Dark Souls II Covenants and Screenshots

Dec. 6, 2013

Dark Souls II Covenants and Screenshots

Covenants will be available early on in Dark Souls II and provide the player with multiple new ways to interact with their world and other players. Some offer assistance and protection from invaders, others bring new goals such as defending areas, and some demand the blood of other players.

Most likely related to the bells that the player must ring in order to access Sen’s Fortress in Dark Souls, this covenant seems to feature a black form for its players when as phantoms. The players on this covenant will attempt to protect the bell and prevent other players from achieving their objective of ringing it by being automatically sent to attack the world of the trespasser. This bell is said to represent the unconsumed affair between two lovers, is there a meaning to ringing it…?

Whilst on the world, evil spirits may invade your world and, were you a part of the “Apostles of Blue” (Blue Cred/ Blue Religion in Japanese) covenant, you will receive assistance from Blue Sentinels. Sentinels are automatically summoned to the world of another player who has been invaded, and must defend the host. This covenant is available from early on as a way to prevent players enjoying the story from being bothered by invasions. Additionally, the Blue Covenant gives you the right to invade sinners as a spirit of vengeance.

Similar to the Warriors of Sunlight Covenant for Dark Souls. These players will focus on co-operative play and assistance, and gain a special pose when being summoned. Additionally, their golden signs are expected to be more noticeable and thus be able to assist others more often.

Similar to the Dark Wraiths in Dark Souls, this covenant demands that players enter other worlds and kill the host to obtain their blood. However this time the Blood covenant players will have a harder time achieving their objectives due to the Blue Sentinels and the possibility that the host has another summon as well.

Images via Dark Souls Facebook official page

Information via Famitsu

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Much room for very creative interaction. Well done!

Oh i really like the idea of defending the bell.

Praise the return of the sun!

Cool *__*Bell’s Keeper Covenant seems awesome…

The bell covenant looks awesome, they’re gonna be so hard to see specially if they’re beign sneaky.

I wonder how this Covenant will work…will it be an automatic invasion as in Forest Hunter Covenant in DS ?can’t wait to try it

Medvol wrote…Same here! I can add points, (and I did, thinking that was the problem) but is all blank. In the website appear my two “redeemed” codes, but nothing in the game. Tried it on Vista and in W7 (having problems with Modern Warfare 2 also).Is there no one from Bioware giving answers???Well you dug up a week old post, but my sugestion would be to go to the apprpriate technical help part of the forum for your platform. It is likely this is already answered there, and if not you have a better chance of ETTING an answer there. Goo luck.

I don’t think this has been resolved yet. I’ve spent all day trying to get this to work, trying all suggestions about daupdater service, admin priviliges, restarting the game, firewall rules, contacted EA support and steam support, and so far no love from anyone.

I pre-ordered DO Deluxe via steam two weeks ago. I’ve gone and registered my game’s CD with this site, I’ve redeemed my two other CD keys for DLC also. The problem is, when I start the game, from the main menu, I select “Downloadable Content” and it’s just blank. It has the column headers “Content” and “Details” with nothing below it. Not even “Purchase for ” like I hear others are seeing. It’s just blank. This goes for all three tabs, “Available Content”, “Downloading Content” and “Installed Content”. I am pretty upset, frustrated and disgusted right now. I seriously will find it hard to support BioWare again after this, even if it’s resolved. I’ve wasted a lot of time trying to get this content, and spent a $15 premium for it. Has anyone else had a similar problem to me? Is there a solution?

Same here! I can add points, (and I did, thinking that was the problem) but is all blank. In the website appear my two “redeemed” codes, but nothing in the game. Tried it on Vista and in W7 (having problems with Modern Warfare 2 also). Is there no one from Bioware giving answers???

I have the same problem – got the ‘collector’s edition’ so should have got some extra stuff with it – entered the redeem codes, but nothing in my downloadable content screen

Are you logged in and connected to the internet when you try? I know it’s a pretty basic solution, but it’s all I can think of.

scrotimusmaximus wrote…I don’t think this has been resolved yet. I’ve spent all day trying to get this to work, trying all suggestions about daupdater service, admin priviliges, restarting the game, firewall rules, contacted EA support and steam support, and so far no love from anyone.What firewall are you using? and is daupdater.exe service running?

yes i am having the same problem here

Try to make a search for “DAOriginsConfig” on your computer, open DAOriginsConfig then to the left on the new window choose “repair”, when you have done that, there should be a option called “add firewall exception” click on it and a message should appear down to the left in the window, if it works the message should be “Firewall exception added successfully”. Worked for me, me bonus contents began to instal the moment I logged in on the Dragen age servers.

What program do you use to open the file?