I love that Crimson Desert's latest updates have effectively transformed it into a birdwatching simulator

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Crimson Desert is a weird game. Though in some ways it grows ever less strange with each passing update, as Pearl Abyss retcons some of its more interesting and abrasive design decisions, in others, it's still an oddball. Who could've predicted a mere month or so after release, we'd all be running around in a bird-taming frenzy?

With the recent addition of the Sotdae of Bond—a rather fancy name for a bird feeder—you can tame anything from mountain condors, to humble ducks, to tiny little sparrows, who are surprisingly effective at looting corpses let me tell you. There are even legendary birds, such as the flaming Phoenix, the clockwork Iron Eagle<...