Tag: Dark Souls

Designers: Stranger of Paradise Final Fantasy Origin is a mix of Dark Souls, Devil May Cry, and Final Fantasy

ZephyrnetJanuary 24, 2022

Chaos! Stranger of Paradise is looking crazier by the minute, and in my book, that’s a thing of beauty. While...

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Elden Ring Release Date Assured for Feb. 25

ZephyrnetJanuary 24, 2022

Elder Ring footage from Taipei Game Show released and fans are anticipating its release around the corner.

PvP is down in Dark Souls 1, 2, and 3 on PC following a high-stakes exploit

ZephyrnetJanuary 24, 2022

Dark Souls developers had to pull the PvP servers for the PC games after a vulnerability was pointed out by...

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Dark Souls 3 Servers Shut Down Due to Critical RCE Bug

Cyber SecurityJanuary 24, 2022

The bug can allow attackers to remotely execute code on gamers’ computers. The devs temporarily deactivated PvP servers across multiple affected versions.

Elden Ring Has Been Designed to Reduce Player Stress, Without Reducing Enemy Difficulty

GamingJanuary 24, 2022

A new gameplay overview of Elden Ring has revealed FromSoftware's focus on making sure players aren't overly stressed while playing the game – but seemingly without reducing the difficulty you'd expect from Souls game enemies.

Dark Souls Offline for Fixes

GamingJanuary 24, 2022

Speaking of FromSoftware, this tweet confirms the Dark Souls vulnerability reported yesterday and says PvP servers will be kept offline until things are cleared...

Dark Souls PvP servers taken offline to fix dangerous exploit

GamingJanuary 24, 2022

FromSoftware and Bandai Namco are temporarily closing down player-versus-player multiplayer access to the Dark Souls games on Windows PC after a dangerous remote...

Dark Souls Servers Shut Down After Exploit Allows Attackers To Access Players’ PCs

GamingJanuary 24, 2022

Dark Souls and Elden Ring developer From Software has taken all its online servers for the Dark Souls series on PC offline as it investigates an exploit that can give an attacker to your entire system.

The exploit, which has been around for some time, was initially reported to From Software by one of the few people who is able to execute the exploit, according to VGC. The report was met with no reply, forcing the player to stream the exploit and its dangers to bring attention to the issues.

A Dark Souls 3 streamer by the name of The_Grim_Sleeper streamed the exploit and took over his own PC, using a narration app to read out some text to prove how easy it was to control the system remotely. This past Sunday, it seems From Software noticed, with a tweet indicating that all PvP servers for the entirety of the Dark Souls series would be taken offline on PC as it investigates.

PvP servers for Dark Souls 3, Dark Souls 2, and Dark Souls: Remastered have been temporarily deactivated to allow the team to investigate recent reports of an issue with online services.
Servers for Dark Souls: PtDE will join them shortly.
We apologize for this inconvenience.
— Dark Souls (@DarkSoulsGame) January 23, 2022

The exploit is quite severe, but it seems that the small community that knows how to exploit it hasn't chosen to do anything dangerous with it, and initially chose to report it for fixing. It's especially important that it's getting fixed now too, given that the exploit was found in some datamined code for Elden Ring, which is set to launch next month.