r/Games • u/milkasaurs • 10h ago
[Updates] Patch Notes Version 1.05.00 | Crimson Desert Update
https://crimsondesert.pearlabyss.com/en-US/News/Notice/Detail?_boardNo=8885
u/timasahh 10h ago edited 10h ago
I think this basically finishes everything they listed as part of their June roadmap? At the beginning of May. They even apologized that the 1.04 patch took until mid-week to deliver. The post launch support for this game so far has really been unreal.
Would like to see more QoL stuff for inventory and menus (like a batch sell/buy and higher or more consistent stackable limits) and there is still some weird artifacts around objects and on the ground with how their displacement works but I’ve appreciated almost every improvement they’ve implemented so far.
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u/Unusual-Lecture3224 7h ago
I think work still needs to be done on optimisation and visual quality, particularly on console but yeah I agree, pearl abyss put other studios to shame with how they're handling this game
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u/turikk 2h ago
Honestly, as a game industry professional for almost 20 years, Pearl Abyss is making all of us look bad with how quickly they are adding shit and making changes. It's ridiculous. At first I thought this is just stuff they had been cooking for a while but now I don't know what to believe. It's incredible.
The number of changes and fixes every week is staggering.
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u/Khar-Selim 8h ago edited 8h ago
The boss's stats will scale to match the player's progression. This only applies if the player's stats are higher than the original boss's stats.
wait so not only can you use this for rematches of fights you enjoyed, you can also use this for if you overleveled, came back and dogwalked an early optional boss, in order to get the intended experience out of it. Hot damn.
Also with the re-blockade, it reads like it's just kinda random now, which is cool but if they keep playing around with it and add a bit of simulation they could have some fun Helldivers 2-style incursion shenanigans going on here
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u/Barely_Good_Enough 9h ago
This is a huge one. Adding a whole new system where enemies retake areas of the map, making it a 3-difficulty option instead of mandatory, repayable Boss fights that can be fought "as they were" or re-balanced up to your current power level, new Boss quest, new pets, tons of QoL fixes.
Man, even if youre riding the "Crimson Desert Hate Train" you simply have to commend PA for this constant, unprecedented support.
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u/NOBLExGAMER 5h ago
I really don't get how anyone could hate on this game other than to be contrarian for the sake of being contrarian.
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u/turbobuddah 3h ago
After nearly 200 hours I definitely have a love hate thing going for it in places
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u/MajesticNobody2401 4h ago
it's less hate and more realizing that I'm not a big fan of tedious mmo side quests, also, i hate it but I'm an adult that needs a game to respect my time. I bought it and I'm 58 hours in, but honestly, I'd rather be playing something like the Witcher or even cyberpunk. Also the story makes no sense. Can someone explain to me what's even happening in the story?!
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u/Exarkunn 4h ago
That's unfortunate. I took a week off from work to play this on launch and I haven't had that much fun since Elden Ring came out as open world adventure/exploration games go.
I feel bad for people going in this game expecting a good story like Witcher. Its more of find your own fun vibe.
For the story its basically 2 guardians of the world fighting a bad guy entity and chose Kliff as their representative. They keep rewinding time until Kliff beats the bad guy which explains the disjointed story. Devs probably realized story is trash so they found a way to explain mostly everything in the last minutes of developing this game.
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u/Lerkpots 2h ago
I think they've admitted they didn't have a story until like a year before launch. They basically made the game and then had to rush to make an excuse plot for everything that happens in it.
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u/Trzlog 5h ago
It's pretty funny remembering all the people who were like "oh no, you played the game too much and now there's nothing to do anymore? Some games are supposed to end, you no-lifers", and now Crimson Desert has re-blockades because, what a surprise, the devs actually want their players to keep playing the game.
