Elden Ring DLC "Review Bomb" Finally Makes Sense

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[@kvltovpersonality6290]

An editor is doing more honest journalism than 99% of gaming "journalists"

[@oniongummy8969]

They call it “brains”

[@DantesxTarzaned]

this aint even an asmongold video anymore 💀

[@DJezdic]

Well games journalism is mostly just nonsense gas lighting and insulting audiences

[@Votexforxme]

no that guy just has a platform to show waht we already knew, ofc the idiots didnt that it. it was a chinese (taiwanese) bomb from the start while the chat in asmons channel "game bad too hard". and now they are all like "haha i knew that already" as someone whos watching the vods only man are the ppl in the chat actually hard R tarted. Edit: chinese ppl can not interact with the outside of china with steam only taiwanese do and they speak chinese.

[@defaultdance4727]

the editor at this point is more informational than asmongold

[@dustinzacharias8227]

Watching asmongold for asmongold: ❌ Watching asmongold for editor: ✅

[@gevyndostuffoninternet]

I am Chinese and so the situation is a lot chinese player did not cheat or modify any file but the blue bear says they cheated and they can't play online, some of them even get banned

[@samuelh9581]

My friend is like that I think it maybe the issue with system language.

[@harielkops3287]

@samuelh9581 was thinking the same thing just now, it reminds me of games a decade ago throwing errors because the language/font package was not installed, this could very well be the problem considering the anti-cheat package, but this would be quite the newbie mistake from the bear's development team.

[@Mizt_Sim]

I can see this. Whenever I try to play with my friend in the DLC it tells me “inappropriate activity detected” and logs me out. I have to restart the game in order to play again. It happens occasionally which is annoying.

[@DerSpeggn]

@@Mizt_Sim I guess EAC detects when the CCPs internet watchdogs remotes into your system to look up your activities, which they do with every chinese citizen....

[@metaempiricist]

Or maybe china is known for having 10 times the cheating than anywhere else in the world?

[@Nameless_JPN-ENG]

To be fair, I live in Taiwan and my friend lives in Hong Kong. We both only recently reinstalled the game for the dlc and we never did mod our games. We had no issue playing through the base game back then but my friend got sent to offline twice and me once while playing this dlc for alleged hacking. It also do be a bit laggy some of the time. I still am enjoying the dlc but I do understand where those frustrations are from.

[@DMSBrian24]

Taiwan is a free country though and HK, while getting progressively worse, still doesn't have the same internet laws and restrictions as China. It's likely that in mainland China EAC is not working properly right now.

[@gaydonaldtrump]

Lol just like ukraine and palestine are free countries

[@ashardalondragnipurake]

EAC is know for being a performance demanding bich along with being overeager at banning fair players while being completely incompetent at actually catching cheaters its one of the worst anti cheat options available

[@Dhariuz_T]

"We never mod our games". 🧢

[@nightmarextreme4371]

oh yeah its a known bug, when u try to get summoned, u get the error that sends u back to offline, but not ban you, its a bug.

[@pixelpastiche]

This channel is actually doing more work for journalistic investigation than 95% of actual journalists who investigate the same topics. Great job but also what the fuck.

[@BazyG]

The editors are better than all of ING, Kotaku, PC gamer and all the other woke shit combined , thank you guys !!!!

[@zepperman2679]

Let's be real here, this channel and Asmongold ARE actual gaming and news journalist, just independent noncorporate ones.

[@heheheha1997]

At this point I just get all my internet news from this channel. It's supposed to be a clips channel about some wow streamer and it has now turned into one of the most reliable news networks about internet culture.

[@MechShark]

It'd be more accurate to call them activists, rather than journalists.

[@obnoxious_moron]

its more sad than impressive tbh

[@milkyym8891]

"China doesn't like it because it's not pay to win" killed me idk why 💀

[@leoleo1035]

LMAO

[@palmsk123]

They can’t play a game without cheating in some form

[@samuelmachado8330]

Hey they have to waste their money somewhere.

[@dindunuphenwong]

Clearly you've never seen what Minecraft China Edition looks like compared to Bedrock Edition and Java Edition.

[@BigHailFan]

warframe player. you have no idea how accurate that comment is

[@ID-unavailable]

They should just add a minor boss in some random spot that is a blue runebear and is stronger than the one in the consecrated snow field lmao

[@Ranatosk]

"Azure Runebear"

[@nightmarextreme4371]

we got a red one in the dlc

[@Jarikraider]

mfw the Chinese version of their operating system is probably triggering the anti-cheat.

[@dindunuphenwong]

Spyware canceling out the spyware that makes up the great Chinese firewall 🤣🤣🤣

[@cheesecake7159]

Maybe the government spyware detected as cheat

[@qwer4790]

very possible that some sussy chinese software could trigger it. Speak for myself (chinese), I have noticed that easy anticheat once cancelled a chinese mmo client, quite funny

[@luxinvictus9018]

That would be bizzare. Imagine not doing anything wrong and just getting flagged as a cheater because of your OS or something. Could it be that Chinese OS has built in government spyware and it's trying to track user data, and the Anti cheat is flagging that and banning them?

[@JackMarcuson]

@@dindunuphenwong hey parasite time for you to go help out Zelensky

[@Shiirow]

if they make another dlc, they should make a little blue bear boss so the chinese players can vent their frustrations.

[@1shogunate696]

They won’t make another dlc but maybe someone makes a mod to turn Rugalea the Great Red Bear blue to please the Chinese

[@jacktonsauron8185]

​@@1shogunate696 randomizer mod is gonna go crazy in shadow realm

[@crackededge9351]

Yes!!! Make the tiny bears outside of the red bear’s arena blue and don’t change the actual boss 😂

[@Scientist-exe]

Also make it difficult to beat (without cheats)

[@JoseViktor4099]

Everytime you loose against It, It takes more and more your RAM

[@milanors4609]

Change it to a yellow bear and they will stop.

[@wakouf]

With a little red shirt?

[@outstandingdogmarron2051]

They aren't allowed to mention yellow bears, specifically if they have red shirts on

[@kailianglf2]

a cub, you might say?

