So... About Dark Souls 3: Cinder mod...

[Renegated Evrae]

I'd like to ask, is there a way to play restricting the PvP to 0, leaving it only to co-op or solo?

Because i'm curious to try the mod (in co-op if a friend gets curious), but there's a chance for me to get invaded, what will probably cause problems to the invader.

For what I saw, there are no covenants that prevent the PvP so... Any other way more than "You can play disconnected"?

Here is the mod:
https://www.nexusmods.com/darksouls3/mods/310

PD: As long as I play it "solo", the game shouldn't detect it as cheat, no?

[Bongo Bongo]

Online or offline fromsoft is still going to check your local data for "invalid" data. Most likely will result in a ban.

To avoid this disconnect yourself from steam by going offline on steam. Make sure to wipe that character when you are done or use a burner account that you won't mind getting banned on.

[profilejc98]

^^^what he said

You don't have to be offline on Steam, just make sure you don't sign into DS3 by turning off the auto sign in. That worked on my end anyway

[Renegated Evrae]

It's kinda sad that you can't play this kind of things with a friend due a bunch of morons having fun using cheats :(

[profilejc98]

Yeah agreed, it'd be nice if From allowed you to just do private matchmaking with friends for this sort of stuff

[Chickensalad]

Just in case someone was googling and this thread pops up, create a new account and family share the game to it, that account WILL be softbanned for playing cinders online but your main steam account will be fine.

[Komunmak]

Originally posted by Cezar Grey:

Online or offline fromsoft is still going to check your local data for "invalid" data. Most likely will result in a ban.

To avoid this disconnect yourself from steam by going offline on steam. Make sure to wipe that character when you are done or use a burner account that you won't mind getting banned on.

Then how cheaters are able to cheat on PvP?

[Renegated Evrae]

Originally posted by Komunmak:

Originally posted by Cezar Grey:

Online or offline fromsoft is still going to check your local data for "invalid" data. Most likely will result in a ban.

To avoid this disconnect yourself from steam by going offline on steam. Make sure to wipe that character when you are done or use a burner account that you won't mind getting banned on.

Then how cheaters are able to cheat on PvP?

Basically because they don't modify the game per se, with modding you modify the game itself to make it different, with the cheats you can use a third party program to modify a variable when then game is already up, so the difference will be minimal, ergo, hard to detect.

For example (though is very obsolete), Cheat Engine. What I said here is an example, i don't know how the cheats work (i never had necessity for them) but they have something that makes them "undetectable".

[Silent]

Originally posted by Chickensalad:

Just in case someone was googling and this thread pops up, create a new account and family share the game to it, that account WILL be softbanned for playing cinders online but your main steam account will be fine.

Wouldn't you still get banned on your main account if you switched back due to the saves being in the same place?

[Mythily]

Originally posted by Silent:

Wouldn't you still get banned on your main account if you switched back due to the saves being in the same place?

No because the saves from other accounts are separate.

[Renegated Evrae]

Originally posted by Silent:

Originally posted by Chickensalad:

Just in case someone was googling and this thread pops up, create a new account and family share the game to it, that account WILL be softbanned for playing cinders online but your main steam account will be fine.

Wouldn't you still get banned on your main account if you switched back due to the saves being in the same place?

The saves are different, they are in the same place, but are different files.

[xxivzx]

Doesn't sound possible. If it was, casuals would be all over it. Just imagine it - going through the whole game, gank squad at your side, no invaders, while they basically cheese everything and make a joke of the game. Dang, I can hear the r1 spamming from all the way here.

[Renegated Evrae]

Originally posted by xxivzx:

Doesn't sound possible. If it was, casuals would be all over it. Just imagine it - going through the whole game, gank squad at your side, no invaders, while they basically cheese everything and make a joke of the game. Dang, I can hear the r1 spamming from all the way here.

The private/alternative sessions would be on a separate save, since they are different from the original file, and would be only for mod playing. I call them alternative because instead of being you the one creating the instance, FS itself can modify the game to allow the alternative gameplay, for example, the cinders mod or the Daughters of Ash mod are REALLY good mods, they just need to add an option and allow you to choose if you want to do a normal run or a modder run (DoA/Cinders) and then, well, move you to a server for that specific mod. The problem is that doing this changes the structure of the game itself, and unless you want to do it specificaly to make the fans happy, it's not worth the time.

One example about what i'm talking about: The leagues of Path of Exile. It would be something like that, you can choose what to play, but once the character is done, that one stays in the league you've chosen, allowing you to interact only with those who are in the same league as you. This would also mean they have to create a workshop on Steam, so the modders can upload their mods to see if FS approves it. In my opinion, this would make the game even funnier to play, since it would allow the players to enjoy it ieven more.

[淵 Nero Alice]

Originally posted by Renegated Evrae:

Originally posted by Komunmak:

Then how cheaters are able to cheat on PvP?

Basically because they don't modify the game per se, with modding you modify the game itself to make it different, with the cheats you can use a third party program to modify a variable when then game is already up, so the difference will be minimal, ergo, hard to detect.

For example (though is very obsolete), Cheat Engine. What I said here is an example, i don't know how the cheats work (i never had necessity for them) but they have something that makes them "undetectable".

As long as you dont ♥♥♥♥ up your stats or add in impossible items the cheat detection dosent care. You can per say give infinite i frames so nothing can hit you and the game would never detect it since its not a permanant mark on your save like jacking your stats up past what it should be or having like 20 slabs.

[Akaren]

Just to let you know also, when you install the mod it should come with the Sekiro Mod Engine, which comes in the form of modengine.ini and another file. If you open modengine.ini (In Notepad) and look for "blockNetworkAccess=1" and make sure it's set to 1, this will I believe achieve the same result as if you'd set Steam to offline.

As for playing co-op, without invaders. Don't know if that's possible. If you're gonna play co-op, I'd do as others have suggested and make a Family Shared account and use that.

[Renegated Evrae]

Originally posted by Akaren:

Just to let you know also, when you install the mod it should come with the Sekiro Mod Engine, which comes in the form of modengine.ini and another file. If you open modengine.ini (In Notepad) and look for "blockNetworkAccess=1" and make sure it's set to 1, this will I believe achieve the same result as if you'd set Steam to offline.

As for playing co-op, without invaders. Don't know if that's possible. If you're gonna play co-op, I'd do as others have suggested and make a Family Shared account and use that.

Info about the shared account: If i'm not wrong, only one person can use it at the same time, it means that if you are playing, the other 3-4 can't. Basically this allows to "share games" without losing money.

Correct me if i'm wrong, i'm not sure about it, but i remember reading something like this when they implemented it.