steelherd20: Is it just the Dark Souls system of multiplayer?

My spouse and I are not interested in pvp combat at all. Our biggest concern is we wont enjoy the game because other people will just keep coming in and killing us. This happened to us in Dark Souls 3, we never made it to Vort of the Boreal Valley.

I read one thing where it said you had to opt into "duels" but then the reviews say you just get invaded. Which one is correct?

**EDIT** I was gonna delete this post but it looks like I can't.

After searching around for a while, I found my answer on a Steam discussion, answered by a Dev. It would have been nice if it was clearly stated somewhere on the store page that pvp is through an invite only system but whatever. We both bought the game and are looking forward to it.

steelherd20: Is it just the Dark Souls system of multiplayer?

My spouse and I are not interested in pvp combat at all. Our biggest concern is we wont enjoy the game because other people will just keep coming in and killing us. This happened to us in Dark Souls 3, we never made it to Vort of the Boreal Valley.

I read one thing where it said you had to opt into "duels" but then the reviews say you just get invaded. Which one is correct?

**EDIT** I was gonna delete this post but it looks like I can't.

After searching around for a while, I found my answer on a Steam discussion, answered by a Dev. It would have been nice if it was clearly stated somewhere on the store page that pvp is through an invite only system but whatever. We both bought the game and are looking forward to it.

steelherd20: Is it just the Dark Souls system of multiplayer?

My spouse and I are not interested in pvp combat at all. Our biggest concern is we wont enjoy the game because other people will just keep coming in and killing us. This happened to us in Dark Souls 3, we never made it to Vort of the Boreal Valley.

I read one thing where it said you had to opt into "duels" but then the reviews say you just get invaded. Which one is correct?

**EDIT** I was gonna delete this post but it looks like I can't.

After searching around for a while, I found my answer on a Steam discussion, answered by a Dev. It would have been nice if it was clearly stated somewhere on the store page that pvp is through an invite only system but whatever. We both bought the game and are looking forward to it.

CradleGames: Sorry being a bit late.

The game doesn't have any DRM. At least, I guess it depends how you define that.
We never check if the version of the game you're playing is valid or not, and never plan to do.

However, when playing online, we need to know who is who. Otherwise, kinda impossible to do matchmaking.
One way to do that, would have been to make people create an account/password when starting the game.
Considering the complexity of doing that, especially on all platform, we just went with using the ID provided by the platform as authentication.

On PlayStation, the console gives us a PS ID.
On Steam, it gives us the user Steam ID.
etc.
On GoG, it gives us a GalaxyID.

If you don't like launchers, you can always play local coop (splitscreen).

CradleGames: Sorry being a bit late.

The game doesn't have any DRM. At least, I guess it depends how you define that.
We never check if the version of the game you're playing is valid or not, and never plan to do.

However, when playing online, we need to know who is who. Otherwise, kinda impossible to do matchmaking.
One way to do that, would have been to make people create an account/password when starting the game.
Considering the complexity of doing that, especially on all platform, we just went with using the ID provided by the platform as authentication.

On PlayStation, the console gives us a PS ID.
On Steam, it gives us the user Steam ID.
etc.
On GoG, it gives us a GalaxyID.

If you don't like launchers, you can always play local coop (splitscreen).