What’s with people sending summons home?

[Valorant is better]

Seems to be a weird uptake in people summoning 2 of us for help just to send us both back home when the boss is low. What’s the point? Just a troll move or am I missing something?

[zab]

probably a troll move

[Valorant is better]

People really be trying their best to troll in such pointless ways lol

[zab]

Originally posted by KING:

People really be trying their best to troll in such pointless ways lol

I am hoping someone would come here and show me that I am wrong, cuz it would be really lame if it was just for trolling

[Valorant is better]

Unless some people think it takes away some runes as a reward maybe. But it’s usually late game bosses so I’d hope they know by now they don’t lose any rewards in coop lol

[zab]

Originally posted by KING:

Unless some people think it takes away some runes as a reward maybe. But it’s usually late game bosses so I’d hope they know by now they don’t lose any rewards in coop lol

you do lose the rune arc tho

[Majrick]

Personality problem. Wishes to believe they, alone, slew the boss. Which they do and can advertise it, honestly.

[Sabaithal]

From steam
- View
- Players
- Sort by most recent
- The SECOND from the top is the host in this case. Block them.

[zab]

Originally posted by Sabaithal:

From steam
- View
- Players
- Sort by most recent
- The SECOND from the top is the host in this case. Block them.

[Valorant is better]

Originally posted by Majrick:

Personality problem. Wishes to believe they, alone, slew the boss. Which they do and can advertise it, honestly.

Didn’t think of that but I suppose that’s possible lmao

[baito]

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It's really telling that "bad connection" isn't the first thing any of y'all thought.

Sometimes its bad enough that it can cause enemies to teleport and for people to take damage at distances that are impossible -- same with killing things they aren't even close enough to kill.

If I see someone's character vibrating only to suddenly teleport 50 miyazakis away from their original position then I'll cut them off and send them home for both our sake since (one or both of our) connection(s) are too unstable.

[Turt]

Originally posted by baito:

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It's really telling that "bad connection" isn't the first thing any of y'all thought.

Sometimes its bad enough that it can cause enemies to teleport and for people to take damage at distances that are impossible -- same with killing things they aren't even close enough to kill.

If I see someone's character vibrating only to suddenly teleport 50 miyazakis away from their original position then I'll cut them off and send them home for both our sake since (one or both of our) connection(s) are too unstable.

Even when you see the host do severing motion and make the severing noise? Hosts have been doing this shtick since Ds3. Its not new and its not bad connection. Its supposedly because co-op splits the souls gained from a boss by the host and phantoms, so if the host sends the phantom home before the boss dies, then the host doesn't doesn't have to share souls. I don't actually know if that works or not, but its the best explanation as to why hosts do it other than to be a d*ck.

[mpcgannon]

Eek. Did you get voted off the island...

[baito]

Originally posted by Turt:

Originally posted by baito:

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It's really telling that "bad connection" isn't the first thing any of y'all thought.

Sometimes its bad enough that it can cause enemies to teleport and for people to take damage at distances that are impossible -- same with killing things they aren't even close enough to kill.

If I see someone's character vibrating only to suddenly teleport 50 miyazakis away from their original position then I'll cut them off and send them home for both our sake since (one or both of our) connection(s) are too unstable.

Even when you see the host do severing motion and make the severing noise? Hosts have been doing this shtick since Ds3. Its not new and its not bad connection. Its supposedly because co-op splits the souls gained from a boss by the host and phantoms, so if the host sends the phantom home before the boss dies, then the host doesn't doesn't have to share souls. I don't actually know if that works or not, but its the best explanation as to why hosts do it other than to be a d*ck.

I dunno what to tell you other than I'm sitting on a fat stack of rune arcs and I haven't even beaten the game yet and the only time I've used and have seen other people use it is when our connections are literal poop.

It takes way, way too long to send someone back. You wouldn't be able to do it mid-fight and no, you don't get to keep their share of the runes. The fact that you started what you were typing making it sound like the truth and then ended with "idk if it actually works that way" is in of itself ridiculous because you lose 20% of the runes regardless if the person disconnects, gets kicked or dies.

In fact you can do the opposite and just die immediately if you wanna bug people but most people either won't notice or care that they got 20% less.

[Turt]

Originally posted by baito:

Originally posted by Turt:

Even when you see the host do severing motion and make the severing noise? Hosts have been doing this shtick since Ds3. Its not new and its not bad connection. Its supposedly because co-op splits the souls gained from a boss by the host and phantoms, so if the host sends the phantom home before the boss dies, then the host doesn't doesn't have to share souls. I don't actually know if that works or not, but its the best explanation as to why hosts do it other than to be a d*ck.

I dunno what to tell you other than I'm sitting on a fat stack of rune arcs and I haven't even beaten the game yet and the only time I've used and have seen other people use it is when our connections are literal poop.

It takes way, way too long to send someone back. You wouldn't be able to do it mid-fight and no, you don't get to keep their share of the runes. The fact that you started what you were typing making it sound like the truth and then ended with "idk if it actually works that way" is in of itself ridiculous because you lose 20% of the runes regardless if the person disconnects, gets kicked or dies.

In fact you can do the opposite and just die immediately if you wanna bug people but most people either won't notice or care that they got 20% less.

I'm not saying its a common occurrence, but if you still doubt its a thing you can literally just search "elden ring hosts sends me home" in google and get a bunch of reddit threads talking about it. I've also had it happen to myself on one occasion. I didn't claim the soul thing as truth even from the beginning by purposefully saying "supposedly". I can't 100% confirm it, because I haven't seen actual proof or tested it myself. Other people have said so, but I can't take their word for it.

[Valorant is better]

Originally posted by baito:

Originally posted by Turt:

Even when you see the host do severing motion and make the severing noise? Hosts have been doing this shtick since Ds3. Its not new and its not bad connection. Its supposedly because co-op splits the souls gained from a boss by the host and phantoms, so if the host sends the phantom home before the boss dies, then the host doesn't doesn't have to share souls. I don't actually know if that works or not, but its the best explanation as to why hosts do it other than to be a d*ck.

I dunno what to tell you other than I'm sitting on a fat stack of rune arcs and I haven't even beaten the game yet and the only time I've used and have seen other people use it is when our connections are literal poop.

It takes way, way too long to send someone back. You wouldn't be able to do it mid-fight and no, you don't get to keep their share of the runes.

It is very easy to sever mid fight if you have 2 summoners drawing agro from the boss, the host just sits in the edge of the arena not even helping with the fight which makes it look even more intentional. Its a 2 second motion to sever someone. Also, connection issues are something we can all see regardless of who the issue stems from. Both me & the other summoned furl had perfectly fine connections with no teleportation or anything out of the ordinary. Also, at least in my case I have stable gigabit internet so I pretty much never lag on anything unless the game it's hosted by someone with bad internet which usually shows up differently when the host is the one with the problem. I've played since launch but only recently am I seeing this strange uptick in pointless severs. Hard to read it as anything other than trolling, not that it matters as I have a whole load of runes & rune arcs I don't need anyway (I've completed everything & purposefully stopped levelling), It's just unsavoury at best & was wondering if there is genuinely some new reason people keep doing it considering they asked for help in the first place.