[Release] Dark Souls 2: Seamless Co-op
Hi everyone
This is a post letting you know that the Dark Souls II: Seamless Co-op mod is now live!
Download the mod:
Known issues
The mod is currently in ALPHA. Do not expect a flawless / bug free experience. The intention of mod release now is to collect feedback and bug reports and work towards a better experience. Please find a list of known bugs/issues:
Sometimes, dying in a session can cause enemy de-sync to the enemies that have already been alerted
'Velstadt, the Royal Aegis', and 'Sinh, the Slumbering Dragon' will occasionally de-sync
Object interactions (i.e. doors opened, items picked up) may not update in phantom's own worlds when completed in a host session (Phantom only)
Item pickups may be duplicated / lost when reloading in the host world (Phantom only)
Occasionally, a host world may become un-joinable. Fixed by closing and re-opening the session
Mirror Knight invaders will occasionally fail to connect
Most of these issues are not game-breaking.
Seamless co-operative play
Simply put, the mod allows you to play with friends throughout the entirety of the game with no restrictions. With this, it's theoretically possible to play the game from the tutorial up to the final boss completely in one co-op session.
If a player dies, they will respawn in the same world at the last bonfire they rested at The session will not be terminated.
Defeating enemy bosses and clearing areas no longer sends co-operators home.
All fog walls/barriers that usually restrict the multiplayer zone are gone.
All NPC dialogue and talk events will be synchronised
When one player rests at a bonfire the world state will reset for all players
Game progression events completed in online play will also progress the game in your own world.
You can play with 5 other players in the open world.
An overhaul to Dark Souls II's peer-to-peer connection system, using Steam's newer networking API
Mod items
Currently there are 12 items unique to the mod -- Please note that the icons in this post are currently a WIP and not final:
Pharros' Heliograph - Used to open (host) a seamless online session
Fragment of Brilliance - Used to join a seamless session as a friendly player
Fragment of Malevolance - Used to invade a seamless session as a hostile player
Obscuring Stone - Used to disconnect from a seamless session
Petrified Fingers - Used by the host to increase invader count and frequency
Hallucinogenic Elixir - Used by the host to change the world's rules
Cursed Soul Fragment - Represents world affliction build-up
Transient Curse - Represents proof of a disaster felled
Mirror Talisman - Used to join the Mirror Knight covenant and invade during the boss fight with the Looking Glass Knight
Fragment of Sin - Used to join the Blue Sentinels covenant and invade sinners [ WIP / NON-FUNCTIONAL]
Extravagant Bell - Used to join the Bell Keepers covenant and invade trespassers to the Belfy areas [ WIP / NON-FUNCTIONAL]
Severed Tail - Used to join the Rat King covenant and invade trespassers to the Doors of Pharros [ WIP / NON-FUNCTIONAL]
Darkcaller Bell - Used to join the Pilgrims of Dark covenant and invade trespassers to the Abyss [ WIP / NON-FUNCTIONAL]
Ancient Dragon Ring - Used to join the Dragon Remnants covenant and invade trespassers to the Ancient Dragon [ WIP / NON-FUNCTIONAL]
Quality of Life Improvement
Along with core function of this mod, there are a number of quality of life improvements that you might like:
A streamlined connection system means that co-operators can join the host from anywhere in the world. So even if you do disconnect, you can very quickly re-join and continue where you left off.
Allowing the user to set the volume of the title menu
Fixing the "Disable double clicking" option not working correctly for keyboard and mouse players
Re-addition of the server timed-exclusive cosmetic items from the original Dark Souls II
Conversion of the controller deadzone area to a radial deadzone
Allowing the user to skip the ending credits once the game is complete (normally unskippable in NG, lasts about 9 minutes)
Option for borderless fullscreen mode
Balancing
This mod undoubtedly makes the game much easier. To try and offset this and preserve the game's challenge, mechanics have been introduced in addition to the base game's enemy health pool increases as you would normally get with increasing phantoms:
You may customise scaling to your preference
Players cannot sit at a bonfire whilst another player is fighting a boss
Dying during a boss battle or invasion will put your character into limbo, spectating other players until either everyone in the party has been defeated, or a player rests at a bonfire.
