Crimson Desert Update 1.00.03 Patch Notes: Control Improvements, Private Storage, and More

Crimson Desert has been receiving some criticism lately due to its tough controls and many difficult in-game mechanics. Thankfully, the developers are already working on fixing many of the game’s clunkiness, and today’s patch notes clearly showcase that intent. The Crimson Desert 1.00.03 patch notes bring much-needed changes to some of the game’s core mechanics, so learn all about the new update here.

Crimson Desert Patch 1.00.03 Key Highlights

Crimson Desert Patch 1.00.03 brings big changes to the game’s controls, mechanics, and boss fights. Here are the key highlights for today’s patch notes in Crimson Desert:

• New Private Storage: We finally have a dedicated private storage in the tradepost area of Hernand City and in the Howling Hill camp.
• More Abyss Nexus: The game has finally added more Abyss Nexuses, making Fast Travel in Crimson Desert a bit easier.
• Bosses display weakness effects: Now, all bosses display their weakness effects, even when players don’t have the skill for it.
• Control changes: More button support has been added, including side mouse buttons for evade and guard.
• Boss fight nerf: Some bosses have now decreased attack speed and health.

Crimson Desert Patch Notes Today for Update 1.00.03

If you want to check the entire patch note for today, then here is a full Crimson Desert 1.00.03 patch notes:

Quests

• Fixed an issue in the Chapter 2 quest “Reunion” where the cat would sometimes stop leading the way.
• Improved the Chapter 4 quest “Mysterious Pot” by making the symbol stop briefly when it reaches the correct position while repairing the ancient generator.
• Fixed an issue in “Turnali’s Request” where the quest would not complete if a Bekker Shield that had already been refined was refined again.
• Improved the notification to appear when crime status prohibit the quest from progressing.

Content

• Added more Abyss Nexuses across the continent of Pywel to improve fast travel via teleportation.
• Added the Private Storage that can be used to store items from your Inventory.
• The Private Storage is located at the initial temporary lodgings in Hernand and at the Howling Hill Camp.
• Reduced the time required to acquire knowledge.
• Changed skill observation to be only required once to learn before being able to use it.
• Adjusted when Force Palm is learned to allow players to use it much earlier in the game.
• Reduced the number of hits required to log trees.
• Changed logging so that trees are chopped with basic swings without aiming first.
• Decreased the QTE difficulty in the Arm Wrestling minigame and when pinned by an opponent (Mount).
• Improved the visibility of items that can provide knowledge by adding icons and tooltips that show the total number of knowledge acquired.
• Changed ore veins and collectibles to be discovered automatically when you are within a certain proximity.
• Regular Ores: 8m
• Tools: 2m
• Bonfire, Special Cooking Tool, Grindstone
• Improved Skybridge Alignment Devices in the Abyss to trigger immediately when placed in the correct activation point.
• Improved the visibility of Skybridge Alignment Devices within the Abyss to make them easier to locate.
• Improved the visibility of the circuit board attached to Axiom Force to show its lines while being moved.
• Improved camera movement when aiming a bow at a brazier and adjusted the range for lighting arrows accordingly.
• Added an indestructible brazier in front of the Lioncrest Watchtower.
• Improved the Trading Post UI to display Damiane, Oongka, and Kliff’s horses’ Inventory.
• Added effects for destroying facilities at enemy strongholds. The effects of facility destruction are as follows:
• Infirmary: Wounded enemies no longer return to the fight.
• Storage Facilities: Enemy Max Health -10%.
• Barracks Facilities: Enemy Attack -5.
• Improved the visuals of certain puzzles for clarity.
• Increased the Health restored by ingredients and food items, and added new food to the Hernand Tavern.
• Increased the Lantern’s range for detecting clues.
• Reduced Stamina consumption for Nature’s Grasp.
• Fixed an issue where pets would fail to loot items under certain conditions.
• Changed certain items in the Witches’ shop to reset daily.
• Changed the properties of bismuth ore and how it is gathered.
• Petrification is now applied by default when you approach bismuth ore.
• Bismuth ore can now be mined using regular methods like a pickaxe, rather than requiring Lightning damage attacks.
• Lowered the difficulty of the Marksmanship and Archery Contest minigames.
• Fixed an issue where the Abyss cell’s electric field would not disappear.
• Improved the visibility of the part that needs to be grabbed with Axiom Force on the Skybridge Alignment Device.
• Changed Visione to be automatically equipped and play after reading memory fragments with the Lantern.
• Fixed an issue in the Ethereal Pathway Abyss where players could not observe Force Palm if they did not step on the Abyss Nexus.
• Fixed an issue where Stamina was not consumed after a certain quest cutscene.

Controls

• [General] Improved the response speed of the interaction UI.
• [General] Improved the responsiveness of jump inputs.
• [General] Fixed aiming to target the center of the screen when using a Lantern or while unarmed.
• [General] Improved the Equipment Quick Slot so that re-selecting your current equipment will stow it.
• [General] Improved the responsiveness of the Main Menu UI.
• [General] Fixed an intermittent issue where the Main Menu would not open.
• [Keyboard/Mouse] Improved the responsiveness of character movement controls.
• [Keyboard/Mouse] Added the following shortcuts to open and close certain menus:
• Inventory: [I]
• Skills: [K]
• Journal: [J]
• Map: [M]
• [Keyboard/Mouse] Fixed an issue where the key guide at the bottom right of the screen would not update when using Guard or Aim.
• [Keyboard/Mouse] Added default control options for Guard/Aim (Side Button 1) and Evade (Side Button 2).
• [Keyboard/Mouse] Changed controls to maintain movement input when using Axiom Force.
• [Keyboard/Mouse] Fixed an issue where duplicate keys could be assigned in Shortcuts and Input Settings.
• [Keyboard/Mouse] Fixed an issue where certain inputs did not function correctly after changing the Shortcuts and Input Settings.

