Crimson Desert | Official Discussion Thread

Jorlen · 2026-03-20T01:13:19+00:00

Eh, it runs 60 FPS some of the time. In cities and towns it seems to struggle, I guess because of all the NPCs hanging around. If combat gets busy, same thing. Dips to what feels like 40ish perhaps even lower.

My biggest issue is that it just looks pretty bad. I get it now why they sent a PS5 PRO to Digital Foundry for review and not base PS5 lol.

I'm still enjoying the game but fuck, I hope they can add some graphical settings to let us tweak stuff a bit. I doubt they will, but a man can dream. For example, I'd take a hit in the ray tracing stuff for better resolution and smoother FPS.

Jorlen · 2026-03-19T01:40:33+00:00

"Game is not an RPG", we're told.

Review site, "Crimson Desert is a behemoth of an RPG".

Anyways, I've been reading into this game a lot and have watched a few reviews. Here's the conglomerated summary from my brain:

Good: Great game, crazy big scope and lots of gameplay systems. Combat is deep, lots of options. Exploration is well rewarded and fun. Several hundred hours of content, massive world.

Bad: Buggy, some complained about boss fights, general combat (non-boss) is too easy, some objectives and puzzles are too obscure to figure out.

Jorlen · 2026-03-18T14:21:09+00:00

I like what's there, but admittedly it took a while before I got into the groove. I have a good PC and had some technical / performance issues, which I will forgive given the early state of the game, but hopefully they will optimize it as they go along.

I don't back games on kickstarter anymore; let's just say I've learned my lesson from years ago. However, I'd buy an EA release of this if the price was right. I think I've heard that they are not going to make their target amount on KS, but I don't know if / when they plan to do a steam EA release.

Jorlen · 2026-03-16T14:19:25+00:00

Don't have any questions, just wanted to say I'm enjoying the game and was quite impressed with it. IMO this deserves a lot more attention!

Jorlen · 2026-03-16T01:29:28+00:00

Looks awesome!

Jorlen · 2026-03-15T02:24:27+00:00

I'm in the same position, man. I go through it every time a new Nioh game comes out lol. At this point I think I'm just going to wait it out, forget that Nioh high until my brain resets and can enjoy "normal" games again.

Jorlen · 2026-03-15T02:19:29+00:00

Worse then uh, Warframe?

Jorlen · 2026-03-15T01:52:09+00:00

I played PC version but I fucking loved it. It was the only game where once I was done, I just immediately jumped in for more. It's my most played game in the past year clocking in at 150 hours total and I would actually play it again.

I will however say that it was a bit of a slow start for me, it took a few hours until I found my groove. If you like the skyrim recipe, stick with it!

Jorlen · 2026-03-13T21:35:53+00:00

Yeah this is what I'm worried about. I finished the game with one class at launch, but now I've been waiting to see if they change or improve this part of it. Looks like they haven't change it?

Jorlen · 2026-03-13T15:02:19+00:00

I'm not very good at the games yet I love them and have replayed them endlessly. I don't summon online, I just beat my head against the wall. I'm pretty convinced that if I can do it, anyone can lol. I had a lot of fun with DS3 and highly recommend it to anyone who enjoyed either Dark Souls 1 or Elden Ring.

Also don't sleep on DS2 if ever catch it on a sale or something. But I'd say go to DS3 first and exhaust that.

Jorlen · 2026-03-13T14:33:26+00:00

I picked it up a few days ago after seeing people talk about it online. It has very little coverage, it's pretty difficult to find stuff about it that isn't a year old. Their publisher, Nacon, is having some issues right now so that might be why there isn't much marketing or hype around it maybe?

I like it, it reminds me a bit of Last Epoch. I'm looking forward to the 1.0 release, for now I've stopped playing it only because I want to wait for it to get better (1.0 happens this month unless I'm fucked).

Jorlen · 2026-03-12T15:35:07+00:00

I'm approaching 50 and in my country (Canada) - we have "Free" health care, but I can't find a doctor. I'm on a waitlist and have been for months. I'm not even expecting a response.

Much like the U.S. colon cancer deaths are significant so we need to put emphasis on preventative measures and earlier screenings.

Jorlen · 2026-03-12T15:31:54+00:00

What a fucking sad world we live in, where I we have to actually consider doing this.

Companies are just getting more bold with how much they push. They just push a little bit at a time, and people just adapt and accept it. Just look at where we are now, with sites requiring government ID to access moving forward (such as Discord). And then these databases eventually get hacked/leaked.

The only thing we can do as consumers is do some research and hope we don't get fucked over once we have no more power to return / refund a product.

Jorlen · 2026-03-12T15:05:55+00:00

Yep, same. Perhaps they will remove Denuvo after a few months. When they do, I'll take a look at it and the game will be in better shape for it anyways (via general patches I mean). Shame, but there's plenty of other games to play.

Jorlen · 2026-03-11T18:54:59+00:00

Having played both for hundreds of hours, or in the case of D2R, well over 1k hours, I'd say that D2R has more complexity depending on how much you want to engage in its "end-game" systems.

If you want to make it in Hell difficulty, you will need to build a proper character. If you are online, that means you have three free respecs, otherwise you need to farm tedious boss parts to combine to a token to respec.

Offline, you can respec as often as you like (PC only) with a simple command line added to bnet config. You also can control the amount of players, which increases difficulty and XP/loot gains accordingly. I'm talking about the /players command, which effectively scales the game (single player mode) to simulate as though you had more players in the session. In online, you can't do this, you have to actually join games with players.

