Bizarre Elden Ring Invasion Ends in Explosive Death for Everyone

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Elden ring’s invasion mechanic is a series staple of FromSoftware games since Demon’s Souls on the PS3. It allows invaders to enter the games of other players to attack the host of that world. In every FromSoftware game certain areas have become hotspots for these invasions. However, knowingElden Ring's hotspots allows host players to set up elaborate traps for invaders.

FromSoftware games have a reputation for difficult gameplay, combined with dark and hostile worlds with only a few sparse oases of safety. It's strange then just how many players use Elden Ring’s PvP purely for comedy, trying to delight and surprise exactly one other random person playing the game.

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This is what happened to Reddit user ShirouOgami69 when they invaded a team of three co-op players on the narrow mountain ridge that leads to Mountaintops of the Giants. Confronted with three players dressed the same and wildly emoting in the distance, the Reddit user immediately understands this isn't going to be a proper fight and so, playing along, allows the three players to surround them while blowing incessantly into trumpet hammers that aren't doing anything.

The Invasion then takes a sudden turn from harmless strangeness into fiery explosions as all three of the host players drink in unison from their Flasks of Wondrous Physick. This flask can be one of Elden Ring's most useful items as its effects can be customized, and clearly the host players flasks are equipped with the rarely used ruptured crystal tear. This causes all four players to explode sending each of them flying off the edge of the mountain. The immediate response from the comments of this post is that it gives