Dark Souls 2: PC servers are back online, but Prepare to Die remains offline

Dark Souls 2: PC servers are back online, but Prepare to Die remains offline

After months of waiting, the Dark Souls 2 PC servers are back online – at least one version. For fans of the first part, however, there is some bad news.

After From Software brought back the Dark Souls 3 servers a few months ago, it’s now the turn of the second part. The servers of the Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin Edition are finally back online and can be used, as the developers on announce twitter.

Dark Souls: No Return for Prepare to Die

However, the return of online functionality only affects this one version of Dark Souls 2. The original version, which ran on DirectX 9, is currently still offline. However, the PC servers are also scheduled to go online again at a later date.

Things are worse for the first Dark Souls. As announced by Bandai Namco and FromSoftware via Twitter, Dark Souls: Prepare to Die will no longer return online. The reason is “outdated systems”, according to the official Dark Souls Twitter account:

The PC servers of the remastered version of Dark Souls, however, should go back online. However, there is no date for the return yet.

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Odyssey of a Critical Vulnerability

The slow return of PC servers from individual Dark Souls games is the result of a serious security flaw. In the worst case, hackers could use this gap to take control of another player’s PC.

Shortly after the vulnerability became known, FromSoftware switched off the online functionality of the Dark Souls games on the PC. The servers for Dark Souls 3 then returned in August, even if they went offline again in September.

But now they are active again. Both Dark Souls 3 and Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin are now online again. Dark Souls 2 in the original version and Dark Souls: Remastered will follow at a later date, while Dark Souls: Prepare to Die will only work as an offline version.

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