Elden Ring patch 1.12.3 is now available.
The full patch notes, which you can read below, include nerfs to several popular weapons including the Bloodfiend’s Arm.
Following the release of Shadow of the Erdtree, the game’s first DLC, videos circulated online of players defeating the boss in just one hit, thanks to some damage scaling issues that were seemingly fixed in the update.
The location of certain bosses is also changed when you fight them a second time. While most bosses returned to their starting area, two affected bosses respawned closer to the player than intended.
Seemingly deleted voice lines have been discovered for the final boss of Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree.
PvP-exclusive balance adjustments
- Reduced the damage and animation of the vacuum shearing effect of the “Swift Slash” skill.
General balance adjustments
- Increased the intelligence scaling of the Carian Magic Sword and reduced the base damage slightly.
- Expanded the range of throwing attacks for the following weapons:
- Smithscript Dagger / Smithscript Cirque
- Changed the location of the Golden Hippopotamus and Commander Gaius rematch bosses to be in the same position as the first fight.
Error correction
- Fixed a bug that caused the Rolling Sparks skill to deal more damage than expected.
- Fixed a bug that caused the Rolling Sparks and Wall of Sparks skills to do no damage while some special effects were applied to the player.
- Fixed a bug where some right-handed weapon special effects were also applied to the following weapon skills when cast with the left hand:
- Weak Lord’s Fenzied Flame
- Discus Hurl
- Fixed a bug where successfully guarding when attacking with the Thrusting Shield weapon type used less stamina than intended.
- Fixed a bug that prevented players from canceling the attack cooldown of two-handed strong attacks with a roll for certain Backhand Blades weapons.
- Fixed a bug that caused the Lightning Perfume Bottle and Frenzyflame Perfume Bottle weapons to deal double damage under certain circumstances.
- Fixed a bug where the Bloodfiend’s Arm Arcane setting was higher than intended when setting affinity. The increase in heavy attack stat has also been reduced.
- Fixed a bug where the Faith scaling of the Gazing Finger weapon was not applied correctly.
- Fixed a bug where the damage animation of some Fire Knight Greatsword attacks against players was different than expected.
- Fixed a bug where the attack affinity of some Greatsword Fire Knight’s attacks was different than expected.
- Fixed a bug that caused some affinities for the following weapons to be higher than intended:
- Smithscript dagger
- Smithscript Cirque
- Smithscript Axe
- Smithscript Greathammer
- Smithscript Spear
- Golem Fist
- Smithscript Shield
- Fixed a bug that caused enemies to be healed when the gradual HP reduction effect applied by Black Knife Tiche wore off.
- Fixed a bug that caused spawned NPCs to behave differently than expected under certain circumstances.
- Fixed a bug that caused the Golden Hippopotamus boss’s unblockable attack to connect with players more easily than intended.
- Fixed a bug that caused text to display differently than expected.
- Several other performance improvements and bug fixes.
Possible fixes for unstable performance
- For the PS5 version of the game, the unstable framerate can be improved using the “Rebuild Database” option from the device’s safe mode.
- On some PC versions, Ray Tracing may be inadvertently enabled and cause unstable performance. Please check the Ray Tracing settings in “System” > “Graphics Settings” > “Raytracing Quality” on the title screen or in the game menu.
- In the PC version, the “Inappropriate activity detected” message may appear without cheating.
To resolve this issue, verify the integrity of the game files before restarting the game.
- In the PC version, the unstable frame rate may be caused by third-party applications that control the behavior of the mouse. Disabling these third-party applications may improve performance.