Crimson Desert Gets More Storage Space, a Headgear Visibility Option, and Even a Toggle for Previous Movement Controls in Patch 1.02.00

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The gait of game-changing updates for Crimson Desert shows nary motion of slowing down, aft Pearl Abyss spot 1.02.00 made a fig of important improvements players had asked for.

According to the spot notes, below, the header alteration present is backstage retention capableness enlargement of up to 1000 slots depending connected the Greymane camp's enlargement level. Players had called for other retention slots ever since the retention container was added to the game, particularly those successful the precocious crippled who were struggling to find a location for each their campy absorption resources.

But that’s not the lone invited change. There’s besides a Headgear Visibility option, which means you tin fell your helm and spot Kliff’s face, if you want. The enactment comes successful 4 flavors: Always Show; Show successful Combat; Hide successful Cutscenes; and Always Hide.

Pearl Abyss said it volition soon fto players fell weapons shown connected their character’s back, which, again, is thing they’ve been asking for since launch. That means if you privation to fell your shield for that cool, no-shield look, you’ll soon beryllium capable to.

This is simply a truly absorbing one: the spot adds a toggle for “Movement Controls,” portion besides making further power improvements. There are present 2 options: Basic and Classic. Basic lets you clasp sprint to accelerate, Classic means you person to repeatedly property sprint to accelerate. Stamina is adjusted depending which enactment you choose, too. So, with Basic, holding sprint consumes stamina astatine acceptable intervals, but with Classic, stamina is consumed each clip you deed the sprint button. Basic, then, is the overmuch much casual going option, and I ideate it volition beryllium the much fashionable prime arsenic it requires little effort — ever since Crimson Desert came out, immoderate players person complained astir having to mash sprint to get astir successful the world.

This enactment is interesting:

Fixed an contented wherever the Focus authorities would not beryllium canceled erstwhile utilizing Aerial Roll during flight.

That to maine reads similar a hole for the formation boost instrumentality I reported connected this week, which immoderate had wondered mightiness person been a glitch. Well, it precise overmuch sounds similar it was a glitch. And here's different seemingly innocuous alteration that volition person a large interaction for conscionable getting astir the satellite quickly:

Improved the conditions for utilizing the Abyss Nexus, allowing them to beryllium utilized adjacent portion moving somewhat but successful definite situations specified arsenic portion mounted oregon portion utilizing Flight.

That means you tin present accelerated question without coming to a implicit stop!

And here’s possibly the astir important alteration successful the full patch:

Added 1 caller armor acceptable and helmet for cats.

That’s bully quality for players who are making their precise ain Greymane feline army!

Overall, this is simply a large spot for Crimson Desert, which has received a fistful of specified updates successful a remarkably abbreviated clip aft release. Pearl Abyss has reacted to feedback incredibly quickly, making important improvements to the mode its unfastened satellite enactment escapade works successful its archetypal 2 weeks of life. You person to ideate the gait of updates volition dilatory down soon, but I’ve been saying that for the past fewer days, and present we person different monolithic update, truthful we’ll see.

There’s nary connection connected a imaginable hard mode, however, which immoderate players person asked for aft updates made definite aspects of the crippled easier.

We’ve got plentifulness much connected Crimson Desert, including a communicative connected however the NPCs are the stars of the show, and a hidden nutrient effect strategy that a modder has restored. We urge you instrumentality a look astatine our usher to Things to Do First successful Crimson Desert, positive Things Crimson Desert Doesn’t Tell You (we’ve got 28 and counting!). We’ve besides got a usher to the Best Early Weapons we urge picking up, the Best Skills to Get First (including a useful explainer of the skills system), and 34 Essential Tips and Tricks to assistance you win successful Pywel.

Crimson Desert update 1.02.00 spot notes:

Depending connected your advancement with the Greymane campy expansion, the capableness of your backstage retention tin present beryllium accrued from 240 slots up to a maximum of 1000 slots.
- Through the enlargement of your camp, which consists of 5 stages successful total, you tin grow your backstage retention arsenic follows:
  - Start with 240 slots
  - First campy enlargement +100 slots
  - Second campy enlargement +100 slots
  - Third campy enlargement +100 slots
  - Fourth campy enlargement +100 slots
  - Final campy enlargement +360 slots
Added an Abyss Nexus successful Pailune.
Improved the visibility of explosive barrels erstwhile utilizing the “Light Reflection” accomplishment oregon erstwhile shining the lantern connected them.
Fixed an contented with combat missions, wherever comrades would not instrumentality until the ngo timer expired if the ngo was completed earlier the clip limit.
Fixed an contented wherever the Abyss puzzle authorities would reset erstwhile viewing elaborate accusation of nodes via the representation "Details" paper portion successful the Abyss.
Fixed an contented wherever the quality would go invisible if an Abyss Artifact was obtained earlier the Abyss completion cutscene played.
Fixed an contented wherever the skills Healing Force Palm and Aerial Force Palm were besides reset erstwhile resetting each skills.
Changed the designs of definite gimmick monsters.
Added 1 caller armor acceptable and helmet for cats.
Improved Abyss Skybridge Gates truthful that restored Gates tin beryllium teleported to. (This alteration was applied successful Patch 1.01.00)
Fixed an contented wherever the slope concern refresh clip would stay stuck successful the "Refreshing" authorities and not update. (Added: 2026/04/04 05:00 UTC)

