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Elden Ring reportedly runs poorly on Switch 2, but is anyone surprised?
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Elden Ring reportedly runs poorly on Switch 2, but is anyone surprised?

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When Elden Ring popped up at Nintendo’s Switch 2 reveal, it was a promising sign of third-party games finding their way to the new console.

Yet reports from gamescom suggest Elden Ring runs poorly on Switch 2, particularly in handheld mode, citing low framerates in open world environments. Even publisher Bandai Namco seems to be aware of this, as footage capture has not been allowed, which seems particularly damning.

FromSoftware doesn’t have a great track record with performance, though, and after three years Elden Ring still doesn’t run perfectly on PS5, Xbox Series X, or PC. But this is the studio’s first effort on Switch 2, and it’s perhaps a worrying sign for next year’s exclusive The Duskbloods.

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IGN described Elden Ring on Switch 2 as a “disaster” in handheld mode, after Eurogamer’s Ian Higton went hands-on at gamescom.

Ian was only able to play in handheld mode, but played the very start of the game. And while he was impressed with the lighting and resolution, the framerate dropped dramatically during both the Grafted Scion tutorial boss and when entering the open world. “As soon as I opened up those double doors and entered into Limgrave and you see the Erdtree in the background, it started to chug,” said Ian.

Further, the demo only has a single graphics mode with HDR switched on, but this could potentially change in the final release.

Both Jon Cartwright from GVG and Nintendo Life’s Felix Sanchez reported similar feedback. Cartwright noted how fog in the distance caused the framerate to plummet and while the game runs at 30fps, it goes “well below when anything a little bit challenging comes up”, including bosses. He was able to test docked mode, which was “better but not perfect”.

Sanchez, meanwhile, was impressed by the graphics despite being not quite on par with current consoles, but in the open world “the framerate just tanks – it’s really bad and I understand why they don’t want you to see this because wowee zowee it is terrible”.

It’s certainly disappointing to hear, especially when Elden Ring does run perfectly fine on PS4 and Xbox One, not to mention the Steam Deck already provides a handheld mode with steady performance. Over on reddit, fans appear to be upset by the news, but not particularly surprised following FromSoftware’s poor optimisation of games in the past.

Of course, the Switch 2 is weaker compared to PS5 or Xbox Series X, but it does have VRR capabilities – it’s not clear if this has been implemented by the developers.

Perhaps this poor performance shouldn’t come as a surprise. Two years after the base game launched, FromSoftware released the Shadow of the Erdtree expansion. Yet, as Digital Foundry reported last year, this still did not fix many underlying technical issues with the game, particularly its long-standing stuttering. Seeing issues with the Switch 2 version suggests FromSoftware just doesn’t intend to fix them, with performance seemingly not a priority.

Digital Foundry also examined the Elden Ring Switch 2 trailer from its initial reveal, noting its seemingly poor performance, despite its impressive pixel count. It seems frame pacing issues from the trailer capture are present in the game itself. Still, when Cyberpunk 2077 – an infamously more technically demanding game – runs well on Switch 2, it’s disappointing to see FromSoftware struggling.

Elden Ring remains without a Switch 2 release date beyond this year, so there’s still time for fixes to be implemented. It’s the first FromSoftware-developed game to make it to Nintendo’s Switch family (there’s been no mention of an external team handling the port), as the previously released Dark Souls Remastered was handled by Virtuos. But it won’t be the last. As revealed earlier this year, FromSoftware has the Switch 2 exclusive multiplayer game The Duskbloods on the way.

Will it suffer a similar fate? It’s unclear what engine that game is being created in, but considering it’s a Switch 2 exclusive from the ground up, you’d hope FromSoftware would optimise the game accordingly rather than shoehorning Elden Ring to make it fit. Yet the precedent of poor performance – and FromSoftware’s seeming apathy towards it – has already been set.



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Elden Ring Switch 2 Impressions Sound Not Great

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Elden Ring is one of the most exciting third-party games coming to Nintendo Switch 2. Who among us doesn’t want to get our shit rocked on the go? Well, according to folks who have played FromSoftware’s action RPG at Gamescom in Cologne, the system is apparently struggling to run the game in handheld mode, and to make matters more worrisome, Bandai Namco is reportedly not letting people record footage of it.