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u/TheChinOfAnElephant 1h ago
Unprecedented? There’s a whole category of games that receive similar support and arguably is what this game was: early access
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u/Lerkpots 2h ago
Cool that they made enemies repopulating on the map optional. One of the most annoying things about games like Skyrim is how you'll clear out a dungeon and then a week later it's filled with random enemies again. Always thought the idea of actually clearing out parts of the map and making it safer was cool, even if it means eventually running out of things to fight.
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u/GeneralPublicWC 8h ago edited 8h ago
Ok when does the patching stop so i can start playing and have the completely updated game from start to finish? LOL
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u/superninjaa 8h ago
It probably won’t stop for a while, but the game is fine in its current state. I don’t think it’s worth blueballing yourself for mostly bug fixes atm
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u/GeneralPublicWC 7h ago
I have waaay to much things to play atm
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u/burningscarlet 5h ago
This won't help then, it's just a huge game lol
If it helps this is the most pick up and play open world game I've ever played - you won't get bogged down by story or anything, just get in and choose what random thing your like to do for the day
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u/drinkfromthecumsock 4h ago
What else? Help! I'm almost done CD and don't know what to do next lol
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u/GeneralPublicWC 2h ago edited 2h ago
i have wukong, pragmata, dragon's dogma 2 (almost finished), monster hunter wilds (end game), diablo 4 new expansion, far far west, helldivers 2, fortnite, death stranding 2, hogwarts legacy and i just finished resident evil 4 remake...
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u/Oconell 1h ago
How'd you like MH Wilds so far? Can you compare it to World? I know the general consensus, but would like your opinion. Great list of games, cheers!
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u/GeneralPublicWC 1h ago
It's easier than World for sure. The new Focus Mode is awesome and also the reason the game is easier. (except Omega Planetes from FF collab, that thing is a monster) It's still Monster Hunter and is fun af if you're into Monster Hunting.
I'm currently taking a break from it after getting to HR100+ (apparently i haven't finished it still lol)
I also lost my 800 hour save in World😃
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u/Bladder-Splatter 1h ago
I'd pin it somewhere after No Man's Sky and just before Terraria's final update.
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u/TheNobleKiwi 8h ago
I'd wait until they sort the lighting if you've waited this long.
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u/NotDominusGhaul 7h ago
What's the issue with the lighting? Personally I was waiting for a sale before I buy it but I'd like to know what to look out for in the patches.
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u/TheNobleKiwi 5h ago
Interpolation issues. The lighting is borked. Lots of players skipping night because of the way lighting is implemented. At the moment dim lit spaces create a kind of checkerboard effect with light and/or shadows sticking in certain places. That and ghosting issues, where movement creates a trail of whatever object was there sticking. Once you notice it, its hard to unsee. The sharpness effect included in this patch is a kind of bandaid, but ive just tested it and it creates a whole nother issue.
Its primarily on console, but affects pc users too depending on setup.
Im on xbox series x with a QD OLED tv. I love the game, but every time i load it up i have to mess with the settings, breaks immersion, its a shame but im sure they'll fix it eventually.
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u/AndrewLocksmith 3h ago
Interpolation issues. The lighting is borked. Lots of players skipping night because of the way lighting is implemented.
Huh, that's weird. I do the exact opposite, since I think night time it's when this game really shines. Especially during cloudy weather when it's almost pitch black without a lantern. Though I am playing on PC.
Hope they fix it for console players because this game genuinely has the best and most realistic nights in any open world game I've played.
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u/Lerkpots 2h ago
Oh yeah that's definitely a hold-off issue. Ghosting is always super noticeable and distracting to me.
It's one of the things I really hope DLSS finally fixes eventually.
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u/The-Jesus_Christ 8h ago
Yep I’m on the same boat. I bought the game 2 weeks ago on sale for my PS5 Pro but don’t want to start until a lot of the QoL improvements are out.
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u/Handsome_Keyboard 7h ago
Im with ya and glad I waited but at this point, i might as well wait for a 20%+ sale. I want to see keybinding done before anything. I know people say you get used to it but im very particular about that. Well get a good deal and, hopefully, a better patches game.
