In preparation for the release of Shadow of the Erdtree tomorrow (or today, depending on your timezone),FromSoftwarewill be deploying a brand-new update forElden Ringacross all supported platforms.

While today’s update will be filled with new features for players to check out, it also means that the Elden Ring servers will be offline for an extended period of time. But fear not, because once you’ve downloaded the free update, you’ll be able to check out the new inventory features, new hairstyles, new summoning pool features, and much more.

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If you’re waiting patiently for the release of Shadow of the Erdtree and want to find out what’s new with today’s Elden Ring update, or maybe you just want to know exactly when the game’s servers will be back online, we’ve got you covered.

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Elden Ring Server Maintenance Schedule For June 20

As confirmed by the official Elden Ring X (formerly Twitter) account, the game’s servers will be offline onThursday, June 20th from 7AM UTC to 10AM UTC. During this time, players will be prompted to download and install the latest patch update.

Official details on today’s patch can be found below.

Elden Ring Update 1.16 Patch Notes

New feature

  • If “Include Distant Areas” is selected when using the Small Golden Effigy, summoning pools within the Mohgwyn Palace will not be selected for summoning, even if you have activated them.

  • If you are within the Moghwyn Palace and select “Nearby Only” when using the Small Golden Effigy, you will be able to be summoned within the area.

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New Inventory features:

Steam-only new features

PvP-exclusive balance adjustments

The adjustments in this section do not affect single-player or cooperative play.

Weapons adjustments

Skill adjustments

Spinning Slash

Decreased damage.

Flaming Strike

Rain of Arrows

Decreased damage and poise damage.

Cursed-Blood Slash

Transient Moonlight

Lightning Storm

Decreased poise damage.

Spearcall Ritual

Ancient Lightning Spear

Radahn’s Rain

Spinning Weapon

Decreased damage animation motion when stunning other players.

Incantations adjustments

Black Flame’s Protection

Decreased physical block rate.

Bestial Sling

General balance adjustments

The adjustments in this section affect both PvE and PvP aspects of the game.

Armament Adjustments

Troll Knight’s Sword

Increased damage.

Zamor Curved Sword

Increased movement distance of some attacks.

Forked Hatchet

Ripple Blade

Decreased the status buildup enhancement that scales with the Arcane attribute.

Serpent-Hunter

Increased the speed of crouching attacks.

Ripple Crescent Halberd

Albinauric Staff

Increased attribute scaling.

Gelmir Glintstone Staff

Prince of Death’s Staff

Golden Order Seal

Clawmark Seal

Dragon Communion Seal

Increased the poise amount when using this skill.

Decreased the status buildup of your weapon when using this skill.

Storm Assault

Decreased the poise generation speed.

Stormcaller

Storm Stomp

Glintblade Phalanx

Loretta’s Slash

Bloody Slash

Strong shot

Increased the speed of some attacks.

Increased the speed when doing consecutive attacks.

Enchanted Shot

Increased Parry hitbox generation speed.

Storm Wall

Thops’s Barrier

Buckler Parry

Added attack recovery time after using this skill.

Taker’s Flames

Decreased the fire’s poise damage.

Removed the fire’s knocking down effect.

Moonlight Greatsword

Increased the poise damage of heavy and charged attacks, but decreased the poise damage of the generated magic wave.

Thundercloud Form

Magma Shower

Thunderstorm

Bubble Shower

I Command Thee, Kneel!

Increased the poise value during the active part of the Skill.

Bloodboon Ritual

Decreased the generated status buildup.

Bear Witness!

Increased damage and poise damage.

Contagious Fury

Decreased the amount of attack power generated by this skill.

Steam-only adjustments

Note: If you have created save data before this update, your layout will not be affected.

Fixed a bug where the mouse cursor would blink in the title menu, causing the game to be unstable under certain circumstances.

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Fixed a bug where a submenu with no items would be displayed after a right click during the tutorial.

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