Nintendo Life posted a video on its YouTube channel discussing the port and said that while they only played the Switch 2 port for about 15 minutes, the game looks pretty good visually, but leaves a lot to be desired in terms of performance. The tutorial ran pretty well at a locked 30fps. Once they reached the open world, everything changed.

“It’s really bad, and I understand why they don’t want you to see this, because wowie zowie, it is terrible,” Nintendo Life video producer Felix Sanchez said. “Of course, you’re never going to see the light of this—maybe it will just release in that state, but I can’t imagine they will do that—It was like playing Ocarina of Time. It was like 20 frames per second, sometimes I was like, ‘This has dropped [to] 15 frames per second.’”

Sanchez says that in the Switch 2’s handheld mode, the game was “incredibly unstable” in the open-world segments, even in surprisingly static areas where few enemies were on screen at once. You can hear his full impressions below:

So if you’re wondering why Elden Ring footage is conspicuously absent from the internet’s Gamescom coverage, now you know that Bandai Namco has prohibited it. The game is supposed to launch on the Switch 2 this year, but it doesn’t have a release date at the moment. It’s entirely possible the game could be delayed into 2026 to fix things up, or that things could turn around by the time it finally comes out. Whatever the case, it sounds like Elden Ring on Switch 2 has not made the best first impression.



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15 attempts in, I actually love that Elden Ring Nightreign’s Everdark Libra is the first FromSoftware boss who’s harder to beat in co-op than solo

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The handshake deal in FromSoftware games, the obfuscated difficulty option that’s always been there since Demon’s Souls, is co-op: Summoning phantoms controlled by other players or the computer⁠. In OG Elden Ring everybody’s best friend was the Mimic Tear, a powerful summon to make a copy of yourself to fight by your side.

This has held true in the co-op centric, roguelike spinoff Nightreign, with the sturdy tripod of a full party clearly being what the experience was catered towards. The new duos mode is nice enough but still slightly compromised, while even with post-launch patches, solo is still the worst way to play.

But now they’ve gone and turned all that on its head: The latest Everdark superboss, the ultra instinct version of Baphomet dealbroker Libra, only gets more challenging the bigger your posse is. I managed to take him down solo after just three runs, while I’m somewhere north of 15 attempts deep in duos and trios, a W still evading me at every turn.


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Everybody hates Everdark Libra. My peer, Austin Wood at GamesRadar, thinks he’s “100% getting nerfed.” Just like with the similarly loathed Everdark Augur, I disagree. I love this sick freak of a boss and how he turns all the rules on their heads.

To make Everdark Libra easier would compromise the beautiful vision at his core, the product of a sensitive, poet’s soul that’s clearly been hurt by this cruel world of ours and wants to inflict that pain right back. We’re all letting Libra down. Champions adjust. Spoilers for Everdark Libra below.

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Libra’s already a real piece of work in his base form, tied with end boss Heolstor as the hardest in the game by my reckoning. He has an arsenal of unusual, difficult-to-read projectile attacks that all build up the madness status effect, which does huge damage and a stun if you manage to survive the initial burst.

His signature move is a delayed blast sigil that brutalizes you with madness build-up after a quick beat. It comes out fast enough that you can’t exactly respond to it carefully and can get royally screwed if you’re in the middle of an animation, while a slight delay punishes immediate panic rolling. It is deliciously evil.

Libra’s Everdark form ups the ante by summoning invader clones of the player party with all the same abilities and a number of potential weapon loadouts thoughtfully constructed to inflict the most pain and frustration. Some of my favorites:

  • Mini Malenia Executor: Equipped with the Hand of Malenia Sword and can perform a weaker, but still potentially instant-death version of Waterfowl Dance. Yes, that Waterfowl Dance.
  • Terminator Ironeye: Possesses the Jar Cannon and One-Eyed Shield (which has a built-in cannon), as well as a seemingly-permanent buff resembling the Ironjar Aromatic: He walks extremely slowly but is extra tanky and can’t be interrupted.
  • Sniper Wylder: Uses a greatbow to spam the Rain of Arrows ash of war, doing crazy damage in a huge AoE from long distance.
  • Rot Duchess: Dual wields Scorpion’s Stinger daggers for fast Scarlet Rot buildup.

