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Forsaken Hollows Pushes Elden Ring Nightreign to New Extremes as DLC Tops 2 Million Sales

Early reviews highlight a punishing, teamwork-first design that resets the community’s learning curve.

Overview

  • The expansion is live and markedly more difficult, with halved-health castle sections, vision‑blocking weather, and frequent paired boss encounters.
  • The new Nightlords—the Balancers and the Dreglord—are tuned as group challenges, with early runs often ending to returning threats like Mohg.
  • The Great Hollow debuts as an instanced Shifting Earth map with steep verticality and storm pressure, plus returning bosses including Mohg and Artorius.
  • Two new Nightfarers expand team roles: Scholar analyzes and debuffs enemies with powerful support tools, while Undertaker delivers accessible hammer‑and‑Faith offense.
  • FromSoftware’s emphasis on coordination collides with an ongoing lack of crossplay across PC, PS5, and Xbox, even as an official post touts over 2 million DLC players in under a week.