Right on schedule, a new Crimson Desert patch has gone live today ahead of the weekend, continuing Pearl Abyss' mission of fulfilling community requests to deliver an experience far above anything powered by Unreal Engine with the highly requested tool equipment slot while adding new content and fixes, including the ability to have a pet baby wyvern that will become a full mount in the future.
The tool equipment slot is the first major new addition mentioned in the official patch 1.08.00 notes. This was one of the most requested features by the community, as previously, tools could only be equipped as secondary weapons, which made using them extremely cumbersome if someone preferred to have Kliff wield a greatsword or spear.
- Added a slot to equip tools.
- Certain equipment that was previously equipped in the secondary weapon slot can now be equipped in the tool slot.
- Equippable tools: logging axe, mallet, shovel, broom, scythe, pickaxe, drill/chainsaw, fan
- The tool slot can be found in the quickslot menu, below the secondary weapon slot.
- Quickslots for masks and circlets have been moved to the 'armor' tab of the quickslot menu.
- Using “Quick Swap” switches to the equipment in the slot that was previously drawn.
The new Crimson Desert update also adds a Pond to both of the Greymanes' camps - Howling Hill and Pailune. Constructed after completing a certain quest, players can drop their caught fishes in it, and having more fishes of the same species will increase their number.
The patch also introduces 20 new species of small animals, including baby wyverns that can be registered as pets. In addition, these baby wyverns will grow and will become mounts in a future update. However, if riding a wyvern to explore Pywel was on your wishlist, you will be happy to know that it is now possible to ride one as a temporary mount after subduing it.
Rounding up the new additions of the latest Crimson Desert patch is the ability to have Kliff equip muskets and shotguns, a Focused Aerial Roll equivalent for Damiane and Oongka, and blueprints to craft superior branches using special tree branches.
Besides adding more content and features, the Crimson Desert patch 1.08.00 patch also added a new ray tracing feature, raytraced sun/moon light shadows, which can be toggled on and off in the Graphics settings. Other graphics improvements include improved GPU load in high-resolution environments that exceed 4K resolution, better object placement, and fixes for some visual glitches, including vegetation flickers.
With so many new features and improvements added since launch, Crimson Desert has become an even better game than it was back in March. Even without them, however, I found the game to be an excellent open-world action game, with its disjointed narrative the major flaw holding it back.
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