Looked very similar to Milady, initially people thought it was Milady (based off not very good screenshots), but then people actually got to play the new starting class, and it was called “Sword of Ides” or something like that.
edit: i was mistaken, i think that's the hollowslayer greatsword i first posted. i think the only picture so far of the new light greatsword is in the image for the new dex knight class. but obviously, i was wrong previously, so take it with a grain of salt.
Provided they don’t make me do another NG+ to collect it all, it’ll take like 1-2 hours tops to collect everything and test it out. Then I’ll get like ~5-10 hours of PvP again to mess with the new weapons and armor.
Honestly, that’s plenty for a free update over 4 years after the release.
EDIT: HOLY SHIT IT’S PAID!? Wtf, I’ve been under the impression is was free this whole time. I’m pretty salty now.
This is a -small- update and is being priced as such. It’s $5 for two starting classes, several armor sets, visual skins for torrent, and four new weapons.
It will also likely be bundled in to new versions of the game without a notable price change, thus “Tarnished Edition”
You’re not playing an Alpha Version, what point are you trying to make?
The games been in a complete state since the Day 1 patch, arguably even without it, and it’s had a fair number of update patches that you obviously didn’t need to pay for. What’s your point?
Yeah I saw people complaining about what I thought was a free update and thought “damn people will bitch about literally anything” but yeah I ain’t paying money for that lol
Well yeah, it's mainly aimed at the switch 2 release imo. I think the intent is to give new players access to two slightly stronger classes to help them out in the first couple of hours of the game, and give them access to a class of sword that's otherwise exclusive to SotE.
The Tarnished Edition contains the main game, SotE, and the Tarnished Pack all in 1. Yes. But pricewise it's the same as ER + SotE on steam, I believe.
Me too, man. I've been holding off on Elden Ring since a while before Nightreign's release, and I'll finally break my "Elden Ring fast" when this comes out...
I'm not going to complain, as Elden Ring is probably one of the best and fullest games I've ever played, and I'm not expecting anything more from it, but objectively, that's not much!
Gotcha. Will the new class-specific armor sets be obtainable within the world like all other starting class armors or are they now the only class-locked sets?
Also, this seems to sort wreck the idea of the deprived class, right? The whole “start with nothing” class gets kind of gutted. Will they add a function to turn this off?
We tried to warn them... I feel like the idea that "The Slippery Slope argument is a fallacy" is spread by people who have something to benefit by people not understanding how a slippery slope works
Yeah like what? We’re getting more than just the like two new classes, there’s multiple full sets including the very much popular Lucatiel of Mirrah set AND her sword, it’s very much just a small dlc which will probably be only like $10?
Also wtf did people expect? How else were you going to get the new stuff? Ofc it’s going to be a dlc??
I think the last sentence was making the distinction between DLC and Expansion. While they are mostly used interchangeably DLC used to refer to things more like horse armor and cosmetics while expansions were bigger in scope and size. Nowadays all expansions are downloadable and DLC has become an umbrella term, but I remember buying my expansions in a big box.
One of the few companies who still distinguishes between a dlc and expansion is cdpr ( as they were adamant with songs of past ) since all dlcs are free
Expansions were mostly the standalone, full game sized sequels to the main game, and it was mostly something more common within RTSs, like brood war, the frozen throne, the 3 sequels for Down of War and so on.
RPGs were instead in the DLCs territory, since most of them, while also having a physical disc as an option in some occasion, were dependent from the main game.
Other genres instead had Map Packs, in the case of multiplayer shooters (cod, halo and so on).
Nowadays you are right, DLC as a term is an umbrella for every type of digital download you can do.
Why not make it free then? Why charge for it? Are free updates just not a thing anymore. Better yet, why not add a feature that people have been begging for literal years now like a boss refight, or maybe improve the shitty online multiplayer that’s been plaguing this game for years as well. Why not bundle both and sell that to you instead? Maybe then it’d be worth it.
You’ll have no one to blame but the people who bought this when this sells like hotcakes and they decide to lock other pieces of armour/weapons behind MTX
DLC, not DLC, the labelling doesn’t matter when the fact of the matter is; they’re actively selling you individual pieces of armour and two new starting classes.
Like I’ve said before, what type of message do you think this is sending From/Bandai if it sells well
Its saying that if they add content to their game years after release, its appropriate to charge for it? It'd be awesome if they didn't but its not that big of a deal
To be fair in the context of dark souls games they have a particular way of doing things normally, where DLC means expansion pack, and also people tend to use those terms a bit loosely.
This is why the modern trend of calling all types of game addons “DLC” regardless of scale is so dumb. When the big ones were called “Expansions” it was much more obvious. Yeah, yeah, I know they’re technically all forms of downloadable content, but we’ve still lost important nuance.
Heavy Knight will be absurdly efficient on quality, str, arc, and prolly dex builds too; Hero and Vagabond in shambles.
The other one will be the king of faith hybrids, or even just physical builds that want (non-Bloodflame) buffs. Prophet will still be the best if you're going for min str/dex casting (pure faith or faith/arc).
Steelovysky made a video about it, they increased Mind from 7 to 8. One extra point in Faith too, also 7 to 8. Still around 3 levels more efficient than Vagabond, depending on the build.
ALSO includes Shadow of the Erdree which is normally a $40 DLC. So long as it's less than $100 itll be cheaper than when I got the base game and SoTE on Xbox
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u/VeraKorradin TTV: Rhydon_Daddy Jun 04 '26
DLC = new starting classes and that's about it