Much like the player-style NPC enemies of FromSoft’s previous games, they don’t play by the same rules that you do: Malenia-Executor is particularly difficult to interrupt out of his signature move, while all of the clones are capable of dodge rolling out of attack combos a normal player could not.

The pièce de résistance is how they shuffle in: It does not feel like Libra has a consistent timer for summoning a fresh wave of evil twins. Wiping them out is not a guarantee of breathing room to DPS the boss, while it’s far more likely for them to start piling up as you fail to clear out old ones before the new clones spawn in.

The final indignity is that Libra summoning a new wave heals any surviving invaders, buffs their defense and damage, and the buffs stack. A veteran six rounds deep Executor spamming Waterfowl Dance is who I wish I was playing as.

All of this while Libra has new, more aggressive madness-inflicting AOE attacks to fling at you. A mature Everdark Libra fight is pure chaos, a field of evil clones glowing gold with layered buffs, some attacking each other, but most chasing you around like it’s Yakety Sax while Libra turns the field into a bullet hell screen. It’s utterly deranged. I don’t know how a group of randos with no coordination is supposed to beat it. It’s hilarious.

The time is ripe

The Gamer’s Gambit. (Image credit: FromSoftware)

Whether fully intentional or not, FromSoft’s classical deferred difficulty system works in reverse with Everdark Libra. It’s like a martial arts movie thing or Bruce Wayne climbing out of Bane’s house without the dang rope or something: If the enemy draws its strength from you, make yourself weaker.

Not only is one evil twin far more manageable than triplets, the singleplayer mode’s adjusted health values mean they go down quicker too. Even in the solo runs I failed, I didn’t experience the chaotic pileups of a three-player slugfest.

This inversion is another example of how flexible and surprising FromSoft’s well-worn systems can still be. Yet another boss in Nightreign is challenging in a way that took me off-guard, that wasn’t just another really tall, sad guy with a sword who moves super fast.

That has me even more excited for what the studio does next: After Promised Consort Radahn in Shadow of the Erdtree, I was worried there might be a ceiling to FromSoft’s arms race with itself to make ever greater twitch reflex challenges in its bosses. In Nightreign, the studio sidestepped this issue, proving there’s nothing stopping it from delivering spectacles, challenges, or sheer curveballs we just won’t see coming.

As for the fight itself, it’s a new favorite. Everdark Libra feels like a joke at my expense, a prank played on us players. That’s one of my favorite things to see in a game, and FromSoft is the master when it comes to this rare art.

Could they ease off the gas with the clone spawns just a touch? Maybe, it depends on how soon you ask me after a failed run. Is it kinda bullshit that Vyke’s War Spear, the only melee weapon Libra is weak to, is such a rare drop that I’ve only seen it twice in 111.8 hours (but who’s counting)? Perhaps.

I hope they never nerf Everdark Libra. He’s so stupid. It’s all so meanspirited. I love him like a son.



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Animal rights group PETA calls for Nintendo to remove Cow's "cruel" nose ring
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Animal rights group PETA calls for Nintendo to remove Cow’s “cruel” nose ring

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Animal rights campaign group PETA is calling on Nintendo to remove Mario Kart World’s Cow’s nose ring.

In a statement, PETA said no real-world cow would sport Cow’s “goofy grin” if they were forced to wear a ring, “a tool of cruelty that causes lasting pain and discomfort”, and wrote to Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa earlier this week to explain that “nose rings are forcibly pierced through one of the most sensitive parts of a cow’s body”, often used to drag or control cows ans bulls “to their deaths”.

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“We know Mario Kart World is just a game – and that’s exactly why Cow’s nose ring needs to go,” the organisation said. “Mario Kart is supposed to be a fun escape, not a reminder of the painful tools used on cows in the meat and dairy industries. No one wants to think about animal suffering while zipping around a race track.”

The dairy industry also reportedly clips “spiked nose rings on baby cows so that the comforting act of nursing from their mother causes her pain and the baby is rejected and kicked away. To control bulls, a chain might be fastened from the nose ring to the bull’s horn for even more pain-driven control”.

“It’s not a style choice,” the organisation added, “It’s a cruel tool used to control and hurt cows in the meat and dairy industries, which causes lasting pain and discomfort.”

PETA has previously taken action against other games, including Animal Crossing: New Horizons, which it said encouraged “abusive behaviour toward fish and insects […] tearing wildlife out of their homes and display them in cramped cases in a museum”. It’s also launched campaigns against Palworld and Hunting Simulator 2.

