Crimson Desert Update 1.04.00 Out Now — Check Out the Patch Notes

Crimson Desert developer Pearl Abyss has launched replace 1.04.00, which makes important enhancements to the sport. Chief amongst them is the addition of issue settings, new storage enhancements, new pets, keyboard/mouse and controller preset choices, new class tabs for the stock, new expertise, enhancements to distant surroundings high quality, and much more.

It’s value digging into the particulars right here. Onerous issue makes it so foot merchandise results gained’t be utilized instantly, and can solely take impact after the consumption animation is full. It will make it unattainable to recuperate well being by spamming meals. As a substitute, you are going to need to carve out the house and time to take action. In arduous issue you additionally take extra injury, and the most well being, aggressiveness, and total velocity of opponents is elevated. You additionally get a diminished timing window for parry and dodge, diminished invincibility period for roll, and elevated frequency of bosses trying to counterattack or escape when hit. And be warned: Pearl Abyss stated it had added extra fight patterns for sure bosses. Onerous issue will pair effectively with the upcoming boss rematch characteristic, which is able to allow you to face off towards bosses of your selection.

Straightforward issue, on the different hand, reduces the injury taken by the participant, reduces the most well being, aggressiveness, and total velocity of opponents, and extends the timing home windows for parry and dodge. Regular is the issue we’ve all been enjoying to this point.

There’s much more to love about this patch. It provides the Sturdy Gatherables Chest, which could be arrange with the housing system. It has 1,000 slots and could be bought from furnishings outlets. That is essential: supplies saved in the Sturdy Gatherables Chest can be utilized for crafting or refinement even when they don’t seem to be carried in your stock. That’s going to save lots of quite a lot of time for gamers!

Equally, the Kuku Cooler and Enhanced Kuku Cooler objects are added to the sport, and could be positioned with the housing system. The Kuku Cooler could be obtained by means of a quest, whereas the Enhanced Kuku Cooler could be crafted. Each can be utilized to retailer meals objects and elements. Substances saved in both cooler can be utilized for cooking even when they don’t seem to be carried in your stock. Once more, a welcome time saver.

Transferring on, Pearl Abyss has added birds as pets, which is able to give those that are constructing their animal armies much more to do. Elsewhere, there are 5 new kinds of cat pets, and you’ll change the names of horses and pets. Pets have a brand new slot for brand spanking new objects that provides them new talents and behaviors, too.

And that is good: Pearl Abyss has made yet one more bug an precise characteristic:

• Mounted a problem the place cats might stay on the participant’s shoulder indefinitely, opposite to the meant design. Nonetheless, contemplating that many Greymanes truly favored these cats’ habits, we have now added an merchandise that permits cats to remain on the shoulder for an extended time period.

There are massive adjustments to fight, too. Bosses are not resistant to participant assaults whereas performing highly effective assaults, which ought to make them simpler total. Kliff, Damiane, and Oongka have new expertise to mess around with, too.

As anticipated, there’s rather a lot on this patch that Pearl Abyss hadn’t introduced was on the method, and gamers are digging into it to search out out what’s new. It seems to be like the greatest replace but for Crimson Desert, which has loved huge success since occurring sale in March. These updates have drastically modified the sport, and the tempo of their launch is exceptional for a triple-A, single-player open world motion journey.

We’ve bought loads extra on Crimson Desert, together with reward from the director of The Witcher 3, a hidden meals consequence system {that a} modder has restored, and a formidable character creator mod. We advocate you check out our information to Issues to Do First in Crimson Desert, plus Issues Crimson Desert Doesn’t Inform You (we’ve bought 28 and counting!). We’ve additionally bought a information to the Greatest Early Weapons we advocate selecting up, the Greatest Expertise to Get First (together with a useful explainer of the expertise system), and 34 Important Suggestions and Tips that will help you reach Pywel.

