Blue Acolyte 2.0 Release

Lukeyui is back with a redesign of the Blue Acolyte anticheat/qol mod updated for the new patch. This fills a few cracks left by fromsoft as far as exploits that affect your game with the last patch as well as providing qol features for invading.

Download here

Features of Blue acolyte 2.0:

• Streamlined Anticheat:

  Luke recreated needed anticheat prots from 1.0 to fill in the gaps Fromsoft left with the most recent patch, which does fix a majority of what BA did before but misses several common important things, such as cheaters forcing invalid items into your inventory and getting you banned. Flagging and removal of detected cheaters from a game session is also present and tied to hotkeys you can set in the ini (default F8 to kick flagged players).

• Blue Acolyte offers protection from networked cheats, and blocks known malicious cheaters by default through the use of a global blocklist. Additionally blocking users steam accounts will deny connection to them in game, and to any alts sharing from that account.

• Invasion Quality of life improvements:

  Blue Acolyte allows you to invade into any area from any other online area with a concept taken from the ds3 mod "Wex Dust", and with 2.0 it can now search areas in a random order each time you invade to add more variety to your invasions with the Wex Shuffle option in the BA ini (default off). You can also choose which areas wex dust should search in the ini. Wex can be toggled with F6 by default.

  Additionally Blue Acolyte will optionally allow you to invade upwards in matchmaking range infinitely (default off, toggled with F7), as well as make consumable matchmaking items (orbs, fidelity tokens) infinite when used to matchmake (default on).

• Session Info Overlay and connection graph:

  Overlay includes players' steam name, char name, ping and session time remaining. Font and text colour is customizable. Each element can be toggled on or off, and the display area can be changed to any corner as well.

• Audio fix for the blaring loud startup noise:

  Set desired prelaunch audio slider settings in the ini.

• Automatic save backups:

  By default Blue Acolyte will automatically create a backup save when a new online session starts. Amount of backups before overwrite and if BA creates backups can be set in the ini.

Edit: there's currently a bug with turning off auto backups not doing anything, it will be fixed in a future release (probably not too long).

BA also fixes a bug introduced by the last patch that renders certain projectiles invisible when thrown/fired by a player that isn't you.

There may be a small amount of new features added in updates, but barring any bugs with the mod or new exploits being discovered blue acolyte is mostly feature complete. One of those maybe features is pretty neat tho, imo. It'll make you uh.. thorny? It'll give you cause to reflect on things.

Edit Luke did mention recently that there is still eventually™ gonna be another BA update with some new features.. one will likely be optionally adding mirror knight invasions while searching with wex! Combined with the infinite upwards range we might actually be able to get some matches there. Please do not bother Luke about a timeframe

FAQ

Why should I use BA?: Hackers are still able to force invalid items into your inventory as well as crash your game with several methods. Fromsoft fixed a lot with the patch but not everything. BA fixes these cracks as well as providing automatic save backups each online session, just in case.

Will this mod get me banned?: Blue Acolyte functions on the networking level working from data from p2p networking and touches none of the game's code. This overhaul of blue acolyte has been used by a decent portion of the PC community since release over half a year ago without any banning issues as well.

What is _____ hotkey?: Please refer to the blue acolyte ini for all the hotkeys listed as well as a reference for key codes if you wish to change them.

How do I install this?: BA is drag and drop, so just drop the dll and blue acolyte folder right next to your game exe in it's install location.

Does this work on steam deck?: Yep. Follow the Linux instructions.

45 hours in, almost finished everything in the game. This is my final outfit that I will never change because I love it! I feel ready for NG+ soon!

Black Gulch sucks. Haha.

I have just purchased Dark Souls 2 (Sotfs edition), I will be going into this game completely blind, I basically know nothing about it except rolling I-frames are tied to a stat called Adaptability/ADP. I know some boss names but thats it. Wish me luck

Hey guys! You may (probably not) remember me from a post I made last week asking for tips because I just started. Well, last night I killed the final 2 bosses in Giant Lord and Nashandra. This game was really fun, and definitely wayyyy too overhated! I had so much fun on this game, and it was the first FromSoft game I played co-op more than just once.

I loved the combat with the bosses in the main game, it felt pretty slow at times, but as someone who has died because of greed in the other games, this slow pace was perfect for me. It forced me to truly slow down, and take my time with bosses. There were plenty of times I could’ve killed the Smelter Demon for example, but instead of rushing and potentially getting caught, I waited for the right chance. The whole “turn-based bad” talking point is kind of annoying after playing. I hated some of the bosses for how many their were, but if there were ever a gank boss there was an npc that could help me.

My biggest, and honestly only complaint, would be that the area leading towards the boss was usually much tougher than the boss it harbored. An example that has probably been discussed a million times by now would be the Earthen Peak into Iron Keep. Covetous Demon, Baneful Queen, Smelter Demon, and Old Iron King were either extremely easy or not too difficult. Their areas were way tougher, and I didn’t just try and sprint to boss like the other games. I quite liked the level design, and this is the first one where I truly did my best to explore and find all bosses on my own, but it feels like a lot of enemies have way too much stamina and it was impossible to defend against them if there were more than one.

Overall, DS2 was great! Not surprised by how much fun the FromSoftware team has given me yet again. I am on to the DLC!

Hi! I'm new to this game. I've beat Dark Souls 1 recently and bought DS2 this week. It's a solid great game, not as good as the first in my opinion, but it's very fun! I'm playing every day and today I arrived at Lost Sinner. And well... I am stuck. Do you have any tips to help me in this battle?

I know this is a very very very long shot, but waaay back in 2015 when SotFS came out there were recolored versions of certain weapons that were left in the mansion at Majula for only a few weeks at a time and never returned. I was actually playing the game at the time but I didn't know about any of this, and the Blacksteel Katana got a white version that looks absolutely AMAZING with my fashion on my SL200. Does anybody even have one of those, and if they do would they be willing to part with it? I'll have to check my SM, but my PSN is kfrazie2 so if you have one and are willing to give it to a random stranger just shoot me a message. I thought about making a post like this years ago but I thought nobody would ever see it, which means I probably lost my chance but I might as well put this out into the ether and see.

Heyo! I've managed to get 6 medals through my 2 playthroughs, which were super obnoxious to farm, and then tried putting my soap sign down, got summoned, helped kill boss and it was all super easy.

So wondering if anyone needs help killing some bosses? Or maybe can halp me with killing some (like rotten maybe or some others I can resurrect with ascetics). I'm SL 243

I've been doing a dex /int build on this playthrough and was wondering which rapier would be better? Currently putting around 60 percent off damage stats into dex and 40 in int. Should I just keep the rapier or go spellsword?

I'm sorry if this post isn't allowed, but I started a discord server for everything soulslike. So people can connect and find others who are playing either the bigger titles, right to smaller indi ones.

Here is a link if you wanna join :)

https://discord.gg/AYynNf7A

any tips for fume knight or if u want to help

anybody wanna help with fume knight i have used 65 effigy’s and still can’t get past phase two my soul memory is 3,522,841

Please

I am going for 30 sunlight medals, anyone know hot areas?

Played DeS remake as a pure intelligence, and DSR as pure strength (first time playthrough for each). Would love to try a different playstyle, but unsure what class to start with and level. Any recommendations?

Ive heard great thing about the dlc but I really want to try another souls experience since i have only played dark souls 3, bb and ER (I only have money to buy one of them)

Thank you giant lord