Elden Ring features a map and quick trips from almost anywhere

In the Elden Ring, players have access to a massive map showing the vast open world of The Lands Between and its inherited dungeon areas. Players unlock checkpoints around the world, very similar to bonfires in other Souls games, known as Sites of Lost Grace. Here’s the big takeaway – you can fast travel across the map to any of your checkpoints as long as you’re in the open world. You won’t be able to enter or exit inherited dungeons this way as they seem to be their own kind of closed core soul dungeon experience, but anywhere else in the world you can open your map and be at your destination almost instantly.

Now the map is huge, so how can you navigate it? Well, obviously you are going to explore and search for landmarks. But, Elden Ring also features something known as Map Fragments that players can find in various ways that unlock various special markers on the map, to guide players to points of interest. These breadcrumb items can point you in the direction of all sorts of things. The open world features hidden areas, optional bosses, and more. You can have fun with up to two other players in cooperative mode at the Elden Ring.

Melina

Elden Ring features a central area where NPCs you know can also congregate, similar to the Firelink or Majula Shrine in the Souls titles. You can go there between adventures to chat, update, and more. However, many of these features are available on any Lost Grace site through a character named “Melina” (SP). Melina is similar to Maiden in Black, Emerald Herald, or Firelink Keeper, and can be invoked on the vast majority of Lost Grace Sites to empower your character and assign abilities. Unlike other games where a skill may have depended on a weapon, the vast majority of weapon skills in the Elden Ring can be placed on any weapon, resulting in a wide variety of builds. You can also replenish your healing items in Sites of Lost Grace, and while we don’t know the exact methodology behind the healing at this time, this language indicates that the Elden Ring is using a system similar to Estus Flask.

The center area of ​​the Elden ring

When you’re not teleporting, using your spirit steed allows you to travel across the open world insanely fast. Various momentum points on the map allow you to take off and get the verticality you need to traverse steep cliffs or mountainsides. It sounds a bit ridiculous on paper, but in practice these jumping platforms look great in action and I hope From will allow players to see what they look like visually soon. Importantly, you cannot use your steed in dungeons or while involved in multiplayer. Oh good.

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