Controls & Combat

Added a “Movement Controls” option.
- The enactment tin beryllium selected via Main Menu > Others > Settings > Input > Movement Controls, and offers 2 options: Basic and Classic.
- Detailed descriptions tin beryllium recovered successful the in-game options menu.
- Basic question controls: Hold the sprint cardinal to accelerate.
- Classic question controls: Repeatedly property the sprint cardinal to accelerate.
The stamina depletion for mounts has been adjusted.
- With Basic question controls, holding the sprint cardinal consumes stamina astatine acceptable intervals.
- With Classic question controls, stamina is consumed each clip the sprint cardinal is pressed.
Improved the conditions for utilizing the Abyss Nexus, allowing them to beryllium utilized adjacent portion moving somewhat but successful definite situations specified arsenic portion mounted oregon portion utilizing Flight.
- We program to amended this further successful the adjacent aboriginal truthful that the subordinate quality tin accelerated question adjacent portion connected definite mounts.
Improved truthful that the Flight accomplishment tin beryllium activated adjacent erstwhile holding the leap cardinal successful mid-air.
Improved responsiveness erstwhile inputting a leap aft an attack.
Added an Escape cardinal usher erstwhile affected by elemental presumption effects.
Fixed an contented wherever the Focus authorities would not beryllium canceled erstwhile utilizing Aerial Roll during flight.
Fixed an contented wherever weapons could not beryllium drawn wrong Demeniss Castle nether definite conditions.
Fixed an contented wherever immoderate bosses would teleport excessively acold distant during combat.
Fixed an contented wherever the 'Double Boost' equine quality would not activate properly.
Fixed an contented wherever parry would not activate decently during 'Focus' erstwhile a two-handed sword was equipped.
Fixed an contented wherever the camera would crook toward adjacent enemies erstwhile aiming with a tool.
Fixed an contented wherever definite interactions were unavailable portion circumstantial tools were equipped.
Fixed an contented wherever repeatedly pressing the sprint cardinal would let a equine to tally astatine maximum velocity careless of its stats.

Quests

Fixed an contented successful Chapter 6 wherever quest progression became unavailable aft defeating a brag pursuing a save/load nether definite conditions.
Fixed an contented wherever quest progression became unavailable if a related point was sold earlier starting the 'A Rumor Fueled by Greed' quest.
Fixed an contented successful Chapter 11 wherever the Inserted Key could vanish from the bag, preventing related quest progression.

NPC & NPC Dialogue

Fixed an contented wherever definite quest-related NPCs would not appear.

UI Fixes & Improvements

Improved the point usage notification successful the bottom-right country truthful that utilizing it volition prime the point directly.
Improved the store UI truthful that sellable items are prioritized connected display.
Reorganized definite positions and contented of the cardinal usher displayed successful the bottom-right country to amended visibility.
Improved the UI truthful that the Save Game and Load Game menus are separated, and added prevention slot fig labels.
Fixed an contented wherever the minimap standard would reset portion riding a equine astatine maximum speed.
[Keyboard/Mouse] Fixed an contented wherever the rodent cursor would vanish successful the retention menu.
Fixed an contented wherever point question would not enactment decently erstwhile entering the equine inventory paper successful definite circumstances.
Fixed an contented wherever definite menus would occasionally not respond to enactment oregon look visually awkward.
Fixed an contented wherever crashes occured erstwhile entering oregon utilizing immoderate UI/menus successful definite circumstances.
Improved the crippled truthful that the “Stow Weapon” cardinal usher is displayed portion successful combat erstwhile mounted.

Graphics & Settings

Added a “Headgear Visibility” enactment successful Settings > Language & Gameplay.
- The pursuing options are disposable to take from: Always Show / Show successful Combat / Hide successful Cutscenes / Always Hide.
- Additionally, a diagnostic to fell weapons shown connected the character’s back, which galore players person requested, is besides planned to beryllium added successful the adjacent future.
[PC/PlayStation 5/Xbox] Improved FSR upscaling quality.
[PC] Applied FSR SDK 2.2.
[PC] Improved FSR Frame Generation quality.
[PC] Fixed an contented wherever GPU representation usage would summation erstwhile the DLSS RR enactment was configured.
[PC] Improved GPU load and shimmering successful definite circumstances erstwhile FSR-RR / DLSS-RR was enabled.
[PC] Fixed an contented wherever foliage and definite different elements were not rendered decently successful ray-traced reflections erstwhile FSR-RR / DLSS-RR was enabled.
[PC] Fixed an contented wherever the apical of the surface would flicker erstwhile DLAA and HDR options were enabled.
[PC] Fixed a rendering contented affecting the character’s look indoors erstwhile the graphics preset was acceptable to Low.
[PlayStation 5] Applied the Upgraded PSSR Sharpen diagnostic connected PlayStation 5 Pro, improving representation sharpness.
[PlayStation 5] Applied Upgraded PSSR Native AA to Quality Mode connected PlayStation 5 Pro.
[Xbox] Fixed an contented wherever V-Sync behaviour would alteration erstwhile pressing the Home button.
[Xbox] Added a 4K upscaling enactment to Performance Mode connected Xbox Series X.

Performance, Stability, Gameplay

Fixed respective stability, show optimization, and clang issues crossed PC, console, and Mac.

Localization

Fixed assorted localization errors and improved localization prime (game advice, etc.) crossed each languages.

Others

Fixed an contented wherever definite walls successful Corridors of the Void were missing.
Improved the dependable truthful that the dependable presumption changes unneurotic with the camera perspective.
Fixed assorted different in-game issues.

Other Fixes

Fixed an contented wherever the limb would not beryllium disposable erstwhile utilizing the 'Stab' quality portion 'Unarmed' was equipped arsenic a secondary weapon.
Improved the UI truthful that licence accusation tin present beryllium viewed successful the Credits.
Fixed an contented the audio measurement would go debased erstwhile an NPC won successful minigames specified arsenic Duo.
Fixed an contented wherever the inheritance audio would go distorted successful definite locations and situations.

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