[@DarchrowTheEnigma]

@@wakouf LMAO

[@ClubPenguinDead]

Poo bear

[@ye8049]

I’m Chinese and I lived in the US for 8 years. This might surprise you but most people I know in China who’s heavily invested in Elden ring and other souls games don’t know how to turn off the blue bear. As a matter of fact, websites like Nexus mod gets blocked by the GFW and there’s no “toggle anti cheat” sort of thing on Chinese net. I guess that’s why they are complaining? Plus, a lot of us Chinese gamers are cheaters especially in online play, I hate to acknowledge it but it’s the truth. I won’t apologize for them cause I’m not one of them but still every time shit like this happens I feel ashamed.

[@LocherYT]

Dont worry even if it's a stereotype, alongside indians being IT tech scammers and americans being fat. Videogames are for one's own entertainment and the addition of cheats is what i would call in american terms: "player enablement" even if it ends up ruining multiplayer. It's up to the developers to stop that, which naturally creates friction.

[@MushhDoom]

Why would you want to disable anti-cheat ?

[@qwer4790]

@@MushhDoom modifying the game for profit or to cheat. I am Chinese as well and people were selling "999 hero rune" on taobao (chinese version of aliexpress) to those who does not know how to farm souls. I guess the blue bear made this slightly harder to do

[@-ratto-]

おまえは悪くない

[@Ludviga]

@@MushhDoom Anti cheat wrecks performance on lower end rigs like mine lol, but other than that it's like he said - chinese players love to cheat

[@Allen-qs2xr]

Simple search in chinese tells you it's detecting inappropriate activity and causing players to be logged off for no reason over there. Perks of being not monolingual.

[@dindunuphenwong]

That's a coverup to disguise the fact that Chinese hacks and cheats don't work anymore.

[@Exisist5151]

Eng*ish

[@DaBlaccGhost]

​@@Exisist5151 I love spending USD to be able to play the dlc tbh

[@CarlzoneN]

That happened to me twice, and I'm playing the game in English.

[@GrantTodd-eh7ub]

@@CarlzoneN Yep this happens to me everytime i go to log in, never been banned. They're cheating.

[@Paschendale2]

Thank you for looking into the Chinese reviews Mr. Editor. I never would have guessed it was the anticheat they were mad about

[@dindunuphenwong]

Not at all surprising when you consider the fact that most hackers and cheaters are located in China.

[@maximnikolaev6627]

Honestly im still mad about the damn blue bear, its everywhere

[@DatAsianGuy]

@@maximnikolaev6627 the blue bear slept with my wife and took away my family. destroy the blue bear!

[@angulinhiduje6093]

@@maximnikolaev6627 but whats bad about it?

[@DoowapX]

​@@angulinhiduje6093 Blue bear is destroying my FPS 🗿

[@Kross415]

They're not wrong, Easy Anti-Cheat is utter dogshit.

[@MrPidi86]

Without it you'd have dark souls 1 and 2 bullshit hacker invasions all over again

[@vindictiv6880]

if it's that bad, why does it trigger chinese hacking shits?

[@bzibubabbzibubab420]

you can turn it off

[@sanji663]

@@MrPidi86 Bruh easy anti cheat is easy to Bypass

[@ThePointAFK]

Whats bad about it?

[@EspyMelly]

In many non-english-speaking countries it's substantially harder to purchase or build a high-end gaming PC, because essential parts such as GPU's and CPU have no real domestic equivalent, or really bad ones, so have to be imported which often severely increases their price and reduces availability. I live in Brazil and I can tell you that every single US-imported part such as a NVidia GPU costs from 50% more to double even after you take currency conversion into account. Though Brazil does have an egregious tax on imported electronics I doubt it's only a problem here. Anything that hampers performance such as anti-cheats and DRM will get extra hate in those countries.

[@SentinalSlice]

I thought little blue bear was some sort of nickname for a Japanese Dev and they were just really mad at them. I’m glad to see it was just Anti Cheat.

[@Doug-rv3nr]

blue bear is internet slang for any asian company that is doing better than a chinese company. its mostly used by little pink and wumao. American companies are called red birds.

[@theownerer2]

lmao the editor roasting asmon with advice that asmon gave.

[@Cozzy4]

Everyone should spam him that clip lol

[@teodorcaraba979]

The editor is cringe af farming clout of asmon lol and asmon is so stupid he thinks hes doing him a favour

[@Aoredon]

@@teodorcaraba979 Nobody cares about what you have to say, you're insignificant 🤣

[@michiganhughes]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@teodorcaraba979his editor makes six figures putting together clips of a balding man. while you’re failing basic grammar in a youtube comments section

[@teodorcaraba979]

@@michiganhughes its not the content im sure, its the editor, talking about having two braincells

[@karite2]

blue bear the worst enemy in elden ring

[@kylesawkon4074]

I’m not sure I completely understand, what’s wrong with the anti cheat system

[@Alckee6904]

@@kylesawkon4074 Alot of Chinese players use scripts in and are mad about the anticheat.

[@whitenoise6413]

@@kylesawkon4074its the reason the game can run like shit

[@darkcarr0t]

​@@kylesawkon40740:51 As you can see here, a lot of people don't have the best gpu out there, and this blue bear eats 20% of their gpu usage.

[@Pika-ck7ww]

@@kylesawkon4074 Blue bear tanks performance

[@sonnyzhao2309]

From my understanding. The easy anti cheat is set up to connects to a global server which is "firewalled" since China blocked international internet access. Therefore people playing the game gets often disconnections which leads to crashes, since the easy anti cheat felt the user is tempering the data transfer. Which would be fine if Elden ring is an Online Game. But this is a single player game and you can't turn off the anti cheat connection. And the anti cheat causing performance issues is add insult to injurise.

[@DatAsianGuy]

Elden Ring has an pvp.

[@warchief_chieftain]

1, Its not a single player game, pvp and online connectivity is baked into the core experience of the game. 2, you can literally turn off the anti-cheat in less than a minute, cant play online with it off though.

