Elden Ring Spells Are Changed By The Weather
The general gaming community's understanding of Elden Ring's sprawling and dangerous world continues to grow with the knowledge that the game's dynamic weather system will impact how magic operates. FromSoftware's latest game was released a week ago, and many players are still wrapping their heads around how its various mechanics and systems work. One player even found that the presence of falling leaves can affect Elden Ring progression.
While Elden Ring shares several similarities with other FromSoftware entries, there is one major difference that stands out: the game's open-world. The map of Elden Ring is almost dizzyingly large, with plenty of verticality and winding paths to get lost in. Unlike other open-world games which may offer quest lists, waypoints, and mini maps, Elden Ring asks its players to discover their environment firsthand, venturing in whichever direction seems fitting. Along with the map's topographical complexity is a day and night cycle, along with a weather system that will serve up everything from clear skies to dense fog to torrential rain. While players can keep track of things like Elden Ring's many Golden Seeds and other collectibles, the ever-changing weather conditions can be somewhat harder to predict.
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Most players might view the variable weather as little more than a feature that is commonplace in open-world titles, but it could be having more of an effect than they think. According to Reddit user Light_inc (and later noticed by GamesRadar), rain can actually be both detrimental and beneficial to magic users. Light_inc's post shows that rain will cause fire spells to deal less damage, with the inverse being the case for lightning
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