Overview
- FromSoftware announced on Wednesday, November 11, 2026, that online services for Dark Souls 2 and Dark Souls 3 are restored after completing an internal investigation and applying a fix.
- The games' multiplayer features were taken offline at the end of October because the studio identified security vulnerabilities that prompted the suspension of native co‑op, PvP invasions, player messages, and related services.
- FromSoftware apologized to players for the interruption but has not published technical details about the nature of the vulnerabilities or the specific remediation steps it used.
- Community workarounds such as the Seamless Co‑op mods gave some players a way to play together while official servers were down, helping reduce disruption for people who prefer PC modded multiplayer.
- The outage resolved in under two weeks, a much quicker fix than the 2022 Remote Code Execution shutdown that kept Dark Souls servers offline for months and shaped community sensitivity to server security.