Os fãs de Elden Ring continuam a abraçar sua natureza trabalhando em frenesi por causa de uma pequena atualização do banco de dados Steam

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The signs that Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree DLC is coming soon are everywhere and nowhere all at once. Fans are latching onto anything and everything they can find to prove FromSoftware is about to drop the release date. This week’s clue comes from a tiny Steam update labeled as DLC, and, while it is slightly more credible than a date from a controller manufacturer, it’s still mighty thin.

No início desta semana, um novo número de identificação do aplicativo DLC foi adicionado ao Elden Ring no Steam (via SteamDB), suggesting that FromSoft is preparing to list Shadows of the Erdtree on the store page. Naturally, Elden Ring fans saw this and immediately started constructing a theory that starts with an announcement at tomorrow’s Desenvolvedor Xbox direto.

It’s not as big of a leap as it may seem: Elden Ring was originally announced at Microsoft’s Xbox E3 2019 press conference. I wouldn’t be surprised to see it at an Xbox show again, but not one that seems to be entirely focused on games published by Microsoft, whose lineup has already been revealed (we’re going to see the new Indiana Jones game and Obsidian’s Avowed, most notably)

O fã devoto de Elden Ring me indicaria o teaser recente de um Figura do Anel Elden from PureArts coming next month, but I’d say that’s a reach. And the whole thing where controller manufacturer Thrustmaster abandonou a data de fevereiro de 2024 para o DLC e sugeriu um segundo DLC para 2025 (antes de remover tudo) parece o mesmo para mim. FromSoft anuncia coisas quando lhe parece, e isso pode ser em uma terça-feira aleatória ou em um grande evento - nunca se sabe.

Apesar da implausibilidade, fãs de Elden Ring continuar a acreditar that we’re days away from the big announcement. Soulslike YouTuber Tempestade Zio mentioned that Dark Souls 2 and 3 updated their Steam pages around two months before their DLC announcements and then again a day or two before their releases. It’s been more than a day since the update for Elden Ring, however, and we’ve heard nothing.

“Oh, is this the real Chapel of Anticipation this time?” Reddit user Auri_L escreveu em referência ao nome da área de abertura.

No mesmo tópico, que tem mais de 500 comentários, alguém mencionou a pessoa que recentemente teorizou que a verdade poderia ser encontrada na letra de Taylor Swift’s “Ivy”. Their post is tagged with “humor” but they still wrote several paragraphs trying to convince everyone that the pop star knew the DLC date two years before the game even came out. At this point, it might be a safety concern for FromSoft to não anunciar uma data em breve.

No X, as pessoas estão postando todos os tipos de gifs e vídeos entusiasmados com a pequena atualização, incluindo um vídeo de um chefe de Bloodborne who cradles a magical sword that was ultimately his undoing. The irony is so strong that I don’t care if the poster is aware of it or not. Let Me Solo Her poked his head into the conversation to drop the “I can’t. Not again. I’m… not strong enough” meme from The Incredibles. Everyone is replying to him with words of encouragement, probably because they know FromSoft always puts the hardest fights in its DLCs, so we’re going to need him.

The last official thing we heard about Shadow of the Erdtree is that it’s “a little ways off, but progress is going well” from producer Yasuhiro Kitao in Dezembro. And with no hint of it at this year’s Game Awards, an imminent announcement seems just as likely as it was at any time last year. Until FromSoft swoops in and drops a png on X or something, everyone will have to restrain themselves and wait patiently.