Elden Ring Player meets a helpful alien: FromSoftware games like Dark Souls have multiplayer mechanics based on invasions and summoning. Elden Ring has these same multiplayer mechanics.
Using in-game items, players can invade other people’s worlds, see summon signs for people who can help them fight bosses or get through challenging parts of the game, and so on.
This is how multiplayer and PvP work in the game. Because these items are used, players are at risk of invade by other players who will get rewards for killing them. So they should be careful.
As long as this mechanic isn’t being used in the way it was meant to be used, not everyone is.
Invasions can happen in Elden Ring, which is bad news for people who want to play with a friend or get help from a boss. On the other hand, some people can play the whole game and not invade.
It’s an area of the game that many new players don’t want to get into until they’re well-equipped. Once they do, there’s a whole group of players who love PvP and invasions.
The host player isn’t always going to harm by everyone who comes in. Many people use Elden Ring’s PvP mode to be funny or weird. And some even try to help a stranger who is playing the game. They saw this on Reddit when they were exploring a dungeon with friends.
A trap set for the invading player because they knew they would attacked. The invader didn’t break the trap but instead emoted repeatedly until the host players decided to investigate what was going on. What came next were some uncharacteristically helpful directions for getting through the dungeon.
Elden Ring doesn’t let invaders and hosts communicate after an invasion is over. The host player took to Reddit to thank the invader for their help because there is no way to communicate with each other. When an unknown person helped them. The host player said they shock. The invader now lives “rent-free in my head.”
Many people are fans of the Dark Souls series commenting on this post. They say that the “purple gang” from the game is still alive and well in this invader’s actions that are out of character for him.
People who join the Mound-Makers covenant in Dark Souls 3 make their summon signs purple, making the purple gang look like a group.
The purple summons could work together to help host players or fight each other, which meant they couldn’t trusted. Players quickly fell in love with the chaos and uncertainty of this covenant.
In Dark Souls, there was a system call a covenant that could make it hard for players to do certain things when they summoned into another player’s world.
Elden Ring has done away with this system. As long as they can stay alive long enough. Players can choose to be non-hostile and helpful invaders in Elden Ring. This can only happen if the host player trusts the player long enough.
On PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S, you can play Elden Ring. You can also play it on Xbox One.
