Crimson Desert [Early Access]
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Nodrim




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PostPosted: Sun, 29th Mar 2026 08:59    Post subject:
A lot of the time they chose quantity over quality. More than half of the quests from the starting area are go from point A to point B and talk.

I watched some streams and people 100 hours into the game are doing the same kind of quests.


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blackeyedboy




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PostPosted: Sun, 29th Mar 2026 09:55    Post subject:
jermore wrote:
blackeyedboy wrote:
https://youtu.be/byp8__qc5iY

yeah the negative narrative isn't holding water on social media Laughing
now social media has to spin it like the early game is bad somehow, but in reality they are actually just incredibly impatient and lazy people

it's wild to call this game a mess honestly, it's one of the most well-built games of all time Laughing been fantastic so far for me, 50 hours and I haven't done anything. reminiscent of RDR, but without the restrictive boring missions.. I've not seen a "fail" gameover yet just because I wanted to approach something differently than intended, there's a good deal more freedom of action here and the game ain't afraid to use it.


There's still one important test to pass:

How will the game feel after 50 / 100 / 250 hours? Will there still be a motivation to play it -- like the Witcher 3 / Elder Scrolls games --- or it will just be "meh" / boring?

RDR2 is -- in any given moment (!) -- backed by excellent characters and story, even if the gameplay is not everyone's cup of tea.

But this game -- that I do like in this moment for the world, environments and freedom of interaction with everything -- has weird / bad dialogues and (as a general consensus) an average story.


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jermore




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PostPosted: Sun, 29th Mar 2026 10:27    Post subject:
blackeyedboy wrote:
jermore wrote:
blackeyedboy wrote:
https://youtu.be/byp8__qc5iY

yeah the negative narrative isn't holding water on social media Laughing
now social media has to spin it like the early game is bad somehow, but in reality they are actually just incredibly impatient and lazy people

it's wild to call this game a mess honestly, it's one of the most well-built games of all time Laughing been fantastic so far for me, 50 hours and I haven't done anything. reminiscent of RDR, but without the restrictive boring missions.. I've not seen a "fail" gameover yet just because I wanted to approach something differently than intended, there's a good deal more freedom of action here and the game ain't afraid to use it.


There's still one important test to pass:

How will the game feel after 50 / 100 / 250 hours? Will there still be a motivation to play it -- like the Witcher 3 / Elder Scrolls games --- or it will just be "meh" / boring?

RDR2 is -- in any given moment (!) -- backed by excellent characters and story, even if the gameplay is not everyone's cup of tea.

But this game -- that I do like in this moment for the world, environments and freedom of interaction with everything -- has weird / bad dialogues and (as a general consensus) an average story.

It's hard to tell how far this one will go, but it's certainly no problem at 50 no matter what you choose to do.. I generally only get 70-80 hours out of open world games because they suffer from limited gameplay or repetitive elements or dull writing.
This game was actually better than I expected after being hyped for six years of waiting knowing the BDO devs were doing something new.
I really expected a pure action game with the ridiculous writing from that, maybe on the scale of skyrim; but here they really blew my expectations away.

I can see an easy 150 from me, but 250? well.. the world is certainly big enough and the combat is fantastic after suffering through the controls, there's a lot of well thought out mechanics, and we have things like trading and fuck knows how many minigames and puzzles throughout. I think it'll fare pretty well here if you are gameplay orientated atleast.
Then again, I didn't get anywhere near finishing the witcher, BG3, skyrim, fallout Laughing
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PostPosted: Sun, 29th Mar 2026 10:29    Post subject:
jermore wrote:
friketje wrote:
Stormwolf wrote:
What a incredible sell. "50 hours and i havent done anything"


But i can't believe how much content this game has, i'm only in the starting city after 80 hours LOL

because that's a negative Sad
you guys are some real sour grapes at times Laughing


Yes, it is. Cause it's about the quality of the content.

