Elden Ring cheater goes on murderous PvP rampage with hacked spells

pcgamer.com:

The below video has acquired considerable traction amongst Elden Ring fans and websites over the past few days, showing a hacker going into peoples' Elden Ring games through PvP and, essentially, burning down the house with ludicrous spells.

This hacker is also a longtime bête noire of the Souls community: Malcolm Reynolds, who styles himself as the 'famous Souls hacker" Malcolm Reynolds. He has been boiling the piss of Chosen Undead, Ashen Ones, and now Tarnished for many years.

Reynolds is a troll and, while undoubtedly an individual of some technical talent, everything he does has to be viewed with that in mind. So this latest video, set to «Rama Lama Ding Dong,» shows him clicking a box marked «hardscoping tutorial»—hardscoping being when a sniper scopes in on one spot and waits for the target to come to them. Then he clicks a box that says «This bans them» with an added smiley face emoji. Hmm.

Then you watch his character absolutely incinerate other players and, so Reynolds claims, 'softban' them in the process—putting them in a pool of 'cheating' players and limiting online privileges. There is no proof players are being softbanned.

What is undoubtedly true is that Reynolds is using spells, modified in Cheat Engine, which have wild effects: he'll take something like Surge, O Flame, which shoots a steady stream of fire from the character's hand, then make the stream much longer than it should be and cause explosions. None of these players have a chance against such bullshit, and our hacker villain is laughing it up.

So he's definitely cheating and having a good old time of it. Are players actually being softbanned though? This is not the first time a softban controversy has circled a FromSoftware game and hackers,