Nintendo sold 5.82m Switch 2 consoles worldwide in its first month of release and 5.63m copies of Mario Kart World, meaning the launch title had an attachment rate of around 97 percent.



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Elden Ring Nightreign does actually have a Relic limit, and it won't let you play until you clear your inventory
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Elden Ring Nightreign does actually have a Relic limit, and it won’t let you play until you clear your inventory

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One of the most interesting features of Elden Ring Nightreign is the ability to modify your character over the course of several runs. That’s something FromSoftware borrowed from other roguelites, and it’s represented in game through Relics.

Relics are bundles of buffs that you attach to your characters to boost their latent abilities, proficiency with certain weapons/spells and more. They offer all kinds of useful bonuses that, when picked correctly, can really complement your chosen class.

That does create a bit of a problem, however.

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Because of the random nature of Relics, Nightreign players are incentivised to keep a storage of them until they need them. For instance, if you never use bows and arrows, and you find a Relic with a really strong bonus to archery, you’re more likely to save it until the moment you try Ironeye, or when you feel like doing a bow-only run.

That, of course, causes players’ storage chests to be cluttered with plenty of Relics waiting to be equipped. Some of them may even be so old that the player has likely received much better versions hours ago without realising.

Nightreign does offer an option to sell off your old Relics for in-game currency, but you get so little of it that most players don’t bother. Until now, when Reddit user Scufozzover1 discovered that the game does, indeed, have a limit to the number of Relics you can hoard.

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In fact, as you can see in their Reddit post, having a full inventory of Relics means you won’t be able to go on Expeditions. Scufozzover1 posted the error message the game throws out, which is not something many players have seen.

Of course, the game recommends using the Relic Rite feature to get rid of the ones you don’t need, which is really something you should be doing regularly as you continue playing and acquiring more powerful Relics.

The reason this took a while to be uncovered is that Nightreign doesn’t actually show an inventory limit for Relics, so players had no idea how many they can actually store. Scufozzover1 says it’s close to 1,000, which is a massive number.

If you’re not Relic hoarding, you probably know better, which means you’re going to appreciate our Elden Ring Nightreign guide. We recently updated it with Remembrance (character quests) walkthroughs for the Executor Remembrance quest, and Duchess Remembrance quest.

And, in case you missed it, FromSoftware recently introduced the first of several harder versions of the game’s Nightlords. The so called Everdark Sovereign bosses don’t just have more health and deal higher damage, they also use new moves against you.



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Elden Ring Nightreign modders are already going ham with custom skins, including Optimus Prime, Stellar Blade’s Eve, and my #1 most-wanted outfit from Dark Souls

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User Orange on YouTube caught my eye with a 12-minute showcase of some of the most impressive modded skins players have cranked out for Elden Ring Nightreign, which include characters from other franchises, as well as yet more Dark Souls throwbacks.

Unfortunately, at the time of writing, they’re effectively inaccessible. All the skin replacement mods I’ve seen are dependent on a tool called the UXM Selective Unpacker, and UXM’s page has been set to hidden with the following message: “The mod has (possible) permission issues that the author is working to address.”

But we can still admire the work modder KRDCD has put out, even if we can’t use them. The real attention grabber is Nightreign Custom Model Replacers. This is the meme one: Eve from Stellar Blade, Optimus Prime, Yorha Unit 2B, all the stars are here. The only notable omission is CJ from San Andreas, but surely he is an inevitability.


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Dark Souls Armor Sets is more my speed, importing even more Dark Souls models into Nightreign, similar to the skins we already got in the game. It even includes my personal most-wanted candidate for a future DLC skin: Sir Alonne from Dark Souls 2 as Executor.

This masked samurai is basically proto-Executor anyway, and I was honestly shocked he didn’t make it into the base game already. I particularly appreciate how KRDCD’s skin version uses Alonne’s comically long-hilted nagamaki (bring this design back, FromSoft!), the Bewitched Alonne Sword, in place of Executor’s usual cursed blade.

Once UXM is back up and these mods can be installed again, you’ll want to use them with Yui’s Seamless Co-op in order to avoid the Easy Anticheat Eye of Sauron⁠—Yui’s mod has users connect to unofficial servers, opening up the door for consequence-free modding.

