Elden Ring Malenia boss fight is now only super hard instead of ultra hard

metro.co.uk:

One of the hardest boss fights in Elden Ring got even harder following last week’s patch, but that wasn’t intentional.

Last week’s Elden Ring patch did a lot to not only rebalance the game, but also fixed several major and minor bugs. Unfortunately, it seemed to introduce entirely new ones, such as one involving one of the hardest boss fights in the game.

Malenia, Blade of Miquella is already an intense and difficult encounter. One aspect that makes her especially tough is that she can heal herself whenever she lands an attack on the player. For whatever reason, the recent patch changed this so she’d regain health even if she missed.

A new patch is now available and fixes the issue, with Bandai Namco’s patch notes reading ‘Fixed a bug with Malenia, Blade of Miquella in which her HP was not healed correctly in the online multiplayer environment.’

From the sound of it, the bug may have only occurred whenever players worked together to fight Malenia, which has been a common strategy since many struggle to beat her on their own.

This wasn’t the only thing the patch fixed. As Bandai Namco warned last week, the Cerulean Hidden Tear item was also unintentionally altered, causing its effect to not last as long as it should, but that’s no longer a problem either.

Apparently, Malenia wasn’t the only boss not always working properly, as the patch notes state that one of the bugs fixed was one that caused bosses to die at unintended times.

The full patch notes can be found on Bandai Namco’s website, but be warned, it does briefly mention the final boss, so don’t read them if you wish to avoid its identity.

Bandai Namco and FromSoftware have tried to make the notoriously difficult Elden Ring marginally easier for players since its launch,