DS3 open server

[Naewyng]

There's this amazing guy doing amazing things:
https://github.com/TLeonardUK/ds3os

Just thought y'all should know.

[gobydon]

I need to spin up a burner PC but yeah. I do want to play DS again. I miss it.

Oh, and FU FROM/Bandai. Your're dead to me now.

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Originally posted by gobydon:

I need to spin up a burner PC but yeah. I do want to play DS again. I miss it.

Oh, and FU FROM/Bandai. Your're dead to me now.

How to speedrun your reputation as a studio.

[tewi]

Originally posted by Naewyng:

There's this amazing guy doing amazing things:
https://github.com/TLeonardUK/ds3os

Just thought y'all should know.

It's pretty nice and works ok but really, there's just not enough people using it for it to even begin to replace the online functionality of the game. It's mostly for coordinated meetings, I don't give a ♥♥♥♥ about that really. I want random messages, bloodstains and summons in areas that aren't just the late game hangout spots. It also doesn't take into consideration SL with summons so, for the most part, any balance aspect of PvE/PvP are dead.

I also agree with the FU to FROM/Bandai above! I played this game years ago and randomly decided to buy the DLC and do a replay, since I never played the DLC. Only to get everything booted up and wonder why I can't login, then find out there's been literally months of this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ over some overhyped very situational barely used exploit that's been in their ♥♥♥♥ netcode for like a DECADE, with almost no update or estimate given on a fix... Really scummy, like EA levels of scummy.

[Naewyng]

Originally posted by tewi:

Originally posted by Naewyng:

There's this amazing guy doing amazing things:
https://github.com/TLeonardUK/ds3os

Just thought y'all should know.

It's pretty nice and works ok but really, there's just not enough people using it for it to even begin to replace the online functionality of the game. It's mostly for coordinated meetings, I don't give a ♥♥♥♥ about that really. I want random messages, bloodstains and summons in areas that aren't just the late game hangout spots. It also doesn't take into consideration SL with summons so, for the most part, any balance aspect of PvE/PvP are dead.

I also agree with the FU to FROM/Bandai above! I played this game years ago and randomly decided to buy the DLC and do a replay, since I never played the DLC. Only to get everything booted up and wonder why I can't login, then find out there's been literally months of this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ over some overhyped very situational barely used exploit that's been in their ♥♥♥♥ netcode for like a DECADE, with almost no update or estimate given on a fix... Really scummy, like EA levels of scummy.

True, but projects like this one are amazing, because this will mean that the multiplayer will be available even long after fromsoftware decomissions multiplayer entirely.

Just imagine 30 years from now, you'll have a "retro gaming room" and play ds3 in a lan party with your friends :D

[Tyrannosaurus Rex]

The game was taken offline because of a fatal exploit that could allow hackers to ♥♥♥♥ your PC up and you geniuses don't mind connecting to random people you know nothing about?

[BEmoreno]

I want to complete the achievements!!!!

[Augoeides]

Originally posted by Tyrannosaurus Rex:

The game was taken offline because of a fatal exploit that could allow hackers to ♥♥♥♥ your PC up and you geniuses don't mind connecting to random people you know nothing about?

That's why we install Blue Sentinel; a mod that prevents exactly that exploit from happening. It's also how this how mess got started, because the developer was trying to spread the word about the exploit (which they patched to prevent), but FROMsoftware wouldn't listen, so then they instigated all that Twitch nonsense to gain attention of it.

[tewi]

Originally posted by Tyrannosaurus Rex:

The game was taken offline because of a fatal exploit that could allow hackers to ♥♥♥♥ your PC up and you geniuses don't mind connecting to random people you know nothing about?

Cool, and an amateur coder fixed it in like a day. This is absolutely a disgrace, stop trying to paint it otherwise.

[Augoeides]

Originally posted by tewi:

Originally posted by Tyrannosaurus Rex:

The game was taken offline because of a fatal exploit that could allow hackers to ♥♥♥♥ your PC up and you geniuses don't mind connecting to random people you know nothing about?

Cool, and an amateur coder fixed it in like a day. This is absolutely a disgrace, stop trying to paint it otherwise.

Honestly, it's a very clever marketing move on their part, that unfortuntately screws over fans of their older games, which are pretty old at this point. By shutting off the DS Servers, it encourages people to buy their new game, which happens to still have online play. I can't entirely blame them. The goal of any company is to make money, and at the end of the day, they really need to examine this exploit and any future liabilities that restoring the servers could cause. I am disappointed that I can't play online with them though.

