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Darth Invader Mar 12 @ 9:46pm
Is it possible to fix an Elden Ring save with cheat engine?
Legit question. Never seen it asked before. Just for general knowledge.
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Originally posted by Triangleman:
Yes. If a cheater nuked all your bosses, It is possible to restore your save to a playable state using CE. As with anything, there are pros and cons to this approach, but for someone with the misfortune of getting their save torched without a backup, it is worth considering.

Assuming you already have CE installed, download TGE's Elden Ring cheat table or Hexington's Elden Ring cheat table. I prefer to use Hexington's for this specific purpose, as it clearly labels event IDs with their associated bosses. If a cheater torched your save, all of these event ID's will be set to "off" or "dead". To restore your save's bosses, launch Elden Ring in offline mode and fire up the cheat table, then switch those ID's to "On" or "Alive". This will bring the bosses back to life and allow you to progress in this save file as you normally would.

The save-nuking cheaters will sometimes mess with other event ID's as well. I've found that tampering outside of the boss ID's has not significantly affected my gameplay, but YMMV.

PROS TO THIS APPROACH
- There is a slight learning curve, but once you get through it this method is really easy. It also teaches you a little bit about how the game works
- Really satisfying to know you just undid the dirty work of a filthy cheater and didn't let them ruin your day
- Don't have to start from scratch
- Don't have to risk downloading a new and potentially illegal save file

CONS TO THIS APPROACH
- Some NPC's/Bosses are marked as "dead" for story reasons. Dryleaf Dane comes to mind. It will be a matter of learning which is which.
- Some field bosses are not restorable. These are few and far between, but I've not managed to restore the Ghostflame Dragons for instance.
- This method is focused on fixing bosses and getting your save into a playable state. If the cheaters tampered with other aspects of your save, these will be unresolved until you trigger NG+
- This is a reactive method. It is mostly unnecessary if you are proactive and regularly make backups of your savefile. This is mostly for people who were caught unprepared and don't want to give up their savefile.

WHY I USE THIS METHOD
In short, i'm a petty bastard with sentimental attachments to my characters. Most of my toons are based around roleplay to some extent so i'm hesitant to give them up just because some degenerate got mad at me for smoking their asses in pvp. Hell, I've got 600 hours on my main!

The reason I advocate for this method is that new players are the ones who are most likely to be hurt by the influx of cheaters. I want more people to pick up and enjoy ER, and a new player who gets their save torched by a cheater is liable to quit for good. Nobody expects that they will need to maintain a backup for a AAA title, and frankly nobody should have to. This allows people to get their savefile into a playable state with minimal hiccups.

All that said: an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Yes, it is probably better to be proactive, regularly make backups and roll back whenever you run into one of these ingrates. This doesn't mean the fix is without value! Inevitably, some people will fall through the cracks and find their save has been torched and just want a fix. This method is for them.

One last addendum: i'm not an expert in using CE. someone else who is smarter than me or better at this sort of thing might have suggestions or critiques of this method that are also worth considering.
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LuckyCheshire Mar 12 @ 9:49pm 
From what I understand, theoretically yes, but in the case of what these hackers have been doing it would take an inordinate amount of time and effort since there isn't just an easy "revert hack" button to press.
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Darth Invader Mar 12 @ 9:58pm 
I hear ya Lucky. Preciate the response. Not worried about time necessarily, just is it possible.
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Radex Mar 13 @ 12:55am 
yeah sure exposing darth diarrhero as what he is a diarrhero.

looks like this liar and deficator is abusing the report system to backup his diarrheroing.
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Radex Mar 13 @ 1:03am 
i would not be surprised if darth diarrhero start to deficate onto me.

at the moment he report posts as spam to get his diarrheroing covered.

this question was answered before and he diarrheroed the commenter.
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psilocybe Mar 13 @ 1:06am 
Originally posted by Radex:

cool. get reported then.
Pretty inconsiderate of you.
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Radex Mar 13 @ 1:32am 
Originally posted by psilocybe:
Originally posted by Radex:

cool. get reported then.
Pretty inconsiderate of you.

after a talk i had yesterday with a friend i see what darth diarrheros goal is he starts such discussions or derail discussions to create controverse fights to get ppl banned, if this does not work he indirectly insult ppl and send out others to insult the ppl he can not get into a bannable insult comment.
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psilocybe Mar 13 @ 2:04am 
I kind of like when the servers are empty.

