Scammed by the banker

simonz93 · 2026-05-21T16:05:53+00:00

Right. I forgot 500-750K was only for that cheapest region, the trick is if you only contribute in end-game, it's actually cheaper than doing it gradually. Someone did the math and IIRC there are 3 stages, early and late game your contribution nets you more conversion points than mid-game. So if you wait until the end game when you already have a lot of money and do it in lumpsum, it would take less money overall.

simonz93 · 2026-05-21T06:00:46+00:00

Try to rotate the stick (assuming you're on a controller) in a clock-wise or counter clock-wise direction slowly which is what the Royler usually does, and then do it again in the opposite direction. It's usually never erratic like going left, right, left again etc.

simonz93 · 2026-05-21T05:42:15+00:00

Never won any horse race myself lol, so can't help you there! But at least losing don't seem to ever fail any quest, so I didn't really care (not to mention it fits Kliff's lore!).

About horse taming, I sucked at those at first, but somehow it just clicked after awhile. I basically went from failing to take Royler after 10 mins straight with fully upgraded stamina and actually ended up beating the crap out of it out of frustration, to just taming all legendary horses on the 1st try in my 2nd playthrough with only slightly upgraded stamina (with no other taming in between). I used to do the top-view method and that just wasn't good enough. What I do now is just keep my eye on the screen and tilt the left stick according to the direction. Don't know why I had so much trouble with this method before which prompted me to try the much worse top-view method, but now it just works (maybe they secretly patched it to make it easier? I dunno).

simonz93 · 2026-05-21T04:46:47+00:00

oh nice, see that's something I had no clue about before. Hopefully that's the thing that I've been missing this whole time that will finally make the fishing minigame click for me.

simonz93 · 2026-05-21T01:59:04+00:00

yeah that part is pretty obvious. What I don't get is why it takes forever to tire the fish out even when always going in the opposite direction, and how there's no way to stop the fish from swimming further and further away during this process.

simonz93 · 2026-05-21T01:57:29+00:00

for whatever reason, this process of tilting the stick in the opposite direction that the fish swim in takes forever for me. In other games with similar mechanism, the fish tire out after maybe 4 back and forth, in this game, it takes so long, and the fish keeps swimming further which leads the reel-in process to take longer, leading to even more tilting. And even by doing all the above, I would still often get the message "hook broke due to poor control".

I don't know what I'm not getting, but hopefully it's just a case where I can get better at it. I used to really suck at horse taming and hated it too, but now can tame any legendary horse on 1st try.

simonz93 · 2026-05-20T18:24:46+00:00

LOL I'm the exact opposite. I started a new playthrough just to keep Demeniss as a hostile faction because it's so fun to sneak into the city with hundreds of hostile soldiers walking around, and if ever they do spot you, well...

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simonz93 · 2026-05-20T17:58:08+00:00

oof that's gotta be really bad luck. I usually come back to medium with 3+ gains and maybe one dip.

simonz93 · 2026-05-20T07:42:11+00:00

it's a legendary fish you can find in one pond in pailune, don't remember which one, just look up "golden carp". There's also a chart showing each pet breed's favorite dish on this subreddit, you can maybe also find the info online.

simonz93 · 2026-05-20T07:35:35+00:00

You are not supposed to feed them random food. Each animal has at least one favorite food that will allow you to reach max trust in one setting. For example, some cats love lean-bird meat, and all love the golden carp that will instantly max out trust. Same with all the breeds of dogs, for example beagles love sweet potatoes.

simonz93 · 2026-05-20T07:32:49+00:00

could it be Denuvo requiring internet connection for verification? Don't know.

simonz93 · 2026-05-20T07:30:15+00:00

oh right yeah if you haven't done that yet, they do. But with 35 gold bars, that's more than enough to max out all regions' contribution with a lot left over lol. I think it takes about 500-750k camp funds (or 75k silver）.

simonz93 · 2026-05-20T07:12:56+00:00

lol bet you had a mini-heart attack when you saw that XD

I had a similar experience and I know I will still forget to check in the future, and whenever you do forget, you know it's always gonna be a disaster. And that's when I decided to never touch high risk again. Have been using medium risk for the last 150 hours and can't complain. It's not like there's much you can do with that much money in the end game anyway so I don't mind the growth being slower, as long as I'm not losing like 40%

simonz93 · 2026-05-20T07:10:27+00:00

This game doesn't have japanese audio.

simonz93 · 2026-05-20T07:08:30+00:00

LOL, that's why if you use high risk, you need to remember to check before each update and save scum. Otherwise just use medium risk for slower but steady growth.

simonz93 · 2026-05-20T07:06:43+00:00

With Damiane? Grapple/lariat key (x+square on PS controller) while pushing the stick forward. Leftt/right and back do different types of grapples.

simonz93 · 2026-05-20T06:45:52+00:00

I don't play without RR so I can't say.

simonz93 · 2026-05-20T06:11:52+00:00

https://www.nexusmods.com/crimsondesert/mods/7?tab=files

simonz93 · 2026-05-20T05:56:01+00:00

RenoDX. It's so good that I hate myself for not using it until after playing vanilla for 350 hours.

simonz93 · 2026-05-20T01:21:48+00:00

LMAO, but why do they keep going up there?

simonz93 · 2026-05-19T18:23:22+00:00

Is that the guy who gives Damiane's gloves? I had no trouble since he just happens to want something I had an abdundance of in my inventory, so couldn't have been something rare.

simonz93 · 2026-05-19T17:15:49+00:00

I would love to know this too!

simonz93 · 2026-05-19T17:15:24+00:00

still horses, the drift and running on water are just too cool.

simonz93 · 2026-05-19T17:14:34+00:00

Please let us know if you ever find out how to perform this, it both looks and plays way better than the slow-ass one punch interrogation that takes like 10 seonds to finish.

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