Elden Ring Xbox Players Are Having Trouble Playing Online
The ancient ring is currently one of the most highly rated games lately and also has its fair share of problems on pc as well as PS5. More recently, a number of Xbox players have reported that they have been unable to play the open-world RPG online since its launch yesterday.
While the central part ancient ring It’s a beautiful, gritty, and mysterious solo adventure, with co-op and multiplayer also playing an important role. As with previous Dark Souls games, players can invade each other’s games to fight or offer help against difficult bosses. Except, apparently, on Xbox, where players say they keep being bombarded with network error messages when they try to play the game online.
“Didn’t work for 36 hours” wrote one player per ancient ring subreddit in a post that got thousands of upvotes. “Please FromSoftware confirm and update us.” There are plenty of other discussions of this issue on the rest of Reddit, Discord, and Twitter. Tweets from the official ancient ring Account as well as the Xbox mascot Larry Khairb’s account have also been bombarded with comments about it.
Players suspect this is due to a recent calibration update called version 1.02.1. Those who have the update can go online. those who don’t can’t, but they also don’t know how to install the latest version. This appears to be affecting players on both older Xbox Ones and the current generation Xbox Series X/S. The only official mention of any problem on Bandai Namco Support Page says “online issues on the Xbox platform” are currently being investigated.
Bandai Namco and Microsoft did not immediately respond to the request for comment.
Despite the broken records of the past Dark souls games on Twitch and Steam, ancient ring recently saw an average review in a Valve store window. crash due to performance issues. However, that hasn’t stopped it from hosting one of the biggest PC launches ever. There are currently around 800,000 concurrent players on Steam alone. I fired it up last night on PS5 and was immediately intrigued and stunned. I look forward to returning for the rest of the weekend.