Online play information for Demon's Souls and Demon's Souls Remake refers to aspects of the game that necessitate interaction with an online server, from multiplayer to "server tendency". Please read on for more details.
- You can visit the Summon Range Calculator to determine the level of the players that you can interact with during Online Play.
Online in Demon's Souls
Online information
Online play plays a huge part in the game and is integrated into the single-player experience, connection to the PlayStation Network is required. Players who are not connected to the network won't be able to experience some of the gameplay elements available in the game.
While playing the game, players will sometimes see the ghostly white transparent figures of other players who are currently playing the same location as you do but in a parallel world. When a player dies, they will leave a bloodstain for other players in the same location to be found. When activated, it will show a red ghost reenacting their final moments before dying in hopes that it can help other players in the parallel worlds avoid the same fate. Also another way of helping other players is by leaving messages on the floor as a warning to for others to see. The use includes warning other players of imminent danger around the corner, leaving helpful tips on how to progress the level or defeat a specific enemy and more. Sometimes players intentionally leaves wrong information that leads to the readers death.
Passwords were introduced with the Dark Souls Remake, and they allow players to organize both coop and pvp via a password. Players using passwords won't see signs or invasions from other players.
Phantoms (Ghosts)
Other players will be shown in the game world as phantoms (ghosts). You cannot interact with phantoms, and they cannot interact with you. Use other phantoms as a guide to what may happen next in-game.
Bloodstains
Examine a blood stain left behind in a spot where another player died, and you'll view a replay of that player's death. Like with phantoms, you can use this as a guide to what may happen next.
Messages
The messages you can write in the main menu will be sent to other players. You'll also receive messages written by other players in your world. Messages can be rated. If other players rate your messages, you'll regain a little HP.
How to Coop and PvP in Demon's Souls
Co-op
Blue Eye Stone
- A Soul Sign is sent to other worlds, and you are summoned from those other worlds as a Phantom. If you succeed in helping the summoner defeat a demon, you will regain your body.
Starting Co-op
- The clients use a Blue Eye Stone (clients must be in soul form) to cast a soul sign.
- The host examines the soul sign and summons the client (hosts must be in body form)
- The host and client play together in the host's world
Success Conditions
If the host defeats the area's boss, the clients will receive rewards and return to their own worlds.
Failure Conditions
If the clients or host die or any return items are used, the client will return to their own world.
Invasion PVP
Black Eye Stone
- When you enter another world, you become a Black Phantom. If you can defeat the warrior in that world, you will resurrect with your body
Starting invasion
- The clients use a Black Eye Stone (clients must be in soul form) to forcefully invade another player's world
- The client automatically invades the world of the selected host
- The host and client play against each other in the host's world
Success Conditions
If the host is defeated, the client will receive rewards and return to their own world.
Failure Conditions
If the client dies, their Soul Level will decrease by one
Summon PVP
Red Eye Stone
- A red Soul Sign is sent to other worlds, and you are summoned from those other worlds as a Black Phantom. In the other world, you wager Souls in combat against the one who summoned you.
Summon PVP
- The clients use a Red Eye Stone (clients must be in soul form) to cast a red soul sign.
- The host examines the soul sign and summons the client (hosts must be in body form)
- The host and client play against each other in the host's world
Success Conditions
If the host is defeated, the client will receive rewards and return to their own world.
Failure Conditions
If the client dies, or any return items are used, the client will return to their own world.
Anonymousworking on my first playthrough, is there anyone able to help me get some trophies
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Can anyone help me with return to form? It’s my final trophy before platinum.
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I need help from hunting two online trophies.Please help me or do that by helping each other. PSN: jasonchengsl
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Queria completar os troféus de jogar online, quem puder ajudar add: marcosfvictor
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I thought dark souls had bad coop mechanics until I read this page.
I’m sitting here trying to offer coop for bosses but I have to be in soul form? But if I die on purpose, it messes up my world tendency. The tendency mechanic is horrible
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I'm needing help with pure white character tendency. Please help? Psn name Corecharge20
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Hi need to kill an invader in world 2 to shift my world tendency white.
Psn: fothreenix
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Hi! I'm currently looking too kill invaders (so I can get pwct) so I can get the ally ring! If you want too help my psn is: CavesLemon
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if some one wana do pvp ( figth club ) or just co op against bosses and levels add me PSN : matiasxalf
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Yo! Add me on Discord (Boss#8871) or PSN (Bossu72) if you want to co-op. I also have a BUNCH of items like spare grass, upgrade materials, weapons etc. that i don't need, so if you want anything then ask if i have it beforehand.
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Hi everyone! If you wanna coop add me.. psn. il_fede75.
Thanks!
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I'm lvl 140 can you help me with one trophie? I want to be summoned in any boss:
PSN: MeyuKimeNA
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Need anybody to let me kill him once to shift my character Tendency towards white for the ring trophy.
Giving a free pure graystone for any1 that helps me. I'm SL91 if u don't have the red eye stone. Thanks in advance.
