ELDEN RING NETWORK TEST

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  • 2025.02.14

Take on the Nightlord

Face the dangers lurking within as you engage in intense 3-player co-op action.

Take command of uniquely skilled heroes and team up with fellow players in an epic battle against the Nightlord.

 

Nightfarers

Here are the 4 characters you can use during the 「NETWORK TEST Ver.」.

 

Wylder

A character with well-balanced abilities and easy to handle skills.

 

Skill: Claw Shot

Swing a grappling claw to draw foes in or move swiftly by retracting.
Arts: Onslaught Strike

A powerful single attack that launches an iron stake with great explosion.

 

Guardian

A character with high defensive capabilities who can use a shield to withstand even the most ferocious enemy attacks.

 

Skill: Whirlwind

 

Sprout wings to whip up a wind-churning cyclone.

 

Arts: Wings of Salvation

Leap up and dive back down to raise a protective area.

 

Duchess

This highly dexterous character is skilled in evasion and can perform rapid, consecutive attacks.

 

Skill: Restage

Surround and damage nearby foes with an illusory replay of recent actions.

 

Arts: Finale

Obscure yourself and surrounding allies from foes.

 

Recluse

A high prowess character skilled in cursed magic that allows them to use powerful spells.

 

Skill: Magic Cocktail

Collect the affinity residues of targets to fire an affinity-exploiting magic cocktail.

 

Arts: Soulblood Song

Unleash a forbidden blood chant to brand nearby does with blood sigils.

 

Limveld

Limveld, being a new Elden Ring world, also brings with it new adventure.

While the layout stays more or less the same, the loot, enemies and bosses all shift and change with each expedition you embark on.

 

When you land on Limveld

Upon entering, your character starts at level 1. Defeat nearby enemies to collect runes and level up at a Site of Grace.

While it is an open world similar to the Limgrave area in Elden Ring, with the limited time of each day, players must make quick decisions about where to go in order to maximize their preparation by finding loot, defeating lesser enemies, and using Sites of Grace to grow their character.

 

  • Conquer enemy strongholds to obtain equipment, items, and runes.
  • Challenge and defeat formidable foes for powerful weapon and skills.
  • Increase the number of flasks at churches.
  • Enhance equipment by obtaining “Smithing Stones” in tunnels.

Finding the Next Destination

If you’re unsure where to go, open the map. Read about the attributes and locations of various camps, find safe areas unaffected by Night’s Tide, and learn more about the region to find your next objective.

Character Enhancement

Collect runes and level up or enhance equipment and items to strengthen your character. Select your priorities to build a powerful playable character.

 

Collect Weapons and Items

Find weapons and items from treasure chests, wooden crates, and by defeating enemies.

Items have various rarities. Higher rarity equipment offer more powerful stats and abilities.

Drop items are common amongst all players. You can share with other players the weapons and items that are no longer needed. You can also pin dropped items to mark their location and share it with other players.

 

Use equipment with various effects

The equipment you collect comes with “Passive Effects” that grant you various benefits. The different passive effects are activated simply by holding the weapon, and they stack with other benefits.

Choosing which benefits to collect, aside from the weapon you use, becomes an important factor in strengthening your character.

“Passive Effects” range from simple ones that enhance your stats, to more unique ones where magic is triggered by doing specific actions.

Collect weapons with various effects to strengthen your character and unlock new possibilities.

 

Dormant Power

Defeating powerful enemies or groups of foes with names will drop a unique reward called “Dormant Power”. All players can choose one weapon or special effect from a selection of rewards and claim it from the “Dormant Power”.

Choose the rewards you want to earn according to your character’s strength and planning.

 

Character Customization with Relics

By equipping the “relics” obtained upon returning from a mission to your character, you can gain the powers embedded in the relics and set out on your next expedition.

Relics come with up to three random effects, and each character can equip up to three relics on their designated vessels.

Some relics have effects that work in any situation, while others are specific to certain characters or abilities. Depending on the player’s customization choices, even the same character can be used in various playstyles.

Relics can be equipped from the “Relic Rite” menu at the “Round Table.”
The power of the relics takes effect at the beginning of the expedition and will not be consumed after returning from the Lands Between, so collect as many relics as you can to prepare for the next expedition.

Battles in Limveld

To overcome the relentless environmental threats, create powerful synergies with each character’s formidable skills when they unite as a team.

 

Skills/Arts

Skills

Can be used when the skill gauge is full and can be reused after a short cooldown.

