Elden Ring: Nightreign goes to be a really completely different Soulsborne sport. Three-player co-op runs with no PvP, no summons, no invasions, and as Nightreign’s director Junya Ishizaki instructed IGN Japan in a current interview, no participant messages.
“You may nonetheless see the ghosts of different gamers,” Ishizaki stated, by way of Google Translate, “however the skill to depart messages has been eliminated. The rationale we eliminated the message characteristic is that on this sport, the place every session is about 40 minutes lengthy, there isn’t a time to write down your personal message, and no time to learn messages written by others.”
Soapstone messages have been a recurring factor within the Soulsborne video games, with gamers allowed a choose vocabulary to depart warnings and hints for one another. And, inevitably, to troll them, main our Morgan Park to declare that Elden Ring message griefers have been breaking his spirit. And truthful sufficient. Placing messages on the backside of ladders to make it tougher for individuals to climb them is bloody annoying.
Different gamers will nonetheless be capable to have an effect in your sport, although in a purely useful means. As Wes Fenlon reported in December, Nightreign gamers will go away behind a few of their loot after they die, which might then be picked up by different gamers who discover their ghostly stays.
Nightreign shall be out a while in 2025, and is having a community check on consoles in February. In case you’ve received different questions, this is the whole lot we learn about Nightreign.
