How to fix the infinite fall death loop caused by cheaters

[Lord Radai]

Hello, Radai here. I am a reverse engineer (aka a cheater). My main focus has always been DS2, infact some of you might know my name from a bunch of posts I made about it on both Reddit and Steam.
Today, a friend brought to my attention a Twitter post by Mordecai, which showed a cheater crashing someone's game and sending them into an infinite fall death loop.

While it is an unfortunate and uncommon event to stumble upon a cheater, it can happen to anybody, which is why I am making this post.

What is the cheat?
The cheater forces the victim game to change the last rested bonfire (grace) to an invalid value, which makes the game spawn the player into an empty map on a loading screen.

How to fix it?
We need to change the Last Rested Bonfire to a valid value. This is done with the use of Cheat Engine.
This might scare some of you, but I assure you that there is nothing to fear, this method will not endanger your account in any way, and you can keep playing online after we're done. Follow the following steps to fix this issue:

1) To use Cheat Engine, we need to disable EasyAntiCheat first. This is done through a mod made by the awesome LukeYui (a personal friend of mine I wish to thank for his immense patience when dealing with my petulant questions)
https://www.nexusmods.com/eldenring/mods/98
Follow the instruction on the mod page, then move onto the next step.

2) Download Cheat Engine and install it. Be aware, the installer will ask tp install a browser/anti virus, read carefully and deny the permission to install it when asked
https://www.cheatengine.org/downloads.php

3) Download TGA Elden Ring Cheat Table
https://github.com/inunorii/Elden-Ring-CT-TGA/releases/tag/v0.4.1

4) Run Elden Ring through EldenRingOfflineLauncher.exe. If you don't have this file, you didn't do Step 1. Do it. Now. :C

If you have done things correctly, a popup will appear in the main menu stating
"Inappropriate activity detected. Unable to start in online mode."
Don't worry, this is normal. It's the game not detecting EAC, thus booting you offline.
https://imgur.com/a/aZMOugp

5) Load the affected character, open ER_TGA_v0.4.x.CT (you get this file in Step 3) and click on the green computer icon on the top left corner of the screen (right under File). This will open a new window title "Process List". Select eldenring.exe and click Ok.

6) Tick the Open box in Cheat Engine, go under Scripts>Build Creation and tick the Warp box. Now you just need to tick the > Warp box and you are done! You have successfully unstuck your character. This script makes the game warp your character like you do from the map, which autoamically sets your last rested bonfire to where you warped.

Hope this can help the unfortunate Tarnished that happen to be affected by this cheat.
:)

Radai, out

[daniel.close]

Hello Radai, I would like to thank you for going out of your way to tell people how to fix the problem that the hackers are causing... though I do have a question. Since you seem to have extensive knowledge of how the hackers are doing this, would you know of any way to prevent them from using this exploit on others (other than just playing offline)?

I will admit I am not skilled with programming stuff and I've been burned by cheat engine before as it gave me a particularly nasty computer virus the last time I tried to use it for anything (to fix a broken mod in dark souls prepare to die, funnily enough) but the idea of playing through the game and getting this happen to me, particularly if I invest many hours of progress only to get this happen and make my save (and all the time I spent doing anything) worthless... well, it's admittedly been putting me off playing Elden Ring because of it. I've already been hit by hackers (both good and bad) in dark souls 3, the good ones I can actually respect since they do fun things like custom boss fights and the like but the bad ones that just actively ruin your game? No... and especially not in Elden Ring. If there's no real way to prevent it, I might just decide not to play until From Software and/or Bandai Namco do something about it.

[♔V3RD1CT]

It's cruel to have forced any one person or child to have had to go through this, and is exactly why I say if you cheat in multiplayer you should just go die for the betterment of mankind. No offense. xD

Anyway thank you for this information, as I am often targeted for just existing, or being correct making this very helpful information for me personally. TY

[Deviant]

isnt this against the steam rules to post links to cheat/trainers/editors?

