As evidenced by Cat thinking about Heddle and her pies and stuff and fondly remembering her and so forth , then dragging her into the middle of the StarkLannister conflict and never thinking about her again . <| sep |> Lonely is terrible , I know . But the fact you were even offered a ride down means somebody thinks of you right ? The fact you ' re not there is not your fault at all , so try not to kill yourself over this . <| sep |> The game doesn ' t require port forwarding from what I know . My experience with Souls games is that on a wired connection , port forwarding is unnecessary , but on a wireless one , it can significantly reduce the amount of Summoning Failed type errors that you get . EDIT Or just DMZ the console , that worked even better for me .