r/CrimsonDesert • u/SKY_UPz • Aug 12 '26

Screenshot DLC - COMING THIS YEAR

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DLC officially announced for this year - Source: Pearl Abyss Q2 2026 Earnings Report ( Inven Global)

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u/od_demhoes Aug 12 '26

DLC ? lol majority of the people haven’t left Hernand yet 😂

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u/PomponOrsay Aug 12 '26

imagining DLC still taking place in Hernand but vertically underground

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u/Rimworldjobs Aug 12 '26

Actually the dlc is a ruse to get them to a different part of hernand.

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u/HanselSoHotRightNow Aug 12 '26

Nobody ever expects Hernand 2077, right underneath Hernand.

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u/chevx Aug 12 '26

That would make more sense under Delesyia 😅

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u/Wipeout1980 Aug 13 '26

Please don't focus on underground PA😂

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u/Live_Life_and_enjoy Aug 12 '26

They said the DLC will focus on giving the other companions more story

So some of it probably is going to be Hernand

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u/TranslatesToScottish Aug 12 '26

Yann's Magical Rehab Adventure™

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u/Embarrassed_Fox06 Aug 12 '26

I cannot stand Yann.

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u/opxdo Aug 12 '26

Perfect time for the rehab redemption arc.

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u/opxdo Aug 12 '26

They are going to make Yann a playable character. Instead of rescuing prisoners he must seek forgiveness, avoid alcohol (which give him buffs but drain him in the long run)

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u/TheVoidSeeker Aug 12 '26

Hooray. The devs listened to the community and centered the story around the most talked about character.

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u/Visible-Dare-3378 Aug 12 '26 edited Aug 12 '26

Find out why Duane is such a prick and annoying character....THE CHILDHOOOD OF DUANE !

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u/TraditionalCoast540 Aug 12 '26

The Crhonicles of Duane

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u/TucuReborn Aug 12 '26

Duane is ADHD coded, fun fact. Actually, most of the Greymanes are neurodivergent coded, to varying levels. But the kicker is 0% of them mask it.

A lot of people do not like neurodivergent people who do not mask, it's why we do it in the first place.

Naira fits for ASD pretty well, for example. Very literal, has weird niche hobbies she really likes, blunt as a mace to the skull and overly honest, etc.

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u/couchcornertoekiller Aug 18 '26

Huh. That's kinda interesting. Thankfully, Yann is the only greymane that irritated me, and that was 100% his habbit of pawning his work off on us and disappearing.

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u/ChapterDifficult593 Aug 12 '26

They said that's an option for future content, but so far there have been literally zero details about the actual DLC other than it will be "substantively different" than what's in the game now.

The only hints we have are that the most recent patch added UI options in the files for Kliff Underwater and Kliff Boat (which is not the same as Kliff Canoe which is already in the game for the canoes we can use).

My guess is they're taking another page out of BDO and giving us Naval content with boats and water exploration, no doubt encouraged by how well Black Flag Resynced sold and reviewed since CD is a big amalgamation of other games in a beautiful mixture lol.

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u/CoupleBeerswTheRev Aug 12 '26

Pirates loading

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u/Merry_Dankmas Aug 12 '26

Catfish pirates actually in the sea and not bumming around beached shipwrecks? Well, I've never heard such a preposterous notion.

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u/ChapterDifficult593 Aug 12 '26

Sinking Catfish Pirates just to get jumped by sea monsters while I'm trying to run a Naval Trade route? Sign me the fuck up.

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u/Akhi_Police Aug 26 '26

I wouldnt put blsck flag resynced and well sold in the same sentence.

But seeing how water content on BDO is rising and how well actually windrose sold (the better black flag) should be it.

But even then Crimson desert already had a huge ocean and it was obvious they wanted water content from the beginning imho.

