Elden Ring players furious as hacker softbans hundreds from online play FromSoftware \/ YouTube: Malcolm ReynoldsAn infamous Dark Souls griefer has hacked Elden Ring and is now wreaking havoc in the Lands Between. The hacker has been softbanning other players from online play with a major exploit. While the Soulsborne series has produced some of the most critically acclaimed games of the last decade, the FromSoftware titles have also been plagued by hackers and cheaters looking to break each release. Notorious Dark Souls hacker \u2018Malcolm Reynolds\u2018 has returned with the launch of Elden Ring and is already causing mayhem in the open-world RPG. According to the user, they hope they get caught so FromSoftware fixes the major exploits. Elden Ring hacker is banning other players The infamous hacker unveiled their Elden Ring \u2018Hardscoping Tutorial\u2019 cheat in a March 2022 upload on YouTube. In the video, Malcolm Reynolds creates a montage of them invading hundreds of other players and obliterating them with a broken fire spell that targets them across the map. During the clip, the hacker also reveals that their hack includes an option to softban other players. In an interview with Kotaku Reynolds, he explained that he is injecting a debug item called \u2018pavel\u2019 into other players\u2019 inventory. Because the item isn\u2019t technically in Elden Ring\u2019s final build, the game detects the player as being a cheater and softbans their profile. The hacker also told the outlet that they want to get caught. \u201cI\u2019m necessary evil. You might be asking if getting caught is part of the plan, and yes it is. If I pull it off will the game die? I don\u2019t think so, but maybe Bandai will fix it,\u201d Reynolds said. Many players reacted to the viral hacking video in anger such as one user who wrote, \u201cThis is just disgusting. I get wanting to make a point to the game creators about their terrible anti-cheat, but punishing other players for the point is a bit much. Play offline from now on boys and gales.\u201d Another commentator agreed and exclaimed, \u201cThis is utterly revolting. It\u2019s one thing to cheat and instantly kill someone, but there is no justifying getting them banned.\u201d Some critics even claimed the hacking turned them off from purchasing the game. \u201cWas interested in Elden Ring, but I don\u2019t need childish griefters. Sorry, FromSoftware,\u201d a comment read. Not every player was angry at the hacker, however. Those critical of FromSoftware\u2019s anti-cheat actually praised the griefer for bringing awareness to the RPGs. According to Reynolds, Elden Ring\u2019s anti-cheat software is very exploitable. At the time of writing, neither the developer of Bandai Namco has responded to the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Elden Ring players furious as hacker softbans hundreds from online play FromSoftware \/ YouTube: Malcolm ReynoldsAn infamous Dark Souls griefer has hacked Elden Ring and is now wreaking havoc in the Lands Between. The hacker has been softbanning other players from online play with a major exploit. While the Soulsborne series has produced some of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}