The Elden Ring Nightrign Duo Expeditions is here, and so is all these life changes

The latest patch for Elden Ring Nightreign has finally arrived. After a day’s delay due to tsunami warnings in Japan, FromSoftware officially deployed a patch 1.02 times on all platforms.

The patch release lasts approximately an hour of server maintenance, and the server goes offline.

As previously announced, update 1.02 adds official support for duo expeditions. Nightreign was designed to play with three players, but Stoft made some adjustments to accommodate solo players after launch.

The developers have heard fans request DUO, but have been working on adding it ever since. All players now have the option to start an expedition with two players, and the game balance will be automatically adjusted to accommodate the number of players in the party. Nightreign’s UI has also been changed, making it easy to communicate. The expedition type is no longer available and will be replaced by the number of players.

Another major promised addition will be featured in the Relic Effect filter screen. This includes a number of new filtering options that give you more control over the artifacts in stock. You can now filter artifacts that have multiple effects on a single condition.

The number of artifact presets you can create has also been expanded to 100. And to facilitate management of relics that you may acquire in the future, the game has made it a favorite by selling them from the rewards menu.

Among the changes in quality of life, I was caught up in the game at 1.02, as it appears first when opening all preset lists, so you can quickly see presets for the currently selected character.

The little jar bazaar and collector’s signs both have tabs! Even the random Limveld merchants have a detailed description section (items) in their shop menu. If you earn it in the Night Aspect Boss Battle, you may be happy to learn now that you can skip part of the cutscene now after you defeat the Night Road.

Finally, this update marks the arrival of a second Everdark Sovereign cycle, starting with the Everdark Sovereign version of Augur, which is currently live.

Patch 1.02 also includes a set of bug fixes included below:

• Ironeye’s character skills have increased the visibility of the marks left behind.

• Fixed a bug where Lira was held as a Levant while performing a standard attack while standing behind an enemy.

• Fixed a bug where no effect was displayed indicating which enemies were targeted by summoned spirits.

• Fixed a bug that would fill up the ultimate art gauge when the first spirit summoned by Renavent dies.

• Fixed a bug where “Rock Blaster” sorcery did not consume FPS.

• Fixed a bug where bow attacks were affected by the effect of “partial HP recovery on post-damage attacks.”

• Fixed a bug that could cause large instantaneous movements when entering simple movement commands while guarding.

• Fixed a bug where “Roiling Magma” magic would not appear when attacked by enemies.

• Fixed a bug where no Affinity Recruce would be generated when a player obtains it through an enemy affinity attack.

• Fixed a bug where allied characters who died and were resurrected after affinity residues remained even later, but Ritulus affinity residues were left.

• Fixed a bug where small night farrers like Revenant could make it difficult to hit enemies with fist and dagger weapon types.

• The increased power effect of Roar & Breath Attack applies to some attacks of the ultimate artistic transformation of the Enforcer.

• Fixed a bug that prevented the parasite state from being removed when Executor’s Ultimate Art was used.

• Fixed a bug that caused some attacks in Dark Moon Greatsword to have unintended effects.

• Fixed a bug where passive effects triggered by guard counters would activate when obtaining weapons with that effect under certain circumstances.

• Fixed a bug where the passive effect “increased DMG negation while casting a spell” was activated when acquiring a weapon with that effect under certain circumstances.

• Fixed a bug that prevented players near death from being saved after being defeated by a grab attack, and resurrected players are no longer targeted by enemy forces.

• Fixed a bug that could cause players to get stuck in terrain after being attacked by Adele, the baron of the Night Glove Attack.

• Fixed a bug where Karigo and Miasma at night could move outside the combat area.

• Fixed a bug where the location of ice blocks generated by Karigo would not cause Miasma to sync between players at night.

• Fixed a bug where some attacks on Draconic Tree Sentinels would reach farther than intended.

• Fixed a bug that allowed players to unintentionally move during the Grab Spectrum Hawk animation in Spectrum Hawk Tree.

• Fixed a bug that allowed you to purchase a small pouch from a merchant if you already have a fifth item slot from a relic.

• Fixed a bug where players were cursed with Limveld and would cause network errors when defeating equilibrium beasts after the battle with equilibrium beasts began.

• Fixed a bug that allowed players to obtain weapons without lowering their level when selecting “Want powerful weapons” with merchants with scale while a player’s character is level 3.

• Fixed a bug that allowed players to make another transaction with merchants with scale if the conversation was interrupted after selecting a trade.

• Fixed a bug where the Unknown King would not return to the combat area if he moved too far.

• Fixed a bug where enemies could appear before dusk under certain conditions on the second night under certain conditions.

• Fixed a bug where alliance players were given grace from near death.

• Fixed a bug that prevented respawning in the field after dying from night rain in certain areas of Limveld.

• Fixed a bug that allowed multiple players to replicate dropped items.

• Fixed a bug in the rotten forest. The location of the blessings of the rotten forests that changed the Earth that traveled around the Earth sometimes disappeared from the map after obtaining the location from the map of the small fort.

• Fixed a bug where the Earth status of the corresponding bed shift could not be reset after changing playable characters and triggering Earth shifting on the collector’s sign.

• “Fixed a bug in the Expeditions menu. By embarking on a single player expedition using “Last Expedition Settings”, you can now join targets that are not visible in the target menu.

• Fixed a bug where the effect of relics that adds attribute attack or status illnesses would add status illnesses to weapons when starting an expedition.

• Fixed a bug in the result menu incorrectly recording the position and orientation of related characters far from the player.

• Fixed a bug where the tool “Twiggy Cracked Tear” was not listed in Visual Codex.

• Fixed a bug that caused certain skills to be unstable on some platforms.

• Fixed a bug that caused the game to crash when moving to the Spirit Tree under certain conditions.

• Fixed a bug in which the game crashes when returning to the current world with some of the Revenant memories.

• Fixed other occurrences of game crashes.

• Fixed some graphics and effects.

• Fixed some sound effects that were not playing properly.

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• Other performance improvements and bug fixes.