored Abyss areas at the moment are displayed with completely different icons.
- Fastened a problem the place markers set on the world map wouldn’t be retained upon the primary reconnection.
Graphics & Settings
- [PC] Added assist for Intel Arc GPUs. Compatibility and efficiency throughout varied Intel GPUs will proceed to be improved over time.
- [PC] Added the ‘Intel XeSS 3.0’ choice beneath Settings > Video > Upscale Mode.
- [PC] Added the ‘Intel XeSS Body Era’ choice beneath Settings > Video.
- On Intel Arc A-series GPUs, the display could not show correctly when utilizing ‘Intel XeSS 3.0’ or ‘Intel XeSS Body Era’.
- [PC] Added the ‘AMD Radeon™ Anti-Lag 2’ choice beneath Settings > Video.
- [PC] Added the ‘Displacement Scale’ choice beneath Settings > Graphics.
- [PC] Added the ‘Element Ornamental Mesh’ choice beneath Settings > Graphics.
- [PC] Fastened noise that occurred in display distortion results when utilizing DLSS-RR.
- [PlayStation 5 Base / Xbox Series X] Added the ‘Enhanced Raytracing’ choice beneath Settings > Video.
- [PlayStation 5 Pro] Added the ‘PSSR Sharpness’ choice beneath Settings > Video.
- [All Platforms] Improved lighting high quality in indoor environments.
- [All Platforms] Improved water floor reflections.
- [All Platforms] Fastened a problem the place rain appeared excessively vibrant from sure angles.
- Added the ‘Weapon Show’ choice beneath Others > Language & Gameplay.
- Show Melee Weapons
- Show Ranged Weapons
- Added the ‘Minimal Font Dimension’ choice beneath Others > Accessibility.
- This feature will take impact after restarting the sport.
- Added the ‘Quick Ahead Velocity’ choice beneath Others > Language & Gameplay.
- Quick Ahead pace might be set as much as 4x.
- Added the next choices beneath Others > Accessibility.
- Digicam Visible Vary
- Digicam Vertical Offset
- Digicam Horizontal Offset
- Digicam Auto-follow
- Digicam Lookahead
Efficiency, Stability, Gameplay
- Fastened a number of stability, efficiency optimization, and crash points throughout PC, console, and Mac.
Localization
- Fastened varied localization errors and improved localization high quality (sport recommendation, and so forth.) throughout all languages.
Others
- Fastened a problem the place the sport would crash when utilizing the Helm of Data as Damiane or Oongka.
- Fastened a problem the place corn had no most buy restrict at sure distributors.
- Fastened varied different in-game points.
Wesley is Director, Information at IGN. Discover him on Twitter at @wyp100. You’ll be able to attain Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.
