Crimson Desert is now a survival game, thanks to this mod based on an alleged secret "food consequences" system

"We conscionable reconnected what Pearl Abyss designed"

Are you having amusive being Kliff MacDuff? How would you similar to beryllium Kliff MacDuff with an acute lawsuit of gastritis? It appears that unfastened satellite RPG Crimson Desert has a concealed "food consequence" system, chopped during development. It offers 50 antithetic "food skills" divided crossed 15 categories, connected apical of the existing Crimson Desert cooking recipes. Stir it each unneurotic and you person thing similar a endurance sim, arsenic if this crippled wasn't capable genres already.

I cognize this due to the fact that those wily modders person been up to their accustomed tricks, digging into the crippled files successful hunt of abandoned assets and deactivated features. The modders successful question – claramercury and Averno Team, with recognition besides going to lazorr410 and MrIkso for creating tools – assertion to person restored the abandoned nutrient strategy and published their mentation of it connected NexusMods (via TheGamer). As they note: "No caller assets, nary caller buffs — everything this mod uses already exists successful the crippled files. We conscionable reconnected what Pearl Abyss designed."

The mod's nutrient categories span "temperature food, elemental resistances, combat buffs, and adjacent immunity nutrient for endgame mechanics that aren't unrecorded yet". Each accomplishment has 10-15 powerfulness levels that standard with quality progression.

There's a risk/reward furniture successful the signifier of imaginable debuffs from high-potency food, specified arsenic poisoning, though basic, low-potency nutrient remains harmless to devour for wellness replenishment. And past determination are the immunity foods, allegedly "designed for endgame contented not yet active": Coma Immune, Abyss Immune, Poison Immune, and Sound Attack.

The mod comes with 3 presets. When playing connected Adventure, "only high-tier nutrient (HP 3-5, HP Regen Grade 5-8, MP 4-5) astatine maximum potency carries mild risk" of antagonistic consequences. When playing successful Survival, each nutrient tier is risky astatine highest potency: "low tiers get Drunken, mid tiers get Food Poison, precocious tiers get beardown Poison." Iron Gut, meanwhile, turns thing remotely flavourful into a fistful of rusty nails. "Multiple debuffs stack astatine the 2 highest powerfulness levels," the modders explain. "Only low-potency nutrient is safe. For players who privation nutrient to matter."

The modders are successful the process of updating their creation, weaving their ain systems astir it. Specifically, they're trying to code basal Crimson Desert's reliance connected guzzling vittles for HP during much punishing fights, specified arsenic brag battles. The mod's 0.5 mentation adds "light but noticeable cooldowns to nonstop nutrient categories", making it harder to devour your mode retired of a corner.

"This means nutrient is inactive utile successful regular play, but it tin nary longer beryllium spammed arsenic freely successful high-pressure situations," the modders comment. "At the aforesaid time, built-in cooldown families already contiguous successful the crippled information are near untouched, truthful the mod stays person to the underlying operation of the game."

We were lukewarm-to-contemptuous astir Crimson Pudding astatine launch, but the game's improvement and evolving reception person been exhilarating to follow. Mark keeps staggering successful with brainsick headlines. "I took a shade bid to penis town!" helium yells, arsenic I backmost distant rapidly. "It's present amerciable to slap radical with trees," helium insists, unblinking, arsenic I scope for my cattleprod. "Kliff MacDuff was from his mother's womb untimely ripped," helium roars, arsenic I instrumentality a moving dive done the window. "Pearl Abyss hold that the communicative sucks!" helium hollers, arsenic I emblem down passing cars successful a panic.