Elden Ring Nightreign’s first community check — ongoing on the time of this text’s publication — is affected by important server points which have prevented many from taking part in.
IGN workers with entry to the check reported server issues so excessive they have been unable to entry the sport for the check’s first hour.
The problems have been unhealthy sufficient that FromSoftware issued a statement on social media, confirming that gamers have been struggling to discover a match resulting from server congestion. The developer apologized, however inspired gamers to strive matching once more after some time.
It seems the PlayStation servers particularly are having issues, and certainly have been introduced down for upkeep. “The #NIGHTREIGN PlayStation servers are at the moment beneath upkeep,” FromSoftware tweeted. “Work is ongoing to revive server performance. Additional updates shall be offered. Thanks in your persistence and understanding.”
Exacerbating the issue is the actual fact the Elden Ring Nightreign community check is simply obtainable throughout 5 three-hour intervals on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Sequence X and S from February 14 to February 17. Right here’s the present schedule:
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 recreation launch,” Bandai Namco stated.
“This huge-scale Network Stress Test 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.”
It’s in fact higher that Elden Ring Nightreign suffers server points now than when it launches in Could, however gamers who had earmarked time to check out the sport now have expressed their frustration. Hopefully subsequent play classes will run extra easily.
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 crew 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 in the end tackle the Nightlord,” Bandai Namco added, earlier than confirming the community check includes a three day-and-night cycle squads should attempt to outlast.
Final 12 months 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.”
Try IGN’s interview with recreation director Junya Ishizaki for much more on Elden Ring Nightreign.
Elden Ring Nightreign launches on Could 30, 2025 priced $40 throughout PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Sequence X|S, Xbox One, and PC through Steam.
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