Elden Ring: Players kill other players with messaging system
Elden Ring's messaging system, which is actually intended to help, unfortunately tempts many players to abuse it. Reports are piling up about situations in which hints left behind are intentionally meant to mislead.
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Just like in the Souls games, there is also a kind of messaging system in the recently released action role-playing game Elden Ring. With its help, players can leave the one or other hint at certain places, which will show up in other users' games thanks to an asynchronous multiplayer mode. However, this function, which is actually intended as a community help, unfortunately tempts more and more players to abuse it.
This is how players abuse Elden Ring's messaging system.
On Reddit.com, among other places, complaints are currently piling up from players who are upset about such abuses. In some cases, it's more of a joke, such as calling a donkey a dog with the help of the hints, or making references to Metal Gear Solid ("Snake, try to sneak!"). However, players are also often deliberately led to on-screen death.
Very popular places in the game here are at a precipice, a ledge or a castle battlements. There, some players leave such hints as "Try to jump" or "Jump attack necessary". If you don't think about it longer or probe the situation more closely, you'll follow these clues and end up in certain on-screen death in the vast majority of cases.
That is above all very annoying. Fortunately, there is a clear bloodstain after a certain amount of time in such places, where many players have already lost their screen lives before. Should you discover this, be sure to take it as a warning.
Elden Ring is no exception
However, it should be noted that this phenomenon of misleading hints didn't just appear with Elden Ring. For example, they already existed in Dark Souls 3, which also came from the developer studio From Software. There will probably always be people who abuse such an actually well-intentioned system.
Source: Reddit.com
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