After years of anticipation, Elden Ring’s first – and solely – enlargement Shadow of the Erdtree is lastly out as of at present. Whereas there are many intriguing secrets and techniques hiding within the new nook (it’s an enormous nook) of the Lands Between, Steam Deck gamers may come across a not-so-welcome new discovery too, courtesy of a bug that may make your sport unresponsive.
The problem stems from Elden Ring’s 1.12 patch, which was launched yesterday within the lead-up to Shadow of the Erdtree’s launch. In addition to including assist for the enlargement itself and a few basic tweaks and balances, the most recent replace launched some recent haircuts, a helpful new ‘Current Objects’ tab in your stock and a reasonably main change to the sport’s closing boss combat, which now helps you to summon your trusty ghost horse Torrent.
Sadly, together with these beautiful new options got here an sudden bug on the Steam Deck confirmed by Elden Ring’s official TwiXer account. The bug seems to have an effect on the sport as an entire – that means it doesn’t matter whether or not you’re taking part in the bottom Elden Ring or Shadow of the Erdtree – and primarily leaves the sport inoperable by refusing to just accept inputs if the Steam Deck is left inactive for longer than 5 minutes whereas taking part in.
That doesn’t appear all that unlikely to occur in case you’re, say, ready on a summon earlier than tackling a tough boss and even in case you simply squat down at a website of grace whilst you go and make a cuppa. Elden Ring’s diligent auto-saving and the suggestion you’d must be someplace within the sport the place you’re not doing something anyway means you’re maybe unlikely to lose a lot progress until you’re particularly unlucky (otherwise you get invaded), however having to reboot the sport in case you depart it a number of seconds too lengthy is a faff regardless.
The excellent news is that FromSoftware are on it, confirming that they’re engaged on a hotfix to squish the irritating bug. The middling information is that they’ll’t affirm a time or date for when that repair will arrive simply but, so that you’ll simply have to are inclined to your Steam Deck slightly extra intently than regular within the meantime.
Whereas actually not a dealbreaker, the additional little bit of grit is extra noticeable given Elden Ring’s in any other case splendidly clean displaying on the Deck, which James discovered to proceed in Shadow of the Erdtree. There have been some studies of a separate error message flagging a warning of “Inappropriate exercise detected” and blocking on-line play, too, although From are but to substantiate the trigger or answer for that downside.