Elden Ring Nightreign will, very soon, get its higher difficulty mode - The Deep of Night. The game is clearly about to have a moment again. FromSoftware knows this, of course, so the developer decided to roll out a big update to tweak several things ahead of the new mode’s release.
FromSoftware has dropped something of an expected announcement for players of Elden Ring Nightreign. If you’re still playing the online co-op action RPG, you’ve likely defeated many, if not most of its Nightlord bosses.
FromSoftware's faced a bit of an uphill battle with Elden Ring Nightreign. It's not for any fault of its own, though, it's because its most fervent players are a bit too proficient at killing its toughest bosses. So, if you're a studio that's famous for giving players hellish challenges, what do you do? You take what's already there and make it harder. Well, From tried that with its Everdark Sovereigns, and players were still dancing with the devils under the pale moonlight as if they were born in a ballroom. When simply amping up the difficulty of bosses isn't enough, the next logical step is to make everything torturously tough. So, say hello to Deep of the Night.
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Elden Ring Nightreign will get a new rock-hard Expedition mode called Deep of Night on 11th September. "Rock-hard" is a cliché worn to uselessness, of course: to be more specific, this is at least tungsten-carbide-hard, possibly even as hard as stishovite, though the exact degree of toughness is variable.
It's variable because Deep of Night gets statistically harder, the more you win, with a difficulty rating or "depth" that fluctuates based on wins and losses. Enemies are tougher than usual by default, and you can't specify which Nightlord you're hunting, so be prepared for nasty surprises. There are new special Depth Relics, exclusive to this mode, which sadistically bundle together additional buffs and debuffs.