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Elden Ring DLC falls to a "mixed" Steam rating as PC players complain about difficulty and performance


Elden Ring's Shadow of the Erdtree DLC has fallen to a "mixed" user rating on Steam after players logged their disappoi…

Elden Ring's Shadow of the Erdtree DLC has fallen to a "mixed" user rating on Steam after players logged their disappointment with difficulty and the PC version's performance issues. Watch on YouTube"I love running for 20 minutes in an open area with absolutely nothing to pick up random consumables that I'll never use against bosses that are insanely tedious to fight. Right now, even with 60 vigor, you get bishotted by nearly every enemy that's not pure fodder (like the classical wandering nobles in the base game) and the Scadutree fragments that should make your damage and defense increase (exclusively while in the DLC) don't help that much and are mostly locked behind bosses.

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