FromSoftware is seemingly reserving the precise to add an official two-player mode to Elden Ring Nightreign—proper now you possibly can solely play solo or in a trio. However Yui, the modder behind the Seamless Co-op collection of Souls multiplayer hacks, has already performed it once more with Elden Ring Nightreign a mere day after launch.
PCG senior editor Wes Fenlon and I hopped in for a spherical, and it really works precisely such as you hope it could—it is even barely extra buttoned up than the already-great unique Seamless Co-op, will not mess up your sport by drawing Simple Anticheat’s Eye of Sauron, and even opens up Nightreign for additional modding.
To put in Seamless Co-op, you simply should whack the recordsdata from Nexus Mods into your Elden Ring Nightreign/Sport folder. It runs from its personal .exe, doesn’t work together with FromSoft’s official servers, and creates separate save recordsdata from the unique sport, holding EAC out of issues.
That does result in a lone hitch so that you can think about, although: Any progress you’ve got made up to now will not carry into Seamless Co-op, and vice-versa. Wes and I needed to chop by the tutorial Margit encounter once more earlier than queueing up. This appears to be the price of doing enterprise, however price holding in thoughts.
In any other case, although, it runs precisely just like the official sport—you possibly can even invite pals to group up by Steam nonetheless. It additionally labored completely in our run: No hitches, glitches, or connection points to talk of. It simply works. In the event you do not thoughts the cut up development, have a particular Elden somebody in thoughts to play the sport with, and might’t stand a 3rd wheel tagging alongside, that is the mod for you.
I assumed the primary Nightlord felt simpler than I remembered, however that was simply 30 hours of expertise speaking: Yui instructed us that she hadn’t touched issue balancing in any approach for two-player. That could be the lone exculpatory think about a modder whipping up a two-player mode so shortly when FromSoftware didn’t.
In FromSoft’s protection: It is nonetheless clearly discovering the stability for Nightreign’s solo mode, whereas Wes and I noticed the potential for some lopsided, irritating gameplay when one participant goes down and the opposite has to revive them in a duo—you now not have the sturdy tripod of a 3rd participant taking aggro. All the identical, Yui’s work stays, as ever, extremely spectacular, and it will be attention-grabbing to see how Seamless Nightreign develops, particularly if FromSoft ever comes up with its personal two-player resolution.
