FromSoftwarethrough the account official twitter Of Elder Ringannounced that today April 23 will be available the patch 1.09. The new patch adds support for the long-awaited ray tracing that improves graphics using the ray-traced ambient occlusion and ray-traced shadows. Unfortunately, there is no support for ray tracing reflections and Nvidia’s DLSS which would improve performance. In conjunction with Elden Ring’s GOTY win at the Game Developer Choice Awards, a very important feature has been added. The weight of the update on PS5 is 5GB, due to the addition of precompiled shaders, while on PC the Elden Ring update is only 200MB.
New Features
Ray Tracing support has been added for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and PC versions.
Ray tracing can be activated in the settings menu:
PS5/XSX: Game Options > Ray Tracing
PC: Graphics > Ray Traced Quality
Note that performance, such as frame rate and resolution, may be affected when playing with ray tracing enabled. The minimum and recommended technical specifications for using Ray Tracing can be found at the end of the patch notes.
Exclusive balance adjustments for PvP
Changes in this section do not affect single player or co-op play in Elden Ring.
The power of the Inexorable Frenzy spell and the grip angle have been increased.
Lifesteal Fist’s skill power, range, and grip angle have been increased.
Decreased the power of two-handed jump attacks.
Decreased the power of heavy and heavy dashing attacks of Fist and Claw weapon types.
Decreased the power of the Founding Rain of Stars spell.
Decreased the spell boost effect of the Magic Land spell.
Decreased the damage and balance damage of the Golden Wave skill when hitting an opponent within a certain distance.
Decreased the effectiveness of the Royal Knight’s Resolve and Resolve skills.
Decreased the effects of the Medusa Shield’s Infectious Fury ability.
Decreased the effectiveness of the Claw Charm.
Decreased the effectiveness of the Bloodlord’s Talisman of Rejoicing.
Decreased the attack power boost granted by White Mask armor.
Decreased the jump attack damage buff granted by the Raptor’s Black Feather Armor.
Decreased the damage buff granted by Cracked Tear Magical Envelopment, Cracked Tear Flaming Envelopment, Cracked Tear Lightning Envelopment, and Cracked Tear Sacred Envelopment when activated with the Ampoule of Marvelous Physics.
General adjustments
Added an invincibility window when respawning in the Colosseum.
Increased the scaling of the following attributes when imbuing weapons with certain Ashes of War:
Magic / Fire / Flame Release / Lightning / Holy
Increased the attribute scaling of the following weapon types:
Colossal Sword / Great Ax / Hammer / Flail / Great Hammer / Colossal Weapon
Increased the speed, range, and cooldown of some attacks for the following weapon types:
Great Hammer / Great Ax / Great Sword / Curved Greatsword
Scourge Weapon Changes:
Increased the speed of some attacks.
Attack recovery time reduced.
Increased balance when using two-handed attacks.
Increased the speed of dash attacks and reduced the attack cooldown for the following weapon types:
Straight Sword / Curved Sword / Katana / Double Bladed Sword / Ax / Hammer / Halberd
Increased first strike speed for the following weapon types:
Straight sword / Curved sword / Whip
Increased the speed of guard tokens for the following weapon types:
Straight Sword / Great Sword / Colossal Sword / Great Curved Sword / Katana / Double Bladed Sword / Ax / Great Axe / Flail / Great Hammer / Spear / Great Spear / Halberd
Reduced the attack cooldown for whip weapons.
Increased the damage of claw weapons.
Added holy damage and faith scaling to largeclub.
Increased the damage negation when blocking holy damage and decreased the damage negation when blocking damage from other affinities.
Increased the effectiveness of the Twinblade Talisman.
Slightly reduced rolling distance for light equipment.
Decreased the size of the hitbox for some attacks of the following weapon types:
Thrusting Sword / Heavy Thrusting Sword / Spear / Great Spear / Halberd
Ashes of War adjustments
Lifesteal Fist: Target grappling range increased.
