I’ve always talked about the wildlife in before elden ringand explains how his bears, wolves and birds often pose a bigger problem for me as his otherworldly bosses. But a group of bloody hounds eclipses everything else in the game.
A vicious breed of undead dogs called the Rotten Stray can be found throughout the Lands Between, often in vicious packs. While they’re mostly easy to take down as long as you don’t get greedy, a bloodthirsty variant in the Crookedblood Ruins of Altus Plateau amplifies its biting attacks with a bleed effect that can surprise you if you’re not careful.
Bleeding, like most status effects, builds up slowly with repeated hits and consumes a large chunk of your health once it reaches its threshold. It’s a pain to fight, but nothing that should happen instantly or surprise you. As such, the Writheblood Ruins hounds’ overwhelming ability to inflict blood instantly is a frightening anomaly.
As shown in the video above, these strays appear to be bugged. Her basic attacks work as intended, but for some reason her combos hit far too often, as evidenced by the overlapping sound effects and quickness bleeding. Even someone with maxed out Vitality and Stamina—which regulate health points and bleed resistance, among other things—while wearing heavy armor can’t survive more than a few seconds before bleeding into the next life.
Accordingly User comments about Fextralifea wiki for info too elden ring and other souls Games, Writheblood Ruins was also at times home to an immortal slime, but I couldn’t find any footage of this enemy in action. It was apparently fixed with latest 1.03 patch.
While elden ring has his industrial fair split of mistakes, that’s just part of it. Development is tough even in the best of times, and given the troubles of the past few years, it’s a small wonder that FromSoftware was able to release something so ambitiously big that still runs pretty well for most people. (It’s certainly no Cyberpunk 2077). Just keep calm and maybe stay away from this part of the game for now.
