A brand new patch for Elden Ring was launched Thursday, ostensibly to arrange the sport for the arrival of the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC on June 21. However gamers of the bottom sport are additionally getting a beautiful deal with, within the type of a significant quality-of-life replace to the bottom sport’s ultimate boss battle.
In accordance with Bandai Namco’s patch notes for version 1.12 of Elden Ring, developer FromSoftware has added a “new characteristic to summon spectral steed in the course of the Elden Beast boss battle.” Elden Ring gamers who’ve confronted the Elden Beast will know what a reduction it’s to have Torrent out there on this scenario, as the ultimate boss battle includes a torturous quantity of operating from one facet of the battle enviornment to the opposite, backwards and forwards, and backwards and forwards once more, whereas chasing the always-moving monster.
Whereas the Elden Beast battle was an imposing and difficult ultimate confrontation, the incessant operating round gamers needed to do to get in a couple of swipes of a sword or get inside spellcasting vary was one thing of a nightmare. Particularly because the Elden Beast is a two-parter; one must defeat one other boss, Radagon, earlier than going through the beast, and failure within the second half meant repeating the primary.
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However the capability to summon Torrent within the Elden Beast boss struggle isn’t the one main quality-of-life replace for Elden Ring in patch 1.12. FromSoft has added a brand new “Current Objects” tab to gamers’ stock display, letting them simply discover the most recent factor (weapon, cookbook, talisman, and so on.) they’ve picked up. Newly obtained gadgets are marked with a “!” image, which can be massively essential for gamers buying a ton of latest stuff with Shadow of the Erdtree. (Observe that the Current Objects tab is an opt-in characteristic within the sport’s settings menu, and having used it for the previous week, I extremely suggest turning it on!)
Elden Ring patch 1.12 does an entire lot extra. There are new hairstyles, new PvP-exclusive steadiness changes, and a protracted record of weapon and talent tweaks, all of that are price reviewing earlier than diving into Shadow of the Erdtree for the primary time.