It’s A Terrible Time To Start Elden Ring’s New Game Plus

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While the announcement of 's upcoming DLC,, may have reignited interest in the game, players going back to revisit the Lands Between may want to avoid taking their endgame characters into New Game Plus. Boasting an ambitious open world and FromSoftware's signature RPG formula, is the developer's biggest success yet, selling record copies and winning an unprecedented number of awards in 2022 — and with the recent announcement of DLC for the game being in development, it's poised to capitalize even further on its massive success.

In true FromSoftware fashion, the announcement that the DLC is in development came with very little additional information, with the only possible fuel for speculation being the DLC's title and a vague, evocative image of a lone figure riding a horse in the middle of a field. In spite of the relative lack of information, however, several theories place 's most likely point of focus as the enigmatic Miquella. And, although anything from FromSoftware is sure to contain at least a few big surprises, there is one safe bet regarding the upcoming DLC — its release makes starting New Game Plus a riskier proposition.

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With FromSoftware DLC usually scaled for the mid-to-late sections of the base games, starting a New Game Plus cycle could place players in an awkward position by the time of 's release. While the DLC has no clear release date, players starting a New Game Plus cycle could place themselves at risk of not being at the right part of the game to jump into immediately upon release. Additionally, experiencing the DLC on a New Game Plus cycle's increased level scaling could interfere with its intended difficulty, as