An intrepid Crimson Desert participant has ventured far out of bounds and found a abandoned however absolutely purposeful village. No-one is aware of what the village is for, however some are speculating it could be lower content material, and even trace at a location for DLC.
Pearl Abyss’ smash hit single-player open world sport has an infinite map to discover, and for some who’ve put a whole lot of hours into it already, that journey is over. However for a Crimson Desert participant often called Riskbreaker, that was not sufficient.
As proven in a clip on the Crimson Desert subreddit, under, Riskbreaker headed north on the again of a dragon and went out of bounds. Far north of Pailune, they discovered, is a completely purposeful, snow-drenched village.
Riskbreaker visited the village a couple of occasions to get a good go searching, utilizing Photograph Mode to pause time and transfer the digital camera about. The village is abandoned, however there are objects, many of which you’d discover in a traditional Crimson Desert village. For instance, there’s a discover board the place you’d usually decide up bounties. There are even objects and chests. Riskbreaker speculates this village was meant to make it into the ultimate sport however was lower.
This village is much, far north of Pailune, so that you do want a dragon — on a timer of its personal — to get there. Riskbreaker mentioned it takes about two and a half minutes because the crow — or dragon — flies to succeed in the village. The traditional out of bounds timer kicks in, of course, however Riskbreaker was capable of finding what they name “reset factors” alongside the route that for some purpose stopped and began the timer, enabling a journey farther than you’d count on. Riskbreaker detailed the journey in a YouTube video.
Frustratingly, there doesn’t look like one of Riskbreaker’s reset factors close to the village, so by the point they land, there are solely a handful of seconds left on the out of bounds timer to discover. The village seems to be near completed, though there are a couple of objects floating round. And, of course, there are not any NPCs.
The quantity of trial and error it is going to have taken to search out this village is immense, given the out of bounds timer that restricts regular exploration. It seems there are a variety of factors of curiosity, together with forts, camps, and watchtowers, out of the conventional bounds of Pywel, however this village is of most curiosity as a result of of how far-off it’s, and the way tough it’s to succeed in. From what I can inform, that is the primary time it has been reached, or a minimum of, the primary time its discovery has surfaced inside the Crimson Desert neighborhood.
Maybe essentially the most spectacular second within the video is when Riskbreaker leaps off their dragon and flies via the air to a home up on a hill, only a tad farther north of the village. There’s a shrine. What may it have been for? It’s virtually not possible to search out out extra, given there are only some seconds left by the point they land.
Because the neighborhood fusses over Riskbreaker’s mysterious village, one other out of bounds oddity has emerged. There’s a query mark, indicating… one thing of curiosity, that’s popping up far out of bounds to the east. This has puzzled gamers who’ve discovered the query mark on their in-game maps. Riskbreaker suggests that is doubtless a bug, because the east facet of the desert is the tip of the continent, and there is nothing additional to the east, solely water.
Nonetheless, there’s a whole inaccessible named half of the map, known as Sunbaked Peaks, to the east of Varnia. Might or not it’s the place for DLC?
“Most of the unused land is definitely on the west and north sides of the map, so I would assume that is the place a possible DLC would happen,” countered Riskbreaker, bringing their expertise exploring the sport to bear. Sunbaked Peak is barely a “small extension of the desert, and should you go round it, there’s solely a fort on the facet going through Varnia, and one other one on the north facet of the island, whereas the remainder is simply rocks and some bushes.” So maybe this hidden village is certainly a clue to DLC.
However will Crimson Desert get DLC? In March, after the sport’s gross sales success had change into evident however sentiment was nonetheless blended, Pearl Abyss CEO Heo Jin-young mentioned updates have been the main focus. “Whereas it’s good to see gross sales pushed by growth packs, I consider there are video games that generate income by growing gross sales of the bottom sport as content material expands,” he mentioned. “I wish to make strategic selections that guarantee the bottom sport of Crimson Desert sells properly.”
Given Crimson Desert has now offered over 5 million copies — sufficient to spark a $3,400 bonus for all workers — maybe DLC is inevitable.
Picture credit score: Riskbreaker / YouTube.
Wesley is Director, Information at IGN. Discover him on Twitter at @wyp100. You may attain Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.