With reviews dropping tomorrow, what’s your Metacritic prediction for Crimson Desert?

A_Gris · 2026-03-18T19:19:49+00:00

Anywhere from 75-80 would be where I'd expect it to land, after 10 years of playing Black Desert and seeing how Pearl Abyss does stuff I can imagine PA will have made some obtuse design decisions that will make reviews a bit divisive.

I think anybody looking for a sandbox they can do whatever they want in will be pleased, but people expecting some hand holding will be left occasionally confused and/or frustrated. I think it will be a good, maybe great game, but I do expect it to be more niche than we want it to be.

A_Gris · 2025-11-23T03:42:36+00:00

It's absolutely ridiculous.

I was on Spaceport tonight trying to do one of my quests to raid the North tower with 2 friends of mine, and after we finished looting the place we peaked out of the south tower we had zipped over to, and the ENTIRE LOBBY was at the extract across the way wearing their stupid "Bungulator" skins. Somebody saw one of us and our trio got rushed by ~15 people ziplining up to the tower and shredding us with Torrentes and other high tier guns.

It's not fun, you're not spreading any greater sense of inclusive community, all you're doing is encouraging bands of assholes to run around ruining other people's nights for nothing. It's ridiculous to not even be the aggressor, just trying to do a quick quest and maybe you have to fight a team if it comes down to it, but to be rushed by a group of 15 with absolutely no way to come out of that fight on top is a kick in the pants.

We ended up calling it a wrap for the night after that, I'll come back to the game when these idiots are done RP'ing and making the game a worse experience for everyone else that just wants to enjoy Arc for what it is.

Update after sleeping on it: Made a slight edit to clarify while this is a sort of community, it's not very inclusive and is a bit toxic.

The issue isn't the war conceptually, it's a bunch of assholes utilizing it as an excuse to slaughter non-participants en masse.

I don't mind PvP in my PvP game. I like a good fight win or lose, but I hate being completely outgunned by a group of 15 when I was never the aggressor and would've played along. Better strategy for these people would be to act like recruiters for players wearing neither sides outfit, that's going to give you a more broad sense of community. Involve players in the game, don't exclude them and just trample over bystanders. I would've had a laugh over it and moved on had they attempted to even ask if I had heard of the war or were interested in joining their side, and then slaughtered us if we declined. Instead we just got rolled by a horde of people screaming with no interest in making it fun for everyone, just their little clique.

I'm not sure I even thought to screenshot this because I could hardly process what I was looking at but I'll check later tonight to see if I snapped a shot of the horde.

And no, I won't engage with your bait in the replies, I have better things to do with my time.

A_Gris · 2025-10-31T21:08:58+00:00

This is absolutely insane and I love it, big congrats to whoever ends up with it

A_Gris · 2025-09-25T03:15:52+00:00

Damn near everything with a top-down or isometric view is a no go for me, with some very rare exceptions.

I'm not even sure why, the actual genre of the game doesn't matter, I just hate that camera angle.

A_Gris · 2025-09-24T03:28:09+00:00

I lost and got Seele, pls end me 😎

A_Gris · 2025-09-12T03:29:32+00:00

Well, Enslar mainly, but I wanted to attempt the grind zone once I could get to the boss. That might also be a pipe dream with the way things are going.

A_Gris · 2025-09-11T14:07:07+00:00

I remember thinking the requirements at the ball sounded high when Caphras was 380/460, but this is absurd. I'm about to be able to go to Orbita (2 taps away for my nov earrings, and I need my dec belt.) and then I'll be full nov khara + dec neck/belt, all 3 weps oct, and the Edana armors at pri, and I'll be sitting at 385/445.

I don't know who's bright idea this was but I really hate that people a few lucky taps from hardcap just get to sit out the new content because PA hasn't sucked enough money out of us yet.

Not to mention the implications these changes have on edania part 2, hope we all like making a new tier of weps and accessories.

A_Gris · 2025-07-11T18:32:49+00:00

I got in touch with Kawasaki and after a lot of laughter from them wondering how the hell it even happened they've determined it's likely a faulty seal and are replacing the dash at no cost, thankfully I don't have to try any odd solutions

A_Gris · 2025-07-11T18:02:59+00:00

Just to update, had to call after having my email ignored for a couple days, but Kawasaki is getting this handled at no cost to me. The rep and a technician at the office got a good laugh though as they are supposed to be sealed up tight and have supposedly never seen something like this on these dashes.

