Elden Ring's New Secret Door Could Mean Even More Secrets Await

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A player has discovered a secret passageway in Elden Ring that was hidden through extraordinary means, prompting players to wonder just how many more closely guarded secrets are waiting in the massive game. Like its predecessors in FromSoftware's Soulsborne genre, Elden Ring is marked by its mysterious nature, inviting players to discover secrets for themselves as they go. Most of the lore of the game is hidden in item descriptions, which means players have to seek it out for themselves. This makes it all the more difficult for players of Elden Ring's Brazil localization, who are missing a lot of the text from item descriptions and thus missing out on a lot of lore.

Apart from mishandled localizations like that, though, Elden Ring has been an immense success since it launched. Its immense sales success has led to a lot of fans playing the game and discussing it online, which in turn has led to a lot of fan art. It has also prompted some remarkable discoveries from the game's most devoted players, who've gone so far as to dive into Elden Ring's code to unearth secrets the developer never intended them to see. These discoveries include the appearances of Elden Ring NPCs who go masked throughout the game; as has been discovered by dataminers, these characters have fully modeled faces hiding under these coverings.

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Other surprising secrets, it seems, are hiding in plain sight. Reddit user teristam found a previously undiscovered hidden wall in the Volcano Manor dungeon and shared a video online. Hidden walls are a staple in Soulsborne games; they look unremarkable, but when struck with a weapon or rolled into by the player, they vanish, revealing a secret room or passageway.