Crimson Desert streamer discovers the incredible truth: you can one-shot bosses with an actual tree as your weapon

The most overpowered Crimson Desert weapon comes straight from the earth in beech, maple, or walnut. So, uh, yeah. It's a tree.

Streamer Darth Microtransactions learned this about Pearl Abyss' new open-world adventure game by happy accident, after ripping a birch tree up from its roots during the Abyss Kutum boss fight and hitting a home run back to Hell. The streamer reports his findings in a shocking Twitter post: "you can 1 shot bosses with a tree in Crimson Desert."

"The boss would never see this coming," Darth Microtransactions says while lumbering toward Abyss Kutum with a 20-foot birch in his hands. He swings the tree, and Abyss Kutum's completely juiced health bar instantly disappears. "Oh my God," the streamer exclaims, "Wait. He actually got one-shot from the tree?!"

"Tree's the most OP weapon in the entire game!" Darth Microtransactions declares. "Just gonna be patched before you know it."

Or not! As we note in our Crimson Desert review, the game is a fantasy sandbox that's "stuffed with ideas to the point of excess, but only those proven and tested by games that came before" – including The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, which gives Link the similar ability to psionically wield whatever loose twigs and stumps he comes across, as long as he can figure out a good use for them. It seems like creativity is both the challenge and answer to challenges in Crimson Desert, too.

"Bringing a tree trunk to a swordfight," Twitch streamer Rory Newbrough comments on Twitter. Sometimes, you have no choice.

100 hours of Crimson Desert made me realize how perfect Breath of the Wild is.