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As a guide writer, I love it when a game has lots of locked doors. It’s fun tracking down keys, cracking them open, and discovering what treasures are being kept within—or at least it is to me. Crimson Desert has some really great puzzles, whether you’re out exploring the world, or trying to crack open…
Playing Crimson Desert for the first time is overwhelming to say the least. When you’re not contending with new systems and a not-always-optimal control system, you’re exploring its massive world and marvelling at just how much is crammed together. It sometimes feels like every corner you turn, there’s a new mechanic to learn or activity…
Cooking some fish porridge in Crimson Desert for Renee’s Request is your introduction to the game’s culinary system. It’s not quite as tricky as working out how to chop down trees for Turnali’s Request or mining ore for Rhett’s Request, but there are a few stumbling blocks where you can go wrong—I know I almost…
One of my favourite things about Crimson Desert is its massive skill tree, filled with meaningful upgrades like new attacks, combos, and even enhanced uses for your magic powers. There are no boring +5 attack nodes to be found at all. Unfortunately, I’m here to tell you that you’re best off spending your first few…
Crimson Desert‘s treasure maps are some of the most devious in any game I’ve played. Usually, the location you’re looking for isn’t too far from where you found the clue, but that’s not the case here. Hidden Treasure Map Piece 7, which you can pick up from the model castle on the east side of…
You’d think cleaning a chimney in the early Actions Speak Louder than Words quest would be an easy task for the absolute hunk that is Cliff, Crimson Desert‘s (first) protagonist. The thing is, controlling Cliff feels a lot like playing Octodad at times: he’s a heavy lad with lots of momentum, and there’s a hell…
Kliff starts his (second) life in Crimson Desert without much money. You’ll have no coin to your name, but plenty of things you’ll want to buy, from inventory expansions to weapons, armour, and food. It’s also not easy to make money at first. That is, if you don’t make use of Copper Pouches. You’ll get…
Caves of Qud is famously complex, simulating a surreal science-future where your player character can sprout new limbs at a moment’s notice, apes and crabs have shifting reputational dynamics with one another, and a concrete wall can gain full personhood through items that grants sentience. But in an interview with PC Gamer, Qud co-creator Brian…
After weeks of teasers, Marathon’s fourth map is right around the corner. No, like, for real this time: the Cryo Archive map option has appeared in Marathon with a countdown ending tomorrow, March 20. That’s the same time that its complicated ranked mode arrives. To commemorate the dogged community solving the Cryo Archive ARG, Bungie…
The last time I tried to solve a secret puzzle in World of Warcraft, it took me several hours and a few guide videos to figure it out. Things have escalated quite a bit since then because apparently Blizzard is making puzzles that span multiple expansions now. About a year ago, players figured out how…