My experience with the Seamless Co-op mod shows how just that little bit more conventionality in Elden Ring builds Ring can open the game up to people who'd never have even considered playing the game solo. Yes, you trade some of that delicious sense of solitude as you explore its terrible yet beautiful broken world, and yes everything is a little easier, but the boss fights are still riveting, and the Lands Between are still one of the most mysterious, compelling game worlds to explore, filled with lore and secrets for those who wish to seek them out.

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The second detour comes in an easy-to-miss ladder leading down , located just opposite the base of the craggy climb you just took. Sliding down the ladder, you’ll find yourself on a thin wooden path with a miner enemy busying himself just ahead. Follow the thin path around to acquire one Somber Smithing Stone [4] at the end. Head back up and toward the ladder to the next sect

Now, I can already hear the shrieks of the zealots who believe that as soon as you summon a player to help you beat Hoarah Loux at the 67th time of asking you've somehow bastardised your entire Elden Ring experience and should have your license to play any FromSoft game revoked; 'It's not how they want you to play it,' 'You don't get it. You're meant to suffer.' 'Why would you want to mod a game that's so perfectI ?!? What's wrong with you PC people?'

A ragged thief scampers through the shrubbery of Limgrave, dagger in hand. Like a kitten haphazardly learning the basics of hunting, she pounces from the bushes at the mindlessly patrolling Limgrave soldiers in repeated attempts to backstab them. Sometimes she succeeds, other times she doesn't, but the key thing is that she's learning.

The Elden Ring Seamless Co-op mod does a few key things that make the game way more accessible. In fact, the mod morphs it from being a predominantly single-player game where with a bit of faff you can call on players to help you in times of need, into a full-on co-op experience. The mod lets up to four players adventure together seamlessly, removing barriers so that you can cross fog walls together, all ride your own Torrents, and explore the entire game world without disconnecting. You can even vote on fast-travelling together. It removes pretty much all friction from the co-op aspect of the game.

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The funny thing is that I actually agree with some of the above. I think there's merit to playing a game as it was designed to be played before seeking alternative ways to experience it. You play it as long as it engages you, then whether you bounce off it or complete it or are for whatever reason 'done' with it, you start exploring ways to refine and tweak the experience if you so wish (which is where mods come in). A developer creates a game to be consumed a certain way, and it seems like a basic courtesy to try and understand the experience they're conveying to you. Give it a go, try to get to grips with it, and only then start faffing with it. That way you'll learn to understand what that developer's really about, and in turn what it is you seek in a game.

I was delighted when a couple of my closest friends (who I'd class as moderate gaming enthusiasts) bought Elden Ring, but I never explicitly recommended it to them, knowing that the rules of its unforgiving and distinctly 'FromSoft' world might be difficult for them to adapt to. Despite me pouncing at every opportunity to help them, the by-design awkwardness of co-op summoning in the vanilla game meant that there was only so much I could do.