The Crimson Desert Update adds a baby Wyvern Pet and lets you silence outlaws

Pearl Abyss is back at it again after a short gap between updates for Crimson Desert. The latest patch addresses veryincluding the ability to tame wild Wyverns, keep one as a pet and watch it grow (although that will be added later), as well as a fish pond for breeding fish, the ability for Kliff to use shotguns and muskets…and much more.

This update marks two months of content support for Crimson Desert and the game is largely unrecognizable from the version I played during the review period. Pearl Abyss is dedicated to bringing more and more content to the game, with some potential DLC in the future as well.

Gwen Kraber stands ready in the Crimson Desert.

There are two parts of these patch notes that really cement the fact that Pearl Abyss is listening to the community when making changes: Kliff can now use shotguns and muskets (which has been highly requested since day one), and you can now shut up the outlaws when you run them halfway across the map. I never have to listen to that guy talk about honey or his mother again.

You can now also use the Abyss gear “Infinite Arrows” for bullets and cannonballs. So I started blasting anyway.

But the update also introduces much more than that. You can now build a fishpond at Greymane Camp at Howling Hill or in Pailune. This provides a way to essentially breed fish, giving you an unlimited supply for cooking. Or, if you're like me, a way to collect and display all the legendary fish you've caught.

I hope Pearl Abyss continues to add more of this “slice of life” content to the game. I don't dream of another Black Desert Online, but additional ways to roleplay the world would be nice.

Speaking of legendary, there has been much discussion about the inability to ride the wild wyverns you see roaming Pywel. Don't worry, Pearl Abyss has a plan for that, and it goes beyond just taming wilds and riding them around for a while. Instead, you'll be able to keep your own baby Wyvern as a pet, watch it grow, and eventually ride it. The full functionality for this has not been added yet. It is planned for a future patch.

The update also introduces tons of other tweaks and changes, like 20 new small animals that can be tamed as pets, a refined quick switch menu so you can always have your broom ready to go, reblocking for camps and ruins, and a continuation of cleaning up the remaining bits of AI-generated 2D assets that people found a few weeks ago.

I'm now firmly of the opinion that Crimson Desert will be a fundamentally different game by the end of 2026. It no longer resembles the big clunky beast I spent 200 hours on. Not only will it likely warrant a re-review later, I might even be tempted to restart the game – although I might wait for the DLC. Given the rapid pace at which Pearl Abyss releases these updates, I don't even think we'll have to wait that long.