One of the biggest problems with Dark Souls 3, aside from the mysterious poise stat that is working just fine according to From, is cheating on PC.
The cheating is your usual fare: over powered weapons, unlimited stamina, unkillable enemies, occasional carpet bombings. Some cheaters were even getting people banned by exploiting systems within the game. As Kotaku explains, a straight-laced player gets invaded by a player who then offers them a free weapon. The problem is that the weapon is hacked and if the player accepts it the next time they turn on the game, they are greeted with this message.
Basically what happened was the player had been “soft-banned” which means that when they play online, they can only play with other cheaters. Which is no fun especially when you did nothing wrong.
At first, From’s stance on the hacking and cheating was to blame the victims giving the “don’t take candy from strangers” reasoning. But that was short lived. From then released a patch that helped to prevent cheating and promised to review banned accounts to see who actually was cheating.
So good feelings all around, right?
Wrong, because that didn’t last either.
As Polygon reported, after the patch was rolled out players started to notice that their games began to freeze every so often. From took notice and decided to pull the patch to take second look at the code before re-releasing it. In the most recent patch notes on Steam From said that they removed the patch to address the issue and hope to reinstate it ASAP.
As for those who worry that they might get wrongly punished, From says that anyone who falls victim to the bugs the patch initially fixed won’t get banned.
So far this patch only effects the PC version of the game. That isn’t to say that cheaters don’t exist on console, so still keep an eye out.