Seamless Co-Op

[Hammer Goblin]

I would like to discuss, lets discuss without cult speech please.

I hear they're completely reworking the entire mod, *and* Fromsoft likes the mod, from an article I read. Are they right, Are they wrong? Lets discuss. ♥

[Sabaithal]

Obligatory post about how you are filthy cheater, breaking ToS, hurting the community, probably torture kittens, and I'm calling the police

[Hammer Goblin]

Originally posted by Sabaithal:

Obligatory post about how you are filthy cheater, breaking ToS, hurting the community, probably torture kittens, and I'm calling the police

We're friends on Steam, so I know this comes from a place of love, I hate you too ♥

[Sabaithal]

Originally posted by Doctor Hammer:

Originally posted by Sabaithal:

Obligatory post about how you are filthy cheater, breaking ToS, hurting the community, probably torture kittens, and I'm calling the police

We're friends on Steam, so I know this comes from a place of love, I hate you too ♥

Mutual love-hate boners for everyone

[Twisty]

I for one am looking forward to having it working again.
My brother has never played a souls-like game before and was gifted ER+DLC. He started playing but couldn't get a hang of it.
I told him about the mod and we've been waiting to play it together!

[Hammer Goblin]

I too look forward to it, I get to watch my Sister play it.

[Rahk]

I like the mod, I played the game using it after a vanilla run.
Most people only mod a game after enjoying the vanilla experience.

[CommonHominid]

I have wanted to use the coop mod for a long time but have been too paranoid about getting banned. I have sifted through various Reddit forums and seen people very confident on both sides of the isle on whether you can get banned or not. Can anyone clarify if it is safe to use?

[★ Moonlight ★]

I love this mod. I'm almost finished soloing the DLC, and when I'm both finished the DLC and the mod is out I'm gonna run the DLC again with a friend.

[ilyrad]

Originally posted by PCgamer.com:

So when I interviewed FromSoftware president Hidetaka Miyazaki for the cover story, I brought up how Seamless Co-op makes it possible to play the entire game in a single uninterrupted multiplayer session, and asked what he thinks about that way of experiencing the game.
"It's definitely not something we actively oppose or want to downplay, wanting to go through the whole game together," Miyazaki said. "In terms of where we were with Elden Ring, it was simply a case of wanting that more loose, casual style—drop in, defeat a boss, drop out. It doesn't put any technical restrictions on the player, it just sort of lets them complete this focus and then move on, so to speak."

so not directly but as carefully as they could without getting into trouble for endorsing mods etc, honestly shocked they said anything at all and it speaks a ton to the quality of the mod. Honestly it is my fav mod, and I combo it like a lot of people do with the randomizer mod when I used it.... only issue I have with it is the limitations on modding need easy anti-cheat off and depending on who you have connect with you or connect to there are the risks tied to not having a safety net but there is literally no way around that so I just make sure to only use it with people I know really well IRL.

[Twisty]

Originally posted by CommonHominid:

I have wanted to use the coop mod for a long time but have been too paranoid about getting banned. I have sifted through various Reddit forums and seen people very confident on both sides of the isle on whether you can get banned or not. Can anyone clarify if it is safe to use?

As far as I know, you'll have to disable EAC, backup your vanilla save, create a new save file or import one, and use that.
If you want to go back to vanilla, you'll have to remove the seamless save file, remove the EAC blocker, and reinstate your vanilla save.
There could be a few more steps, but there are many guides online how to do it.

[BudgieGaming]

Originally posted by CommonHominid:

I have wanted to use the coop mod for a long time but have been too paranoid about getting banned. I have sifted through various Reddit forums and seen people very confident on both sides of the isle on whether you can get banned or not. Can anyone clarify if it is safe to use?

Your seamless coop save is completely separate from your main profile, you can almost think of it as having two different instances of elden ring. You can't access stuff from your main profile in seamless coop and viceversa.

[Sabaithal]

Originally posted by CommonHominid:

I have wanted to use the coop mod for a long time but have been too paranoid about getting banned. I have sifted through various Reddit forums and seen people very confident on both sides of the isle on whether you can get banned or not. Can anyone clarify if it is safe to use?

I'll try and lay it out in a way that makes sense.

Ban_
- Only detects saves when connecting to official server
- The only thing it does is stop you from connecting to the official server

Coop mod saves_
- Do not connect to the official server
- Doesn't even give you the option to do this

So yeah, its impossible. Just follow the instructions on the mod page.

[echo_ML]

You're treading on thin ice Doc...

[ilyrad]

Originally posted by Sabaithal:

Originally posted by CommonHominid:

I have wanted to use the coop mod for a long time but have been too paranoid about getting banned. I have sifted through various Reddit forums and seen people very confident on both sides of the isle on whether you can get banned or not. Can anyone clarify if it is safe to use?

I'll try and lay it out in a way that makes sense.

Ban_
- Only detects saves when connecting to official server
- The only thing it does is stop you from connecting to the official server

Coop mod saves_
- Do not connect to the official server
- Doesn't even give you the option to do this

So yeah, its impossible. Just follow the instructions on the mod page.

to add to this, you can specify the name of the filetype of the saves for seemless, they are a totally different "file type" in the name of the files and I am pretty sure they have guard rails that prevent you from loading seemless up if you tried to point at the normal file type of the vanilla game... so more than just different saves, it uses a totally different save file record and type than the normal game so even if left in the same place as the normal games saves it would never load them because elden ring doesn't touch those file types.

[Hammer Goblin]

I said discuss not debate and argue ;-; Sadness