[@baltstop2702]

​@@ganondorf66because they want the money, duh

[@Klintwhatsoever]

@@DatAsianGuy easy anti cheat is basically useless and adds more latency when matchmaking with others. Might as well delete it since everybody is already cheating though it

[@tiongkiong]

Just did a quick search in Chinese, it seems like quite some of the player base cannot launch the game due to various error due easy anti cheat software. Basically they are pissed that they cannot play the game because of the “bad blue bear”

[@Dragon2K-ds6ss]

ASMONGOLD EDITOR FINDS OUT EVERY THING

[@nakano15]

1:10 The name of the clip here haha.

[@dindunuphenwong]

Clearly the editor has no idea that most of the modern gaming hackers and cheaters are located in China.

[@JackMarcuson]

@@dindunuphenwong stop lying

[@dindunuphenwong]

@@JackMarcuson Runescape, World Of Warcraft, and Ark Survival Evolved has entered the chat*

[@TheVivi13]

@@dindunuphenwong what does that have to do with the mcconnell title?

[@viron6734]

McConnell still needs to apologise for what he did to Gus.

[@user-dw5ns8ul3k]

To be fair, a lot of Chinese gamers are using gaming accelerator software to keep connect stable. Most of Chinese gamers won't actually interest in PVP, they just want to summon other player to help them, gaming accelerator software is important for them to do this, otherwise they are most likely lost connection. For some reason blue bear will warned you when your internet traffic fluctuated, which it will happen when you use accelerator. I think it is the reason.

[@Eskoxo]

that garbage doesn’t do anything

[@eijitoh6252]

stop downplaying cheaters. Yes to some they don't but majority of Chinese players cheat because that's how it's ingrained on them through their current culture. If they can cheat, they'll cheat or so what the chinese motto is.

[@ungone7133]

@@eijitoh6252 russia is also well known for cheaters, yet from russia you dont see same %. Stop thinking 90% of people are like that cause in your gaming carrier you met like 2 of them

[@DatAsianGuy]

@@ungone7133 Yeah, I wonder why China could possibly have a higher number of cheaters than Russia. I am sure the fact that russian hackers in video games are not usually associated with games like Elden Ring, instead with games like Counter Strike and pvp shooters, has nothing to do with that. We can also safely assume that China's 1.4 Billion population doesn't affect the rate of cheaters compared to Russia's 147 Million (ca. 10x more than Russia)

[@SM5T001]

Afaik this "accelerator" is actually a VPN that is needed because Steam is blocked in China (actual Steam, not Steam China with a hundred games in the whole store).

[@markhdhu1320]

"Easy Anti-Cheat, is a very good anti-cheat... Because it's easy to turn off." - SSeth

[@criises]

I mean, they're not wrong, the blue bear should just go Edit: I don't play PVP. I don't like 3rd party programs in my games, specially one that causes performance issues. No I'm not a chinese player lmao

[@Pendragon-mz8oh]

would you prefer broken pvp and possibility of someone hacking your pc?

[@hyruler036]

Macros make me hard and the game easy.

[@DD-et9ce]

Chinese players crying when they can't spam scripts like they do in ds3 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@--ginebra3589]

The reason it called easy anti cheat is that it's very easy to turn it off.

[@hyruler036]

@@DD-et9ceBUT THE PROGRAM CAME WITH MY KEYBOARD/MOUSE /s 🥴

[@BazyG]

The editors are better than all of ING, Kotaku, PC gamer and all the other woke shit combined , thank you guys !!!!

[@DrMonty-yr1kc]

So people who dislike the DLC are woke? What does woke even mean now?

[@dindunuphenwong]

Editor is full of bologna on this one. The irony of the region with the biggest cheating problem complaining about anti-cheat is hilarious.

[@amannamedsquid313]

@@DrMonty-yr1kc I think that it means activism, progressiveness, virtue signaling and diversity at the expense of absolutely everything.

[@HowitzerPhat]

Right on✔✔

[@okami1272]

@@DrMonty-yr1kcEvery reviewer with horrendous take is woke, yes. That’s what happens when you put “inclusivity” (or as I call it “neo-racism”) above all else in every situation or topic.

[@fefino1411]

I don't think the DLC is too hard, but what I will say is. Who tf greelit Commander Gaius in his current state? He is one of the worst designed bosses I've ever had the displeasure of fighting. Some of the later side bosses feel rushed.

[@kermitkujo]

They should change the blue bear to a man in front of a tank and all those reviews will just... disappear

[@rcg260697]

why the f the top comments of this video are the ones that seems to ignore the real reason (the anti cheat) and talk about the difficulty?

[@ImTheRider]

Because they don't like people trash talking their fav game and just tell people skill issue instead of seeing that the blue bear is bad.

[@donut_42]

Because they didn't watch the video.

[@LARPing-Wolf]

Cuz sucking Editor's dick can get you more attraction.

[@thegodofsoapkekcario1970]

They didn’t even watch the video, they’re weones who want to comment as fast as possible on a video with an engaging-enough comment to gain as many likes as possible.

[@ThisisKyle]

​@@ImTheRiderWhy is it bad?

[@episode4882]

As a Chinese who browse Bilibili quite often, the negative review is simply bcs Elden ring attract far too many ‘casual’ players that can only beat the game thru ‘the wall’ Strat or ‘wheelchair’ Strat(using broken weapons/spells/incantations) Now these players are struggling in DLC bcs they can’t dodge for shit due to bosses being more aggressive in DLC, plus they can’t drop their ego to admit they just have skill issue, so they review bomb and blame the DLC for being unreasonably hard

[@dovahkiin3.14]

Sounds about right tbh. I mean if you bought the dlc thinking it would be easy, that’s completely your fault. Fromsoftware is literally known for difficult games. No one should think fromsoftware=easy game

[@manolobiene]

@@xCDF-pt8kj Yep! This process of learning is what makes their games fun for me. I intentionally avoid any cheese strats or "broken" items for this reason actually. Like, I need to be at a disadvantage against my enemies so that the only reason I beat them is because of raw skill, a coordinated dance. I may be a masochist

[@snuffeldjuret]

0:48 that is absolutely hilarious. You know they are Chinese when they speak in code as they are used to big brother society.

[@zach4281]

anticheat made the game unplayable for my setup. Luckily I found a workaround (the mod doesn’t run stable, had to rename some files and trick the game) and I’m playing offline

[@dedut.]

