Former Battlefield, Star Wars developers announce DnD-inspired adventure title—and it looks promising

Former DICE developers, including Star Wars Battlefront 2 creative director Dennis Brännvall, have revealed their new game, Wyldheart, which aims to capture the charm of tabletop DnD and bring its co-operative joy to the world of video games.

Announced today during PAX East, Wyldheart is a co-op fantasy game where up to four players can embark on various journeys together, tackling different campaigns in a free, sandbox environment. Though players can expect a main story that can be completed solo or with friends, you’re actually given a load of agency, with each campaign map having around 200 hexes (areas) that can be traveled to at your leisure, including dank crypts, bustling towns, horrifying forests, and everything in between.

The game features numerous fantasy races and character backgrounds, allowing you to craft the character you want to be down to the minutest of details. And even though these backgrounds can help inform your roleplaying, you’re actually free to take that character in any direction you like, taking the background as merely a starting point for your own adventure.

Featuring both quests and sandbox environments, Wyldheart aims to let you take control of the narrative and never really holds your hand through the story. A key system enabling this, and which the developers compared to classic World of Warcraft, is the rumor system, letting you eavesdrop on conversations and find clues hinting toward greater adventures. You can then go explore them, save them for later, or just venture out into the world, hoping the adventures will come to you.

While adventuring, there are loads of survival mechanics, fights, and side activities you can engage in, as the devs smash together numerous genres to produce a very unique, interesting experience that rewards an inquisitive mind.

Since up to 20 characters can be played on a single save, you can go beyond just four players, though the four-player party size remains the maximum number at the moment. Not that this can’t or will not change down the line.

Wyldheart is being crowdfunded on Kickstarter, so if you’re interested in this strange and intriguing concept, you can help the devs make it as good as they can.

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Crimson Desert is a single-player game but you don’t have to enjoy your adventures alone. While you can complete all the quests and content on your own, you can do so with your beloved pet. Obtaining your animal companion takes a bit of time when you begin your adventures, and there are two choices to consider.

But first, let’s find out how pets work in Crimson Desert.

Update: Added a table for all types of pets and their favorite food items (offers biggest boost to trust).

How pets work in Crimson Desert

Crimson Desert has a trust system that works between your character and animals. The trust mechanic begins at zero and goes up to 100. This system is universal for all pettable animals, which are two in the current version of the game.

• Cats
• Dogs

The process of getting a pet varies slightly based on your choice.

• If you want to pet a dog, walk up to the animal, and press the applicable button for the interaction prompt.
• If you want to pet a cat, pick it up by getting close to it. Then, select the carry prompt to pet the creature.

When you pet a creature, you gain +5 trust. You can gain up to 25 trust with an animal companion in a single day from this method.

Pets are immensely helpful when they’re active, as they help bring back the loot you get from defeated enemies. However, they will loot everything they can as there’s no filter available in the current build of Crimson Desert. However, it’s still beneficial to have them active; otherwise, you’ll be spending a lot more time getting different loot.

All pets and their favorite foods in Crimson Desert

The table below has a list of all the pettable animals I have found, along with their favorite food items.

Name	Type	Favorite Meat
Cat	Cat	Squid
Short-Haired Kitten	Cat	Small Gudgeon
Fat Cat	Cat	Sockeye Salmon
Long-Haired Cat	Cat	Mackerel
Kitten	Cat	Fish Fillet
Desert Cat	Cat	Egg
Slim Cat	Cat	Pond Loach
Short-Haired Cat	Cat	Egg
Saluki	Dog	Fine Meat
Pointy-Eared Bulldog	Dog	Egg
Shepherd	Dog	Bird Meat
Floppy-Eared Bulldog	Dog	Cheese
Boarhound Puppy	Dog	Lean Bird Meat
Husky	Dog	Bird Meat
Jindo	Dog	Sweet Potato
Greyhound	Dog	Fine Meat
Boarhound	Dog	Lean Bird Meat
Beagle	Dog	Sweet Potato

How to add more pets in Crimson Desert

The key to gaining a pet is to take your trust to 100. Once that’s achieved, hold the selection button and press the Claim option. This will register the dog/cat as your pet. You can have up to 30 pets for your adventure, but only one can be active at any given moment.

How to use food to gain trust in Crimson Desert

While playing with cats/dogs helps to gain trust, there’s a daily cap on that. A better way is to use food items. Feeding also helps to improve your trust with them, but there’s a daily cap as well.

• Tough Meat (Feed to a Dog for 10 trust)
• Fine Meat (Feed to a Dog for 35 trust)
• Bird Meat (Feed to a Cat for 10 trust)
• Fish (Feed to a Cat for 10 trust)
• Milk (Feed to a Cat for 10 trust)

Food items have a cap of three per day. In simple words, you can feed a creature at most three times in a given day. If you max out the daily caps, you’ll be able to gain a new pet every two days. The only exception to this is Fine Meat, which allows you to gain a new pet in a single day. However, you’ll have to spend coins at a vendor to get the item.

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