I got hacked? NEED HELP

[mellow]

Hello my fellow tarnished.

Context: This is my first play-through of the game and my first ever souls game experience which I love— reason why I am writing this with deep sadness.

So, me and my friends were playing in my world when we got invaded by someone. We were at the grace outside of Malenia's room (In Haligtree) then right after the invader got in, we were instantly dead while watching our characters falling from the sky, suffering from at least ALL abnormal statuses (bleed, poison, rot, frostbite, etc.).

After this incident, we reloaded the game. Moved on and defeated Maliena—what happens next is the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up part of what I am writing.

So, for progression of Latenna's quest-line I teleported to a grace in Consecrated Snowfield to look for wherever she needs to go to, then after I teleported, I suddenly got the Night Cavalry's armor set (I was honestly happy but surprised why I got the items) then I told my friend which he told me that I wasn't supposed to get that until I defeat a boss from that area. which I didn't yet). We were both starting to get weirded out of the situation but we thought (hey maybe I defeated him somewhere or maybe because I was able to defeat Malenia or something we are totally unsure of what's going on trying to think maybe this is part of the game).

Shortly after in order to test things out, I've relaunched the game then I teleported to the Giant's Gravepost (which is outside the fire giant's room). After I teleported to the grace, I freakin got a steam achievement of defeating the fire giant which I HAVE NOT DEFEATED YET. So I went in, and huzzah fire giant's missing/gone and this time I haven't gotten any items/remembrance from him. (oh and if someone's gonna comment to verify the files of the game in steam I already did that multiple times).

So now game's ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up and ruined for me. If anyone has any ideas of what I can do please let me know. I really love the story of the game and I don't want to finish the game like this.

[Duchess Thy Strength]

Start from scratch. Use CE to get to the point where you left.

[Lord Bob]

_MellowMndst, this won't help you start over or continue where you left off, but consider sending a ticket about this to Bandai Namco support. The more people make them aware, the better. This is like the 10th thread since yesterday, meaning the amount of people this happened to probably is far greater.

edit:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1245620/discussions/0/595139465034402127/

[Gamerzilla]

Seamless Coop mod will fix that. Play with friends, dont get invaded by hackers. Win/Win.

[Papi_Teflon]

Originally posted by Gamerzilla:

Seamless Coop mod will fix that. Play with friends, dont get invaded by hackers. Win/Win.

This doesn't solve the core issue of hacker invaders though. This is just a "band-aid" method at best. Having seamless co op strips away the experience of invasions, which has been a thing since Dark Souls. There needs to be accountability by the developers themselves to figure out a way to make their "Anti Cheat" program work properly, and target those who make the co op experience a nightmare for those victims that get their saves permanently screwed

[Vulc]

Originally posted by Papi_Teflon:

Originally posted by Gamerzilla:

Seamless Coop mod will fix that. Play with friends, dont get invaded by hackers. Win/Win.

This doesn't solve the core issue of hacker invaders though. This is just a "band-aid" method at best. Having seamless co op strips away the experience of invasions, which has been a thing since Dark Souls. There needs to be accountability by the developers themselves to figure out a way to make their "Anti Cheat" program work properly, and target those who make the co op experience a nightmare for those victims that get their saves permanently screwed

Nothing will stop cheaters.. its a cat and mouse game that devs are unwilling to fully invest in.

[Papi_Teflon]

Originally posted by Vulc:

Originally posted by Papi_Teflon:

This doesn't solve the core issue of hacker invaders though. This is just a "band-aid" method at best. Having seamless co op strips away the experience of invasions, which has been a thing since Dark Souls. There needs to be accountability by the developers themselves to figure out a way to make their "Anti Cheat" program work properly, and target those who make the co op experience a nightmare for those victims that get their saves permanently screwed

Nothing will stop cheaters.. its a cat and mouse game that devs are unwilling to fully invest in.

Unfortunately, you are absolutely right. Some men (or rather childish losers in this scenario) just want to watch the world burn. The world is in shambles enough as it is. The last thing we need is hackers screwing up people's game play experience that's not fun for them.

[BadDadSoSad]

That sucks man. FWIW always manually back up your save files.

