Crimson Desert is pretty easy, until it’s not. You’ll slice through hordes of enemies without any problems and then get stuck on an early-game boss. You’ll farm Sealed Abyss Artifacts until you’re stuck on one that requires you to do a certain move. You’ll sail through the archery challenge until your challenger gets too good.
While there are ways around each of these issues, like slamming a tree trunk on a boss, they require you to be creative and learn how the game’s mechanics work. If that’s not enough, you can always hope that a random person on Twitter shares a cheesing strategy, like this one for the archery contest.
Winning Without A Shot Being Fired
As pointed out by Zephryss on Twitter, there’s a way to cheese the archery contest without even using the bow. All you need to do is have the Kuku Pot unlocked and store some floating power cores in them. To get the Kuku Pot, you need to progress to chapter four and complete the Mysterious Pot quest.
Once that’s done, you need to collect floating power cores for this to work. You can find them once you advance the main quest enough or purify a fey Sanctums and complete the puzzle they offer you. You can then use Axiom Force to grab them and store them in the Kuku pot. Now it’s time to head to the archery contest.
Crimson Desert Official Launch Trailer
Before you speak to the organizer, you need to remove the Power Cores from the Kuku Pot and place them just above where the targets pop up. There are eight targets, so you’ll need eight cores, but you can also just focus on the target that’s open if you don’t have enough cores. After they’re all lined up, you can talk to the organizer and begin the contest.
Usually, you’d string your arrow and get ready about now, but the floating Power Cores will do all the work for you. The targets will hit the cores as soon as they pop up, giving you a point and not letting your competitor even get a shot. You can keep this up for successive rounds, and you’ll keep winning without even firing an arrow.
- Released
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March 19, 2026
- ESRB
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Mature 17+ / Blood, Drug Reference, Intense Violence, Strong Language
- Developer(s)
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Pearl Abyss
- Publisher(s)
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Pearl Abyss
