Elden Ring offered a terrible multiplayer mode in its original version, which a developer fixed on her own. Now she has taken on Dark Souls and has already presented a playable version of her new modification after just one week.
Elden Ring was released in February 2022 and featured a rudimentary multiplayer mode, as well as several network errors, and the mode was limited to 2 players. Developer Yui addressed the multiplayer mode back then and offers significantly more extensive options. The extensive multiplayer mod for Elden Ring has been presented to you on MeinMMO.
Now the developer explained in a video that she has taken on Dark Souls, and the first results are already impressive. According to her own statement, it only took a week to get the modification running. The multiplayer mod is already fully functional, but it may still contain bugs.
The developer explained to Polygon that Dark Souls is particularly well-suited for multiplayer:
Dark Souls 1 was my first Dark Souls game and it holds a special place in my heart. I believe that the interconnected world of the game makes it a really great candidate for seamless co-op.
Yui additionally explained that the development of the mod was significantly easier than for the modern Elden Ring. However, one can tell that Dark Souls is more than a decade old: the original version was released in 2011, and the remastered version improved it again in 2018.
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What did the developer do? The first version of the co-op mod for Dark Souls Remastered was released on April 10, 2025. In her video on YouTube.com, you can see how the modification works: You use a new item to summon other players into your world. After defeating a boss, however, the group does not dissolve as it normally would. Other limitations of the old remastered version are also removed.
She explained among other things that Dark Souls was not designed for a truly open world. In the official game, there are fog walls that prevent players from moving too far away on the map. Therefore, she had to make the game deactivate or unload parts of the game as soon as the co-op partners move too far away from the host. Otherwise, the game would eventually crash. The step was quite complex, but she actually managed to do it.
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