Last week,FromSoftwarereleased the first and last expansion forElden Ring, Shadow of the Erdtree. While it launched to critical acclaim, it didn’t take long for the DLC to receive a “mixed” review score on Steam, mainly due toperformance issues and “unbalanced” boss fights.
To combat players' complaints that Shadow of the Erdtree was too difficult, FromSoftwarereleased patch 1.12.2earlier this week, which aimed to make the beginning of the DLC a little easier by increasing the attack and damage negation for the first half of the maximum amount of Blessing enhancements, while also making the second half more gradual. The patch also increased the attack and damage negation granted by the final level of Blessing enhancements.
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While the patch didn’t include any performance improvements on PC, FromSoftware did acknowledge that players were experiencing unstable framerate. “We have confirmed a bug where the raytracing settings are automatically enabled if you have previously loaded saved data from previous game versions,” FromSoftware said.
The studio then instructed players who were experiencing issues to navigate to the in-game settings and disable raytracing to improve the game’s overall performance. FromSoftware then ended the patch notes by confirming that “other balance adjustments” and bug fixes are being planned for a future patch.
Despite the lack of improvements to the DLC’s performance on PC, Shadow of the Erdtree has managed to climb its way back up to a “mostly positive” Steam rating, with over 56,000 user reviews at the time of writing this article (70% of which are positive).
There are, however, still plenty of negative reviews calling out the game’s poor performance and optimization.One reviewersaid the expansion is “truly beautiful” but still left a negative review as it has “worse performance than the base game.”
Another userclaimed that they couldn’t run Shadow of the Erdtree on the lowest settings with a 7800XT and a Ryzen 7800x3D without “stuttering and skipping frames.”
“I genuinely cannot say I’m enjoying this. It looks nice, but at the same time can barely hold a stable framerate. I do not understand how [FromSoftware] put out something this poor quality,“another reviewerstated.
Many of the negative reviews that cite poor performance issues appear to be related to an unstable framerate. If you’re one of those people, we recommend following FromSoftware’s advice and disabling raytracing until a new patch is released.
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