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Crimson Desert Players Work Out a Way to Fly Like Neo From The Matrix, but Given Pearl Abyss' Previous Form on Patches,

Crimson Desert players have found a way to fly across the map like Neo from The Matrix, although they’re not sure if it’s a bug or a feature. In Pearl Abyss’ open world action adventure, flight is not indefinite. Rather, you slowly fall to the ground no matter how high your Stamina. So, anything that makes you boost around quicker while flying would be welcome. Enter, this latest glitch/mechanic/who knows at this point? Now, there are a few skills you’ll need to unlock (you can watch and learn them or just buy them) before you can make this work, and be warned: making it work is rather fiddly. And even when you do, it’s unclear whether this actually gets you significantly farther than you can without using it. But let’s run — or fly — with it for now. You’ll need the Aerial Roll skill (in the health tree) and the Focused Repulsion skill (one of the nodes in the Focus skill) to do this entire combo (Crimson Desert input commands sometimes feel like fighting game combos!). While flying, click both thumb sticks in to enter Focus Mode, do the Aerial Roll (the Circle button on a PlayStation controller), then, as you boost, ‘Unleash’ (R1) to exit Focus Mode and, somehow, keep boosting. N

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Crimson Desert Dev Confirms Boss Rematches, Hard Difficulty, Enemy Territory Recapture, and a Whole Lot More Is Coming Soon

Crimson Desert developer Pearl Abyss has outlined a number of significant changes coming to the game in the coming months, each addressing various community complaints that were highlighted recently. There are some real crowd-pleasers in…

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Crimson Desert Dev Confirms Boss Rematches, Hard Difficulty, Enemy Territory Recapture, and a Whole Lot More Is Coming Soon

Crimson Desert developer Pearl Abyss has outlined a number of significant changes coming to the game in the coming months, each addressing various community complaints that were highlighted recently. There are some real…

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After Hundreds of Hours, Some Crimson Desert Players Are Complaining That the World Has Become Too 'Peaceful' Because They've Basically Killed All the Enemies

Crimson Desert has a huge map and lengthy story that will take most players over 100 hours to work their way through, but now Pearl Abyss’ action adventure has been out for a few weeks, some are starting to complain…

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Crimson Desert Players Work Out a Way to Fly Like Neo From The Matrix, but Given Pearl Abyss' Previous Form on Patches, They’re Not Sure if It's a Bug or a Feature

Crimson Desert players have found a way to fly across the map like Neo from The Matrix, although they’re not sure if it’s a bug or a feature. In Pearl Abyss’ open world action adventure, flight is not indefinite.…

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Crimson Desert developer Pearl Abyss has outlined a number of significant changes coming to the game in the coming months, each addressing various community complaints that were highlighted recently. There are some real crowd-pleasers in…

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Crimson Desert has a huge map and lengthy story that will take most players over 100 hours to work their way through, but now Pearl Abyss’ action adventure has been out for a few weeks, some are starting to complain that the open world has…

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Crimson Desert players have found a way to fly across the map like Neo from The Matrix, although they’re not sure if it’s a bug or a feature. In Pearl Abyss’ open world action adventure, flight is not indefinite. Rather, you slowly fall to…

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