Elden Ring PS5 Patch Solves Save Data Issues

I love this game! What From has done to the open world formula is great. It's all so organic and feels huge without lots of empty space. I much prefer it to anything Ubisoft puts out with their AC games and far better than FF games. Over 20 hours in and I'm still only level 21. So much to see and it's all stunning. Playing as a Wretch which means for a first playthrpugh is my idea of how its best played. Having to make use of what I find is so much more interesting than already having weapons and armour that will outclass much of what I find early on.

Glad things are fixed on the PS5 side! With the game crashing like that, I am sure people were having Cyberpunk release flashbacks! Thankfully it was resolved in days.

I am really enjoying this game on Xbox - though it had network issues for the first few days that have finally been fixed. I can finally play the game proper: with all the messages, bloodstains, and player ghosts milling about.

My kid played about 7 hours Friday night then when they went to load the game yesterday there was a save error message saying the console save file data and PS+ Cloud save file didn't match even though the info looked the same. They were able to play using the console save file but just something else to worry about.😝

Did this patch change the game file number? Think we had 1.002 last I checked which was after the day 1 patch. Ours is installed on PS5 from a PS5 disc.

They "acknowledged" the save/game data corruption error, they most certainly didn't solve it.. Last night (Sunday), my game unexpectedly shutdown and I now have corrupted data despite installing the patch pushed out over the weekend.

It's not fixed yet, many people reporting the same issues on reddit. The game can randomly crash and you can still lose your progress even if you save using the quit game method.

So far haven't had a single (Game-breaking) issue with my copy of the game, aside from the occasional graphical pop-ins and occasional frame-drops, but nothing that happens the experience dramatically.
While I'm certainly enjoying the game, my score for the game is a constant back-and-forth between 8 & 9.
Many of the bosses are either way too easy or just hard, there's no real middle-ground, and there's far too many easy bosses, some of the easiest bosses in the series even. And while I do enjoy exploring, there are times where I find myself getting frustrated not finding anything noteworthy, I also think the open-world needs more enemies littered throughout it, sometimes I can go 5-10 minutes without encountering a single enemy making the world fill emptier than it really is.

@lolwhatno Thanks. I did find out they updated the PS5 version to 1.002.001 (or some rough proximity thereof) and I did get this "Warning" message when I booted up my copy. I'm sort of playing it, sort of not. 🤷‍♂️ It's my Fornite replacement, I play like an hour a day just messin' around, I'm 20 hours into Tales of Vesperia, my actual current game.

Funny true story. When I first read that message in game I assumed they meant system menu for the PS5. I've had my PS5 for a few months now and I still think there must be a better way to exit a game than I currently am, which is awkward.
While in game, PS button,
then "Switcher",
then on game choose that teeny tiny Options button on the controller
then choose "Exit Game". 😝

Anyway I searched and found the "Exit Game" option buried in the game menu. I think it's odd the game seems to let you save anywhere rather than only at the rune lights like Tomb Raider, but I haven't actually started a game not saved at a rune light so I'm not sure where I would start back up. Maybe the Marika statues where you start after death? Hard to learn a game playing only an hour a day. 🤷‍♂️ I actually died on the first practice boss, Godrick soldier, b/c I kept hitting down on the D-pad to do health, I didn't realize I had to hit square to use that item. Still really embarrassed about that. 😂

This is why people don't at me, I never shut up. 😉

This is not true or the patch hasn't fixed it at all...I've lost all progress I've made today, which was about 5-7h. I'm incredibly pissed off atm

@lolwhatno Yes my 1st Souls game. I think I played Bloodbourne for an hour on PS+ or something but I don't remember it. And I couldn't have been the first person to die on that practice boss, room was filled w/ blood stains. 😉

So far so good, I played for about 2 hours today w/o dieing, though I didn't advance the story any, just killed some foot soldiers bats and wild life. I'm not really expecting to make it very far, I just wanted to try out the horse combat, looked fun. Once I'm stuck I'm out. 😁

@lolwhatno Good point. Guess we'll see how long someone can play w/o getting past Magrit, or the big dude leading up to Magrit. I think my next goal is beating a crab. 😂

