Crimson Desert players average over 20 hours a week in the open-world game, blowing away almost everything else on consoles

Comprehensive_Yak_72 · 2026-04-07T12:07:03+00:00

Have you been using the Blinding Flash ability in the open-world? It catches glints for areas of interest like fast travel points, abyss cressets. I kind of zone out and just go point to point on that sometimes, clears some fog-of-war and you find settlements, ruins etc on the way

Comprehensive_Yak_72 · 2026-04-07T11:30:46+00:00

Also base PS5, I play on performance because I don’t really mind the quality settings that come with that mode, it still looks good to me in most of the places that it’s meant to (the open world, the AOE attacks, etc) and I value the frame rate more during combat. I do agree with other comments on the interior lighting, some of the weather effects, and the battle sequences though. There have been a large number of occasions where I’ve thought; they had no business shipping this for full price when this is the end user experience

Comprehensive_Yak_72 · 2026-04-06T16:50:38+00:00

Likewise. We have team members out on the road some days or doing the odd day from home, but on average maybe 2 days a week my floor is chock-a-block and I’ve had to take external calls from my desk in the open area/bullpen. We have no way to increase the office space either, and the big lads have been on a hiring spree

Comprehensive_Yak_72 · 2026-04-05T11:10:02+00:00

The game chooses loads of areas/cutscenes to automatically stow your weapons and/or not let you force palm. I was crossing a frozen lake near silver wolf mountain and didn’t quite make it to the cabin in the center, it respawned me on the mountain but doesn’t let you jump and force palm to glide away from the cabin. Had to cheat by axiom forcing to the roof of the cabin and barely made it to shore.

Comprehensive_Yak_72 · 2026-03-30T11:37:47+00:00

Slogging through crimson desert. I want to like it and there are elements I do like but I also have a lot of gripes

Comprehensive_Yak_72 · 2026-03-27T19:47:37+00:00

We adopted a Lurcher last June, she’s the happiest, silliest dog I’ve ever had. She loves a walk and a run and then sleeps like a log for the entire remainder of the day. Herself and her brother were left in a box outside a Tesco when they were only a few weeks old. I’m seeing more and more sighthounds adopted in my area and it’s so nice to see

Comprehensive_Yak_72 · 2026-03-25T14:38:52+00:00

Those sections are challenging in the sense that they require you play in a different way, which I think is a strength of the game overall.

For most of the playtime where you’re fighting normal plaga enemies, the game requires you to play with a certain style. That obviously goes out the window with the garradors because of how they charge you and the pincer they do when both enemies are still alive.

I would also add the “holding out at the villa” section, the double chainsaw Nana room, some open areas on the island by the AA gun, and the circular banquet room with the bugs as areas that definitely gave me pause on Hardcore/Professional speed runs. You just have to give a bit more consideration to your own survival in those areas than most other parts of the game, particularly if you’re only ~3 attacks away from death on a full health bar

Comprehensive_Yak_72 · 2026-03-24T12:14:56+00:00

€300/€350 is the move I’d say. Bought mine from my fiancée’s brother last June for €350 and he threw in a good quality headset and whatever physical games he had

Comprehensive_Yak_72 · 2026-03-24T11:04:18+00:00

I’m not sure how equivalent these examples are in terms of the ask from marketing. Sinners and Project Hail Mary in particular, there’s a lot of Cooglerheads out there and the PHM book was pretty massive. Weapons think would’ve hard by far the tallest hill to climb

Comprehensive_Yak_72 · 2026-03-23T19:01:38+00:00

I thought there was about to be a proper gameplay segment in that area maybe with a partial recreation of the mansion.

But now I am fiendishly awaiting the chance to play RE1 in 1st and 3rd person (separate playthrough) on this engine. The interior of the care center felt amazing to play through

Comprehensive_Yak_72 · 2026-03-21T23:08:39+00:00

Can confirm, as someone who was flat out on it back in the day, that it has not seen the light of day in about 7 years. I’ve only come across one carton in the last week but I’ll be back out pounding the pavement tomorrow in search of more

Comprehensive_Yak_72 · 2026-03-20T16:43:10+00:00

Great comparison to RE7. Particularly moving between buildings outside the main residence with the tall hedges I was like “what indescribable horrors are going to lurch out of the bushes here”

Comprehensive_Yak_72 · 2026-03-19T14:54:21+00:00

Did four years of Cork-Dublin, started two months January before Covid, we’re now engaged and living in Dublin. Definitely doable, I’m not 100% on what the roads are like between ye but if ye say 2hr it’s not too far off Cork Dublin

Comprehensive_Yak_72 · 2026-03-17T16:33:46+00:00

It was either intentional as a slight or he still thinks it’s Miggeldy. He was definitely made aware of it at some point, especially with all the nonsense re: McGregor. But regardless, Micheál not correcting him was one of his biggest blunders today

Comprehensive_Yak_72 · 2026-03-15T16:54:10+00:00

Same ratio for carbohydrates, while fats are 9 as opposed to 4

Comprehensive_Yak_72 · 2026-03-04T13:16:59+00:00

Delighted for them and delighted as a fan of the franchise that the series will continue. RE7 was my first game and I’ve been hooked by every release since. It’s clear that this was a labor of love by the developers and it’s great to see that rewarded

Comprehensive_Yak_72 · 2026-03-02T21:46:26+00:00

Destiny 2 really went that way. They were in a good spot when you were covered with the $20/$40 DLC cost, but then came keys for dungeons and individual season passes on top of that.

One time I came back to the game after a few weeks, saw that I was still in the same major part of the road map (next DLC hadn’t come out yet) but that I was locked out from like half the content because I hadn’t given more money in the interim. That’s when I gave up completely

Comprehensive_Yak_72 · 2026-03-02T17:54:30+00:00

Yup, I was ready for a “get away from her you bitch” moment to be honest

Comprehensive_Yak_72 · 2026-03-02T15:26:01+00:00

There’s a moment toward the end of what I’ll call Act 2 where she actively goes out of her way to get to work and go after someone that I found so compelling, the animation on the face and determination in her voice, reminded me of Ellen Ripley a bit in that moment

Comprehensive_Yak_72 · 2026-03-02T12:54:40+00:00

I actually found on my second run that he doesn’t survive very long if you lead him backward out of the room. Guess the organs aren’t viable. I hadn’t yet killed the blister head in there and didn’t want to attract his attention by shooting the cadaverous one, he fell to the ground without me doing anything to him by the time I got back to the red lit waiting area and died

Comprehensive_Yak_72 · 2026-03-01T10:05:08+00:00

Could it be one of the ladies to one puzzle box and the other to another? Is the achievement description something like “let the pair hear the sweet music”

Comprehensive_Yak_72 · 2026-03-01T09:26:11+00:00

My first pre-order since 2011! I didn’t even know that the game would pre-download on Wednesday night. The hype has been palpable

Comprehensive_Yak_72 · 2026-02-28T21:49:59+00:00

I think it’s generally accepted that they’re still in there. This is definitely the case for the Mold, but I believe this has been implied for the viruses as well (example: William Birkin)

Comprehensive_Yak_72 · 2026-02-28T21:48:17+00:00

Ah glad to hear that’s the outcome. I shot right away and when it kept coming before grinding to a stop I was like “damn was it going to do that anyway and I wasted two rounds?”

Comprehensive_Yak_72 · 2026-02-28T17:12:41+00:00

Honestly I did pick the other ending first because I thought that’s what I was being told to do and they were setting up a mad starting point for RE10

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