[Lord Radai]

Originally posted by daniel.close:

Hello Radai, I would like to thank you for going out of your way to tell people how to fix the problem that the hackers are causing... though I do have a question. Since you seem to have extensive knowledge of how the hackers are doing this, would you know of any way to prevent them from using this exploit on others (other than just playing offline)?

I will admit I am not skilled with programming stuff and I've been burned by cheat engine before as it gave me a particularly nasty computer virus the last time I tried to use it for anything (to fix a broken mod in dark souls prepare to die, funnily enough) but the idea of playing through the game and getting this happen to me, particularly if I invest many hours of progress only to get this happen and make my save (and all the time I spent doing anything) worthless... well, it's admittedly been putting me off playing Elden Ring because of it. I've already been hit by hackers (both good and bad) in dark souls 3, the good ones I can actually respect since they do fun things like custom boss fights and the like but the bad ones that just actively ruin your game? No... and especially not in Elden Ring. If there's no real way to prevent it, I might just decide not to play until From Software and/or Bandai Namco do something about it.

Hello daniel. I don't know how this cheat is delivered, but I can tell you that there's no way to completely stop cheating.

Hacking/reversing is about exploiting HOW a specific thing got implemented. This means that preventing a specific cheat from happening often means rewriting whole bunch of code.
For example, Item Injection cheats exploits the poor implementation of the network trading system. I made a post about Item Injection in ds2
https://steamcommunity.com/app/335300/discussions/0/3191360100913612187/

As far as I am told though, this particular issue is easy to fix, but the problem still remains. Cheaters can POTENTIALLY do what they want, as long as they get around EasyAntiCheat.
The best thing devs could do is to properly implement EAC, which I'm sure is what they are working on. That would prevent 99% of the cheaters community from going online.

I can assure you tho, this game is way safer than the other souls game. Do not let cheaters hold you back, it's far less likely here to meet a cheater online, even less likely to meet one with proper coding knowledge that can actually do harm. The greatest part of cheaters are script kiddies that run around with invincibility, just get out of their world when you see one and move on.

Not playing this game cause of fear of cheaters is like not driving a car out of fear of an accident. :)

[Lord Radai]

Originally posted by Deviant:

isnt this against the steam rules to post links to cheat/trainers/editors?

Steam technically forbids posting about cheating, exploting and such. I am not making a post to tell people how to cheat, I am making a post about how to protect oneself.

If Steam moderators decide to shut this down tho, guess I will just post this on Reddit :|

[daniel.close]

Originally posted by Lord Radai:

Hello daniel. I don't know how this cheat is delivered, but I can tell you that there's no way to completely stop cheating.

Hacking/reversing is about exploiting HOW a specific thing got implemented. This means that preventing a specific cheat from happening often means rewriting whole bunch of code.
For example, Item Injection cheats exploits the poor implementation of the network trading system. I made a post about Item Injection in ds2
https://steamcommunity.com/app/335300/discussions/0/3191360100913612187/

As far as I am told though, this particular issue is easy to fix, but the problem still remains. Cheaters can POTENTIALLY do what they want, as long as they get around EasyAntiCheat.
The best thing devs could do is to properly implement EAC, which I'm sure is what they are working on. That would prevent 99% of the cheaters community from going online.

I can assure you tho, this game is way safer than the other souls game. Do not let cheaters hold you back, it's far less likely here to meet a cheater online, even less likely to meet one with proper coding knowledge that can actually do harm. The greatest part of cheaters are script kiddies that run around with invincibility, just get out of their world when you see one and move on.

Not playing this game cause of fear of cheaters is like not driving a car out of fear of an accident. :)

The irony here is that I have a driving license but don't really drive for that particular reason... I don't really like going fast IRL and am super cautious about avoiding causing a accident but... can't really account for other people :/ But yeah, I guess I just gotta wait to see if they properly use EAC to stop it.