Four months since Dark Souls’ PC servers had been taken offline, writer Bandai Namco and developer FromSoftware are but to announce once they’ll return.
The Dark Souls, Dark Souls 2, and Dark Souls 3 multiplayer servers had been suspended (opens in new tab) on January 23, shortly after group members found (opens in new tab) a severe safety exploit. Through accessing the sport’s multiplayer, unscrupulous gamers may run instructions by your laptop with out permission, opening the door to hackers taking management of your PC.
Bandai Namco reinstated Dark Souls’ multiplayer servers for consoles on February 9, however saved the PC servers offline whereas it “set up proper testing environments”. It mentioned the PC servers wouldn't go reside once more till after the discharge of Elden Ring, and that it had prolonged its investigation to make sure its newest title didn’t undergo from the safety situation. That was the final official replace the writer has publicly supplied.
Elden Ring doesn’t seem to have been affected by the server outage in any respect, nevertheless, with its multiplayer remaining energetic because it was launched in late February. It suggests the safety situation was mounted in time for Elden Ring’s launch, or by no means cropped up within the recreation in any respect.
Forgotten souls
While Bandai Namco has continued to launch a swathe of patches for its newest blockbuster launch, together with rebalances to make issues simpler and tweaks to the toughest bosses, the Dark Souls series has been left languishing. With the servers offline, PC gamers are unable to entry the video games’ messaging, invading, and summoning methods.
Those desirous to replay the Dark Souls series on PC, or coming to it for the very first time, aren’t at present capable of benefit from the full, correct variations of its video games. Players have been left eager for the servers to return to allow them to resume their regular multiplayer shenanigans (opens in new tab), in addition to admonishing FromSoftware (opens in new tab) for offering few progress updates.
The newest inkling we’ve had in regards to the state of the servers got here by a Reddit submit (opens in new tab) earlier this month. After contacting Bandai Namco buyer assist in regards to the outage, one person was informed “the developers are actively working on resolving the issue in question” but it surely “did not have an estimate of when this is expected to happen”.
While that confirms the problem hasn’t been forgotten, it doesn’t give a lot hope that the servers might be again online anytime quickly. For now, if you wish to play Elden Ring’s predecessor trilogy, you’re finest off choosing it up on console, the place the servers stay unaffected.
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