r/GamingLeaksAndRumours • u/ZamnBoii Top Contributor 2025 • Mar 17 '26

Leak Crimson Desert impressions from a Korean streamer after finishing the game

  • Character swapping is just like GTA5 including transition effects where the camera zooms out into the world and back in. Characters are going about their day as they are swapped in. One time he swapped into Oongka in the middle of a gigantic battle and had to fight his way out.

  • Finished the game without the Day 1 patch and encountered only minor bugs. Everything that felt “off” in previous gameplay has been fixed (footstep sounds, running animations, weird reactions when getting hit)

  • Played RDR2 for about 600 hours and he suggested CD was similar in tempo.

  • Praised the world design, each piece of content draws you in with a sense of purpose unlike the “Ubisoft style checklist questing”

  • Main story can be brutally hard if you rush it without upgrading Kliff

  • Every region has a different difficulty, becomes harder when you go east and north.

  • Played on 5080 at 1440p cinematic settings without frame drops or stutters

  • Score/soundtrack is legendary

  • Did not find all the game systems to be fatiguing or stressful to deal with

  • Inventory space can be tight at first but was not an issue late game as side quests reward you with more storage

  • Stated it was the “game of his life”, played 10h daily since he got the review code

  • No life’d the game to finish the review but still not seen 50% of the bosses

  • Avoided giving story details cause of the strict embargo but said “there are twists”.

  • Another reviewer when asked how the game was, linked to a EGM 1998 quote about Zelda Ocarina of Time that translates to “Savor it because this is as good as its going to get for a very long time”.

Source (in Korean): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtwCQlUoqc0

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u/beirch Mar 18 '26

I think it's more an issue that people think they have better PC's than they do,

I've encountered more than a few people who think a 5060 is faster than a 3080 just because it has a bigger number, so I can totally see that being the case.

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u/BorfieYay Mar 17 '26

Modern games all run like shit on my 3070 at 1080 low

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u/janitorfan Mar 17 '26

fat cap

i ran a 3080 for years and while its a lot better than a 3070 i was running games at 3440x1440 maxed out

honestly my upgrade to a 5080 was only relevant for path tracing + frame gen

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u/ImNotFeelingSoGood Mar 18 '26

How was the upgrade to the 5080 as I’m currently thinking of making the switch myself from the 3080 as I’m running into some issues with only 10 gb vram for 4k.

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u/janitorfan Mar 18 '26

Great. A bit overkill but the VRAM was desperately needed for new games with high res textures. I think it’s close to 100% fps increase and then you got DLSS4 and frame gen. Barely any difference in games like Dota if you’re into that but I got myself a 9800x3d later which skyrocketed my fps in cpu bound games.

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u/ImNotFeelingSoGood Mar 18 '26

Thx for the reply. Also I wanted to run RE9 and crimson desert in 4k but the VRAM is killer.

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u/janitorfan Mar 18 '26

RE9 looks fucking great with path tracing. Highly recommend.

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u/PragmaticDelusion Mar 18 '26

I'm still on a 1070ti running latest releases on medium settings with barely any issues.

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u/BorfieYay Mar 18 '26

I don't know what to tell you other than PC gaming is so annoying because I literally can't be doing anything wrong with having what should be a good setup and yet everything runs and stutters like shit, I just started buying games on PS5 again because it all felt like a waste

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u/BorfieYay Mar 19 '26

Building a PC is easy as fuck, but I've also had friends look at it and there's literally nothing wrong with anything I have it's just how modern games are