Elden Ring’s Malenia boss fight has huge co-op bug in Patch 1.04

Malenia is perhaps the hardest boss to manage in Elden RingShe can also heal herself with sword strikes. There’s an issue with the game, however, that makes her even tougher — a bug means that when players summon an ally to help against her, she can self-heal without actively making contact with a player.

Let Me Solo her, the world’s foremost expert on summoning Malenia to combat it, posted this video. Around the 8:30 timestamp in the video, you can see Let Me Solo Her fighting Malenia, and it’s quite a battle as she continually heals, even while Let Me Solo Her flawlessly dodges all of her attacks.

Let Me Solo Her is still able to kill her — after all, there’s a reason this player has become a legend in the Elden Ring community — but other players have noticed the bug as well. It’s possible that this comes from lag or a server discrepancy from online play; Elden RingThe attack striking might not have been fully registered by the attacker, although it could be. This theory was shared by EX Eva, a Reddit user.

I haven’t seen anyone post this happening in offline, which leads me to believe this is a result of the multiplayer stability improvements mentioned in the patch notes. You were most likely struck in the hosts’ world. However, it was not visible on your screen. That would indicate a healing, not damage.

This lines up with how her healing works offline, when you die to her Waterfowl Dance, if she continues the attack after you’re dead you’ll notice her heal when she passes over your dead body even if she’s not dealing damage.

FromSoftware patched Elden Ring since the game’s launch; there have been numerous bug fixes in recent patches, including one that nerfed its extremely scary blood dogs.