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Elden Ring Nightreign update brings new challenges and a welcome live service twist
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Elden Ring Nightreign update brings new challenges and a welcome live service twist

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A new update for Elden Ring Nightreign has been shadow dropped, bringing stronger Nightlords to defeat on a weekly basis.

These limited-time versions of bosses are known as the Everdark Sovereigns and will have new moves and increased power. The first to appear will be an enhanced Adel, Baron of the Night (Gaping Jaw) for this week, to be followed by the Sentient Pest and Darkdrift Knight.

The remaining Nightlords will be added at a later date. At the end of each week the “Sovereign will disappear from the available Expeditions… for now”.

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Note that these Everdark Sovereigns will only be available once the original form of that Nightlord has been defeated.

What’s more, defeating the Everdark Sovereigns rewards players with Sovereign Sigils. These are unique tokens that can be exchanged for special Relics and items. Additional Sigils will be rewarded the first time an Everdark Sovereign is defeated.

“This is only the beginning of the Everdark Sovereign cycle,” read the update notes. “As the power of the Night ebbs and wanes, the Sovereigns will soon return to the abyss they came from.”

At the start of the month, FromSoftware stated that “enhanced fights against existing Nightlords” would be on the way, while a duo mode is coming “at a later date”. Even before this, though, dataminers discovered game files for new phases of each Nightlord encounter, so this update was very much expected.

What wasn’t expected, perhaps, was the weekly cycle of these encounters. It’s a smart live service-esque twist to keep players coming back regularly and exactly what the game needs to extend its longevity.

Once all the Nightlords are defeated, the only reason to return is to complete Remembrances with each character. This may not be attractive enough for some, so seeing the beginning of regular updates is a welcome addition.

DLC is also on the way, although it’s unknown what this will include. Would a Bloodborne pack of returning bosses be too much to ask?

The Everdark Sovereign version of Adel, Baron of the Night is available from today, 19th June until 26th June at 1:59am UK time.

Elden Ring Nightreign is FromSoftware’s online multiplayer spin-off to Elden Ring. It’s “an exhilarating rush and a celebration of the studio’s prior achievements Souls veterans will devour,” I wrote in Eurogamer’s Elden Ring Nightreign review.



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Elden Ring Nightreign's Monster Hunter Summer Just Got Started
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Elden Ring Nightreign’s Monster Hunter Summer Just Got Started

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Many Elden Ring Nightreign players, myself included, thought they were finally ready to call it quits on FromSoftware’s multiplayer roguelike boss-raid generator. We defeated the Night Aspect. Maybe we even finished every achievement. It was time to walk away. Then, out of nowhere, the studio dropped its toughest boss yet: the Everdark Sovereign variant of Gaping Jaw. “He just don’t stop chompin,” wrote one fan on Reddit.

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Gaping Jaw was one of the Nightlords that caused players trouble around launch last month, in part because his weakness was poison and poison weapons can be hard to come by. He actually ended up being one of the easier boss fights for my squad, thanks in part to multiple ranged weapons forcing him to spit out teammates anytime he gobbled them up and started crunching. The new Everdark Sovereign version, however, takes the encounter to 11 the entire time.

He almost never stops moving, constantly shooting out lightning blasts and ground AOE bursts. At one point he summons a giant whirlwind storm, and players have to use jumping pads to hop over top if they don’t want to immediately get downed. One particularly nasty lightning attack happens in a spherical AOE with barely any lead-up or attack animation to signal that you’ve got less than three seconds to get the hell out of dodge. “I’ve gotten comfortable dodging his attacks at least,” shared one player on the subreddit. “But once people start going down it’s chaos.”

The Everdark Sovereign version of Gaping Jaw, who’s also known as Adel, Baron of the Night, appeared late on Wednesday out of nowhere, with no mention of him in the extremely barebones patch notes this week. The shadow drop caught players completely by surprise and many rushed to go try to defeat the new foe. The reward for doing so is new items in the shop, including more powerful relics, as well as the ability to control which Shifting Earth events are active at anytime. The update’s already been praised as the ideal tune-up to cap off the game’s first few weeks out in the wild.

