Dark Souls 2 seamless co-op mod is "close" to being playtest-ready, having morphed into one of its creator's "most complicated and ambitious projects to date"

Dark Souls 2 "is an wholly antithetic beast" to the likes of Elden Ring and adjacent the archetypal Dark Souls, according to modder Yui

Prolific FromSoft crippled multiplayer modder Yui is "close" to being acceptable to unfastened up alpha investigating of their latest seamless co-op mod, this clip for Dark Souls 2. Despite it pursuing the the footsteps of their seamless co-op mods for the likes of Elden Ring, Nightreign, and the archetypal Dark Souls, Yui said this DS2 mod's turned retired to beryllium a precise antithetic kettle of food and 1 of their "most analyzable and ambitious projects to date".

Showing disconnected their advancement successful a caller YouTube video and accompanying blog post, Yui noted that putting these retired "is a mode for [them] to officially denote that the mod could beryllium done". It's "close" to being acceptable for alpha testing, albeit with nary coagulated day erstwhile that'll statesman arsenic of close now.

As for what the process has been similar moving connected the mod implicit the past twelvemonth and a bit, the modder admitted that successful hindsight, its archetypal announcement successful April 2025 was made "a spot prematurely" and that they "probably should person held disconnected until I made much progress". Elsewhere successful the post, they wrote that since getting that shot rolling, the DS2 seamless co-op mod has developed into 1 of their "most analyzable and ambitious projects to date".

"Dark Souls 2 is simply a spot of an outcast successful presumption of modding and reverse engineering," the modder explained. "Dark Souls 1, 3, Sekiro, Elden Ring, and Nightreign each tally connected a precise akin crippled engine. If you recognize however 1 crippled works past you tin much oregon little fig retired however things enactment successful the different games too. Dark Souls 2, from what I understand, is simply a abstracted subdivision of the crippled motor utilized successful Dark Souls 1, with important modifications. For reverse engineering purposes it's fundamentally a wholly antithetic game."

Once its been wrangled sufficiently for the investigating to begin, the mod'll connection co-op with up to six players successful Dark Souls 2's Scholar of the First Sin edition. Similarly to Yui's Dark Souls 1 seamless co-op mod lone moving with the remastered mentation of that game, the DS2 mod won't enactment with the archetypal Dark Souls 2 owed to it being 32-bit, portion the Scholar of the First Sin mentation is 64-bit.

You'll beryllium capable to alpha trial Dark Souls 2 seamless co-op for escaped erstwhile Yui fires the starting gun, but the quality to study bugs and question enactment straight from the modder volition initially beryllium constricted to their Patreon backers retired of the gate.