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Known Issues
March 27, 2026 at 11:23 AM
Fixed 1 broken wikilink: kliff-macduff -> kliff
Pearl Abyss maintains an official known issues list on the Crimson Desert website. This page summarizes the confirmed bugs and technical problems as of March 26, 2026. For a more detailed breakdown including workarounds, troubleshooting steps, and community-reported issues, see the full Known Bugs and Issues article.
Issue | Details | Status |
|---|---|---|
NPC Trust reset | If an NPC's Trust was increased during the Prologue, that NPC's Trust value may reset to its Prologue value in certain situations. | Acknowledged |
Wait feature breaks after second use | After using the "Wait" feature (beds or campfires) twice, the rest/wait option stops working entirely for the remainder of the session. | Acknowledged |
Bank investment balance bug | If your investment returns are negative while you have no gold bars deposited in the bank, your total balance becomes 0. Pearl Abyss recommends avoiding bank investments under 500 silver until a fix is released. | Acknowledged |
Character invisibility | Damiane or Oongka becomes invisible under certain conditions. Switching to Kliff or reloading a save resolves the issue temporarily. | Acknowledged |
Cloudcart cannot be summoned | Under certain conditions, the cloudcart cannot be summoned, preventing fast travel by cart. | Acknowledged |
Knowledge requires double observation | Some knowledge entries can only be acquired after performing "Observation" twice instead of once. | Acknowledged |
Quest auto-tracking failure | Completing certain quests does not trigger automatic tracking of the next objective. Players must open the quest log and manually select the next step. | Acknowledged |
Deferred Advance: Blackstar health bug | During the Deferred Advance quest, retrying or abandoning the Ultimate Weapon fight while Blackstar's Health is depleted causes Blackstar's Health to not fully recover on subsequent attempts. | Acknowledged |
Fruit theft character lockup | Attempting to steal fruit from the back of a market stall causes the player character to become completely unresponsive to controls. | Acknowledged |
Tree stuck glitch | Taking damage while holding or climbing a tree can clip the character through the trunk, sometimes getting the character permanently stuck. | Acknowledged |
Gregor revival softlock | During the Gregor, the Halberd of Carnage boss fight, if surrounding destructible objects break at the same moment the player character dies, revival becomes impossible and progress is blocked. | Acknowledged |
Settings not saving | In some cases, applied graphics and gameplay settings revert to previous values after restoring settings or restarting the game. | Acknowledged |
Issue | Platform | Details | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
ROG Ally X launch failure | Xbox / ROG Ally X | The game fails to launch properly on the latest driver. Pearl Abyss recommends using driver V32.0.21025.27003 instead of V32.0.23027.4002 while Microsoft and AMD investigate the issue. | Under investigation |
Fishing reel-in broken | Xbox | The fishing reel-in function does not work when "Invert Right Stick Y-Axis" is enabled in device settings. | Acknowledged |
Issue | Details | Status |
|---|---|---|
FSR 4 visual artifacts | Enabling AMD FSR 4 upscaling causes rain to disappear or introduces screen blurring and distortion in rainy environments. | Acknowledged |
The following issues have been resolved in recent patches:
Issue | Resolution |
|---|---|
PS5/PS5 Pro Map menu crashes | Fixed in Patch 1.00.03 |
Character switch to Kliff broke interactions (PS5) | Fixed in Patch 1.00.04 (PlayStation Hotfix) |
Mac Steam crashes on quest completion, startup, or exit | Fixed in Patch 1.00.04 (Mac Steam Hotfix) |
Abyss visible from overworld causing frame drops | Fixed in Patch 1.00.03 |
Xbox ROG Ally and Xbox PC launch issues | Partially resolved (driver workaround provided; full fix pending) |
Steam pre-order bonus/deluxe pack claim failures | Server-side fix deployed; restart game and check Add-ons menu |
Collector's Edition Ultimate Pack claim failures | Server-side fix deployed |
DualSense vibration on Windows | Fixed in Patch 1.00.03 |
GPU recognition failures in dual graphics environments | Fixed in Patch 1.00.03 |
Patch 1.00.03 (March 23, 2026) resolved several high-priority issues:
PS5 map crash: The hard crash triggered by opening the map menu on PS5 and PS5 Pro has been fully resolved.
120 Hz output bug: A bug that caused dramatically reduced rendering resolution when 120 Hz output was enabled on PS5 has been fixed. 120 Hz is now a separate in-game toggle.
DualSense vibration on PC: DualSense controller haptic feedback now works correctly on Windows via USB and Bluetooth.
GPU recognition: Certain GPUs that were not detected at startup are now recognized properly.
Xbox offline play: Fixed an issue where offline gameplay was unavailable on Xbox.
Patch 1.00.04 consisted of two platform-specific hotfixes: a PlayStation hotfix on March 23 that fixed the Kliff character-switching bug, and a Mac Steam hotfix on March 24 that resolved crashes on quest completion, startup, and exit.
Pearl Abyss encourages players to report issues through the official Crimson Desert website under News > Notices > "Report an Issue." PC players can also post in the Bug Reports section of the Steam Community forums. Include your platform, system specs (if on PC), a description of the issue, and steps to reproduce it.