But taking advantage of these new benefits requires actually defeating this new Gaping Jaw, which has proven to be Nightreign’s toughest challenge yet. In fact, players have been having such poor luck fighting him in teams that they’re opting to take him on alone. “ Team kept getting decimated and I just felt like I could clutch it alone,” wrote one player. “Solo is definitely easier by a mile so my next challenge is getting a team of three to win this often.” Some are tanking as Raider, while others are building up his status ailment meters with Executor. Learning the sound queues for his additional attacks and being prepared to dodge the tornado also go a long way.

Unlike Nightreign’s other boss fights, however, Everdark Sovereigns are on timers, with new ones rotating in each week. More powerful variants of Sentient Pest and Darkdrift Knight are next up, with Tricephalos, Augur, Equilibrious Beast, and Fissure in the Fog coming later in the summer. It all feels very Monster Hunter, just without the tedious but rewarding loot grind. It turns out that Nightreign is FromSoftware’s take on a live-service game after all, and a damn great one so far.

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Elden Ring Nightreign player completes their ‘solo gremlin challenge’, clearing every boss in a row as its squishiest character

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Someone had to do it: An exceptionally skilled Elden Ring Nightreign player has soloed all eight Nightlords (and the new enhanced boss) as its squishiest character. And if my eyes don’t deceive me, I think they did all of them in a row.

Reddit user PotatoFoSho calls it the “solo gremlin challenge” in reference to the flood of memes that depict the Revenant as a tiny angry doll usually wielding a sword twice her size. She’s one of Nightreign’s weakest characters in terms of survivability and is extremely dependent on finding powerful spells each run. When geared right, however, she can use her massive skeleton summons to distract bosses as she rips them apart.

PotatoFoSho dropped their relic setup for her, which notably includes a ton of stats to increase her mana and spell damage (not health!). They say fellow Revenant players should focus on cleaning out cathedrals for the seals that come with powerful incantation spells and to prioritize evergaol bosses for massive amounts of runes to level up quickly. The Wraith Calling Bell—which players have discovered is surprisingly powerful—is always good to have on you too, they said.


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And like any good Revenant player, they recommend stacking up as many Starlight Shards as you can to keep your mana bar topped off since she has no way of restoring FP otherwise. They urge everyone to visit as many Sorcerer’s Rises on the map as they can for them.

I have completed the solo gremlin challenge from r/Nightreign

As someone who just finished their first attempt on the new “Sovereign Everdark” version of the Gaping Maw boss, I’m impressed PotatoFoSho was able to take it out as a spell caster who has to also manage her skeleton minions. The finger gymnastics involved with that while also trying to avoid a rabid dragon and his massive hurricane must be practically Olympian.

I will stick to playing Revenant safely in groups of three so that when I inevitably get annihilated by a boss breathing on me, I will at least have some backup. Hats off to PotatoFoSho though, they’ve definitely earned the title of the Solo Gremlin.



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Elden Ring Nightreign update adds tougher boss, the Everdark Sovereign
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Elden Ring Nightreign update adds tougher boss, the Everdark Sovereign

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A new update for Elden Ring Nightreign rolled out on Thursday, adding an extra layer of challenge. The first of the game’s Everdark Sovereigns, stronger and more challenging versions of existing Nightlord bosses, is here, letting players test themselves against a familiar foe — but only for a limited time.

Players can now face the Everdark Sovereign version of Adel, Baron of the Night (aka “Gaping Jaw”) in Elden Ring Nightreign. Defeating that extra spicy Nightlord will reward players with a new item: Sovereign Sigils. These new tokens can be cashed in for special Relics “and other items,” publisher Bandai Namco says. Players’ first win against an Everdark Sovereign Nightlord will earn them multiple Sovereign Sigils, though it sounds like repeat battles will deal out fewer.

If you want to face Everdark Sovereign Gaping Jaw, you’ll need to have already defeated the base version of Gaping Jaw. So hurry up if you haven’t; the first Everdark Sovereign encounter will only be available through June 25, at 5:59 p.m PDT/8:59 p.m. EDT.

Here’s one big catch, though: Everdark Sovereigns are available for Nightreign’s online mode only.

Coming to the Everdark Sovereign rotation in the next few weeks are harder versions of Sentient Pest and Darkdrift Knight. Amped-up versions of the other existing bosses will be added at a later date, Bandai Namco says.

Elden Ring Nightreign is available now on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X. If you need some help getting started, check out Polygon’s guides for Elden Ring Nightreign.



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