Alden Ring update 1.09 adds ray tracing on PS5, here are all the patch notes

Bandai Namco and FromSoftware have just released the latest major patch for Alden Ring, the widely popular open world RPG. This brings the game up to version 1.09, and the update is now available on all platforms, including PS5 and PS4 of course. The main headline addition here is the implementation of ray tracing for the current-generation version.

Yes, all those horrible wet caves and shiny surfaces can now be shown with much more realistic reflections. After the update, you will be able to toggle this option in settings. However, Bandai Namco warns that frame rate and resolution “may be affected” when ray tracing is activated. We don’t know to what extent, but hopefully it doesn’t drag the performance down too much.

While ray tracing is the main event here, the patch is a big one, with plenty of balance tweaks and bug fixes. We have popped Full patch notes below:

PvP-exclusive balance adjustment

Adjustments in this section do not affect single-player or cooperative play.

• The Irresistible fans Increased incantation power and grab angle.
• The Lifesteel Fist Skill power, range and grab angle are increased.
• Reduced the power of two-handed jumping attacks.
• Reduced the power of heavy and heavy running attacks the fist And claw Type of weapon.
• The power is reduced Establishing a shower of stars magic
• Reduced the spell improvement effect Terra Magica magic
• Reduced damage and pos damage gold wave Skill when hitting an opponent at a certain distance.
• reduced the effectiveness of specification And Solution of the Royal Knight skill
• have reduced the effects of Jellyfish Shield’s Contagious Rage skill.
• reduced the effectiveness of Claw Talisman.
• reduced the effectiveness of Lord of blood gratification the talisman
• Decreased attack power granted by white mask head armor
• Reduced the damage of jumping attacks given by Black wings of raptor armor
• Damage given by reduced Magic-Shrouding Cracked Tear, Flame-Shrouding Cracked Tear, Lightning-Shrouding Cracked Tear, and Holy-Shrouding Cracked Tear When activated with Wonder’s Physique’s Flask.

General equilibrium arrangement

• Added an invincible window when respawning in the Colosseum.
• Increased scaling of the following attributes when infusing weapons with certain Ashes of War:
  • Magic / Fire / Flame Art / Lightning / Sacred
• The attribute scaling of the following weapon types has been increased:
  • Great sword / great ax / hammer / flail / great hammer / great weapon
• The speed, range and recovery time of some attacks have been increased for the following weapon types:
  • Great Hammer / Great Ax / Great Sword / Curved Greatsword
• Changes to flail weapons:
  • Increased the speed of some attacks.
  • Attack recovery time reduced.
  • Increased agility when using two-handed attacks.
• Increased attack speed and reduced attack recovery time for the following weapon types:
  • Straight Sword / Curved Sword / Katana / Twinblade Sword / Ax / Hammer / Halberd
• First attack speed has been increased for the following weapon types:
  • Straight Sword/Curved Sword/Whip
• Increased the speed of guard counters for the following weapon types:
  • Straight Sword / Great Sword / Giant Sword / Great Curved Sword / Katana / Twinblade Sword / Ax / Great Ax / Flail / Great Hammer / Spear / Great Spear / Halberd
• Reduced attack recovery time the whip weapons
• The damage has increased claw weapons
• Added holy damage and faith scaling great club.
• Damage negativity is increased when blocking holy damage and damage negativity is decreased when blocking damage from other relationships.
• Increased effectiveness Twinblade Talisman.
• Rolling travel distance is slightly reduced for lighter equipment weights.
• Reduced hitbox size for some attacks from the following weapon types:
  • Strong Sword / Heavy Strong Sword / Spear / Great Spear / Halberd

Ashes of war adjustments

• Lifesteel Fist
  • Increased target acquisition range.
• Increase of faith
  • Increased projectile production speed.
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  • Increased the amount of blocking speed and skill of the guard.
  • Adjusted the angle of the fireball.
• tongues of fire
  • Increased the amount of blocking speed and skill of the guard.
• The great oracular bubble
  • Increased projectile production speed and reduced recovery time.
• Viper Bite
  • The time before rolling is possible after using the skill is reduced.
• Milos screams
  • Increased close range poise damage.
• Spearcall ritual
  • Increased projectile production speed.
• Cursed—Blood Crack
  • Increased projectile production speed and reduced recovery time.
• Gold Breaker
  • Reduced recovery time.
• I command you, kneel!
  • Increased attack spawn speed.
• Starcaller Cry
  • Increased speed of follow-up attacks.
• The spinning wheel
  • Increased attack spawn speed.
  • Added a roll and heavy attack cancellation time using the skill.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug where the Scarlet Rote status was not reflected correctly when giving the buildup Antspur rapier A cold love.
• Fixed a bug where the Scarlet Rote status was not reflected correctly when giving the buildup Rutten Greatex A blood relation.
• Fixed a bug where some attacks partisan, Death ritual spearAnd Lucerne The sudden physical attack was scaling.
• A bug has been fixed where Knightrider Glaive The damage of horse attacks is not increased.
• A bug has been fixed where Duelist Greatex And Rutten Greatex Damage of charged attacks is not increased.
• A bug has been fixed where Roar medallion The talisman effect didn’t increase the power of some tunes.
• Fixed a bug that reduced the power of some skills while under golden oath effect
• Fixed a bug that caused the effects specification And Solution of the Royal Knight Skills when cast from a left-handed weapon must be added to other skills cast with a right-handed weapon.
• Fixed a bug that reduced the critical hit power of right-handed weapons specification or Solution of the Royal Knight Active on a left-handed weapon.
• Fixed a bug where status builds were inadvertently added to some weapon skills
• Fixed a bug where a left-handed weapon’s power and special effects could be combined with a right-handed weapon in a skill cast.
• Fixed a bug that caused an equipped Cerifical Twig to be consumed when a player died in the Colosseum.
• Fixed the camera position when re-spawning in the Colosseum.
• Fixed a bug where a player could receive credits when dying due to a death status effect in the Colosseum, instead of the player who inflicted that status effect.
• Stability improvements in Colosseum matchmaking.
• Fixed a bug related to level enhancement when an attacker used Phantom Bloody Finger.
• Fixed a bug that could cause disconnection with other players in certain locations during multiplayer.
• Improved online multiplayer stability.
• [PS4] Fixed a bug that occurred when using Finger saver On NPCs summoned when offline which can cause the game to crash.
• Fixed a bug related to some enemies not rendering or behaving as expected.
• Several performance improvements and other bug fixes.

This is quite a patch! Still, getting the game ship-sized makes sense as we await the arrival of the much-anticipated DLC, Shadow of the Erdtree. Will you be playing Alden Ring with Ray Tracing on PS5? Reflect on your thoughts in the comments section below.