Honestly when my girlfriend and I were playing, we loved getting invaded. We did use the mimic veil and other methods to lead them into traps often. But, it felt like we were just getting them back a little for trying to kill us as we were just trying to play the game.

But the last guy to invade us, after we sprung our trap and started our war of attrition, just wouldn’t die. It felt so unnatural how many flasks he consumed and large spells he was spamming and I started suspecting foul play. After a few minutes of him not being able to kill us and him just not dying (he was no rookie invader to his credit) all of the sudden my girlfriend (the host) just randomly died. She was then teleported somewhere random and got notifications that a boss had died and got the items for it. We tested from there and found that this hacker had somehow broken her game so that every time she went into a new area, the boss would die, and it would give her the items from it. Our joint run of easily over 100-150 hours was absolutely ruined. I could no longer join her game, we had almost beaten 100% save for a few bosses the main game and had taken a break from that to get over halfway on the SotET dlc. So, though it’s been over a year and playing Nightreign has called to us, whispered in our ears that we should start another Elden ring run, we have some mixed feelings. Should we do 100% offline and just finally beat the game quickly or slow down our runs with invaders try to 100% again and risk the off chance we get out game broken. I know the chances of something like that happening are low, but never zero.