Elden Ring 1.07 patch hints at ray tracing, a brand new legacy dungeon, and one thing model new

Elden Ring DLC dialogue has been talked about ever because the game launched again in February. Apart from Demon’s Souls and Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, each game in FromSoftware’s masocore sequence has had DLC of some kind. Whether or not it’s the coliseum PvP areas or the leaked Barbarians of the Badlands emblem, we’re certain to get some form of extra content material in Elden Ring.

The newest patch just about confirms it. Patch 1.07 pays consideration to PvP and magic, however there are extra strings of code not included within the patch notes which have followers speaking. Lance McDonald, recognized for boundary-breaking movies of Soulsborne video games, identified that raytracing is listed by identify. Elden Ring doesn’t at present help RTX, however patch 1.07 appears to be laying the groundwork for the function in a future update. It’s additionally price noting that the code says “enabling ray tracing will lock efficiency settings,” which appears like a good tradeoff. Such a function usually comes at the price of the next framerate.

Fellow Souls sequence dataminer Zullie The Witch shared some extra perception. Among the many code strings are two new map IDs: m20 and m45. As they clarify, Elden Ring’s maps are organized numerically, with m10 via m20 overlaying the game’s legacy dungeons and different zones within the model of earlier FromSoftware video games. For comparability, the m30 vary consists of facet dungeons and m60 denotes overworld places. Because of this there may be some new locale within the works, and there’s an opportunity it’s one other core dungeon within the model of Stormveil Fortress, Crumbling Farum Azula, and others.

Merchandise m45 is the actual head-scratcher right here. The letter denotes that it’s a map, however there aren’t any others within the m40 vary at once. Maybe this could possibly be the primary of these aforementioned PvP areas — the at present locked coliseums present in Limgrave, north Caelid, and Leyndell?

Fingers crossed for extra info at this 12 months’s Game Awards. That show has been residence to a number of trailers and different key details about the game, so there’s a precedent. The 2022 Game Awards will air on Thursday, December 8.