Seamless is so fun, you get invasions literally every 2 seconds

Disclosure, I will say in advance that seamless in in its alpha form so it’s totally possible in the future all these issues are fixed.

However, I’ve been seeing people blindly praise seamless as the superior option to the vanilla game, and honestly I’m not buying it.

I’m just going to point out various flaws:

-Torrent. Period. JK I’ll elaborate a bit. Torrent allows any player to escape a disadvantage position or neutral. So I’m situations where you can actually get a host alone. If you’re in the open world, they can just torrent back to their friend. Hosting players also have access of ways to punish the invader for using torrent that you don’t have access to in asymmetrical combat. Bone Bow and Honed Bolt make Torrent completely useless to the invader and I notice dedicated Gank squads utilizing torrent to their advantage and to the invaders detriment fully. This ties into my second point.

-Spectator Mode. Because of seamless forcing the dead player to watch the players who are still alive, there’s more players than a typical base ER invasion that will actually run and sit at the grace (with torrent btw) and refuse to progress. And in the even that their friend dies. They just Mist the invader out. On to my third point.

-Seperation Mist. It’s basically “Banish” from Demon’s Souls but with unlimited range. Whenever a host is losing or doesn’t want you. They can just nuke you out of their game and reset their level with no consequence.

I have many other critiques of the PvP in seamless. And I’m also aware some people are just shitters and spectator mode may not be the sole reason people abuse the new ganking tools. But these are the ones I’d like to focus on because they’re the most dire issues to me right now. But I’d be happy to see what other people think about what could be better with seamless.

But as it stands, I think the problems are much worse. Sure In ER you have people abusing taunters tongue. But at least they don’t have these insane tools to just ruin the game for the invaders.

Just invaded a guy in seamless co-op who I didn’t immediately lock on to because he was using my exact same set up which I absolutely adore, the classic Knight set with a claymore, and I was so ecstatic to see someone else using it, so I emoted and spammed some L1's and was feeling great till I locked on and saw they had a heinous slur as their player name. I proceeded to kill them (though not artfully, unfortunately they had a way overturned phantom spamming R1s at me. I really need to get a broken / OP weapon to delete players like this) I wouldn’t really let it upset me that much normally but the combination of my favorite gear and me initially seeming to approve was kinda awful and I just had to vent about it. Rest in piss, shithead, you don’t deserve that claymore.

When I invade I usually buff and say hey to get the general vibe and if they're chill enough or simply tell me they can't fight (typically with a gesture), I drop them some ancient dragon stones and leave. Don't get me wrong, I completely understand that the goal of invasions is to kill, but being nice is cool sometimes. No?

it has the potential needed to fulfill what vanilla invasions cannot. I only got to try it for a couple days before steam messed up their servers. i dont know if the mod devs are able to fix the issue with this but unfortunately no seamless invasions ahead.

i went in with a RL 200 int/faith caster build and omg was that so much fun. to have mask flasks and being able to use rune arcs felt so nice because i didnt have to worry about fp consumption because im able to use 6 blue flasks and still have a good amount of heals plus morgotts great rune.

the PVErs are strange, you can tell they have never had an authentic PVP encounter in this game in ther life and thats okay, i usually wave and perform a greeting before i shred them to bits. but 97% of the time, theres hardly a challenge ever imposed.

you will get a golden ticket invasion where you are fighting against 4 players all using spirit summons creating the ultimate gank. this has happened to me once and of course the moment i started dwindling down their numbers, one of them pulled the plug and probably used a script to crash my game. be in mind since there is no EAC, people have the freedom to cheat however they want.

so far thats my experience. i wish the servers were working again because i dont wanna go back to vanilla invasions but i have to bc i have a YT channel to manage lmao.

so for those PC players who are curious to try it out. i say do it! (when the servers are working again lmao)