[Sprinkles]

They legit used this situation to gather more resources for ER's release. And they still failed at that with the frequent random disconnects in ER online play. What Tewi said, they are the new EA now. Just garbage.

[Augoeides]

Originally posted by Sprinkles:

They legit used this situation to gather more resources for ER's release. And they still failed at that with the frequent random disconnects in ER online play. What Tewi said, they are the new EA now. Just garbage.

Comparing FROMsoftware to EA is pretty harsh. All they did is take the online servers down for games that are essentially a decade old, in order to prevent people personal computers (and bank accounts) from being red phantom invaded and bricked. Whereas EA forces microtransanctions onto already Buy2Play games, and discontinues support of them after like a couple months.

I understand the frustrations, but let's be real for a second. No company can keep "everyone" happy.

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Originally posted by Tyrannosaurus Rex:

The game was taken offline because of a fatal exploit that could allow hackers to ♥♥♥♥ your PC up and you geniuses don't mind connecting to random people you know nothing about?

All we wanted was some communication and they have yet to deliver

[tewi]

Originally posted by Augoeides:

Originally posted by Sprinkles:

They legit used this situation to gather more resources for ER's release. And they still failed at that with the frequent random disconnects in ER online play. What Tewi said, they are the new EA now. Just garbage.

Comparing FROMsoftware to EA is pretty harsh. All they did is take the online servers down for games that are essentially a decade old, in order to prevent people personal computers (and bank accounts) from being red phantom invaded and bricked. Whereas EA forces microtransanctions onto already Buy2Play games, and discontinues support of them after like a couple months.

I understand the frustrations, but let's be real for a second. No company can keep "everyone" happy.

That's not what's going on though. They didn't announce that they were permanently shutting down servers. That's an entirely different situation. Their servers are definitely not bandwidth hogs with how multiplayer functions either, so even is that were the case I wouldn't buy a financial excuse from a company/publisher this successful. I think most of the data is peer-to-peer anyway, it's just a master server for literally byte-size positional data, correct me if I'm wrong but I think the server just coordinates messages, bloodstains and summon signs and ♥♥♥♥ else I'd assume. Servers on other platforms are still up too, so there's that.

What did happen though was blaming it on an exploit, which was understandable of course, but then leaving their playerbase in the dark for months while sending poorly worded and vague updates that clarified absolutely nothing -- for an issue that has essentially already been fixed twice if you consider both the Blue Sentinel mod and whatever inhouse fix they applied to Elden Ring.

[Augoeides]

Originally posted by tewi:

That's not what's going on though. They didn't announce that they were permanently shutting down servers. That's an entirely different situation. Their servers are definitely not bandwidth hogs with how multiplayer functions either, so even is that were the case I wouldn't buy a financial excuse from a company/publisher this successful. I think most of the data is peer-to-peer anyway, it's just a master server for literally byte-size positional data, correct me if I'm wrong but I think the server just coordinates messages, bloodstains and summon signs and ♥♥♥♥ else I'd assume. Servers on other platforms are still up too, so there's that.

What did happen though was blaming it on an exploit, which was understandable of course, but then leaving their playerbase in the dark for months while sending poorly worded and vague updates that clarified absolutely nothing -- for an issue that has essentially already been fixed twice if you consider both the Blue Sentinel mod and whatever inhouse fix they applied to Elden Ring.

Most companies have really poor online communications. It sucks that their not telling us the situation, but that's how it is. It's also entirely possible that they haven't gotten the greenlight from whoever to start the PC servers again.

And yeah, the issue is already fixed, but FROMsoftware can't simply copy the code from Blue Sentinel and call it day. Maybe they can unofficially use it as a reference, but there's all kinds of legal backfire that could happen. They can't take the risk of BL sueing over the code, even if they have no intentions too. I'm sure there's other reasons too.

I'm not entirely defending them, but i feel like when it comes to games in general, fanbases go too far. There are numerous stories, about fans going ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ over nothing. Did you know that fans sent death threats over the new God of War game getting stalled back by like half a year? Well, it turned out that the main voice actor was having back surgery and other health issues, and the developers were kind enough to tell him to take all the time he needed, before they finished working on the game with him as Kratos.

There's all kinds of things we don't know about. Working on a big project always has its problems, especially when its a mainstream game. It sucks that they aren't vocal on the matter, but the fact is, they aren't required to report on even single little thing they do. Especially when it comes to their really old IP's. Most of their manpower is probably devoted to patching Elden Ring, and making new content for that.