If you happen to browse through the official Dark Souls 2 website for Japan, you will have noticed that the game is receiving a patch update. This will bring the latest Dark Souls title to a version known as 1.03. With no official release date announced on when the patch will go live for Japan, there’s no way of knowing when the patch will hit international release. However, we do have details as to what this patch will fix in the game.
The patch details was actually translated by redditor FarneseVandimion. According to the post, this is what the patch update consists of.
- Successful Online coop with white / small sigh stone will now revive you back to human
- Bug where entrance door to Drangleic Castle did not open has been fixed
- failing to create multiplayer session no longer disables use of online items such as white soap stone
- starting boss fight with Mirror Knight while summoning coop player no longer fails / cancel summoning process
- death match error at the undead purgatory has been fixed
- you will no longer be able to take off Covenant related rings while being summoned
- bug which dropped items were not be able to picked up again due to the ‘inventory is full ‘ message has been fixed
- dialog will now pop up when you enter the coffin at the Things Betwixt
- fixed bug where at certain areas blood stains, illusions and messages were not displayed
- bug which location of object and item were reset has been fixed
- display response time at character making has been improved
- bug where angle of the tattoo chosen at the character making screen did not display correctly has been fixed
- response time of start menu / bonfire menu has been improved
- certain items not being available at the shops in NG+ and later has been fixed
- summoned players no longer fall under the ground at Earthen Peak
- bug which caused souls to be lost while equipping life protection ring has been fixed
- bug which caused face icon displayed at the summon sign to be of different player has been fixed
- Trophy icon for the Guardian of Fort(?) fixed
- Controller now vibrate when guarding
- equip menu info on dark magic has been fixed
- bug which caused player to fall through elevator while using binoculars and casting spell has been fixed