The patch notes, courtesy of Pearl Abyss, are under:

Crimson Desert replace 1.04.00 patch notes:

• Straightforward / Regular / Onerous issue choices have been added to Settings > Play. For skilled Greymanes in search of extra intense and thrilling fight, Onerous issue affords a tougher journey.
  • For many who have loved many boss fights and wish to problem them once more, the boss rematches characteristic permitting you to face off towards the bosses of your selection will likely be added quickly.
  • Straightforward
    • Diminished injury taken by the participant.
    • Diminished most well being, aggressiveness, and total velocity of opponents.
    • Prolonged timing home windows for Parry and Dodge.
    • Diminished the frequency of bosses trying to counterattack or escape when hit.
  • Regular
    • That is the issue you have got been enjoying to this point.
  • Onerous
    • Meals merchandise results will not be utilized instantly and can solely take impact after the consumption animation is full.
    • Elevated injury taken by the participant.
    • Elevated most well being, aggressiveness, and total velocity of opponents.
    • Diminished timing window for Parry and Dodge.
    • Diminished the invincibility period for Roll.
    • Elevated the frequency of bosses trying to counterattack or escape when hit.
    • Added extra fight patterns for sure bosses.
• Added the Sturdy Gatherables Chest which could be arrange with the housing system.
  • The Sturdy Gatherables Chest has 1,000 slots and could be bought from furnishings outlets.
  • Supplies saved in the Sturdy Gatherables Chest can be utilized for crafting or refinement even when they don’t seem to be carried in your stock.
• Added the Kuku Cooler and Enhanced Kuku Cooler objects which could be positioned with the housing system.
  • The Kuku Cooler could be obtained by means of a quest, whereas the Enhanced Kuku Cooler could be crafted. Each can be utilized to retailer meals objects and elements.
    • Kuku Cooler: 40 slots
    • Enhanced Kuku Cooler: 330 slots.
  • Substances saved in both cooler can be utilized for cooking even when they don’t seem to be carried in your stock.
• Added the Collectibles Chest which could be positioned by means of housing mode.
  • The Collectibles Chest can be utilized to retailer varied quest objects and crafting recipes.
  • The Collectibles Chest has 1,000 slots and could be obtained by means of a quest.
• Added an outfit storage characteristic to the Wardrobe, which could be positioned by means of housing mode.
  • The Wardrobe could be bought from furnishings outlets.
  • Every Wardrobe supplies 100 storage slots, and the complete storage capability will increase based mostly on the variety of wardrobes positioned.
  • The utmost outfit storage capability is 1,000 slots.
• Added the Choose Home choice the place you’ll be able to change the format of your home.
  • Selectable home sorts unlock based mostly on the Greymane Camp enlargement stage.
    • Compact Home
    • Normal Home
    • Spacious Home
    • Spacious Pailunese Home
• Improved housing mode-related UI and controls.
• Added a operate that permits all furnishings objects positioned by means of the housing mode to be retrieved abruptly.
• Improved the Greymane Camp.
  • After shifting the camp to Pailune, you’ll obtain the Personal Storage merchandise which could be positioned by means of housing mode.
  • Added a effectively to Howling Hill.
• Improved the remark characteristic in order that Abyss artifacts could be earned when observing a talent that had already been acquired through the use of Abyss artifacts.
• Improved the following objects, which have been beforehand unstackable, to now stack in the stock:
  • Common Abyss gears, bugs, fish, and animals
• Added birds as pets. You may encounter these new companions all through Pywel.
  • Added the Sotdae of Bond merchandise which lets you achieve Belief with birds.
  • Place varied kinds of meals that birds would possibly like on the Sotdae of Bond to feed them and achieve Belief.
  • The Sotdae of Bond could be obtained by means of a quest.
• Added 5 new kinds of cat pets.
• Improved the Abyss Heuklang in order that it could actually develop into your pet.
• Added a operate to vary the names of horses and pets.
• Mounted a problem the place cats might stay on the participant’s shoulder indefinitely, opposite to the meant design. Nonetheless, contemplating that many Greymanes truly favored these cats’ habits, we have now added an merchandise that permits cats to remain on the shoulder for an extended time period.
  • Added an adjunct slot for pets, which is able to enable pets to now tackle a greater variety of roles.
    • Sigil of Bonding: Equipping this merchandise on a pet cat ensures it to remain longer in your shoulder.
• [Damiane] Added a brand new unique one-handed weapon, the Sword of Starlight, which could be obtained by means of a quest.
• [Kliff/Oongka] Added two new one-handed weapons, Tree Department and Sturdy Tree Department.
  • These things could be obtained by slicing down timber and bamboo timber.
• Added a brand new device, Sturdy Broom.
• [Kliff] Added the new Baltheon armor outfit.
• Modified the identify of Rekhia Plate Helm to Baltheon Plate Helm and improved it in order that it may be geared up by Kliff.
• Added a secret store in Pororin the place pet gear could be bought.
• Added extra outfits to sure outlets, together with the Again Alley Store.
• Improved the Kuku Flame-Resistant Armor and the Kuku Ice-Resistant Armor in order that they are often dyed.
• Added varied ores and wells throughout Pywel.
• Diminished the quantity of assault and protection gained from gear reinforcement with grindstones and anvils.
• Mounted a problem the place the cloudcart couldn’t be referred to as.
  • Improved the cloudcart in order that it may be used as a everlasting mount.
  • Modified the cloudcart crafting mission in order that it could actually solely be accomplished as soon as.
• Improved the costs of products offered by Greymane NPCs in order that they are often purchased at a ten% discounted value.
• Added livestock distributors throughout Pywel.
  • Livestock resembling cows, pigs, goats, sheep, geese, and chickens could be bought from these NPCs.
• Added 13 new tattoos for characters.
• Added a “Lock” operate that stops promoting or discarding of the chosen merchandise.
• Improved gathering and mining in order that the amount of things obtained is utilized constantly.
• Improved resting in mattress in order that the participant’s character will get up instantly afterward.
• Improved NPCs to indicate a greater variety of reactions to their environment.
• As a part of ongoing visible enhancements, changed choose 2D visible property to higher align with the sport’s artwork course.