(Optional) Dying in a session will afflict your character with a cursed soul fragment, increasing the difficulty of enemies. Dying too many times without resetting at a bonfire will cause disaster to occur in the world.
Invasions
If enabled in the ini file (allow_invaders = 1) then other players will be able to join your session as an evil spirit and attempt to kill you and your party.
During an active invasion, you cannot warp or use bonfires to rest. Until you defeat the invader and banish them back to their own world.
If you would like to invade a player, then use the fragment of malevolence item in-game and you will join a random player's session (within your matchmaking range) and be able to engage in PvP.
Comments (112)
how are you meant to get the mirror talisman for mirror knight invasions? it didn't get added to my inventory at the bonfire and it didn't drop from the mirror knight
Quick question... How does this mod react with the Champion's Covenant?
I am so hype, I literally just got all of my friends on for this!
Could you please add support for Windows ARM64 injection? Im using snapdragon x, but the game just runs without the mod.
hi Yui, any chance we could get an option where everyone alive has to agree before resting at a bonfire? kinda like minecraft's sleep system. Would be sick for co-op!
Want to help test it, but my cousin's pc is busted :(
ik here's a lot of comments but i just want to recommend some people how to start playing the mod,for some reason with random chance i guess(happened to me and my friend once) you won't be able to get an estus flask and will be forced to use cheat engine or create another save,also there's a bug(or maybe not) that can restore all the items i picked up back in their places,i think it's somehow connected with bonfires but im not really sure. that's all i found
te amo
just to help where can i let you know the glitch?
Am I doing something wrong? My fps drops to like 10 but when I load up the actual game its fine
Bug in current version with some cpus
is it possible to reduce the new coop UI?
The dark souls game series has always been my favorite, I played each part for a couple of hundred hours alone and was always sad that it was only for one player. Thanks to you and your efforts, I was able to go through every part with a bunch of my friends (right now we're sitting at 2). Thank you very much for all your contribution.
I think there’s a problem with the controller settings in Seamless Co-op
thx again
Im very thankful for this mod honestly. im however having an issue where ive downloaded the mod and bring it into my ds2 game file, but everytime i try and start up the seamless coop it keeps saying "Please enter a session password in your settings file" even though i have a password. could i get some help on that?
Any chance everyone keeps harassed by the Pursuer? Like everywhere? Even if you’ve killed him. And even if you haven’t fought him at all.
My controller just don't work lol.
Nunca tive tanta ansiedade pelo lançamento de algo desde que anunciaram Shovel Knight DX. Agora posso desfrutar da melhor experiência cooperativa online no melhor jogo da série, presenciei alguns bugs, mas nada que estrague a experiência. Fico muito grato pelo seu esforço e estudos da engine para nós dar esse presentão.
Do you still have a Ko-fi? I would like to show my appreciation but can't do Patreon
o brasil te ama, finalmente ! vou poder jogar meu souls like favorito em coop de verdade simbora!!!! vlw pelo trabalho \o/
been playing with the mod for a bit and found two, not sure if they're bugs, but definitely oddities. one thing, when a cooperator dies, they don't leave a bloodstain that can be picked up. instead it seems the bloodstain appears in their own world at the place where they first joined another session. and the other thing is that the agape ring doesn't seem to work. don't know if intentional but i still get souls regularly while wearing the ring it would be really nice if these two things could be adressed as they pretty heavily impact the flow of the gameplay
Thank you, the mod is perfect.
