Crimson Desert (PC/PS5/XSX) - March 19, 2026

[Malithar]

Quest bugs are probably my biggest complaint, shit writing/story aside. I'm not even sure what is or isn't a bug, maybe some of these are just designed to be this way on purpose and it's unclear. I've had numerous quests that I knew nothing about get assigned randomly with seemingly no action related to it on my part. Some quests are oddly completed without any notice or you get a marker to some location and you get there and it completes with no indication other than the pop up. There was some monk I had to find a mushroom for, then after getting it and going to where the marker was, it seemingly just completed with no notification and the mushrooms became usable keepsakes. The odd bounty quests too are beyond me, the ones that are like "you captured the real culprit, go notify the mother" or whatever, yet I had no story or direction that there was even anyone falsely imprisoned or anything nor which bounty it was tied to. I think some of these may be tied to the memories you find, but it's really unclear.

[6souls]

A random stranger paid me 5 silver for liberating the Karin Mine.

Finally got passed the archery contest this weekend (performance mode on PS5 somehow makes it manageable). The scholar mission was so badly laid out. I knew the steps from exploring the area previously, but at no point are you given dialog to prompt you to begin, the game just expects you to know. That's been nearly every puzzle except for the handful that have the preview hologram.

Came across a boss in Pauline, White Bearclaw, that two-hit me upon the fight starting. When I looked up the strat, it's stunlock with spinning slash or environment cheese with spear, and learned that had I not previously gotten the quest, defeating him would break the quest later on. Punishment for exploring.

[6souls]

Stage 4 camp is just flags. 100k for flags.

[Kachiko]

It upgrades your companions as well, for missions so you get even more resources.

[6souls]

It upgrades your companions as well, for missions so you get even more resources.

yeah yeah. I sent them in for a raid for the first time and while they were under-powered still, they still cleared the territory before I could arrive to help. Going to send them towards a fortress next.

[Kachiko]

Wait, you didn't go out with Kliff & company to slaughter them?

HERESY!

[Kachiko]

Holy shit, this game and it's infuriatingly bullshit objectives. Could they be anymore more fuckwadery than trying to get on the fucking dragon in chapter 9.

[Tyrath]

Based on the comments in here I thought the excavator boss would be way worse. One well timed stun took off half his health

The explosive barrels around the quarry that I kept getting myself killed on were more annoying lol

[Kachiko]

Learned a few things. Normal logging axe for Fine Timber and Olvad's axe for Flawless timber. Getting the wind infused element and then getting Pillar of Wind from the Pauline Harpy fight makes traveling vertically a "breeze" Need to do several of the Pailune militia commissions before quest to unlock it and the key to the spire you need to go through is after finishing Chapter 7, so its a bit into the game but well worth it. Chapter 9 is rather insufferable without it so I highly recommend getting it before tackling that chapter. You'll also need Health upgraded to 7 and the others to 6.

Oh, and talking to NPC that show up as a white dot will sometimes get you key information, so instead of hunting all of the wildlife, or finding every recipe/catching every fish, you can get the knowledge from them instead.

[Tymon]

Based on the comments in here I thought the excavator boss would be way worse. One well timed stun took off half his health

The explosive barrels around the quarry that I kept getting myself killed on were more annoying lol

There is enough to do in the first 5 chapters or so that you can put off the story for so long that you absolutely dominate everything up to mid ch5. After that you start to get fucked up until you unlock abyss gears and get enough loot to refine your gear a lot. And I mean a lot. It's either that or chugging dozens of food items on mid/late game bosses lol

[6souls]

It's either that or chugging dozens of food items on mid/late game bosses lol

I kinda wish it was like Skyrim where you could wolf down 100 carrots in one go. The 1-2 second delay on consumption is a death knell for some bosses and all bears.

[Tyrath]

I assume it's intentional so you can't just heal tank everything lol

[Tyrath]

Whats up with the To the Rescue quest? Seems it counts anytime I free a person but is there a specific target #?

[Krandor]

I don't think it ever completes, it's just a permanent running counter that doesn't do anything

[Tyrath]

Lol...wonder why they even bothered with it then

[Tymon]

It completes very very late in the game

Spoiler: show

you eventually liberate all of Pailune and they all go home along with the option for you to move camp there

[Kachiko]

Even when I moved, it didn't complete for me so...?

Working on my mecha worker army atm. I didn't do a lot of the map outside of Hernand, so, lots left to do even after beating the game. Not looking forward to picking up 32 abyss cores from the field, but at least the rain necklace makes watering easy.

[Malithar]

Based on the comments in here I thought the excavator boss would be way worse. One well timed stun took off half his health

The explosive barrels around the quarry that I kept getting myself killed on were more annoying lol

For me, it was definitely just learning how to handle bosses. It was my first and I was pretty much playing the game like Dynasty Warriors with some dodging/parrying til that point and hadn't upgraded gear or stats at all. Hadn't even tried, thought with it being a skill tree you couldn't upgrade health until you got out to the end of the tree. XD

[6souls]

The PS5 exclusive armor/weapon set, Grotevant Plate/The Wolf, are considered key items and don't count against your inventory. I haven't had to swap gears due to the set being better than most of what you pick up, but now that I'm on chapter 7, the world gear drops are finally getting better.

[Kachiko]

Well, there's very little difference between gear, so it's more about style than function. The abyss gear helps boost a lot and you can just swap that around, though some are vastly superior to other options.