Elden Ring offline game cheats; offers your unlimited choice of runes and equipment

 

Elden Ring offline game cheats; offers your unlimited choice of runes and equipment

This CheatEngine utility is for use in offline mode only and may result in a ban when you are still online.


Elden Ring has been out for a week now and we've seen a mod that lets you pause the game. Now, a hardworking NexusMods user using the Marcus101RR has produced a cheat table for Elden Ring using the popular CheatEngine utility.

If that's for you, read on, but it's hard to tell how closely FromSoftware has been examining savings and user activity at this point, as this tool is designed to be used in offline mode only (for very good reason). . No matter how well you quarantine your modified records, you can very well get a ban if you come back online.

To use Marcus' tools, you will need to download the cheat sheet from NexusMods as well as CheatEngine from its official site. Marcus' instructions for setting it up and running it are a bit short, and let's say you've already disabled Elden Ring's Easy Anti-Cheat feature.

A method for doing this, suggested by Shamadrun in the Nexus forum thread for the project, requires you to:

• Go to your Steam installation folder (steamapps/users/common/Elden Ring/Game)
• Rename "start_protected_game.exe" to something else (could be anything, you just want to be able to change it back)
• Rename "eldenring.exe" to "start_protected_game.exe", effectively replacing the original Easy Anti-Cheat launcher

I'm not sure if this change forces the game to run offline or if you have to manually set it yourself after replacing the .exes. If the game does not start offline by default in this configuration, you must close the game and run Steam in offline mode. If you log into a character while online, FromSoftware's detection system has a chance to flag you and ban you for any number of days, that's how it was handled in Dark Souls 3

The next step is to follow Marcus' instructions for running the cheat sheet, but using the CheatEngine instead of adding it to "eldenring.exe" as it says, add the way to bypass Easy Anti-Cheat to "start_protected_game.exe".

From there, you should be able to use Marcus' table to perform typical CheatEngine-y functions like editing stats and equipment or running custom scripts that Marcus has implemented.

If you need to play online again, all you have to do is reverse the steps to reactivate Easy Anti-Cheat.

Again, you only do this at the risk of breaking your saves or getting banned from online play. I've seen several reviewers brainstorm ways to edit a save in offline mode and then get your game back online, some even stating they've done so successfully.

That said, FromSoftware has run weekly account checks for past games that catch even innocuous changes to saves while offline. The final action would be to move a modded recording to another folder entirely before it's back online, but even that might not be enough to evade FromSoftware's detection - it's hard to say this early in Elden Ring's life.

And really, this hypervigilance is at its best. Souls games have seen some truly awful online scams in the past, nothing good, their hacked items corrupting some of the worst. We also got a little scared when the extent of Dark Souls 3's online vulnerabilities was revealed in January, but thankfully that issue appears to have been resolved in Elden Ring. Still, if you want to enter the world of Elden Ring cheats in offline mode and in the privacy of your own home, the road to the left is open for you.