Gumby

@GilbertMordinAndSullivan said:

Sigh. I'm guessing my magical, invincible shield is going away. Well, it was fun / cheap while it lasted. Also, I really wanted to see this in the patch notes:

"Fixed Namco Bandai, got dedicated servers like Atlus gave us."

This! I've been through the entire game as human and never been invaded. I've also joined the Dark Wraiths and been to pretty much any area trying to invade someone without any luck. Just invasion failed over and over again. I see tons of bloodstains and ghosts though, but multiplayer isn't working for me at all.

Either the server thing isn't working as intended or I'm missing something. Don't know if it has anything to do with that I'm in Sweden and the chance that someone in the same lobby is in the same area, close to my level and human is minimal.

@Humanity: Holy shit... that's way more complicated than I thought it would be...thanks for the tips though. I'll have to look into it!

@Humanity said:

Just recently I realized my NAT type was Moderate and this was causing me to fail on summons etc. When I fixed that I started getting invaded by real players and was able to summon others to help me.

Is it complicated to change your NAT type? Whenever I played Black ops it said it was open, but after booting up Dark Souls it changed to Strict... I'm not good at stuff like this! :P

@Tennmuerti: Thanks! Thought i had to struggle through the catacombs. What a relief.

@zack1: Is that the way to the second bell or is it just to level up some more?

So I've just defeated the Bell Gargoyles and the undead church and now I don't really know where to go. I've tried the catacombs but the skeletons just destroy me (I've died 18 times so far...)even with the Drake sword. Is this really the way I'm supposed to go? I get the thing with killing the necromancer so that they don't come back to life, but at one point there are 5 skeletons at once that just gang up on me... So far the game has been manageable but this is just impossible, atleast with my current character.

Was just waiting on this thread! Same thing happened to me, but with a black knight. Not a big deal but still really kinda annoying...

@EchoEcho said:

@Gumby said:

Why couldn't they just have a way to enter a friend's game? I understand what they are going for, but if people want to play with their friends, let them!

They -- the developers of the game -- don't want you to play with your friends, they want you to play with random people, with no means of communication outside your actions within the game. That is the feel they wanted for the game, and they're standing by it. Just because some people want the game to be something it's not doesn't mean that the developers should cave to their demands. Either the game is for you or it's not, basically. Personally I'm glad that From Software is standing by their vision for the game as it was intended.

Still. One does not have to rule out the other. Aren't games meant to be fun? Somewhere down the line devs need to ask themselves what the consumers want and if you have a tonne of people complaining because they can't play with their friends maybe they should think about implementing that. Besides, it's not impossible to play with certain people, it's just a hassle. Why not make it easier for people who like the core game but also like co-op?

Right now, the Souls community feels exactly the same as the Monster Hunter one. To quote Jeff, every thought of changing something is met with: "IT NEEDS TO BE THE WAY IT IS!!!".

Why couldn't they just have a way to enter a friend's game? I understand what they are going for, but if people want to play with their friends, let them!

@MooseyMcMan said:

Are you just trolling us because you know most of us are pathetic nerds with no chance of getting a girlfriend?

Phew! What a relief!

I thought I was the only one!