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Ahead of the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Elden Ring Nightreign network test, Ban🉐dai Namco flew us out to Germany to get hands-on with the ꦐgame and see what sets it apart from other soulslikes.
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The reveal trailer during The G𒉰ame🌄 Awards gave us a brief glimpse at its battle royale circle, roguelite open world, and even returning boss fights from across the Darkဣ Souls trilogy. It’s a mishmash of a variety of genres, so there’s a lot to familiarise yourself with, even as a returning player. But after five hours of digging into it for ourselves, we learned a lot more about how all these disparate pieces snap together. To get you ready for the weekend, here's everything we found out.
There Are Eight Night Lords
The Roundtable Hꦬold returns in Nightreign, on🌠ly now it opens up to an outside training area on a cliff. From the Roundtable itself, you can enter a menu and select a ‘Night Lord’ to fight, thus beginning a match.
T🔯he password system returns here for matchmaking with friends.
Night Lords are t꧟he bosses you’ll face at the end of the third day of each run. The final bosses of the first two days, however, are always rand🅠omised. In total, there are eight Night Lords, matching the eight Nightfarers.
Each Nightfarer Has A Unique Ultimate Ability
A huge shakeup in Nightreign is that it gets rid of classes, replacing them with Nightfarers who have unique ultimate abilities and starting geaꦬr that remain the same for each match.
Multiple players can use the same Nightfarer.
You can find and talk to each Nightfarer in the Roundtable Hold, swap between them at a statue, and select who to play 🔯as after matchmaking.
You Can Revive Teammates
In Elden Ring, when you die, you respawn at a Site of Grace or, as a phantom, get kicked out of the host’s world. It works a little differe🌠ntly in Nightreign.
Upon ‘dying’, you go down and a circle made up of three bars appears abo🌠ve your head. Your teammates can revive you by attacking you, as these are essentially health bars like you see for any other enemy. Every death fills another bar on t♎he circle, making it gradually harder to get you back up.
Using a bow and arrow is a great way to revive tea𝄹mmates at long range without sa🍸crificing FP.
Death also works differently in the open world th꧋an it does during the final boss of each day. In the open world, there’s a timer, and if it runs out, you respawn one level weaker. When fighting the day’s final boss, however, there is no timer. Instead, you remain on the floor until the boss is defeated or everyone dies, in which case it’s game over.
Levelling Is A Lot Simpler
Unlike previous soulslike games, you don’t🔯 level individual stats in Nightreign. Instead, you spend Runes at a Site of Grace to increase your level as a whole, making a notable difference to your health, stamina, and magic which are all crushingly low to begin with.
Weapons have level requireme😼nts rather than stat onꦑes.
Your level also reseℱts when you go back to the Roundtable Hold, as progress doesn’t carry over from match to match.
Runes Are Shared
While 💧it's advisable that you stick together with your team, it's worth noting that Runes are shared. Every kill drops the same amount 🔥for everyone, regardless of whether you helped fight the enemy or boss.
So, you could feasibly split up and take🦋 💫on more minibosses across the map, getting even more Runes.
Relics Are How You Get Stronger
While levelling resets with each match, there is a way to improve characters permanently at the Roundtable Hold. At the end of every game — even if you lose — you unlock Relics. These can be equipped at a be𓃲nch by the Roundtable, and they offer unique boons like increased bleed damage or a permanent increases to stats like s♕trength.
Relics come in three tiers. The first only gives you one boon, the second two, and the third thre𝕴e. They are colour-coded, and each Nightfarer has a specific number of coloured slots. So, you can’t equip every Relic on every character.
Loot Isn't Shared
In soulslike games, you interact with a small glowing light to loot an item,💯 placing it directly into your inventory.
In Elden Ring Nightreign, doing so causes loot to spill out onto the floor for everyone to see. You then have to divvy up the spoils with your teamma🧔tes.
However, there are unique floating orbs that spawn after defeating a miniboss, and the loot from these isn🙈't ༒shared.
Instead, you’ll be prompted with a menu that gives you a choice of three rewards. These vary from gear to "Dormant power", which can vary from tweaks to how your flask 💜works to regaining HP when scarlet rot is🍒 triggered. You can only take one of these rewards, but these are plentiful so long as you explore.
Flasks Are Increased At Churches
At the start of every match, you have three healing flaskꦐs. These can be restored at a Site of Grace, or through exploration and killing enemies, much as in Elden Ring.
An unlockableꦆ boon makes it so 🐷that your flask heals nearby teammates, too.
To increase your number of flasks, you have to find churches. An upgrade is guaranteed to be found on the altar, and you don’t need to visit a Site of Grace to use it. Simply grabbing the upgrade will automatically add flasks t🍸o your counter.
However, there are no magic flasks this time. To restore FP, you 🐈need to find blue trees in the wild or glintstone items. Levelling up also restores FP, and there are ultimate abilities that allow you to regainꦯ magic by attacking enemies.
There Are Merchants And Smithing Stations
Throughout Nightreig꧒n, you can find phantom merchants. They sell pre-concocted Flasks of Wondrous Phystick, consumables, and even smithing stones.
That’s because, by every merchant, you’ll find a smithing station. Here, you can upgrade your gear without needing a blacksmith to help. It doesn’t work exactly like 💧Elden Ring, however. Instead of the usual +1 through to +10 system, weapons are divided into rarities.
There’s No Fall Damage
One of the strangest things to get used to in Nightreign is the lack of fall damage. You can leap off any ledge and survive, which goes hand-in-hand with the faster-paced gameplay. Don’t be afraid to jump off a clif🐟f if it means escaping the Ring of Fire quicker.
You can also find Spirit Springs that launch you back intꦑo the aiꦅr, and cliffs marked in white that can be climbed up.
