New Crimson Desert patch lets you hoard 100 pets and gives you more chainsaw access

I have two guinea pigs. Sometimes I think about what it would be like to have a third pig, or even a cat or a dog on top of that, and I start to feel dizzy. Crimson Desert players must scoff at my weakness.

As of the latest patch, they can register up to 100 pets—up from 30, which is a number I'd have thought was excessive before hearing 100—thanks to new "reward items for the existing pet challenge that increases the number of pets you can register."

Now, you can only have 50 pets summoned simultaneously at camp, but hopefully that's enough for you to live out whatever Ace Ventura-adjacent fantasy you're hoping to execute with this feature.

Some might call stuff like this extraneous, but Crimson Desert has often been compared to a single-player MMO, and no MMO is complete without a bunch of pointless collectible crap. I stood around for hours waiting to tame a bunch of rare hunter pets in World of Warcraft over the years, so I can't pretend I don't get it.

The other patch notes only make it less clear what kind of a game Crimson Desert is, with delightful nuggets like "improved the pinball minigame" and "added a dedicated map icon for baby wyverns."

One note that should be of particular interest to players with some hours sunk in is that Damiane and Oongka, the non-Kliff playable characters, can now equip the mining drill and the chainsaw.

It's maybe not as big as some other updates the game has seen, but it continues a delightful trend of making it the ultimate animal enthusiast's RPG, whether you're an amateur ornithologist or just want to ride around on a grizzly bear. More intense than a trip to the zoo, but you don't become a pillar of K-content by playing it safe.