People should not be able to invade co-op realms

[Vlka Fenryka]

My girlfriend has been wanting to learn to play so we started our first co-op session together and not even 5 minutes in we get invaded by a high level player and killed. This should not happen at all. It's unfair to new players who want to learn by playing with friends.

Edit: I should clarify I've beaten the game 3 or 4 times already and my girlfriend only wants to play with me. This was not me complaining about the game being unforgiving and hard and all that ♥♥♥♥. This was more me saying that there should be a way to not have invasions while co-op is being used until people have figured out the games mechanics and their own style of play.

[An Irate Walrus]

Each Souls game--apart from 2--has had an "invasion trigger" that players have to activate before invasions can occur.

In Demon's and Dark 1, that trigger is entering the "human" state.

In Dark 3, it's using an ember.

In Bloodborne, it's ringing a Beckoning Bell.

In ER, it's having at least one co-op partner already present in your game world.

I'm no fan of redbois in general, but invasions are a fact of life in Souls games; ER and Bloodborne are the only two in the franchise that don't permit solo invasions without an attempt to co-op, and ER takes it a step further by ensuring you already have backup present before an invader can even access your game world. It's tilted as hard as it can possibly be in favor of the invaded player, rather than the invader themselves.

If that's not sufficient for you, grab the Seamless mod, and never see a redboi again--but know the game provides you a choice about potential hostile invaders, and that choice is in co-oping without the Seamless mod. Either play solo, or mod up; don't ask the game to change even further to accommodate an audience that would end up alienating the folks who've been here since the first "you died."

[Hentai is me]

Search seamless coop

[csand]

They're not high level players. And if you're getting invaded every 5 minutes in the same spot it's probably an npc invader.


These games are meant to be challenging and unforgiving, nevertheless this is by far the most forgiving title yet.

If you really need this to be Skyrim with friends, there is the coop mod but I highly suggest you experience the real game. there is a multiplayer item (a white ring) that can summon a blue guardian phantom whenever a red invades you. Use it. Consider the invader a mini boss you have to defeat

You will learn this game best by playing single player btw

[BIGLEAGUE.SHOE]

No girls allowed in Elden Ring, this is maidenless territory.

[Paul Cheenis]

Install seamless coop mod. Play the whole game together without having to disconnect and reconnect 300 times.

[phlux]

Play seamless coop mod. It's easy, no risk of getting banned and the vanilla coop system is trash anyways.
Perfect way to play with your GF. Believe me, I did it with mine that way and she never played a souls game before and we had alot of fun.
Oh yeah, and no Red come there :>

[._.]

The way ER invasions work there is very low chance that someone invading you will be higher rune level than you. In vast majority of cases, you will be higher level than someone invading you. In matter of fact, Elden Ring is most host favouring title out of all FromSoft games. Its practically easy mode in comparison to previous titles, and many would say that DaS3 was already an easy mode for host. Invasions was always part of soulsborne games. Moment they will remove it from their games people will start rioting.

[Lanceps]

Pretty sure someone else has already told you, but ER is literally the most forgiving souls game they have made with pvp. You can summon for bosses for literally free most of the time, and you will absolutely never be ganked by another player if you don't coop. If you are invaded by a high lvl player then perhaps you could make a new character like she probably did and progress as intended. I'd bet money that many players or atleast souls veterans would agree that invasions are part of the experience even if sometimes its just cheesers or even cheaters.

Then again, just use mods and solve your issue as you see fit.

[Sabaithal]

Wish granted: https://www.nexusmods.com/eldenring/mods/510

[psheue]

Snickers should not have peanuts. I really like chocolate but I hate peanuts. I'll keep buying Snickers; I'm sure it'll show them that their customers want the chocolate but not the peanuts.

[Kleerex]

Originally posted by Paul Cheenis:

Install seamless coop mod. Play the whole game together without having to disconnect and reconnect 300 times.

[cheetah1546]

Originally posted by BIGLEAGUE:

No girls allowed in Elden Ring, this is maidenless territory.

I lul'd

[Superboniato]

Invaders cant be much higher level than the host, so you would be the high level summon in that scenario.

There is a grace every few metres, so there is no problem in dying a few times. Specially when you are learning to play a game where death is a core mechanic.

Despite the fact that there are a lot of tryhard sweatlords players that just look for a cheap win (as there are in every online game), there are also a lot of invaders that can give you another experience and a different point of view of the area you are exploring, also you can learn many things about how they fight (they probably are more experienced, in fact you already thought he had a much higher level than both of you when it is not possible)

You both should learn by playing together to not worry about dying in these games, you will only lose the time of a loading screen + the summoning time (less than a minute). Everything else will spawn again. and you can pick up your runes in a second just avoiding a couple enemies. And you will enjoy the game a lot more.

[MOSLEY]

That's literally the game.

If you want to make the game easier by co-oping, you open yourself up to being invaded to make the game harder again. This has been a key feature of FromSoft games for almost 15 years now.

[cridus]

my own suggestion: play the game solo until around level 50, so that overpowered twinks will mostly stop existing. then, play together again.
you could even ask people here in the forum to give you runes to level up to 50 right away, so you could play together immediately. you wouldn't cheese the game too much since you won't also have upgraded your weapons (and please put at least like 30 points into vigor, for level 50).