For about the past week I've been ALMOST unable to do any multiplayer shit on DS3. Summon signs are rare (I see at most 3 in the post-Sulyvhan PvP area), it can take me half an hour or more to get an invasion, and even high-traffic, lower-level co-op areas are a pain to get summoned at. As far as I can tell it affects all my characters. Messages, ghosts, and bloodstains are still working properly. Most bizarrely, every day or two this will let up for about an hour, signs are everywhere, getting summoned or invading is almost instantaneous, but then after a good invasion/co-op I'll suddenly find my multiplayer mysteriously jacked.
I'm playing on PC, I've tried toggling region locking on and off, I don't have a password set, I've switched covenants multiple times, I've opened the relevant ports, and I am apparently not softbanned since I can do SOME multiplayer, and whatever it is causing the issue occasionally lapses. I also have not encountered, that I'm aware of, any hacker/cheater/trainer and haven't used such things myself. My internet is slightly potato but never enough to make Souls games not function as intended before.
So, WTF is going on?
>>336036701
PS - When i can see summon signs, it tends to be the same couple of guys over and over again, even between days. They aren't people I know personally or even online.
You were softbanned
>>336036701
>try to invade today for ~2 hours just to fight some people
>EVERY SINGLE PERSON I invade has 1+ white phantom with them and just try and gank me and 3/4/ths of the times another blue faggot gets summoned in and it becomes a gank fest
online is fucking shit in this game
>>336037519
That's what I thought, but it doesn't explain how I occasionally seem to get un-banned.
>>336037785
This is sadly true, alot of people leaning on their bodyguards. Wouldn't be a problem if people were invading more often, turning it into a 2 v 2 or 3 v 2. The game really needs to give invaders backup more often.
>>336038139
that doesnt help for shit either
>invade someone with a white phantom
>another red invades
>he goes after me instead of the host and his escort
this has happened to me every time except once
its fucking garbage
>>336037519
Softbans come with a notification. It's not something for you to determine. It's explicitly stated that your game has been flagged.
>>336039856
That I can tell, I've never gotten this message. What does it look like?
mfw this is 50% of my dueling matches
why do people suck
>>336040447
softban message only pops up on some languages, are you playing on english? it shows up when your game is in english
>>336042785
t. mr 70 vig
>>336043392
Yup, playing in English.
so with all the softban bullshit thats going on is it only on PC or has it spread to consoles?
I've been getting random disconnects that don't seem to have a source that I can figure out.
Does anyone else know what's up with that?
