After years of anticipation, Elden Ring’s first – and solely – growth Shadow of the Erdtree is lastly out as of at the moment. Whereas there are many intriguing secrets and techniques hiding within the new nook (it’s a giant nook) of the Lands Between, Steam Deck gamers may come upon a not-so-welcome new discovery too, courtesy of a bug that may make your recreation unresponsive.
The problem stems from Elden Ring’s 1.12 patch, which was launched yesterday within the lead-up to Shadow of the Erdtree’s launch. In addition to including assist for the growth itself and a few basic tweaks and balances, the most recent replace launched some contemporary haircuts, a helpful new ‘Latest Gadgets’ tab in your stock and a pretty main change to the sport’s last boss battle, which now allows you to summon your trusty ghost horse Torrent.
Sadly, together with these pretty new options got here an sudden bug on the Steam Deck confirmed by Elden Ring’s official TwiXer account. The bug seems to have an effect on the sport as an entire – which means it doesn’t matter whether or not you’re taking part in the bottom Elden Ring or Shadow of the Erdtree – and basically leaves the sport inoperable by refusing to simply accept inputs if the Steam Deck is left inactive for longer than 5 minutes whereas taking part in.
That doesn’t appear all that unlikely to occur for those who’re, say, ready on a summon earlier than tackling a tough boss and even for those who simply squat down at a website of grace when you go and make a cuppa. Elden Ring’s diligent auto-saving and the suggestion you’d need to be someplace within the recreation the place you’re not doing something anyway means you’re maybe unlikely to lose a lot progress until you’re particularly unlucky (otherwise you get invaded), however having to reboot the sport for those who go away it just a few seconds too lengthy is a faff regardless.
The excellent news is that FromSoftware are on it, confirming that they’re engaged on a hotfix to squish the irritating bug. The middling information is that they will’t affirm a time or date for when that repair will arrive simply but, so that you’ll simply have to are inclined to your Steam Deck slightly extra carefully than traditional within the meantime.
Whereas definitely not a dealbreaker, the additional little bit of grit is extra noticeable given Elden Ring’s in any other case splendidly easy displaying on the Deck, which James discovered to proceed in Shadow of the Erdtree. There have been some stories of a separate error message flagging a warning of “Inappropriate exercise detected” and blocking on-line play, too, although From are but to substantiate the trigger or answer for that drawback.
