Here are some small but helpful tips for starting Shadow of the Erdtree

Before Shadow of the Erdtree yet goes live, Bandai Namco has implemented a patch that adds a mates of tiny features and updates conscionable successful clip for the DLC’s motorboat successful a fewer abbreviated hours. FromSoftware besides shared a caller motorboat trailer to herald the DLC’s arrival, but it’s chockful of spoilers, truthful beware. The update isn’t peculiarly earth-shattering, but it does see immoderate things worthy keeping successful caput earlier each you Tarnished get your caput bushed successful by the vicious monsters patrolling the Shadow Lands.

Firstly, we get caller hairsbreadth options! I was beauteous down connected Elden Ring’s quality creator for its deficiency of Black hairstyles. It conscionable didn’t marque consciousness that the quality creator was truthful robust and elaborate but lacked hairstyles that correspond a bully chunk of the quality population. There are 5 caller styles to take from, with 2 of them being dreadlocks. I chose the escaped loc enactment truthful my Tarnished tin yet get escaped of her abhorrent pigtails. I’m not definite if the “white hairs” enactment was contiguous successful the basal crippled oregon a caller summation with this patch, but I truly similar however it adds grey to my locs, reminding maine of erstwhile I started picking retired errant grey hairs erstwhile I had locs.

To alteration your appearance, each you person to bash is sojourn Fia, Deathbed Companion’s country astatine the Roundtable Hold. She should person a reflector you tin interact with that volition fto you alteration your appearance. However! If you’re similar maine and person completed Fia’s questline, neither she nor her reflector volition beryllium contiguous astatine the Roundtable Hold. Instead, question to the Raya Lucaria Grand Library tract of grace and speech to Rennala. You’ll beryllium capable to alteration your quality done her.

Secondly — and this is arguably the champion small housekeeping update the crippled has had — the caller spot lets you spot each your precocious acquired items. From present on, caller items you prime up either successful the Lands Between oregon the DLC’s Shadow Lands volition beryllium marked with a small exclamation point. The crippled volition adjacent cod those caller items nether their ain tab, though that “new items” tab isn’t enabled by default. You person to spell into the game’s settings and prime the “Show caller items tab” option.

It was highly adjuvant successful my travel to spot the caller items and instrumentality I picked up truthful I could comparison them to the worldly I’d been carrying astir for the past 100 hours. Without it, I would person missed the caller “Festive Grease” point that increases the fig of runes you gain each clip you onshore an onslaught and the small notes I picked successful my travels that hint astatine wherever to spell next. The “new items” diagnostic makes choosing the close cogwheel and weapons to tackle each the caller threats successful Shadows of the Erdtree truthful overmuch easier. Enable it close away.

Beyond that, the spot adds a clump of limb equilibrium changes and helpfully tweaks the summoning excavation diagnostic for folks who request assistance taking down Mohg, Lord of Blood, successful bid to entree the DLC. The caller spot volition besides fto you summon your faithful horse-goat Torrent during the Elden Beast fight, which volition undoubtedly marque that last brushwood loads easier. You tin work the spot notes successful item here.