I'm a semi completionist. I'm not bothered with 100% a game, but when there is a quest, I do the quest. Period.
So i'm doing these riding with your party members quest with the horse icon now. I've lost count at how many times I revisited the camp (8+?), ride with a dude hearing a boring conversation doing the same route for no reason. Cause you'll stop somewhere and still have to fast travel alone to another location. Doing a boring tutorial quest or just talking to someone to complete the quest. The devs are bloating the game for no reason just to lengthen the game. But the game is big enough allready without this shit. It makes no sense that they are doing this.

And people falling for that saying: wow, this game is enormous are just retarded. There is enough decent content in the game allready like 75 bosses, a huge world. That's more then enough. Fuck off with the rest of the stupid shit.
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PostPosted: Sun, 29th Mar 2026 10:35    Post subject:
jermore wrote:
Stormwolf wrote:
What a incredible sell. "50 hours and i havent done anything"

like you wanted a list or what? Laughing


That would be a quite the short list since you haven't done anything.
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PostPosted: Sun, 29th Mar 2026 10:42    Post subject:
Stormwolf wrote:
jermore wrote:
Stormwolf wrote:
What a incredible sell. "50 hours and i havent done anything"

like you wanted a list or what? Laughing


That would be a quite the short list since you haven't done anything.


^ Another retraded ignorant interpretation.

You consider that everyone that plays games should do it the way you do it, right?

In Witcher 3 I spent hours and hours just walking around and simply interacting with the environment (flowers, candles, Igni, Axii, barrels, talking with NPCs, observing details etc.).



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friketje




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PostPosted: Sun, 29th Mar 2026 10:44    Post subject:
blackeyedboy wrote:
Stormwolf wrote:
jermore wrote:

like you wanted a list or what? Laughing


That would be a quite the short list since you haven't done anything.


^ Another retraded ignorant interpretation.

You consider that everyone that plays games should do it the way you do it, right?

In Witcher 3 I spent hours and hours just walking around and simply interacting with the environment (flowers, candles, Igni, Axii, barrels, talking with NPCs, observing details etc.).



That's autism for you but the Witcher 3 at least had good quality content. This game has not.
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PostPosted: Sun, 29th Mar 2026 10:49    Post subject:
friketje wrote:
blackeyedboy wrote:
Stormwolf wrote:


That would be a quite the short list since you haven't done anything.


^ Another retraded ignorant interpretation.

You consider that everyone that plays games should do it the way you do it, right?

In Witcher 3 I spent hours and hours just walking around and simply interacting with the environment (flowers, candles, Igni, Axii, barrels, talking with NPCs, observing details etc.).



That's autism for you but the Witcher 3 at least had good quality content. This game has not.


So? What you mean by that?

Besides the fact that reality simply eludes you?

Also, some of the richest MFs on this planet have autism so...

Laughing

Just try another derp butt-hurt insult!

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jermore




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PostPosted: Sun, 29th Mar 2026 10:50    Post subject:
friketje wrote:
jermore wrote:
friketje wrote:


But i can't believe how much content this game has, i'm only in the starting city after 80 hours LOL

because that's a negative Sad
you guys are some real sour grapes at times Laughing


Yes, it is. Cause it's about the quality of the content.

I'm a semi completionist. I'm not bothered with 100% a game, but when there is a quest, I do the quest. Period.

yeah I don't play games like that, I don't do quests to check boxes Laughing that is quite literally not worth ones time and the game certainly has a lot of mundane tasks you can do. This doesn't bother me so long as I enjoy em, but I play a lot of simulators and survival games that expect a lot of patience.
They give you a lot of options to do what you want, in whatever order you want. It's a life simulator of sorts but you try to play it like a linear game Confused

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So i'm doing these riding with your party members quest with the horse icon now. I've lost count at how many times I revisited the camp (8+?), ride with a dude hearing a boring conversation doing the same route for no reason. Cause you'll stop somewhere and still have to fast travel alone to another location. Doing a boring tutorial quest or just talking to someone to complete the quest. The devs are bloating the game for no reason just to lengthen the game. But the game is big enough allready without this shit. It makes no sense that they are doing this.

no idea what you are even talking about here Laughing I don't think you were suppose to back-to-back whatever these are.. you don't seem compatible with games that don't manage your attention. If I had to level a solid complaint at the game, there are some very repetitive dialogues at times. Can't name a game that doesn't unfortunately.

