Elden Ring Dragon Kills Itself In The Middle Of A Battle
A video shared to Reddit has shown a Dragon in Elden Ring just... giving up. Oh.
10th Mar 2022 11:19
Images via FromSoftware
Elden Ring Dragon Kills Itself In The Middle Of A Battle
A video shared to Reddit has shown a Dragon in Elden Ring just... giving up. Oh.
10th Mar 2022 11:19
Images via FromSoftware
Elden Ring might be one of the best-reviewed games in recent memory, but that doesn't mean it's entirely free of the trademark FromSoftware jank.
The Souls-like is typically categorised by its brutal combat system and punishing difficulty, so punishing in fact that almost half of players can't get past the first boss. It also features a gameplay loop requiring that none of the players' deaths feels cheap or unfair. Yet, a few will slip through the cracks, as we've seen so far with Elden Ring that players are being killed by bosses through walls and squeezed off of cliffs before they have a chance to react.
But, it looks like players aren't the only ones suffering. If that's any kind of consolation.
Dragon Dies Instantly In Elden Ring Boss Battle
One player has proven that unfair deaths aren't just limited to players, as they've shared proof that Dragons, usually some of the game's more troublesome foes, are getting merked seemingly by nothing too.
A clip posted to the EldenRing subreddit by user _Gronberg shows a Dragon getting stuck in the air, and then seemingly just… giving up.
The video shows Flying Dragon Greyll taking off in an attempt to take on the player, but rather than simply landing on the bridge the pair are fighting on, it seems to land on thin air, hanging there for a while before the player moves in to engage. After a while, the Dragon simply decides to call it there, and its health bar depletes to 0 in a flash. Weird.
Fans React To Self-Destructing Dragon
In the comments, some players have reported that this isn't the first time that the dragon has stacked it, with others saying that it has already happened to them.
"Happened to me too," says one comment. "He stayed there until he dies (one shot, it was full life). I didn't have the chance to fight it." It seems like they're pretty upset about it too, though we'd probably just take the win, given that the game's bosses are brutal as it is.
"Same exact thing for me," says another. "It's why I hate fighting dragons in this game as melee. They constantly jump across the map and it just becomes a nuisance to chase after them. And God forbid they get stuck on a piece of terrain with a high vantage point for their breath cause it's basically impossible to attack at this point since they'll constantly spam it."
It looks like this is a bizarrely common occurrence, but this kind of bug is typical in a game as monumental as Elden Ring. It looks like not even FromSoftware can escape bugs like this - but we give Bethesda a pass for this sort of thing all the time. I think it's only fair to extend that same courtesy to Elden Ring.
So, yet another quirk of the Lands Between a world that has rather bizarrely had some folk asking: "is this Ohio?"
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Joseph Kime is the Senior Trending News Journalist for GGRecon from Devon, UK. Before graduating from MarJon University with a degree in Journalism, he started writing music reviews for his own website before writing for the likes of FANDOM, Zavvi and The Digital Fix. He is host of the Big Screen Book Club podcast, and author of Building A Universe, a book that chronicles the history of superhero movies. His favourite games include DOOM (2016), Celeste and Pokemon Emerald.
