Elden Ring Nightreign’s first community take a look at — ongoing on the time of this text’s publication — is affected by vital server points which have prevented many from enjoying.
IGN workers with entry to the take a look at reported server issues so excessive they had been unable to entry the sport for the take a look at’s first hour.
The problems had been unhealthy sufficient that FromSoftware issued a press release on social media, confirming that gamers had been struggling to discover a match attributable to server congestion. The developer apologized, however inspired gamers to attempt matching once more after some time.
It seems the PlayStation servers specifically are having issues, and certainly had been introduced down for upkeep. “The #NIGHTREIGN PlayStation servers are presently underneath upkeep,” FromSoftware tweeted. “Work is ongoing to revive server performance. Additional updates can be supplied. Thanks on your persistence and understanding.”
Exacerbating the issue is the very fact the Elden Ring Nightreign community take a look at is simply accessible throughout 5 three-hour intervals on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Sequence X and S from February 14 to February 17. Right here’s the present schedule:
Elden Ring Nightreign community take a look at session timings:
February 14: 3am-6am PT / 6am-9am ETFebruary 14: 7pm-10pm PT / 10pm-1am ETFebruary 15: 11am-2pm PT / 2pm-5pm ETFebruary 16: 3am-6am PT / 6am-9am ETFebruary 16: 7pm-10pm PT / 10pm-1am ET
The community take a look at is a “preliminary verification take a look at by which the chosen testers play a portion of the sport previous to the complete sport launch,” Bandai Namco mentioned.
“This huge-scale Community Stress Check is designed to guage varied facets of the web system’s performance and efficiency. We’re wanting ahead to your cooperation to make Elden Ring Nightreign even higher.”
It’s in fact higher that Elden Ring Nightreign suffers server points now than when it launches in Might, however gamers who had earmarked time to check out the sport now have expressed their frustration. Hopefully subsequent play periods will run extra easily.
Elden Ring Nightreign is FromSoftware’s standalone co-operative spin-off set in a world parallel to that of 2022’s Elden Ring. The community take a look at will enable three gamers to staff up and take their chosen Nightfarers to battle “towards new terrors, and discover an ever-changing map to defeat more and more difficult bosses and in the end tackle the Nightlord,” Bandai Namco added, earlier than confirming the community take a look at encompasses a three day-and-night cycle squads should attempt to outlast.
Final yr IGN had the chance to go to FromSoftware and go hands-on with an early construct of Elden Ring Nightreign. We got here away impressed, stating that Elden Ring Nightreign “takes the cautious dungeon crawls of Elden Ring and turbocharges them into propulsive, slash ‘n’ sprint speedruns.”
Take a look at IGN’s interview with sport director Junya Ishizaki for much more on Elden Ring Nightreign.
Elden Ring Nightreign launches on Might 30, 2025 priced $40 throughout PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Sequence X|S, Xbox One, and PC by way of Steam.
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