Blue bear is annoying, i agree

[@LordKosmux]

Put le rune bear there and problem solved

[@dindunuphenwong]

Clearly you don't understand the irony of the biggest region of cheaters and hackers complaining about anti-cheat.

[@dedut.]

@@dindunuphenwong that might true but this anti-cheat is affecting the performance

[@dindunuphenwong]

@@dedut. Clearly you're not understanding the fact that it's just spyware triggering other spyware.

[@davidy22]

​​@@dindunuphenwong Clearly you didn't read any of the reviews that were flashed across the screen in the clip, or the look at the chinese screenshots in this video taken from reviews, and just decided to write a story for yourself in your head starting from a prompt about chinese people being unhappy with the anti cheat program

[@bigfootisreal_]

Chinese players did run scripts and ruined ds3 pvp. I think that's why they're mad because they can't do the same on ER

[@tmdiz4579]

You literally can. What are you even talking about?

[@Luminousreign]

A lot of them are people complaining they only cheated because somebody else hacked first.

[@FullchanAnon]

You've never seen clips where people use a whole other moveset? Or the ones that transformed into a boss?

[@yingleifang8953]

It's also very low in Korea and Japan with only a 49% percent positive rate.

[@budthecyborg4575]

But that should be consistent across the main Elden Ring and DLC, what separates the DLC from the game we've been playing for the last two years?

[@theotherjared9824]

Easy anti-cheat is kernel level, meaning it basically has full access to the device it is on. This has 2 major implications. 1. Since Chinese players are infamous for cheating, they might be angry that there will actually be consequences now. 2. In a region where the government is spying on it's people 24/7, a third party doing the same thing would be met with hostility.

[@Luminousreign]

The reviews are people complaining that they got banned for cheating lol so yeah that is exactly what it is.

[@edward3190]

Jumping to that conclusion simply because they are chinese, impressive Players mad because of EA anti-cheat, player mad because of Call of duty anti-cheat... The reason? bla bla bla but they are definitely not cheaters. Now Chinese mad about anti-cheat. They are definitely cheaters lol. Nice logic ;)

[@kenhiyoko941]

Or they are using VPN to connect to the steam server and EAC flagged their VPN.

[@JackMarcuson]

gota love american propaganda

[@edward3190]

@@ganondorf66 do some math. How many cheaters do you see in an online game? no more than 1 in 100. Do you really believe somehow this 1 in 100 population make up a significant portion of Elden Ring player population?

[@1stAid]

It isn't even a China-only issue. I have a friend who, just like me, lives in the US (just a few minutes away) and even though I haven't had any anti-cheat issues, he's been telling me about how the anti-cheat keeps kicking him constantly. Once it even closed the game on the start menu screen.

[@Doug-rv3nr]

its not about anti cheat, it is internet slang about talking shit about other asian companies that have success

[@Kellexyz]

​@@Doug-rv3nrfor this one IS specifically about anti cheat, also other language also has mix review and if you actually read the review a lot of them put a lot of hours into the game already

[@ssdhs]

​@@Doug-rv3nrJapan 49% positive

[@GrantTodd-eh7ub]

have you tried telling him to stop cheating?

[@Doug-rv3nr]

@@Kellexyz I lived in China for ten years what the hell are you talking about?!??

[@afatfrog5533]

I 100% believe the chinese negative reviews were overwhelmingly due to them using some form of game altering software and being upset that their accounts were flagged when the game updated and got banned because the cheat software for elden ring hadn't updated to avoid detection when they played.Of all the reviews the editor showed, I didn't see any that said "I wasn't cheating but I got flagged as a cheater" I'd put money on them thinking hacking souls or items, altering files or anything not related to pvp is not a bad thing. Im not referring to modding either, i mean online file altering.

[@vulpex4105]

Name one thing wrong with cheating in a pve game

[@vindictiv6880]

@@vulpex4105 you forgot the part about there being PVP lol

[@riddif]

Online altering file is always resulted in bans.

[@spearhead4800]

@@vulpex4105 it has pvp

[@grygaming5519]

@@vulpex4105 There isnt, but using the same cheats in PVP invasions are a different story. In short China...the land of "if you're not cheating, you're not trying". They can go pound sand.

[@OfficialJohnnySinsGaming]

As bad as EAC is, don't be fooled. Chinese players aren't crying about the trash anti-cheat. They are crying because they can't cheat with the trash anti-cheat.

[@Entariiljc]

exactly this ^

[@alial-kateeb5267]

I'm more surprised that EAC is doing it's job I thought all cheaters would have bypassed as soon as the patch landed

[@polarrbearr]

yeah exactly

[@chickenbob562]

but what can they do? can they like invade me without consent and insta kill me?

[@chatter4427]

How do you know

[@magicianGOD]

Antishit doesnt allow to run more fps than 60,cuz fps unlocker mods are detected by it

[@huhtakm]

Oh that blue bear. Then it makes sense.

[@type-ke7921]

Let's not ignore that, although relatively low in quantity, all other languages give mixed reviews. I wonder if there are issues that only appear when your system language isn't English.

[@dindunuphenwong]

This is only an issue because regions where cheats and hacks are relied upon no longer work since the most recent anti-cheat updates probably.

[@kaidanalenko5222]

I thought the negative reviews because of Ukrainian translation? 🤔

[@rogeriopenna9014]

@@dindunuphenwong of course, everyone that doesnt speak English is from a region where cheats and hacks are relied upon. F*** you.

[@lukkkasz323]

performance issues are the 2nd negative review cause

[@azimpetra]

Most likely performance issue. Not everyone can afford higher end PCs. Heck I’m still running 970. GPUs are like 2 month salary.

[@ZSleepingDragonZ]

If you look down the list, most other languages are mixed reviews, only English is very positive.

[@harielkops3287]

but it IS the most representative, i am not going to write a public review for others to base their intention to buy, or for FS to use as feedback, in my native language( portuguese-BR) am i? i understand cultures with different alphabets are probably not accustomed to writhing in ASCII, but come on, english IS the current standard. If i see someone post in my native language in a review, on a GLOBAL platform, it just shows poor lack of judgement/IQ for me and i might as well ignore them.

