Elden Ring’s ‘super’ illusory wall may be the biggest troll of all

polygon.com:

Elden Ring fans intimately know the displeasure of being trolled by their fellow players with messages that read “hidden path ahead” or “try attacking,” hinting at one of FromSoftware’s infamous illusory walls — the mirage walls that hide secret rooms in castles or hidden pathways in dungeons. Surely, you’ve clanged a sword on a wall expecting a fun secret after reading one of these messages, only to be rebuffed and verify that the “liar ahead” message you also saw nearby is legit.

But one player’s discovery in Elden Ring may have just rewritten the rules about illusory walls in FromSoftware’s new game. A member of the Elden Ring subreddit, teristam, posted Friday that they’d discovered a secret wall in the game that requires dozens of strikes — 50 hits!!! — in order for it to disappear.

Here’s a look at that super illusory wall in action:

That wall — you may have already struck it yourself, because it stands out — is located in Volcano Manor, and it only offers access to a room you can otherwise easily get to. In fact, it’s likely you’ve already been in this room, which is home to Rya and Knight Bernahl.

Elden Ring players on the subreddit quickly went from “oh, cool” to “oh, no” after witnessing teristam’s discovery.

“You know we have to go back through the entire game and check every wall now right,” said RexLongbone.

Turns out there’s at least one other super illusory wall like this, also in Volcano Manor.

doubt i’m the first to find it but there’s another VM wall further down the tunnel that also takes 50 hits. i assume some walls in this area just accidentally have a value set too high or something haha pic.twitter.com/Mczbmm2g6a

But this particular Volcano Manor wall seems like an anomaly, rather than a portent.