Sometimes the best way to win a fight is to be the biggest, baddest badass in the room. However, there are other times when it pays to keep your head down and do nothing. A elden ring Player did just that by pretending to be an NPC when another player invaded his game. And finally, their crazy strategy paid off.
Like previous RPGs from FromSoftware, the recently released open world from elden ring allows players to invade other players’ game worlds. Once you get into someone else’s game, you can track them down and kill them. Simple enough, but things get more complicated when someone decides to disguise themselves as an enemy and then pretends to be that NPC.
That’s exactly what Reddit user xdc_lis did in a video uploaded them to the elden ring Weekend subreddit.
After first donning their NPC target’s armor, they made their way to a specific location where the enemy they were cosplaying was roaming. Then xdc_lis carefully killed the enemy to hide the corpse in a nearby bush. Eventually, they opened up their game to invasions by other players. That set the trap.
Once someone invades, xdc_lis does a great job in the role of an NPC, even if the intruder gets very, very close to them. As the intruder runs around desperately looking for xdc_lis, they just march back and forth over and over again. Eventually, the other player gives up and leaves.
For tricking the player, xdc_lis gets a nice sum of runesthere elden ring considers someone who leaves as a gain. And in this case, I’m inclined to agree. Unless there is an explicit rule against tricking and trolling other players who invade you, I don’t think xdc_lis did anything wrong. If anything, based on my knowledge of FromSoftware RPGs, this seems like the sort of thing the developers would encourage people to do.
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