FromSoftware’s take on multiplayer is easily my favorite part of the studio’s games. The summoning system means you’re completely alone and surrounded by other players simultaneously, with their bloodstains and cheeky messages acting like passing ships in the night. You can then call on a random player to help you finally beat that brick wall of a boss, only for them to slowly fade away when the task is done as they emote to you one last time. If you want to trudge through one of FromSoftware’s games with a friend, however, the developer’s online system can make that tough. That’s why I’m thrilled to say that the creator behind Elden Ring’s most popular mod has finally set their sights on doing the same for Dark Souls 3.
Seamless Co-op is by far the most downloaded Elden Ring mod around. Created by ‘Yui,’ it has over 8.6 million installs on Nexus, and makes playing with friends in the co-op game infinitely easier. Not only does it fully synchronize every player’s game, but it also stops sending summoned warriors home after deaths or bosses are defeated. The mod makes online play much simpler, and it looks like Yui is finally bringing it to Dark Souls 3.
A new seven-minute video on Yui’s channel shows the Seamless Co-op mod in action, and it looks as good as you’d expect. All multiplayer boundaries are gone, as the two players make their way through many of the soulslike game’s areas. “Play with friends from the tutorial to the very end of the game, with synchronised progress, and no resummoning or interruptions. Invasions are optional and active by default,” Yui writes.
So if you’ve been itching to play Dark Souls 3 again, this is the perfect excuse. You and some friends can load up a session and not have to worry about joining up together again after every death or boss, and not be impeded by the extra fog walls FromSoftware sometimes throws in when playing online.
You can even adjust the multiplayer scaling of all the enemies to your liking, making the challenge as easy or hard as you want. Summoning more players does make standard enemies and bosses in Dark Souls 3 tougher, but with Seamless Co-op you’ll be able to control that yourself.
Yui doesn’t have a launch nailed down for the mod just yet, but does say they’re “expecting to have it sometime soon” after ironing out some features.
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