{"id":1009028,"date":"2026-08-18T17:16:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T17:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1009028\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T17:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T17:16:14","slug":"duskbloods-network-test-pre-loads-are-live-classes-have-leaked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1009028\/","title":{"rendered":"Duskbloods Network Test Pre-Loads Are Live, Classes Have Leaked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/vampire-weekend-the-duskbloods-closed-network-test-2000716216\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The highly anticipated network test for Duskbloods<\/a>, FromSoftware\u2019s upcoming Nintendo Switch 2-exclusive online action RPG, isn\u2019t yet live to hop into and play. But you can now start downloading the beta, and people are already going wild over the game\u2019s menu music.<\/p>\n<p>On August 18, as previously announced, FromSoftware began distributing download codes to people already granted access to the Duskbloods network test via the game\u2019s official beta site. If you were one of the lucky ones who was chosen by the Dark Souls developer to be a part of the first major online test of Duskbloods, <a href=\"https:\/\/campaign.theduskbloods.jp\/p\/event\/networktest\/?region=the_americas&amp;locate=US&amp;lang=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">then you should hop over to this website<\/a>, log in with your Nintendo account, grab your download code and start pre-loading the beta.<\/p>\n<p>Many people online who were accepted into the Duskbloods test have already downloaded the beta, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/NintendoSwitch\/comments\/1vron0l\/the_duskbloods_network_test_ver_is_now_available\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">which is about 4GB in size<\/a>, and are hanging out at the main title screen to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EldenRingAlert\/status\/2089710705171931541\" rel=\"nofollow\">listen to the game\u2019s music<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GamesMightBeArt\/status\/2089702238885188073\" rel=\"nofollow\">enjoy the vibes.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">FINALLY IT\u2019S ALMOST HERE!! The OST sounds so good \ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/Duskbloods?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">#Duskbloods<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/FromSoftware?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">#FromSoftware<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oXpX0z3FFj\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/oXpX0z3FFj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u0fc7 (@_dir_en_grey) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/_dir_en_grey\/status\/2089713925369847865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 18, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, people are already digging into the beta files and pulling out interesting nuggets of information. For example, it seems like the beta may feature 14 different playable classes or characters, though we don\u2019t actually know how much of this will be accessible in the beta. Here are the reported leaked character\/classes from the beta test <a href=\"https:\/\/dark-soku.blog.jp\/archives\/97633850.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">via Dark-Soku:\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>1. Blood-Eater | Walter A<br \/>2. Guillotine | Gillian<br \/>3. Foul-Rot | Veronica<br \/>4. Nail-Pierced | Sebastian A<br \/>5. Coffin-Bearer | Maurice<br \/>6. Thread-Torn | Oscar<br \/>7. Mud-Treader<br \/>8. Candle-Snuffer<br \/>9. Gut-Rinner<br \/>10. Gazer-of-Flesh | Yuri<br \/>11. Ash-Crown | Camilla<br \/>12. Rust-Gospel | Baldur<br \/>13. Dusk-Silt | Elsa<br \/>14. First-Shard | Nameless Shadow<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yup, those sure sound like FromSoftware-ass characters. Anyway, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NintendoEurope\/status\/2089699863659213030\" rel=\"nofollow\">here\u2019s when you\u2019ll be able to actually play the Duskbloods network test<\/a> and hang out with Mud-Treader and Gut-Rinner:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Aug. 21, 2026 (Fri.) 3:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. PDT<\/li>\n<li>Aug. 21, 2026 (Fri.) 7:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. PDT<\/li>\n<li>Aug. 22, 2026 (Sat.) 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. PDT<\/li>\n<li>Aug. 23, 2026 (Sun.) 3:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. PDT<\/li>\n<li>Aug. 23, 2026 (Sun.) 7:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. PDT<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>                          <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The highly anticipated network test for Duskbloods, FromSoftware\u2019s upcoming Nintendo Switch 2-exclusive online action RPG, isn\u2019t yet live&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1009029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[404035,77787,404036,4210,158,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-1009028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-duskbloods","tag-fromsoftware","tag-network-test","tag-switch-2","tag-technology","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117117647894988329","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1009029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}