Even before it was released almost a month ago, at the end of February of this year, Elden Ring has been a constant in the gaming world. The most recently souls-like gives FromSoftware added an extra layer of fun and immersion by introducing players to an open world filled with challenges and mysteries.
A good example of this is the discovery made by a Reddit user. On the game’s dedicated forum, u/teristam shared a video that showed his character hitting a wall in the Volcano Mansion until it shattered, revealing a secret room.
At first, players found it necessary to hit the structure 50 times so that it could be broken, but it soon became clear that the number of hits was related to the Tainted build.
Keeping in mind that the strength of the blows was related to the damage applied to the wall, dataminer Zullie went through the game files and found that the wall has 9999 HP points. She shared her discovery on Twitter, where she explained that the producer often has objects with HP 999 in Dark Soulsand usually these items are related to special events.
In this case, the defense of the item in question is also 999, making it impossible to damage it normally. the wall of Elden Ringin addition to being configured to be a breakable object, does not have the standard disappearing animation of common illusory walls.
The wall being set as a destructible object, but having 9999 HP and no fade-out animation, means it was very likely intended to be destroyed by an event script, though it’s not obvious whether they dummied that out or it’s bugged. It should definitely have 9999 Defense though.
— Zullie (@ZullieTheWitch) March 18, 2022
According to Zullie’s explanation, the wall found by u/teristam would actually be a mistake by the developers. For her, the wall is probably related to some event planned by the devs, who must have forgotten to apply maximum defense to the structure.
So, even with very high HP, players can easily break through the wall and access the next environment, something FromSoftware probably didn’t plan on happening anytime soon. With 9999 health points, according to the hacker, the structure should have 9999 defense points for it to be truly indestructible.
It remains to be seen if the curious wall is just one of the secrets hidden in Elden Ring or if it really is a curious bug of the development team and will be fixed in a future update. Until then, Stains around the world will surely keep banging on every wall they come across — hoping to discover even more news and secrets hidden by the FromSoftware team.
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