The Method
How the Report Hub works
What the words on this site mean, and what this site does not claim to know.
An independent fan newspaper
Reporting on Crimson Desert
Stories credit their sources. Official notes also supply automatic patch rundowns.
Corrections and broken links- Earlier reports are evidence
- Approved written accounts retained with their patch context.
- Check-ins are experiences
- An anonymous response, not a verified player count.
- Scanner links are leads
- A source to investigate; it does not establish a bug.
- Official notes are context
- Pearl Abyss said it. That starts a question, not an answer.
- Published
- A full issue card published on this site. Publication is visibility, not an evidence verdict.
- Watchlist
- A public issue that isn’t published yet.
- Watched
- Both together, counted across every patch — not just this one.
- Tracked leads
- Pages the radar is holding for this patch — some public links, some still private. Still leads, not reports.
- Problem areas
- Distinct areas holding at least one tracked lead.
- Reviewed
- Candidates screened by the radar — not independently reviewed coverage.
What counts as a player verdict?When the patch desk records an official fix claim, it notes the date. Only what players say after that date counts toward whether the fix held.
Nothing counts down. No amount of silence turns a claimed fix into a confirmed one — only players saying so does that.
It resets on the next patch. A fix claimed in one patch isn’t a claim about the one after it.
Does a radar lead mean the bug is real?No. A lead is a public page that exists and mentioned something. Finding it proves nothing.
An empty category doesn’t mean nothing is wrong either — it means nothing turned up. Titles and links stay private until something backs them up.
Teaching the scanner changes what it keeps next time. It can’t put a link past the publishing bar. The Observatory shows the whole flow.
How do you know a source is about this patch?It has to name this patch outright, or have gone up on or after patch day. When a page doesn’t say when it went up, that uncertainty is stated instead of guessed.
Times on the radar show when a page was last seen, not when anything happened in the game.
What does the site store?No accounts, email, trackers, or raw IP storage. Check-ins keep one current response per network, issue, and exact patch.
A salted one-way network hash limits repeat check-ins. The database does not store raw IP addresses, and the hash never appears publicly. Turnstile checks help limit automated submissions.
A later choice replaces that network’s response for the same issue and exact patch. Shared networks share a response, so counts do not verify unique players. Historical approved reports and excerpts may remain.
Scanner intelligence defaults to GPT‑5.6 Luna through OpenRouter. DeepSeek V4 Flash remains an approved manual rollback. When Luna is used, OpenAI does not train on API data by default; abuse-monitoring logs may be retained for up to 30 days.
Why does quiet not count as fixed?No answers means no verdict. Silence never counts as a fix.
Report and check-in counts are never invented, estimated, or rounded.
When does a source link go public?When a trusted source lines up with an approved player report, or several independent sources say the same thing. It stays a lead either way.
A link from an unfamiliar site needs more backup than one from a known site — a report alone isn’t enough to publish it. Links that don’t clear the bar stay private unless a maintainer publishes one by hand.
Published issues show the links and excerpts behind them, so readers can check them directly.
Where can I send a support report?Use Pearl Abyss’s official channel. This independent fan site is not a support channel.
Crash dumps, logs, and account details belong with Pearl Abyss. This site cannot receive, forward, or answer support requests.
Read the privacy note for details about anonymous check-ins and stored data.