This morning, FromSoftware performed its first closed Community Check for The Duskbloods, its very unusual vampire-themed PvPvE game coming to Nintendo Swap 2 earlier than the top of the 12 months. The take a look at was meant to start fairly early within the morning for these of us within the U.S.: for me, 5 a.m. to be particular. I obtained up, placed on some espresso, plopped on the sofa with my cats and associate, and hopped on a Discord name with the third member of our traditional Elden Ring Nightreign trio, desirous to attempt the sport out.
An hour later, the three of us have been taking part in Nightreign. This was as a result of the take a look at was, I assume, a whole success for FromSoftware, in that its community take a look at did the truth is take a look at the community. And it discovered that the web servers don’t presently work.
For a number of hours after the community take a look at was meant to start, completely 0 individuals might get into it. Everybody who tried was simply met with a “Did not log in to The Duskbloods recreation server. Choose ‘OK’ to aim to log in once more” error message. Deciding on “OK” simply set the display to load for a minute or two earlier than delivering a repeat of the identical message. After nearly two hours of this, FromSoftware appears to have given up, posting the next to its X account:
We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience induced to those that have been ready for the primary The Duskbloods community take a look at as a consequence of recreation server points. We remorse to tell you that at the moment’s session is now closed. We are going to proceed to work on bettering the servers and can announce…
— FROMSOFTWARE (@fromsoftware_pr) August 21, 2026
“We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience induced to those that have been ready for the primary The Duskbloods community take a look at as a consequence of recreation server points,” it reads. “We remorse to tell you that at the moment’s session is now closed. We are going to proceed to work on bettering the servers and can announce future schedules at a later date.”
That is truly a complicated message, as there may be already one other community take a look at window scheduled for later tonight, and extra over the weekend. Does this imply that tonight’s take a look at can also be off? Will the studio be including extra classes? There’s no cause to count on them to take action: this isn’t some early entry factor all of us purchased into. The aim was to check on-line play with a ton of individuals directly, and that objective was, I suppose, served a method or one other.
Personally, I’m hoping to get some Duskbloods in later this weekend, however the recreation’s coming someday this 12 months, so even when the entire thing is known as off it’s not the top of the world. I hope that is an simply fixable fluke on From’s or Nintendo’s finish somewhat than an indicator of on-line horrors to come back, although. FromSoftware hasn’t actually tried a web based recreation fairly like The Duskbloods earlier than, and whereas Elden Ring Nightreign works nice, it was not with out its personal share of server points there for some time. Nintendo, in the meantime, has made superb on-line play earlier than within the type of the Splatoon collection, after which by some means managed to bork it in nearly each different recreation. So who is aware of how this can go?
As for me, my trio obtained additional on the ultimate DLC boss run of Nightreign than we ever had earlier than. I didn’t notice the key to Nightreign was to get up at 5 a.m., however positive, why not? Thanks for the community take a look at, FromSoftware. I had a good time taking part in considered one of your video games at the moment.