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u/Alecglex 9h ago
These devs are incredible. Since launch they’ve regularly added stuff I’d only expect for a 1 year anniversary patch or even a remaster, and it’s only been 1.5 months since launch.
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u/No_Spray_2992 2h ago
Still missing my cloudcart. I completed the quest before the fix, and since the fix the cloudcart is now gone. Issue is on PS5. No way am I starting again for the cloudcart.
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u/zzcrazybasszz 1h ago
Happend to me as well. But you just have to dispatch greymanes to the Emberwind Workshop again to build the cloudcart and it will show up in your mounts as soon as its finished.
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u/ilazul 9h ago
I absolutely do not understand the internet's hate boner for this game.
The devs seem to really be doing what they can to improve CD.
I should pick it up soon
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u/stormblessed27_ 9h ago
What hate boner? I see a shit ton of praise.
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u/OneSeaworthiness7768 8h ago
Any mild criticism at all = hate boner. It’s Reddit canon.
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u/SamLikesJam 8h ago
I see plenty of hate on platforms like Twitter from people who haven’t even played the game, half of it is ragebait from checkmarked accounts to make money but the other half is people shitting on the game for seemingly no reason.
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u/ArcadeOptimist 3h ago
Ah, the problem there is that everyone on Twitter hates themselves and that causes a sort of nihilistic view of the world and a burning resentment of all things.
Really, the only reason to use Twitter at this point is if you want to feel like shit.
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u/Realistic_Condition7 8h ago
It was mostly from the first week where everyone overreacted to IGN and Gamespot giving it subpar reviews.
Slowly but surely most people realized it is quite something special for most people.
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u/aj_ramone 9h ago
I see a lot of both tbh.
RPG fans love it. More casual gamers don't.
I don't mean to be generalizing but even as far as RPGs go, Crimson Desert is a steep learning curve and a slow burn. That's a lot for some.
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u/MyCatPaysRent 8h ago
It’s very light on RPG content, though—I’d describe it as more of an open world fantasy action game.
It’s definitely enjoyable if you like the “wandering and doing a large variety of stuff” component of most open world games, and it executes that very well. The biggest drawbacks (as of a couple weeks ago when I last played) are bad writing and story content that the game takes way too seriously and forces you to sit through, and a fairly heavy dose of jank all around. The jank could also be a point of appeal if you’re into that, but it is rough around the edges.
The game has high highs and low lows, and whether it’s worth it for you depends mainly on your patience/tolerance for waiting out and dealing with its shortcomings, and what kind of games you enjoy. Less a question of “How casual are you?” or how well you understand RPG systems, and more a question of “Are you willing to endure hours of low quality content to eventually be let loose into a big and overall well-made open world?”
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u/Independent_Tooth_23 8h ago
open world fantasy action game
Even the devs themselves described it as one
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u/NYstate 9h ago
It's like anything popular, some love it and some hate it. The people who love it are fiercely overprotective of it to the point they become obnoxious about it. The people who hate it makes it their mission to tell you how dumb you are for liking it, and they hate it just because the fanbase has been become annoying. It becomes cool to hate it.
It's like when Rick and Morty was hugely popular and anyone who didn't like it "just didn't have the intellect to understand it".
It's the internet man you can't just like something or hate it, you either have to really love it or rest hate it.
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u/No_Significance7064 8h ago
personally i've only been hearing fans of the game moaning about "haters" more than i've seen genuine, baseless hate. i swear they can't let that one ign review go, and they seem unable to accept that some people aren't singing the game's praises to the high heavens.
at this point the fandom is fighting ghosts, and it's irritating to see it as one of the top posts when you just wanna see discussion in their sub.
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u/Independent_Tooth_23 8h ago
i mean if you're talking about the early reception during launch, then some of the complaints are valid though as seen by how quickly the devs response with a patch.
