The Souls series cannot be without "no horses", just as the 3D zone cannot lose Jerusalem.
Recently, some netizens found that the "Dark Souls" series on Steam, the "multiplayer online" label has disappeared, and instead of the "single-player" label.
Players have reacted more to this change, and some people in the Steam comment area have already scolded the ball straight, and the bottom of the related news has also expressed concern about Bandai's move.
The origin of this controversy goes back to the beginning of this year. In January this year, hackers discovered the game vulnerability of the Dark Souls series, through which hackers can easily hack into the player's computer, steal the player's personal information, and directly turn the player's computer into a mining machine.
Some players discovered this situation and gave feedback to Bandai, learning of this news, Bandai immediately announced the suspension of the Dark Souls series of PVP servers and launched a further investigation into the matter.
Of course, this time only the PC version of the server, Xbox and PlayStation server did not stop, which is why Yun Youji suggested that netizens if you want to buy the old ring, you can consider the host version.
But months have passed, there has been little progress in the patching and investigation of the Dark Souls vulnerability, and the server has not been restored, and the change in the label has released a dangerous signal that maybe the Dark Souls PC server may never open again.
When it comes to soul games, the first thing you can think of is the fragmented narrative and the super high difficulty of the game, and if you have played it, you will add the map design of the game, but in fact, the online mode of the game is also an indispensable element of the soul series.
Miyazaki Hidetaka has put a lot of effort into the design of the single-player process of the Soul series, which does not mean that PVP content is not valued. Players who have played Dark Souls and Old Man Rings know that the balance adjustment of the game is often based on PVP, and a weapon that does not stand out in PVE may also be weakened by PVP being too strong (named Smoke's Extra Large Sword).
Even after many years of release, there are still some UP videos on the uncle's station that specialize in uploading Dark Souls PVP, and the popularity is not low from the perspective of playback.
Of course, even if most people are not keen on PVP, but just like to experience the stand-alone process, the online mode is still an indispensable part.
The Soul series maps have always been known for their tricky and complex, a simple-looking castle, often surrounded by internals, plus there are hidden walls and such things, do not look at the raiders, a little inattentive week will miss a lot of content.
The emergence of the message system solves this problem very well. When pushing the map, the hidden wall in the scene, there are always enthusiastic players to leave a message "there is a hidden wall in front", even if you encounter a message that deliberately pits people, there will be other players next to the message who will leave "there are scammers before".
When encountering The "goodwill" of Hidetaka Miyazaki, there will also be players on the ground to warn the enemy of the location of the ambush, so that the player can pay attention to safety.
In the spare time of battle, the message "There is a cave in front of a corpse, so the tongue is useful" can also relieve the player's nervousness a lot.
Some time ago, on foreign reddit, there was also a discussion on the meaning of the player's message in the old man ring "no horse", many people who understand the Chinese are also enthusiastic to foreign players to popularize the hidden connotation of "no horse", and many foreign players have thus experienced the charm of Chinese language.
Leaving aside the message, even the blood left by other players when they die can reveal a lot of information.
A complex scene has a lot of blood, most likely there are many ambushes around; there is a blood stain in an empty field, and there may be a boss battle next.
Even when Yun Youji was looking for the invisible bridge in the old man's ring, he also judged the direction by the blood floating in the air.
As mentioned at the beginning, even if you only play stand-alone, the online functionality of the game is still an inaccessible part of it.
Dark Souls 3 has been on sale for six years, as a buyout game, continuing to provide online services will not generate additional revenue, coupled with the current FS Society's new old man ring is on sale, Dark Souls has been found to be serious vulnerabilities, Watay will close the Server of Dark Souls is still unknown.
Speaking of Dark Souls, Yun Youji remembered that some time ago, there were also players who maliciously exploited the loopholes of the old ring to damage the savings of other players and make them fall into an infinite death cycle.
It is reported that the development of the old man ring "follows the ancestral system", many problems that existed in the dark soul period also exist in the old man ring, if the network vulnerabilities of the FS social federation black soul can not be solved, it is difficult to ensure that similar problems will occur in the old man ring in the future.
The FS Society's technical power Yun Youji still believes that they may indeed never fix this vulnerability, so if you are now in the pit old thief's soul series, in addition to "Only Wolf" without online functions, the host is still a better choice.