@lolwhatno I only saw 1 baby crab, right next to a big crab. My 17 year old who only plays games on hard mode told me not to bother w/ the crabs, I have no chance. I did get jumped from behind by a big crab but fortunately I was able to ride my horse into a nearby cave and mock it from inside like some 1950's horror movie. 😂 It finally left and I rode away. Only to be killed by some fast moving black guy w/ a red outline on a river I couldn't call my horse to ride away. 😛 Then I tried to take on some ruins - 2 bolt shooting wizards on top - and after about 3 tries managed to kill everyone but the guy up front on the horse. I haven't figured out how to beat a single guy on horse yet. Did get an epee out of a chest I'm about 30 levels unpowered to use. Next up I'm going to try and win back that aristocrats fort for him. At least the 1 I think is his. Probably doesn't matter, I'll be killed anyway. After that the bridge to the south, kid told me there's a staff there. After that, maybe back to the main story.

@lolwhatno Not into racing sims, just kart type games, so no GT for me.

Sorry, didn't know you weren't' already playing the game, hope I didn't spoil anything for you. But if you're looking to me for tips you're doomed before you start. 🤣

@lolwhatno "Do share with us your progress, I really like hearing newbies' adventures"

"Once I'm stuck I'm out"

So, close to stuck now. Was almost out the other night, couldn't get past the madness east of the capital and you need great runes to get thru the capital, and nobody is jumping that ravine to the west, so I was done. But then my kid showed me how to swap hands on the horse, so now I'm going back to the beginning to actually fight things I ran away from before, b/c fireballs and heat seating glintstone shots from horseback give me a chance against anything I can fight on horseback. So my confessor build is now basically a mage, incantations in 1 hand, staff in the other.

Still stood no chance against that big guy I got transported to in the north. No horse = no chance. Am considering trying my revenge on runebear, cost me 4,000 runes. Still nto sure I can take him but those rats shouldn't be a problem at level 30 w/ just my sword and shield. Guess I'm happy I'm still playing after 30 hours w/ my biggest concern being weight. That roll is so slow once you go from medium load to heavy. I think I have equipment figured out now that, but I'm still wearing my confessor starter gear b/c everything else weighs so much more. And that great sword is 10, my starter is like 4. At level +4 it's similar damage.

If I ever decide to try and get past Magrit I'll let ya know. Right now I'm just terrorizing the countryside from horseback w/ my ghost wolf pack and mob of angry villagers. I really don't get that jellyfish. I mean ok poison but just 1 seems pointless. Oh, I did buy a hunter summons ring, there's an invader on a river I owe a beating too. No horse again, and it's too fast fire, but maybe frenzy eyes and glintstone can wear him down enough I can chop him up. If the hunter shows up, haven't had an opportunity to try the ring yet since I purchased it awhile back.

@lolwhatno I don't think of it as giving up, more, bored now. Like when you take a long car ride and it's an adventure getting there, but on the way home thru the same countryside you just want to be home. And besides, no matter what I do, from what I've read the final boss is difficult on a whole other level, and there are probably half a dozen before that I wouldn't be able to beat, so best to get while the getting is good.

Today's mission, other half of the circle I got yesterday in the easy fort, next fort in Caleid has me a bit worried but worth a shot. Site of ruin just outside so no hard if it goes poorly.

@lolwhatno Ralizah is a she? Not that it matters really, but I've had interactions w/ them several times over the past 10 years, never crossed my mind. 🤷‍♂️

My next few games are Kirby starting next week, Miles Morales I purchased awhile back but I keep forgetting I bought it on sale over the holiday then probably HFW, though I'll need a break between Eldren Ring and HFW, I know they ae very different but I play them the same. May try out Knack 2 w/ my wife, we've been having a lot of fun couch co-op lately, it's why I bought Kirby. She's currently watching me play Tales of Vesperia, she's all about the JRPG stories and character interactions.

@lolwhatno Well that explains it then. I went through an entire year where each month I had a new rock album cover avatar, you would have thought you were corresponding w/ Tom Petty, Bob Dylan and Mick Jagger. 😂

No worries though.😁