Elden Ring patch fixes Bleed Dogs and mysterious fake walls

FromSoftware has released a patch to its highly successful, but difficult open-world RPG Elden Ring On Tuesday. You can view the long list of patch notes at Bandai Namco’s website, but the 1.04 update features a few key changes: the overpowered bleed dogs are nerfed, and the illusory wall is gone.

YouTuber Zullie the Witch test drove the patch on Tuesday, and found that the over-powered Rotten Stray dogs weren’t as tough as prior incarnations. Before the update, the bleed dogs had a glitch whereby the game could deal massive health damage to your character thanks to an error tied to their attack animation — an error making Rotten Stray dogs stronger than some bosses, even. Now, they’re fixed. And we don’t mean “fixed,” as in, “taking them to the vet” fixed, either. This video shows Zullie, the Witch making the adjustments.

Zullie documented another important change. The mysterious illusionary wall does not disappear anymore. A fake wall was discovered in Volcano Manor by players. This wall disintegrated after you struck it fifty times. At first, players weren’t sure if developers were using it to hide secrets, or if it was just a bug. After the patch, the wall doesn’t fall down to expose another room. The developers used the wall’s destructibility, even illusory appearance, to disguise a room they didn’t like and to keep them from uncovering more secrets.