Like many aspects of Elden Ring , its multiplayer gameplay has its origins in 2009's Demon's Souls . A game filled with convoluted systems like manipulatable World Tendency, Demon's Souls was the first experiment for a multiplayer system that would become popular with dedicated fans as it was further refined through Dark Souls and Bloodborne . While connected to the game servers, bloodstains, messages, and fleeting apparitions encroach from the worlds of other players. Dark Souls vaguely provided an in-universe explanation for the multiplayer mechanics, claiming the White Soapstone allowed and Undead to become a phantom and manipulate Lordran's distorted flow of time to assist others in com

The Elden Beast is one of the best final bosses FromSoftware has ever created. Soulsborne final bosses have a reputation for being disappointing due to not being as tough as earlier fights. The Elden Beast breaks that trend, being a massive beast with great melee and ranged options. What makes it even harder is that it comes right after Rada

Initially located in Lake-Facing Cliffs

Lightseeker Hyetta is a blind woman whom the Tarnished will stumble across shortly after defeating Godrick the Grafted. She requests the Tarnished feed her Shabriri Grapes for her to witness a faint light she thinks is guiding her to her destiny. Aside from her being blind and placing full trust in the player, killing Hyetta will reward the player with Frenzyflame Stones, which is a very easy resource to cr

The Dark Moon Greatsword is a calling card of FromSoftware's Souls -type games , having appeared in every Souls game from the company. This iteration of the blade is received as a part of Ranni's questline, which affects the ending player's receive and is very long and difficult for it. The sword itself is suitably powerful for

Located in Murkwater Cave

The legendary Patches (NPC) is the definition of an NPC the player should not kill. An argument can be made that Patches should never be killed in any of his iterations throughout FromSoftware’s games. In Elden Ring , Patches can be found in Murkwater Cave and is the boss of the dungeon. When the player gets him down to half health he will beg for forgiven

Thoroughly exploring The Lands Between is already a massive time commitment, and doing it thrice so that everyone in the party can have all the loot becomes tedious. There's an argument to be made that limiting the scope of co-op sessions is a stylistic choice, meant to represent serendipitous help offered by another Tarnished, but FromSoftware already offers the opportunity to use multiplayer passwords so that Summon Signs are only viewable by certain players. Elden Ring 's co-op could be easily improved by simply embracing a more traditional version of cooperative gameplay, where progression is shared and sessions aren't cut short by the completion of an object

The reason not to kill Igon has little to do with gameplay or items. All rewards for completing Igon’s quest can be obtained by directly slaying him where he stands when players first encounter him at the Pillar Path Waypoint Site of Grace. No, the reason to keep Igon alive is to hear one of the best voice lines in all of Elden Ring , delivered by Igon when he is summoned to exact his revenge upon Bayle. Not to mention that Bayle is an incredibly difficult boss, especially without someone like Igon to draw aggro away from the Tarnis

At the time of writing, the Seamless Co-op mod has over 170,000 unique downloads after first releasing in late May. The last 30 days on Elden Ring 's Steam Charts page shows a peak player count of 107,000. These numbers aren't necessarily directly comparable, and Steam doesn't constitute the entirety of the player base, but it's interesting to see just how much of the active PC community has opted into improved co-op mechanics. Elden Ring is FromSoftware's most approachable game in decades, which only serves to highlight the convoluted multiplayer mechanics. They are clearly not a major detriment to many's enjoyment of the game, but there is a large chunk of players actively utilizing an alternative sys

Though Miquella never speaks or interacts with players in Elden Ring 's main game, it's possible to construct a hypothetical Miquella boss fight scenario simply through examining his in-game lore. According to certain item descriptions, Miquella was a master of Golden Order Fundamentalism, Https://eldenringworld.com/ and would likely wield incantations such as Triple Rings Of Light or Radagon's Rings Of Light in a boss fight. Miquella, like his sister Malenia, was an Empyrean - a being capable of becoming a vessel for an Outer God's power - but also created Unalloyed Gold Needles capable or cutting people off from the influence of said Gods (like the one used in Elden Ring to help Millicent fight the Scarlet Rot). If players did wind up fighting a Miquella possessed by an Outer God like the Formless Mother, they might be able to end the fight by stabbing Miquella with one of his own Unalloyed Gold Needles, freeing him from the influenced of the possessing deity. According to the description for the Bewitching Branch item, Miquella was also supernaturally charismatic and inspired fanatical loyalty in this subjects; this lore detail could be the basis for a boss fight where Miquella summons waves of faithful servants to defend hims