sooo armored core 6? 😏
THAS WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT! THATS WHY HES THE GOAT
Absolute 🐐 THANK YOU! 🙏🏻
After I died when buying ladders from ladder smith gliggin the ladders disappeared and not in his shop nomore to purchase
Do you know what the matchmaking range for pvp is, getting invaded by people with gear that seams impossible (maxed out weapons + dlc 3 stuff) to get at sl 50 with less than 100k soul memory
There was a severe bug when I and my friends had different progress with maps. I finished No-Man's Wharf at first, my friend did enter that map yet. And then he joined my world and he cannot get into the boss ship, when he want to walk onto the ship, he will instantly die. And also when we joined his world and re-entered the ship, he still died while he is the lobby host, and the boss is in-activated
W colors on the pop up notification in the mod. Also does anyone know the best way to play this on an ultrawide? i cant seem to choose borderless window and when I select anything for my resolution it just stretches the whole screen to fit lmaoo
You're the best! Worth the wait, and a nice surprise. I appreciate you 🦆
Cheers man! Hope you‘re looking forward to the finetuning and can be proud of progress so far!
Hey YUI,
When I try to download it, my computer thinks it's a virus
So maughlin the armor respawned while I was a host and out of the blue his tombstone showed up we didn’t kill him though not sure if he fell through the stage but it happened for sure
Chaser still appears even though all players in the session don't have any Cursed Soul Fragment. We tried disabling the death_debuffs but still a chaser appears. (the enemies don't glow red either) We ended up deleting the save file for now, haven't tried the new file yet.
Generational Mod, been having a blast with it, stay blessed 🙏🏽 one thing we noticed was that Phantoms are unable to Deal DMG to Host NPC Like Pate, while the Host can Attack normaly. As a phantoms you can be attacked by i.e. Pate but wont be able to do any DMG back. (might also be some setting we fked up but not sure what would cause that) Some people here also prolly shouldnt be playing this Game at all as they seem to Lack the eye and brainfunction to read or spend morgen than 3 Seconds on any post
dont think steam achievements work for whoever joins unfortunately
Hello, Been having a blast with a friend playing it today after having issues downloading it like others have mentioned I think. But as I don't have a github account figured i'd mention it here. 3 bugs we've come across so far. first being there is multiple emerald heralds in Majula but this doesn't seem to effect anything negatively so it seems fine and minor at worst. but if you're summoned into someone elses world and go to the birds to trade stones the game crashed/force closed itself once I left a stone at the nest (it didn't actually drop it so no item deletion going on, just something I guess people should be aware of) Lastly we killed Persuer before his arena and somehow got 2 souls (boss soul item and the ring he drops) from him each, but doing the dragon rider cheese worked normally and only gave us the normal amount of souls and items so i'm unsure of the cause, will mention if run into anything else but I am unsure how much of an issue this one is.
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Maughlin the armor merchant went missing for no reason whatsoever playing with a buddy The mod is awesome though!!!
It launches my command prompt and says 'Failed to find "SeamlessCoop//ds2sc..dll" (Error=2) Press any key to continue...' And when I press any key It just closes (Edit: for some reason, the file Is leading to a website, idk why so I'm gonna edit it to be slightly different but you'll get the point) Edit 2: I realized it kind of just deletes itself after I run it?? Very weird...
Unfortunately cannot connect to anybody no matter what amount of troubleshooting I follow
Thanks for the mod. I am having issues adding it as a non steam game tho. It defaults to just regular sotfs for some reason when I run it from steam
My antivirus says the download has a trojan, explanation plz?
big thanks for this and all the seamless co ops
It was working then all sudden said can’t find seamless coop but found out it’s because it quarantines the file thinking it’s a Trojan so if anyone has that problem u just allow it and it works!
Hey whats up with the weapons down at the majula house chest?
Is there any way to add the ability to get the summoning items without resting at a bonfire? Would like to attempt a no death no bonfire with da boys but that's a bit of a hurdle. Looks great so far btw! :D
LESGOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
So the Nexus link is bringing up a virus detection. Seems to have a trojan attached to it.
HUGE! Phenomenal job!
Now imagine if bloodborne was on pc
Why is windows and chrome calling it a virus?
