Registration for the closed network test of Night Reign of the Elder Ring are open, editor Bandai Namco announced Today. The cooperative registration period Ancient Ring The spinoff officially began on January 10 at 9 a.m. ET and will continue until January 20 at 9 a.m. ET. You can add your name to the list now on the Bandai Namco website.
The close-network test will span five different sessions on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X | S, February 14 to 15. You’ll be able to log in each of those days from 6:00 AM ET to 9:00 AM ET or from 10:00 PM ET to 1:00 AM ET the next day to put the game through its paces.
Selected players will be able to play “a portion of the game before the game’s full launch,” according to Bandai Namco’s registration page, in an effort to get a feel for how the game’s servers and online systems are performing. company will handle a mass of fans playing simultaneously. As for what this “portion” will actually contain, Bandai Namco says players will be able to “try out the game’s cooperative experience,” teaming up with two other players to take on a three-day cycle filled with “enemies and enemies.” increasingly difficult bosses.
Reign of the night appears to use many mechanics, armor, weapons and abilities of Ancient Ringbut drops them into a revamped setting, “Limveld”, designed to change every time you play. According to Bandai Namco, you begin each cycle of the game in the familiar round table, where you can choose one of eight characters with unique abilities and “Ultimates.” The Limveld map you play in will shrink each night and introduce a new boss which, if beaten, will allow you to advance to the next day. The process continues until the third and final night, when you face a “Night Lord”. And if you fail at any point in the process and have to start a new game (as many likely will), you’ll earn a relic that allows you to “customize and upgrade” your character.
Night Reign of the Elder Ring was a announced unexpectedly has The Game Awards in 2024and it was a pretty big surprise, not only because Shadow of the Erdtree was released the same year, but because the structure of the game seems remarkably different from anything developer FromSoftware has done before. Anyone lucky enough to take part in the network test will now be able to see how different it actually feels.
