Fuck I hate Xbox Live/our internet.
My friend asked if I had someone around level 40 to help him with Quelaag and I did, one of my favorite co-op characters who I fought Quelaag a lot with.
So after a bit of set up, we get things going. I'm having a bit of a disc-read error that just takes a moment of adjusting to fix.
He's sitting at the bonfire waiting for me to get into place to put down my sign. Then he goes to where I've place my sign, in front of Quelaag's fog door. Suddenly, he's dropped off Xbox Live. There's a problem we also have, which we usually call "pseudo-online mode" where the game acts as if it's online, but it isn't. You never get invaded, nor do you see signs, bloodstains, or apparitions. Fixing it requires restarting the Xbox or disconnecting and reconnecting to our network.
After sorting that out, he goes off to find a sign to confirm he's not in pseudo-online as I get summoned. The host dies quickly and after returning to my world, I'm dropped from XBL. It takes a moment for me to get back, d/c then r/c to our network, then having to deal with the disc read error. When I finally get online, he's dropped.
It pretty much goes like that for a while. The closest we got to co-oping was him seeing my sign and nearly summoning me. He got the "summoning phantom" message, but my sign vanished immediately after, so I was never summoned. Then I got dropped from XBL. After that I said fuck this shit.
Anyone else have these sort of problems? My internet connection is pretty dodgy, however.