Crimson Desert’s new update is available now, and as promised, it brings three difficulty settings – Easy, Normal and Hard – to the experience. Normal is pretty much the difficulty that players have already been experiencing, so what does Hard offer?
Well, on top of increased damage, reduced i-frames while rolling, a smaller parry and dodge window, and more aggressive enemies, it also adds new “combat patterns” for specific bosses. Of course, that’s only scratching the surface of this update, as it brings several storage chests for crafting resources, food items, ingredients, quest items, recipes and outfits.
You can also select a different house type to hole up in, starting from the Compact House to the Spacious Pailunese House based on the camp’s expansion level. Alongside five new types of cats, you can make the Abyss Heuklang into a pet, and even tame birds through a new quest and item.
Other notable quality-of-life improvements include Dispatch and Repeat Mission, allowing you to send Greymanes out once or have them farm the same mission. Various livestock vendors are now available throughout Pywel; 13 new tattoos have been added to customize characters with, and NPCs will react to their surroundings with a wider degree of variety.
Check out some of the patch notes below and full details here.
Patch Notes Version 1.04.00
Content
- Easy / Normal / Hard difficulty options have been added to Settings > Play. For experienced Greymanes looking for more intense and thrilling combat, Hard difficulty offers a more challenging journey.
- Added the Sturdy Gatherables Chest which can be set up with the housing system.
– The Sturdy Gatherables Chest has 1,000 slots and can be purchased from furniture shops.
– Materials stored in the Sturdy Gatherables Chest can be used for crafting or refinement even if they are not carried in your inventory. - Added the Kuku Cooler and Enhanced Kuku Cooler items which can be placed with the housing system.
– The Kuku Cooler can be obtained through a quest, while the Enhanced Kuku Cooler can be crafted. Both can be used to store food items and ingredients.
– Kuku Cooler: 40 slots
– Enhanced Kuku Cooler: 330 slots.
Ingredients stored in either cooler can be used for cooking even if they are not carried in your inventory. - Added the Collectibles Chest which can be placed through housing mode.
– The Collectibles Chest can be used to store various quest items and crafting recipes.
– The Collectibles Chest has 1,000 slots and can be obtained through a quest. - Added an outfit storage feature to the Wardrobe, which can be placed through housing mode.
– The Wardrobe can be purchased from furniture shops.
– Each Wardrobe provides 100 storage slots, and the total storage capacity increases based on the number of wardrobes placed.
– The maximum outfit storage capacity is 1,000 slots. - Added the Select House option where you can change the layout of your house.
Selectable house types unlock based on the Greymane Camp expansion level.
– Compact House
– Standard House
– Spacious House
– Spacious Pailunese House - Improved housing mode-related UI and controls.
- Added a function that allows all furniture items placed through the housing mode to be retrieved all at once.
- Improved the Greymane Camp.
– After moving the camp to Pailune, you will receive the Private Storage item which can be placed through housing mode.
– Added a well to Howling Hill. - Improved the observation feature so that Abyss artifacts can be earned when observing a skill that had already been acquired by using Abyss artifacts.
- Improved the following items, which were previously unstackable, to now stack in the inventory: Regular Abyss gears, insects, fish, and animals
- Added birds as pets. You can encounter these new companions throughout Pywel.
– Added the Sotdae of Bond item which allows you to gain Trust with birds.
– Place various types of food that birds might like on the Sotdae of Bond to feed them and gain Trust.
– The Sotdae of Bond can be obtained through a quest. - Added 5 new types of cat pets.
- Improved the Abyss Heuklang so that it can become your pet.
- Added a function to change the names of horses and pets.
