what's funny is fromsoft said when the co-op mod came out that they liked it and "may" look at including that type of feature in future games.

that was 2022. then they released nightreign.

Originally posted by SHOCKNUTZ:

what's funny is fromsoft said when the co-op mod came out that they liked it and "may" look at including that type of feature in future games.

that was 2022. then they released nightreign.

they got Tencent'd - the way that works is they lift good ideas from titles and try them out in a myriad of others, particularly within whichever franchise wins the ongoing race to define genres

inb4 extraction souls

ah and to answer OP, I don't think it is possible to find out how many are on Seamless unless you have access to the metadata of Steam's AGI and a lot of time to burn cross-referencing stuff

I think people have always blown the amount of people on seamless way out of proportion than it really is. Probably not even 10% of the people playing this game are on Seamless. A lot of people aren't going to go out of their way to download a mod unless they are specifically going to be doing a very long playthrough with their friends.

I don't think Seamless works for random coop. You need a password

Not at all, it's just that the multiplayer system designed for a really small & tight game like Demon's Souls begins to literally fall apart when applied to a giant world with 200 locations. Not to mention that there's a whole helper system (spirit ashes) which replaces co op. A lot of people who would reach out to a random summon in earlier games might collect & upgrade spirits.

Things honestly didn't feel much more "active" with 100k people on at base & SotE launches. There are over 30k people still on every day, so it's hardly dead.

I still get summoned regularly at many different levels, so no I don't think Seamless killed the game at all.

Just drop your sign using the Near/Far option, not just the near one.

I wouldnt say seamless is the issue.
The game has been out for nearly 4 years now.People have moved on and are playing other games so naturally over time the amount of people to invade etc will drop.

Also, nightreign would have siphoned off some ER players over.

I get a lot of invaders at 100-200 when I use the taunters tounge, but not much at 300 unless I'm on the weekend at night. usually invading is just going into gank squads, or if I'm lucky, normal people loving the same. As for co-oping I barely get anyone, but I think thats because I never activate effigys except for a few bosses