Elden Ring Nightreign’s subsequent patch will make gameplay simpler for solo gamers

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

Extra particularly, FromSoftware will add the impact of “Computerized Revival Upon Defeat” that enables a self-revival as soon as per night time boss battle for solo expeditions. Gamers can 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 taking part in solo, versus in a celebration of three because it was designed for.

FromSoftware’s titles have a popularity for being troublesome, however early evaluations identified that Nightreign affords poor scaling with sure mechanics, skills and boss fights that cater in the direction of a full occasion. Regardless of the tens of millions of copies bought on the primary day, Nightreign holds a “mixed” Steam consumer assessment score due to the solo queue points, together with a scarcity 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 figuring out among the kinks. The sport’s director, Junya Ishizaki, informed IGN in an interview that leaping into an expedition as a duo was “ignored throughout growth” however is one thing that the developer is taking a look at and contemplating for post-launch assist. 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.