Here’s Everything The New ‘Crimson Desert’ Patch Just Broke

InnovationGamingHere’s Everything The New ‘Crimson Desert’ Patch Just BrokeByPaul Tassi,Senior Contributor.Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. News and opinion about video games, television, movies and the internet.Follow AuthorApr 23, 2026, 09:57am EDT--:-- / --:--This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.Crimson DesertPearl AbyssPearl Abyss has been known for their lightning fast, extremely substantive Crimson Desert patches, but after last night’s biggest-ever one, perhaps they went a bit too fast this time.Crimson Desert players logged in after release to try out many of the new updates, but they found that a bunch of things were missing or broken, and Pearl Abyss has acknowledged a few of the issues. But far from all of them. Here’s the ongoing list of problems you may have run into:A lot of mounts are missing, including legendary ones and even the dragon. Also you will sometimes summon random horses instead of your main one. This is the one that Pearl Abyss has specifically said they’re working on.A new phoenix mount (awesome!) is unable to be used (not awesome!).The house building system has been extremely messed up where you can’t actually build things inside of it sometimes, and some of the new types of houses aren’t working.Players who have beaten the game are now seeing their save files showing Chapter 2 (no progress has been lost, however).I believe you may have to manually reset comrade missions to restart instead of it being automatically selected like it was previously.Reputation with Greymane vendors has been wiped out. The special contracts you get from other vendors for use there are broken.Dying has broken on Greymane armor where you cannot dye all of it any more.Some Greymanes are permanently dispatched without an actual running mission so you cannot use them.Vault does not work well with the new controls, other combos have been made worse.Cloud cat...