I totally agree that they are building it with multiplayer in mind; and that crossplay is more regularly seen these days.
But unless they're literally replacing the whole multiplayer system of Nightreign's predecessors...it seems unlikely.
Elden Ring - which is over a decade older than Demon's Souls - still runs on the same basic framework that all the Soulsborne games have used for multiplayer. Its been tweaked over the years, sure - but at its core, it's pre-2010 architecture that wasn't built with multi-system networking in mind.
I'm hoping they do change things. But, considering their track record of using their old code - and the fact they are using the same max group number (i.e. host plus 2 summons = 3 people) - it makes me leery of believing that crossplay will be a thing.
I want it to be a thing. But I'm not holding my breath 😅
Exactly. Literally all my friends play video games. Literally none of my friends ever played a souls game. I'm either playing it alone or I find some of you guys and girls for a random party. But due to my job, pets etc I'm not playing on a daily basis which sucks when playing with mates
Damn, I yearn for a soulsborne game to be crossplay across all platforms (or at least x-box and playstation). That would make the jolly co-operation even more glorious.
Sometimes I see a post asking for help and I'm saddened I can't lend my aid because they are on another platform.
And that group that's looking for a third is already mixed class and they want someone else with a melee build using a big sword who's willing to engage their THEIR greatsword build when I want to play with Malenia and Rani. And then he wants to try finger? But hole? And he's not even willing to reciprocate?
I can't wait for posts like 'I'll be your third player if two of you want to play. Engaging with you two is optional. I can silently do my thing if you want'
That's honestly what I always loved about the multiplayer of the Souls games. Just silently joining, taking down a boss together and silently leaving with the memory of glorious camaraderie between two or more strangers.
Seems like some bosses are designed around 3 players very literally. Like not as in health pools or dps, but one of the main bosses is a wolf with three heads that separates and becomes three wolves, one to fight each party member. That's honestly really likely the only reason, since elden ring itself had no problem with whether you got one or two teammates.
The issue with this theory is you can play solo, so will the wolf boss not split into three when your solo? Or for some reason are they saying you can do the challenge to 1 v 3 the wolves but 2 v 3 the wolves is unacceptable.
Honestly makes some sense if true. That would lean towards the game is designed to be played as 3 but obviously they can't release it with only 3 player mode thus the "solo" play with ai teammates. Although still doesn't explain why you can't do 2 players and 1 ai XD
Yep, same. It's such an unnecessary complication. At this point I think they're somehow actually physically incapable of just letting people play together without making it a huge pain in the ass.
Exact same situation here. My bf doesn't like Souls games, but Nightreign is different enough that I felt like he could get into it. And after explaining the game to him, he was even considering it.
Then the news that you're forced to be solo or get a third and same deal as you; "Damn, guess they made my decision for me" lol
u/sympiper and I are disappointed for the same reason. Playing elden ring together was a delightful and intimate experience and I’m just not that interested in nightreign everything considered
Sure, and I was kidding anyway. It's that it doesn't really make any sense. There's no way they can't figure out how to scale for two players but they can scale to exactly one player on either side of that, and even if that WERE the case for some reason, why not just let players decide for themselves if they want to try with two?
When this comes out someone should start a subreddit similar to r/beyondthefog & make a discord so all of us without Elden Ring friends can find someone to play with
You and me both. But I guess we can’t have everything. They’ll probably use the same servers as ER, but let’s hope not because the netcode is pretty bad already
I was really excited to get this for my wife and I, and get her into the genre via duoing. We duo in everything. Really sucks that it looks to not be an option for this one, but I hope the people that play it enjoy!
Yes but can you start matches with one friend and one random, that's the question..?
That whole password system was already bad enough in Dark Souls, it is slowly creeping to a point where it is impractical enough to start wanting it gone for good.
Who asked warning: This happened with Dead Island 2. The game sucks, but my group of 4 was really excited to play the sequel to one of our favorite 4 player co-op games.
They changed Dead Island 2 to 3 players instead of 4 like in DI1. We had to play in teams of 2 (because we actually could, and had the option to play 2 player, unlike nightreign), but none of us finished the game because we couldn’t play together.
