Rattling, that was quick. When modder Yui introduced final month that they had been engaged on a seamless co-op mod for Darkish Souls: Remastered, however had been nonetheless early on within the growth course of, I figured it may not arrive earlier than Elden Ring Nightreign drops subsequent month. However, lo and behold, right here it’s!
To be truthful, I might need guessed, because the creator of Elden Ring’s hottest multiplayer mod has been on an absolute tear these days. They put out a Darkish Souls 3 seamless co-op mod, again in February, in order that’s now two massive mods launched within the first 4 months of this yr. Phwoar.
With none additional adieu, you may seize Darkish Souls: Remastered seamless co-op right here, however it’s value studying on earlier than you do, as this launch model of the mod comes with some high-quality print.
“The mod is at present in an alpha state, so you might be very prone to expertise bugs,” Yui wrote in its description, “For those who do, please report them to me in as a lot element as attainable and I will work to repair them for future variations.” So, with the ability to leap into DSR co-op proper now will imply serving as a little bit of an early entry guinea pig which will run into or want to assist kind out some teething troubles, not that that’ll essentially matter to you.
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In spite of everything, as you may see demoed above, the mod comes with all the standard sorts of multiplayer additions and tweaks you will have come to count on when you’ve performed any of Yui’s different seamless co-op mods. You possibly can leap into DSR’s open world with as much as 5 different gamers, expertise stuff like NPC dialogue in unison, and tackle bosses with out your buddies getting despatched residence in the event that they die or as soon as the combat is completed. As a substitute, anybody who falls in battle will probably be left to spectate the others till they’ll be part of within the motion once more.
Another noteworthy tweaks it comes with embody “an overhaul to Darkish Souls’ peer-to-peer connection system, utilizing Steam’s newer networking API”, “a streamlined connection system signifies that co-operators can be part of the host from anyplace on the planet”, and the introduction of some additional enemy scaling to assist maintain issues decently balanced. You can too allow invasions when you fancy the additional problem that entails.
Good. That should maintain you going till you may lose a bunch extra runes to Nightreign’s nightlords and slew of different hazards subsequent month.