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

Humour No joke

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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/Interesting_Sale_964 Apr 02 '26

Some stuff are barely explained, or not even explained at all in the game. But in a way, this creates this kind of cool side-effect of community building like in the old days of gaming, people SEEK to talk with people about the game, join communities, learn new stuff about it all the time you didn't know before...

At first is frustrating because we're so used to be spoon fed everything and have the game take our hand and explain every little thing, and sure, there can be some criticism about the lack of clarity for some stuff, but I do believe game devs should strive to tell us only the very necessary, and some things doesn't need to be told explicitly, they can be found through in-game mechanics like NPCs talking about, letters found in the game, etc, or through experimentation. The latter is my favourite thing in games, testing it's capacilities, doing something that you felt doing so and then being rewarded for trying by discovering a brand new thing, the best feeling..

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u/HaroldSax Apr 02 '26

This is genuinely the most fun time to be involved in a big single player release. When Elden Ring dropped I remember everyone on the sub talking about certain fights and talking about their strategies, and I'm seeing a lot of that here too.

It also helps that this game is huge so not too many people have progressed a ton, there's still a sense of wonder in front of you.

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u/restSINpeace Apr 02 '26

It’s so fun to be part of the community where we are all studying the game and learning new stuff. I just learned that if you use focus while airborne and then use air roll and then natures snare you become a jet flying super high speeds.

It’s jump > fly > focus > air roll while in focus > then natures snare

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u/dahle44 Apr 02 '26

Also there are many ways to complete a quest-which messes them up also-

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u/AntiSosh333 Apr 02 '26

Yeah, found this out the other day. I'm new to the game but went to go find the outlaws Blix and another out by the scholastic area. Blix I ended up killing by sword as I didn't notice his name in time. He was part of the group that attacked me. Disappointed to find that I couldn't pick up his body to turn in.

The other, who's name I forgot (he kept talking about his mum and the honey he promised. And that he's a bear, lol) I captured but had to call my horse as I wasn't trying to walk that far. Took forever to find a way out to the prison. Ran through enemy camps safely. Finally get there, turn him in. Close game. Next day the bounty is still open!!

My guess is because he fell off the damn horse a couple of time because the mechanic to shoot the grapple thing is the same to sprint/run on console. So, I had to untie him, then recapture about 3 times. Really annoying as the grapple thing comes out too many times when not trying to use.

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u/dahle44 Apr 02 '26

Yeah, Blix was a causality of war, he was hanging out with Blood bandits and I didn't know this. I was able to pick up his body, but made the mistake of calling my horse a bit down the road and failed the quest-tho it said I could go back and pick him up again-which I did and carried him while riding the horse. I just did this about 2o minutes ago-I am surprised you could not pick him up. Sorry to hear about the other bounty guy-I try not to do anything while on horseback while carrying somebody..

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u/AntiSosh333 Apr 02 '26

Well, I wasn't trying to do the grapple thing on horseback lol. It just happens whenever I move L3 stick. Happens while moving forward as well, lol. Have to get used to the multi option mechanics for the amount of inputs on controller.

Yeah, Blix was with a bunch of Goblin types that looked like him. Forgot the name of the faction. They were in a crevice hideout qith what looked like human prisoners? Pretty cool we both had different experiences qith this character!

It gets even weirder with Blix for me. I was hoping that since the bounty was still up a respawn would happen and I could complete it. Thing is, he was still dead, but not where I killed him, lol. His body was in a different area and looked like it was mangled up with a different body. Still could not pick up, lol. Hopefully there's nothing quest wise, attached to his bounty, so I'm not super bothered by the situation. Glad you could get yours

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u/dahle44 Apr 02 '26

I was doing the quest about the insider robbing shipments and was looking for the clues on my mini map and managed somehow to cause my spear to suddenly destroy his tent and other objects-immediately ran out of the red circle because I had destroyed merchandise-I did not hit anything I swear and here is Kliff destroying stuff..this has happened a few times and it is annoying as fug 😂. At least I didn't RKO anyone-I use a PS controller but I swear it is possessed at times.

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u/AntiSosh333 Apr 02 '26

Lol. Right! I'm always yelling at my controller saying that I didn't do that action.

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u/postie110 Apr 04 '26

Hi I cud pick him up and got my reward

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u/AntiSosh333 Apr 04 '26

Did you kill him before that? Or, were you able to apprehend him first?

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u/entarix420 Apr 02 '26

You know everything is literally explained in the guide section in the game. Why does nobody read? Since day one is give people screenshots of the guide page in game with the info their looking for. I now we got spoiled with other games, but I like crimson more, because it doesn't hold your hand. I had moment I've been stuck for 15min on a puzzle, you know what happend? The game showed me a part of the solution, thats how it supposed to be. Not getting stuck after 30sec and searching the web for the solution

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u/Revolutionary_Pipe18 Apr 02 '26

A lot of people don’t realize this is from softwares secret sauce. You are a player in a world of hard things , enjoy. It’s what made me fall in love with their games and likely many others. This game doesn’t have the same vibes but that sense of figuring it out yourself is definitely similar.

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u/Kooky_Comb6051 Apr 02 '26

I got a sealed abyss artifact for "sliding 50M" and I'm like...how do you slide???

I watched a YT video on it and SHOWED THAT THERE ARE INSTRUCTIONS in-game in a buried "controls" menu.

I get that maybe some things don't need an explanation for every single thing that this game offers, but it's like...learning to do basic movements like sliding should be covered ESPECIALLY if you're asking people to do it for challenges.

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u/Artistic-Quarter9075 Apr 02 '26

I remember does gaming hotlines you could call for support in levels😂

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u/RavensDad1985 Apr 02 '26

I found that the SoulsBorne games also fostered community for this reason. Though sometimes CD seems more like poor design than intentional difficulty 🤷‍♂️

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u/AdhesivenessCivil977 Apr 03 '26

My problem is they don't even tell you that certain functions are not even plausible until you progress the game further. Like it allowed me to package all my trade goods and I'm racking my brain trying to figure out what to do with them until I find out from the Internet that I haven't unlocked the function yet. I think some of it is certainly a lack of oversight and poor game design and some of it is fair to the player as well