It's nice, you know? Plenty of latency.
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Darth Invader Mar 13 @ 6:53am 
Wow this didn't go how I planned. I don't know who you are Radex, but send your paranoid friend a message: It wasn't me that reported them.

And everybody else here knows who I am. My profile is public. I don't report people, but I do call out liars and bull ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. What you see is what you get.

So I guess the real liars are people claiming they can fix a save with CE.

Y'all be good.
Last edited by Darth Invader; Mar 13 @ 6:53am
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P. Mar 13 @ 7:16am 
It's possible to "fix" bosses killed by a cheater. Usually each boss has two flags, a flag to check if the boss is alive and another flag to check if the player got the reward for killing that boss.
Keep in mind that, if you "resurrect" a boss without changing the reward flag, you won't get the reward for killing the resurrected boss.

if a cheater put your character in a death loop, you can use CE to turn off the death cam and to teleport your character to a safe place.

However, it's easier to just backup your save and restore it when needed.
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Darth Invader Mar 13 @ 8:57am 
Originally posted by P.:
It's possible to "fix" bosses killed by a cheater. Usually each boss has two flags, a flag to check if the boss is alive and another flag to check if the player got the reward for killing that boss.
Keep in mind that, if you "resurrect" a boss without changing the reward flag, you won't get the reward for killing the resurrected boss.

if a cheater put your character in a death loop, you can use CE to turn off the death cam and to teleport your character to a safe place.

However, it's easier to just backup your save and restore it when needed.
Thanks man I appreciate the response. Good info here.
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Darth Invader Mar 13 @ 9:25am 
Originally posted by Radex:
Originally posted by Darth Invader:
I know exactly who this is, I can tell by the speech patterns, and all I'm going to say is, if you're still mad about something from 6 months ago, that means you lost the argument, you need to get over it, and stop acting like a petulant child.

what do you mean with something 6 months before ? i never met you before. i just noticed you are a diarrhero and liar.
Jeez internet stalkers are such a buzzkill.
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Radex Mar 13 @ 9:27am 
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Originally posted by Darth Invader:
Originally posted by Radex:

what do you mean with something 6 months before ? i never met you before. i just noticed you are a diarrhero and liar.
Jeez internet stalkers are such a buzzkill.

and there it is the darth diarrhero starts to get his mundstuhl.
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Radex Mar 13 @ 9:33am 
i can see a pattern in your argumentations. diarrheroing is your thing. everyone has to bow infront of the darth diarrhero or he get diarrheroed till darth diarrhero has enough and acticate his ban crew.
Last edited by Radex; Mar 13 @ 9:33am
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Zogtar Mar 13 @ 9:42am 
I miss when we had the volunteer moderators chillin'.

Anyhow, either set up a shell script or there are save backup utils.

Example Util: https://www.nexusmods.com/eldenring/mods/144
Example Bat: https://github.com/xNicklaj/EldenBackup
Gist with scripts: https://gist.github.com/VariableDynamic/5fc7c0a19e86f94ebd42c8b6d63dfcd9

Doing it manually every time is a lot of overhead just to play a videogame online.

*My point in doing save backups as your solution, is that you're going through a haystack looking for needles if you want to manipulate the save to "fix" what some gremlin "broke"... It's better to just replace the haystack and burn the old one in this allegorical metaphor.
Last edited by Zogtar; Mar 13 @ 9:53am
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Koala 4peace Mar 13 @ 10:06am 
Originally posted by Radex:
what do you mean with something 6 months before ? i never met you before. i just noticed you are a diarrhero and liar.

Originally posted by Radex:
yeah sure exposing darth diarrhero as what he is a diarrhero.
Your first post in the thread kinda disqualify what's stated in the former quote.
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