New Crimson Desert Patch Just Dropped With Many of the Improvements Pearl Abyss Said Were Due in the Coming Months, and Some It Hadn't Mentioned at All

Just a time aft Pearl Abyss’ announcement of the assorted improvements it said were coming soon to Crimson Desert, we person a caller spot that adds galore of them already — and adjacent a fewer changes fans hadn't expected.

The highlights of the patch, arsenic elaborate connected the Crimson Desert website, are a caller weapons show option, which means you tin fell weapons from the backmost of your quality (so long, shield!), the summation of skills for the secondary playable characters, which makes them much viable to play, and assorted idiosyncratic interface improvements.

But there’s a batch successful the update (patch notes below) that Pearl Abyss hadn’t mentioned. For example, Pearl Abyss has improved the usability of the Greymane campy (I won’t accidental however exactly, to debar spoilers), made the Abyss puzzles easier by adding much hints and making it easier to admit erstwhile definite gimmicks are disposable to beryllium attached by utilizing Force Palm, and gave Kliff an wholly caller quality called Focused Aerial Roll.

For me, the item of the spot is the improvements to Damiane and Oongka, who I’ve beauteous overmuch ignored up to this constituent due to the fact that of their constricted functionality. Now they person beauteous overmuch the aforesaid abilities arsenic Kliff, truthful you’ll beryllium capable to usage them to implicit overmuch of the open-world gameplay. The main communicative inactive revolves astir Kliff and you’ll request to usage him for the bulk of it, but intelligibly Damiane and Oongka are much viable now.

The spot besides improves accelerated question truthful it tin beryllium utilized portion mounted, falling, swimming, oregon climbing walls, which means you tin beauteous overmuch accelerated question astatine immoderate non combat constituent now. And determination are immoderate invited prime of beingness improvements, too, specified arsenic icons for treasure chests already obtained present being displayed differently, visited and unvisited caves are present displayed with antithetic icons, and restored and unrestored Abyss locations are present displayed with antithetic icons.

So, plentifulness to excavation into with this latest patch, portion determination are inactive galore improvements to come, arsenic outlined this week. We tin expect caller pets and mounts, caller outfits, and important changes to storage, ‘re-blockading,’ and caller trouble options, too.

As I’ve said before, the gait of these game-changing updates is truthful quick, you bash wonderment however Pearl Abyss is managing it. Crimson Desert has sold 4 cardinal copies truthful far, making it a large deed for the developer, and it’s showing singular staying powerfulness successful presumption of Steam concurrents. So players are sticking with it, pumping hundreds of hours into its unfastened world, and it continues to sell. A large portion of that occurrence is down to the updates released implicit the past fewer weeks, which person each person made important improvements, helping to displacement the mixed reception astatine launch.

Clearly, determination are adjacent much to come.

Crimson Desert update 1.03.00 spot notes:

Content

• Improved the usability of the Greymane camp.
• Fixed issues that occurred erstwhile completing definite requests portion being successful the 'wanted' status.
• Improved modular dialog scenes without letterboxing truthful that fast-forwarding is present available.
  • Added a Fast Forward Speed enactment nether Other > Language & Gameplay, allowing players to set fast-forward speed.
• Improved Abyss Nexuses truthful that they are easier to discover.
• Improved convenience for definite Abyss puzzles.
  • Improved clarity truthful that it is easier to admit erstwhile definite gimmicks are disposable to beryllium attached by utilizing 'Force Palm'.
  • Improved lanterns and 'Blinding Flash' truthful that they supply much hints.
  • Improved the entranceway way to the Spire of Soaring.
  • Improved terrain successful definite Abyss locations.
• Changed slope functionality portion being successful the 'wanted' presumption truthful that slope services stay available, but depositing golden bars and updating concern funds are nary longer possible.
• Fixed an contented wherever requests could not beryllium completed astatine a definite measurement erstwhile destroying the totems aft completing Chapter 9, 'Sanctum of Mortification'.
• Fixed an contented wherever definite requests could not beryllium completed if related quest items were obtained earlier the petition was activated.
• Fixed an contented wherever Gunter (Equipment vendor), Harry (Blacksmith), Bronton (Stablekeep), and Lola (Seamstress) successful Pailune would beryllium replaced by antithetic NPCs aft a definite quest.
• Added 3 caller basal euphony tracks crossed the continent of Pywel during combat (The Crimson Desert and definite different regions excluded) during [Patch 1.01.00].
• Added 1 caller loading surface euphony track.

