Played with a friend for 20 hours and we haven't been invaded once.

[Disco]

Do I need to turn on invasions in the settings? How does it work?

[AggroBuLLeT]

its very easy. you need to do the opposite of what you just said. you need to come here, open a couple dozen threads and complain about pvp and how you're being invaded every 10 steps. If you do that, it will magically happen

[Disco]

Originally posted by AggroBuLLeT:

its very easy. you need to do the opposite of what you just said. you need to come here, open a couple dozen threads and complain about pvp and how you're being invaded every 10 steps. If you do that, it will magically happen

Lolol, so true! Honestly though we're quite disappointed we haven't been invaded, are we just getting unlucky or is there really a setting for it?

[AggroBuLLeT]

Originally posted by Disco:

Originally posted by AggroBuLLeT:

its very easy. you need to do the opposite of what you just said. you need to come here, open a couple dozen threads and complain about pvp and how you're being invaded every 10 steps. If you do that, it will magically happen

Lolol, so true! Honestly though we're quite disappointed we haven't been invaded, are we just getting unlucky or is there really a setting for it?

no setting. just unlucky. whats your region? if you're from some country at the end of the world, there is a setting for "ignore ping" and then you can connect world wide. but this will obviously be laggy AF. I recommend not to do that unless you're actually living in Ice or greenland or something. If you're in USA, EU or Asia you should be totally fine, just unlucky

edit: btw, in my 50 hours of game play, I had 2 invasions so far. So you not getting anything for 20 hours isn't even THAT unlucky tbh lol

[Disco]

Originally posted by AggroBuLLeT:

Originally posted by Disco:

Lolol, so true! Honestly though we're quite disappointed we haven't been invaded, are we just getting unlucky or is there really a setting for it?

no setting. just unlucky. whats your region? if you're from some country at the end of the world, there is a setting for "ignore ping" and then you can connect world wide. but this will obviously be laggy AF. I recommend not to do that unless you're actually living in Ice or greenland or something. If you're in USA, EU or Asia you should be totally fine, just unlucky

North America lol. Oh well! Thanks for the answer.

[mayhem523]

Several of us in the US have done entire playthroughs and only been invaded once or not at all, others say they get them regularly. I have no explanation.

[Suwako]

Originally posted by Suwako:

- Most people crying on the forums about invaders have probably been killed a couple times and come here to spin tales about how they've been hunted 50 times in a row and how 120% of them are cheaters. Heres the deal; They haven't. 120 hours. I've been invaded like 15 times. Never ran into a cheater. I did run into a few people who had funky builds that made me frost bite or bleed, or ignite in a couple of hits, which makes it LOOK like i suddenly lost all my HP. But hey, people would be more sympathetic if i said a cheater took me out and his mysterious group has sent 50 assassins to prevent me from reaching the next seedling spot... which is usually like 2 minutes away from each other in this game.

-PVP is completely and utterly random. People cant target you, people cant go after specific level ranges. Theres a funky scaling system in place that sorta kinda works, but not really. The population is just too low- the single most damning thing is that in all my invading experience, its a horrendous slog. From loading screens that take 3-5 minutes and the fact that about 80% of my invasions are 1v2's, invading is a terrible, horrible experience. you can be level capped and if there's 2 enemy players there is absolutely nothing you can do. Unless you're doing some BS which by the way- if you get that 1v2, chances are they will use said BS.

So put all this into perspective. You're an invader- you get into an actual 1v1. What now? You run that mofo down like hes the last OLED TV during black friday because you dont know when you'll get another 1v1 and you've eaten so many Orius' Judgement spams that you dont know what hes going to pull out and you sure as hell wont give him a chance.

So in short; You're more than likely not being invaded because the invader population is incredibly small. Its slow, annoying, tedious, and getting a 'fair' fight is nearly impossible. Those who do get run down come cry on the forums because that invader saw a 1v1 and went into a bloodlust frenzy.

To top all of this off- Crucibles are an insanely faster way to get those couple of dyes you want. so theres is 0 incentive to invade- There's no leaderboard, kill/death tracker. So those that invade are doing it more for fun than anything- and they're persecuted like they're a swarm of locusts when in reality its probably like 5 dudes listening to music on youtube watching a loading screen for 5 minutes hoping that maybe this 7th invasion isn't another gank, and the enemy player doesn't die in two hits because scaling doesn't work half the time.

Complete reason as to why you're not being invaded, copy and pasted from another thread I commented on.

TL:DR; Invading sucks, too bad the PvP is fun.

[Disco]

Aww damn. :(

The whole game so far has felt like a really good mix of DS 1-3, and with a bit more polish at that. Fingers crossed the invasion system gets fixed up someday.

[CrkdSmyl]

♥♥♥♥, I get invaded every single time I'm on. Can't move through an area without at least one. Maybe hang out longer in areas? I tend to take what would probably feel to others like an extremely long time.

[Evelynka]

I was invaded only once and I have been playing it for 40 hours, invading isnt fun let me tell you that xD i tried to invade and of like 6-7 times i killed only once which is all i wanted cuz achievement :