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And people falling for that saying: wow, this game is enormous are just retarded. There is enough decent content in the game allready like 75 bosses, a huge world. That's more then enough. Fuck off with the rest of the stupid shit.

It's fine if you don't appreciate it, just play the MQ and fire up the next game Laughing
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friketje




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PostPosted: Sun, 29th Mar 2026 10:55    Post subject:
jermore wrote:

yeah I don't play games like that, I don't do quests to check boxes Laughing that is quite literally not worth ones time and the game certainly has a lot of mundane tasks you can do. This doesn't bother me so long as I enjoy em, but I play a lot of simulators and survival games that expect a lot of patience.
They give you a lot of options to do what you want, in whatever order you want. It's a life simulator of sorts but you try to play it like a linear game Confused


Probably for the better. My problem is if I don't do all the sidequests that will give progression/makes you more powerfull, why bother about the game at all?? At least that's what's in my mind. Laughing.
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jermore




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PostPosted: Sun, 29th Mar 2026 11:06    Post subject:
friketje wrote:
jermore wrote:

yeah I don't play games like that, I don't do quests to check boxes Laughing that is quite literally not worth ones time and the game certainly has a lot of mundane tasks you can do. This doesn't bother me so long as I enjoy em, but I play a lot of simulators and survival games that expect a lot of patience.
They give you a lot of options to do what you want, in whatever order you want. It's a life simulator of sorts but you try to play it like a linear game Confused


Probably for the better. My problem is if I don't do all the sidequests that will give progression/makes you more powerfull, why bother about the game at all?? At least that's what's in my mind. Laughing.

you are gonna get overpowered without even doing the side quests Laughing I can't think of too many side quests i've done that actually gave me some measure of power progression, it all came from collecting abyss artifacts from exploration, upgrading my gear, murdering people, stealing recipes Cool
mastering the controls is probably the most important Rolling Eyes can't get enough of suplexing people and torturing them in new ways Laughing

I'm actually terrified the difficulty will turn into a joke soon (i'm sure it will), I keep expecting something to pop up that is miles better than my crafted gear but so far it's been very gradual so I'm actually not sure what the best route for progression is. Pumping stamina with abyss artifacts is required though for flight and advanced techniques to be any good.
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PostPosted: Sun, 29th Mar 2026 12:17    Post subject:
thread keeps giving Laughing
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friketje




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PostPosted: Sun, 29th Mar 2026 12:46    Post subject:
jermore wrote:
friketje wrote:
jermore wrote:

yeah I don't play games like that, I don't do quests to check boxes Laughing that is quite literally not worth ones time and the game certainly has a lot of mundane tasks you can do. This doesn't bother me so long as I enjoy em, but I play a lot of simulators and survival games that expect a lot of patience.
They give you a lot of options to do what you want, in whatever order you want. It's a life simulator of sorts but you try to play it like a linear game Confused


Probably for the better. My problem is if I don't do all the sidequests that will give progression/makes you more powerfull, why bother about the game at all?? At least that's what's in my mind. Laughing.

you are gonna get overpowered without even doing the side quests Laughing I can't think of too many side quests i've done that actually gave me some measure of power progression, it all came from collecting abyss artifacts from exploration, upgrading my gear, murdering people, stealing recipes Cool
mastering the controls is probably the most important Rolling Eyes can't get enough of suplexing people and torturing them in new ways Laughing

I'm actually terrified the difficulty will turn into a joke soon (i'm sure it will), I keep expecting something to pop up that is miles better than my crafted gear but so far it's been very gradual so I'm actually not sure what the best route for progression is. Pumping stamina with abyss artifacts is required though for flight and advanced techniques to be any good.


