Elden Ring Players Confused By "Inappropriate Activity" Warning
Like the Dark Souls series, Elden Ring has several online multiplayer elements. You’ll often see ghostly images of other Tarnished running around The Lands Between, and some will leave helpful (or unhelpful) messages for players to guide them on their journeys. You can also summon players to help with particularly difficult boss fights, or you can invade another player’s game to be a boss yourself.
Since Elden Ring is difficult enough already, FromSoftware employs Easy Anti-Cheat to keep everyone on the same playing field. You might notice the Easy Anti-Cheat initialization screen every time you boot up Elden Ring being the main reason why it takes a lot longer to get back into your save file than other games.
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For some unfortunate players, it might take even longer. If Easy Anti-Cheat detects an issue, it’ll hit players with the message: "Inappropriate activity detected. Unable to start in online mode." You can still play Elden Ring, but all multiplayer functions will be disabled in offline mode. That means no summoning other players for assistance, no messages, and no PvP (which might be a plus for some of you).
One Reddit user found the message to be a little strange. Easy Anti-Cheat doesn’t really go into what “inappropriate behavior” it’s accusing the player of performing, so unless you’re actually using mods or hacks, you might be a little confused as to what’s going on.
Twinfinite has a number of helpful suggestions for what to do if Elden Ring’s anti-cheat software starts acting up. The first and most obvious corrective measure is to restart Elden Ring, Steam, and your entire PC. If you’re still getting this error message, go into Steam to verify the game’s
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