Unable to summon

[S ▲▼ E N]

So I'm trying to get people to fight the Valiant Gargodyle and although there's a handful of summon signs both at the altar near the grace or simply at the bottom of the stairs leading to the fight, I always get "Unable to summon ally" when trying, either immediately or after a very long time that also usually locks me in a multiplayer state while remaining alone, meaning I can't quit the game. Furthermore, when I try to write my own summon sign, it leaves nothing on the ground and I don't end up being summoned. I've looked around and it seems to be something from the lastest patch ? Anyone else with this problem ? Other areas seem to work a little bit better.

[OrangeTux]

Having the exact same problem and I'm also at the Valiant Gargoyles.

Verified files, it re-downloaded one, but same problem persists.

[Mr.Slevin13]

This is an issue, its not your problem. Online features of the game are trash (so far at least)

[PinkPanther]

Same problem here... I always guessed, it's beacuse those dudes have already been summoned, but well considering how ♥♥♥♥♥♥ the multiplayer works, it might just have been buggy all along.
Along with the 1000-2000ms hit delay in PvP. Always fun to hitsomeone and see his recoil and damage 1 sec after x.x

[Riqcrow]

might be if summon is already used, but mostly because multiplayer is extremely badly done, and does not even work. I keep being disconnected 90% of time after couple of minutes when someone summons me, even when playing with friend. And when trying to summon people, you might be pressing summon signs that have been already used minutes ago. just bad design, not an issue from your side. Been this bad since very first Souls-games, and lazy ♥♥♥♥ devs copied this system from there.

[Razorlight Entertainment]

The connection between you and the summon candidate is the problem. My understanding is that the connection system is p2p, not server based. So, there can and will be sync issues, especially if the the summon candidate (or you) are using a weak internet connection, read one with high latency and/or intermittent connectivity.

I face the same problem and the only way right now is to keep trying. You COULD also change the time you play the game, so that you would meet players from other time zones who might be more reliable.

[S ▲▼ E N]

Originally posted by OrangeTux:

Having the exact same problem and I'm also at the Valiant Gargoyles.

Verified files, it re-downloaded one, but same problem persists.

I simply gave up on trying to summon people there.

However, I've finally managed to beat those two. I summoned D for the first half, then got myself the Mimic tear ashes to +10. The rest is a pretty much a waiting game to slide an attack or two in there.

Alternatively, the gargoyles can fall off the waterfall that is directly on your right when you enter the area. Provided they don't move around too much when attacking you, you can spook them into backstepping into the void with a ranged attack and some luck.

[L]

Same here, which is odd because we've been playing all day without an issue, but suddenly it started happening out of nowhere. The moment I zone into my friend's game it says "connection error occurred". Both of us tried restarting the game multiple times and what not, but nothing works. I wonder what's wrong :/

[NinjaMunky]

I'm having a hard time summoning people in the Sofria river right now...

[Asakura Shinichi]

Unable to Summon means one of two things its:
1. The person is already being summoned to someone elses world
OR
2. That summoned person while waiting to be summoned was exploring and either moved to a different area, moved through a Fog Gate or died.

First wrote it a little differently cause its pissing me off how low IQ ppl here on steam forums are, and first things is to blame the game and cry instead using common sense. But than again they are either just dumb, or baiting so why bother.

[Asakura Shinichi]

Originally posted by Razorlight Entertainment:

The connection between you and the summon candidate is the problem. My understanding is that the connection system is p2p, not server based. So, there can and will be sync issues, especially if the the summon candidate (or you) are using a weak internet connection, read one with high latency and/or intermittent connectivity.

I face the same problem and the only way right now is to keep trying. You COULD also change the time you play the game, so that you would meet players from other time zones who might be more reliable.

You talking crap with no knowledge read the post above, you dont even understand what error messages means, its not connection error message you sometimes get when you are summoned to someone, its unable to summon message which happens only in the situations i mentioned in the post above.

[Asakura Shinichi]

Originally posted by RiQ:

might be if summon is already used, but mostly because multiplayer is extremely badly done, and does not even work. I keep being disconnected 90% of time after couple of minutes when someone summons me, even when playing with friend. And when trying to summon people, you might be pressing summon signs that have been already used minutes ago. just bad design, not an issue from your side. Been this bad since very first Souls-games, and lazy ♥♥♥♥ devs copied this system from there.

They copy it for reasons they mentioned with each Dark Souls release, cause its working as intended and cause its intended to make you play with random ppl not with friends. Its a different game and kids like you complain constantly cause a game is literally not exactly the same as hundreds of other games, if you want hundreds of other games go play them dont complain on Elden Ring being different than those hundreds of other games.

Its literally as if someone would release a MOBA game with no invite system with the intent on you playing with random ppl, and you would go complain that the game has badly designed multiplayers cause you cant play with friends. If something works as intended its not bad design, its there on purpose and if you dont like it than that game is clearly not meant for you.

[°•♥ ElaineTG ♥•°]

I have the same problem with the same boss

[MudkipMaster132]

Originally posted by vnciel:

Same here, which is odd because we've been playing all day without an issue, but suddenly it started happening out of nowhere. The moment I zone into my friend's game it says "connection error occurred". Both of us tried restarting the game multiple times and what not, but nothing works. I wonder what's wrong :/

This is happening to me and my friend too, i hope its just an issue on their end and its fixed soon

[MudkipMaster132]

Ok, my friend cleared his DNS cache and verified integrity of game files, and now I can summon him. I don't know if this will work for others but I thought I'd put it out there.