[Jnc]

Originally posted by Lord Bob:

_MellowMndst, this won't help you start over or continue where you left off, but consider sending a ticket about this to Bandai Namco support. The more people make them aware, the better. This is like the 10th thread since yesterday, meaning the amount of people this happened to probably is far greater.

edit:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1245620/discussions/0/595139465034402127/

This is a very old problem that has to do with the way pvp works in this game on PC, and has been around since the first Dark Souls, so i doubt they're going to do much about it after all these years.
It's especially egregious when you factor in the fact that there's an entire in-game mechanic that facilitates this kind of behaviour, and we see that this issue has been on FromSawft's mind given the fact that you can only be invaded by using Taunter's T*ngue or playing co-op in Elden Bling. Somewhere along the lines somebody saw fit to give the player a proper way to prevent invasions and avoid such scenarios without going offline, that way everybody is happy; PVE players are happy because they get to avoid invaders, and invaders are happy because they can still invade and make some random sods suffer for no reason.
So far, the only workaround to save corruption is to back up your save after every session, that way you can revert back to a previous save without having to restart the game from the beginning.

[Duchess Thy Strength]

Also:
Does reporting of hacker profiles actually do anything? Meaning, does anyone really check these reports and actually ban/suspend the hacker's profile?

[Lord Bob]

Originally posted by Duchess Thy Strength:

Also:
Does reporting of hacker profiles actually do anything? Meaning, does anyone really check these reports and actually ban/suspend the hacker's profile?

Reporting them through steam does nothing, as far as I know. No idea about the Bandai Namco support tickets, though.

[Super Brian]

I guess I will start over too and back up my saves constantly. I was near the end of the base game. I summoned for a boss then got invaded we fell through the map then got teleported back to the last grace. I started receiving random items when I would warp between graces. I beat the game and finished some quest lines but I noticed I wasn't getting the items from quests and NPC invasions. I started the DLC and have been to two underground tombs that contain no boss at the end.

[Ðëprávèd•Mïšçréånt]

Originally posted by _MellowMndst:

Hello my fellow tarnished.

Context: This is my first play-through of the game and my first ever souls game experience which I love— reason why I am writing this with deep sadness.

So, me and my friends were playing in my world when we got invaded by someone. We were at the grace outside of Malenia's room (In Haligtree) then right after the invader got in, we were instantly dead while watching our characters falling from the sky, suffering from at least ALL abnormal statuses (bleed, poison, rot, frostbite, etc.).

After this incident, we reloaded the game. Moved on and defeated Maliena—what happens next is the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up part of what I am writing.

So, for progression of Latenna's quest-line I teleported to a grace in Consecrated Snowfield to look for wherever she needs to go to, then after I teleported, I suddenly got the Night Cavalry's armor set (I was honestly happy but surprised why I got the items) then I told my friend which he told me that I wasn't supposed to get that until I defeat a boss from that area. which I didn't yet). We were both starting to get weirded out of the situation but we thought (hey maybe I defeated him somewhere or maybe because I was able to defeat Malenia or something we are totally unsure of what's going on trying to think maybe this is part of the game).

Shortly after in order to test things out, I've relaunched the game then I teleported to the Giant's Gravepost (which is outside the fire giant's room). After I teleported to the grace, I freakin got a steam achievement of defeating the fire giant which I HAVE NOT DEFEATED YET. So I went in, and huzzah fire giant's missing/gone and this time I haven't gotten any items/remembrance from him. (oh and if someone's gonna comment to verify the files of the game in steam I already did that multiple times).

So now game's ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up and ruined for me. If anyone has any ideas of what I can do please let me know. I really love the story of the game and I don't want to finish the game like this.

It was mentioned in earlier posts above mine but I will bulletpoint it for you

1. Backup your existing saved games
2. Delete the saved game files from your App data Folder [You will still have a backup that you took in step 1.]
3. Start a New character
4. Take regular backups of your saved files every time you exit the game.

This can happen again due to hacks, Game bugs etc....

I am sorry this has happened to you but unfortunately it can happened again.

Also just as a precaution disable this in Windows
[This was an Issue in Dark Souls 3 and has been patched and FromSoft confirmed not an issue in Elden Ring but You do not need remote code execution enabled in Windows]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.core/disable-psremoting?view=powershell-7.5

[Do not blindly just run what i have told you, please look into what the above does and ensure you understand it, This will stop you from being Scammed by me and also make you aware to do it in future if someone just tells you to do something]

Hopefully all of this will help you.

I am on Windows 10 and had PSRemoting disabled for about 2 years now without any issues.
But having it disabled just ensures nothing can ever use it if there is an exploit that is able to use powershell.