Thanks for this free release, I guess we could all hand some money over to ya for this
THANK YOU SO MUCH. Is it possible to do local split screen co op with this?
best mod ever respect Yui
Hogglefart toxic player very nice mod respect😎
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ITS HEREEEEE ily yui
windows is flagging the file as a virus for some reason any ideas on how to get around that?
The GitHub seems to be empty, can you please add it there?
Been waiting so long for this moment! Question though, are you worried about your paid supporters dropping the support with the release of the mod?
i love seeing the emerald herald cloning herself in Majula. Please don't patch that out ever
and kiitos
Thank you so much! Now go relax, you deserve a break ❤️
Yuri, you are simply too good at your job, your mods are incredible and I really admire what you do for us. I hope the best goes for you in your personal life and you manage to successfully complete all your personal projects, I wish you the best ♥
Thank you!!!
Thank you Yui, Dark souls 2 has been my favourite game for years, but i have always been burdened by one issue. I can’t coop it with my friends like the other games. Today, you have bestowed upon me a simple and high quality solution and i am eternally grateful. Once again, thank you Yui.
olet goat
Ayooooo🤍🤍🤍🤍 quick question tho, I subbed a short time ago and didn’t find this info…this is for Dark Souls 2 or Dark Souls 2 Scholar Of The First Sin??
#creamteam
Thanks a lot for your work ❤️
the day has come, thank you for carrying the souls co op community Yui
a tear went down my leg
Thank you so much! This is a waited mod🙏
YUUUIIIIIII MY GOOOOAAAAATTT
Thank you man
Looks like the Github is empty, for now. Also a bit surprised that there's no additional 'poise' for enemies per player, by default. Is that due to how poise works in 2, or just a precaution to a bug, etc? Fine work as always, Yui. Especially with the new engine.
legendary
At last. A full Dark Souls Trilogy seamless co-op play-through is possible!
:O cant even. I am so hyped for this.
So exited to try it out. Blown away by all the extra stuff you included!
YESSSSSSSSSSS
Huge thank you for all the work you put into this!! Excited to finally try it out with my friends!
Let's go ooo! You are the freaking goat thank you so much for your hardwork 🥳🥳🥳
les gooo
LETS GOOOOOOO, MUCHAS GRACIAS YUI!!!!! TE QUIERO MUCHOTE!!!! Juro que apenas tenga como apoyarte mediante donación o suscripción lo haré. Muchas gracias, Dios te bendiga :') ♡
I came
I love you
Wasn't having a great day, am now having a great day. Praise this blessing from the one who has freed us from the shackles of the spaghetti soul memory
Thanks for The mod, o like you Very much. You are incredible! The mod is only for steam and original ds2?
Best souls is back
Thank you so much! This is wonderful time to be a fan of DS2!
it seems to be crashing for me on startup.. anyone else?
Thankkkk youuuu!!!! I appreciate all the hard work you’ve done!!!
YUI THE GOAT!!!!! Congrats on the release and all the hard work that’s gone into it so far!!!
Cannot get off work sooner lol. Thank you thank you
Also please do take care of your health Yui!
Finally. It's been a long journey and it's been rewarding through out, seeing Yui's updates, learning about how the things work and everything as in the progress of making the mod.. Finally today we're here. It's released. Thank you Yui. This means so much to the community.
Thank you so much!
Thank you Yui and your team for your work!! 🙏I can’t wait to try my first DS2 run with my buddy!
HELL YEAAHHH!!
best late birthday gift ever thank you so much for all your work yui
Let’s goooo! Appreciate all the effort that went into this.
Дякую!
Crying tears of joy
Congrats on the release! Thank you for your hard work and I hope you’re doing well!
LETS F**KING GOOOOOOOOO
Thank you so much for all your hardwork!
Generational mod
AHH NO WAY LESGOOO PROUDA YOU YAYAYAYAY YOU ARE GOATED thank you for all the work :3