There are many mysteries in this world, but few have confounded gamers quite as much asElden Ring’s unusually friendly furry friend. We’re referring to the ‘friendly dog’, of course. So dubbed because it doesn’t attempt to maim you as most Souls enemies do.
Anyone who’s played aSoulsgame, even if you never managed to complete it, will be aware that mobs of hounds can descend on you in an instant. Unlike Scratch inBaldur’s Gate 3, these pooches aren’t would-be companions, not unless you want to be ripped limb from limb for trying.
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Learn the truth aboutElden Ring’s ‘friendly dog’
Zullie the Witch posted a video of their findings, which revealed thathowyou approach the ‘friendly dog’ vastly changes its behaviour. Consequently, this isn’t a tame attack dog but rather a dog whose animation sequence is extremely specific.
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As for the reason why thisFromSoftwareanimation behaves like this, some speculate it’s nothing more than a code error listing the wrong event location. But we wonder if the reason is more spiritual, as does another player, “Inside you are two wolves. One has a misplaced animation event, and the other deals 13,000 damage per second,” they joked.
Another was simply glad someone had stopped them from feeling “crazy” about this specific event. “The description of how you can trigger the dog legit solved me feeling crazy, given this dog wasn’t friendly for me when I came to it and I wondered what others were doing,” they further explained.
Have you encountered the ‘friendly dog’ before? And, if you have, will you continue to let the potential to pet the doggo live on despite what you now know?
Topics:Elden Ring,Dark Souls,Fromsoftware,Bloodborne,PlayStation,PlayStation 4,PlayStation 5,Xbox,Xbox One,Xbox Series S,Xbox Series X,PC
