You must have accomplished Crimson Desert’s most important storyline to start Kliff, Oongka, and Damiane’s new DLC tales, Pearl Abyss has confirmed.
Talking on Dropped Frames, Pearl Abyss’ Will Powers confirmed two entry factors for the Charting the Unknown DLC, which launches on October 29. You’ll have to have accomplished the primary storyline to play the primary entry level, which is the epilogue story content material for every of the three most important characters. The second is, you want to have established the Greymane camp throughout Chapter 3 of the primary recreation to have the ability to play the brand new open world content material, which incorporates exploration, naval gameplay, and just about every little thing that’s not the brand new character-specific story DLC.
“There’s storylines for the three characters,” Powers defined. “Damiane, Oongka, and Kliff, you did not actually get to discover lots of their backstory, lots of their motivations throughout the primary recreation. Now, it is successfully an epilogue for all three characters. What are they doing after? They are not essentially collectively anymore and touring collectively. In any case of this, what’s Oongka going to do on the earth? What’s Damiane going to do on the earth? What’s Kliff going to do on the earth? So there are these storylines, that are actually cool and distinctive in and of themselves.
“However then there’s additionally this storyline and this quest line round this new space of the map you could play although.”
Whereas finishing the primary Crimson Desert storyline isn’t any imply feat (it’s a large recreation that many are nonetheless soldiering by way of even now!), it is smart that any epilogue story DLC must have this requirement somewhat than be baked into the primary marketing campaign to keep away from spoilers.
Certainly, Powers made this level on the present. “It might destroy the story for those that are centered on that stuff,” he mentioned. “If you’d like open world content material, if you need to have the ability to entry all that stuff, you are able to do it very early within the recreation. If you’d like story centered content material, you then’ve in all probability already crushed the story. So you’ll proceed alongside that.”
Nonetheless, it is value noting that not that many have really accomplished Crimson Desert’s most important story, in proportion phrases at the very least. In accordance with official Steam achievements information, simply 10.8% of all gamers have unlocked the Skilled Storyteller achievement, which is awarded for finishing all most important quests. Maybe we should not be shocked by the info right here; Crimson Desert is a recreation full of tons of, if not hundreds of hours of content material, and it’s simple to get sidetracked. Personally, I’ve logged practically 70 hours in Crimson Desert on Steam, however am nowhere close to ending the primary story. I am unsure I ever will.
Charting the Unknown provides new tales, ocean exploration, romance, enterprise administration and expanded housing to an already feature-packed Pywel. Now we have every little thing you want to know concerning the main additions in a Crimson Desert Charting the Unknown DLC features roundup.
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