Mini-bosses and dragons die as soon as I spawn nearby

[Oppai Sama]

Hi there! Couple days ago we were playing against a red one that used cheats and after that I fell trough textures. Later something weird started to occur - as soon as I spawn somewhere, I get dragon hearts, ashes and other loot and location boss is just dead.

I've tried to re-install the game but this bug is still here. But it only happens on my leveled up character, new game seems to work fine. No ideas what to do next, I would really love to keep playing with old one. Help pls

[dark-breed]

sadly if you got invaded short before this started your savefile got corrupted by a hacker.

have you a manual backup ?

[Ironwu]

Advice: If you use mods and such, be sure to do manual backups often. I actually make a manual backup after every session or major accomplishment.

Once a save is corrupted, there is no recovering it. At worst, it may somehow get noticed and you would pull a 180 day ban.

Good Luck

[Oppai Sama]

Originally posted by dark-breed:

sadly if you got invaded short before this started your savefile got corrupted by a hacker.

have you a manual backup ?

My bad, got lazy and haven't done backups in awhile... Had no idea that savefiles can be hacked... Thank you for you answer! Will be more careful with backups from now on

[Oppai Sama]

Originally posted by Ironwu:

Advice: If you use mods and such, be sure to do manual backups often. I actually make a manual backup after every session or major accomplishment.

Once a save is corrupted, there is no recovering it. At worst, it may somehow get noticed and you would pull a 180 day ban.

Good Luck

No, I don't use any mods but yeah, I'm worried that this bug will get me banned. I guess I should delete it and start fresh, with constatnt manual backups. Thank you!

[Ironwu]

Originally posted by Oppai Sama:

Originally posted by Ironwu:

Advice: If you use mods and such, be sure to do manual backups often. I actually make a manual backup after every session or major accomplishment.

Once a save is corrupted, there is no recovering it. At worst, it may somehow get noticed and you would pull a 180 day ban.

Good Luck

No, I don't use any mods but yeah, I'm worried that this bug will get me banned. I guess I should delete it and start fresh, with constatnt manual backups. Thank you!

No problem. Do you know the location of the saves? It is:

C:\Users\YOURNAME\AppData\Roaming

And the directory there is EldenRing.

Copy the entire directory. I just CTRL-Drag the directory to a holding directory I made named EldenRing-Saves. Then I rename the EldenRing directory just copied into it in the nature of : "Elden Ring - 12.22 Afternoon". Replacing the date and time of day appropriately.

Good Luck

[Oppai Sama]

Originally posted by Ironwu:

Originally posted by Oppai Sama:

No, I don't use any mods but yeah, I'm worried that this bug will get me banned. I guess I should delete it and start fresh, with constatnt manual backups. Thank you!

No problem. Do you know the location of the saves? It is:

C:\Users\YOURNAME\AppData\Roaming

And the directory there is EldenRing.

Copy the entire directory. I just CTRL-Drag the directory to a holding directory I made named EldenRing-Saves. Then I rename the EldenRing directory just copied into it in the nature of : "Elden Ring - 12.22 Afternoon". Replacing the date and time of day appropriately.

Good Luck

Thank you sm! Off to a fresh start then ^-^

[Blueheaven]

Originally posted by dark-breed:

sadly if you got invaded short before this started your savefile got corrupted by a hacker.

have you a manual backup ?

Has fromsoft addressed this ? Is it a fact that save files can be corrupted by other players or are you just speculating ?

[dark-breed]

Originally posted by Blueheaven:

Originally posted by dark-breed:

sadly if you got invaded short before this started your savefile got corrupted by a hacker.

have you a manual backup ?

Has fromsoft addressed this ? Is it a fact that save files can be corrupted by other players or are you just speculating ?

it is a fact, fromsoft does not care about this problem. ppl found out what exactly going on but the solution is to undo the changes the hack does to the savefile via a cheat engine.
variables shared between host and invader get overwritten with false values by the invading hacker, it started with a rubberband called hack that change the variable of spawnrange of a coop partner.