A secret change in Elden Ring makes you feel even more powerful

On May 31, 2022By Garmin Philip

One of the best feelings in video games is when you finally defeat a difficult boss that has been driving you to despair for ages. Elden Ring is one of those games that relies on exactly this feeling due to the high level of difficulty. You feel powerful when you defeat one of the feared fighters. A hidden change in patch 1.04 now makes you feel even more powerful than before as fighting multiple bosses has become easier.

Which secret change is it? FromSoftware’s hit title Elden Ring is a real challenge. Extremely difficult boss fights characterize the entire course of the game.

It gets particularly tricky when, instead of one extremely strong boss, suddenly two or three strong bosses want to fight the player at the same time.

A YouTuber now found out that FromSoftWare seems to have made those group boss fights easier in patch 1.04 without mentioning the change in the patch notes.

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Reduced aggressiveness of bosses

How has FromSoftware changed the boss fights? Elden Ring developer FromSoftware has reportedly made group boss fights easier with various changes to boss behavior.

In general, there are probably one or more so-called primary attackers among the bosses who attack the player, while the other bosses behave a little more passively. Who is the current primary and who is the secondary attacker may change as the boss fight progresses.

In patch 1.04 there was probably a change that reduces the number of primary attackers. This change is intended to prevent all bosses in the arena from attacking the player at the same time.

In addition, the aggressiveness of bosses that are not the primary attacker should be reduced. In practice, this affects the fight in such a way that, for example, in a duo boss fight, one of the two opponents aggressively attacks you as the primary attacker, while the other passively holds back more in the background.

For an overview, we list the changes again here:

Number of primary attackers reduced
non-primary/secondary attackers are less aggressive

Which bosses have been adjusted? The change in group boss fights doesn’t appear to affect all boss fights in the category. There should also be some bosses that only received part of the changes.

Group boss fights, both of which received changes:

Crystallians
Mad Pumpkin Heads
Abductor Virgins

Boss fights that have only been partially adjusted:

Earthtree Avatars
Crucible Knights

Some bosses in Elden Ring are a real challenge even if they don’t attack you in a group. One of the most feared opponents of the action RPG is Malenia. Check out the story of a player who became a hero of the community in the fight against the warrior on MeinMMO:

A half-naked player in Elden Ring became a community legend – This is his story

YouTube channel discovers secret changes

Where does the information come from? FromSoftware did not mention the changes in the official patch notes. YouTube channel illusory wall reported about the change in group boss fights and 9 other secret changes in a video dated May 27, 2022.

illusory wall is best known for videos about games like Elden Ring and Dark Souls. In his videos he points out changes to game mechanics and maps that were not mentioned in the patch notes or explains game details and secrets of the titles.

The channel, which was founded in 2013, has 122,000 subscribers on YouTube and has usually garnered several hundred thousand clicks with its most recent videos.

We are including the latest video from the channel with the secret changes of patch 1.04 in the article here: