Elden Ring: A player is lost in the game files and discovers the remains of a removed feature

Gaming News Elden Ring: A player is lost in the game files and discovers the remains of a removed feature

Published on 03/28/2022 at 21:51

For a little over a month, gamers have been flipping the latest production from FromSoftware in every way. It’s simple: it will be difficult for the youngest of the Souls family to keep part of the secrets, to keep his secrets from the curiosity of the players. A discovery was recently made in the game files that revealed a feature missing in the final version!

Elden Ring crushed in every way!

Behind its cryptic universe developed by Hidetaka Miyazaki and his teams and by George RR Martin during a certain phase of the realization of the project, Elden ring

hid many secrets. We dare to say “hide” as more and more players go from discovery to discovery. Despite everything, Elden Ring still has many surprises in store! And we’re not talking about the back-to-back speedrun records, or the hilarious, amazing, or intriguing mods that have recently appeared in FromSoftware’s titles.

Elden Ring: A player is lost in the game files and discovers the remains of a removed feature

No, this time we are indeed talking about the discoveries made by some players while browsing the vast open world developed by FromSoftware, such as: secret walls Where from mysterious buildings that hint at potential future DLCsor directly in the game files. Just this weekend, a player came across a number of items scattered throughout the Elden Ring files that allegedly reference a feature that wasn’t in the final build.

The secrets of the underworld revealed

Casually, the players took literally the instructions suggested by this kind of master of the game, Hidetaka Miyazaki: if you want to learn more about it Elden ringyou have to invest yourself and find even the slightest hint of understanding his universe. But fans of the Japanese studio’s games may have applied it a little too rigorously, as demonstrated by Twitter user JesterPatches with his latest discovery.

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Browsing through the game files, I came across a couple of icons that led me to believe that a Bestiary was planned at some point.

There are 128 icons representing different NPCs. Each NPC shown has 2 icons, one greyed out and another filled in so it couldn’t be found and found. pic.twitter.com/9b0Tj6ckm3

— JesterPatches (@JesterPatches) March 27, 2022

Instead of going to the lands of the underworld in hopes of solving certain mysteriesElden ringthe latter dove into the abyss of game files to unearth a series of icons. Numbering 128, 64 greyed out for as many filled symbols, suggests that FromSoftware would have developed a bestiary for Elden Ring: the two types represent NPCs (non-player characters) — whether animals, humans or other creatures — encountered or not during the adventure.

In addition to the surprise of discovering the remains of this bestiary, there is another, reflected in the words of JesterPatches, reported in his little Twitter thread. Although he could identify some of the characters like Caelid’s dog or the crow, he actually didn’t recognize them all. An amazing detail for sure, but it could indicate additional content with a still unknown fauna. Eventually, Elden ring remains very mysterious despite everything!