THE SHORT VERSION
- Charting the Unknown is out now on PS5 for £19.99 / $24.99 and adds post-game content rather than a single new story: three character questlines, endgame combat challenges, a romance system, new housing and a sailing ship with an ocean questline.「Charting the Unknown」现已在 PS5 上线，售价 19.99 英镑 / 24.99 美元，提供的是通关后内容而非单一新剧情：三条角色任务线、终局战斗挑战、恋爱系统、新住房，以及一条以帆船展开的海洋任务线。
- Every part of it sits behind a requirement. The new quests and the Garden of Trials need the main story finished, the ship opens during the Grounds of the Sunrise faction quest, and the housing needs the Howling Hill camp and Luke's Request.每一部分都有前置条件。新任务与「试炼花园」需要先完成主线；船只在「Grounds of the Sunrise」阵营任务中开放；住房则需要呼啸山营地与卢克的请求。
- Charting the Unknown costs £19.99 / $24.99 and adds three post-game questlines, new housing, a romance system and an ocean sailing area.这部资料片售价 19.99 英镑 / 24.99 美元，加入三条终局任务线、新住房、恋爱系统与海上航行区域。
What shipped, and what it costs上线了什么，价格是多少
Pearl Abyss released Charting the Unknown on PS5 on 29 October 2026, priced at £19.99 / $24.99. Push Square calls it a mammoth expansion, and the contents support the word. PC Gamer's guide describes it as something other than a focused story expansion: endgame challenges, new housing options, a romance system, and a sailing ship with an ocean questline around Pywel's coast and islands.Pearl Abyss 于 2026 年 10 月 29 日在 PS5 推出「Charting the Unknown」，定价 19.99 英镑 / 24.99 美元。Push Square称其为一部巨型资料片，内容也支撑这个说法。PC Gamer 的攻略则把它描述成另一种东西，而不是聚焦的单线剧情：终局挑战、新的住房选项、一套恋爱系统，以及一艘帆船和围绕 Pywel 海岸与岛屿的海洋任务线。
The story content that does exist comes in three parts, one for each playable character. Kliff, Oongka and Damiane each get a new questline, and all three are post-game missions that need the base campaign finished first. Push Square quotes the spread of those plots: "an ominous presence in the desert and a dangerous political conflict to a journey beyond time, and an ancient secret beneath the waves". A diving suit opens the underwater sections. PC Gamer says the three questlines begin in Pailune and Demeniss once the main story is complete.真正属于剧情的内容分成三部分，每位可操作角色各一份。Kliff、Oongka 与 Damiane 各有一条新任务线，三条都是通关后任务，需要先完成本篇战役。Push Square 引用了这些剧情的跨度：“从沙漠中不祥的存在与一场危险的政治冲突，到跨越时间的旅程，以及波涛之下的古老秘密。”潜水服则打开了水下段落。PC Gamer 称三条任务线都在主线结束后于 Pailune 与 Demeniss 开始。
The unlocks you need before any of it starts开始之前必须满足的条件
Campaign completion gates the questlines and the Garden of Trials, a set of new combat challenges. PC Gamer's route to the trials starts at the Axiom Archive in the abyss, where Alustin is first met early in the game. From there, turn right before the building's staircase and door to find a corridor into the new annex. Players who never finished the story cannot reach any of it. The trials are combat encounters rather than story content, and the annex holding them sits off that corridor.任务线与「试炼花园」这一组新战斗挑战，都以完成主线为前提。PC Gamer 给出的路线从深渊中的公理档案馆开始，那是游戏早期第一次遇见 Alustin 的地方。从那里，在建筑的楼梯与大门前向右转，可以找到通往新附楼的走廊。没有打完主线的玩家无法抵达其中任何一处。试炼属于战斗内容而不是剧情，承载它的附楼就在那条走廊一侧。
The ship has its own gate, earlier in the game than the trials. It unlocks after "Expanding the Camp" during "Gathered Will" in the "Grounds of the Sunrise" Greymane faction quest, which then opens a quest to build your first vessel and leads into the ocean story. A medium ship costs 1.2 million camp funds and a large one 6 million, or you can build either for fewer funds and more materials.船只的前置条件发生在更早的阶段。它会在「Grounds of the Sunrise」灰鬃阵营任务中，完成「Expanding the Camp」与「Gathered Will」之后开放，随后引出一条建造第一艘船的任務，并接上海洋剧情。中型船需要 120 万营地资金，大型船需要 600 万，也可以选择自行建造，花费更少的资金但更多材料。
Romance, marriage and a house to put people in恋爱、结婚，以及一栋能住人的房子
The romance system runs on two meters. You reach 100 trust with a character, pick the "seduce" option in their interaction menu, and once likeability fills you can "propose". The four witches have new faction quests that build both values and make them romance options. A married character can follow you in the world or live at your house, and the game lets you divorce afterwards. The interaction menu also shows whether a character can be romanced at all, which saves guessing before you spend time on trust.恋爱系统靠两项数值推进。先把某位角色的信任提升到 100，在其交互菜单里选择「seduce」，等好感度填满后就可以「propose」。四位女巫拥有新的阵营任务，既能提升这两项数值，也让她们成为可恋爱对象。结婚后的角色可以跟随你行动，也可以住在你的房子里，游戏同样允许之后离婚。交互菜单会显示某位角色是否可以被恋爱，省得先花时间刷信任再猜。
