One of the most confusing aspects of Elden Ring Nightreign’s design don’t have much to do with in-game mechanics, or the loads of key pieces of information the game does not communicate.
No, it has to do with how character quests work, and the way players are supposed to go about advancing them for each of the game’s different classes. Things might get better after today, however, because a fix is being implemented.
If you’re unfamiliar with the structure of quests in Nightreign, here’s how it works: after you play with one character a few times, you get the ability to start their Remembrance, which is essentially their character quest.
The key detail here is that these quests are supposed to be done while on normal runs, so you activate your Remembrance and head out to hopefully get a chance to do what it wants from you so you can reach the next step.
However, as players discovered shortly after launch, having a Remembrance active puts you in a different matchmaking pool that, presumably, also matches you with others doing their own quests. In reality, that makes matchmaking times exceedingly long, which has prevented players from being able to finish their Remembrances, and driven some to just do them solo to avoid that mess. This appears to be a bug that FromSoftware is fixing today.
At the time of this writing, Nightreign servers are offline for two hours for maintenance, which is specifically intended to “improve expedition matchmaking with an active Remembrance,” according to FromSoftware.
Maintenance will end and servers should be back online at 3am PT, 6am ET, 11am UK, assuming the developer doesn’t need to extend that window. We’ll have to see whether or not this will fix matchmaking times.
Unfortunately, this won’t solve the problem of not having a way to tell other players that you’re working on your character’s quest. Some of their requirements will send send you off the beaten path, and make it look like you’re abandoning your team, which can be frustrating for both them and you.
Hopefully a larger solution is in the works to make that experience, at the very least, more transparent for everyone. Until such time, our mega Elden Ring Nightreign guide remains one of the most useful you’ll read.
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