Crimson Desert sets sail, and WoW Forever's launch hour

Since last night's post, Vi.ki has shipped three releases, all of them following the news. Crimson Desert's first expansion came out, Blizzard gave the hour World of Warcraft: Forever opens, and a few studios set dates for what comes next. Here is what is new.

Crimson Desert goes to sea

Charting the Unknown, Crimson Desert's first DLC, came out at 22:00 UTC on Oct 29, as Pearl Abyss had announced, with the free base game patch 2.04.00. The Charting the Unknown page now reads from the patch notes instead of the trailers:

• How to start it. The ocean quest "A Wider World" begins after "Howling Hill" in the main story, once the Greymane Camp is expanded far enough. The three character quests and the Garden of Trials open after "Journey's End", the story's last quest.
• What is in it. Ships you build or buy and fit out, diving with a breath gauge, sea creatures you can ride, housing you lay out yourself, businesses that earn while you are away, festivals, and romance: raise a character's trust to 100 and you can propose.
• Garden of Trials. Ten groups of foes fought by Kliff, Oongka and Damiane in turn, with no healing from food, each group cleared enhancing one of your skills. The bosses and boss rematch pages have it too.

The patch notes page already covers two fixes from Oct 30, the second of them version 2.04.02, which stops spouses following Kliff into the water and fixes ships that would not move. And the platforms page has the launch's quieter news: the DLC reached the Mac App Store after all, and the Crimson Desert Enhanced base game now has a free five-hour trial, on PlayStation 5 for PS Plus Premium and Deluxe members and on Xbox for everyone.

World of Warcraft: Forever's launch hour

On Oct 29, Blizzard confirmed that World of Warcraft: Forever goes live at one moment worldwide: 3:00 p.m. PST on Nov 4, 2026, which is 23:00 UTC. The launch time page lists Blizzard's local times, from 8:00 p.m. in Brazil and 11:00 p.m. in the UK to 10:00 a.m. on Nov 5 in Australia. If you played years ago, the beginner's guide now has Blizzard's advice for returning players, from recovering an old Battle.net account to picking Forever under Game Version.

When Grand Theft Auto 6 unlocks on Xbox

Rockstar has announced no unlock hour for either console. The release time page already had PlayStation's midnight-local times from the store's data, and it now adds the Microsoft Store's own listing data, read on Oct 30, 2026: in all 14 markets checked, Xbox unlocks at the same hour as PlayStation, from 11:00 UTC on Nov 18 in New Zealand to 05:00 UTC on Nov 19 in the United States (9 p.m. Pacific on Nov 18).

The vikis keep growing

All told, 24 pages across the vikis changed since the last post. A few more highlights:

• Slay the Spire 2: Mega Crit's October Neowsletter plans the next big beta patch for Nov 12, 2026, the same day the main branch catches up with everything on the v0.111.0 beta.
• Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era: the best faction page now explains what the v0.82.06 balance update changed for each faction, and the patch notes have the next day's v0.82.07 hotfix, which halved the Medusa Queen's Hail of Arrows.
• Path of Exile 2: Grinding Gear Games named its ExileCon keynote the "Path of Exile 2 1.0 Full Reveal", streaming at 12:30 p.m. PST on Nov 6.
• Wardogs: Bulkhead held back its Season 3 preview video with no new date, while Season 3 itself is still set for Nov 12.

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