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Cooperative play has been a core feature ofFromSoftware’s games going all the way back to Demon’s Souls, but it’s never been easier than it is inElden Ring. Even if you prefer to play the Souls games solo, you may have taken advantage of their “summoning” mechanic that lets you call on friendly NPCs to take down bosses. More fun, in my opinion, is summoning another human player to battle through an entire area together. Prior to Elden Ring, this required spending a precious resource, but FromSoftware did away with that limitation to make Elden Ring much more multiplayer friendly.
Co-op in Elden Ring is still limited compared to most other games, though—you can’t just pull up your Steam friends list and invite someone into your session. If you die or defeat a boss, the co-op session is considered complete and your ally is whisked away back to their game world. While joining someone’s world for co-op does net you rewards, the process doesn’t carry over, meaning you’ll still have to defeat the same boss or area yourself.But thanks to an Elden Ring mod called Seamless Co-op, it’s possible to play through theentire gamein co-op without these limitations.It’s a totally new way to play Elden Ring in multiplayer: the whole game, beginning to end.
Elden Ring with the Seamless Co-op mod is now my favorite way to play, though it does have a few limitations and bugs as you’d expect from such an ambitious mod. Here’s everything you need to know about Seamless Co-op vs. traditional Elden Ring multiplayer, including how to set up the mod for Elden Ring’s expansion Shadow of the Erdtree.
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Will the Seamless Co-op mod work in Shadow of the Erdtree?
The Elden Ring Seamless Co-op mod works in Shadow of the Erdtree—but it’s currently in beta, so expect some bugs.
Seamless Co-op is an impressive and complex mod, and it could take some time before it’s out of beta, but LukeYui says the newest version should work smoothly for most people.
Seamless Co-op
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How to use the Seamless Co-op mod
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As of July 2024 Seamless Co-op is compatible with the latest update for Elden Ring, version 1.12.3.
Elden Ring wasn’t designed with full beginning-to-end co-op in mind. Like FromSoft’s earlier games, it was meant to be more of a drop-in, drop-out experience. But it’s so close to being a great co-op experience that it’s frustrating when you run into the game’s limitations. You also can’t enter caves and dungeons from the overworld with a summoned player present, for example, and annoyingly you can’t ride Torrent, the spectral steed, when another player is in your game either.
Seamless Co-op changes all of these things.
“Simply put, the mod allows you to play with friends throughout the entirety of the game with no restrictions,” says the Nexusmods description. “With this, it’s theoretically possible to play the game from the tutorial up to the final boss completely in one co-op session.”
Seamless Co-op does away with multiplayer zone restrictions and fog walls, lets you ride Torrent, and more. If you die, you stay connected to the multiplayer session.You share world progress, so everything you do sticks.
Since the mod’s release in May 2022, it’s been updated several times to fix bugs and add additional features. There’s a new item called the Rune Decanter, for example, that lets you trade runes for Rune Arcs, which you can’t easily accrue using the mod (normally these are earned while summoning and helping other players defeat bosses).
The mod isn’t just for cooperative play, either; Seamless Co-op lets the host enable PvP and customize teams, so you can use it to have player-vs-player battles if you want.
How to install:
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Using the Seamless Co-op mod
How buggy is the Seamless Co-op mod?
Buggier than the base game, but probably not as buggy as you’d expect.
In more than a dozen hours of playing the original Elden Ring campaign with the Seamless Co-op mod, I had one crash, which may not have even been the mod’s fault. On a couple occasions, either my co-op companion or I got stuck on a black screen after a cutscene.
Seamless Co-op FAQs
Do you have to worry about getting banned?
According to the mod creators,no. Here’s why:
“The mod prevents you from connecting the FromSoftware’s matchmaking servers, and it uses save files different to the non-modded game. Easy Anti-Cheat is also not active when using this mod. There’s no way to get banned using this mod unless you modify it with the intent of connecting to vanilla players.”