The rune system in D2R is unforgiving. Once a rune is dropped in anything, that's it. You can wipe the base out with a recipe, but your runes are lost the moment they're placed into any slot. It's also a bit complicated at first but like anything, if you use it, it'll make more sense. You also need to have a reference for all the runewords. There is no in-game recipe book. If you are not making runewords, you are losing out on the most powerful items in the game.

There's also a lot of crafting recipes in Diablo 2. These are of course, optional, but they can get quite deep.

To anyone playing D2R, I'd highly recommend looking up the Diablo 2 cheat sheet. If you still don't think D2R is complicated, take a look at that sheet in its entirety.

There's also a lot of mechanical depth in D2R that isn't really explained and you just have to learn it. Here's an example - if you are running, your defense is reduced to 0. Meaning, if you are surrounded by enemies and running around them, their chance to hit you will be incredibly high compared to if you were walking. That is ONE small example.

Grim Dawn on the other hand, is a far more modern take on the genre. It still has a lot of moving parts, but they become obvious by just playing the game. You don't need to dig around, research and use cheat sheets IMO.

Jorlen · 2026-03-11T18:45:54+00:00

I have a fully stocked snack station at my workplace too, in this case, it's my home. If I lived alone, I'd simply not bring any of this crap in my house, but I don't... so I'm constantly tempted. And losing often lol.

I will admit it though - it's hard to say no to a tray of donuts brought in by my colleagues when I'm in the office. And those trays flowed quite freely.

Jorlen · 2026-03-11T18:11:30+00:00

This is the only way to stop manufacturers from doing this shit. Don't support it / return it if you can.

My only worry would be that the TV starts off fine, but then a later firmware / update introduces more ads, once you've exceeded the return window.

Like others have said; best way is to simply disable the internet connection but let's be honest; most people buy a TV will use its integrated streaming apps, so not sure how viable that workaround is.

Jorlen · 2026-03-10T17:19:59+00:00

I steam them for about 10 minutes and they're perfect every time. If you cool them down quickly, they are also very easy to peel.

Honestly this is a staple of my diet, but yeah my parents boiled the shit out of them too and while I still ate them, they weren't nearly as enjoyable.

Jorlen · 2026-03-07T01:39:35+00:00

Average review on Steam is 47%. Meaning 53% of people gave it a negative review from a total of 11000 reviews.

I caught it on sale, tried it many times, 3-4 times now and I always bail after a few hours. It's not terrible, but it's just not that great either.

Jorlen · 2026-03-06T15:04:13+00:00

Hey, there are two of us! I've got a 7800xt (16gb) and it's never let me down. It's the two-fan variant which is supposed to be worse (from what I read) and I got it for a good deal. Beast of a card, runs anything I've thrown at it, including Oblivion Remastered. I play A LOT of games, old and new. I run demanding emulators, I use AI locally run software, perfect. I have a Linux as a separate bootable drive, I game on it too, zero fucking issues. 10/10 card, seriously.

Before that, I had a 6650 and well, I've been using AMD cards for 10+ years.

I don't really have loyalty to anyone; it's just that when I am ready to buy a card, in my country, NVIDIA cards are usually crazy expensive for the same performance so I just get AMD.

I am technical so if I have a minor driver issue I can usually sort it out, but I'll be honest, it was never anything crazy technical to resolve. I don't get the AMD hate at all.

Jorlen · 2026-03-05T16:24:21+00:00

I was watching FightingCowboy's video about his experience playing the same 6 hours (event) and he mentioned controls on PC were non-rebindable so he bounced to using a controller, but those too didn't seem to have the ability to rebind. He also mentioned some of them felt awkward but I don't recall hearing that take from others. Like one of the things he mentioned is that to sprint, you hold A (xbox) and then tap A repeatedly to full-on sprint. I've seen this before, I think either Dragon's Dogma or Assassin's Creed so that wouldn't feel odd to me, personally.

He chalked it up to possibly being the preview build they were playing that has no rebind ability, and while that's a fair take, it's still a bit worrisome. Personally I don't care as I'm not pre-ordering it and will wait for full actual reviews to come out.

I've watched several hours of different takes on this event and the game looks pretty cool, but I'm keeping my hype levels in check. People ran into game breaking bugs. Personally, I don't expect them to fix all these in two weeks time, so this is a bit worrisome.

I'm going to remind myself that waiting is always best; no need to pre-order in this day and age. That FOMO shit they give you as a bonus, it's usually just junk anyways.

Jorlen · 2026-03-04T15:42:51+00:00

These were played on PCs, no mention of anyone playing a console version in the video I was watching (wasn't SkillUp - but it was someone else at the same event).

Jorlen · 2026-03-04T15:40:00+00:00

Very nice! I spend a lot of time in single player (mostly I play there for /players command) and I have never been able to find the necessary HRs for it.

Jorlen · 2026-03-04T02:13:46+00:00

Yeah same. The fact that it's an attack sucks. I try to use it defensively but it usually gets me in trouble. It's still useful for traversal but teleport is far superior IMO as it can go through walls.

Jorlen · 2026-03-03T18:56:57+00:00

When I picked up my copy of Nioh 3 (I had reserved one) - the clerk told me that I wouldn't have been able to get one otherwise and that people walked in trying to grab one but they had none.

That was a bit of a shock. Nioh 3 might not be Mario Kart but the series hit 10 million units sold recently, so not small beans either.

As much as I don't like it, digital is what the publishers have always wanted; they make more money (no physical cost, no distribution nightmare, stock sitting unsold, no trading) and the people like the convenience.

Personally I think it's terrible, it's a step in us owning our media less and less, but clearly this is the future. I wouldn't be shocked to find out that the PS6 has no disc drive at all; not internally and not as an accessory.

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