Controls

• Added a preset characteristic for each keyboard/mouse and controllers.
  • The unique controls can be found by way of the “Traditional Preset”.
  • Extra detailed controller customization will likely be added quickly.
• Added a characteristic the place, when the interplay secret is pressed, the corresponding motion is carried out instantly.
  • [Keyboard/Mouse] This characteristic, situated in Settings > Enter > Keyboard/Mouse Customization, can be utilized when the UI interplay part doesn’t overlap with the keys in the Default Enter Group. If the keys overlap, that part will likely be highlighted in yellow.
  • [Controller] This characteristic can be utilized by means of the default settings in Settings > Enter > Controller Customization.
• Added the “Evasion Management” and “Change Roll and Evasion Enter” choices.
  • This characteristic permits you to select between both the authentic double click on/press choice or the maintain choice.
  • Enabling the “Change Roll and Evasion Enter” choice switches the controls for Roll and Evasion.
• Improved the controls for aiming
  • Added a operate that permits you to flip your lantern on and off whereas aiming.
  • Improved the controls in order that even when a weapon is drawn, urgent goal whereas there’s an interactable goal close by will instantly swap to goal as a substitute of guard.
• Added the “Utilizing Talent: Ingredient” choice.
  • Deciding on “Fast Slot Possibility” permits you to use the chosen parts assigned for every particular person enter.
• Modified the controls for Vault.
  • Vault can now solely be utilized by urgent Soar whereas performing a unique assault.
• Modified all interactions in order that they’re executed repeatedly whereas the button is held down.
• [Keyboard/Mouse & Controller] “Dismount/Drop” and “Cancel” keys/buttons have been mixed.
• [Keyboard/Mouse] Expanded the vary of customizable key bindings.
• [Keyboard/Mouse] Modified the Escape key used whereas underneath standing results to match the Evade key.
• [Controller] Improved the map in order that it may be opened by holding the DualSense contact pad or the Xbox controller’s View button.