Controls & Combat

• Improved teleportation via the Abyss Nexus truthful that it tin present beryllium utilized portion mounted, falling, swimming, oregon climbing walls.
• Improved the lock-on mechanics during brag battles.
  • Improved the hard lock-on against bosses truthful that it is maintained from further distances.
  • Changed the lock-on mechanics truthful that it nary longer applies to definite larger bosses.
• Added the caller ability, 'Focused Aerial Roll' for Kliff.
  • Prerequisite abilities: 'Focus Lv. 3', 'Flight Lv. 2', and 'Aerial Roll'.
  • The accomplishment tin beryllium activated by utilizing 'Focus' during formation and past pressing the dodge key.
• Improved Damiane and Oongka truthful that they person much abilities utile for open-world gameplay.
  • Added 'Axiom Force', 'Nature's Snare' and related abilities for Damiane and Oongka.
  • Improved Damiane's 'Shield Toss' and Oongka's 'Scatter Shot' quality truthful that they person the aforesaid effect arsenic Kliff's 'Force Palm'.
  • Changed the power inputs for Damiane's 'Skystep' and Oongka's 'Vertical Flight' ability.
• Fixed an contented wherever the quality would occasionally determination astatine an abnormally accelerated velocity during definite quality chained combos.
• Fixed an contented wherever the 'Blinding Flash' quality would not stay progressive portion moving connected a mount.
• Improved interactions with devices specified arsenic walls, buttons, and cranks truthful that a dedicated animation present plays erstwhile they tin nary longer beryllium pushed.
• [Keyboard/Mouse] Improved the controls for 'Axiom Force'.
• [Controller] Fixed an contented wherever 'Nature's Snare' quality would activate during 'Focus' by tilting the close instrumentality successful 1 direction.

UI Fixes & Improvements

• Changed the colour of faction quest icons.
• Improved the database of Memory Fragments of the Visione truthful that it lone shows the database of presently obtained Fragments.
• Added a relation that processes each items astatine erstwhile once grouping oregon ungrouping items successful the bag.
• Improved the UI truthful that point details tin present beryllium viewed successful the retention conception arsenic well.
• Improved the comrade database UI truthful that a cheque icon is present displayed connected the selected comrade.
• Fixed an contented wherever the Attack and Critical Rate of definite equipment, specified arsenic necklaces and cloaks, were displayed arsenic doubled erstwhile viewing quality stat details from the inventory oregon Quick Slots.
• Improved the satellite representation and minimap truthful that icons for treasure chests already obtained are present displayed differently.
• Improved the satellite representation truthful that visited and unvisited caves are present displayed with antithetic icons.
• Improved the satellite representation truthful that restored and unrestored Abyss locations are present displayed with antithetic icons.
• Fixed an contented wherever markers acceptable connected the satellite representation would not beryllium retained upon the archetypal reconnection.

Graphics & Settings

• [PC] Added enactment for Intel Arc GPUs. Compatibility and show crossed assorted Intel GPUs volition proceed to beryllium improved implicit time.
• [PC] Added the 'Intel XeSS 3.0' enactment nether Settings > Video > Upscale Mode.
• [PC] Added the 'Intel XeSS Frame Generation' enactment nether Settings > Video.
  • On Intel Arc A-series GPUs, the surface whitethorn not show decently erstwhile utilizing 'Intel XeSS 3.0' oregon 'Intel XeSS Frame Generation'.
• [PC] Added the 'AMD Radeon™ Anti-Lag 2' enactment nether Settings > Video.
• [PC] Added the 'Displacement Scale' enactment nether Settings > Graphics.
• [PC] Added the 'Detail Decorative Mesh' enactment nether Settings > Graphics.
• [PC] Fixed sound that occurred successful surface distortion effects erstwhile utilizing DLSS-RR.
• [PlayStation 5 Base / Xbox Series X] Added the 'Enhanced Raytracing' enactment nether Settings > Video.
• [PlayStation 5 Pro] Added the 'PSSR Sharpness' enactment nether Settings > Video.
• [All Platforms] Improved lighting prime successful indoor environments.
• [All Platforms] Improved h2o aboveground reflections.
• [All Platforms] Fixed an contented wherever rainfall appeared excessively agleam from definite angles.
• Added the 'Weapon Display' enactment nether Others > Language & Gameplay.
  • Display Melee Weapons
    • All
    • Selected Only
  • Display Ranged Weapons
    • Always
    • Only When Used
  • Added the 'Minimum Font Size' enactment nether Others > Accessibility.
    • This enactment volition instrumentality effect aft restarting the game.
  • Added the 'Fast Forward Speed' enactment nether Others > Language & Gameplay.
    • Fast Forward velocity tin beryllium acceptable up to 4x.
  • Added the pursuing options nether Others > Accessibility.
    • Camera Visual Range
    • Camera Vertical Offset
    • Camera Horizontal Offset
    • Camera Auto-follow
    • Camera Lookahead

Performance, Stability, Gameplay

• Fixed respective stability, show optimization, and clang issues crossed PC, console, and Mac.

Localization

• Fixed assorted localization errors and improved localization prime (game advice, etc.) crossed each languages.

Others

• Fixed an contented wherever the crippled would clang erstwhile utilizing the Helm of Knowledge arsenic Damiane oregon Oongka.
• Fixed an contented wherever maize had nary maximum acquisition bounds astatine definite vendors.
• Fixed assorted different in-game issues.

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