Deferred Advance is the 156th main mission in Crimson Desert. This walkthrough will guide you through all objectives of the Deferred Advance main quest.
- Starting Location: Demeniss region
- Chapter: 12 – The Abyss
- Sub-Chapter: The Final Battle
- Requirement: Finished previous main quest Precise Execution
- Reward: None
- Quest Description: A method to neutralize cannons must be found before the battle can begin.
Objectives:
- Destroy the leftmost ultimate weapon
- Destroy the central ultimate weapon
- Destroy the rightmost ultimate weapon
Destroy the leftmost ultimate weapon / Destroy the central ultimate weapon / Destroy the rightmost ultimate weapon
Call the Dragon with D-Pad 
and fly toward the quest marker.
You must destroy 3 cannons that will shoot you on the dragon. Problem is you can’t heal, and if you dismount or fly away it counts as dying. The dragon has limited health as displayed by the purple bar in the bottom left of the screen. If the dragon’s health gets low (around 5%) it fails the quest and you must destroy all cannons again. They have to be destroyed in a single life.
This is one of the hardest quests in the game, the cannons and blimps deal a lot of damage. Luckily, there are a bunch of workarounds to make it much easier. Also refer to the video above for a demonstration. It’s important to destroy the blimps first, and to hide on the ground to let your stamina recharge so you can shoot faster.
Follow these steps:
- First, destroy all Blimps. They are what’s shooting homing missiles at you the entire time and they deal the most damage over time. Shoot each blimp in the sky with
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. Ignore the cannons for now. - Destroy the rightmost cannon first! When dying it will spawn you at the left cannon, but the right cannon is by far the hardest and the one you want to destroy first. If you always destroy the left and middle cannon first you risk dying at the final cannon and are wasting time on each attempt. The right cannon shoots fast projectiles that track you and deal the most damage. Fly as close to the ground as possible below the mountain the cannon is on. If you’re at the right angle, you can still hit the cannon but it can’t hit you! This way you can destroy it without it shooting you at all. You can also land on the ground (
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). The middle cannon will occasionally shoot homing rockets but they don’t deal much damage. Getting the correct angle is a bit finicky, if you see the cannon’s red laser immediately hide on the floor where it can’t hit you. - Destroy the middle cannon second. The trick is to land on the floor below the mountain so it can’t target you, let your stamina recharge fully. Then fly in circles around it and hold / to quickly shoot the yellow-glowing part of the turret’s base until your stamina runs out. Then land again on the floor until your stamina is fully. You shoot fire balls much faster while you have stamina, so you expose yourself to damage for shorter periods than staying in the air with depleted stamina the entire time. You can destroy the cannon with 3 full stamina bars.
- Destroy the left cannon last, it’s the easiest by far. Flying in big circles around it and stay at a far distance, the slow bullets will almost never hit you and deal very little damage. Target the yellow glowing part of the turret where it’s shooting from.
It will likely take a few attempts. If you can destroy the rightmost cannon with 50% health remaining you should make it easily. It all comes down to not taking much damage while destroying all blimps, and destroying the rightmost cannon while staying at a low angle where you can’t get hit.
This finishes Deferred Advance in Crimson Desert.
For all other Quests refer to Crimson Desert Walkthrough.
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