[@astio8303]

SSS

[@TrykusMykus]

​@@harielkops3287 There is no reason not to write a review in your native language. This is not a journalism exercise, sometimes people will share their opinions better and easier in their own language. I've seen 50-50 reviews in english and in my own language on steam forever.

[@ssdhs]

​@@harielkops3287 you just wrote a bunch of nonsense

[@choppachino6968]

@@ssdhs i mean it’s kinda real, a lot of my friends when they ‘review’ in Indonesian they just wrote random stuff sometimes it’s not even a sentence or only a couple of words lol. We also have that thing in app store or play store where indonesian just ranting random stuff or ASKING random stuff on the review section that basically leads to review bombing

[@Boss_Fight_Index_muki]

iirc, the blue bear anti-cheat can't distinguish between a non-cheat mod (like a shader mod) and a cheat mod. Are there some of them pissed they can't cheat? Sure. Tho if we just take them at their word, that seems to be what they're ticked about, EAC's inability to differentiate non-cheat mods from cheat mods.

[@coolguy-hu4ou]

yeah it really sucks we can't play ultrawide and uncapped framerate online

[@ungone7133]

you know nothing. I tried to install low render distance and low render textures and the game did not let me even start

[@DatAsianGuy]

If they are using mods, you would assume they understand how Anti-cheats work on a basic premise. Most Anti-Cheats can't distinguish what mod does what and if it is harmful to the game.

[@type-ke7921]

In terms of why Chinese players hate EAC, it is possible to be a VPN related issue. Because of the internet situation in China, Chinese players need to have some sort of VPN (VPN, clash, accelerators, they have different names) running to access Steam. It's likely that EAC mistakes some of them as cheats and causes problems.

[@TrykusMykus]

​@@ganondorf66 Their "leader" can't do shit about it. Posting a review about a problem with the game WILL inform players who want to buy the game about the issue, though. And that's what reviews are for. I don't know why people are die hard fans of anticheats in PVE games...

[@bob69927]

EAC could not care less about a player using a VPN. They dont check for this.

[@GrantTodd-eh7ub]

stop excusing their behavior and tell it how it is, they cheat plain and simple

[@RandolphCarter0]

​​@@ganondorf66 Your blaming them over something that they barely have no control over. China is not a democratic country you can't change something because the masses wanted for it to happen so. They're leaving those negative reviews because they don't like the anti-cheat and want to see it gone or a replacement to that anti-cheat. Maybe you can be angry at them because they left a bad review on the game, because they left it because of the anti-cheat not on the part of the element to the gameplay but you have to remember giving bad reviews is a way to protest something and make changes. Which wasn't even possible back then because there was no internet and no platform to update games.

[@RandolphCarter0]

@@ganondorf66 It did spread because of conversations and always will spread because of conversations but bomb reviewing something does make future customers avoid from purchasing something even without knowing the main issue. It is something like a boycott in a way.

[@gabrielchin4161]

Asmongold's Editor is my favorite content creator.

[@dindunuphenwong]

Except for when he fails to point out how China is full of hackers and cheaters I agree

[@gabrielchin4161]

@@derpingdead wouldn't that still contribute to the mixed reviews? Edit: oh, know I get it. Only the DLC is mixed.

[@peterfabell154]

@@derpingdead no he didn't, base game is still totally positive and most negative reviews came in this last week. Most of the negative Chinese reviews were between June 20 and now.

[@rechroniclePlays]

blue bear got cancelled

[@dindunuphenwong]

Blue bear got an upgrade and triggered the great Chinese firewall. Spyware competitions do that sometimes.

[@JackMarcuson]

@@dindunuphenwong stop smoking weed and go to Ukraine, Zelensky needs you

[@dindunuphenwong]

@@JackMarcuson without weed I'd probably be in college and protesting in support of people like Zelensky instead of telling my Russian gamer friends to stay frosty.

[@richtofenify]

Mr. Editor in Asmon basement, please keep cooking. You are the reason why people are subbed on Asmon YT channels anyway.

[@the98themperoroftheholybri33]

For those curious Simplified Chinese = CCP Traditional Chinese = actual Chinese people

[@Pipopowitz]

The Chinese aren't being allowed to cheat and them raging about it is hilarious.

[@planescaped]

On brand

[@setonix9151]

I agree let's just ignore the claims of it tanking performance and say that 68% of chinese players are mad because they can't cheat

[@Luminousreign]

​@@setonix9151 The vast majority of the reviews are people directly whining about getting banned for cheating. Cry more.

[@VSN-wb2ly]

They're the real parasites in internet, even they're the reason why we had 2 years lockdown

[@xuanhenghuang6538]

@@Luminousreign If you've even read slightly into steam comments even with google translator you would know not only Chinese, Japanese and Koreans are also bombing Elden Ring with negative reviews, both of these countries only have around 50% positive review. Not because of getting banned for cheating, but because the performance issue caused by EAC. Put your brains to use before making judgements.

[@Riael]

Ah yes shadows of erdtree has mixed reviews and is a bad product but starbound which started early access and has been abandoned for over 5 years now is very positive because a certain youtuber got a big paycheck to brigade it with positive reviews. What a fair world we live in.

[@freedomextremist7215]

People need to buy it to review?

[@cobasaja7354]

This is content that we needed as a gamers... Not click bait, rage bait, or hate bait, only facts and some investigations....

[@Jinny-Wa]

Makes sense. EAC is an awful program. Remove it and see your frames go higher and frame dips disappear. And the worst part of it its not even working as an anti cheat tool, it only ruins things for the normal customer. People here cry about denuvo but this one is a much worse tool when it comes down to dragging down the game performance.

[@kevinxing]

Funny how the chat is so overly negative towards Chinese players when they absolutely have 0 context of the real issue.

[@tanjw1222]

Am so use to it 😅

[@dindunuphenwong]

Chinese players are the real issue... Look back at every popular multiplayer game... Where were most of the cheaters located? In China.

[@Mutualititve]

Tbf, alot of time Chinese users do have quite a serious problem with negative reviews, review bomb and harassment, and not forget about cheating, spamming and so so many more issues. They are like if all of gaming problem become intensified because of the sheer amount of people. In my country there is literally a term for cheaters called Chinese sage/wizzard/sorcerer.

