From Software has finally relented after the many complaints and mixed reviews on Steam of Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree expansion due to its punishing difficulty. The expansion just got a bit easier as the result of a new patch deployed this week.
In Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, players must collect something called Scadutree Fragments to boost their health and attack in ways that make its superbly punishing combat encounters a good deal less difficult. One of the issues with this system is that the scaling made Fragments more effective in the later stages of progression rather than towards the beginning. This is great for players who have managed to push through and deeper into the expansion, but makes their collection not as impactful as it could be early on.
Well, that’s all changed now. From Software has flipped the scaling to be much more frontloaded, giving players a lot more bang for their buck earlier on in the Scadutree Fragment collecting progression and that should hopefully go a long way towards making things more manageable without as much time investment.
There are also a number of bug fixes in the patch and From Software is promising additional balance changes and “big fixes” to come in a future update.
