An Elden Ring streamer has suffered a gruesome and quite hilarious defeat, losing an eleven-hour randomized permadeath run to a rare Roundtable Hold invasion while in the bathroom. Two years after launch, developer FromSoftware has finally revealed the release date of Elden Ring's highly anticipated Shadow of the Erdtree DLC, set to launch on June 21.
Elden Ring Dataminer Finds Alternate Opening for the Game
11.03.2024 - 22:25 / gamerant.com / Elden Ring / Gabriel Machado Pureza
A dataminer has recently discovered a hidden alternative opening for Elden Ring, which would start the game in another area. Elden Ring is a massive game, so it’s not surprising that some fans are still uncovering interesting information about it.
Released in 2022, Elden Ring quickly became a huge hit. The game sold over 23 million units and became From Software’s best-selling title. The main reason why the game was so successful was due to taking the classic Soulslike formula to a sprawling open world that hid surprises in all of its dark corners.
Now, a YouTuber dataminer called Sekiro Dubi has discovered an alternative opening for Elden Ring by searching the game’s files. Normally, when Elden Ring starts, players are in the Chapel of Anticipation, a place where they’ll likely die after being attacked by the Grafted Scion. Then, they wake up in the Stranded Graveyard and go to the Cave of Knowledge, the tutorial area. However, Sekiro Dubi discovered a completely different beginning in which players would be sent to a beach in the western section of Limgrave instead and see a scene with Melina and Torrent. In Sekiro Dubi’s video, it’s possible to see a reproduction of this scene, which is similar to the one featured early in the original version of the game.
While there is no official reason why Elden Ring’s beginning was changed, it’s not very difficult to understand why From Software chose to streamline the beginning. By starting on this beach, players would take more time until they reach the tutorial in the Cave of Knowledge and have more options to simply explore elsewhere. Elden Ring is an open game with a difficult start, so it would be easy for players to miss the tutorial area.
A good argument for streamlining the game’s beginning is that Elden Ring is so massive that even players with hundreds of hours sometimes miss big chunks of content. For example, an Elden Ring player discovered a new boss after 1,000 hours some weeks ago, surprising many gamers in the community who also never faced this foe.
With Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree DLC coming out on June 21, gamers will have even more mysterious places to explore. The DLC will add more creatures, a huge area that has a similar size to Limgrave, and more items for gamers to play with. Likely, it’ll also supply players with more secret bosses and mysterious lore, too.
Elden Ring is a fantasy action-RPG adventure set in a world co-created by Hidetaka Miyazaki, the creator of the influential Dark Souls video game series, and George R.R. Martin, the author of the best-selling fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire. This collaboration between two renowned creators has resulted in FromSoftware's largest game to date, filled with danger and discovery
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