[@16m49x3]

The globalized market caused this. American or Japanese companies have been trying to sell their shit in China for ages now. And the more they succeed the more they cater to people that want something else than we do. Japanese games used to be a niche some people in the west liked playing because they were Japanese. Then the Japanese started catering to the west, and those games don't feel as Japanese any more. Just like Blizzard catering to China this creates a conflict of interest between the original fans and the new fans the corpos are trying to capture. Chinese are also more likely to spend money on micro transactions and gachas, which is why that style of games have come to the west

[@-_XD]

@@MutualititveAre you Vietnamese ? You’re referring to “Pháp sư Trung Hoa” right ?

[@qizhang-pb8ek]

I appreciate the editor actually check the Chinese reviews but I think he did it wrong. What the editor check are the review for the base game but not those reviews for the DLC. I checked myself and found most of the negative reviews are because large but unrewarding exploration of maps, being one shot, and overly aggressive bosses. I hope the editor can recheck and update his comments if possible.

[@teodorcaraba979]

Eh get put of here with ur truth, lets praise the editor for lying about things 10000th time, hey a popular lie must be the truth right?

[@teodorcaraba979]

Dude is a profesional in lying making out of context titles and recently hes actually overwriting asmon content with his own, rofl

[@tj3423]

Don't really care about the anti cheat thing. But this dlc has been pretty disappointing to me. The open world feels very front loaded with content, at lot of the later areas really don't have much in them and feel like they're just there to look pretty, and it gets tedious exploring when you keep not finding much. There's way too many repeat bosses from the main game (I've counted at least 9 so far), for the price of this dlc that seems pretty unacceptable to me to reuse bosses and enemies. I don't find the main bosses fun at all, I hate that fromseoft seems to be catering to the top 1% of people who want the game to be as hard a humanly possible. This dlc could have been half the size and have almost the same amount of content if it didn't have so much filler. Overall I haven't had anywhere close to as much fun with it as the main game. It just makes me miss the dark souls days when every area had a purpose, every boss tried to be a different type of challenge. Every main boss in this dlc does the same things, they all have long high damage combos where they instantly close the gap to the player, they all have annoying grab attacks you have to perfectly dodge, they all have ranged spells and aoe's, they all constantly spam moves and don't have any down time for recovery, and the camera sucks in pretty much all of them. This might be the least fun I've had playing a fromsoft game, and I've played ds2 like 3 times.

[@jcnom6606]

i mean i stand by the criticism of alot of modern fromsoft boss design and i'll never be a fan of the scadutree system or how much ER in general tends to reward exploiting and cheesing your way to victory

[@innova1335]

Know what's crazy, I am traveling China currently. I installed it on my gf's computer here to just check out the dlc..Anti-cheat actually was a total pain in the ass. I had to jump through a bunch of hoops to get the game to load right.

[@monoono4051]

Like playing offline?

[@darkelftenak]

i live in canada, and even for me easy anticheat would cause my game to never load and stay stuck on a black screen. so I found a way to bypass it, but now my accounts forever flagged so im an offline player.

[@lukkkasz323]

@@darkelftenak so you bypassed eac which allows you to play online only to stay offline anyway? why?

[@kenhiyoko941]

​@@monoono4051if his case is true, then it means certain amount of players not allow to play the online part of the game just because they located in China.

[@darkelftenak]

@@lukkkasz323Ah i probably explained it poorly, I dont play offline by choice. me bypassing eac caused the game to flag me for inapropriate activity, so i have no choice but to play offline. what i did was go into the games folder and swap eac and eldenrings names with each other, this lets you boot up the game without eac, however this will also cause the game to flag you.

[@stateoftheart657]

They probably did it to "protect" their upcoming first AAA game, Blackmyth Wukong. Being patriotic.

[@originalHiruy]

Makes more sense now, actually when I had Wuwa playing and elden ring up, EAC logged me out of elden ring too. Learned that recently

[@VDA19]

Remember kids when it's a game you like it's review bombing, when it's a game you dislike like Diablo 4 it's because the game sucks. Room temp IQ coping.

[@honeyfuntime]

So the western gaming community just completely misread the situation then

[@mandy11254]

Not necessarily if you count just the western reviews XD.

[@ToxicTurtleIsMad]

No people are still restarded

[@tasenova2717]

ah, another company mistaking protocols and security formats for all countries to play with no issues. god I fkn miss CDs sometimes.

[@cronoluminara6911]

Yeah except swapping back and forth to download off of 4 disc lol

[@Mizt_Sim]

Weird that it’s only happening after the DLC release. Occasionally when I try to play with my friend, he or I will get “inappropriate activity detected” and we get logged out. Luckily all we have to do is restart the game.

[@Ronald-gu3ft]

I'm in my 60's and found it no harder than the base game, highly recommend. My main issue was trying to get to places on the map, lol.

[@a4824864]

Remember these were the player using cheat / hacks in FPS games.

[@dindunuphenwong]

Ironic that the biggest region of cheaters is complaining about anti-cheat isn't it?

[@hereticord]

@@dindunuphenwong it's players that is complaining not some region. you dont wanna confuse the concepts do u

[@dindunuphenwong]

@@hereticord Tell that to the botted Runescape servers and the mega tribes who ruined the Ark servers. Miss me with all that english ain't your 1st language bs

[@hereticord]

@@dindunuphenwong cry harder dindunboy

[@hereticord]

@@dindunuphenwong im tryin to help you to think with your logic seem like we're gettin nowhere cuz your irredeemably dumb

[@dutchmilk]

It is interesting how no one talk about how bad the writing with the Elden Ring DLC. It did a Starwar + a game of throne season 8 in one move with Radahn.

[@richardhunter9779]

THIS IS RAKHASA SHE'S GOT MY BACK SHE CAN CUT YOU DOWN IN ONE STROKE JUST LIKE MOWING THE LAWN SHE CUTS DOWN AND DEVOURS

[@dutchmilk]

@@ganondorf66 its ok if you dont know what is good writing. Your comment reminded me of how many stupids believe Game of Throne season 8 was peak writing instead of peak comedy as it was. The level of humanity stupid is showing once again.

