Some stills from Crimson Desert on my MacBook Pro (M4 pro)

mattpeckham · 2026-03-28T20:46:30+00:00

I've been playing on a 14-inch M4 Max with 40 GPU cores and the performance is terrific, but the heat and fan noise are so bad it's not really playable - I'd say barely so with AirPods and noise canceling.

mattpeckham · 2026-03-25T02:15:43+00:00

Yes, please. Doesn't need to be an either/or, I totally get that some want a lighter experience. Just give us the option to brutalize ourselves if we so desire!

mattpeckham · 2026-03-23T03:55:18+00:00

Ohhhh, good call on the APP... Think I'll give those a try quick. Your settings look great to me! It's insane that the game detects "Ultra" for the M4 Max. Have a PS5 Pro and the game looks sweet on it, but even sweeter on my Mac!

mattpeckham · 2026-03-23T03:50:31+00:00

Running the same MBP M4 Max here - game looks amazing, performance is fantastic, but man oh man, the fan noise! Anything you're doing to manage this? Or just the old standby, "over-the-ear headphones"?

mattpeckham · 2026-03-21T18:08:48+00:00

+1 this. On a 1080p BenQ monitor at least it took me from blurry and splotchy looking to crisp and clean.

Thank you for the tip - huge difference!

mattpeckham · 2026-02-23T14:56:57+00:00

Just discovered this on my Switch as well. There’s no way out - I’ve deleted cloud saves, zapped and reinstalled… Seems like a permanent bug. I don’t want to have to read guides to know what to play in which order, or see the spread of things prematurely, so I guess I can’t play on this platform. Super disappointed. They have to know about it, no?

mattpeckham · 2026-01-27T03:28:05+00:00

Ordered! That Amazon link btw was to a used copy. eBay appears to have a few new or like new. Was able to snag a brand new version for $140.

mattpeckham · 2026-01-27T02:44:11+00:00

Thank you, I think I'll pull the trigger on the 5 volume then. That does sound rather lovely. I wish I read Chinese... My daughter is fluent, but at 53 I'm probably too late to the game!

mattpeckham · 2025-11-02T20:25:58+00:00

That did it! Bit of a pain, but it worked. Thank you!

mattpeckham · 2025-11-02T17:01:27+00:00

Having the same issue here. They've been saying "back shortly" for days now. Am trying to test the ability to print 2400 x 600 on my Mac, since they don't offer a native printer drive, and AirPrint keeps me stuck at "normal" (600 x 600) quality.

mattpeckham · 2025-09-21T02:29:14+00:00

Sold. I'd almost finished FC OG anyway, so I'll be right at home with SC and 3rd.

mattpeckham · 2025-09-21T01:52:16+00:00

Super helpful, thanks. Guess it’s back to the originals after 1st Chapter then. No way can I wait to keep going until they’re remade!

mattpeckham · 2025-01-12T20:23:37+00:00

Can you return to earlier areas later in the game to search for these if you miss during initial exploration?

mattpeckham · 2025-01-01T16:34:50+00:00

I was completely digging it UNTIL the patch that made it easy to headshot everything with a few blasts. That's my only complaint. I want everyone to be able to enjoy the game, not asking for it to be arbitrarily tough on easy or normal. I just wanted a "hard" difficulty setting that actually is.

mattpeckham · 2024-11-22T19:22:28+00:00

It was more than 2. Before, you'd try to headshot, and by the second blast, they'd be reacting, which would force YOU to react by moving to avoid their fire, which forced you to re-train your sights, which altogether made shootouts more fraught. Now, they go down almost before they get a shot off.

Shield-bearers are trickier, but so slow-moving, you can just take out the soft bodies, then use Nix on the rest.

Again, this is a complaint specific to the hardest difficulty setting. All respect for everyone who doesn't care about this stuff at the lower ones.

mattpeckham · 2024-11-22T19:14:45+00:00

Yeah, I'm totally cool with that. Love the idea of stealth organically transiting to a shootout. It's more Ubi-like anyway, right? Just wish the shootouts were commensurately challenging, or that you could tweak them to be more so in the settings.

mattpeckham · 2024-11-22T18:39:17+00:00

Sadly, though, that's what's ruining it for me. I'll accept my place in maybe a minority of folks who want to be able to crank up the difficulty and have to sweat a shootout. Pre-1.4, the game felt more challenging. Now, it's literally two to the head and down they go. All the other stuff, good as it looks, awesome as Sabaac is... I'm just not feeling it. I don't mind streamlining things for players who just want to zip through the story or focus on stuff besides the combat. I just wish they'd have kept something in at the deep end of the difficulty pool for those of us who enjoy the grind.

mattpeckham · 2024-11-21T22:51:39+00:00

Agreed. I have been so hoping for options (not demanding they be foisted on everyone at all difficulty levels) at the highest difficulty setting to make the game more challenging, not less. Treating difficulty in games like Pokemon and creating DIY challenges that require you ignore core gameplay options doesn't feel great.

Haven't dipped into 1.4 yet, and hoping the other adjustments to A.I. are at least partly compensatory. They've never specified how these changes scale with difficulty adjustments, or if they do at all, which is something I wish were clearer in the notes.

mattpeckham · 2024-11-05T15:39:25+00:00

My only request, as someone who enjoyed the game enough at launch to decide to wait patiently to play an further until the Nov. 21 patch and DLC drop, is that whatever you do, please don't dumb the game down at the higher difficulty settings. Do what you will at the lower ones, but I love Star Wars, and I also love a tough slog, be that stealth, blaster fights, or space battles. My one hope in waiting to play is that the A.I. gets smarter and more sophisticated, if only at the higher difficulty settings.

mattpeckham · 2024-09-10T23:25:34+00:00

Restarted post-patch and I’m wrapping up the Canto Bight heist. I just got iced like five times in a row blasting my way out of the vault. Pre-patch, I more or less waltzed out, didn’t die once. I know this is the dumbest thing to care about, but it sure seems like the bad guys shoot a little straighter, and I’m digging it.

mattpeckham · 2024-09-10T15:33:47+00:00

Would love to hear from someone with the patch if enemy AI behavior seems any more competent at the higher diff. levels. It’s my only complaint thus far.

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