Ashen’s wonky multiplayer has been un-wonked

If you’ve been struggling to hook up with ghost buddies in newfangled Soulsian RPG Ashen, you need to give your relationship profile an overhaul. If you’ve simply been attempting to play the videogame with them, then excellent news! Developers Aurora44 have fastened a problem stopping some gamers from accessing multiplayer, leaving them caught with AI companions moderately than a people. That’s good, as a result of co-op within the Dark Souls vein (the place a silent stranger seems and also you often bow at one another) is certainly one of Ashen’s key promoting factors.

All the opposite promoting factors additionally contain being lots like Dark Souls, which is both FINE or AWFUL relying on which member of the RPS treehouse provides you the scariest look.

Connectivity points had been nonetheless plaguing some gamers 4 days after the game got here out, however the whole lot must be dandy now. “Ashen multiplayer is now fully functional on PC”, goes this celebratory tweet from the devs. It additionally hyperlinks to a proof of how the multiplayer works, and how one can play with a selected pal.

How is Ashen itself? Three courageous souls at RPS have been poking round its crypts and buttresses, and I’m a treehouse divided.

John, famend wimp, just isn’t a fan: “It was just so boringly hard. I don’t get the entertainment of having a lumberingly slow character who’s no good at hitting things, being asked to hit millions of fast, capable enemies.”

“I liked being a lady with a pirate moustache but disliked the idiots I kept getting matched with”, contributed Alice Bee. “GO BACK TO PLAYING JOURNEY YOU SILLY SAUSAGES”, was Brendy’s rebuttal.

My ideas on the game are restricted by not having performed it, BUT:

I used to be offered after I noticed the roll at 0:46. I would like that. I wish to be doing that.

Ashen is out there on the Epic Games Store for £36/$40/€40.

Brendy has since apologised, and the treehouse has returned to its pure state as a bastion of concord.