Elden: Path of the Forgotten Director’s Cut update out now on Switch, patch notes
Posted on January 3, 2022 by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch eShop
Elden: Path of the Forgotten, which first appeared on Switch in July 2020, has received a major update known as Director’s Cut. It “reworks every element of the game” including combat, sound design, and much more.
Below are the full patch notes:
- Updated to Unity 2019.4 – Better performance
- New story beats in each region
- Expanding Hub region with new zone
- More variation to zones
- Increased player speed
- New tentacle spell sound effects
- Reworked camera shake (disabled camera shake when the player deals damage to enemies, replaced with a time slow effect. Camera shake only happens when the player takes damage or for large world events. Camera shake motion was also completely reworked.)
- Reworked melee hit collisions
- Added new enemy – The lurker
- Added direction change animation for wide enemies
- Improved lighting
- Improved enemy navigation
- Added Interaction log
- Added Item trading
- Reworked HUD
- Reworked dragon enemy
- Reworked zone naming
- Reworked roll iframes
- Reworked footstep sound effect system
- Weapons now have their own individual stamina costs
- Weapons now have their own individual sound effects
- Reworked damage type system
- Critical attack sounds
- New weapon – Ahrala’s Daggers
- New weapon – Farmer’s Scythe
- New weapon – Curse of the Ancients
- Added burn effect
- Added shock effect
- Added Rune items
- Added Cooldown items
- Added Trapped explosive
- Improved audio cue system
- Improved AI / Gate interactions
- Reworked threat system
- Reworked Shadow caster AI
- Balanced damage types
- Fixed dragon farts
- Added chain lightning
- Reworked ranged combat
- Added enemy retreating behaviour
- Added time slow item
- Added new abilities to Rocky Isle Boss
- New and expanded sound design
- Added item trading
- Improved damage type and defence type system
- Added thunder and lightning
- Translated zone names and interaction text
- Improved inventory navigation
- Improved poison effect
Elden: Path of the Forgotten is out now on Switch, and the Director’s Cut update is available for free to all players.
