Pearl Abyss has released Black Desert Online update 2.51 patch today for all platforms. Maintenance for the game has finished, so you should be able to play the game now. Check out the Black Desert Online September 14 patch notes below.

Black Desert Online Update 2.51 Patch Notes | Black Desert Online September 14 Patch Notes:

While this new update does not come with many new features or fixes, Pearl Abyss did post the following message about today’s patch. 

■ Maintenance Reason(s)

– There will not be a new update for the game during this maintenance. However, the following maintenance-related tasks will also be completed.

* Name changes for Guild, Family, and Character Name Change Coupons used after the maintenance on September 7, 2022 (Wed) will be applied.

* Refresh NPC “Confession System”

You can also see below the current known issues that are being worked on for the game. 

Current Known Issues

● Picking a Social Action with CTRL + Page Up in Photo Mode while having an item such as a fishing rod (occupies your main weapon slot and main/sub-weapon appearance slot) equipped causes the game to unexpectedly shut down.
● In specific circumstances, it is difficult to progress through Drakania’s Awakening questline.
– If you are under Lv. 56 and have less than 3 skill points available, you will be able to progress through the questline if reset your combat skills. 
– If you are Lv. 57 or higher, please make sure you have more than 3 skill points available to be able to complete the Awakening questline. 

● The quest NPC for “[Godr-Ayed Weapon] Don’t Judge A Book…” cannot be interacted with. 

● Trying to download an image with an image watermark while in expanded mode on the Photo Gallery causes an error message to appear.

● Tier 4 Pets with names that included inappropriate words cannot be trained to Tier 5
– If you experience this issue, please contact us via Support Center with the following information to receive assistance.
* Pet Type:
* Pet Name:
* New Name:

● Resurrecting during Red Battlefield causes the loading screen’s image to behave abnormally. 
– Please note that the game is loading normally even if the loading screen is a black screen. 

● The “Fixed Character Perspective” setting does not function properly.

● Certain monsters in the Jade Starlight Forest are not spawning correctly on the EU_Arsha server.

● Re-opening the Dye window after clicking the Mount icon while the Merv’s Palette effect is active causes the game client to sometimes unexpectedly shut down. 
● Cannot receive the Blessing of the Elvia Spirits effect under certain circumstances even if the Reminiscence of the Elvia Spirits effect is currently not active.
– You can receive the effect by reconnecting through the Character Selection Screen. We will do our best to resolve this issue as quickly as possible.
● Some of the Ancient Statues are not spawning under certain circumstances in the Gyfin Rhasia Temple (Underground).
– Please note that the Ancient Statues will be repositioned if they are not disturbed for a certain amount of time. We will do our best to resolve this issue as quickly as possible.
● Equipping an outfit (Desert Camouflage, etc.) that takes four slots (including headpiece) causes the headpiece outfit’s dye to sporadically not be visible when the headpiece equipment’s durability drops.

● The character animations appear unnatural when viewing a character in a specific character slot from the Character Selection Screen while having expanded all 26 character slots. 

● Processing (L) an Artifact item with “Ancient Power – Red Shard” and “Ancient Seal – Black Shard” while using the “Process all identical items” option selected causes the “Ancient Power – Red Shard” and “Ancient Seal – Black Shard” to only be part of the Simple Alchemy processing for the first time and not for the subsequent times.
– After the first time, only the Artifact item will be processed via Simple Alchemy. If you wish to include the “Ancient Power – Red Shard” and “Ancient Seal – Black Shard” as well, please deactivate the “Process all identical items” option.
● The appearances of the Abandoned Monastery’s Relief Aid Priest and certain NPCs for Shai’s Talent questline are being displayed abnormally.
● Hotkeys are not working properly when battling the biome bosses in Atoraxxion: Sycrakea after certain cutscenes.
– This issue can be resolved by clicking the Settings button on the lower right-hand side of your screen.

● NPC Patrigio’s (Velia, Calpheon, and Grána) dialogue for the materials to craft the Bonfire of Dreams does not match the actual materials.

● An Atoraxxion Pet’s visual effect is visible during Node/Conquest War
● The two-phase Urukios fight sometimes does not immediately move onto the next phase when Urukios falls below a certain HP.
● Trying to log in to Black Desert+ with Steam causes an error message to appear under certain circumstances.
● Sometimes unable to log in to Black Desert+ when using an OTP.
● Unable to use Private/Personal Trade when using the gamepad UI.
● AP is not properly decreased when it rains or snows.
● Being disconnected from the internet while waiting in the Arena of Arsha causes you to be stuck on the loading screen when trying to re-access the Arena of Arsha from the ESC menu → Arena of Arsha.
● [Warrior, Ranger, Sorceress, Berserker, Ninja, Kunoichi] Uncompletable Succession questline appears in an unaccepted state in the Quest window (O) for characters that completed the Succession quests before the Awakening & Succession questlines were combined.
● Certain horse costumes do not appear properly when mounts are connected to a wagon.
● Certain terrain (shallow water, underwater, rough roads, etc.) is not properly registered.
● Unable to level up by receiving EXP as a quest reward at level 59 99.99%.
● Minimap markers are sometimes incorrect.
● Interacting with an NPC that starts a cutscene while on a mount causes characters to be repeatedly interrupted when moving.
● Sometimes unable to obtain gathering materials through Water Scooping.
● Unable to scroll down when checking the items list in the Processing (F2) window after setting the client language as English.
● Background terrain appears abnormal when the direction of the camera changes.

Source: PlayBlackDesert