Elden Ring Has Secret Walls, and One Takes 50 Hits to Break Down

There seems to be an Elden Ring secret wall that took 50 hits to break down with evidence that more are hidden in the game.! And it seems the type of weapon used does matter whether it breaks or not.

[phoenixwing]

Double post

[phoenixwing]

Seriously? I'll just leave the wall there at that point lollol

[uth11]

Now they tell us! I've only found one actual secret wall so far. Wonder how many I missed

[_Decadent_Descent]

I've been pretty adamant about swinging on walls to check and have found a few, but I know I've missed many, especially this one. Never would think to swing another 49 times hoping for it to just disappear. LoL

[Eidolon]

Dude, now I'm wondering about the messages saying there is a secret passage.

[seanpitt23]

Definitely a bug of some sort it’s not intentional..

[luckytrouble]

Based on the examples, this looks like a glitch, not a secret. Usually hidden walls lead somewhere you can't get otherwise. The prime example doesn't do that. Just looks like a developer accidentally assigned durability to some walls.

[sinspirit]

I don't think so. If they weren't meant to be broken then they would be static models of the environment and not entities separate from the wall they're a part of

[luckytrouble]

Because sometimes developers use workarounds or make mistakes. Elden Ring is a big game and you can be certain that it wasn't always the most skilled and experienced developers working on every piece of the game. Don't mistake something as janky as this as intentional game design, especially when as I noted, the prime examples don't actually lead to anything unique, running counter to the constant purpose of fake walls in FromSoft games.

Edit: If you want the most likely scenario for what these are, odds are early on they were actually intentional fake walls. Someone who likely wasn't as familiar with the environment design was probably asked to change it into a normal wall, and instead of asking a question, took a bandaid approach and tried to make the wall durable beyond what any player would actually try to do to test a fake wall.

[Bobertt]

They may just be removed paths. On reddit they have found several more but many of them have no items in them. The fact they need so many hits makes me think the devs tried to save time and put up hidden walls with a lot of hits instead of changing the level because they didn't think anyone would keep trying after the first few hits.

[SyntheticForm]

Just got the platinum this morning.

What a beautiful game.

[Crows90]

Congrats. Working on it myself. Rocking dual flails and dual lightsaber.

[XxINFERNUSxX]

50 hits hmmm, on the PC if you use a trainer one setting is "Super Damage/One Hit Kill" which might work on the wall 😁
Save you the trouble of hitting it 50x 🤣 https://flingtrainer.com/tr...

[XxINFERNUSxX]

I guess no one likes trainers? I mean why they can be fun to do what you want in any game.

[frostypants]

Early April Fool's? Because that's nuts.

[Nerdmaster]

And I bet Souls fans think this is an amazing idea.

[NotanotherReboot]

hitting a wall 50 times is still more fun than Gran Turismo 7

[thesoftware730]

Nope, it's about the same as I suck at GT7 and hit the wall like 55 times a race anyway.