This Elden Ring Player Is Winning PvP Matches By Pretending To Be A Corpse

This Elden Ring Player Is Winning PvP Matches By Pretending To Be A Corpse

From TheGamer (Written by James Troughton) on | OpenCritic

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Soulslike fans are an inventive bunch, especially when it comes to PvP. You have your duals and fight clubs, sure, but a key part of every FromSoftware game, especially Elden Ring, is finding unique ways to gain the upperhand as an Invader.

Cue Reddit user Canny94, who is dressing up as a corpse and using a gesture to appear dead. For context, you clip through dead bodies in Elden Ring by default. So, Canny94 is sitting on rafters in dungeons, dressed up as a corpse, to trick players into being pushed off the edge to their deaths.

It's a bit of a cheesy strategy, but as the clip below shows, it clearly works.

Firstly, you need one of the sitting gestures. Crossed legs is an easy enough one to find, south of the Stormhill Shack, but you can also pick up Dozing Cross-Legged in Stormveil Castle on one of the rooftops.

You also need the Furled Finger's Trick-Mirror from the Twin Maiden Husks at the Roundtable Hold. This Talisman sets you back 5,000 Runes, but makes it so that you take on the appearance of a Host of Fingers when invading, removing the red glow. This is...

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