Attention Elden Ring players: Currently, more and more fans of the role-playing milestone are reporting that PvP invaders cause their characters to fall to their deaths in an endless loop. They ignite a kind of ability that first crashes your game and then permanently catapults you out of the world.
Twitter user Mordecai (@EldenRingUpdate) captured this process in a short clip:
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In the appropriate Reddit-Thread numerous players report that the same thing has happened. Fortunately, the players there also help each other to escape from this tricky situation and to save the game they have maintained for hundreds of hours. We summarize the tips for you.
Better safe than sorry
The Souls series has previously had problems with cheaters harassing unsuspecting players. The concern that the Elden Ring could inherit this weakness and, in the worst case, give hackers access to their own PC was correspondingly great:
PC hacked by Dark Souls:
Alarming vulnerability discovered in the game
For those who are new to the death loop, there are certain precautions you can take to avoid this situation in the first place. On the one hand, of course you can avoid all PvP and thus keep the gateway closed to the intruders.
But if you don’t want to miss this part of the game, you should at least Regular backups of your own score invest. The quickest way to find this is to simply %appdata%\Elden Ring into the address bar of any Windows folder.
Copies the folder it contains with the name of the long series of numbers to a safe place and repeats this process at the latest at the end of a game session. For even faster access, you can also right-click the folder Pin quick access.
This is how you escape the death loop
If it has already caught you, your ability to react is required. Only if you within a second opens the map and teleports you away, you can escape the dilemma. On Twitch, players join Kaimitsu-Enju 0h58m20s imagine how such a successful save game looks like:
The best way to do this is to follow this order:
- Load your save and close the game ALT + F4 before you die to have that crucial little bit of extra time next time.
- Now you spam the already in the loading screen G buttonto open your map as soon as possible. Because you’ll probably open an extra menu by banging your keys, continue with the following key combination:
- Q (Close the extra menu.)
- F (Opens the list of travel destinations.)
- R (Selects the roundtable as the target in the English client. In the Europe version it could T for Table of Lost Elegance be. In principle, any fast travel point will help you.)
- E (Confirm your choice and teleport there.)
If you have changed the key assignment, you must adjust the pressed keys accordingly. We wish you every success and will keep you informed of further developments.
Has it caught you yet and were you able to successfully escape the death loop? Let us know about your experiences in Elden Ring and previous Souls games in the comments!
