Elden Ring Nightreign’s subsequent patch will ma...

Only a day after its launch, FromSoftware introduced a vital patch for Elden Ring Nightreign gamers preferring to solo queue. The sport’s developer posted on X that Patch 1.02 will likely be launched subsequent week, delivering some bug fixes and “enhancements for solo expeditions.”

Extra particularly, FromSoftware will add the impact of “Automated Revival Upon Defeat” that enables a self-revival as soon as per night time boss battle for solo expeditions. Gamers will even get extra runes, which ought to present a extra balanced gaming expertise when venturing alone. This information of this patch follows a number of criticisms of the sport being poorly optimized when enjoying solo, versus in a celebration of three because it was designed for.

FromSoftware’s titles have a status for being troublesome, however early opinions identified that Nightreign provides poor scaling with sure mechanics, talents and boss fights that cater in the direction of a full get together. Regardless of the tens of millions of copies offered on the primary day, Nightreign holds a “mixed” Steam consumer evaluation score because of the solo queue points, together with an absence of communication instruments, cross-platform play and fewer replayability than different Souls titles.

For FromSoftware, Elden Ring Nightreign represents a stylistic shift into the roguelike style based mostly on its best-selling predecessor and it’d nonetheless be understanding among the kinks. The sport’s director, Junya Ishizaki, advised IGN in an interview that leaping into an expedition as a duo was “ignored throughout growth” however is one thing that the developer is and contemplating for post-launch help. Some gamers are additionally having points with matchmaking itself, the place FromSoftware recommends restarting the method to get into an expedition. As for rebalancing for solo play, FromSoftware stated that extra particulars about this upcoming patch will come subsequent week.