Housing expands alongside it. Unlocking the Greymane Camp on Howling Hill and completing Luke's request in "Grounds of the Sunrise" opens new housing options and puts facility icons on the map, marking strongholds you can rent and run as management facilities. A region has to be liberated and its faction quest finished before a facility becomes usable, so the property side is gated the same way as the quests.住房系统与之并行扩张。解锁呼啸山上的灰鬃营地并完成「Grounds of the Sunrise」中卢克的请求，会开放新的住房选项，并在地图上标出设施图标，指向可以租下、作为经营设施使用的据点。一个区域必须先被解放、其阵营任务也要完成，设施才能使用，所以房产这一侧的门槛与任务线是同一套逻辑。
The ocean is the largest addition海洋是最大的一块新增内容
The expansion adds water to a map that was already enormous. Push Square notes that the base game's scale was off the charts before this release, and that the ocean now counts as playable space, with the coastline and islands around Pywel opened up by ship. That is a different kind of content from another quest hub: it changes how you move through a region you have already crossed on foot.这部资料片给一张本就已经很大的地图加水。Push Square 指出，本篇的规模在资料片之前就已经爆表，如今海洋也被算作可游玩空间，Pywel 周边的海岸与岛屿都能靠船抵达。这与再塞一个任务枢纽是不同的东西：它改变的是你在一个已经用脚走遍的区域里的移动方式。
Push Square's second review of the base game gave it 8/10 and described "an all-consuming open world adventure that hits some truly incredible highs", while warning about its more obtuse moments. The expansion does not appear to sand those down. It adds systems on top of them, and neither report describes it changing how the base game explains itself, which is worth knowing before paying for more of a game you already found frustrating.Push Square 对本篇的第二次评测给出 8/10，称它是“一部吞噬一切的开世界冒险，能触到真正惊人的高点”，同时提醒它有不少晦涩难解的地方。资料片看起来并没有把这些磨平，而是在它们之上继续叠加系统；两篇报道也都没有说它改变了本篇解释自身的方式。对于已经觉得这款游戏令人烦躁的玩家，这一点值得在付钱之前知道。
A paid expansion, and a price to weigh一部付费资料片，以及一个需要衡量的价格
The price is the part that changed expectations: Charting the Unknown is sold as a separate expansion for £19.99 / $24.99 rather than folded into a patch. Neither source explains how the pricing decision was made, so the reason behind it is not something this article can state. What is documented is what the money buys: three post-game questlines, new housing, a romance system and a sailing ship with an ocean questline.改变期待的是价格：「Charting the Unknown」以 19.99 英镑 / 24.99 美元的独立资料片形式出售，而不是并进补丁。两份来源都没有解释定价决策是如何做出的，因此本文无法说明其理由。有据可查的是这笔钱买到了什么：三条终局任务线、新住房、恋爱系统，以及带海洋任务线的帆船。
A subscription is the other model: PS Plus in November adds Dead Island 2 and a remastered Tomb Raider trilogy to the monthly catalogue, and the fee does not change with the size of the batch. Free update models go the other way, as with No Man's Sky's Forsaken update arriving on iPhone and iPad at no charge to owners. Crimson Desert now sits in the paid column, and buyers can judge the expansion on its own contents rather than on the model.钱花在哪里，决定了对比较为公平的参照。订阅目录给的是目录里的东西：11 月的 PS Plus以月费加入了《死亡岛 2》与重制版《古墓丽影》三部曲。免费更新模式走的是另一条路，例如《无人深空》的 Forsaken 更新登陆 iPhone 与 iPad，对已购玩家不再收费。《红色沙漠》现在站在付费这一列，买家可以就资料片本身的内容来判断，而不是先判断模式。
Whether to start now现在要不要开始
If the campaign is unfinished, the expansion can wait. Its three questlines, the Garden of Trials and the ship's ocean story all sit behind progress you have not made yet, so buying it now adds nothing you can play tonight. The reverse is also true: a player who finished the story and wants the combat challenges has a clear route in, and one who wants the house and the romance has two smaller gates to clear first.如果主线还没打完，这部资料片可以等。它的三条任务线、「试炼花园」以及船只的海洋剧情，都压在你尚未推进的进度之后，现在买并不会多出今晚能玩的东西。反过来也成立：已经打完主线、想要战斗挑战的玩家有一条清晰的入口；想要房子和恋爱的玩家，则要先过两道较小的门槛。
The expansion also arrives while players have plenty else to play. Phantom Blade Zero's launch drew 448,000 concurrent players on Steam, which is one measure of how crowded the release window is. Charting the Unknown is a large addition to a game that already asks for a hundred hours before its post-game begins, and the honest advice for anyone short of time is to finish the campaign first and decide after that.这部资料片也落在日程相当拥挤的一段时间里。《影之刃零》发售时在 Steam 上吸引了 44.8 万同时在线玩家，接下来几周还有多款作品会争夺同样的时间。「Charting the Unknown」是一款在主线的百小时之后才开始的游戏的大体量补充，对时间不宽裕的人来说，诚实的建议是先打完主线，再决定要不要买。
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