Elden Ring Player Fights Boss Using Face and Voice Commands

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Elden Ring is the latest game by FromSoftware, which is a studio famed for making difficult games. Every time a new FromSoftware game releases, a conversation begins around the game and whether its difficulty makes it inaccessible to players. Some players would like to experience the dark fantasy stories found in games like Elden Ring, but lack the ability to keep ahead of the game’s steep difficulty curve while using a controller or keyboard.

An easy mode for games like Dark Souls or Elden Ring is often proposed as the answer to this accessibility problem, but some fans of the series feel this would take away from the core of the games and would diminish the player experience. The answer could instead lie in the games' controls.

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This is what Reddit user SuavePirate has been working on, as they developed an AI-assisted control scheme that uses both voice commands and facial expressions as inputs for playing Elden Ring. In a clip posted to Reddit, the alternative controls can be seen working concurrently with traditional keyboard commands for moving the character around. All the other button inputs for the game have been swapped out for voice or expression macro instructions, which allow the player to attack, dodge, and even parry after getting used to the new control scheme.

The macro controls even help to streamline some of the Elden Ring inputs that can be a bit more finicky on a controller or keyboard. Simply saying “heal” or “mount” will have the character perform those actions in-game without having to hold down buttons and select the correct item in the game's HUD. In the comments on the post, SuavePirate also explained that they added more macro commands, such as “quit”