Say what you will about Crimson Desert’s bugs and other shortcomings, but you can’t deny how much support Pearl Abyss has lathered onto the game since release.
Just a week ago, the studio released a major update that introduced the rematch, re-blockade features and more via patch 1.05.00.
The devs aren’t done there and they aren’t even waiting for next month to drop another feature-laden patch, as one is promised very soon.
Crimson Desert Next Major Update Out Within Days of Announcement
Pearl Abyss has announced today that the next major update will be released “within the next dew days” and players can expect it to include new special mounts, an extraction feature that will allow players to recover materials used in equipement refinement and more.
These new features in the patch will be released alongside a slew of bug fixes, as is with every update. While there’s no date set just yet, do not be surprised if we see it drop on a weekend, as the developers have been known to push patches out even on Satuday or Sunday.
As for the bug fixes included, we can’t say for sure, but the known issues are available below, and we expect a fair amount of these to be sorted out via the update.
Crimson Desert Known Issues as of May 8, 2026
- Under certain circumstances, the Sotdae of Bond disappears.
- This issue will be resolved in the next patch.
- Under certain circumstances, the Kuku Pack cannot be used.
- [Keyboard/Mouse] If the game is set to a resolution lower than that of the monitor in use, the position selected in housing mode differs from the actual position selected.
- Greymane faction quests cannot be progressed while playing as Damiane or Oongka.
- The pet that was last unsummoned does not appear at the Greymane Camp.
- If the “Evasion Control” option is set to “Hold,” the default Evasion key still functions even after the Evasion key has been changed.
- If Damiane dies immediately after using the Shield Toss skill, she can no longer use her shield or related skills.
- If this issue occurs, you can resolve it by saving and reloading.
- [Keyboard/Mouse] Switching between the Weapon and Armor tabs in the Quick Slot Equipment interface is not possible when an interactable object is nearby.
- NPCs required for quest progression cannot ride together on Legendary Animal mounts.
- [Mac] The colorblind filter is not applied to the UI when “Colorblind Mode” is enabled.
- [PlayStation] The screen may freeze if characters are entered rapidly while using the virtual keyboard to set the name of a pet or horse.
- Please enter characters slowly with brief pauses when changing names. We apologize for the inconvenience.
- 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.
- The FPS display is incorrect when the “Nvidia DLSS Frame Generation” or “Intel XeSS Frame Generation” option is enabled.
- Frame drops occur when using DLSS Frame Generation on NVIDIA driver version 596.36.
- This issue can be temporarily resolved by setting DLSS Override to “Use 3D app setting” in the NVIDIA App.
- On Intel Arc A770 GPUs, the game sometimes crashes when using XeSS.
- An issue has been identified where the game screen does not display properly when ‘Intel XeSS 3.0’ or ‘Intel XeSS Frame Generation’ is enabled on Intel Arc A-series graphics cards.
- On NVIDIA GTX 1060 GPUs, enabling ‘FSR Upscaling’ and ‘Frame Generation’ causes the screen to appear white.
- When using FSR4 upscaling, an issue occurs in rainy environments where rain disappears, or the screen becomes blurry or distorted.
Once the update is out, expect it here on MP1st, complete with the patch notes.
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