Crimson Desert player finds out-of-bounds village that looks like medieval Red Dead Redemption 2, and now everyone's hoping Pearl Abyss will let us pillage it in a future update

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Over a month from its release date, Crimson Desert players have broken free of the massive starting area Hernand and are now breaking into out-of-bounds settlements that look like Red Dead Redemption 2 took a trip to the Ren faire.

"That's the starting area in RDR2," quips one Reddit comment with over 1,000 upvotes in a thread where YouTuber and Crimson Desert player Riskbreaker shares "an entire unused village" they found "hidden behind a mountain while exploring out of bounds."

"Unfortunately, I couldn't find a way to reset the countdown timer in this area, which means there's no time to explore the village properly," they explain. Crimson Desert has a built-in timer that gives you up to 30 seconds in an inaccessible region of its map before it automatically throws you out. "However, I went back there a few more times and had a look around in Photo Mode, and it looks nearly finished. There's even a [quest hub] notice board there, with [bounty] posters that you can't pick up."

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From Riskbreaker's video, the hidden village just north of the Silver Wolf Mountain looks to consist of a number of ramshackle wood cabins dusted in fresh snow. To that Reddit commentor's credit, that makes the secret settlement both geographically and visually similar to Red Dead Redemption 2's starting town Colter, situated among the spear-tip peaks of the blustery Grizzlies West region.

Riskbreaker also shows off some cabins' interiors, most of them decorated with weapons, aging meat, and, the Crimson Desert explorer says, even chests to rifle through. So, for an unused village, it seems suspiciously complete – and now some players are hoping the village isn't cut content, but future content.

"I wonder what we're seeing?" says one Reddit comment. "Something to be unlocked in future updates? Artifact of an idea left unrealized? Hopefully this inspires more out of bounds exploration."

A reply to Riskbreaker's YouTube video adds, "It wouldn't surprise me if the world is going to be even more bigger with new quests and factions." Considering the fact that developer Pearl Abyss keeps making Crimson Desert increasingly elaborate with gigantic patches, it isn't out of the question.

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