Fight/Motion

• Adjusted the total stability of bosses.
  • Modified bosses in order that they’re not resistant to participant assaults whereas performing highly effective assaults.
  • Adjusted the frequency at which bosses counterattack or escape whereas being hit consecutively.
  • Adjusted the assault sample of sure bosses.
• Elevated injury taken from elemental standing illnesses.
• Barely diminished the injury dealt when hitting enemies with pillars or timber.
• Added new charging phases for Pressure Palm Pulse.
  • The talent could be charged as much as 3 phases, with injury growing progressively.
• Improved the total velocity of “Study” when inspecting objects.
• Improved the velocity of pushing or rotating objects throughout puzzles.
• Improved follow-up assaults so that they join extra shortly even when the preliminary assault is blocked.
• Modified Blinding Flash in order that it can be utilized in areas the place weapons can’t be drawn.
• Modified Blinding Flash in order that it’s used towards the goal presently being confronted throughout fight.
• Improved assault chaining after utilizing Dodge throughout unarmed fight.
• [Kliff] Added the talent Weapon Throw, usable whereas twin wielding.
  • This means can be utilized with the identical controls as Defend Bash.
  • Weapons could be retrieved by urgent the identical controls or by approaching it.
• [Kliff] Improved the assault velocity of Pressure Palm.
• [Kliff] Mounted a problem the place the parry motion after guarding wouldn’t set off when a non-sword weapon was geared up as the main weapon.
• [Kliff] Mounted a problem the place Cost couldn’t be used with sure weapons.
• [Kliff] Improved Pressure Present in order that Kliff not falls from ledges when utilizing it.
• [Damiane/Oongka] Added the talent Ambush.
• [Damiane/Oongka] Added a talent that has the identical impact as Kliff’s Centered Pressure Palm.
• [Oongka] Mounted a problem the place Oongka couldn’t transfer horizontally throughout Vertical Flight.
• [Oongka] Improved Oongka’s blaster in order that it may be fired throughout Flight.
• [Oongka] Mounted a problem the place Scatter Shot might be used even with out bullets throughout Again Grasp.
• Improved “Study” in order that it may be utilized in your stock whereas mounted on a horse.
• Improved the brightness and detection vary of the Miner’s Lantern Hat in order that it could actually extra simply establish gatherable ores.
  • It could possibly now establish stone as effectively.
• Modified the therapeutic results displayed on targets affected by Therapeutic Pressure Palm.
• Mounted a problem the place the “Raise” interplay turned unavailable when a restrained goal fell into water.
• Mounted a problem the place stamina would recuperate when repeatedly drawing and stowing weapons whereas shifting.
• Mounted a problem the place sprinting, swimming, and another actions couldn’t be carried out whereas using the Marni’s Mechahorse.
• Mounted a problem the place the character would get caught in sure conditions whereas working mechanical gadgets.
• Improved spears and longswords in order that their assaults move extra naturally throughout fight.
• [Damiane] Improved Fast Reload in order that, along with being acquirable by talent remark, the talent can be acquired with Abyss Artifacts. (Added: 2026/04/23)

UI Fixes & Enhancements

• Improved the stock in order that objects could be seen by means of class tabs.
  • There are 5 classes: All, Paperwork, Gear, Meals, Supplies, and Others.
  • The Kind settings for every stock class are saved and can stay in impact even after restarting the sport.
  • The identical class tabs may even be added to the personal storage in the close to future.
• Improved the stock UI in order that grouped icons will present an icon with a consultant picture of that group.
  • The characteristic could also be turned on or off in Settings > Play > Present Group Icon in Stock.
• Separated the enter choices for “Ungroup” and “Ungroup All Objects”.
• Added “Filters/Search” operate to the map.
• Improved the map and minimap in order that icons are displayed for obtained Reminiscence Fragments.
  • After Reminiscence Fragments are obtained, lanterns will not show a detection sign.
• Added a characteristic that permits gamers to decide on the form and coloration of map markers.
• Improved the map to show the inventory standing of store objects for outlets with whom most belief has been reached.
• Improved the map and minimap to show effectively icons.
• Improved the minimap to show north, south, east, west.
• [Kliff/Damiane/Oongka] Adjusted the format of the Expertise menu.
• Improved the Faction Quests and Challenges UI to indicate the variety of quests and challenges obtainable.
• Improved the Journal in order that reward merchandise data could be seen.
• Added a UI show to outlets that present what number of of an merchandise the participant owns.
• Improved outlets’ purchase menu to show the circumstances required for buying deactivated objects.

