Elden Ring: how to play online multiplayer?

We all know that Elden Ring is a difficult video game, as is usual with From Software's works. However, we always have an option to make things easier: enjoy the multiplayer and fight side by side with our friends. And if what you want is a challenge, you can also become a dark specter and invade another player's game with the intention of finishing him off and keeping his runes. In this part of our guide, we tell you how to play online.

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Elden Ring multiplayer: how to play the cooperative mode?

Leave a co-op token: you can offer to help other users in dungeons or final bosses (the reward for winning is half the runes that the player who hosts the game gets). You can leave unlimited tokens using Tarnished's Furled Finger, an item you get during the prologue on a corpse, just before going out to the open world that is part of the linear path.

Summon an ally player: if you want to enlist the help of other players, you need to use the consumable item Furlcalling Finger Remedy. It can be purchased from various merchants that you find while exploring the world, although it is much faster to use the crafting menu, as the necessary materials are often found without any difficulty. When you use this item, the cooperation signs left by other players are revealed.

Create a private game

Although there is no mode as such, the game allows us to set a password to be paired with any player who uses the same password. If you wish to fight in the company of a friend, agree to set the same password and in a matter of seconds you will be able to see your summoning symbols. This is the only way to be sure that you will see the token of the other person you wish to play with.

How to play the competitive mode?

The competitive or PvP mode consists in being the one who invades the world of other users. If you do so, your only objective will be to find him in the vicinity of the area and finish him off. If you manage to win the duel, you will get a good amount of runes. If you lose, you will be returned to your world immediately.

To invade a random world, you have to use the Festering Bloody Finger item (given to you by the first NPC you meet when you arrive in the open world). You can also leave a symbol so that another player decides to summon you to fight a duel to the death. You can do this with the Duelist's Furled Finger that you pick up from a corpse in the coliseum located in the northern part of Limgrave. In case you want to see the PvP signals of other users, you also need to use Tarnished's Furled Finger to reveal them beforehand.