That’s what I was thinking too

It's almost certainly why they put it here, but I'm not sure why they couldn't have a little spirit spring somewhere on the side of Belurat there. I get it insofar they wanted the Belurat reveal to be cool, but they could've just put the spirit spring somewhere after you exit the tunnel, idk.

In the base game there are no big inaccessible plateaus like this, so it's likely an area they left unfinished. Some parts of the surface also look quite detailed, as if they were planning to allow access to it.

I wish we got more south of Midras Manse and more stuff in the Abyssal Woods in general, really cool area but unfortunately nothing to really do there

I thought I was the only one who ran right and left (and back to right and left) of Midra's Manse to see how to get to the southern region behind his place. 😅

I think there are even two seperated places like this in Rauh ruins if I didn’t miss anything

the map made it look like there was a big boss arena up there too, sad to find out you cant get up there

​@@bobertastic6541I thought I did. I'll have to check when I get home.

the abyss has something similar too

Even in Moghwyn palace there's an entire rock platform near to elevator empty af, and a huge section in lake of rot with lots of rot pools that appears on map, but unreachable.

That's how I felt about quite a few areas tbh

​​@@LunarBloodRose27Cerulean Coast be like, Ancient Ruins of Rauh be like, Abyssal woods be like, Finger ruins of Riah be like

@@garchamayne4254 there was one spot in the hinterlands finger ruins that even had a path into it with enemies along the way just for nothing to be there. It's in the northeast corner of the ruins

​@@garchamayne4254Mfs really can't enjoy the beauty of a place on itself. You guys would die under the Shadow of the Colossus

How much you wanna bet it was another ghost flame dragon

You mean the broken bridge?

@@Pantagana "half the size of this one" was a huge exaggeration lol, but it's inaccessible land above the route to Liurnia around the castle. You can go to the Limgrave Divine Tower (or debug fly) to get a good look at what I mean from a better vantage point.

I think you're talking about the area above the tunnel to access stormveil castle, right before the area where margit puts game journalists' ambitions to rest.

It's not particularly weird when you consider their design goals. They were very deliberate with terrain placement so that it obscured routes on the map. This area is the very top layer of the map. So their only option was either leave the paths visible or place terrain in the way. The goal being to obscure routes, particularly between regions, their best option was the terrain.

​@rainbowkrampus and what was this area obscuring exactly? The massive archway near a site of grace that leads to the first legacy dungeon?

@@JoeDower101 Yep. Literally just a path. Which is how you know that obscuring region transition paths was their primary goal. If it wasn't, there wouldn't have been a need to go out of their way to cover up one path. There's also some visual blocking that the terrain serves, obscuring the neighboring region and forcing the eye upward towards the various skyward structures. But mostly it's a tool to force you to not just look at the map and then run straight to things. It forces you to explore a bit so you're less likely to miss things like upgrade and crafting materials.

@@rainbowkrampus I see. Thanks for the detailed response.

Detail is from software's strength

I feel like Elden Ring for me at this point is a game that can only be enjoyed with mods. Removing the HUD and changing the roll for a Bloodborne sidestep

@@ooperblownup I'm sorry, what?

@@ooperblownup nah evrytime someone tried to implement bb sidestep made it sumhow bricked so that it won't work like in bb

@@sv98753 lol I never tried modded ER I play it on console, I'm just saying. Those are the main reasons I stopped playing

Gloam Eyed Queen too

​@alfalldoot6715 Godwyn I get, but I think that a lot of fans over-exaggerated the importance of the Gloam-Eyed Queen. I feel confident from the info we get about her that she was just meant to be a character in Marika's past and as an explanation for the godskins, but she's not actually important AS A CHARACTER.

@@mastermarkus5307yeah, what about the other outer gods? The Formless mother? The Fell God? Everyone hops on the hate-train and uses the same two things to criticize. People are just looking for things to complain about, it seems.

Yes! I really want to see the back of the mansion. It's a decently sized area and I was surprised there's nothing back there.

i read a reddit post of someone who was able to glitch behind without mods, but said it was an empty void😢

@@petercottantail7850 I saw that post too but that was only one screen and description :/

@@petercottantail7850 There's a video up showing what's back there. I wouldn't call it a void. But it's just some incomplete terrain and a couple of trees. The one nice bit is that the back of the mansion is fully modeled. They didn't really need to since there's no way to ever see it and it's not particularly interesting to look at. But it is neat that it's not just a textureless hole back there.

This is the best explanation I've read so far.

I only saw a bunch of rocks down there, with no collision. They are lit by a strange green light.

Yes it feels very empty compared to the base game... especially the south of the map I feel

Yeah the finger ruins and abyssal woods were such a waste of time to explore since they had basically nothing interesting to find.

@@ArjunB5 I would say that abyssal woods compensates by its mood but yes it's frustrating... Being used to search everywhere for loot, lore, secrets.. and have entire areas in the DLC where there is nothing... It's the major issue of this DLC and I think I like it less than the original gamr for that

genuinely would have loved this

This doesn’t work anymore, they fixed it in one of the recent patches.

There is no way to get there without cheats.

@@Pantagana thanks

I think it makes sense, but it's not super intuitive or helpful considering the verticality of a lot of areas. It ends up with the map being less useful than it could be, because a bunch of places are covered up by the "top layer" of the world.

so true 😂

Hellblade 2 50 dollars.