Why not, eh? Modder Xelerate determined that what Elden Ring was actually lacking is the galaxy’s most well-known Sith Lord, and thus the Darth Vader Elden Ring mod was born (thanks, GR+). The mod replaces the in-game Confessor Set with Darth Vader’s outfit, although sadly does not include its personal lightsaber: you’ll need another Xelerate mod for that.
This is some footage of Darth Vader preventing Godrick the Grafted, which is sort of the sentence.
Godrick doesn’t know the facility of the darkish aspect!
Elden Ring modding has now reached the purpose of near-absurdity, with modders racing to suit essentially the most unlikely suspects into the Lands Between (reminiscent of Ace from One Piece). Those that really feel particularly apposite nonetheless are the various, many mods which can be including characters from the older Soulsborne video games into Elden Ring. Given the sport’s heritage and the timey-wimey multiverse stuff that underpins these worlds, it feels one thing like a homecoming.
There’s additionally some fairly sensible stuff too: like making the game’s first merchant sell absolutely everything.
Imperial bulletins apart, Elden Ring not too long ago acquired a minor hotfix, which followed a larger update (patching Patches). There isn’t any scarcity of different participant escapades both: somebody discovered a mysterious colosseum that may well be intended for DLC, whereas others merely create mini-armies of summons to pulverise bosses.
Wealthy is a video games journalist with 15 years’ expertise, starting his profession on Edge journal earlier than working for a variety of retailers, together with Ars Technica, Eurogamer, GamesRadar+, Gamespot, the Guardian, IGN, the New Statesman, Polygon, and Vice. He was the editor of Kotaku UK, the UK arm of Kotaku, for 3 years earlier than becoming a member of PC Gamer. He’s the writer of a Transient Historical past of Video Video games, a full historical past of the medium, which the Midwest Guide Assessment described as “[a] must-read for severe minded sport historians and curious online game connoisseurs alike.”