Elden Ring Nightreign launches on Could 30, 2025 priced $40 throughout PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Collection X|S, Xbox One, and PC through Steam, writer Bandai Namco has confirmed.
Affirmation of the discharge date comes forward of the Elden Ring Nightreign community check, which kicks off on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Collection X and S solely on February 14 and ends February 17, with numerous session instances deliberate. This implies you will not be capable of play the community check all through all the 4 days, fairly throughout 5 three-hour durations.
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 by which the chosen testers play a portion of the sport previous to the complete sport launch,” Bandai Namco stated. “This massive-scale Community Stress Check is designed to judge numerous features of the web system’s performance and efficiency. We’re wanting ahead to your cooperation to make Elden Ring Nightreign even higher.”
Elden Ring Nightreign is FromSoftware’s standalone co-operative spin-off set in a world parallel to that of 2022’s Elden Ring. The community check will enable three gamers to workforce up and take their chosen Nightfarers to battle “towards new terrors, and discover an ever-changing map to defeat more and more difficult bosses and finally tackle the Nightlord,” Bandai Namco added, earlier than confirming the community check includes a three day-and-night cycle squads should attempt to outlast.
Here is the official blurb:
The all-new journey in Elden Ring Nightreign begins on 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 setting, the place they should make split-second choices relating to fight and exploration within the face of an evening cycle that shrinks the map with the approaching Evening’s Tide.
On the finish of every evening, gamers will face a strong boss and, if victorious, awaken to larger challenges. Every session will culminate within the third evening after they should face off towards the chosen Nightlord. People can struggle the evening alone, however energy will are available in 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 individuals who fall in defeat. Unsuccessful runs will grant gamers relics to permit them to customise and improve their characters tailor-made to their private play types.
Elden Ring Nightreign is in contrast to any expertise created earlier than by FromSoftware, Inc. On this condensed motion RPG, gamers won’t ever expertise the identical 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 elements 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 means of an open-air dungeon, each journey offers a chance to develop lasting stat bonuses. Profitable runs towards the evening carry gamers ever nearer to defeating the Nightlord and unraveling the story behind every Nightfarer on this parallel world.
Final yr IGN had the chance 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 sport director Junya Ishizaki for much more on Elden Ring Nightreign.
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