[@needmorequarts1081]

Bad? We have Mohg literally have the best redemption arc in the game history and miquella is literally evil galadriel+gay sauron+Griffith and then you called the writing bad? My fellow tarnished can't read because his ass is always getting kicked by funny two men dancing in a lion suit.

[@TheArnoldification]

No it isn't, and forgive me if I'm being cynical but I feel like you copied your opinion from somewhere rather than formed it organically because I've seen this opinion with identical wording in other places. There was pre-established lore which made the events of the dlc make sense, although how it played out was not expected. The point is that this is not some random asspull done for the sake of "subverting expectations" and that's kind of obvious beyond the most shallow skimming of elden ring lore you could possibly do

[@Xunizal]

It's interesting how you don't seem to understand writing and arrogantly spout drivel without saying why it's supposedly bad. We were unsure of what Radahn's true motivations were, so people claiming character assassination are plain idiots. Secondly, it is likely that Miquella used his power to enthrall him. Really, it's not bad, and while you are entitled to your opinion, stating nonsense like this with such ludicrous authority makes you look very smooth-brained.

[@skiffee1134]

People gotta stop writing off all the negative reviews with the "git gud" attitude. I didn't find it too difficult at all, but I still gave it a negative review because it's just not fun. It felt like the B team made it while the A team is working on the next game. My biggest gripe personally is that the exploration is awful. So much empty space going to waste. The base game did an amazing job of rewarding players for exploring and this DLC failed massively in that department. And so help me god if I ever see a Smithing Stone 3 as my 'reward' again...

[@cleanandlevel]

why do ppl need a shiny medal at the end of everything? just enjoy the ride buddy. the dlc was beautiful, get over yourself.

[@zzollyy]

If the Chinese are having a hard time with AC that's a good thing lol.

[@RichSmithson]

The Chinese guys playing helldivers 2 are my favourite people to Pug with. Always friendly, loads of teamwork and we tend to pass the mission.

[@bigtimetimmyjim6486]

A couple of years ago, it was also the case for me in Lost Ark, always did their job, always knew the fight, always friendly when stupid mistakes were made, and we cleared almost every time.

[@eijitoh6252]

found the two chinese bots

[@SuperhotdogZz]

Good try buddy lol

[@onebear6504]

Another comment puts more context to be this where the blue bear's Chinese version apparently is a buggy mess that logs them out of their games or something. It's from the comments though so shrugs either way. That aside, I remember one game where I rely on Chinese servers in multiplayer (not player vs player though but co-op) cause they have many cheats on and I don't wanna grind so I jump in a room with them and chill, let the cheats carry me lmao.

[@thecompanioncube4211]

Social credit score +50

[@Woxvu]

I can't believe I'm in a world where Kai beats Elden Ring before Asmon. Crazy.

[@xvor_tex8577]

Not hard to believe tbf, just watch any playthrough of him playing souls games, and you realize very quickly how hes not adapting well with these games, hes always starts off being very terrible in every game. The only time he did good with souls games are with demons souls and base elden ring.

[@refkydarkzero9728]

Looking at the chat comments for more context and now I understand why China gamers didn't like the anti cheat very much and it's very understandable since they basically getting banned just because they wanted to play with their friends

[@MatthewCJoy]

I want to first say the DLC is good and fun, that being said the DLC has legitimate big problems though. A lot of enemy recycling, only 3 messmer fire spells(all bad), 2 PVP breaking weapons, all throwing weapons being bad, a majority of the armor is ugly, a lot of the weapons can't be enchanted, some bosses are factually a TINY bit too aggressive, the DLC level system(the tree fragment thing) is pretty damn bad, and the performance aint too good. Let's stop acting like ALL the critism is that it's "too hard", especially considering a big reason people are saying that is because of the FACTUALLY bad tree fragment system. Keep in mind this is a FromSoft DLC that's 40 dollars, this DLC just isn't at Old Hunters or Ringed City quality.

[@ziyuanchen8567]

Chinese players complain that they can't casually beat the game. The mainstream opinion is the reward is trash, sometimes you fight through an area/dungeon and you get enhancement items instead of equipment. Others are complaining the bosses are too hard. Some are complaining about even maxing out the new levelling system still you can only tank 2-3 hits. I think most Chinese players gave bad reviews are genuinely like instant feedback/rewards. The reason they want to explore is not they want to do so, is that there should be a guaranteed treasure lies at the end. EAC just takes up a minor ratio I think.

[@LordKosmux]

There indeed isn't a great ending, despite becoming "Elden Lord" you don't see any changes or rewards at all... But open your mind a little, China is the closest we have to an isolated world internet-wise. Maybe they have legit issues with it and can't even open the game without any cheats, how will they play?

[@EspyMelly]

next soulslike from from software will have a blue bear boss that you fight among the ruins of a chinese-inspired village it laid to waste.

[@LonelyAncient]

so easy anticheat is banning people for no reason, seems like a justified reason to not recommend it tbh.

[@pricefieldx]

still don't get the whole "just use a broken build like me" take like how does using a broken build make the dlc any better? the fact you are essentially forced to should say a lot more to these people then they realize

[@GikamesShadow]

"Some of the bosses are too aggressive" And then there is me with my bloody toothpicks still rocking on. Are they aggressive? Yea. Am I bad? Yea. I had to switch to a new weapon to adjust my playstyle to the aggressive bosses. There is no "Too aggressive". There is just failure and victory. And if you failed, you get back up and fight. Hesitation is defeat

[@xymos7807]

I feel attacked. Im going to cry now while modifying my strat.

[@Akakiryuushin]

they are too aggressive, doesnt mean i didnt beat the boss

[@Boosttackle]

Had to pull out my old sword and shield ways from DS1. Ngl, kinda missed it

[@Tiwill]

Having to change your build in an RPG to defeat a boss provides fake fun and fake satisfaction. You didn't beat it the way you wanted to.

[@alexfirefox1487]

Nah I'll be perfectly honest Elden Ring has so many tools and SUCKS at letting you use them, having to pull out whatever BS everyone else is using because its all you can do just sucks, it loses any fun to come from having all these damn tools and gear at your disposal.

[@freedantheeternal]

Basically "game sucks because we can't cheat and grief invade."

