ELDEN RING update 1.10 is now available. PvP-exclusive balance adjustments The adjustments in this section do not affect single-player or cooperative play. Increased poise damage of all weapons and some spells and incantations. Increased poise when attacking with some skills, spells, incantations an...
There's a few really amazing areas available after the capital - you can access a couple of them early if you know what to do, but they're properly available after - but I'd say that in general it gets a lot more straight-line, and the start of the game is by far the best bit.
Fixed a bug that prevented some spells and incantations from causing damage while under the effect of some skills and items.
Ah yes, the bug. That stopped the damage thing when I or the enemy had the thing from the other thing. That totally bothered me. Glad they fixed the thing of thing damage thing bug.