Attention Elden Ring players, pirates are currently circulating on the From Software title. By exploiting the world invasion feature, these hackers can ruin your game by crashing your game. Explanations.
If you’re used to playing Elden Ring with online mode enabled on PC, you’ll need to exercise caution. Indeed, a player on Reddit shared his recent mishap with the From Software title.
It seems that hackers are circulating in Between Earth to ruin the game Without Shards. To summarize the situation, these pirates exploit the world invasion functionality, which as a reminder allows you to teleport into a player’s game to kill them.
In the video shared by the player, we can see the method used by these hackers. To summarize, once present in the game, the two pirates will start harassing the player. The first performs several attacks to immobilize the victim, while the other uses a power that applies Sleep status state.
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A makeshift solution while waiting for the patch
The screen then turns completely white… then the game simply crashes. Upon reboot, player Self_Reflexvive found that the Sleep status effect was still active on his charactereven after the pirates had left.
For the moment, no patch has been deployed to correct this flaw. Despite everything, the user seems to have found a makeshift solution: “Something to note is that they usually have a red ghost as a second character. Make sure to block the host in these cases too because most often it’s the same person behind both accounts. he explains on Reddit.
Concerning the status report, it is possible to get rid of it by using a consumable, the “Stimulating boluses”, between two phases of stunning. As a reminder, this is not the first time that hackers have sought to sabotage users’ gaming experience on Elden Ring. In March 2022, hackers exploited a flaw that literally ruined the victim’s game.
After an invasion, the game would suddenly crash and when restarting, the player character would continually fall into the void before dying. It was impossible to get out of this hellish loop, unless you started the game again…
Source: GameRant