After waiting so long, we finally got the major new Update of "Elden Ring: Nightreign" which was released on July 31, 2025 and we have got loads of information about it and this info is way more interesting.
Duo Expeditions Are Finally Here:-
Now players can decide and select their own number of players they want to play with, at first there was only two options before - "Solo" and "Multiplayer" but this has been replaced with smooth and straightforward option "Number of Players". This helps to improve the players satisfaction while doing the mission with their partners by giving them unique advantages and this was the feature long requested by the Nightreign community.
New Boss: Everdark Sovereign Augur:-
Guys, we might better buckle up because the New Boss is here name - "Everdark Sovereign Augur", this is also known as Maris, Fathom of Night. There are a total of three Phases.
Phase-1 (Standard Maris):
In this phase, players will need to do a regular fight as the boss behaves like a Standard Nightreign encounter: a floating jellyfish thing, it's attacks are not that powerful because it uses bubble barrages, sleep auras, and sweeping waves and players can easily defeat it and can jump in next phase.
Phase-2 (Special Weapon And True Everdark Form):
After killing the "Standard Nightreign", players gets a unique weapon that is a gold version of first weapon of the character before the moment of Final Boss arrival and this is the only weapon that can cause heavy damage to Augur. This weapon can do powerful attacks such as - Normal Beams that rain downs to Boss and a fully Charged Vertical Beam that cause a huge damage, this weapon has special ability like "Storm Ruler" from "Demon’s Souls" and "Dark Souls III". When you charge Vertical Beam, your FP also restores too, so there is no issue of running out of FP during the battle and you can even do Sleep attacks to Augur with the weapon. But, the Boss is strong, all it's basic attacks are really annoying and Augur continuously keeps attacking players which makes for players difficult to charge up for Beam Attacks and the worst part? Players won't able to move or dodge attacks of Augur with regular speed while charging up attacks. So, players really need to be strategic and be perfect in time to defeat the Boss as Augur has great movement speed and has Special Orbs that shoots lasers which can be destroyed that too.
Bug Fixes And Technical Enhancements:-
This Update has addressed and solved tons of issues faced by players during the game such as - they have solved Fixed UI lock-ups, many animation glitches, and expedition crashes. A bug where bow attacks didn't trigger HP restoration effects has been solved and fixed the "Relic Effects" on Weapon Switching, on Bows and Crossbows and in Multiplayer. This update provides many Combat and Gameplay Fixes by correcting unwanted buffs and passive triggers, fixed Enemy and Boss Behavior glitches where some of the enemies sometimes spawn inside or outside the battle zones, they also ensured revived players are tracked correctly in "Night Boss encounters" and solved the issue of players respawn in "night rain zones" too. "Expedition" fixes are also been done by removing the automatic session timeout that logged out idle players in solo expeditions which means AFK breaks are no longer been penalized and now players can go AFK during solo expeditions without fear of being kicked.
Technical Enhancements has also been done, now the Weapon Type will be shown in each Armament Information menu and improved "Multiplayer Stability" and "Reconnection" for multiplayer sessions. They also addressed some graphical rendering issues and even lower quality settings on Steam too. The Sound Effects and basic action animation glitches have been resolved.
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