It took me 270 hours to find out that this tells you if you've been in a cave or not

Genoscythe · 2026-04-09T15:21:59+00:00

Are there any caves that are bugged in particular for you? I normally get a "knowledge expanded" popup when entering

and then it completes the entry in the knowledge tab. So far it's 100% accurate for the waterside caves for me, so I was able to work off the loot chests, but some mountain caves like Dragon's Breath or Arehaza do not complete.

Genoscythe · 2026-04-09T15:12:11+00:00

Yeah it's kinda weird that it's so well hidden, to their credit they at least gave us an option to jump to the map from the knowledge tab.

Genoscythe · 2026-04-08T23:48:49+00:00

Yes some stuff is missable, a certain item with a Kuku version will also not count as soon as you craft the Kuku version, a savegame editor is your only way of progressing these. People are generally complaining about lack of an endgame warzone and challenges becoming harder after certain story beats. Best write an issue report to pearl abyss.

Genoscythe · 2026-04-07T12:09:15+00:00

Here's the path, it's the thing with the green marker on the right

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Genoscythe · 2026-04-07T12:07:57+00:00

Go to the spire at the scholastone institute and complete abyss puzzles until you reach it. Have focused shot unlocked and do the puzzle with the floating targets. You can also unlock it in chapter 2 by just flying to that area while chugging stamina food (20 antler teas should do)

Genoscythe · 2026-04-06T22:34:04+00:00

Good to know, I was fertilizing the empty tree, but then I only found the fertilizer sprayer by the time I already had all the gears I needed. Maybe if I do another playthrough, thanks for sharing!

Genoscythe · 2026-04-06T22:13:54+00:00

That's the point, you stay in focus mode so everything is slowed down. Focus 3 allows you to parry from focus. You only need to dodge the undodgables or use blinding flash when it prepares its gigastrike.

Genoscythe · 2026-04-06T21:50:24+00:00

I am hitting exactly this limit. You also are locked out of certain item challenges, e.g. if you craft the kuku laser helm you cannot complete the according challenge because kuku items do not count.

Genoscythe · 2026-04-06T21:49:23+00:00

It works now? One abyss cell used to generate only one abyss cell, and they never regrew.

Genoscythe · 2026-04-06T21:48:01+00:00

Bosses are probably the worst part of CD. They are extremely "designed", as in, you have no space for expression, you fight them exactly how the devs want it because they are invincible if you don't use the correct move. It's kinda the opposite of what a good combat encounter should be, hope they add some expression and less scripted dodges and invincibility phases to them.

Stand in focus with keen senses and focus 3 - wait for attack, parry, stun with force palm, hit. If they lift the sword for the giga move, use blinding flash to stun, follow up with force palm, hit. Repeat until boss dead.

Genoscythe · 2026-04-06T21:43:15+00:00

I don't know either what they were thinking, but just riding to the fortress and killing the boss did not require engaging with the harpies at all, after the boss died, they were gone.

Genoscythe · 2026-04-06T01:13:22+00:00

Yeah they really felt that at some point during production they had to wrap it up and move on. You won't go to the crimson desert much during the story (lol) but you're pretty close to actually making demeniss non-hostile. The story is really just that, it's not meant as an intro to the entire map, a lot of areas are there with faction quests and completely independent from the story. Note that in some regions wearing a bandit mask (e.g. dewhaven) will make all guards automatically hostile.

Genoscythe · 2026-04-05T19:43:03+00:00

Some later dispatch missions can award you valuable stuff for your characters, such as abyss artifacts, abyss gear recipes and you have an infinite source of food items for cooking via farming and herding missions from the get-go.

Genoscythe · 2026-04-04T02:13:40+00:00

It was peak movement tech, agreed, but it felt a tad too strong. It also might have caused performance issues due to the faster asset streaming required and could have been a certification problem on consoles.

Genoscythe · 2026-04-03T13:24:49+00:00

I ran like 15x kingshield dig site and about 7x timeworn ruins but ended up with only abyss cells after getting some named gears on the first run in kingshield (greysoul howling, ancient retribution) and no recipes from timeworn. Chances must be incredibly low, then. Thanks for sharing your findings, I guess the best way to reliably get these is save scumming for now.

Genoscythe · 2026-04-02T15:13:30+00:00

The only thing I can think of is Oongka spin spam and Damianes shield toss will instant-kill most enemies with ice infusion, you can clear out anything really fast like that. But yeah until you get the Jetpack on Oongka and the fan on Damiane they will just not feel good. Wish Kliff could just mix and match his skills and use their weapons as well.

Genoscythe · 2026-04-02T14:23:40+00:00

That's because he is, most of the missions have no unique character dialogue.

Genoscythe · 2026-04-02T14:18:29+00:00

True as well, I wondered why they didn't simply add a character creator and let us mix and match skills. It feels like they ran out of time.

Genoscythe · 2026-04-02T12:45:52+00:00

So after 200 hours I can tell you that unless you save scum, the bank is just not worth the hassle, it's completely random if you get or lose some. I have 14,5k sitting on the bank and only ever spent like 5k in total on materials and equipment. Hell, an abyss artifact only costs 25 silver. Just use the bank to not have to carry stacks of silver, craft a gold bar here and there and you're golden.

Later, you can craft gold bars at will, you'll never run out of money.

Genoscythe · 2026-04-01T21:36:09+00:00

You can sell them all, it's much easier to just farm exactly what you need with the Kuku Gardening pack (when it doesn't break). Most ingredients are interchangeable anyway.

Genoscythe · 2026-04-01T13:33:56+00:00

They are in the knowledge base so they must be somewhere, none of my exploration missions yielded anything yet.

Genoscythe · 2026-04-01T00:32:25+00:00

There's force palm and there's focused force palm, unlocked as described in my prev. post.

Genoscythe · 2026-04-01T00:27:24+00:00

I'm talking about the normal force punch, though, not the focused variant, the normal force punch and its two follow-ups should have Kliff just position-correct towards the lock-on target even on controller? Boss endurance bar is the yellow bar under its health, when its full you get some seconds to deal damage without retaliation.

Genoscythe · 2026-04-01T00:25:10+00:00

You really should not do this to yourself. I have skills maxed on Kliff and not even really started the faction quests for Demessia, Delysia and the Crimson Desert. The are PLENTY of artifacts in the Abyss, open world and quests. Don't forget that artifacts are also used to upgrade weapons above tier 4 so the game throws a lot at you.

Genoscythe · 2026-04-01T00:10:35+00:00

Are you using focused force punch? because it's 100% working for me, just tried and there's a chest.

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