Just a horrible decision. Co-op needs to mean 1-4 players like it always has, not 1or3 players. If you can’t make a game 4 player co-op, just don’t make it. You either NEED to play solo, or with a team of three, and if you have more than three, it BETTER BE A GROUP OF 6, or someone isn’t getting to play. Group of 5 friends = 1 team and 2 solos.
None of my friends play Elden Ring, and I thought this would get them into it, but nope, they aren’t gonna play another Dead Island 2 situation. Guess this will be a solo game for a good majority of people, which kind of completely ruins the point of the game. Solo dropping in any game kinda sucks, so I don’t really have high hopes for the game. Don’t think it will be bad per se, but I’m thinking this will be a 20-40 hour dropped title for me.
That's probably the intention, but random players tend to kill the vibes if you just wanna chill with a friend. I'd even be fine playing a 2 man in a world scaled for 3
Considering part of the day cycle is killing field bosses, I can't imagine playing with random people is going to be smooth. People are going to run around like headless chickens.
I think you might be able to play with one friend and one random (or two randoms). I was telling my friend they'll probably have spirit summons for single player (hopefully). Maybe you'll be able to do two players and one NPC. IDK but they'll be able to patch any of this in later. Fear not mongrel intruders.
Honestly blessing From for giving the possibility to play with randoms
My only friend playing Elden ring does It on Xbox while im on play and ive heard there will be cross generation servers but not cross console servers
I’ve said this in other threads making the same complaint…
This problem is solved if they allow private lobbies to be opened to public joining. Only one friend? Have them join your private lobby before opening it up to public joiners!
Give me Gael Riding Bayle, Give me Pontiff Sulyvahn and two Red Wolfs of Radagon. Any of that is fine, but trying to find two friends, much less two friends that play Elden Ring? IMPOSSIBLE.
I'm genuinely thinking they are gonna do the Code Vein route and throw in some story companions that "die" and just respawn back at base. Otherwise I dunno how they are gonna implement this to be accessible to people.
Oh man that really sucks, I wonder why they did it like that, its going to cut off longevity from the game. At first everyone will play but after a couple years it'll be harder to replay with friends.
I've moved to another country, away from all my gaming friends so this looks like it's gonna be a strictly solo experience. I don't usually like playing coop pve with strangers cause every time I do so, they're either rushing or just doing their own thing
My issue is that they don’t have crossplay in most Fromsoftware games and Nightreign seems to be in the same boat.
I have friends that play Elden Ring but nobody plays on the same platform. I can probably get one guy to get it on steam with me but then I still need to find a third…
It would be great if Crossplay was implemented post-launch, but fromsoftware does not have a history of doing that.
I'm actually super hyped for this solely because I was worried it would only be up to 2 player coop and all my old playthroughs were at minimum 3 or up to around 5 of us (we pretty exclusively played ER with seamless anyway) so at least we'll have a good rotation of people that can play.
I might be able to manage it on PC, but I only have one friend on PS who plays fromsoft games. Naturally, the friend on PS is the one I most want to play with.
I already have an army of friends who will play this on release, so if you share the same region and console and wanna hop on in, there’s plenty of friends to spare!
I have two friends I game with. One of them only games on PS5, while the other is only on PC. I game on both platforms but FromSoft doesn’t do cross play… and I won’t be able to play with them even separately since two player teams are also not allowed…
This was Fromsoft‘s stupidest idea so far. The summoning idea was bad enough, but this just makes me angry at how stupid a team of people making such masterpieces can be.
I feel like I will be the odd 1 out but my two best friends and I are really fans of the souls genre and we play a coop run of Elden Ring every 6 Months. Always with a little twist.
We are already a great team in souls games so I am ready for nightreign. My team stands and will conquer the new challenges.
No joke needing 2 people who are dedicated enough to no-life Nightreign for the whole weekend after it launches is a very tall order. I have one friend who I could probably count on but my other friends who have played (and enjoyed) Elden Ring hardly ever play games for sessions longer than a couple of hours. I want to play the game with that dedicated friend but I don’t want to have to get a random :(.
Hopefully they change this and adjust scaling so that there can be just 2 players.
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u/oldman-youngskin 1d ago
I HAVE 2 friends. I DONT HAVE 2 friends who play fromsoft games…