Last night I tried dusting off my PS3 (hadn't used it in about a year) to check the online status of Demon's Souls and play with a friend. We never did finish that old "challenge" (low-level capped, PBWT, me fatrolling and him no-shielding) coop run.
An hour of fiddling later, having to recharge my dead DS3 controller, find the old password of my alt PSN account (because Demon's only had 4 character slots per PSN and of course I need more), trying wireless first because now the PS4 is what is wired, failing, going wired...
Nope. Won't work. I connect to PSN just fine. I start the game and see Atlus' welcome message, indicating that I am online. I load the game without errors. But once I'm in the game... ghost town. No bloodstains, no messages. The blue eye stone can be used, but of course no one sees my sign to summon me.
I remember this "silent offline error" from before, but usually restarting the game did the trick. This time nothing did. :( My friend saw ghosts and bloodstains just fine.
Dammit. :(
Those Bloodlickers in Bloodborne is no joke, they hit hard as fuck and are impossible to dodge.
Please help.
A high-stagger weapon like the transformed Kirkhammer can stunlock them. Otherwise you're a bit SOL.