{"id":685494,"date":"2026-04-07T03:43:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T03:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/dark-souls-3-has-online-features-reactivated-for-pc"},"modified":"2026-04-07T03:43:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T03:43:01","slug":"dark-souls-3-has-online-features-reactivated-for-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/dark-souls-3-has-online-features-reactivated-for-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark Souls 3 has online features reactivated for PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/dark-souls-3-has-online-features-reactivated-for-pc.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>For FromSoftware fans and avid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/games\/dark-souls\">Dark Souls<\/a> players, it&#8217;s been a long time spent in the dark without online features. Ever since an <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DarkSoulsGame\/status\/1491411609499353088\/photo\/1\">announcement to Twitter<\/a> on 9 February, 2022, explaining that there had been some technical difficulties experienced with the Dark Souls games on PC, the online functionality for the series has been unavailable.<\/p>\n<p>The same announcement said that online services would not resume on PC until after the launch of Elden Ring. Elden Ring released just over two weeks later on February 25, and <em>until now<\/em>, online services for the Dark Souls series on PC has still not been restored. Simply put, it&#8217;s been a significant amount of waiting for fans of the series.<\/p>\n<p>This was in fact due to a Dark Souls exploit that could allow hackers to use remote code execution (RCE) maliciously and even take over another players PC. In a statement to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/news\/the-major-dark-souls-exploit-that-took-servers-offline-has-been-published\/\">VGC<\/a>, one player who had discovered the exploit actually shared the details of it to <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/tremwil\/ds3-nrssr-rce\">Github<\/a> and with the developer, but they also stated that little to nothing was done regarding this information until they publicly demonstrated the exploit on Twitch. As a result, the Dark Souls servers then went offline while the developer found a fix for the issues.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/dark-souls-3-has-online-features-reactivated-for-pc\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/dark-souls-3-has-online-features-reactivated-for-pc\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For FromSoftware fans and avid Dark Souls players, it&#8217;s been a long time spent in the dark without online features. Ever since an announcement to Twitter on 9 February, 2022, explaining that there had been some technical difficulties experienced with the Dark Souls games on PC, the online functionality for the series has been unavailable. The same announcement said that online services would not resume on PC until after the launch of Elden Ring. Elden Ring released just over two weeks later on February 25, and until now, online services for the Dark Souls series on PC has still not been restored. Simply put, it&#8217;s been a significant amount of waiting for fans of the series. This was in fact due to a Dark Souls&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/dark-souls-3-has-online-features-reactivated-for-pc\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":685495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[259,963,1515,965,59,44,34,60],"class_list":["post-685494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vg24-7","tag-action-adventure","tag-bandai-namco-entertainment","tag-dark-souls-3","tag-fromsoftware","tag-pc","tag-ps4","tag-rpg","tag-xbox-one"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dark Souls 3 has online features reactivated for PC | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"For FromSoftware fans and avid Dark Souls players, it&#039;s been a long time spent in the dark without online features. 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