The Seamless Co-op mod actually includes a separate executable you use to launch the game, so you don’t really run any risk of connecting to the regular game servers.
How many players can play Seamless co-op together?
Up to 5 players!
Do enemies scale, or does this just make the game super easy?
Because you can divide enemy aggro, co-op play is always easier. But the Seamless co-op mod does attempt to compensate for this and scales enemies to be harder to kill as you add more players. It also introduces a difficulty mechanic where if one player dies they accrue “rot,” limiting their stats, when they respawn. Rot keeps accruing with each death until you rest at a bonfire, preventing you from respawning over and over without penalty.
Is the mod still being updated?
The most recent update was in July 2024. Seamless Co-op is compatible with the most recent version of Elden Ring, including its Shadow of the Erdtree DLC. The most recent version lets you scale the difficulty of enemies in the game.
What makes Elden Ring multiplayer different?
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How Elden Ring multiplayer differs from most games
Moving on from the Seamless Co-op experience—if you’re new to FromSoftware’s multiplayer in general, you have a bit to learn about how Elden Ring works.
Typically you use an item to place your “summon sign” down on the ground, and that sign will show up for other players. If they interact with it, they can bring you into their game, where you’ll stay until one of you dies or you defeat the boss of the area you’re in.
Keep these limitations in mind:
Even if you’re not sure about playing in multiplayer, I strongly encourage playing online, which is the default. This way you get to see messages from other players as well as their blood splatters, which give you a glimpse of how they died. That can be really helpful information, and it also just generally adds to the flavor of FromSoftware’s games. Even when the messages are stupid.
To be clear, in Elden Ring, other players can’t invade you just because you’re “online.“You’ll only be invaded while you’re actively in a co-op session with another player.This is part of what makes co-op exciting: you’re much more powerful with a friend in your game, but that power comes with some risk, too.
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Once you get past the confusing names on multiplayer items, it’s not too hard to understand how it all works. Here are the basics:
There are several other multiplayer items besides these, but they’re the ones you’ll using most commonly, whether you’re out to co-op with friendly players or get into PvP scraps.
Starting multiplayer
How to play Elden Ring in normal co-op
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Doing either is simple, but keep in mind: in the open world, playing multiplayer means giving up access to your Spectral Steed. You also won’t be able to enter dungeons and other separate areas. It’s a bit of a pain, so it’s often more practical to enter a dungeon before starting up a multiplayer session. If you find a particularly tough enemy out in the world, though, you can still try to summon some help!
Here’s how to kick off a multiplayer session.
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Use a multiplayer password to play co-op with friends
From the multiplayer menu you can set a multiplayer password, which will only show summon signs from other players using that same password. Set a unique password with your friends to make it much easier to party up.
Wait, what’s a multiplayergrouppassword?
Okay, FromSoftware made things pretty confusing with multiple password fields. The first field is what you use to ensure you’ll only get matched up with your friends, whilea group password is more like a clan system.
Group passwords reward you with a small bonus: When one of the other players takes down a major boss, you get a temporary small buff to the number of runes you get for killing enemies.
Summon Signs
These things:
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Pay attention to the colour of the Summoning Sign—gold signs are cooperative players, but red signs signify players looking to challenge you.
If you want to create your own Summon Sign to join another player’s game to help, you need to use the Tarnished’s Furled Finger item.
Summon Pools
These are located next to Martyr Effigies—creepy-looking statues with its arms outstretched. They are found in various places throughout the Lands Between and are generally located nearbossesanddungeonentrances. These effigies signal the presence of a Summoning Pool, which you interact with to activate. Once you’ve activated a summoning pool, you can use the Small Golden Effigy item to send your own Summon Sign to the Pool. You can get this item at the first Martyr Effigy just outside the entrance to the Stranded Graveyard at the beginning of the game.
To see the signs around a Summoning Pool and summon another player into your game, you’ll still need to use a Furlcalling Finger Remedy.
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