New Elden Ring Patch Makes Game Easier, Adds Bug Fixes

Patch 1.13 for Elden Ring is here, bringing tons of buffs for a large number of armanents, skills, spells, incantation, and Ashes. Many players hope that these changes will make challenging the game’s bosses a little less difficult.

Additionally, the patch adds dozens of bug fixes and tweaks, PvP balance adjustments, and performance fixes.

Check out a highlight of the patch notes for Elden Ring below, with the full notes here:

General Balance Adjustments

• Increased damage animation of the Light Greatsword charge attacks against enemies (other than players).
• Increased the stats & status of the following NPCs that can be summoned in some areas:
  • Needle Knight Leda / Pureblood Knight Ansbach / Thiollier
• Increased the attack power and damage negation of summoned spirits, excluding the Mimic Tear, when the Revered Spirit Ash Blessing is at [5] or more.
• Increased the attack power and damage negation of summoned spirits, excluding the Mimic Tear, when upgraded to “+8” or higher.

Bug Fixes

• Changed the default selection of the OK / CANCEL prompt that shows up when using the “Spectral Steed Whistle” while the spectral steed is dead. The default selection position is now OK.
• Adjusted the placement of NPC summon signs in certain boss fight areas.
• Changed the NPC summon signs in certain boss fights to allow the user to summon NPCs simply by pressing the action button once.
• Fixed a bug where the damage of some normal attacks of the Dark Moon Greatsword were lower than intended.
• Fixed the physical attack attribute menu display of the “Warpick” weapon.
• Fixed a bug where some attacks of the “Swift Spear” weapon were different than expected in terms of power, damage motion and hitbox generation timing.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the “Twinblade Talisman” from affecting the Perfume Bottles weapon type when equipped and used in the left hand.
• Fixed a bug where the physical attack attributes of some attacks of the Thrusting Shields weapon type were different than expected.
• Fixed a bug that allowed the use of Arrows / Great Arrows / Bolts / Great Bolts that should not be usable for the following weapon types:
  Light Bows / Long Bows / Greatbows / Crossbows / Ballistas
• Fixed a bug where the effect of increasing the power of the Incantation “Light of Miquella” of the “Circlet of Light” helmet was not applied correctly.
• Fixed a bug that caused FP consumption when using the “Unending Dance” Skill while not meeting the ability requirements of the weapon “Dancing Blade of Ranah”.
• Fixed a bug where the physical attack attribute of some attacks of the “Deadly Dance” Skill was different than expected.
• Fixed a bug where the physical attack attribute of the “Scattershot Throw” Skill of the “Claws of Night” weapon was different than expected.
• Fixed a bug where the following Skills did not change correctly when performed with or without FP.
• Dynastic Sickleplay / Raging Beast / Repeating Crossbow Fire
  • Fixed a bug where a different Rage Art was sometimes performed when following up with a strong attack after using the “Raging Beast” and “Dynasty Sickleplay” Skills.
• Fixed a bug that caused certain Skills to perform differently than expected under certain circumstances.
• Fixed a bug that prevented some Spells / Incantations that can be used in the air from being used in the air under some conditions.
• Fixed a bug that caused the “Golden Arcs” Incantation to generate attacks slower when cast with the left hand.
• Fixed a bug where the “Rain of Fire” Incantation sometimes did not hit enemies.
• Fixed a bug where the “Furious Blade of Ansbach” Incantation did not apply Hemorrhage status build up.
• Fixed a bug where under some circumstances, the move distance when casting some Spells / Incantations was different than expected.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes interrupted the cast of the “Roar of Rugalea” Incantation.
• Fixed a bug where the “Cherishing Fingers” magic attack sometimes did not hit.
• Fixed a bug in the behavior of the Mimic Tear spirit when casting Spells, Incantations and Skills.
• Fixed a bug where  NPCs could be summoned when the maximum number of cooperative multiplayer members had been reached.
• Fixed a bug that caused some items to display different icons than expected.
• Fixed a bug where exiting the game or going through a loading screen immediately after defeating “Count Ymir, Mother of Fingers” could make the dropped items unobtainable.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the player from performing Critical hits on some enemies.
• Fixed a bug in which some attacks on certain enemies were interpreted differently than expected.
• Fixed a bug that prevented rune gains when defeating some enemies.
• Fixed a bug that prevented some enemies from working properly under certain circumstances.
• Fixed a bug where the Multiplayer area borders were different than intended in some areas.
• Fixed a bug where the player would spawn in a different place than intended when invading another player’s world
• Fixed a bug in the map menu that caused some NPC icons in the Realm of Shadow to not display properly.
• Fixed a bug in the design of the map of Realm of Shadow and the “Map Fragment” icon.
• Fixed a bug where some cutscenes were not displayed correctly under certain circumstances.
• Fixed a bug where some sound effects did not play correctly.
• Fixed a bug where some effects were not displayed correctly.
• Several performance improvements and other bug fixes.

Possible Unstable Performance Fixes

• For the PS5 version of the game, unstable framerate may be improved by using the “Rebuild Database” option from the device’s safe mode.
• In some PC versions, Ray Tracing may be unintentionally enabled and cause unstable performance. Please check the Ray Tracing setting in the “System” > “Graphics ” > “Ray Tracing Quality” from the title screen or in-game menu.
• In the PC version, the message “Inappropriate activity detected” may appear without cheating.
• To fix this issue, please verify the integrity of the game’s files before restarting the game.
• In the PC version, unstable framerate may be caused by third party applications that control mouse behavior.  Deactivating these third party applications may improve performance. The version number of this update shown at the lower right corner of the Title Screen will be as follows: 

Elden Ring has sold over 25 million copies since it was released in February 2022. The Shadow of the Erdtree DLC expansion for Elden Ring was released on June 21, 2024, and is currently the highest-rated DLC of all time.

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