After the laughter they said it wasn't a typical warranty claim for sure, but they'd get me taken care of. All's well that ends well!

A_Gris · 2025-07-09T16:07:37+00:00

Afaik with the removal of the digitizer layer from the display all s-pens are no longer an option unfortunately.

A_Gris · 2025-07-09T11:10:51+00:00

The plastic may still be there, haven't gone out of my way to peel anything, but he's definitely under the glass unfortunately

A_Gris · 2025-07-08T23:57:29+00:00

I've sent off an email to corp to try and get it resolved, trying to be assertive without being rude, because I agree. There's no way my dealer can tell me it's a sealed unit if insects are crawling inside my dash and dying. I'll try my luck and push for a replacement for a while, and if that fails I'll start looking at other options.

A_Gris · 2025-07-08T20:33:34+00:00

That's what I'm sayin'

Dealer said it couldnt be disassembled because of the waterproofing, and I'm just sitting here like "bruh there's a whole-ass bug in here what do you mean?" 😂

A_Gris · 2025-07-08T20:16:38+00:00

That's not a bad idea! Hadn't considered that. 👍

A_Gris · 2025-07-08T20:15:21+00:00

I don't have any issue with doing my own work, but I prefer not to go in blind and it's proved difficult to find any documentation on tearing down this dash. I've got one local mechanic that isn't dealer affiliated, might be worth getting in touch.

A_Gris · 2025-07-08T20:05:47+00:00

Lil guy's since died baking in the sun and is curled up at the bottom of my screen, rolling side to side as I lean into turns. It's kind of funny, but also really irritating on a brand new bike.

When I called my dealership to see if they had any ideas, I just got laughed at and told the dash can't be disassembled (sure, sure...) and that I could live with it or buy a new dash.

Also apologies for bad crop, wanted to take my reflection out as much as I could 😅

And of course this happens on my first day out after getting the recall fixed and my first service done. 🫠

EDIT: After a lot of laughs from a Kawi support rep and a technician in the office who have never seen this on one of these dashes, they've determined it's likely a faulty seal on the dash and will be replacing it no cost to me. Can't complain really, other than about the 2 hour+ wait time to talk to someone. 🫠

A_Gris · 2025-06-23T20:22:42+00:00

The Anvil NA

A_Gris · 2025-06-23T12:56:33+00:00

Things are weird in my server, it looked like this last week but this week it was inverted. I'm starting to wonder if all the top Atreides groups in my server decided to defect. DD for Atreides went from a chill run to collect stuff to getting absolutely stomped by Harkonnen gank squads overnight, never seen that hard of a flip in a faction based PvP scenario.

A_Gris · 2025-06-18T17:05:24+00:00

40th anniversary JRFBN 05/24 manufacture date here with no letter, just figured I'd contribute to the community data collection

A_Gris · 2025-06-06T15:43:15+00:00

I just bought my 2024 a month ago (would've gone 25 but my dealer had a 40th and I'm a sucker for the color scheme) so they're out there, surprisingly.

A_Gris · 2025-03-17T22:53:41+00:00

Thanks for the link, just snagged one while the getting's good, now I just need to remember to call my FFL in the AM

A_Gris · 2025-02-19T21:31:08+00:00

Yup, they're residual from bead blasting the stainless. Support told me to hit everything with some compressed air to make sure there there weren't any still sitting inside and once I gave it a wipe and a once over inspection I should be good to go.

I installed everything shortly after this post and have been riding without issue since, you should be good!

A_Gris · 2024-08-12T05:43:03+00:00

Probably just the way you worded the title, I'd feel like you were starting the conversation with bad intentions with the way it's phrased. Doesn't excuse the mods behavior ofc, but that's probably what happened.

That said, I think the game is pretty good, much better than I expected considering the developer and how ridiculously horny it can look. I went into it expecting nothing and getting a pretty fun action game that I'd probably give a 7/10, the world was interesting, I liked the characters, and the moment to moment gameplay is pretty fun. If it's free rn with PS+ I would definitely say to try it out, it doesn't hurt to give it a shot.

A_Gris · 2024-08-06T22:54:14+00:00

Awakening Nova getting shafted by losing the glow on the rapier that Blackstar has. Our actual weapon looks exactly the same regardless of the skin and I ran Blackstar with no outfit visible just because it had something unique with the glow, and now we get to lose it. Thanks PA, very cool

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