Can I play ELDEN RING without ever having non-friend players in my games?

[GOPO™]

I'm mostly going to play single-player but I might be persuaded to play some co-op with my friends. Can I completely avoid other people in my games?

[Izuzul]

Yes

[Irvikuva]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย GOPO™:

I'm mostly going to play single-player but I might be persuaded to play some co-op with my friends. Can I completely avoid other people in my games?

yes you can

[Nerevar]

if solo yes. if coop no.

[DickyDiscord]

Devs said they made it to be enjoyed on your own if you like. Summons are better without the friends and there's a few other things I forget. Short answer is yes, long answer is yes with a bunch of details better looked up.

[Rufus]

Don't play online, nobody can invade you. Simple.

[Neiker]

Yes, just unplug your modem.

But seriously im fairly certain there should be an option to turn off online features ingame, that would mean turnning off co-op too though.

[Otterking]

If you play coop you will get invaded by randoms but in singleplayer you will never see anyone else unless Elden Ring has special invasion areas or boss fight mechanics like in previous games.

[nullpo]

Say no to your friend.

[Eguzky]

There is no invading unless you either:

1. Co-Op.
The trade-off to making the game easier with a friend is the risk of invasions from a player.
It's then 2 friends vs 1 rando, though.

2. Invite Invasion.
There's an item that LETS people invade you. For those who want it spicy.


But if you just play solo; you cannot be invaded.

[Awaken]

Elden Ring is supposedly a solo experience, meaning you don't need to connect to the internet to play. You know what that means? Its not an online game.

[ZTL-Altima]

Better question: can we avoid private profiles posting bait on a per second capacity?

[Gyson]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย GOPO™:

I'm mostly going to play single-player but I might be persuaded to play some co-op with my friends. Can I completely avoid other people in my games?

You can't completely avoid other people if you plan on playing with friends. It works very similar to the other Souls games. The developers have been pretty vague (and arguably misleading) whenever they discuss multiplayer, giving the impression that it's a much more robust and traditional co-op system than it actually is.

Co-op in Elden Ring is extremely limited. For example:

- Non-hosts are unable to obtain any rewards the hosts can obtain, except for experience.

- Non-hosts are unable to make use of checkpoints or map markers.

- Non-hosts are only allowed a fraction of the resources (i.e. potions) that the host has.

- The game won't allow anyone to use mounts while in co-op.

- The game prevents you and your friends from moving from the open-world to a dungeon together. You must disband the group and send your friends back to their respective servers, and then they have to each travel separately to that dungeon in their own respective games, enter it, place down a summoning marker that will allow you to re-invite them back into your world from that location, and then you can do so and progress through the inside of the dungeon together. Bearing in mind that..

- The game disbands the entire group whenever a dungeon boss is defeated.

- The game disbands the entire group whenever the host dies.

- The game removes group members from the host's game whenever the group member dies.

- When playing co-op the game will bring in non-invited players who are there to kill you (PvP), which can obviously trigger many of the conditions above. This is the part you need to worry about the most, given your question.

Below is a three hour video of people trying to play Elden Ring together. They encounter frustrating limitations, many of which I mentioned above. But it will give you an idea of how well it does or doesn't work. In my opinion it doesn't work very well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REVc_X8kIYI

[zmanbuilder]

i'm pretty sure you can set a password to help match with friends as that is how it was in ds3

[Kisama]

Yes. I virtually always play games like this offline, especially with the history behind these sorts of games. I'll only go online if achievements force it. Have never had an issue

[Loot]

Are there NPC summons like in previous titles, I wonder?