It’s been a 12 months since Sport of the Yr winner Elden Ring first lit our tarnished souls on fireplace, and FromSoftware seems to be decided to maintain kindling that flame. Gamers can obtain the sport’s 1.10 patch at this time, which brings just a few key steadiness modifications to The Lands Between.

So far as total steadiness goes, we’ve just a few buffs to important hits (i.e. what occurs whenever you backstab). Not solely are these strikes wholesale stronger, however they now inflict higher poise injury as effectively. We even have “decreased restoration time after a missed important hit” listed right here. It’s a merry crit-mas from FromSoftware.

That mentioned, this patch additionally brings just a few PvP changes. Three of the six modifications deal with poise changes, and the talents “Fast Step” and “Hound’s Step” have decreased invulnerability home windows. This part vaguely states that this patch “decreased the injury discount granted by some expertise, incantations and gadgets” with out specifying what this impacts. Guess they count on gamers to determine it out on their very own in traditional Souls style.

Oh, additionally, important hit angles have been prolonged in PvP too. This patch actually is the present that retains on critting.

Rounding out the Elden Ring 1.10 patch are just a few bug fixes. Once more, these learn somewhat obscure, however gamers apparently received’t have their assault course unintentionally shifted round as a lot now. Different fixes embody stopping the Sacred Order talent from persisting after you modify weapons, in addition to making it so sure spells and incantations received’t trigger injury whereas sure results are energetic.

Try the patch notes right here if you wish to see them for your self.

Just a few steadiness changes

Total, this patch largely impacts gamers nonetheless invested in Elden Ring’s PvP scene. Nothing right here will get a lapsed participant to leap again within the sport, except they didn’t really feel they met a important hit quota, during which case go to city I suppose. That mentioned, I’ll by no means object to seeing a sport obtain continued assist. So long as that assist addresses what the neighborhood needs, anyway.

The 1.10 patch after all comes forward of the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC for Elden Ring, which nonetheless doesn’t have a launch window as of writing. Whereas I wouldn’t suggest holding your breath ready, I think about any correct new content material will launch alongside that. If Shadow of the Erdtree is like earlier Souls DLC, it must be a great time.

Within the meantime, you could find Elden Ring on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Sequence X|S, and PC.