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Dark Souls III PS4 downtime planned as update 1.04 arrives

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Bandai Namco Games has confirmed that it will pull Dark Souls III offline for PlayStation 4, PC and Xbox One tomorrow in order facilitate the arrival of update 1.04.

The critically acclaimed dungeon crawler will be offline from midnight to 2.00 am BST while the update is distributed.

Here’s the full lowdown on update 1.04.

  • Item collection during multiplayer while accessing NPC and Covenant Alter is now working as intended.
  • Conditions for optional events is eased.
  • Conditions to get Rosaria’s Finger is eased.
  • If they haven’t visited the Untended Grave, players will not be teleported there.
  • Kicks cannot be parried.
  • The Crystal Sage will appropriately re-appear even after he has warped.
  • The Dragonslayer Armour won’t die before the battle.
  • Knight Slayer Tsorig will no longer gesture unintendedly.
  • Siegward of Catarina will now be able to properly rescue Greirat once conditions are met.
  • If the player is equipped with a ring that increases Max HP, stats will now be properly reflected when opening the equipment screen.
  • The voice chat icon will now be displayed properly under the covenant panel.
  • Items, bonfire and the “Quit Game” option are now appropriately active even when disconnecting online.
  • If the game disconnects during a multiplayer session, it will no longer crash and return to the title screen.
  • Other issues causing crashes and returning to the title screen have been fixed.
  • Adjustments of the balance of game, improvements of performance and various bug fixes. have been made.

In addition, Regulation version 1.06 also arrives tomorrow, although this won’t be accompanied by any down time. See below for details.

  • The range of the matching level of the Blade of the Darkmoon and the Blue Sentinels have been adjusted.
  • The efficiency of the following categories has been adjusted: Short Sword, Twinsword and Magic.
  • Other game balance improvement and bug fixes.

Dark Souls III was released earlier this month and topped the U.K. All Format Chart, selling through the lion’s share of all copies on PS4. Despite the game’s success, creator Hidetaka Miyazaki revealed that there are no plans to produce any more sequels in the Souls franchise at present.

Regardless, fans still have plenty of post-launch content for Dark Souls III starting in fall 2016, with a second release planned for early next year.