PSA: DO NOT MOD THIS GAME

[gurololi]

I've been a long-time fromsoft fan. I know how to mod these games properly. I took all the precautions you normally take in previous fromsoft games (backing up unmodded saves, never going online, wiping modded game data & save data), and I still got penalized. My game data is in a frozen state now, where I cannot make / download new AC Data or decals. I can do all of these things in one game session, but they will revert back to where Bandai has frozen my data when I launch the game again.
tl;dr- The thing they mentioned in patch notes about modding the game was worse than just cheaters, it extended to offline mods as well.

[Call Sign: Raven]

Diposting pertama kali oleh REhorror:

Would this somehow affect Sekiro, a fully on SP game?

Sekiro has the ability to go online. If you mod Sekiro (Which you should! there's a ton of great ones) you should set the launch setting to offline.

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Diposting pertama kali oleh 292512:

I took all the precautions you normally take in previous fromsoft games (backing up unmodded saves, never going online, wiping modded game data & save data), and I still got penalized.

Hi, in the future I would suggest making another steam account and then family share your library with it if you're going to mod games that are quite strict. I used to do this to cheat in items in Dark Souls 1 so I could invade at low levels without having to play through the entire game, and not get soft-banned on my main account/saves. Obviously it goes without saying you shouldn't use this to grief others with mods or hacks. As it stands, you may be able to transfer your save to another account this way, and continue forward. You'll just have to swap accounts when you want to play without mods. Which is kind of a pain.

If/when you make the second account you might be able to make a second modded install of the game separate from the first, so that you don't accidentally go online with mods on your main account. Although obviously this would take up double the hard drive space.

That being said, it's possible FromSoft has a way to detect this that I'm unaware of. So do all of this at your own risk.

[Aldain]

Sounds more like a bug with Steam's Cloud Saves to me, I had that problem similar to that a year or so back with a different game (the whole "reverting after reopening the game" part at least).

You also might want to do a fresh install or verify the integrity of the game, because a danger of modding is it can sometimes be a bit of a mess when you take things out.

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... family shared accts are also banned

Okay to clarify: if I understand you correctly you're saying if you family share Elden Ring, and then get banned on the second account, the main account is also banned as well? Like they're banning the license key?

If you're saying the second account is the only one being banned, then yeah that makes sense. I was mentioning it as a way to prevent the main account from being banned, unless I'm mistaken!

[Kain]

That sucks dude. Sorry to hear it.

[kripcision]

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Diposting pertama kali oleh csand:

... family shared accts are also banned

Okay to clarify: if I understand you correctly you're saying if you family share Elden Ring, and then get banned on the second account, the main account is also banned as well? Like they're banning the license key?

If you're saying the second account is the only one being banned, then yeah that makes sense. I was mentioning it as a way to prevent the main account from being banned, unless I'm mistaken!

no it doesnt matter which profile is banned, its all linked to the same game. so main profile gets banned, and you try play with a second account, its still banned. previously you could switch profiles but now you cant , they tied it to the license not the profile specifically.

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That is news to me. I'm assuming this is only the case with Elden Ring and AC6?

This is a bit of speculation on my part but I wonder if they're getting hardware configuration ID's via EAC and using that to ban people. So it's not necessarily the steam account so much as the PC itself.

[Call Sign: Raven]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Tact:

That is news to me. I'm assuming this is only the case with Elden Ring and AC6?

This is a bit of speculation on my part but I wonder if they're getting hardware configuration ID's via EAC and using that to ban people. So it's not necessarily the steam account so much as the PC itself.

No, it's not that sophisticated. Modding your character and playing online has been bannable since Dark Souls PTDE on PC. It's a simple scan, checking for abnormalities in stats and such. Common example was in DS2, hackers would drop Poisoned Bionculars +20, which are impossible. You pick them up, then you get banned lol.

Cosmetic mods have never been banned, there's video evidence of texture mods being used in multiplayer matches without consequence in the older games. However, ER/AC6 might detect cosmetic mods. Some users claim they use texture-only mods online, others claim it gets them banned. I'm not sure, since that's pretty inconclusive.

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Right, I was talking specifically as to what causes ER and AC6 to somehow 'know' across multiple accounts. Because, as far as I remember, getting banned back in the older souls games could be evaded as mentioned previously. If they're using a more uniquely identifiable way to block people it would explain why family sharing doesn't work anymore. I believe EAC does collect hardware IDs.

[Gerbera]

Diposting pertama kali oleh 292512:

I've been a long-time fromsoft fan. I know how to mod these games properly. I took all the precautions you normally take in previous fromsoft games (backing up unmodded saves, never going online, wiping modded game data & save data), and I still got penalized. My game data is in a frozen state now, where I cannot make / download new AC Data or decals. I can do all of these things in one game session, but they will revert back to where Bandai has frozen my data when I launch the game again.
tl;dr- The thing they mentioned in patch notes about modding the game was worse than just cheaters, it extended to offline mods as well.

Dunno what this post is talking about I modded the game like a fellon and loaded it back online no problem (after uninstalling all me mods and mod engine).

Granted its 7 and I haven't slept so I can't read properly.

And granted granted, I only installed reskin mods cuz those aren't as complicated for my peanut size brain.

[BookItFaster]

Mods are hilarious they can make a game better or just straight up get you banned. THAT SUCKS

[Algester]

the issue with something like the armory mod is that you should have a backup copy of your OG save basically any mod that ADDS STUFF should have the usual caveats if you are just doing offline balance you should more or less be "safe"

of course also deactivate steam cloud when you are using any mods that add stuff