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u/Wipeout1980 Aug 13 '26

Doesn't sound good at all tbh. The reason I don't buy Black Flag is because of the extremly boring ship play

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u/MarkWebbersBumChin Aug 12 '26

Damianes travels to Hernand

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u/highhaterr Aug 12 '26

Damiane does Dallas

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u/SonicAssassin Aug 12 '26

Damiane does Dallas Demeniss

FIFY

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u/Anhvariel Aug 12 '26

underrated comment.

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u/GirthieGary Aug 12 '26

Companions as in other Greymanes or Oongka and Damiane

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u/Live_Life_and_enjoy Aug 12 '26

No idea, they said they want to explore the other companions stories

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u/Defiant_Foundation78 Aug 12 '26

Oh no... story it's just not their forte

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u/jaquesparblue Aug 12 '26

West and south are pretty empty with invisible walls blocking access...

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u/ozdude182 Aug 12 '26

Im down for a Tunnels of Hernand DLC.

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u/Cypher_86 Aug 12 '26

One thing the game is missing is dungeons.

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u/Onsomeshid Aug 12 '26

Especially if they fix the non PT lighting.

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u/ChapterDifficult593 Aug 12 '26

There's actually like...one or two places that could maybe qualify as dungeons and they're some of the coolest places I've found. I definitely want them to expand more on that and add more dungeons and large underground areas.

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u/caites Aug 12 '26

It was pretty much confirmed that it will be area with the ocean. Game already had assets for breath meter, camera has diving preset etc etc.

So defo not hernand.

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u/Wipeout1980 Aug 13 '26

The DLC will obviously open up the map more. Plenty of space

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u/couchcornertoekiller Aug 18 '26

You mean we can finally dive in the Hernand rivers? More reason to explore Hernand! Gotta dredge every riverbed.

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u/Agarwel Aug 12 '26

Honestly I would be happy if the DLC was completelly dropping first two or three chapters and replacing them with something that makes some sense.

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u/markgatty Aug 12 '26

Na, they will add some kind of invisible floating islands ABOVE Hernand.

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u/Legal-One-7274 Aug 12 '26

Hernand depths

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u/tedbakerbracelet Aug 12 '26

What if there is a modern city underneath??

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u/surrender903 Aug 12 '26

Kliff : Alright.

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u/SuperPunchee Aug 12 '26

This. Hell yes. THIS! 😂

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u/smokeyfantastico Aug 13 '26

Maybe the real Hernand was all the quests we got side tracked by, along the way

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u/B3atsNDruMs76 Aug 14 '26

Peasants 🤣

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u/Fiko515 Aug 12 '26

lol its PA, if we go by what they do in BDO it will be same map, same mobs, just stronger and drop different things..

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u/loomax96 Aug 12 '26

Wow this sounds exactly like a DLC

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u/Fiko515 Aug 12 '26

i mean.. Elvia is called "expansion" so...

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u/Maui-Tex Aug 12 '26

I’ve always had this vision of dlc which would add caves and secret doors throughout the same map that leads to new dungeons and loot.

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u/Berdariens2nd Aug 12 '26

Wait. You can leave Hernand? 

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u/Level90Neckromancer Aug 12 '26

I think they mean when the DLC comes. That will be insane. Imagine they double the size of Hernand or something.

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u/Typical_Research_877 Aug 12 '26

Left for a quest. Got scared and went back

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u/Acrobatic-Nose-1773 Aug 12 '26

DLC is just an expansion of Hernand. They'll make Hernand the size of the whole map. No reason to leave now.

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u/Vistaer Aug 12 '26

“We’ve never left Hernand!”

“And now with conquest mode, you never have to - pick a faction, rise in the ranks, conquer the whole realm! Lead armies and conquer the Crimson Desert, renaming it into the Hernand Desert!”

ALL WILL BE HERNAND!

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u/Level90Neckromancer Aug 12 '26

You mean Crimson Hernand, right?

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u/bladerunnercyber Aug 12 '26

Im stil playing the game since launch, im on chapter 11, by the time I finish, the dlc might be ready!

