Ps4 – Bloodborne The Old Hunters purchase but no download

The summoning range has since been updated via patches. As of patch 1.05, research found here indicates the following rules:

Let x be your level.

For upper limit of level you can summon:

x + 20% + 20

For lower limit of level you can summon:

x - 20% - 20

For upper limit of level you can be invaded by:

x + 10% + 10

For lower limit of level you can be invaded by:

x - 20% - 20

It should also be noted that if you are using passwords to summon a friend, this limit will be ignored and you can summon them regardless of their level. Players who are significantly higher than the summoner who are summoned this way will have their levels scaled down.

Here is a nifty calculator which does the math for you!

The first run. I would strongly discourage continuing to NG+, because then the DLC areas will get harder just like everything else.

You have access to the DLC until you initiate the fight with the final boss. I would recommend occasionally checking in on the DLC and to see when it stops feeling too difficult for you, at which point you can do some or all of it.

The following spoiler about when the endgame begins is worded in the least spoilery way I can manage.

There will a substantial cosmetic change to the Hunter's Dream when the final boss becomes available, but you are not cut off from the DLC until you speak with an NPC there.

The one after this line is very specific.

After defeating Mergo's Wet Nurse in the Nightmare of Mensis, the workshop in the Hunter's Dream will catch on fire but remain usable. You will be able to speak with Gehrman in a previously inaccessible area. The dialogue choices you're presented with initiate a boss fight with him, or a cutscene where you let him kill you. The latter immediately boots you out to NG+.