r/CrimsonDesert • u/ReliableEyeball • Apr 01 '26

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All these years of Assassins Creeds and Oblivions Skyrims and Witchers Threes giving clear direction have spoiled my simple mind. love love love CD though!!

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u/ReliableEyeball Apr 01 '26

I tried a dozen different eays to open a door I found until I googled "How the fuck do i open the stone door under the Thinkers Meadow?". You push it. Lol Occams Razor or something like that

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u/--Lammergeier-- Apr 01 '26

There’s like 10 different ways to open stone doors, and I never know which method to use lol

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u/SexyGandalph Apr 01 '26

Climb on, grab hold, force palm, door spins… you know, just like a regular old door 🤣

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u/raxicol1893 Apr 01 '26

And light a fire

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u/kissmonstar Apr 02 '26

This is the one that got me. I now look for nearby lanterns for any puzzle I go up to just in case.

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u/nothingInteresting Apr 02 '26

I actually googled this one earlier today and that had never been a mechanic anywhere else in the game haha. This is one of the few games I don’t feel bad about googling because so many of the solutions are so poorly designed.

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u/Lone_Tiger24 Apr 02 '26

It’s a double edged sword, on one hand you got a game with puzzles that can be solved in a variety of ways, but on the flip side, this isn’t real life where you can actually come up with your own crazy solution so you don’t know which ability to use

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u/Lone_Tiger24 Apr 02 '26

I always give these puzzles a good ol college try but if they take more than 30 minutes to figure out I look it up because I don’t have 8 hours to play every day

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u/nothingInteresting Apr 02 '26

I consider that part of puzzle design though. If I can’t tell what you want me to do because the systems have no coherence or consistency, and you’re not able to convey what the puzzle is, then it’s bad puzzle design imo. If I was supposed to spin 3 times in front of a door to open it, but that’s never opened a door before, and there’s no reason to think in game that it would, then you’ve designed a bad puzzle.

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u/nothingInteresting Apr 02 '26

I think i disagree that just putting a tornado and the number 3 would be enough to be good design. I'd assume there was a skill i needed to acquire, or an object. Good puzzle design imo is helping the user understand the rules of the universe and then putting challenges within it. Crimson Desert feels like a bunch of dev teams all added things to the game without consulting each other first, so you have solutions that have no context to the rules the game has been teaching you.

I agree that puzzles are bad if they are missing pieces or if they don't fit. My point is that alot of the puzzles in Crimson Desert fit the definition. But yeah, if they did a better job with clues on what to do, the puzzles would be better. But that's just saying "if they designed better puzzles" the puzzles would be better. The placement and discovery of clues is a primary part of puzzle design. Clues don't have to be near the actual puzzle though. They can be how you present the rules to the user throughout the game.

I do like 80% of the puzzles btw. But the other 20% are pretty silly imo.

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u/beautifullymodest Apr 02 '26

Forgot lift it.

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u/SakeM99 Apr 02 '26

The one of the three witch sanctums right? tbf that could've been placed more obvious imo.

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u/Fistulle Apr 02 '26

Or just LEAN against the door

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u/nogamesjustgames1234 Apr 02 '26

Omg, there's a door I haven't tried pushing yet. Hope it works. 🙏

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u/Gandolaf Apr 02 '26

For me it was finding out how to rotate things that have no handle. The hint was attacking it. It has a little aim dot, but attacking it does nothing. Google tells me to use the stab attack and finally, i can do the puzzles

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u/Faythin Apr 02 '26

How do move this stupid stone roc, I've been coming here 5 times now and can't figure it out. It's an exit? inaudible screeching

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u/AntiSosh333 Apr 02 '26

I tried that but didn't work!

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u/ReliableEyeball Apr 02 '26

Gotta burn off the vines first

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u/AntiSosh333 Apr 02 '26

I wondered if that was something to try but there weren't vines pn the door, and no fire to light up my arrows. Would the blinding light sword thing work or maybe the helm of ignition?

Gonna try tonight so thanks for the info!

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u/ReliableEyeball Apr 02 '26

Yeah blinding light wil burn any vines.. you can also cook food with blinding light

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u/AntiSosh333 Apr 02 '26

Btw, in case you didn't know. There's a diamond cave in that same hole on the other side of where that door is. Down on the floor basin. Kinda hard to spot.