What changed in ELDEN RING in 2024

Fixed an issue where temporary boosts to player stats remained after closing and restarting the game.

Fixed a bug where the Shadow Keep Church District entrance cutscene replayed on re-entry.

Fixed a bug that prevented Aspects of the Crucible: Thorns from being cast in quick succession.

Fixed a bug preventing the use of ashes in some areas of the Scadutree Avatar battle arena.

Fixed a bug where Rellana, Twin Moon Knight sometimes performed unexpected actions when interacting with objects in the battle area.

Fixed bugs where some Golem Fist attacks dealt no damage under certain effects and the one-handed heavy attack power was lower than expected.

Increased damage and shortened recovery between normal attacks and follow-ups for the Hand-to-Hand Arts weapon type.

Decreased damage of Backhand Blades (Smithscript Cirque throws excluded), Spears' dual wield attacks, and Pata against other players.

Aspects of the Crucible: Thorns/Bloom improved, Divine Bird Feathers extended, Midra's Flame of Frenzy buffed, Bayle's Flame Lightning damage up, among others.

Increased move distance on attacks and sped up the first normal attack for the Colossal Sword weapon type.

Reduced activation delay and increased damage enhancement of Rellana's Cameo Talisman.

Increased damage negation and guard strength of some Small and Medium Shields.

Raised range, poise damage, and attack speed of Moon-and-Fire Stance and Devonia's Vortex; adjusted PvP damage animation.

Spread Crossbow no longer triggers headshot damage motion against other players.

Changed opening action pattern; adjusted attack moves; decreased damage and stamina damage of some attacks; reduced non-weapon attack range; improved visual readability.

Increased attack speed of the uncharged first heavy attack for most weapon types including Dagger, Straight Sword, Great Sword, Colossal Sword, Katana, Great Katana and more.

Fixed a bug that caused some NPC Red Bear attacks to be higher than intended.

Fixed spirits not correctly receiving the Blessing attack/damage-negation buff and corrected status increases for a long list of specific spirit ashes.

Fixed bugs preventing invasions in some areas of Scadu Altus and allowing co-op in areas without area bosses.

Fixed a bug where the Death status ailment from Death Flare was applied to Deadly Poison Spray.

After a status ailment triggers, the buildup/duration of that ailment is now reduced by a fixed amount immediately.

Savage Lion's Claw buffed, Swift Slash nerfed, Aspects of the Crucible: Wings improved, Divine Beast Tornado buffed, Rain of Fire buffed, Rotten Butterflies buffed, and many more adjustments.

Increased Holy damage when luster is restored; reduced the number of attacks required to restore luster; increased luster duration.

Dozens of spirit ashes (Wandering Noble, Skeletal Militiaman, Ancestral Follower, and many more) will no longer stagger as easily.

Summoned spirits (excluding Mimic Tear) gain more attack power and damage negation at higher Blessing / +8 and above.

Fixed a bug where damage of some normal attacks of the Dark Moon Greatsword were lower than intended.

Increased poise damage on Light Great Swords, Backhand Blades, Hand-to-Hand Arts, and Beast Claws in PvP; many other weapon-class poise/damage adjustments applied.

Increased stats and status of summonable NPCs Needle Knight Leda, Pureblood Knight Ansbach, and Thiollier.

Fixed higher-than-intended affinity values across multiple Smithscript weapons, Golem Fist, and Smithscript Shield.

Re-fight spawn positions for Golden Hippopotamus and Commander Gaius now match the first encounter.

Extended throwing attack range for the Smithscript Dagger and Smithscript Cirque.

Fixed a bug causing Lightning Perfume Bottle and Frenzyflame Perfume Bottle to deal double damage under certain circumstances.

Fixed incorrect Arcane scaling on the Bloodfiend's Arm when using an affinity; heavy-attack status buildup also reduced.

Increased Intelligence scaling on the Carian Sorcery Sword while slightly reducing its base damage.

Decreased damage and damage animation of the shearing vacuum effect of the Swift Slash skill against other players.

Fixed bugs causing the Rolling Sparks skill to deal more damage than expected, and to deal no damage under certain special effects.

Documented a bug where Ray Tracing auto-enables when loading old saves; players instructed to toggle off manually.

Scadutree Blessing: attack and damage negation increased for the first half of enhancements and made more gradual in the second half; final level bonuses slightly increased.

The Shadow of the Erdtree expansion launches worldwide, bringing the Realm of Shadow and a new main story.

Increased poise damage on Greatswords/Colossal Swords/Hammers/Great Hammers/Colossal Weapons/Great Spears/Halberds in PvP; adjusted dual wield damage and poise across many weapon types.

Increased duration of Mohg's Great Rune attack buff on nearby spirit bleed; Malenia's Great Rune heal-on-attack improved with reduced Flask penalty.

Added support for the SHADOW OF THE ERDTREE DLC expansion.

Fixed many multiplayer positioning, Mimic's Veil sync, spectral steed fall-death, and rendering bugs.

Increased scaling on Albinauric Staff, Gelmir Glintstone Staff, Prince of Death's Staff, Golden Order Seal, Clawmark Seal, and Dragon Communion Seal.

Added a lock-on change threshold setting, map cursor movement setting, and key assignment to open the map.

Added a Map Functions Menu and new Summoning Pool carry-over, enable/disable and Mohgwyn handling features.

Five new hairstyles added, selectable during character creation and via the Clouded Mirror Stand / Rennala's Rebirth.

Full Arabic menu and subtitle localization added.

Newly obtained items now marked with '!'; added a Recent Items tab to the inventory.

Added a new feature to summon the spectral steed during the Elden Beast boss battle.

Increased Dexterity scaling when assigning Ashes of War with corresponding weapon affinities.

Crafted consumables used during Colosseum battles are now replenished at the end of the session.

After a player is affected by madness/sleep, status buildup halts for a short period to prevent back-to-back procs.

ELDEN RING and the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC will launch on June 21 with full Arabic menu and subtitle support.

Shadow of the Erdtree launch date confirmed for June 21, 2024.

Easy Anti-Cheat updated to support the SteamOS update.