Elden Ring Nightreign Day-One Patch Makes Important Changes Ahead of Official Release Date

Elden Ring Nightreign’s merchandise is conscionable hours away, and steadfast Bandai Namco has elaborate its day-one patch, which makes immoderate important changes to the game.

Patch 1.01 is retired now, Bandai Namco said, with the multiplayer spin-off acceptable to spell unrecorded connected May 29 oregon May 30, depending connected your timezone. Check retired the Elden Ring Nightreign planetary merchandise times for more.

The patch, Bandai Namco said, improves “handling” of playable characters, makes equilibrium adjustments, tweaks text, adds quality scenarios, and adds to the soundtrack. There are bug fixes successful there, too.

“This update brings gameplay and stableness improvements to guarantee an optimal acquisition for your archetypal steps successful Limveld,” Bandai Namco said. You’ll cognize you person the latest mentation of the crippled connected motorboat time if you spot ‘Ver. 1.01’ displayed connected the bottommost close of the rubric screen.

In IGN's caller interrogation with Elden Ring Nightreign manager Junya Ishizaki, the improvement pb discussed the prime to thin connected solos and trios arsenic the halfway acquisition options. When asked wherefore there's nary enactment for a brace of players to driblet successful unneurotic without a matchmade 3rd player, Ishizaki said it was overlooked.

"The elemental reply is that this is simply thing that was overlooked during improvement arsenic conscionable a two-player option, truthful we're precise atrocious astir that," said Ishizaki. "As we said before, we acceptable retired to marque this a multiplayer co-op crippled for 3 players, balanced for 3 players, truthful that was the main absorption and it's astatine the halfway of Nightreign.

"Of course, I myself arsenic a subordinate recognize that and often privation times wherever I'm conscionable playing myself, truthful this is thing that we considered from the start," Ishizaki continued. "And truthful we did enactment a batch of effort into creating this acquisition that was playable for solo players successful arsenic overmuch arsenic the rules and caller systems allowed. So successful putting each our efforts into that aspect, we benignant of overlooked and neglected the duos aspect, but this is thing that we are looking astatine and considering for post-launch enactment arsenic well."

So if you're playing with conscionable your favourite duos partner, beryllium acceptable to judge a random 3rd into your lives. Who knows? You mightiness lucifer up with idiosyncratic beauteous bully astatine the game.

Check retired these important Elden Ring Nightreign tips and tricks we enactment unneurotic from the web trial — and support an oculus connected the IGN Nightreign wiki for plentifulness much guides erstwhile the crippled launches.

Elden Ring Nightreign update 1.01 spot notes:

• Improved handling of playable characters
• Soundtrack summation and adjustments
• Text adjustments
• Balance adjustments
• Added quality scenarios
• Bug fixes

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