Surge of Faith: Increased the speed of projectile generation.
Flame Spit: Increased the guard speed and amount of blocking of the skill. Changed the angle of the fireball.
Tongues of Fire: Increased the guard speed and amount of blocking of the skill.
Great Oracular Bubble: Increased the speed of projectile generation and reduced the recovery time.
Viper Bite: Reduced the time before shooting is possible after using the skill.
Shriek of Milos: Increased balance damage at close range.
Spearcall Ritual: Increased the speed of projectile generation.
Cursed-Blood Slash: Increased the speed of projectile generation and reduced the recovery time.
Gold Breaker: Reduced cooldown.
I Command Thee, Kneel!: Increased the speed of attack generation.
Starcaller Cry: Increased the speed of subsequent attacks.
Spinning Wheel: Increased the speed of attack generation. Added roll and heavy attack cancellation timing while using the skill.
Bug fixes
Fixed a bug where the Scarlet Rot status buildup was not properly reflected when giving the Antspur Rapier an affinity for cold.
Fixed an issue where the Scarlet Rot status buildup was not properly reflected when giving Rotten Greataxe a Blood Affinity.
Fixed an issue where some attacks from Partisan, Death Ritual Spear, and Lucerne had unexpected attack damage scaling.
Fixed a bug where the Nightrider Glaive was not increasing the damage of mounted attacks.
Fixed a bug where Duelist Greataxe and Rotten Greataxe weren’t increasing the damage of charged attacks.
Fixed an issue where the Roar Medallion Talisman effect was not increasing the power of some spells.
Fixed an issue that reduced the power of some skills during the Gold Vote effect.
Fixed a bug that caused the effects of the Royal Knight’s Resolve and Resolve skills when cast from a left-handed weapon to be added to other skills cast from a right-handed weapon.
Fixed a bug that reduced the critical strike power of right-handed weapons while Royal Knight’s Resolve or Resolve was active on a left-handed weapon.
Fixed a bug where status boosts were unintentionally added to some weapon skills
Fixed a bug where the power and special effects of a left-handed weapon could be added to a skill cast with a right-handed weapon.
Fixed a bug that caused an equipped sacrificial twig to be consumed when a player died in the Colosseum.
Fixed camera placement when respawning in the Colosseum.
Fixed an issue where a player could receive credit for a kill in the Colosseum when dying from the Death status effect, instead of the player who inflicted that status effect.
Improved stability in Colosseum matchmaking.
Fixed a level fix bug when an invader used the Phantom Bloody Finger.
Fixed a bug that could cause disconnects with other players in certain locations during multiplayer.
Improved online multiplayer stability.
(PS4) Fixed a bug when using the Finger Severer on summoned NPCs offline that could cause the game to crash.
Fixed a bug with some enemies not displaying or behaving as expected.
Several performance improvements and other bug fixes in Elden Ring.
PC requirements for Ray Tracing
Minimum requirements
Operating system: WINDOWS 10
CPU: Intel Core i5-10600K or AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT
Memory: 16 GB RAM
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060Ti, 8GB or AMD Radeon RX6700XT, 12GB
Recommended Graphics Settings: 1080p – Low quality – Low Ray Tracing
Recommended Requirements
Operating system: WINDOWS 11
CPU: Intel Core i7-10700K or AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT
Memory: 16 GB RAM
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070Ti, 8GB or AMD Radeon RX6900XT, 16GB
Recommended Graphics Settings: 1080p – High quality – High Ray Tracing
The new Shadow of the Erdtree expansion by Elder Ring it is in the works and we assume it will arrive soon. We will keep you updated on any news.
The #ELDENRING servers will undergo maintenance today, March 23, 2022 to deploy patch 1.09.
This update contains balance adjustments and bug fixes.Maintenance will begin at 0:00 PDT | 08:00 CET | 16:00 JST and last 3 hours on all platforms.
Thank you for your patience.
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