Steam – How to disable online in Dark Souls 1 while keeping Steam online

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I need to disable Dark Souls 1 online features. Usually people do it by putting the whole Steam offline, but I need Steam to be online.

As far as I know there is PvPWatchdog mod, which allows you to kick invaders by pressing F1. So it feels like what I want is possible (I need the same but fast and automatic, so player invasions doesn't interfere with my gameplay at all).

P.S. To be super exact:

What I need:

  1. To be a human without risk of a player invasion.
  2. To be able to receive steam-messages from friends, while I'm playing DS1.
  3. Steam should keep tracking my play hours in DS1.

What I don't care about:

  1. All other DS1 online features. Like co-op PvE or soap-stone messages. If they are disabled as well I don't care. If they stay while invasions are disabled i'm fine with it.
  2. NPC invasions. They may stay or they may never happen – i don't care.

Best Answer

Well apparently Dark Souls goes through Steam for multiplayer because of how it used to use GFWL. According to this post, you would need to block port 3074 to block off multiplayer.

A pretty simple and generic way to do that is to open the Windows firewall UI (or any other firewall you have), add the executable and deny it all connections. Do it for both inbound and outbound connections and the game just won't be able to use the internet.

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