Elden Ring has a complete of six completely different endings, 4 of that are variations of the ‘commonplace’ ending, whereas the opposite two endings are distinctive. Primarily based on achievement and trophy information, which have most gamers seen?
We’re naturally going to run into some spoilers when discussing Elden Ring endings, so think about this your truthful warning to nope out now when you’re nonetheless working by the Elden Ring achievements and need to keep away from having something ruined. However when you’re carried out with the sport — or just do not care — learn on for a reasonably stunning breakdown of how the three ending sorts stack up when it comes to achievement and trophy unlocks throughout a number of platforms.
Lord of Frenzied Flame ending
Let’s begin with the least widespread unlock of the three, Lord of Frenzied Flame. It isn’t too stunning to see this one on the backside of the pile — it includes leaping by a ton of hoops, visiting areas which are nicely off the overwhelmed path, and coping with riddles and obstacles that only a few folks would overcome with out the help of a information. This one has only a 4.4% unlock price on Xbox (and virtually 4 instances that right here on TA… good work, you lot), making Lord of Frenzied Flame comfortably the least generally obtained of the three endings. A part of this will likely be to do with the non-trivial duties talked about above, however one other issue will probably be the truth that getting branded with the Frenzied Flame truly locks you out of getting the opposite two endings. Which means that anybody seeking to save-scum utilizing cloud saves to get all three endings in a single playthrough would wish to avoid wasting this one for final. (edit: apparently it’s truly attainable to reverse the model and get different endings after this one, although many guides had been written previous to this discovery and suggest saving this ending for final, so I feel the purpose nonetheless stands, to a point…)
Wanting over the fence on the PlayStation numbers, unlock charges are a lot increased than on Xbox, with 9% on PS4 and 12.2% on PS5, however with each nonetheless being the bottom charges among the many three endings on their respective platforms. In the meantime, over on Steam, Lord of Frenzied Flame sits at 10.6% and is the rarest achievement on the checklist apart from the platinum-style ‘unlock all achievements’ one. This seems to be widespread throughout all variations, actually.
Elden Lord ending
Curiously, coming in second is the vanilla ending, which is doubly surprising contemplating that there are a whopping 4 completely different variants of it that may be reached by finishing particular questlines for a number of key Elden Ring NPCs. The essential model of Elden Lord, in contrast to the opposite two distinctive endings, has no particular unlock necessities, so we would have anticipated this one to be commonest by some margin. The unlock price on Xbox does leap as much as 8.2% (and simply over 20% simply occurring TA numbers), however it’s nonetheless sudden to see by far the best ending monitoring a very good bit behind a much more sophisticated one.
As soon as once more, the story is similar on PlayStation, with this ending sitting in the course of the pack. And as soon as once more, unlock percentages are higher, sitting at 12.8% on PS4 and 16.1% on PS5. Steam numbers are available virtually on par with PS5 at 15.6%… are Xbox gamers merely worse at Elden Ring than these on different platforms, or might the ever-present distraction of Xbox Recreation Go be retaining many Xbox Tarnished from fulfilling their future as rapidly as others? In equity, Sony gamers have had the advantage of extra FromSoft expertise due to the likes of Bloodborne and Demon’s Souls being system exclusives (twice, within the case of Demon’s Souls), whereas PC gamers have been capable of blast by Elden Ring with all types of loopy speedrun strats, so Xbox gamers had been at all times going to be on the again foot right here.
Age of the Stars ending
Lastly, we attain Age of the Stars, maybe probably the most attention-grabbing and elaborate of the three foremost ending sorts, but in addition, surprisingly, by far the commonest. Why surprisingly? Nicely, this ending includes following a prolonged questline that may drag you all around the Lands Between, taking in elective areas and executives aplenty, and requiring just a few steps that the majority gamers in all probability would not even assume to check out. 10% of Xbox gamers have seen this quest by, although (and greater than 1 / 4 of TA gamers), however why is that this advanced ending the one most Tarnished have reached? There are a few attainable causes right here. For one factor, finishing Ranni’s quests rewards gamers with the Darkish Moon Greatsword — Elden Ring’s model of the Souls collection’ wildly standard Moonlight Greatsword — so some will probably have solely accomplished the mission for the weapon, unaware that there was additionally an ending associated to it. Additionally, it is value noting {that a} variant of the Elden Lord ending (the one for finishing Fia’s questline) and an elective boss with an achievement tied to it each require important progress in Ranni’s quest to succeed in, nudging the Tarnished even nearer to this ending as they chase different targets.
Once more, although, PlayStation gamers have us beat, with 17.1% on PS4 and 20.7% on PS5 coming to Ranni’s assist to complete Elden Ring maidenless now not. Steam gamers appear thirstier nonetheless, with 22.1% of gamers getting the Age of the Stars ending, so as soon as once more that is round double the quantity of the participant base throughout these platforms that has reached this specific finale in comparison with Xbox numbers. Fairly attention-grabbing… we’re simply going to must attempt tougher, of us.
Since getting the complete completion requires you to see all three endings (any of the 4 variants of Elden Lord counts for that achievement), the 1,000G price was at all times going to be decrease than that for the rarest ending achievement, so 4.4% on this case. Truly, it is a good bit decrease — the imaginatively named platinum-style Elden Ring achievement for unlocking all of the others sits at simply 1.8% on Xbox. For TA alone, it is 11.8%, in comparison with Lord of Frenzied Flame’s 16.3%. As earlier than, although, different methods are means out in entrance when evaluating base platform values, with Steam at present at 6.2% with the complete completion and PS4 simply behind with 5.6%, however PS5 claims the throne with a powerful 8.6% of gamers rocking the platinum. Contemplating it has been out for over two months now and the numbers are nonetheless this low (particularly right here on Xbox), it simply goes to point out what an absolute beast of a recreation Elden Ring really is.
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