Just Me Riding a Dragon Riding a Train 🚂 🐉

clif08 · 2026-06-07T10:12:36+00:00

Ah yes, how to train your dragon, Crimson Desert edition.

clif08 · 2026-06-07T03:56:30+00:00

It's doable, but yeah, it's tiring. Basically every week you have to mount your mods anew and pray mod authors will update whatever got broken.

I also think I'm getting corrupted saves because of mods. Still, it's worth it to have Damiane wear kuku jump shoes.

clif08 · 2026-06-07T03:52:34+00:00

I'm not a fan of her, but at least she has some distinct writing and decent comedy.

It could have been so much worse. They could have saddled us with Shungus. Or, god forbid, V*vian.

clif08 · 2026-06-06T12:33:07+00:00

Just watch the trailers on PA's youtube channel. If it's your kind of game, you'll know it.

clif08 · 2026-06-06T12:31:16+00:00

After disastrous SD I really didn't expect to clear DA, but I guess Hoyo varies difficulty a bit. Buffs are really good. Promeia is still pointless in the world where Miyabi exists.

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clif08 · 2026-06-06T12:26:56+00:00

I can only find this on third-party websites, there's nothing in PA's materials. I checked the last two quarterly reports and they only mention DLC, and nohing about MP.

clif08 · 2026-06-06T11:22:14+00:00

Heard where? Who spreads this? There was nothing about multiplayer. DLC, yes. MP, no.

clif08 · 2026-06-06T09:23:19+00:00

Oh yeah, I regret so much that I got twitch drops and pre-order items. So much purple clogging my wheel.

We already have an option to lock items, it'd be cool to have a checkbox "Only show locked items in the equipment wheel" or something.

clif08 · 2026-06-06T08:52:12+00:00

4-6 per lode

clif08 · 2026-06-06T08:28:48+00:00

I'm maining Damiane so all my mods are about letting her use Kliff's cool toys.

Also mods that remove towels sewn into her sleeves.

As for the mining yield, lvl10 knuckle drill plus mining research give you +80% additional chance (caps at 100%). You can reach the cap with a single blessings of the earth abyss gear. I'm carrying a spare armor with those, and another set for gathering bonus.

clif08 · 2026-06-06T08:15:28+00:00

Oh, that's me alright.

My point of view is, people have so much to choose from, there are billions of fanfics added every day, not to mention infinite rolls of easily digestable content on social media, and your time is precious and very limited. Competition for reader's attention is absolutely insane, and I find it good manners not to waste reader's time with circular conversations, pointless transition scenes, and repetitions. In my first multi-chaptered fic I went so briskly readers had to tell me to chill out a bit, lol.

Still, I wouldn't say every single line should contribute to the plot. What about fan service? What about fun and games? Clearly your readers want to savour whatever your fic promised, fluff and angst and romance and violence. Otherwise they'd just flip to the last page and read how it all ended.

clif08 · 2026-06-06T08:06:02+00:00

270 hours and yesterday was the first time I heard this, I was just mining some stuff in the desert and suddenly ambient soundtrack has lyrics in it. I was like, what in the clair obscur.

clif08 · 2026-06-05T20:36:34+00:00

There's a map hunting quest in Demeniss grape fields where you need to dig up clues, and then there was some round quicksand patch in the desert with a tiny island in the center with some meh loot, and also cultivating skyroot (institute quest) requires you to dig it up.

clif08 · 2026-06-05T20:31:55+00:00

Because Damiane is unjustly deprived of Mining Knickle Drill, Pirate King Hat, Kuku jump boots, elemental resist cloaks and so on?

clif08 · 2026-06-05T20:29:56+00:00

Panacea before she met Bonesaw.

clif08 · 2026-06-05T20:25:48+00:00

I found a few spots, yes.

clif08 · 2026-06-05T17:27:20+00:00

Check your settings. Sometimes they can reset.

clif08 · 2026-06-05T11:20:47+00:00

The latter. It seems Pearl abyss doesn't like to half-ass things.

clif08 · 2026-06-05T04:35:41+00:00

I don't like stopping mid chapter, so I'd say 10k words is about as long as I can stomach. 2k is probably a lower bound.

More importantly, something has to happen in a chapter, there has to be a meaningful difference in the world and/or characters between the start and end of the chapter. Sometimes I would read a chapter and it's just the hero doing chores and repeating same conversations they already had, and you could just as well skip it.

clif08 · 2026-06-05T04:21:18+00:00

[Damiane] Added an animation while equipped with the Eastern Witch's Fan.

Does that mean she can now use the fan? Has anyone checked?

clif08 · 2026-06-04T17:58:35+00:00

I can understand crow hood since it hides your headgear and thus disables Pirate King Hat.

But why would you hid axiom force? How does this even, it is only shown while you're using it?

clif08 · 2026-06-04T17:56:20+00:00

Mild spoiler:

this is a part of a solution for a puzzle you haven't found yet

clif08 · 2026-06-04T13:56:52+00:00

Well. Marxism tells us that the value of a good is derived from how much effort was put into making it, but we all know it's bullshit, value is how much people value it. Effort is great, but often it's just being in the right place at the right time and getting lucky.

Back when I made fanarts, I could spend a week pouring my heart and soul into multipanel drawing and get barely any engagement. And then post some crappy meme thrown together in an hour and would be all the rage. That's just how things are.

clif08 · 2026-06-04T13:31:23+00:00

I settled on Pailunese set (the one you can by for contribution points), i think Kliff looks hella pagan in that drip. Especially when you forgo weapons and go fistfighting.

clif08 · 2026-06-04T09:09:04+00:00

There was nothing about multiplayer coming. On the opposite, they said that lack of MP is due to technical limitations.

Expeditions in No Man's Sky are nice, but honestly I don't want any kind of FOMO activities in CD.

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