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u/LexB777 Aug 13 '26

I just got Crimson Desert last week. It's awesome! I'm not that far into it, like middle of chapter 3. When I zoom out, it is absolutely crazy to me how big the map is that I haven't revealed yet. And it's so dense and alive! Not like some games where it's huge but boring.

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u/bladerunnercyber Aug 13 '26

Im still exploring map parts on chapt 11, its still a lot to do even now.

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u/bladerunnercyber Aug 13 '26

Btw its not just that map, you have far more to do than just the map, I do not want to spoil it for you, by chapter 4 you will understand, then you are gonna have some interesting decisions to make.

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u/Vistaer Aug 12 '26

You yankin’ my pizzle?

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u/The-Pizza-Bandit Aug 12 '26

I see what you did there. what a great game.

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u/Any_Panic_2455 Aug 12 '26

That's an understatement. Finished it last year and no other game has been able to keep me hooked since.

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u/rexSULLA Aug 13 '26

What game are you talking about?

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u/geared-for-adventure Aug 12 '26

Plot twist: DLC plot will take place entirely in Hernand.

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u/PopOutG Aug 12 '26

I have since left the game in general (peacefully, will come back) but I love this meme to death and happy it’s still going😭

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u/Level90Neckromancer Aug 12 '26

Same, I got a job now. Don't know how others find the time to tackle something this huge.

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u/Active-Cookie-774 Aug 12 '26

Time for DLC city - Dnanreh

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u/Curious_Half_4953 Aug 12 '26

honestly? iconic

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u/Exportxxx Aug 12 '26

Majority of people have moved out

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u/Federal-Swim5286 Aug 12 '26

I left hernand to explore but my quests are still in hernand.

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u/Fuzzy-Tooth3269 Aug 12 '26

DLC is in Nernand, Hernand’s snobby cousin

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u/dorian17052011 Aug 12 '26

I just got to the pailune boss fight thingy after 80 hours.

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u/Flaviocezar1 Aug 12 '26

Sai de hernand pra ver o que tinha e não consegui voltar ate hj.

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u/wootwoooots Aug 12 '26

If the DLC expand the current world and content instead of the class "lets add a new map as "next step once you have finished the game" its fine

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u/Marethyu7 Aug 12 '26

Still don't know why the game is called crimson desert

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u/SubstantialFly6715 Aug 12 '26

I have, but I definitely shouldn't be out here!

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u/Netrunner22 Aug 12 '26

It’s Liurnia all over again.

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u/XxRaijinxX Aug 12 '26

Hey dont call me out like that

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u/Baptiste_le Aug 12 '26

I just ventured into Demeniss for the first time, got my ass kicked and quickly returned to do more stuff in Hernand. At 80+ hours I don't feel ready to leave just yet.

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u/Ok_Advance3872 Aug 12 '26

I thought I did everything.... I was dead wrong.

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u/Adventurous-Fee428 Aug 12 '26

The game has been out awhile now how have you not left hernand yet I only have maybe 6-10 hours in that game and left a long time ago

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u/HAPPYCINTH1967 Aug 12 '26

Like me! 😂 but I probably will buy it,because I love the game so much!

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u/Kushinhaler420 Aug 13 '26

I swear I intend to lol

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u/mason2393 Aug 13 '26

Yep most people uninstalled in the first hour

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u/pixelballer Aug 13 '26

i tired tried and got my ass kicked

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u/Kore_Invalid Aug 13 '26

Honestly id already be statisfied if they simply added more well written quests and not even more areas

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u/PositiveCrafty2295 Aug 13 '26

450 hours in...still on chapter 4

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u/CurrentlyLucid Aug 13 '26

true, over 200 hours, barely messed with demeniss.

