Am I soft banned?

[Sketchazoid]

I don't use any sort of mods
I haven't messed with any of the files
I don't intentionally disconnect from PvP (I enjoy PvP for the most part)
I don't use offensive names

Thing is I can be summoned periodically, but I rarely see summon signs. YES I am using the Furlcalling Finger. I'm not even seeing summon signs at summon pools or even getting the chance to get the age old "Unable to summon" just because there is ZERO summon signs.

I am lvl 103 and I have tried multiple of the high level regions.
I don't have a password and multiplayer is enabled
I don't get any message regarding any problems at the main menu

Heck, I rarely even see messages or bloodstains. The appear but not near as much as they did with my other character. No "try giant but hole" or "hidden path ahead" messages either. It truly feels like multiplayer is disabled with the exception of a rare message or bloodstain here or there. On my other character I could always see other summon signs, even if it turned into "unable to summon". I don't even get that here.

[Guldo]

Originally posted by Chiro:

Originally posted by Warspawn:

Wow, I never knew this! I know people can summon me for help; I always drop a finger in order to help people out after I've defeated a boss, but never knew I couldn't summon a friend to show them the layout of the lair....

Thanks!

o7

~War~

your friend can summon you tho and you could show them in that way but yes, you wont be able to get for example your friend into godricks castle if you defeated godrick already x3.

its still unintentional because in dark souls 3 2 players could be in the same area even if that area was already completed.

npc invaders and player invitations arent supposed to dissappear after killing the area boss.

[weiss]

Originally posted by Kenshiro:

Originally posted by Chiro:

your friend can summon you tho and you could show them in that way but yes, you wont be able to get for example your friend into godricks castle if you defeated godrick already x3.

its still unintentional because in dark souls 3 2 players could be in the same area even if that area was already completed.

npc invaders and player invitations arent supposed to dissappear after killing the area boss.

so, you say its a bug? i got told in another topic that fromsoft games always behaved like this and in DS2 was there a way to get around it. i can not really tell. i only finished DS1~3 mostly in offline mode. expecially during the time where ppls could invade even tho you didnt used the ember or what it was backthen that peoples can invade... it got so buggy for a bit that peoples was able to get into bosschambers which should´ve been not possible.

i played elden ring first offline too, until i got told that only if i do co-op is it possible to get invaded. tho, lately do i not mind invasions aslong they fight properly and not hiding behind mobgroups and not realizing that we definitly wont follow him/her. i usually routerkick those invaders if they hide for too long behind mobs ... i have no time for them. if an invader which fights properly beats me, fine. but am not letting it happen that i lose because mobs chasing me around. btw, no i wont get softbanned for this, cause i block their ips. i do not disconnect from the server and i only do that to those which really trying to abuse the mobthing.

ANYWAYS

if it is a bug hope i it gets fixxed. because its kind of harsh when you go into an area and you did not knew it was the mainboss of the area and wush ... suddenly you cannot longer play with your friend even tho there are sidebosses and minibosses left in the area xD.

[Guldo]

Originally posted by Chiro:

Originally posted by Kenshiro:

its still unintentional because in dark souls 3 2 players could be in the same area even if that area was already completed.

npc invaders and player invitations arent supposed to dissappear after killing the area boss.

so, you say its a bug? i got told in another topic that fromsoft games always behaved like this and in DS2 was there a way to get around it. i can not really tell. i only finished DS1~3 mostly in offline mode. expecially during the time where ppls could invade even tho you didnt used the ember or what it was backthen that peoples can invade... it got so buggy for a bit that peoples was able to get into bosschambers which should´ve been not possible.

i played elden ring first offline too, until i got told that only if i do co-op is it possible to get invaded. tho, lately do i not mind invasions aslong they fight properly and not hiding behind mobgroups and not realizing that we definitly wont follow him/her. i usually routerkick those invaders if they hide for too long behind mobs ... i have no time for them. if an invader which fights properly beats me, fine. but am not letting it happen that i lose because mobs chasing me around.

ANYWAYS

if it is a bug hope i it gets fixxed. because its kind of harsh when you go into an area and you did not knew it was the mainboss of the area and wush ... suddenly you cannot longer play with your friend even tho there are sidebosses and minibosses left in the area xD.

trust me when i say its a bug because in past souls games you could still be invaded by the npc invader even if the area boss was dead and could summon other players too. just not friendly npcs.

[weiss]

oh yea, i readed about that bloody npc after peoples defeated the mainboss that the invader npc does not longer spawn. but thats npc.

what i mean is that you can not longer summon players after defeating the main boss in the area. example; go to stormhill shack. then go to the spot where the wolfs drop down, defeat them, then summon a friend into your session. let him walk up the road to the castle and you will see that he will get booted out of your session because you completed the area already.

thats what i mean, that you cannot do longer co-op in completed areas ... iunno why fromsoft made it like this.

[Guldo]

Originally posted by Chiro:

oh yea, i readed about that bloody npc after peoples defeated the mainboss that the invader npc does not longer spawn. but thats npc.

what i mean is that you can not longer summon players after defeating the main boss in the area. example; go to stormhill shack. then go to the spot where the wolfs drop down, defeat them, then summon a friend into your session. let him walk up the road to the castle and you will see that he will get booted out of your session because you completed the area already.

thats what i mean, that you cannot do longer co-op in completed areas ... iunno why fromsoft made it like this.

yea its stupid. i almost wish i could get someone to drop a rivers of blood katana for me but you cant talk about that in the elden ring discord.

im only a 1 playthrough guy. its like why would i wanna play through all the same ♥♥♥♥ i have already seen at a slightly higher difficulty.

theres no incentive to play at a higher difficulty. games i will play a 2nd time are games that have more stuff to unlock the 2nd time through.

[pqmds]

Originally posted by Kenshiro:

i found out your cut off from pvp and inviting other players today after you kill fire giant wich also makes it to where you cant get the rivers of blood katana from okina because they dont spawn.

from what everyone has told me its an unintentional bug that fromsoftware needs to fix.

Is this still true? Anyone know?

[ワンピース]

Originally posted by Chiro:

no you´re not. because if you would be softbanned would the server tell you that you are temp banned. you would not be able to connect to the ER server at all.

I haven't been able to log in to Elden ring game server for the past month and a half but on my ps5 I can go online easily but on my pc steam I can't am I soft banned then?

[C1REX]

Originally posted by sdmqp:

Originally posted by Kenshiro:

i found out your cut off from pvp and inviting other players today after you kill fire giant wich also makes it to where you cant get the rivers of blood katana from okina because they dont spawn.

from what everyone has told me its an unintentional bug that fromsoftware needs to fix.

Is this still true? Anyone know?

Apparently it was patched a while ago.
Almost if not all NPC invaders used to disappear if a certain boss was killed. All Souls games were like that before but it didn’t work well in an open world. Missing white mask headgear is another common complain.

The NPC suppose to still spawn even if the boss is killed now so the Rivers of Blood is not missable. White mask is still missable if boss is killed.

https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Bloody+Finger+Okina

https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/White+Mask