The favored – and at all times appreciated – seamless co-op mod has lastly come to Darkish Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin, the one sport of the trilogy to have spent years with out it. Mod creator Yui, who’s chargeable for the seamless co-op mods for Darkish Souls Remastered, Darkish Souls 3, Elden Ring and Armored Core has returned to launch the mod’s alpha model to the general public.
Darkish Souls 2 does, after all, help co-op by default. However, as with different FromSoftware-developed video games, the method is somewhat convoluted and comes with a lot of limitations that forestall gamers from having the ability to play with their pals with no interruptions.
Yui’s mods remedy that, making it doable to play the sport alongside pals (as much as 5 others, on this case) from begin to end in a single session. The mod skirts round most of the sport’s inherent limitations to take action, eradicating development blockers and conserving all gamers’ classes in sync.
The mod may be downloaded from NexusMods or GitHub. It goes with out saying that this alpha model goes to have just a few points, as Yui is utilizing it to check the mod and repair bugs – so do not anticipate the expertise to be fairly as seamless as you are used to from her different mods.
Some potential issues embody enemy de-sync when a participant dies, together with when going through bosses corresponding to Velstadt, and Sinh. Sure interactions, corresponding to opening/closing doorways or selecting up objects, could not at all times be in-sync for all gamers too.
Yui’s Patreon publish has a full listing of identified points, so it is value taking a look at that earlier than you soar in. The excellent news is that a number of patches have already been launched, so we will not be too far off from the mod’s last model.