Elden Ring patch fixes Bleed Dogs and mysterious fake walls

FromSoftware released a new patch for its wildly successful and difficult open-world RPG Elden Ring on Tuesday. You can view the long list of patch notes at Bandai Namco’s website, but the 1. 04 update features a few key changes: the overpowered bleed dogs are nerfed, and the illusory wall is gone.

Zullie the Witch tested the patch Tuesday and discovered that overpowered Rotten Stray dog breeds weren’t nearly as hard as the previous versions. Before the update, the bleed dogs had a glitch whereby the game could deal massive health damage to your character thanks to an error tied to their attack animation — an error making Rotten Stray dogs stronger than some bosses, even. Now, they’re fixed. We don’t necessarily mean that they are “fixed”, as in “taking them to a vet.” Zullie the Witch demonstrated the changes in this video.

Zullie reported another important change. The mysterious, illusory wall doesn’t disappear anymore. In March, players discovered a fake wall in Volcano Manor that dissolved when you hit it 50 times. At first, players weren’t sure if developers were using it to hide secrets, or if it was just a bug. The wall won’t collapse to reveal another room after the patch. It appears the destructible walls, although illusory and effective, were not meant to be a way to reveal more secrets, but a method to conceal an unwelcome room.