From Software finally brings Dark Souls 3 multiplayer back online, other games to follow

Back in January, Bandai Namco and From Software were forced to take the multiplayer servers for the Dark Souls series offline for the PC platform due to a major security bug. Last month, we learned that the team was close to bringing multiplayer back online, but things went quiet again. Now, PvP is finally back up for Dark Souls 3, with Dark Souls and Dark Souls II set to follow later. 

In Dark Souls Remastered, Dark Souls 2 and Dark Souls 3, players can enable online functionality to invade other player's games and also be invaded. Unfortunately, a flaw with this system could grant Remote Code Execution privileges, enabling a hacker to worm their way into the PCs of unsuspecting players.

Since the bug was discovered right before the release of Elden Ring, From Software decided to take Dark Souls offline on PC for a while so it could finish up with Elden Ring and then properly work out a fix for the Dark Souls issue. Back in May, a studio spokesperson told PCGamer that the update would be coming soon. and in July, SteamDB showed that the developers were working on a Dark Souls 3 update.

Now over half a year later, From Software has officially announced that Dark Souls 3 now has its multiplayer back online. The studio also confirms that it is still working to restore online functionality to all other Dark Souls titles too.

Considering the severity of the bug, it seems that the development team had to go through quite a bit of effort to properly secure Dark Souls multiplayer. Hopefully the update can roll out to the other titles in fairly quick succession, but they likely want to see if any issues pop up with the new Dark Souls 3 update first.

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KitGuru Says: Invasions are a big part of the Dark Souls experience and for some players, it is the best feature of the game. It has been a long time coming, but the fix has finally arrived for Dark Souls 3, and the remaining games shouldn't be too far behind. 

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