Explore synergies between the characters to take advantage of your enemies.

 

Ultimate Arts

The character unleashes their most powerful move.

It holds the power to drastically change the tide of battle, but it has a longer cooldown between uses, so be sure to activate it at the right moment.

 

Near-death and Rescue

If you run out of HP, your character will enter a Near-death state and die after a certain period of time.

You can revive players in a Near-death state by attacking them.

Repeatedly entering a Near-death state will increase the Near-death state gauge, making Rescue more difficult. The gauge can be reset by reaching a Site of Grace.

Assess the situation of the battle and use skills, arts, and other abilities to rescue your allies at the right time.

 

Boss of the Night

When the night is falling on Limveld, you will fight a powerful boss. Be victorious to end the night and start a new day.

Completing your first exploration might be a challenge, but accumulate experience from the day to defeat the boss.

After overcoming the second night, the doors leading to the Nightlord will open.

 

TIPS – To stand against the “Night”

Preparing for your expedition

Roundtable Hold

At the “Round Table”, base of the Nightfarers, you can not only prepare for deployment to the Lands Between, but also change your playable characters, review basic gameplay knowledge such as controls, and engage in combat practice.

You can start your expedition by using the Grace at the main round table.

Also, by setting a password, you will be able to play with your friends.

 

Training ground

You can review the control and actions available for your character, as well as practice combat in real expedition conditions.

In the training settings menu, you can set it to allow unlimited use of skills and arts, or try out any weapon or item of your choice.

Fully explore and practice the character’s actions, weapons, and item usage.

 

Visual Codex

Review basic rules for expeditions and useful information for Limveld’s exploration. Consult the codex if you have any questions about gameplay.

 

Actions

Various actions to move quickly across the field enable smooth exploration of the vast map.

 

Surge Sprint

Consumes a lot of stamina, but allows you to move faster than with a dash.

 

Wall jump/Climb up

After jumping, you can kick off a wall to perform a wall jump, and climb up if the wall edge is within your reach.

 

Spiritstream jump

In areas where blue air currents rise from cracks in the ground, you can perform a huge jump that allows you to reach high cliffs.

 

Spectral Hawk Tree

Summon the Spectral Hawk and fly in the direction of the wind from the Spectral Hawk Tree. You can easily fly over cliffs, high elevation areas, or you can suddenly drop from the sky to attack enemies.

 

Understanding the Map

Points of Interest

Likely spots for armaments and items at key locations are indicated by the following icons on the detailed view of the map.

 

Obtaining specific equipment

Weapons such as Glintstone Staff, Sacred Seal, and bows can be picked up.

 

Merchant

At the merchant’s location, you can use runes to purchase items and equipment, or use smithing stones at the anvil to upgrade your weapons.

 

Church

At the church, you can increase the number of “Sacred flasks” you possess.

 

Obtaining information about the surrounding areas

You can learn the locations of scarabs and buried treasures.

By defeating the scarabs or finding treasures, you can acquire precious equipment and items.

 

Share your location with your team

You can overlap your pin with those set by other players, signaling your intention to coordinate.

You can also place a simple pin at your feet or overlap with another player’s pin without having to open the map.

 

Share Runes

The runes obtained from defeating enemies are shared by all players regardless of the distance players are from each other.

This means that even while exploring the field separately, you can still cooperate and grow stronger together.

 

Special Event

During your exploration, you may encounter special events.

For example, threats like powerful enemies relentlessly hunting players may arise.

If you manage to overcome these challenges, you will receive rewards to strengthen your character.

 

Death and Game Over

Upon death, characters revive nearby at the cost of 1 level.
The character’s runes, including the runes for the lost level, are dropped at the location of death, where they can be retrieved. However, if a character dies before retrieving dropped runes, they are permanently lost.
Nearby foes sometimes snatch up dropped runes, but the runes can still be retrieved by defeating the offending foe.
Upon death, the runes held will be dropped, and the player level will decrease by 1. However, the level will not drop below level 1. The dropped runes can be recovered either by retrieving them at the location of death or by defeating enemies that have stolen the runes.

As night falls, the Night’s tide causes the accessible areas to shrink completely. Instead of dying from a near-death state, all allies will be brought to a near-death condition, resulting in a defeat and retreat from the mission.

 

 

This concludes our gameplay introduction.

Be sure to use various action and strategies to overcome the night threat that awaits you.

We hope you continue to enjoy ‘ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN’. Thank you for your support!