Thanks to a glitch, one Elden Ring player saw themselves riding a giant arrow into battle. The latest dark fantasy RPG by FromSoftware and legendary Game Of Thrones author George R.R. Martin has become a breakout success since it launched a few weeks ago, gaining critical acclaim and beating out other big releases like Horizon: Forbidden West and Pokémon Legends: Arceus to become the best-selling video game of 2022 in the United States so far. As a fully customizable Tarnished, players are tasked with gathering the lost fragments of the titular Elden Ring to become the legendary Elden Lord — a task that is easier said than done thanks to Elden Ring's punishing difficulty and wide array of powerful enemies.
While an extremely successful and well-crafted game for the most part, Elden Ring is not without its fair share of technical hiccups. Some of these glitches are relatively easy to fix, such as some enemies and NPCs turning invisible unless a player has their graphic settings a certain way. Others are more problematic, as was the case when a streamer was frozen in place during a difficult boss battle against a Giant Land Octopus in Elden Ring's opening hours. FromSoftware has been working on correcting these problems with update patches, but some truly bizarre bugs and glitches are continuing to pop up during rounds of Elden Ring.
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One far more humorous instance happened to Reddit user Fosterkid115, who posted a brief gameplay video of their chance encounter with a strange glitch on the Elden Ring subreddit earlier today. Their Tarnished is in the midst of a horseback battle with an ax-wielding giant, which results in the steed being killed with a blow from
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