Crimson Desert Global Release Time Confirmed as Preload Goes Live

Crimson Desert developer and steadfast Pearl Abyss has confirmed the planetary merchandise clip for the hotly anticipated unfastened satellite enactment game.

Preload is unrecorded present crossed PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X and S, having gone unrecorded connected March 17. As for the merchandise date, Crimson Desert launches simultaneously worldwide crossed each platforms connected Thursday, March 19, astatine 3pm PT / 6pm ET / 10pm UK time. We person the breakdown of the planetary merchandise times beneath truthful you tin cheque erstwhile Crimson Desert goes unrecorded successful your timezone.

Crimson Desert planetary merchandise time:

• Los Angeles: 3pm, March 19
• Dallas: 5pm, March 19
• New York: 6pm, March 19
• Sao Paulo: 7pm, March 19
• London: 10pm, March 19
• Berlin: 11pm, March 19
• Paris: 11pm, March 19
• Cape Town: Midnight, March 19
• Istanbul: 1am, March 20
• Dubai: 2am, March 20
• Singapore: 6am, March 20
• Beijing: 6am, March 20
• Seoul: 7am, March 20
• Tokyo: 7am, March 20
• Sydney: 9am, March 20

Crimson Desert planetary merchandise time. Image credit: Pearl Abyss.

In a motorboat FAQ, Pearl Abyss said Crimson Desert needs an net transportation to implicit the archetypal setup (day 1 patch) “and guarantee they person the latest mentation of the game.” Once installation is complete, you tin play Crimson Desert offline.

As for precocious graphics tech support, Crimson Desert supports FSR 3/4 and DLSS 4/4.5 connected PC, Upgraded PSSR for PS5 Pro, and FSR 3 for the PS5 basal exemplary and Xbox Series X and S. It besides features enactment for AMD FSR Ray Regeneration and Nvidia DLSS Ray Reconstruction connected PC versions. Frame procreation (FSR, DLSS and MetalFX) is lone supported connected PC/Mac, arsenic you’d expect, and Crimson Desert supports MetalFX Upscaler, Frame Generation, and Denoiser connected Mac.

You tin bargain Crimson Desert connected PlayStation 5, PlayStation 5 Pro, Xbox Series X and S, Xbox connected PC, Steam (PC & Mac), Epic Games Store, Mac App Store, and GeForce NOW. Cross-save is not available. Crimson Desert connected PC supports Xbox controllers and the DualSense controller (USB only).

So far, we’ve seen Crimson Desert moving connected PC, PlayStation 5 Pro, and, earlier this week, we yet got a look astatine Crimson Desert moving connected basal PS5. However, Pearl Abyss has yet to amusement Crimson Desert moving connected immoderate Xbox console. Full specs for Crimson Desert connected PS5 and Xbox person been confirmed, with performance, balanced, and prime modes elaborate for each consoles but the Xbox Series S, which lacks a balanced option.

The console versions of Crimson Desert person travel nether aggravated scrutiny, with Pearl Abyss accused by immoderate of hiding the PlayStation and Xbox versions anterior to motorboat — thing that sparked fears of a Cyberpunk 2077-style debacle, wherever CD Projekt's game's lesser-powered and buggy console versions were not shown astatine each earlier release.

Earlier this month, Pearl Abyss selling main Will Powers called connected fans to "let america cook" and amusement the console mentation erstwhile it was ready. "We're not hiding anything, and I'm sick of having to repetition myself," Powers said. "I've repeated 100s of times that we'll uncover things up of motorboat to springiness radical capable clip to inactive preorder the crippled for themselves. We're saying this openly... Let america cook? Please and convey you. /rant"

While you hold to play, cheque retired IGN's last Crimson Desert hands-on preview, and our motorboat interrogation with Will Powers.

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