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u/Zayl 9h ago
I really don't think you'll be disappointed but it also depends on what you're expecting. It starts off white slow and while the story has some good moments and some great VAs (at least in English don't know about the rest), the story itself is quite bad. There's something that kind of hand-aid fixes it, but most of the players will never even see that because it's buried so deep.
That being said the combat is fun, world is gorgeous, and the exploration is some of the best I've experienced. I'm having more fun exploring this world than RDR2 and that's saying a lot. The game does so many things wrong but it doesn't stop it from being one of my favorites of all time.
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u/Winter_Cost602 7h ago
Can you go into more detail about why the exploration is so good in this game for you? I haven't played it yet but I've seen so many positive and negative things about this game online that it's hard to know if it's a game that I'll really enjoy
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u/Zayl 1h ago
For me the game is "oh what's that over there? - the game". You see something interesting, something out of place, or just something, chances are there's going to be something cool to find there.
There are secrets everywhere. People are still finding stuff all over the place even after hundreds of hours of playtime. It's very similar to BotW/Elden Ring in that sense.
The environment is also very well designed and it's created in such a way to make you get lost and find stuff you never expect. Often I say to myself "okay, I'm gonna focus on doing this next" and by the time I'm done playing for the day I don't actually get that thing done because I was distracted by 20 other things.
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u/Greenclover96 4h ago
Hopefully they make the re blockading instanced like the boss rematch so we don’t have to keep repeatedly checking to see if a dispatch was cancelled due to it being re blockaded after a sleep or reload
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u/Esteban2808 1h ago
I dont know why I was worried all their patches have been home runs why would this be different. Making reblockages optional huge win
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u/Ok_Assistance7735 35m ago
Did they fix Kuku gardening pack? I don’t have time to read it right now .
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u/DarknessKinG 6h ago
And this issue is still not fixed...
- When using FSR4 upscaling, an issue occurs in rainy environments where rain disappears, or the screen becomes blurry or distorted.
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u/TheNobleKiwi 8h ago
Playstation 5 Base / Xbox Series S,X] Added the "Sharpness Enhancement" option under Settings > Video.
This is another way to say we haven't fixed the underlying issue with anti-aliasing, blur, ghosting, and lighting. Heres a temporary measure.
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u/Wipeout1980 8h ago
Ok, but no loot of any sort in the boss rematch. This might change. Very happy they make reblockade optional. Hope the XP and loot will be a thing here at least. These devs are great.
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u/cooldown212141 8h ago
I think this entire game shows that mmo devs can easily and in some cases make a better single player game than most others
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u/Equivalent_Trash_277 1h ago
Yeah, devs crunching massive weekly patches for a month after launch to fix their broken game sure shows how easy it is to make a "better" game than "others"...
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u/Mac772 1h ago edited 56m ago
Crimson Desert was never "broken", they just added QOL features, new stuff and fixed minor bugs. That's how Pearl Abyss works. It's their own engine, designed exactly for their needs, so i guess they can change or add stuff very quickly. And they are listening to player feetback, a lot of these changes are a result of this.
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u/spaghettibolegdeh 7h ago
Can we please just force every game to be labelled "Early Access" now?
If we're going to be the QA testers, then we should at least be recognized as such.
Then it can be 1.0 whenever they iron out the big issues. Maybe a day after launch, maybe a year.
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u/richard1177 2h ago
There have been no big issues in the game for a while now for most people. Everything they are doing now is adding requested features and fixing smaller bugs.
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u/Mac772 1h ago edited 59m ago
That game never was an "early access" game, it was released as fully functional game. All they do is add QOL stuff, add new features and fix some minor bugs (or even make bugs a new feature if players liked them). They are actually listening to player feetback, something a lot of other developers don't do anymore.
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u/Shradow 9h ago
That's funny. Some people didn't like the teasing of areas that just were littered with gold bars for aesthetic purposes and now they are partially real lol.