FromSoftware Restores Dark Souls 3's Online Features
While FromSoftware's action-RPGs are primarily single player experiences, there are plenty of multiplayer features in games like Elden Ring and Dark Souls. If a boss is proving too hard, a player can summon in a co-op partner for support. Or, if a player wants the challenge of PvP, they can take part in what Dark Souls terms an invasion, where one user finds themselves in another's world, inevitably resulting in a duel to the death. However, for months now, players on PC have been unable to access the multiplayer for the Dark Souls games.
While Elden Ring's multiplayer has remained up, Dark Souls, Dark Souls 2, and 3 have all seen their online servers shut down, rendering the older titles without some important features. When this first occurred, many were worried, especially when neither Bandai Namco nor FromSoftware commented on the situation. Now, some months after players first noticed they couldn't access online features, Dark Souls 3's multiplayer has been restored.
Dark Souls 3 Gets New Update Suggesting Future Multiplayer Fixes
The news was announced on the official Dark Souls Twitter account, which stated that the online features for the PC version of Dark Souls 3 had been reactivated. While this is a positive update on the situation, and it has calmed fans who were worried multiplayer would be removed from Dark Souls altogether, but the issues are still persisting in the series' other titles. In the same Twitter post, FromSoftware clarified that it is still working on restoring online features to Dark Souls and Dark Souls 2, both of which also suffered from similar issues with multiplayer.
The process of fixing the Dark Souls multiplayer began early in 2022, when FromSoftware discovered that there had been a
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