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 advised IGN Japan in a latest interview, no participant messages.
“You can nonetheless see the ghosts of different gamers,” Ishizaki mentioned, through Google Translate, “however the skill to depart messages has been eliminated. The motive 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 individual message, and no time to learn messages written by others.”
Soapstone messages have been a recurring ingredient 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 had been breaking his spirit. And honest sufficient. Putting messages on the backside of ladders to make it tougher for individuals to climb them is bloody annoying.
Other gamers will nonetheless have the ability to have an effect in your sport, although in a purely useful approach. 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 will likely be out a while in 2025, and is having a community check on consoles in February. If you’ve got received different questions, here is every part we find out about Nightreign.
