Blue Sentinel

Please read the full mod description carefully before installing.

Blue Sentinel is an anti-cheat tool for Dark Souls III, it will protect you from malicious cheats, flag players who use them, and allow you to kick them from your world.

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What does it do?

This tool aims to identify cheaters and mitigate the impact they have on your online play, through a few different methods:

• []Detecting stat and level abnormalities of people in your session, allowing you to remove the player with cheated stats or disconnect.

  []Preventing dangerous effects (such as curse) being applied to you by other players.

  []Preventing a wide range of exploits, including multiple crashes.

  []Preventing a wide range of bullet-related frame rate drops.

  []If enabled, it can backup saves every time a new session is established and store a set amount of backups before deleting the oldest.

  []It will flag alternate (family shared) accounts of people you have blocked

  []Accurate ping measurements with other players

  In addition to this, if you use the overlay, it will display the other players in the session, along with their steam profile names.

  In total, the mod has many patches and detections. However, Blue Sentinel is not a catch-all solution, use your own judgement in situations and if someone is cheating but the mod doesn't pick it up, just leave the session and block them. Also don't expect the mod to pick up things that aren't sent over the network to begin with (e.g. infinite stamina, infinite i-frames)

  *Backups can be found in %appdata%\DarkSoulsIII\(YourSteamID64) and are named "(timestamp)_DS30000.sl2.bak"

  Why should I use a protection tool in (current year)?

  The cheating scene in Dark Souls has moved on from simple annoyances like cursing and one-shots to more malicious intent (such as crashing, banning, ruining saves, etc.)

  Unfortunately, the item give cheat (aka Item Inject) was just the tip of the iceberg in this sense. Dark Souls III has some serious network vulnerabilities that can get your account banned or even cause lasting  damage to your PC. I have reported all of these to the publisher and developers however it doesn't look like they will ever be addressed, it's only a matter of time before these security issues become popularised / public and Blue Sentinel offers a very high level of protection against these exploits.

  I would recommend that every player who wants to play online uses