The game was released earlier than other websites, and the footage that we utilized was provided by one of the several players who had uploaded footage from the early days of the game. Upon finding Patches appearing in Elden Ring myself, I was excited to Elden Ring Runes find Patches used in different ways from his previous appearances. He's still the same ol' clown.

It's possible to get poisoned within Elden Ring within the first few minutes. The director of Souls' series Hidetaka Miyazaki once exuded his love of toxic swamps, but I was nonetheless amazed by how quickly I could find some grotesque terrain that caused my character to be sick. Nobody has beat my record for speedruns in the world yet, by the way.

The scouting for poison aside My first major challenge in Elden Ring came as an unsteady bridge. FromSoftware has a reputation for playing on players' heads, and putting players into traps that could cause death in a single hit and I was certain the bridge that was in the beginning area was going to be a big "fuck for you" from the developers. I ended up being wrong, but don't blame me for being a little uncertain.

The man who called Elden Ring players as "maidenless" and advised them to "die in a ditch somewhere" in the closed-network test was noticeably chilled out in anticipation of the official release. His name is Varre and I didn't see him for the rest of my time playing until I looked up info about his questline, and then sought for him on reason. Even with a more welcoming manner of speaking, Varre is still pretty lame. Do not be like Varre.

Elden Ring's early-game bridge may not have messed me up however, this chest certainly did. I wrote about my experience of being teleported to a high-level part of the Lands Between, woefully unprepared and not able to teleport to the safety of. It was scary, but it definitely prepared me for the challenges that lay deeper into the game.

Elden Ring arrived on February 25 and had release day numbers which surpassed those of its Souls predecessors. At one point there were more than 760,000 players concurrently playing on Steam as well as a peak viewing audience at 910,000 watched gamers play on Elden Ring Runes buy Twitch. To say that people were eagerly anticipating Elden Ring is an overstatement.