The closed web link test examined on all current-gen consoles.
Also a surprise is the lack of any PS5 Pro patch update to take advantage of the mid-gen refresh.
Surviving both takes you to a final battle against one of eight Night Lords available in the beta.
That makes for a simple binary choice, helpfully streamlining the task of analysing the game too.
In exchange though, you are making some visual sacrifices.
Shadow quality uses a lower preset, for example, most notably affecting shadows cast by sunlight.
The overall image quality is also noticeably softer, with performance mode normally at that 1512p lower bound.
PS5 Pro gets the cold shoulder once again from the Elden Ring studio.
Doing so, of course, sabotages what could have been a 60fps lock.
Limveld’s open world pushes each machine much harder.
Curiously, some final Night Lord boss encounters do play out surprisingly close to that 60fps mark.
The online grid test gives us a fascinating early sample of what Nightreign has in store.
