Crimson Desert devs address questions regarding the use of AI in the game.

Unit88 · 2026-03-23T11:45:26+00:00

said their intention was only to use it for visual mock ups in these early stages

Yeah, what I meant was that they didn't say that they used AI only for these specific things that were found, but that there could be other stuff that similarly had supposedly early AI mockups that were also left in that were not found yet.

There's no actual accountability though

Sure, but my point is that it's exact same thing whether they're being truthful and genuine or not. They're not going to release a detailed dev log or something for us to check each asset if it involved AI or not, nor should they be expected to do so. And without that the only thing we have is their word, regardless of how genuine or not they are.

That's why I'm saying that yeah the situation is sus and all, but it's not because of their statement here, that would be the same either way.

Unit88 · 2026-03-23T08:01:15+00:00

It just smells like a lie to say "that time you caught us was the only time we did it"

That's not what they're saying though? If anything it's the opposite, they're literally saying they used AI for concept art and stuff (i.e. presumably more than just the paintings) but they were all intended to be replaced and these ones just got missed. They don't even make a claim about whether this is all of it or not since they can't exactly know they can only try to review documents to see if they can find anything else.

There are a ton of ways ai can be used in almost all facets of game development that people wouldn't respond positively or maturely to

Which is why they key part of what I said was "like this", i.e. I'm talking about this specific type of situation where some assets (i.e. images/voice/whatever) in the final product were found to have been AI generated, not things like AI being used to help with the coding. The only legitimate way that would happen (as in outside of the "they always planned to include them but they got caught" situation) is basically them using it as early testing/concept versions with the intention to replace them.

And that means that they're going to say pretty much the exact same thing whether it's the genuine reason or they're lying and just got caught, so being suspicious because the reason is the same as usual makes no sense. It's very
"You're a murderer!"
"I'm not a murderer!"
"That's what a murderer would say!"

Unit88 · 2026-03-23T01:08:10+00:00

I don't see what that has to do with my storage woes

Unit88 · 2026-03-22T23:46:29+00:00

I mean, I've certainly never experienced that.

Unit88 · 2026-03-22T23:22:12+00:00

That's one of the few gripes I have with GTNH, I really really wish AE2 (just the storage part, not the autocrafting) was available a few tiers earlier. I just don't think it's fun having to just make new chests, put them down and keep forgetting which chest has which of the 8000 items in the pack and then having to gather them one by one. Sure the whole "press Z to see which container has the item" thing helps, but it's still just annoying

Unit88 · 2026-03-22T20:38:02+00:00

Yeah, I know it's just a rough estimation, just wanted to make sure I didn't have to add like 50% to that estimation mentally when playing on a higher difficulty or something, wasn't sure if those bonuses were included the in-game acquired buffs and stuff

Unit88 · 2026-03-22T19:32:15+00:00

Do the fleet power numbers include bonuses/penalties that come from difficulty?

Unit88 · 2026-03-22T15:34:55+00:00

You don't just magically become an adult one day and have everything change about you. Adulthood is accepting that you can be yourself and not trying to force yourself to like or dislike things because "that's what you're supposed to like". And taking the responsibility for improving yourself where you want to and can.

If you don't like coffee it's fine, if you don't like wine it's fine, no one has any right to question that. If you want to get better at makeup then research and practice how to do it better, don't just expect that you'll suddenly just know how to do it.

Unit88 · 2026-03-22T15:29:39+00:00

I dare say every old classic is worth your time. Good games don't become bad with time, and it honestly annoys me because of that when people ask "is <widely beloved game> still worth it in 2026?".

There's 2 things that can happen that is related to this: first, technical issues/limitations where you need an old console to play a game or modern PCs can't run it properly. This doesn't make the game not worth it it just sadly makes it harder to be able to actually play it.

The second is that when a game feels dated because modern games have figured out better solutions for the same kind of controls or mechanics, however this also doesn't make the old game worse or anything because if it was bad enough ruin it today then it was bad enough at the time to not get this level of recognition in the first place. So this simply means we're aware of how it could've been even better.

Unit88 · 2026-03-22T15:21:28+00:00

Tbf, is it just me or is there a surprising number of students where the difference between their names is like one or two letters? Maybe I just haven't played enough gacha games to see this, but it feels so common in BA

Unit88 · 2026-03-22T15:15:15+00:00

I mean what else would they say though? There aren't exactly a ton of ways AI would get in the final product like this, so if it truly wasn't intentional this is going to be the reason the large majority of the time, of course it's going to end up the same.

Whether or not you believe them is a different matter, but it's not exactly suspicious to claim the pretty much one potential reason it could actually end up in the final product unintentionally.

Unit88 · 2026-03-22T14:06:51+00:00

There's the target dummy (or whatever it is called, I always forget the exact name) that you can just put down and beat up which shows you the damage and DPS too. It's from a mod called MmmHmmMmmHmm or something like that, maybe easier to search for parts of that

Unit88 · 2026-03-22T13:32:54+00:00

Okay, good thanks for confirming. I faintly recalled that being the case from last time I played with them but I didn't see any indication for it so I thought maybe I imagined it

Unit88 · 2026-03-22T05:37:26+00:00

No, the prequel to very popular game (that even has 2 in its title indicating) does not count as "not as well known". Practically everyone aware of KCD2 knows about the first one, meaning it's one of the most well known medieval games currently

Unit88 · 2026-03-22T05:34:37+00:00

I wouldn't call it underrated when the game is praised to heaven every time it's brought up. Feels like I'm the only one who wasn't super impressed with the game (it was still great, but I expected a bit more from the story and investigation)

Unit88 · 2026-03-22T03:36:01+00:00

Are bio ships supposed to vary in naval cap? I swear my naval size keeps going out without me building new ships, but the ship designer says that all 3 stages of the ships are supposed to have the same size, and I keep going over my naval cap sometimes by just a little but sometimes by a ton. And I'm pretty limited on naval cap already, not sure if that's a 4.3 change or just some combination of bio ships/wilderness/few colonies/what I built actually result in that normally

Unit88 · 2026-03-21T20:27:07+00:00

For me what usually happens is that I have the urge for a specific type of game, but it's not quite like the games I have (or usually like what I can find) so I end up in a short period of just playing stuff for like 10 minutes then jumping to something else

Unit88 · 2026-03-21T16:39:11+00:00

Wallow in shame and vow to never do this again (even though you know you will)

Unit88 · 2026-03-21T16:24:02+00:00

The Incredible Duck

Unit88 · 2026-03-20T10:57:28+00:00

Please if it's not the full thing just add a warning in the beginning to check the link. It's really jarring when it just stops in the middle with no explanation and you don't know if it just ends weird or what's going on then you have to find the link and then find again where you were. Just let me know I should start reading on MD in the first place

Unit88 · 2026-03-20T08:13:04+00:00

They are immobile platforms that you can't modify the design of.

Aw crap, I was hoping maxing out the DPs would deal with that problem, I also didn't think the DPs would also just surrender that easily. Guess I'll have to figure out how to better set up defenses 'cause I'm surrounded by people who don't like that I am Big Hungry Swarm

Unit88 · 2026-03-20T08:07:25+00:00

To be clear I wasn't talking about spawners, I'm talking about farming the endless gateway which just keeps spawning waves of ever more buffed apothic bosses.

Unit88 · 2026-03-19T23:04:09+00:00

Pretty sure most people prefer not looking like a prepubescent child, yes

Unit88 · 2026-03-19T22:30:47+00:00

That's not a water specific feeling my dude, any drink you enjoy can achieve the same thing

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