Elden Ring DLC falls to a “mixed” Steam rating as PC players complain about difficulty and performance

Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree DLC has fallen to a “mixed” person rating on Steam after players logged their disappointment with difficulty and the PC model’s performance points.

An mixture rating of just about 15,000 players has seen the critically acclaimed DLC locate PC, and while most players remark favourably on the sport’s beautiful presentation and world constructing, others take concern with the capped FPS, stuttering, and “bosses with jerky roll-catch movements and a plethora of physically nonsensical moves”.

“I love running for 20 minutes in an open area with absolutely nothing to pick up random consumables that I’ll never use against bosses that are insanely tedious to fight. Very miserable experience,” mentioned one sad Tarnished.

“Game is literally unplayable,” added another. “I’ve been trying since launch to open the game and I can’t no matter what I do. I see many others having the same issue and there are no solid fixes yet just random individual fixes for every different person.Yes I have tried EVERYTHING.”

“Kinda just feels like they just put all of the assets from the base game in a blender and hit pulse a few times,” opined one other disenchanted participant. “It is still fun overcoming the challenges, but I was hoping for more innovation out of this DLC and it’s certainly not worth $40.”

After backing up their abstract with claims they’d “played every other FromSoft souls (and Armored Core VI too) and did multiple playthroughs in every one of them (except Demon Souls) and also got the platinum on Sekiro, DS3, DS1, Bloodborne, Elden Ring and Lies of P too (the best souls not by From)”, one other participant on Steam mentioned, “In the present state of the DLC I can not actually advocate it.

“While the world design and colors are actually lovely and a lot of enemy designs too, there’s a huge downside with balancing. Right now, even with 60 vigor, you get bishotted by almost each enemy that is not pure fodder (just like the classical wandering nobles within the base recreation) and the Scadutree fragments that ought to make your injury and protection enhance (completely whereas within the DLC) do not assist that a lot and are largely locked behind bosses.

“You just have to ‘git gud’. That normally wouldn’t bother me much, but in this case, there’s a big problem. It’s the enemy (but more specifically, the bosses) design. It seems to follow the philosophy that – especially applied in the later parts of the game to an even greater (and worse) extent – every enemy does a lot of damage, has a ton of health, and has endless combos that leave nearly no openings, to then start all over again with their combos.”

If you are having bother even getting to the DLC, worry not: Elden Ring execs are serving to players beat two key bosses to allow fellow Tarnished entry Shadow of the Erdtree.

As Shadow of the Erdtree is not accessible till you have taken out each Starscourge Radahn and Mohg, Lord of Blood – one thing a surprisingly excessive variety of Elden Ring players have but to do – Elden Ring specialists are providing their time and experience to fell the good enemies to assist players leap into the brand new content material.

FromSoftware program’s Soulsborne video games are notoriously tough to beat, however creator Hidetaka Miyazaki lately mentioned it could “break the game itself” to flip down the problem.

“If we really wanted the whole world to play the game, we could just crank the difficulty down more and more. But that wasn’t the right approach,” he mentioned. “Had we taken that approach, I don’t think the game would have done what it did, because the sense of achievement that players gain from overcoming these hurdles is such a fundamental part of the experience. Turning down difficulty would strip the game of that joy – which, in my eyes, would break the game itself.”

“I am still impossibly fond of Elden Ring and my time spent in its grasp, but I’m just not sure if I can share the same fullness of warmth with Shadow of the Erdtree,” contributor Alexis wrote in Eurogamer’s Elden Ring DLC Shadow of the Erdtree overview.