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Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree It’s barely in the rearview mirror and FromSoftware already has a new game behind the scenes. The first trailer of Night reign of the Elden ring, an independent cooperative action game, at The Game Awards 2024.
As its name and trailer suggest, night rain is set in the same world, and quite possibly the same map as Elden Ringbut transformed with new enemies and bosses. More importantly, it looks like you’ll be able to tackle it with a group of two other friends wielding axes, magic, and swords. FromSoftware Announcement says that the game will transfer weapons and enemies from Elden Ring but remix the rest. The game is structured in three-day chunks, with the most difficult bosses, “Nightlors,” arriving on the third day for you and your friends to fight. Beyond that, it looks like the map could change every time you play, making each three-day session different.
Multiplayer is not a new concept for FromSoftware. demonic soulsmultiple Dark Souls entries and Elden Ring They all allow some sort of cooperative multiplayer if you need to summon a friend for a particularly difficult boss fight. Playing a game where you could run around the open world with friends, seemingly with much greater ability to jump and run as you progress, would feel very different.
Elden Ring Night Reign will arrive on PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC in 2025. After the Game Awards event, the publisher Bandai Namco announced that a closed network test will be carried out in February. Selected testers will be able to “play a portion of the game” before its full release in exchange for helping load test the game’s servers. You may want to mark your calendars for January 10, when registration opens for that network test, as space in closed tests like this is usually limited.
Update, December 13 at 12:50 pm ET: This story was updated after publication to include details about what was planned. Elden Ring Night Reign network test.
