How to Play Multiplayer: Co-Op and PvP Guide

Elden Ring features online multiplayer co-op and PvP. Read on for details about Elden Ring's online multiplayer features including how to summon allies, how to invade other players for PvP, how to be summoned, as well as a complete list of multiplayer items.

How to Play Multiplayer

How to Co-Op

There are a variety of ways to summon players into your own world or aid them in their world. Summoning them will allow them to help you in defeating invaders or defeating the boss of your current area.

How to Summon an Ally

How to Be Summoned as an Ally

How to Invade and Engage in PvP

There are two ways to play PvP in Elden Ring: Invade other players in their world and summon players for PvP duels. Both methods require a few items to start an invasion or a duel.

How to Invade Another Player

How to Summon an Invader for PvP

Cross Play is Not Available

Though there was no crossplay during the Closed Network Test, cross-gen gameplay has been confirmed. PS4 and PS5 users will be able to connect to each other while playing. Xbox Series X | S and Xbox One users will also be able to play with each other. PC users will only be able to play online on Steam.
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Multiplayer Features

Summon allies via Co-Op Invade other players for PvP duels See phantoms of nearby players Read and write messages Find bloodstains on the ground Set multiplater and group passwords

Co-Op

You can use a Tarnished Furled Finger or a Small Golden Effigy to summon a co-op player in your world. You can use this feature to help you defeat the boss in your area. If an active invader is in your world, you can use the White Cipher Ring to send out request for help during an invasion.

Be warned that having an active ally in your world increases the chances of being invaded!

Invasions and PvP

A staple in Souls games is the ability to enter another player's world as an invader. Using a Festering Bloody Finger or Duelist's Furled Finger, you can search for the player in their world and defeat them in a duel to succeed.

You can also use a Furlcalling Finger Remedy to search for red summon signs left by other players in their world. These signs allow you to summon an invader into your world for a PvP battle.

A PvP hotspot seems to be around the First Step Site of Grace in Limgrave.

Enemies Will Still Be Hostile to the Host

If you are an Invader, keep in mind that enemies in the area will still be hostile to the Host but not to you.

However, it is looked down upon by members in the community when an Invader tries to bait the Host into groups of enemies!

Phantoms

When playing online, other nearby players are shown in the form of a white phantom. Interacting with these phantoms is impossible, but you can see how players nearby are interacting with the environment.

Messaging System

You can read messages from other players that are written on the ground, as well as write your own. The item, Tarnished's Wizened Finger, is required to write such messages. These messages often provide hints such as the locations of hidden doors or mimics.

Bloodstains

When a players dies, they leave a Bloodstain at the spot where they were killed. When another player touches that Bloodstain, they can view the last moments of that player.

Places where deaths caused by unexpected or overwhelming attacks will often have lots of Bloodstains, so be sure to make a note of these areas.

Multiplayer and Group Passwords

If you are playing with some friends, then the best thing to do to minimize being summoned by other players is to set up a Multiplayer password.

This can be accessed from the multiplayer menu. The multiplayer password will ensure that you are only matched with people using the same password.

Group passwords have a similar function as multiplayer passwords with regards to summoning, but they also serve as Elden Ring's clan or community system.

You can set multiple group passwords to gain a significant benefit - whenever someone defeats a major boss, everyone using the same password gets a boost in Rune acquisition for a short time.

This works even if you were not summoned by someone using the same group password.

Multiplayer Restrictions

Some Single-Player Features Are Unavailable

While playing Co-Op or being Invaded by another player, there are some features of the game that cannot be accessed by the Host, their Cooperators, or the Invader.

All Multiplayer Items

Co-Op Related Items

Item	Effect
Furlcalling Finger Remedy	Reveals co-op and hostile summoning signs.
Tarnished's Furled Finger	Creates cooperative multiplayer summon signs.
Blue Cipher Ring	Enables the wearer to answer calls for rescue.
Finger Severer	Sends another, or oneself, home.
Small Golden Effigy	Sends a co-op sign to summoning pools.

PvP and Invasion Related Items

Item	Effect
Duelist's Furled Finger	Creates competitive multiplayer summon signs.
Festering Bloody Finger	Attempts invasion of other player's world.
White Cipher Ring	When invaded, requests the aid of a rescuer.
Taunter's Tongue	Lures in invaders.
Small Red Effigy	Sends a hostile sign to summoning pools.

Other Multiplayer Items

Item	Effect
Tarnished's Wizened Finger	Used to write messages.

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