COMPU73E ❄️Mar 23

caved, and bought Crimson Desert on PS5, downloading now. 85GB! I played Black Desert Online for three years and I like Pearl Abyss as a developer and this looks pretty much like a single player version of that game

I never played a game with as big a world as BDO, it was phenomenal. no fast travel* and it took an hour to sail across the ocean, and you could literally get lost in the desert

*well technically there is fast travel but you needed one of the rarest items in the game to do it. that may have changed now but when I last played the Archaeologist's Map was really hard to get, literally days of grinding for the 0.000000001% chance to get the pieces to drop. I'll never forget the feeling when I finally made it and people saw the server announcement

Show threadCOMPU73E ❄️Mar 24

"well met, stranger. I'm sweatier than a pig's arse!"

...is what one of the first random NPCs I talked to in Crimson Desert said to me earlier 😄

game is great. movement is very slow and weighty, and the combat has a great feel to it. my experience playing Black Desert means I feel right at home already with some of the systems, and I can see myself getting lost in this game for hours

looks and runs great on my base PS5 at 1080p in Balanced mode

Show threadCOMPU73E ❄️Mar 24

Crimson Desert combat is a mash up of a few classes from Black Desert, mainly warrior. even some of the skill names are the same! like Spinning Slash. it's all about learning the button combos to pull off the moves, can see the better players doing some crazy shit. the combat will have a very high skill ceiling I think

the tutorials are utterly awful though, I've had to Google about 20 things already (including "how to put my weapon away")

spotted a couple of characters from BDO already, too! Alustin (who was an Alchemist in BDO and is some sort of Abyss Priest here) and the little Shai Rulupee. so cool

Show threadCOMPU73E ❄️Mar 25

raging at the boss at the end of the Quarry and his "disappears underground then pops up to one-shot you" bullshit attack 😤

I got him, but as the first boss most players will likely face they could've toned it down a bit. took me about 20 attempts

Show threadCOMPU73E ❄️Mar 25

I knew nothing about the story in Crimson Desert before buying it, and I am now starting to suspect that this game might just be a prequel to Black Desert. We have Alustin (who I was always suspicious that there was more going on than we knew about in BDO), Rulupee, and now Shakatu, all turning up

if we end up in a little port town called Velia at some point I will squeee

I really really hope the black spirit turns up at some point, I love that little guy 🤔 I have the beginnings of a theory but it's just a wild stab in the dark

Show threadCOMPU73E ❄️Mar 26

spent over an hour just fishing last night 🙏🏻 listening to the sound of the river and the ambient noise, the game is gorgeous

I wonder if there's a rare chance to fish relics 🤔 (BDO again) you can get accessories like earrings and other items the fish have swallowed

#CrimsonDesert

Show threadChris 👾

@COMPU73E How do you actually catch the fish? I've got a few bites but the fish always gets away and there is no indicator in which direction to pull before reeling in? I tried the fishing mini game for 15 minutes until I gave up for now. Standing in shallow water and just grabbing the fish with my bare hands took about 10 seconds until I've got that tench 😂

That being said, the river ambience is just stunning, I can't remember I've ever seen such level of nature ambience detail in a game: the way the birds take flight in a flurry and dragonflies skim across the water... I wouldn't be surprised if some bear shows up and starts catching salmon or something.

Mar 26 at 3:06pmWeb
Show threadCOMPU73E ❄️Mar 26

@chris it took me a while to figure out, when you get a bite press R2 and then use the left stick to pull in the opposite direction the fish is swimming, keep this up for a while and it will stop moving, then rotate the right stick clockwise to reel it in

if it starts moving again stop reeling and pull in the opposite direction again

it's tricky!

Show threadChris 👾Mar 26
@COMPU73E Thanks, I'm pretty sure I didn't use R2 so that might be it! 😄