Elden Ring’s immensely in style Seamless Co-op mod is again in a usable state for each the base sport and the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC, having been considerably re-written to account for modifications made to the 2022 hit RPG by the new content material.
“Whereas not good, it has reached a state the place it may be used to play Elden Ring and the DLC in co-op,” mentioned Dalvik, a moderator for the unofficial addon’s devoted Discord server, whereas talking on behalf of the mod’s creator Luke Yui earlier this week, as noticed by PC Gamer.
As its title suggests, the Seamless Co-op mod dramatically overhauls Elden Ring’s objective-based co-op expertise, permitting gamers to expertise the base sport — and now the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC — from starting to finish in a single unbroken session with up to 5 different gamers. Whereas utilizing the PC mod, gamers are not booted again to their very own sport world upon loss of life or the defeat of an space boss, and the restrictions to celebration motion imposed throughout vanilla co-op classes are eliminated altogether permitting for straightforward exploration of the open world.
The addition of unfettered co-op makes Elden Ring’s ordinarily uncompromising problem an entire lot extra manageable, and so the announcement that the mod is practical as soon as extra will come as welcome information to these fighting the problem posed by Shadow of the Erdtree.
Prior to Shadow of the Erdtree’s launch, FromSoftware president Hidetake Miyazaki revealed he had no points with gamers utilizing the seamless co-op mod to make the studios’ video games extra approachable. Going one step additional, he mentioned that the developer might even think about implementing “starting to finish, complete co-op” formally in future FromSoftware titles.
As of the time of writing the Seamless Co-op mod is sitting on a staggering 1.8 million distinctive downloads and counting, making it the hottest unofficial Elden Ring addon by far. The mod additionally now permits different gamers to be part of the host participant’s sport as an “evil spirit” utilizing a particular merchandise, in lieu of the invasion system utilized in the vanilla sport. Gamers will likely be unable to relaxation at websites of grace, or quick journey to them till they’ve killed the spirit. Nonetheless, the mod’s creator has warned that his creation is in an prolonged beta state, and would require testing following Shadow of the Erdtree’s launch, with gamers “very doubtless” to expertise bugs whereas utilizing the mod.
These wanting to discover Elden Ring’s new content material ought to take a look at IGN’s in depth guides and interactive maps to be certain that their tarnished is provided with the weapons and information wanted to overcome Shadow of the Erdtree’s fearsome solid of bosses.
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