Game news Cooperation in Elden Ring? The developers “are not totally opposed to it”…
More co-op in FromSoftware games? The director doesn’t seem to have any problem with it, especially since the players are asking for it.
More co-op at FromSoftware
If you are a seasoned Elden Ring player and you like to explore its lands accompanied, you may be familiar with the Seamless Co-op mod, a very popular tool which allows exploration and combat in the company of your sidekick, transforming Elden Ring into a true co-op experience. However, the addition comes with some drawbacks as noted by Wes Fenlon, journalist for pcgamer, such as the impossibility of riding Torrent in the open world. During a meeting, Fenlon took the opportunity to interview Hidetaka Miyazaki about the possible possibility of playing the entire game in a single uninterrupted and complete multiplayer session. To which the director let slip a few scraps of hope for the community:
“It’s certainly not something that we actively oppose or want to downplay, wanting to do the whole game together. As for the Ring of Elden, we just wanted a more casual style: enter, defeat a boss, exit. “It doesn’t impose any technical restrictions on the player, it just allows them to accomplish their goal and move on, so to speak.”
Before adding: “That doesn’t mean we won’t consider other ways to play like you and your friend, from start to finish, in full cooperation – that doesn’t mean we won’t consider those kinds of ideas for our future games“. Words which seem to predict that for the future of FromSoftware, their future games could integrate a cooperative dimension very different from the one we know until now. Moreover, the studio tends to make cooperation in its games more and more accessible, and Wes Fenlon notes that he probably noticed that the Seamless Co-op mod was by far the most popular on the Nexusmods page by Elden Ring, with 3.6 million downloads to its credit.
Elden Ring DLC coming soon
The hot news of the moment for Elden Ring is obviously its generous Shadow of the Erdtree DLC, so generous that it almost constitutes a game in its own right. On Metacritic, the score is currently at 95/100. Available June 21 on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series, it begins in the mysterious Shadow Realm, a new and unknown location from the original game. The player keeps his starting character, a Shardless. He is led to follow in the footsteps of Miquella: a demigod best known for his family. For us, it’s a very good 18/20 : “If the Occult Tree of Shadow of the ErdTree is in the shadow of its namesake from Between the Earth, the DLC has everything to shine in the same spotlight as the original video game“, we wrote in conclusion.