Hacker Malcolm Reynolds, who previously hacked the Dark Souls series games more than once, found a way to ban players from Elden Ring. The cheater posted a video of the process on YouTube.
Reynolds invades alien worlds and uses game-modified spells to kill the enemy and add a special item to his inventory. After the revival, the Elden Ring protection system takes an honest gamer for a cheater and issues a ban. Due to the anti-cheat flag, after encountering a hacker, such users can only play in multiplayer mode with other cheaters.
As Reynolds himself noted in a comment to Kotaku, he adds an item to the inventory of the players that the developers used to test and customize the Elden Ring. After the release, the thing was removed from the game, but its parameters remained in the code, which allows hackers to use it to ban honest gamers. Thus, Reynolds wants to draw the attention of developers from the FromSoftware studio to the problem of the Elden Ring anti-cheat system.
Elden Ring came out on the night of February 25th. The game is available on PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5. A few hours after the release, the title was hacked and appeared in the public domain – the developers did not use additional programs, except for the standard Steam DRM protection.