Registrations for Elden Ring Nightreign’s hotly anticipated community check go dwell at this time, January 10. Right here’s every part you want to know to put your title down.
The community check can be held on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Sequence X and S solely, whereas the full recreation can even launch on PC by way of Steam, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.
To register, head to the Bandai Namco website and enter your particulars. It is value noting that registration closes January 20, and solely presents a likelihood to be part of the Elden Ring Nightreign community check. The check is open to those that don’t subscribe to PlayStation Plus or Xbox Sport Move Core.
Elden Ring Nightreign community check registration instances:
- 6am PT, January 10
- 9am ET, January 10
- 2pm GMT, January 10
- 3pm CET, January 10
- 11pm JST, January 10
The check itself begins February 14 and ends February 17, with varied session instances deliberate. This implies you will not give you the option to play the community check all through the whole 4 days, relatively throughout 5 three-hour durations solely.
Elden Ring Nightreign community check session timings:
- February 14: 3am-6am PT / 6am-9am ET
- February 14: 7pm-10pm PT / 10pm-1am ET
- February 15: 11am-2pm PT / 2pm-5pm ET
- February 16: 3am-6am PT / 6am-9am ET
- February 16: 7pm-10pm PT / 10pm-1am ET
The community check is a “preliminary verification check wherein the chosen testers play a portion of the recreation prior to the full recreation launch,” Bandai Namco stated.
“This massive-scale Network Stress Test is designed to consider varied features of the on-line system’s performance and efficiency.
“We’re trying ahead to your cooperation to make Elden Ring Nightreign even higher.”
Bandai Namco has but to say precisely what the Elden Ring Nightreign community check will provide, however did warn some textual content and recreation options could also be completely different than in the closing model.
Elden Ring Nightreign is FromSoftware’s standalone co-operative spin-off set in a world parallel to that of 2022’s Elden Ring. It was introduced at The Sport Awards 2024 with a debut trailer, under, and a 2025 launch window.
The community check will enable three gamers to workforce up and take their chosen Nightfarers to battle “in opposition to new terrors, and discover an ever-changing map to defeat more and more difficult bosses and in the end tackle the Nightlord,” Bandai Namco added, earlier than confirming the community check contains a three day-and-night cycle squads should attempt to outlast.
This is the official blurb:
The all-new journey in Elden Ring Nightreign begins at the Roundtable Maintain, set in a universe parallel to the occasions of Elden Ring. Gamers should select from eight distinctive characters, every with their very own skills and highly effective Ultimates. Their journeys take them to Limveld, an ever-changing atmosphere, the place they’ll have to make split-second choices when it comes to fight and exploration in the face of an evening cycle that shrinks the map with the coming Night time’s Tide.
At the finish of every evening, gamers will face a robust boss and, if victorious, awaken to greater challenges. Every session will culminate in the third evening after they should face off in opposition to the chosen Nightlord. People can battle the evening alone, however energy will are available numbers. Nightfarers should study to cooperate to take down these challenges, combining their distinctive skills collectively for an unparalleled expertise. All just isn’t misplaced for many who fall in defeat. Unsuccessful runs will grant gamers relics to enable them to customise and improve their characters tailor-made to their private play types.
Elden Ring Nightreign is not like any expertise created earlier than by FromSoftware, Inc. On this condensed motion RPG, gamers won’t ever expertise the similar journey twice as enemies, rewards, and Limveld itself are ever-shifting and evolving with every new session. Defeating larger enemies and venturing into the extra harmful components of the map will uncover extra highly effective weapons and larger Rune rewards. Discovering Websites of Grace offers every hero an opportunity to stage up and acquire essential energy. With every session-based journey being akin to taking part in by an open-air dungeon, each journey gives a chance to develop lasting stat bonuses. Profitable runs in opposition to the evening convey gamers ever nearer to defeating the Nightlord and unraveling the story behind every Nightfarer on this parallel world.
Final 12 months IGN had the alternative to go to FromSoftware and go hands-on with an early construct of Elden Ring Nightreign. We got here away impressed, stating that Elden Ring Nightreign “takes the cautious dungeon crawls of Elden Ring and turbocharges them into propulsive, slash ‘n’ sprint speedruns.”
Take a look at IGN’s interview with recreation director Junya Ishizaki for much more on Elden Ring Nightreign.
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