That's how online works. Each section is separated. If you want to play with your friend in the new section, your friend needs to enter it in their game, place the sign down, and you need to accept it in the new zone.

It’s really tedious if you actually want to play most of the game co-op I would just clear caves and dungeons together while fighting the occasional boss fight👍 https://youtu.be/EqbqId-2STI?si=hpKBFmBgthuSocZ9 it would take too long to explain everything so here’s a link

Ps4/ps5: Press start and look for multi-player tab. Make sure you're far enough into the game so you have the right items and crafting to start multi-player. ("Eardleaf flower" to craft "furlcalling finger remedy".) Then make a sure you adjust the password so you can enter each other's world and not some random strangers

(don't forget to delete the password after!!! Makes multi-player impossible until you delete the password after)

Also look for summoning icon statues, "y crucifix", they're waist high. That's usually where you put your sign down/ finger remedy.

First off, Fingers

Nearly immediately you can coop

You can coop first by having 1 person place a gold/red summon sign. This is the person coming to help/duel said new friend.

New friend will need to use a furlcalling finger remedy to summon you. If you die or fast travel the effect will need to be refreshed, otherwise is a permanent effect (you can also manually deactivate it)

The Gold Summon Sign item can be found just at the start of the game before leaving the tutorial area up the elevator. The remedy to needed to summon can easily be crafted using 2 erdleafs flowers.

Have fun y'all! Definitely check out the Elden Ring wiki from fextralife. There should be a multiplayer section to cover anything I missed.

So you can summon your friend into your world(or vice versa) and play together, explore, fight etc. But once you guys Beata boss or one of you dies, the summoned player will go back to their world and need to be resummoned.

Furthermore, game progress is only made by the host(the one not being summoned). And to progress the other player will also have to play in their world as well.

You will most likely be able to play coop throughout the vast majority of the game, with the main hub being an exception.

you'll be able to play coop almost anywhere, the host will gain the pogress, but you won't be able to summon your mount while in coop and the world is huge, so it's best to just summon before a boss or in a dungeon or you'll be spending a lot of time walking around when you could be on horseback

First off, welcome to the Souls universe!

So how co-op works is that you’ll summon your friend to assist you up to the boss, then they’ll automatically leave the party. Then your friend will summon you to complete his boss and same thing, you’ll leave the party.

Co-op in the Souls universe is really there for the summoned person to assist the host in slaying the boss. Then you’ll do the same for your friend. My friend and I have played all of the Souls games together and we love it.

So can you play the game together all the time? Not so much in way you may think but at the same time yes; whoever is summoned will assist you in killing your boss, then you’ll have your friend summon you to help assist in slaying his and this is what you’ll do the entire game.

Sort of. However, only one player (the host) will progress and get most of the loot.

I cant answer your question as I'm a new player too. I was just wondering what you'll be playing on? I'm trying to get as many people together as possible

Checklist time.

Same exact password?

Same location?

Is the location somewhere that allows summoning?

Did they use the Furl Finger Remedy item to show summon signs in their world?

... Same platform?

I think you both need to be on the same difficulty. He hasn't beaten the game, and you are on NG+++++++

Assuming you've checked all the other stuff people have suggested, platform is an important factor. I've joined other players from mid NG levels when they were new, so I don't think it's that. Despite looking like a beautiful online game, all of Fromsoft's games are mostly powered by the client-side, not the server (which handles basic matchmaking, messages etc). This means that if your machines and networks have some kind of connection issue, you're going to have problems. Your machines are directly connecting to each other for the game. Test if they can join you, aka is the problem one-way only. On XBOX, you can go into the settings and test whether your NAT type is open or not. You can then follow steps to force your NAT type open. I'm not sure exactly how this works on PC as, whilst I play on PC, I've never had any similar issues

Same platform?

Being on different console generations could be the issue, but shouldn't be since Xbox one can play with Xbox series s. When using passwords do you put it in the multiplayer slot or just group? That makes a difference too.

Group password is useless, the boss needs to be alive for the one summoning and if you're on console make sure you both have the paid online on

do you paly on the same plattform? there is no crossplay

Group password =/= Multiplayer password

Group password to see more bloodstains, messages and get runes bonuses from people in the Group

Multiplayer password to play with specific people

Everything sounds good not really sure what is happening still, id suggest just placing your sign all over the place see if that changes anything

Be at the right level and upgrade range for the content you want to do. That's the hardest part, any content you've done you're rapidly getting too high level to be summoned to do again unless you intentionally slow yourself.

What are you playing on?

Use the effigy, not the fingers. It puts summon signs at nearby/all summoning pools you activated. That gives you the most coverage.

Also, being at a meta soul level can help keep you in range with more of the playerbase. Such as level 150.

It works fine. It’s a lot of fun. Summoned players do not get items except regenerating crafting items like some fruits/flowers and herbs.

Yes you can do the lot with two players, you’ll just need to switch worlds after each boss and defeat it twice.

Sometimes the multiplayer summon doesn’t work, (worst on weekends) and after months of experimentation I simply cannot offer any advice other than to get your partner to put their sign down first, as that at least speeds everything up for the inevitable 8+ retries. Also the summonee restarting the game might help, hard to tell. We had months of issues and tried the scientific method to diagnose, but it never made sense. However, it always worked eventually. Frustrating sometimes though, especially when invaded and killed after 10 retries only to have to go and try for a connection again. Might be a regional thing.

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It's a bit of a pain in the ass but I played the whole thing coop with multiple friends.

It is very active. You can try to remove the sign and re spread it in pools. Be sure you have cross-region on and you have the pools active.