More Dark Souls PC servers have come back online
While the Dark Souls III PC servers came back online back in August 2022, the remainder of the Dark Souls PC servers did not. However, today, the official Dark Souls Twitter account posted an update that Dark Souls II Scholars of the First Sin are now back online, with the original Dark Souls II and Dark Souls Remastered PC are the next games that will be worked on next.
Online features for the PC version of Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin (DX11) have been reactivated.
Online features for the base version of #DarkSouls II for PC (DX9) will be made available at a later date.
Our thanks for your continued patience and support. pic.twitter.com/OihQUJOIbu
— Dark Souls (@DarkSoulsGame) October 25, 2022
However, there was some bad news as well. The original Dark Souls PC title, Dark Souls: Prepare to Die, will not be fixed and will stay offline. This is due to the game being built on an older engine, and honestly, I prefer that. Dark Souls Remastered is superior to the original game in every way. It supports up to 4K resolution, the number of multiplayer players was upgraded from 4 to 6, password matchmaking is similar to that of Dark Souls III, 3 vs. 3 and 6 vs. 6 arena battles, dedicated servers, and more make the remastered title the superior one. Though, it does suck that those who want to play Dark Souls PC online now need to purchase Dark Souls Remastered.
On January 23rd, 2022, Bando Namco took the entirety of the Dark Souls PC servers offline due to the RCE exploit that was discovered. This exploit could capture your login information for your computer, execute programs in the background, or possibly even hose your OS. Since then, Bandai Namco and Fromsoftware had promised they would correct this exploit and would get the servers back online. Which felt like an eternity for Dark Souls PC players, myself included.
\As for when the Dark Souls II and Dark Souls: Remastered servers will be back, that’s anyone’s guess. The Dark Souls III servers came back online in August 2022, with the Dark Souls II: SotF coming back today, so that was two months. So hopefully, we’ll be playing Dark Souls: Remastered PC before the end of 2022.
