After two solid hours of smooth Elden Ring Nightreign co-op with my friends on Discord, I confidently told them the online complaints floating around were overblown. That’s when it all fell apart.

Matchmaking suddenly started canceling on us — repeatedly — for over 15 minutes. We disbanded, re-formed, switched lobby leaders, and even resorted to FromSoftware’s clunky password system to make matchmaking work. We’d lost all momentum by the time we finally got into a session. We decided we wanted a do-over.

That’s when we learned there’s no clean way to quit a match without risking a penalty.

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