Talk:Indictment/@comment-107.179.246.68-20141207011602/@comment-25950924-20150103014634

The way I read about had something to do with configuring GFWL, but today I think I accidentally found another way. I was getting messages about the game not syncing and one of the fixes was to close the steam client. I received a message saying that I was starting in offline mode. It's possible you might need start a new game online so you are registered with steam, but with my game it seemed to save everything.

If your framerate is too low the game will actually log you out and switch you to offline. I've seen that happen to someone in Blighttown and with Seath. You don't lose any data if that happens and can keep playing, but if you were fighting a boss you'll reappear outside of the fog gate. The boss will have full health, but your estus will not be filled back up. As you can imagine the person was pretty pissed when that happened with Seath.

It is true that you won't be able to summon or be invaded by players or read messages from players, but I'm guessing you can still be invaded by NPCs as well as summoning them. Bosses do have 50% more health, but I was able to beat the gargoyles with Solaire.