Guide to Crimson Desert's Deferred Advance mission. Learn to destroy the 3 ultimate weapon cannons by prioritizing blimps and using low-angle tactics.
Deferred Advance is the 156th main mission in Crimson Desert, located in the Demeniss region during Chapter 12 – The Final Battle. It requires finishing the previous main quest, Precise Execution, and offers no reward. The quest description states a method to neutralize cannons must be found before the battle begins.
The objectives are to destroy the leftmost, central, and rightmost ultimate weapons.
To complete this mission, you will call the Dragon using the D-Pad and fly towards the quest marker. You must destroy 3 cannons while on the dragon. You cannot heal, and dismounting or flying away counts as dying. The dragon has limited health, and if it drops to around 5%, the quest fails, requiring you to restart and destroy all cannons in a single life. The cannons and blimps deal significant damage.
Objectives:
- Destroy the leftmost ultimate weapon
- Destroy the central ultimate weapon
- Destroy the rightmost ultimate weapon
- First, destroy all Blimps by shooting them with /. They deal the most damage over time with homing missiles.
- Destroy the rightmost cannon first. Fly as close to the ground as possible below the mountain the cannon is on. If at the correct angle, you can hit the cannon without it hitting you. You can also land on the ground ( / ).
- Destroy the middle cannon second. Land on the floor below the mountain so it cannot target you, let your stamina recharge fully. Fly in circles around it and hold / to quickly shoot the yellow-glowing part of the turret’s base until your stamina runs out. Land again on the floor until your stamina is full. You can destroy the cannon with 3 full stamina bars.
- Destroy the left cannon last. Fly in big circles around it at a far distance; the slow bullets will rarely hit you. Target the yellow glowing part of the turret.
- It is important to destroy the blimps first and to hide on the ground to let your stamina recharge so you can shoot faster.
- If the dragon’s health gets low (around 5%), it fails the quest. They have to be destroyed in a single life.
- If you can destroy the rightmost cannon with 50% health remaining, you should make it easily.
This finishes Deferred Advance in Crimson Desert.
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