@ TIReckoningIT on psn Timezone: GMT+2
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Can anyone summon me to knock the the return to form trophy. Please
PSN: ahmed8sharaf
Add me and tell me which server to connect to
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Look to coop to help someone kill a boss, add me Deathscythe_64X
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Can anyone summon me for bosses? I want to get the trophy. I will help you if you need. Lowellxiao_7
I am after some coop to help with bosses, but I cant get summoned is everyone just wondering around in soul form or are people actually looking for coop? if anyone reads this and needs help with a boss my PSN is Capt005
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If the client player hasn't defeated the boss before and is successful in the hosts game do both players get credit. IE: when client goes back to their word, did they receive get credit? Just wondering if you can co-op through the whole game and not waste the clients time.
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PSN-ID -Aliveindarkness to assist with bosses in exchange for assitance with yours
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Need help with unwelcome guest trophy pls. SL 141. Last trophy to get platinum. Thanks in advance
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When I put my blue sign in front of the boss door of 3-1 (false idol) for helping others, I'm summoned but I become a invading dark spirit!!! Why? And in human form for the same boss I can't find any blue sign. I'm soul lvl 28.
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Need help getting white world tendency please help! Madd dogg1994
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Hello fellow gamers, I'm fairly new to the dark / demon souls franchise and could use some help to get pure white tendency. Since im fariy new to pvp I'd appreciate a good soul who could let me hone my skills while also getting pure white in various zones :)
My PSN is Stoner966. Add me if you want to. until then i will set 1234 as my PW. Thanks in advance :)
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I think a great idea for general play cooperatively regardless of character level is to set password as “co-op”. If this was adopted universally, it would make finding new friends much, much easier.
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Need help for PWWT in world 2, 3 and 5.
Bosses are already dead, password would be "gg".
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My ps5 ID: OO_Fhd_Oo Please add me so we can help each other
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I need to be pure white character who is available to help me I need someone summon me
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I'm a little bit confused.
1. I never ever have seen summon signs from other players. I'm now Level 26. Do you see them only, if you have body form? I thought you aren't able to summon others but are still able to see the signs at least.
2. After using the blue eye twice just in front of a boss the summoning of myself works....but i was summoned at a total different place (and boss). Furthermore i was a red phantom and have to fight against an other player? After loosing, i tried it again, portet to the exact same place and suddenly the info pop up, that the boss have died and i returned back into my world in body form.
In DS 1-3 i never have any problems like this. Till now i thought i get the mechanic but after vthat experience i'm totally confused.
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Well, just had to scroll down a little and easily could quickly distinguish between original DeS fans who gets the job done by themselves and ds3 fanboys who expected to have the same 3 phantom joyride, the latter finding out those days are over in this generation.
I knew defending ganks with stupid excuses to keep their game in easy mode would incapacitate them to face actual challenges. If you feel identified (or even offended) with this... It's only on you.
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What is up with PVP rewards? I spent a few hours doing PVP yesterday and got 350k. Tried today, and I get nothing for winning? Doesn't seem to matter if I invade or get summoned, when I win I don't get any souls at all. I can't find any reliable information about this phenomenon, is it a glitch? A feature? If so, the f*ck kind of feature is that? How does it even work? Nothing is communicated about this anywhere, and it seems completely arbitrary.
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Has anyone managed to get 4 player co-op. I see in all the press releases Bluepoint said it can be 4 player co-op and 2 invaders but ive not seen how to do it. Any help?
Thanks
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Okay now I’m going to legit call you out on it Demok souls community...how bad at videogames are you ? I’ve had a better time alone than with ppl here. Tank that hides behind casters, run away from enemies THEY aggro and even phantoms going invisible going hide in corners! What is this ppl ? Are you all mentally challenged or something? I literally had not a single good jolly coop experience so far and I almost finished the entire game!
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Need help online. Need someone to summon me to kill a boss for achievement. Can help in any way in return. Add DrunknMunky00 on psn
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Anybody willing to drop official leggings for me...i can exchange my cresent falcion +5..contact me at patutkarsh1@gmail.com
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A few notes from some experiments in Remake conducted with a friend. I was level 82, they were 39ish. Setting a password made summoning work easily and quickly in both directions. However, neither of us were able to invade the other despite the matching password. Invading either failed, or we ending up invading someone else entirely (despite the password). There was no level loss for dying as an invader. One time, as I initiated a summon to pull in my friend, an invader of a much lower level appeared simultaneously. He didn't last long...
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In the remake you can still co-op with the boss dead using a password. You can still be invaded too.
- Anonymous
You thought all the sht that happened in ds3 with all the ganks and summons was going to stay there? Tsk tsk... time to pay, hosts.
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The failure conditions seem to be flipped for Invasion PVP and Summon PVP. Can confirm through PVP Summons that you lose 1 SL when you lose, and when you Invade VIA Black Eye Stone, there seem to be no penalties; also for the uninformed, when you successfully take a life, you gain souls in proportion to how many souls the host needed to level up.
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I’ve not been getting souls for defeating a Host while invading. What’s the deal?
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You can still play on Yuri' s server. Check r/demonssouls and look for "the state of the private server" for info about it and how to connect!
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yuri's serveur work great ! it's non-official serveur, it still work and community are here on discord
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Would anyone be kind enough to offer assistance, I accidentally died in world 5 after defeating maiden astrea and I lost my Pure White World Tendency. Just need to defeat a black phantom or 2 to raise it back up as I dont have any more bosses or named NPCS to slay
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