Off course, these games let you skip all the content and you'll still be able to do the main quest.
I've still got my old school BG1 and 2 mindset of doing all the side content and in the past filler content didn't exist. Skipping side content feels like skipping the game for me at last.
Perhaps with this game it's fine to skip a lot cause there is still more then enough content left. But you also don't know what quests are crap untill you start them.
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PostPosted: Sun, 29th Mar 2026 13:05    Post subject:
Dude, wtf...

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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/m3aevngpxtY


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PostPosted: Sun, 29th Mar 2026 13:23    Post subject:
blackeyedboy wrote:
Dude, wtf...

Laughing

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/m3aevngpxtY

I didn't know you could actually get under these without using the stupid prompt Laughing took me a good 2 minutes to do it the first time
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PostPosted: Sun, 29th Mar 2026 13:52    Post subject:
Why argue with blackeyed? He whines in every single game thread especially if you say you like it or have prepurchased it, but when its something he likes, he's just as relentless in defending it.

Must be sin's alt account
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PostPosted: Sun, 29th Mar 2026 14:17    Post subject:
Troubles in anti-woke paradise? Cool Face
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PostPosted: Sun, 29th Mar 2026 15:18    Post subject:
I see the group of GAI (Gamers Anonymous and Insecure) begins to assemble...

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PostPosted: Sun, 29th Mar 2026 15:29    Post subject:
harry_theone wrote:
thread keeps giving Laughing

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PostPosted: Sun, 29th Mar 2026 15:41    Post subject:
blackeyedboy wrote:
I see the group of GAI (Gamers Anonymous and Insecure) begins to assemble...

Mobster with a Fag
Laughing


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PostPosted: Sun, 29th Mar 2026 15:46    Post subject:
WTF No.2:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SkUdufpTQNk

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PostPosted: Sun, 29th Mar 2026 17:10    Post subject:
New patch 1.01.00 from yesterday (28th March) makes flying traversal actually viable and fun. And there are more great changes. Played like 8h straight today. This game is addicting Smile

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PostPosted: Sun, 29th Mar 2026 17:26    Post subject:
I hope the patches doesn't slow down any time soon.

Compare this to the joke which was Dragon's Dogma 2, they just didn't give a shit, i bet this almost surpasses it at this point, if not, it will soon.

I'm glad i never supported DD2.
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PostPosted: Mon, 30th Mar 2026 05:28    Post subject:
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Laughing the black guy.
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PostPosted: Mon, 30th Mar 2026 12:09    Post subject:
yup, the water is so cool in this game

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PostPosted: Mon, 30th Mar 2026 12:31    Post subject:
https://sh.reddit.com/r/CrimsonDesert/comments/1s6zd6p/they_listen_and_they_deliver_best_dev_team_ever/

5 NEW PERMANENT
MOUNTS ADDED

~GLIDING NOW USES
LESS STAMINA

DECREASED LOADING
TIMES FOR FAST TRAVEL

Al ASSETS HAVE
BEEN REMOVED

ADDED HOLD TO SPRINT
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PostPosted: Mon, 30th Mar 2026 15:09    Post subject:
Anyone know a place to get a sub 50 bucks steam key - all i see is overpriced shops (close to retail or above) or cheap fucking MS Store/RoW (Latin America) keys... I dont think that game is worth more than that.


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PostPosted: Mon, 30th Mar 2026 16:14    Post subject:
DaLexy wrote:
Anyone know a place to get a sub 50 bucks steam key - all i see is overpriced shops (close to retail or above) or cheap fucking MS Store/RoW (Latin America) keys... I dont think that game is worth more than that.
Cheapest I see seems to be eneba at 50:
https://www.allkeyshop.com/blog/products/?search_name=crimson+desert


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PostPosted: Mon, 30th Mar 2026 16:32    Post subject:
@DaLexy Popular games like this are always expensive and for a while too.

Really cheap alternative are accounts, if you're only interested in playing, not necessarily having it on your main steam...
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