Graphics & Settings

• Improved the rendering high quality of distant objects and textures. The upper the graphics settings, the extra enhanced the particulars and visible readability will likely be.
  • Mounted a further difficulty the place background objects that ought to solely seem underneath sure circumstances have been all the time seen from a distance.
• Improved the visible high quality of characters at lengthy distances.
• Improved hair lighting in shaded areas.
• Improved errors and flickering associated to displacement mapping.
• Added a “Max” dimension for the subtitle font dimension setting.
• Improved to take care of the digital camera’s distance to the character when adjusting the visible vary.
• Added a “Colorblind Mode” choice in Settings > Accessibility.
• Added a “Chromatic Aberration” choice in Settings > Accessibility.
• Added a “Photosensitive Mode” choice in Settings > Accessibility.
• [PC] Improved the high quality of “AMD FSR Ray Regeneration”.
• [PC] Improved the high quality of “Intel XeSS 3.0” upscaling and “Intel XeSS Body Technology”.
• [Steam] Mounted a problem the place actions requiring rotation of the proper stick, resembling Nature’s Snare and reeling in a fishing rod, didn’t operate correctly with an Xbox controller when the “Allow Steam Enter” was enabled.
• [Mac] Diminished stuttering throughout gameplay.
• [Mac] Added a “MetalFX Denoising Upscaler” choice in Settings > Video. This selection is accessible ranging from macOS Tahoe.
• [Mac] Mounted a problem the place switching between a number of shows underneath Settings > Video didn’t work easily.
• [Mac] Mounted a problem the place the sport would launch at an unintended decision when utilizing sure shows.
• [Mac] Improved HDR high quality and allowed HDR to be enabled by default “For This Mac” preset when utilizing an HDR-compatible show.
• [Mac] Mounted a problem the place the display appeared excessively darkish when disabling HDR after it had been enabled.

Stability, Gameplay

• Modified the Load menu to show a discover in a slot if the save knowledge is corrupted or invalid.
• Mounted a problem that precipitated the sport to crash if HDR was enabled on a monitor that doesn’t help HDR.
• Mounted a number of stability and crash points throughout PC, console, and Mac.

Localization

• Mounted varied localization errors and improved localization high quality throughout all languages.

Others

• Tumbleweeds have been added to abandon areas.
• Mounted a problem the place the “Show Weapons” setting was not utilized correctly in sure cutscenes and gameplay conditions.
• Mounted a problem the place the goal location would show incorrectly when a bounty goal quest failed.
• Mounted the bounty system in order that if the participant’s bounty is simply too excessive to show in a bounty goal, bringing the goal to the Constabulary will set off an arrest state as a substitute of the handover cutscene.
• Improved comrades’ habits so they don’t assault bounty targets.
• Mounted a problem the place, after finishing sure quests, monitoring of the subsequent quest didn’t set off correctly.
• Improved the Journal to point whether or not a quest goal has been dispatched on a mission.
• Improved the progress show for cumulative quests resembling “To the Rescue”.
• Mounted a problem the place the sport would often shut when retrying bosses as Damiane or Oongka.
• Mounted a problem the place the character swap menu turned obtainable after finishing a stage that robotically switched the participant character.
• Mounted a problem the place teleporting by way of the map whereas mounted on Blackstar precipitated Blackstar to develop into invincible or unable to maneuver.
• Mounted a problem the place Blackstar wouldn’t transfer when summoned from a distance.
• Mounted a problem the place an merchandise was displayed incorrectly when studying a Reminiscence Fragment with the lantern.
• Mounted a problem in the Prologue the place enemies wouldn’t acknowledge the participant after the participant rested in a mattress.
• Mounted a problem that precipitated an inifite loading display to seem if the participant was caught dishonest at Duo as Oongka.
• Mounted a problem the place NPCs have been unable decide up objects that they had dropped after colliding with the participant.
• Mounted a problem the place some outfits seemed unnatural relying on the participant’s actions.
• Improved the show of the horse cargo so it not overlaps with shields.
• Mounted a problem the place audio didn’t play correctly in sure conditions.
• Mounted a problem the place a sure Pailune service provider NPC wouldn’t seem in some save information.
• Mounted a problem the place the mission would fail if a bounty goal was killed after being captured.
• Mounted a problem the place Belief wouldn’t enhance after giving a present to the boss of the Beggars’ Alliance.
• Mounted a problem the place the results of the objects Golden Beer and Sage’s Eye didn’t apply correctly.
• Mounted a problem the place related Data was not acquired after interacting with the Pailune Militiamen.
• Mounted a problem the place the information for Tristan, the Flame Knight, Marni’s Machina Knight, and Dreadnought couldn’t be acquired.
• Mounted a problem the place Better Abyss Gear couldn’t be offered.
• Mounted enhancement supplies, crafting supplies, and reinforcement ranges that had been set in a different way from the gear materials kind.
• Mounted varied different in-game points.

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.