Crimson Desert developer Pearl Abyss has revealed vital adjustments it plans to make to the sport this summer season, whereas additionally teasing upcoming DLC.
Outlining content material updates deliberate for June to September, Pearl Abyss confirmed story refinements, new fight challenges, cross-save help, and quality-of-life enhancements set for the single-player open world motion journey sport.
Let’s begin with the brand new fight content material, geared toward current gamers. Pearl Abyss mentioned it will give gamers the possibility to “show their true power as a Greymane.” Anticipate extra data sooner or later.
There’s a Re-Blockade rework coming that makes the movement earlier than and after a blockade “really feel extra pure,” Pearl abyss mentioned, together with new methods to defend sure strongholds from invasion. Rewards will even be improved to make liberating strongholds really feel extra rewarding. The Re-Blockade characteristic was added to assist endgame gamers keep engaged with the world, after some had mentioned they couldn’t discover enemies to combat as a result of they’d cleared all of them out.
However maybe probably the most vital adjustments are to character and story. One of many chief criticisms of Crimson Desert is that its story isn’t notably attention-grabbing, and its predominant character, Kliff, is one dimensional. Most who’ve performed Crimson Desert will concentrate on the dialogue round Kliff and his lack of character. The gruff Greymane is a person of few phrases; ‘Alright,’ which he responds with to even probably the most dramatic of traces of dialogue from different characters, has turn out to be a meme inside the neighborhood.
However Kliff’s empty character is simply part of Crimson Desert’s general story points. Actually, the sport has been praised for its open world, fight, and lots of, many methods. However the story and Kliff himself are typically considered the weaker features of the sport. From IGN’s Crimson Desert evaluate:
Whereas the world you’ll discover is filled with enjoyable stuff to do, the tales you’ll discover in it are constantly unhealthy. From the second you’re launched to the primary of its three playable characters – Kliff, a viking-coded warrior who’s on a low stakes revenge quest towards one other group of barbarians – there’s little or no to turn out to be invested in, and it solely will get worse from there. The story is aimless, the characters are forgettable throughout the board, the dialogue is commonly fairly onerous to hearken to, and there’s a complete multi-chapter arc in the primary questline that’s centered on a personality who dies offscreen earlier than the story even begins – they frequently attempt to make you care about this individual by means of a number of funeral scenes separated by hours and hours of sport time. It’s odd as a result of, with lengthy sequences of speaking to your companions and a number of time spent watching cutscenes as a part of the primary story, it does look like Pearl Abyss needed folks to care about these things, however nearly none of it’s actually value being attentive to and far of it’s actively cringe worthy. That mentioned, there are additionally a number of cutscenes filled with cool, anime-style fights – these are fairly sick.
Immediately, Pearl Abyss mentioned “enhancements are deliberate to strengthen the narrative and produce better stability to the playable characters.” On story enhancements particularly, Pearl Abyss is “refining the coherence of key scenes to strengthen the narrative movement of Kliff’s journey and make it extra participating.”
Damiane and Oongka, the opposite two playable characters that don’t correctly match into the story as a result of they’re locked out of key moments, will even see enhancements. “The general gameplay expertise for Damiane and Oongka will probably be improved, with varied changes made so that every one three playable characters share the highlight,” Pearl Abyss mentioned.
The cross-save characteristic does what you’d anticipate. By linking an account, gamers will be capable to share save information and proceed throughout PC, PlayStation, and Xbox. High quality-of-life enhancements for non-combat content material are coming to buying and selling and farming, “addressing areas gamers have discovered inconvenient.”
After which the massive one: Crimson Desert’s upcoming DLC. Pearl Abyss solely teased the DLC, confirming its existence and that it was being labored on. Nevertheless it did describe it as a “significant addition to the participant’s journey.” Might it’s thought-about an enlargement?
“Past the content material and options above, the group is difficult at work on an upcoming DLC for Crimson Desert,” Pearl Abyss mentioned. “Whereas particulars can’t be shared simply but, it’s being ready as a significant addition to the participant’s journey, with extra data to comply with.”
What might this DLC contain? Gamers have gone out of bounds and located varied attention-grabbing elements of the map with unused content material. There’s additionally a named space to the east, known as Sunbaked Peaks, that gamers are presently unable to succeed in. Maybe a narrative enlargement might open that up.
General, there’s lots to get enthusiastic about right here when you’re a Crimson Desert fan, and Pearl Abyss will probably be hoping story adjustments will encourage newcomers who had been postpone by the characters and plot. All of the whereas, the tempo of updates stays outstanding, with a patch launched each week.
Wesley is Director, Information at IGN. Discover him on Twitter at @wyp100. You possibly can attain Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.