[@nobuffer101]

My only complaint about the bosses so far are Relanna’s combo lasting longer than my stamina bar, and Gaius stunlocking me into a wall right when I enter the arena. I’ve still managed to overcome them but those were by far the most annoying things so far. But even then that’s not worth a negative review or a rage quit, just a minute of mild frustration.

[@IvaN-cf7qt]

They need to fix that gaius thing,my character gets stuck inside the boar if he hits me at the beginning of the fight , and i can't move and it just kills me

[@jetfa9]

So...clip the wall near the door..his hit box is jacked up...I just cheesed it. Not worth the time for an optional boss.

[@cmanmaxwell]

Bro i love that Asmond said the DLC is too difficult and he doesn't use the tools available to him

[@RworldKM]

Apparently, the chinese couldn't gitgud.

[@Jinxyoutoheaven]

The bosses feel faster and far more ruthless. Love it. Gives me a reason to summon mimic tear with no shame

[@penmustache283]

didnt expect pathetic sort, try skill.

[@mani21axe40]

@@penmustache283 what about Omen Killer Rollo

[@ToxicTurtleIsMad]

??? ​@@mani21axe40

[@Hydra_X9K_Music]

​@@penmustache283Found the maidenless one!

[@locomotivo4644]

​@@penmustache283 > players use summons "Noooo you can't use summons you're playing easy mode that's not how you play soulslike 😭" > players don't use summons and find game too hard "Just use summons bro it's not too hard" Lmao I can't with you people

[@Greywander87]

I do think the DLC is a little overtuned. Too many HP sponges (to be fair, this was also an issue in the late base game), and it feels tuned for level 250+ end game players, not post-Leyndell as was apparently recommended by Miyazaki. It's honestly not too bad, but I do think it would benefit from being tuned down. And I'd rather see them add a few extra enemies while reducing their HP. Even one extra enemy in a room can create a sizable difficulty spike, depending on what the enemy is and where they are. I'm not asking for more Anor Londo archers, but that is actually a good example of how an extra enemy can spice up the difficulty. They were certainly more interesting than just jacking up the HP and damage of the enemies.

[@kybaliel]

The blue bear gave me a 180 day penalty for "tampering with game files" safe to say I haven't done anything of the sort xD

[@cMONoutdoors]

skill to win DLC ,thats expected from elden ring

[@dindunuphenwong]

Choosing to die over 100 times before beating a game, and its DLC, isn't a challenge completed. It's a failed IQ test. Time is a precious commodity that most don't waste.

[@Sogrub]

@@dindunuphenwong By playing any game you're wasting your time, the thing is people want to waste their time on something fun, and the DLC isn't fun for a lot or people

[@DoowapX]

​@@dindunuphenwongYou don't have to die so much, just skill issues and not enough IQ

[@dindunuphenwong]

@@Sogrub Let me know when Elden Ring reaches Minecraft sales and player numbers. Then we can talk about what a fun game looks and feels like.

[@mertince2310]

​@@dindunuphenwongBy that logic, chess players are the dumbest people on Earth. Because they are not on that sigma business grindset like you are.

[@apstrac2winner]

So many racists in the comments, as usual whenever Chinese are mentioned no matter the context.

[@linhusp2349]

Chinese are famous for cheating in every fk game they can. So people dont trust them when chinese talk about anti cheat. Thats a reality not racist

[@joevaghn457]

Chinese people are an ethnicity. Not a race.

[@apstrac2winner]

@@joevaghn457 ??? Does that make it any better?

[@user-nz4un6se7y]

@@joevaghn457 wow how dumb are you

[@JackMarcuson]

@@joevaghn457 hey goyim we need you in Ukraine, buckle up.

[@scrichear8657]

you got him there body 😂

[@desmien679]

It's simple, it's a hardcore game for hardcore gamers. If you nerf the game to make it easier then you chase off the players the game was made for. Also a large number of Chinese players love using bots and cheat software for games. This ruins the purpose of hardcore games and unfortunately there's been a big problem of non hardcore players invading hardcore games and trying to ruin the experience for hardcore gamers the game was intended for.

[@Mr.Donkeypoo]

chinese complaining about anti cheat, wonder why...

[@Lekser]

Chinese reviews should be separate, its insane how one country can affect review score so much

[@aeonnn3499]

Infinite stamina 😊😊 infinite aoe skills 🤯🤯 non-stop skill spam 🥶🥶 min 50% dmg normal attacks 🤠🤠 infinite mobility 🫥🫥

[@Brekner]

If 90% of the tools don't work, 9% work as intended and 1% are TOTALLY BROKEN, I wouldn't say the tools are where they need to be...

[@jimcarrey2866]

Don't ask me, ask Chyna. Chy-na

[@PopcornMax179]

I dunno. Going through the translated reviews myself. The majority are just salty noobs, not complaining about the anti-cheat, just about how they suck at the game.

[@Kushu122]

only bad thing about dlc is the scudtree shards locations, NOTHING else, when you do 1-2% dmg on bosses without scudtree shards it becomes very boring, once you have a few its normal elden ring.

[@TheInnocentRabbitofCaerbannog]

CHAYNAH: complains about anti cheat Also CHAYNAH: known for having the most cheaters

[@The-Black-Death]

NOBODY TELL THE CHINESE, seriously, nobody tell them how to remove EAC. If you want proof as to why, go look at any online game with little to no anti-cheat that's populated with chinese players.

[@user-jk5bg6mh5q]

Could you give me a game as an example? I can't find any game that has no AC that's populated by chinese players

[@The-Black-Death]

@@user-jk5bg6mh5q You ever play Red Dead Online or GTA Online?

[@justwtf3216]

​@@user-jk5bg6mh5qwent hiding because you have no more excuse to be racist?

[@trathanstargazer6421]

They just need to add the Chicken Hat. The one from MGS5, you want it easier, fine here you go, but you have to wear a stupid hat.

[@leolion8063]

When I saw Chinese saying "litter blue bear", I my mind straight up the anti cheat. They want to make cheat for elden ring😂😂😂

[@RealityDysfunction85]

There needs to be an awards show for youtube editors so we can give this motherfuckin GOAT editor some hardware.