Crimson Desert acknowledges missing mounts issue after latest patch; not launching for some on Linux

Pearl Abyss pushed a massive update for Crimson Desert on Wednesday, but players quickly realized the patch wiped out their ability to summon mounts.

The official version 1.04.00 patch notes promised highly requested features like difficulty settings, UI overhauls, and new pets. Instead, the update completely broke the summoning system for legendary mounts, dragons, and standard animals.

Many players have flooded Reddit and Steam forums to report that their previously unlocked companions were just gone. Users were hitting their quick buttons to call in a bear or a dragon and absolutely nothing would happen.

Luckily, it seems the complaints have not gone unnoticed. The developers confirmed the bug a few hours later on X. They noted that certain owned mounts are failing to appear in the Quick Slot menu, which prevents them from being summoned entirely.

They noted that a hotfix is in the works, but there’s no ETA for it.

Ironically, the developers actually intended to improve mounts today. The update made the Cloudcart a permanent fixture and fixed a bug where it could not be called. Now players cannot call much of anything.

A few players on the Steam community boards did manage to find a temporary workaround. They say visiting a player camp and healing the missing mounts at the local stable forces them to reappear in the interface.

It is an annoying extra step to take every time you log in. But it beats walking everywhere until Pearl Abyss pushes a permanent fix.

That said, mounts are not the only thing breaking after the latest update. A smaller subset of the player base cannot even get the game to boot up.

Players on Reddit and Steam say the 1.04 update causes an instant crash right at the splash screen.

A user on the Bazzite subreddit pulled their system logs and figured out why. The new patch triggers a vkd3d-proton missing implementation error. The game is asking for a Direct3D 12 interface that the Proton compatibility layer simply does not have yet, so the application just aborts.

That puts anyone running Nobara, CachyOS, or Bazzite in a weird spot. Pearl Abyss broke compatibility with their update, but getting the game running again might actually require a Proton patch from Valve.

Pearl Abyss has not officially acknowledged the Linux crashes yet. The official support account is currently focused strictly on the Quick Slot mount bug.

For now, affected Linux users just have to wait out the next update.

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