Boss Fights & Combat

• Reduced the Health and Attack of specific enemies and bosses.
• Reduced Stamina consumption for blocking attacks.
• Lowered the difficulty of the ambush encounters triggered while heading toward the Reed Devil boss stage.
• Adjusted certain attack patterns for Kearush the Slayer.
• Increased the accumulation of the stun gauge on bosses upon a successful parry.
• Changed boss weakness effects to display even if the player has not acquired the specific knowledge.
• Fixed an issue where comrades remained when entering a boss fight.
• Fixed an issue where fire arrows failed to ignite enemies on hit.
• Fixed an issue where certain bosses fell unnaturally in specific situations.
• Fixed an issue where certain bosses ran away too frequently when hit under specific circumstances.
• Fixed an issue where the Blinding Flash weakness was not being properly applied to certain enemies.

NPC & NPC Dialogue

• Fixed an issue where some English audio lines were not playing.
• Reduced the price of restorative items sold by Carl at Howling Hill Camp from 10 Silver to 1 Silver.
• Improved animal behavior to appear more natural when near the player.
• Fixed abnormal behavior and placement positions for certain NPCs.
• Fixed an issue where NPCs would catch each other cheating during the minigame Duo.

UI Fixes & Improvements

• Improved food items to automatically register to a quick slot upon first acquisition.
• Improved the display positioning for the Homing Pigeon letter UI.
• Improved the camera movement when observing skills.
• Fixed an intermittent issue where the UI failed to remove the destination on the Map menu.
• Fixed an intermittent issue where the cursor did not display correctly when navigating the Shop menu.
• Moved the Knowledge and Notifications menu from the Others tab to the Journal tab and adjusted the order.

Graphics & Settings

• [PlayStation 5, Xbox] Added a toggle for 120Hz mode within Settings.
• Fixed an issue where settings were not saving correctly after using the Default option in the Settings menu.
• Fixed an issue where resolution and upscaling settings were not retained when restarting the game.
• Fixed an issue where character equipment and cats were invisible on the minimum performance quality setting.
• Fixed an issue where screen quality appeared abnormal when activating FSR Ray Regeneration or DLSS Ray Reconstruction.
• Fixed an issue where monitor size was incorrectly detected at certain resolutionsm causing abnormal display output.
• Fixed an issue where the game screen appeared cut off or misaligned in Fullscreen, Windowed, and Borderless Window modes.
• [Mac] Fixed an issue where default graphics settings were incorrectly set to Cinematic on certain MacBook models.
• [Mac] Fixed an issue where the game would occasionally crash under specific graphics settings.
• Fixed an issue where the Abyss remained visible in specific situations while on the ground.
• Improved and fixed various visual effects triggered during specific NPC animations.
• Improved the appearance of the waterfall in the Abyss tutorial.
• Fixed awkward animations that occurred when a character collided with a wagon.
• Fixed an issue where letterboxing failed to deactivate after certain cutscenes.

Performance, Stability, Gameplay

• [PlayStation 5] Fixed an issue where the game would occasionally crash when opening the Map menu.
• Fixed an issue where the game would not launch because dedicated graphics cards were not recognized in environments using both integrated and dedicated graphics cards.
• Fixed an issue where graphics cards were not correctly recognized on versions below a specific build of Windows 10 (Improved detection for graphics card versions that could not be found).
• Fixed several stability, performance optimization, and crash issues across PC and console platforms.
• [Xbox] Fixed an issue where gameplay was unavailable while offline.

Localization

• Fixed various localization errors and improved localization quality across all languages.

Others

• Fixed an issue where the death and loading sequences were delayed.
• Improved horse behavior to approach the player after being called.
• Fixed an issue where the character would be pushed sideways when using Force Palm or Stab while against a wall.
• Fixed an issue where DualSense Controller vibration failed to function in specific Windows environments.

Crimson Desert Known Issues

Today’s Crimson Desert patch may have brought a ton of changes, but there are still many known issues that are yet to be fixed. Here is a list of all the known issues in the game:

• (Xbox) An issue has been identified where the fishing reel-in function does not work properly when the “Invert Right Stick Y-Axis” setting is enabled in the device settings. Please note that if you disable this feature, the reel-in function will work normally.
• In certain situations, the Abyss can be seen from the world below, resulting in slight drops in frame rate.
• During the “Deferred Advance” quest, retrying or abandoning the Ultimate Weapon fight when Blackstar’s Health is depleted causes Blackstar’s Health to not fully recover.
• Attempting to steal fruit at the back of a stall results in the character becoming unresponsive to controls.
• When receiving damage while holding a tree, the character can become stuck to the tree.
• During the Gregor, the Halberd of Carnage boss fight, if surrounding objects are destroyed at the same time the character dies, the character cannot revive and progress.
• Under certain conditions, applied settings are not saved after restoring settings.
• While progressing through some quests, the next objective is not automatically tracked.
• When using FSR4 upscaling, an issue occurs in rainy environments where rain disappears, or the screen becomes blurry or distorted.
• An issue has been identified where the game cannot be launched properly on Xbox ROG Ally and Xbox PC.
• We are currently investigating an issue where Collector’s Edition Steam edition pre-order purchasers are unable to claim their ultimate pack items.

So, that’s it. These are today’s Crimson Desert patch notes. The addition of a private storage was highly required, and the slight control changes for the Keyboard and mouse are also appreciated. Hopefully, we see a Crimson Desert controller overhaul soon as well. Let us know your opinion on the patch notes in the comments below.