Registrations for Elden Ring Nightreign’s hotly anticipated community take a look at go dwell at this time, January 10. Here’s every little thing you want to know to place your title down.
The community take a look at will probably be held on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S solely, whereas the complete recreation will even launch on PC by way of Steam, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.
To register, head to the Bandai Namco website and enter your particulars. It’s price noting that registration closes January 20, and solely affords a probability to hitch the Elden Ring Nightreign community take a look at. The take a look at is open to those that don’t subscribe to PlayStation Plus or Xbox Game Pass Core.
Elden Ring Nightreign community take a look at registration instances:
- 6am PT, January 10
- 9am ET, January 10
- 2pm GMT, January 10
- 3pm CET, January 10
- 11pm JST, January 10
The take a look at itself begins February 14 and ends February 17, with numerous session instances deliberate. This means you will not have the ability to play the community take a look at all through your entire 4 days, fairly throughout 5 three-hour durations solely.
Elden Ring Nightreign community take a look at session timings:
- February 14: 3am-6am PT / 6am-9am ET
- February 14: 7pm-10pm PT / 10pm-1am ET
- February 15: 11am-2pm PT / 2pm-5pm ET
- February 16: 3am-6am PT / 6am-9am ET
- February 16: 7pm-10pm PT / 10pm-1am ET
The community take a look at is a “preliminary verification take a look at through which the chosen testers play a portion of the sport previous to the complete recreation launch,” Bandai Namco stated.
“This large-scale Network Stress Test is designed to guage numerous facets of the net system’s performance and efficiency.
“We are wanting ahead to your cooperation to make Elden Ring Nightreign even higher.”
Bandai Namco has but to say precisely what the Elden Ring Nightreign community take a look at will supply, however did warn some textual content and recreation options could also be completely different than within the ultimate model.
Elden Ring Nightreign is FromSoftware’s standalone co-operative spin-off set in a world parallel to that of 2022’s Elden Ring. It was introduced at The Game Awards 2024 with a debut trailer, under, and a 2025 launch window.
The community take a look at will permit three gamers to workforce up and take their chosen Nightfarers to battle “towards new terrors, and discover an ever-changing map to defeat more and more difficult bosses and in the end tackle the Nightlord,” Bandai Namco added, earlier than confirming the community take a look at encompasses a three day-and-night cycle squads should attempt to outlast.
Last yr IGN had the chance to go to FromSoftware and go hands-on with an early construct of Elden Ring Nightreign. We got here away impressed, stating that Elden Ring Nightreign “takes the cautious dungeon crawls of Elden Ring and turbocharges them into propulsive, slash ‘n’ sprint speedruns.”
Check out IGN’s interview with recreation director Junya Ishizaki for much more on Elden Ring Nightreign.
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