Elden Ring: Nightreign players won't be able to troll each other with messages

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Knight cocking crossbow with other character in background in Nightreign

Elden Ring: Nightreignis going to be a very different Soulsborne game. Three-player co-op runs with no PvP, no summons, no invasions, and as Nightreign’s director Junya Ishizaki toldIGN Japanin a recent interview, no player messages.

Soapstone messages have been a recurring element in the Soulsborne games, with players allowed a select vocabulary to leave warnings and hints for each other. And, inevitably, to troll them, leading our Morgan Park to declare thatElden Ring message griefers were breaking his spirit. And fair enough. Putting messages at the bottom of ladders to make it harder for people to climb them is bloody annoying.

Nightreign will be out some time in 2025, and is having anetwork test on consoles in February.

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