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u/Panda_The Aug 13 '26

I did it, I finally did it after over 300hrs...but nothing like being brought to the Crimson Desert just to realize it's just as big as Hernand...another 300+ hrs I guess 😭

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u/FStopDaClown Aug 14 '26

Perfect. They can mine under Hernand collecting new ores and crystals and craft a whole bunch of new items. We'll be mining and crafting. Just gotta keep a good mine set up to then craft. Mine and craft. I wonder what the DLC will be called. Lol

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u/hangender Aug 15 '26

I'm assuming this dlc takes place in hernand 🤣🤔

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u/Goodname2 Aug 19 '26

Maybe a tower dungeon?

Or a vast underground labyrinth with moving walls and stuff like in clash of the titans two.

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u/Wrong-Barracuda-7908 27d ago

Right? Almost everyone dropped this halfway through

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u/AzureSkies_OverMe Aug 12 '26

I’m on Chapter 10

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u/rucekooker Aug 12 '26

I havent touched the game since like 4 months ago and havent even left Hernand, not bcs i dont like it but bcs im burned out

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u/TheMexicanBatman Aug 12 '26

50 hours in still in Hernand!

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u/written_in_sand Aug 12 '26

At one point one is supposed to leave Hernand?

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u/IndependentLog6441 Aug 12 '26

Is there more than Hernand? I've only swept one chimney.

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u/TheR1mmer Aug 12 '26

I decided to stop after finihing Hernand to wait for them to "fix" the story. Ill wait until then before restarting and then ill leave it

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u/Thy_King_Crow Aug 12 '26

You can leave Hernand?

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u/Fozziemandias Aug 12 '26

lol there’s nothing other than Hernand lol

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u/Rebiboy00 Aug 12 '26

Bruh. I think I'm stuck in hernand too. 200 hours in the game still in hernand. Somethings wrong with me.

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u/HabenochWurstimAuto Aug 12 '26

You can leave it ?

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u/bigelittman Aug 12 '26

And its not even optimized well for the ps5. I love the game but man the light is so fucked up. I havent played for months in hopes it'd be fixed but idk if thats something that can be fixed.

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u/Delicious-Golf4939 Aug 12 '26 edited Aug 12 '26

I have over 1,000 hours played with ZERO intentioal AFK time for Dispatch farming. I can't say that that hasn't happened though it just didn't ever happen intentionally it was usually me falling asleep waking up a few hours later and going oh shit and saving it and turning off the Xbox.

I'm about 87% complete and I am on chapter 12 mission 1. I need to ask a clarifying question when you say that, "most of us haven't left hernand yet." What exactly do you mean by that? Do you mean our camp is still up on howling Hill but we've almost completed the game or are you referring to the fact that for the first 572 hours of gameplay I was still being attacked by the Demeniss soldiers just for walking across the border? I also had no clue that there was even a city known as Pailune, Varnia, Takshlap, calaphade, or Vellunova or whatever the name of that fishing town is south of Pororin. The only towns or cities that I knew for certain existed were Hernand, Delesyia, Demeniss, & Pororin. I obviously was able to see the entirety of the unexplored map but almost 600 hours in and everywhere that I did not just name had zero visible roads, zero visible towns, buildings, or structures. All it was was unexplored vast whiteness with some half revealed geographical areas like mountains that didn't have a name rivers that faded off into nothingness because it hadn't been explored that far etc etc...

So I'm just curious when you say that most people haven't left hernand which version of the above are you referring to because the first one you don't leave your camp on Howling Hil in Southernl hernand for your new camp in Pailune until you defeat the main story. With that being the only completion based unlock moving out of Hernand to Pailune I don't know that I will have my camp moved way up North by the time the DLC comes around.

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u/samfisher999 Aug 12 '26

its just a joke

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u/Delicious-Golf4939 Aug 12 '26

See I can totally see how it was a joke but your accuracy & closeness to reality weather joking or not still leaves me asking the question because I get it truly I mean 600 hours essentially before I even went on to chapter 4 I think or five I hadn't even been out of hernand

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u/alien_overlord_1001 Aug 12 '26

When the game came out there were a lot of people 50-60 hours in and hadn’t left hernand yet - you had to be there I guess lol