I’ve performed one thing like 100 hours of Elden Ring, and but I really feel like you can nonetheless fill a e book with issues I do not find out about it. It is an enormous recreation, stuffed with developer FromSoftware’s regular cryptic lore, and refined touches that will nonetheless be straightforward to overlook in a recreation a tenth its dimension.
Even in case you’ve completed Elden Ring and rolled proper into New Recreation+, odds are you do not know all of its secrets and techniques. Listed here are only a few issues I had enjoyable studying in regards to the Lands Between.
Heavy spoilers beneath.
Radahn’s horse goes underground and teleports when he does his meteor assault
Radahn is sort of presumably Elden Ring’s most intimidating boss—he actually offered one of many recreation’s largest problem spikes earlier than FromSoftware toned him down a bit in a patch. My favourite taste textual content in Elden Ring is the reason that Radahn discovered gravity magic as he grew into an enormous, simply so he might maintain using his beloved horse Leonard. So candy!
However what occurs to Radahn’s horse when he flies up into the sky, then comes hurtling again to the bottom? Zullie the Witch breaks it down: in sluggish movement, you may watch him shove his horse underground, presumably to maintain him secure from the influence of Radahn crashing again down. OK, the precise purpose is in order that FromSoftware can teleport the hidden horse straight underneath your ft, giving Radahn a goal for his assault and letting the character fashions reunite, however I prefer to assume Radahn’s bought Leonard’s finest pursuits at coronary heart.
Leyndell had vastly completely different enemies within the 1.0 construct earlier than the day 1 patch
Day 1 patches aren’t only for last-minute bug fixes, at the least in FromSoftware’s case. Modder Sekiro Dubi just lately launched a video displaying considerably completely different enemy placements in Leyndell, the Royal Capital. On the 1.0 construct of the sport you’d run into enemy varieties which can be not current in Leyndell and discover others lacking, just like the music-playing Oracle Envoys you encounter alongside the wall of the capital. There are additionally some important adjustments to loot and merchandise placement. That day 1 patch was a giant ‘un.
It’s important to use the “you are lovely” emote to finish one NPC’s quest
The Souls sequence has at all times had these delightfully creepy voice emote objects so you may say “thanks” or “you are lovely” to different gamers on-line. However it is a FromSoftware recreation: after all there’s extra to them than that. Each merchandise components into the world ultimately. On this case, you must use the “You are lovely” Prattling Pate merchandise in entrance of Boc the Seamster after he tells you that he is ugly in Leyndell.
There are a number of methods Boc’s questline can finish, however giving him a praise results in the happiest final result. Everybody wants some constructive encouragement generally.
Fall injury is as tousled because it appears
That is possibly much less one thing you did not know, and extra affirmation of one thing you felt in Elden Ring however did not know for certain: fall injury does not make a lot sense. Somebody broke down the mathematics at play and confirmed that the hole between “a little bit fall injury” and “you are useless” is fairly small. It is a mere 4 meters, the truth is, between 16 (ouchie) and 20 (RIP).
Essentially the most complicated factor about fall injury in Elden Ring is that the objects that supposedly cut back it do not even have any impact on how far you must fall to take deadly injury. That distance is about, so utilizing objects or upping your dexterity stat will solely have an effect on the share of injury you tackle falls that weren’t going to kill you anyway.
The bewitching department merchandise can thoughts management some stunning enemies
There is a pretty scarce consumable merchandise in Elden Ring referred to as the Bewitching Department; its description says you should use it to “pierce a foe, utilizing FP to show them into a brief ally.” You already know, the ol’ thoughts management trick—the form of factor you may often solely use on low-level enemies, whereas bosses will giggle in your face after which kill you. That is considerably true of the Bewitching Department, in that you would be able to’t apply it to, say, Malenia to show the toughest boss within the recreation into your ally. However you truly can apply it to the summons in one in every of Elden Ring’s more durable battles.
Run as much as Commander Nial’s spectral summons once you face him within the Mountaintops of the Giants, give them a Bewitching Department poke, and you may flip it from a 1v3 right into a 3v1.
That is in all probability the Bewitching Department’s single most helpful second, however you can even use it to show some formidable enemies into allies and break an invader’s day (opens in new tab).
Buying and selling in dragon hearts offers you glowing eyes, just like the Frenzied Flame
Every dragon you defeat in Elden Ring offers you an merchandise you may take to the Cathedral of Dragon Communion and commerce in for highly effective spells. What you might not have observed is that after making 4 trades, your eyes will glow a vivid yellow, such as you simply slipped on some dragon contact lenses to do some cosplay. The dragon eyes have a catlike pupil and are literally distinct from the extra fiery eyes you get in case you go down the trail of the Frenzied Flame.
You may also get bloody eyes by following Varre’s questline.
White Masks Varre is degree 154, but solely has 1 INT
Varre, the very first NPC you meet once you step foot into the Lands Between, is just not the nicest man. He suggests that you just’re “fated, it appears, to die in obscurity,” earlier than suggesting you want his recommendation to outlive. The irony, as unearthed by Zullie the Witch (opens in new tab), is that Varre truly has solely a single level in his INT stat. My man is a stone chilly dumbass.
Each single class in Elden Ring begins with way more INT than Varre has at degree 154. Even the barbarian-esque Hero begins with 7 INT.
Should you kill Morgott earlier than preventing Margit, Margit’s enviornment can be empty
Certainly one of Elden Ring’s huge surprises is that its first main boss, Margit the Fell Omen, reappears a lot later within the recreation with a brand new title: Morgott the Omen King. They appear and sound similar, although Morgott has some new strikes to kill you with. The 2 are certainly one and the identical—Margit is basically the alter ego underneath which Morgott does his soiled work. There are a great deal of YouTube movies you may watch that dive into Morgott’s lore, however the enjoyable little bit of trivia here’s what occurs in case you skip that preliminary battle with Margit.
Should you exit of your strategy to keep away from Stormveil Fort and battle Morgott in entrance of the Erdtree, you may be rewarded with the talisman pouch that Margit would usually drop once you beat him. You’ll be able to then return to Stormveil to search out an empty enviornment. Properly, not fairly empty: the positioning of grace that would seem after you beat Margit can be there ready for you.
Strive finger, however complete map.
