Elden Ring Mod Boom
Elden Ring’s community just restored cut content for merchant Kale on PC, and modders also turned Red Dead Redemption 2 into a Shadow‑of‑the‑Erdtree‑style Soulslike — complete with melee, spells, and boss fights. New PvP videos are simultaneously reshaping weapon meta in Shadow of the Erdtree, so both lore and competitive play are getting fresh life ( ).
Modder TransQuility published "Merchant Kale Questline Restored" on Nexus Mods as Version 1.0, with the file uploaded and last updated on January 24, 2026. (nexusmods.com)) The restored content reconstructs Kalé’s larger Frenzied Flame arc using dataminer Sekiro Dubi’s findings, and PC Gamer highlights that the material would have expanded Kalé into a pivotal, tragic figure voiced in the original game by Nabil Elouahabi. (pcgamer.com)) Multiple outlets picked up the restoration this week, including TheGamer, OpenCritic and HobbyConsolas, underscoring cross‑site interest in playable versions of previously datamined NPC quest content. (thegamer.com)) YouTuber Blurbs’ RDR2 project recreates Elden Ring mechanics inside Red Dead Redemption 2 and stages Uncle as a stand‑in final boss, a conversion discussed in articles published March 24, 2026. (thegamer.com)) Blurbs’ build includes Elden‑style melee movesets, parries, custom spells, summon signs voiced via Twitch text‑to‑speech, and an Erdtree‑like arena with a second‑phase "Lumbago Beast"; outlets report the mod is not yet publicly released. (thegamer.com)) PvP creators are driving rapid meta shifts: ChaseTheBro’s "Shadow Of The Erdtree PvP" playlist lists hundreds of invasion videos (615 in the playlist) and individual weapon clips have drawn six‑figure view counts, for example ~184,000 views on a Messmer Soldier’s Spear heavy‑attack demonstration. (youtube.com)) Community tier lists and guides logged after the DLC count roughly 100 new Shadow of the Erdtree weapons and place Elden Ring’s total weapon pool around 408, data points that analysts cite when explaining why PvP balance and popular loadouts have changed since the expansion. (ofzenandcomputing.com))
