Gaming Crimson Desert – How to Summon Companions and Swap Characters Francesco De Meo • at EDT Add on Google Here's how to summon companions and swap characters in Crimson Desert Pywel is a brutal continent, and clearing out enemy-occupied locations in Crimson Desert can be overwhelming when you're outnumbered. While the game focuses heavily on Kliff, it actually features a companion system that allows you to bring others into the fray. As for many of its mechanics, the game doesn't explicitly tell you how this system works, leading many to believe they always have to explore Pywel and fight enemies alone. Related Story You Can’t Resist This Newegg’s Bundle Deal! AMD Ryzen 9800X3D, X870 Motherboard, 32 GB RAM, And 512 GB SSD For Just $959Here is how to form your party and swap characters on the fly. Table of contentsHow to Summon CompanionsHow to Swap CharactersMain Restrictions How to Summon Companions Summoning characters is very easy to do in Crimson Desert, but the game doesn't explain the system properly. In Crimson Desert, you can call for help almost anywhere in the open world to help you liberate areas from enemy factions or take on powerful enemies. To do so, you need to play through the campaign until Damiane has joined the Greymanes and: Hold Up on the D-Pad to open up the Characters and Mounts wheel menu. Highlight the specific character you want to accompany you. Press X (PS5) or A (Xbox) to summon them. Press the Options/Start button to finalize the operation after closing the Characters and Mounts wheel menu. After a brief loading session, the selected character will appear at your location and follow you, automatically engaging enemies in combat. How to Swap Characters While switching characters usually teleports you to the last location of the character you have chosen (which allows for a very handy fast travel trick), if they are in your vicinity, you can swap between characters on the fly, allowing you to utilize different elemental abilities or combat styles during a single encounter. To swap characters, simply hold up on the D-Pad, select the character you want to swap to, and close the wheel menu. Main Restrictions Damiane cannot accompany Kliff on main story quests While very useful in combat against big numbers, this party system comes with a major restriction: companions cannot be used for Main Story Quests. If a character is currently following Kliff and you attempt to trigger a story mission, the game will notify you that you cannot proceed with a companion by your side. As such, this system is designed primarily for world exploration, faction base clearing, and side content, allowing the story quests to retain some difficulty balance, which would be lost with multiple characters acting together, while maintaining the narrative focused on Kliff's personal journey. This concludes our guide. For more help, visit our Crimson Desert Complete Walkthrough and Guides Hub. Guide based on a 30+ hours playthrough in the PC version of the game. Screenshots captured from the same version. Follow on Google to get more of our news coverage in your feeds. Further Reading AMD FSR 2.2 SDK Now Available: Comes With FSR 4.1 & Ray Regeneration 1.1 Support Player Reaches The End of the World In Crimson Desert, And What Happens Immediately Brings The Truman Show to Mind Pearl Abyss Announces Crimson Desert Support On Intel Arc GPUs Is Incoming Crimson Desert Patch 1.003 Adds Storage at Howling Hill Camp, Improvements to Keyboard & Mouse Controls and Much More Read all on Crimson Desert – How to Summon Companions and Swap Characters
