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The trailer puts far more emphasis on the melee weapons than the ranged ones, but bow and arrows clearly still feature.

There’s swords, shields, axes, bows, that whole deal. It seems at first to be your standard, vague-Medieval era fare. What’s the combat like in Crimson Desert? With no story given away in the trailer and it still unclear how closely this is tied to Black Desert, all we can say for sure about this weird, magical gate is that it’s a gate, which appears to be magical, and seems quite weird. In this new power vacuum, you need to step in and earn yourself a slice of glory. Some who have felt the oppression of his conquests seek only independence, but others dream of gaining their own absolutist rule." In the ensuing power vacuum, those who have suffered under his iron rule now seek to exploit his weakness. There’s a few snippets on the game’s website, but the clearest summary of the story is this: "The King of Demeniss, Unifier of Lands, lies in a coma.

Set in the world Pywel, your job is to travel to the different regions, uniting them under your cause and recruiting allies. Though the links to Black Desert are unclear, Pearl Abyss has given us some background on the story itself. Functionally, it seems like you won't need any experience with Black Desert to jump into this game.

With the trailer sticking religiously to a gameplay highlight reel format, and the story summary on the game’s website avoiding references to Black Desert, we can’t say for sure whether the pair share the same universe, or just the same developers. We know then that it’s not directly linked to Black Desert’s story, but they may share the same universe. It was originally planned as a Black Desert prequel, but developers Pearl Abyss have since suggested that it is not especially connected to Black Desert, and instead is its own standalone IP which shares some themes.