Dark Souls 3 Gets New Update Suggesting Future Multiplayer Fixes

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Even though Dark Souls 3 is one of the most popular action RPGs of the previous console generation, the title is still effectively devoid of its, arguably crucial, multiplayer functionality. After Bandai Namco's Dark Souls servers went down early in 2022, there was plenty of hubbub surrounding the problems, only for there to be no official solution for close to half a year at this point.

Specifically, Dark Souls 3 is currently locked in its offline mode, and players have no way of alleviating these issues as they're related to the central server that all Dark Souls titles ought to communicate with to facilitate the game's online functionality. After months of silence, however, Bandai Namco may finally have some concrete solutions in the works, as the game received a new limited-access hotfix earlier today.

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Lance McDonald took to Twitter to let people know that Bandai Namco is slowly pushing out a new Dark Souls 3 update to Steam users that have pre-existing access to the title's debug development builds. This is the first update in years, it's worth pointing out, and it seems likely that this is a sign that Bandai Namco may have a fix for Dark Souls' PC multiplayer exploit. While it's immediately obvious that removing multiplayer functionality from Dark Souls titles for months at a time was a poor showing, the exploit in question allowed malicious elements to use DS servers to take control over other players' PCs.

Bandai Namco's issued its last exploit-related announcement back in late May, but it looks like the company hasn't been twiddling its proverbial thumbs in the interim. Of course, there's no telling yet what the content of the limited-access