Elden Ring Glitch Makes a Much-Requested Feature a Reality

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Elden Ring

By Md Armughanuddin

Published Apr 20, 2024

An Elden Ring bug has managed to turn the wishes of several fans into reality by allowing a player to fight Dragonlord Placidusax a second time. While FromSoftware games usually don't have a lot of bugs, the few that pop up in Elden Ring tend to be hilarious or interesting, with this find falling into both categories.

For instance, one of the funniest bugs in the game added Elden Ring's iconic turtle to a new area altogether. One of the longest-running jokes in the Soulsborne community is to refer to every four-legged creature as a dog. When Elden Ring came out, the community found their new meme in the form of a turtle, and ever since then it has become a custom to write dog messages near it. Now, another peculiar bug has surfaced, and it allows the players to experience one of the game's most requested features.

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Finding and beating Dragonlord Placidusax is a feat in and of its itself, as it is quite tricky to locate the boss in Elden Ring. However, a fan's celebrations were cut short when they realized they had to fight the beast all over again. As highlighted in a post by Redditor mfdoorway, they were caught completely off-guard when they accidentally fast-traveled to the Dragonlord Placidusax Site of Grace and realized the boss had respawned.

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Elden Ring fans were quick to note that the bug occurring only for Dragonlord Placidusax was coincidentally symbolic. Dragonlord Placidusax is considered one of the strongest creatures in the Elden Ring lore, and its most notable aspect is the ability to warp time, which is uncannily fitting for this scenario. Notably, this wasn't a one-off encounter, as the player tried teleporting there on multiple occasions, and Dragonlord Placidusax respawned every time. Strangely enough, the player also got the Remembrance of the Dragonlord more than once.

While it might just be a weird glitch, replaying boss fights is in fact one of the most requested features for the game, as proven by many comments. Several noted that a similar mechanic in the game would've been a great addition, even if it doesn't come with extra rewards. While it is somewhat easy to redo fights in new Elden Ring playthroughs considering the open-ended nature of the game, it still isn't as straightforward as battling the boss directly. One more interesting suggestion was the addition of a boss-rush mode for soulsborne games, another aspect that has been brought up time and again over the years, but has only been turned into reality via mods. With Elden Ring's Shadow of the Erdtree DLC right around the corner, it remains to be seen whether something like this actually gets added to the game in an official capacity.

Elden Ring

Elden Ring is a fantasy action-RPG adventure set in a world co-created by Hidetaka Miyazaki, the creator of the influential Dark Souls video game series, and George R.R. Martin, the author of the best-selling fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire. This collaboration between two renowned creators has resulted in FromSoftware's largest game to date, filled with danger and discovery at every turn. Hidetaka Miyazaki, president and game director of FromSoftware, has a history of directing highly acclaimed games in franchises such as Armored Core and Dark Souls.