@@johnson_diapers Yeah, AI voices have become so good the last past months, it's honestly pretty impressive how accurate they are with so little dialogue
Fun hackers trying to play the mini-boss in souls games were always great but unfortunately Malcolm rarely ever did that, and while hes also contributed his knowledge for cheat engine over the years so that we could have some pretty interesting mods hes also the reason people are scared to go online in these games, maybe not him directly now but people who've seen what hes done and are repeating it for the laughs.
yea the boss-invaders are fun, but malcolm just spells things out in the air and spams big AoE effects all over the place and instakills everyone. Geez, what a "Noble hacker" this guy is.
@@superman91111111 Probably about 1 out of 10 hosts disconnect by default anyway, all you're doing by calling yourself Malcolm Reynolds is increasing that to 9 out of 10 lol.
The WORST HACKER or the WORST LIAR, my old laptop's gpu died when i invaded him the first time, and he is saying "well i didnt do anything wrong". He didnt only target streamers, but average players too, softbanned many of them, who got banned and in order to remove the ban, you had to communicate with bandai support where they told you to delete your save file, no matter how much time you spent on it. Cringe you just eat all his lies and accept it.
apparently you can do anything, you can say “i did something” and then say “hey i didnt do it” and people would believe you and praise you. I see many ppl believing him but many other people had bad experiences with him, when its mentioned “huh it must be someone else using his name because he didnt stream doing that”. I despise his attitude, it’s not “good fun” at all, even when he’s not getting anyone banned he just ruins their experience. and all you first worlders who say “its just a game bro what if you get banned” some people have to pay 1/3 of their salary to buy AAA games, and they sure don’t like getting banned for some “troll”.
@@Sombrita00that's why you grind his meat in every comment section of people calling out his mischievious deeds at this point what is more pathetic : the hacker or the defender ? You could also be a loser who has no life and try to imagine a story out of that, it works too.
@@PDfrens it was for that short span of time he said, but the meme about it was hilarious I’d drop things as an invader and the host would alt f4 immediately
@@naxergss2625You wouldnt get banned from picking up an item but when he used item injection for a week he was 100% softbanning people lol, fromsoft patched it very fast, dude was the goat tho, I loved occasionally seeing him
What I'm curious about is, if the period where it was possible to softban others had lasted longer than one or two weeks would he have eventually began abusing it? Is he merely pretending to be the supervillain of the DS community, or is it only pretend because he lacks the means to do what he wants legitimately.
I agree, he was doing what he was able to do in the period that he was able to do it. The moment he admitted to soft banning that contradicted everything he said previously lol. He ain’t doing it now for a reason.
Though I don't really care too much about this, I believe he would if he could, at least for a good while, I think he's sorta a loser spending so much time on the internet fishing for attention to fuel whatever empty life he has, really the best course of action is just to ignore him, seriously don't understand why people bother getting provoked.
@@ItchiestBum Best comment here. When me and my friends stopped playing DS3 back then, the dude still ran around for years softbanning streamers day by day. I would find it funny if he was JUST trolling. But he literally deleted peoples accounts or softbanned them. He simply enjoyed that.
Me and my friends got run over by this dude , I got softbanned and sent to NG+ which effectively ruined my playthrough with friends . We had to use 3rd party plugins to try to detect people using hacks and kick them when getting invaded
I personally couldn't give less of a fuck what his motivations were/are or what he actually did. Hacking a game and screwing with other players is maidenless behavior and you will never convince me otherwise (I say "you" in the general sense)
So, is there a reason you said nothing at all about him Eggheading, cursing and equipment breaking new players on Dark Souls Remastered for an age, with a stated purpose of making people rage quit the game, which he in fact had streamed multiple sessions of? Like, that kind of dick move is at the very least "delete character" worthy, never mind people whom don't know any better and try to struggle further into the game like that.
Praising somebody for ruining Souls games PVP must be a new low for your channel, how can you whitewash his actions when he's directly responsible for "Just ALTF4 if you get invaded" or people ALTF4ing when you drop items
I am not praising him. This is an unbiased documentary. And I can't for the hell of me even remotely imagine how the word "whitewashed" crossed your mind when writing that comment.
"Maybe someday he will be back to entertain us once again with his whacky hacking shenanigans".This sentence is not whitewashing him ruining the community,peoples savegames or even softbanning them?Your video is really soft on his misdeeds and mostly shows him doing whacky stuff. Next time are you planning on doing a video on people using the DS3 exploit to send you into NG+ and lock their savegame and call them funny whacky hackers? I just perceive this video as really positive on reynolds,when in truth he is just a douche ruining the online feature of one of the best game series and you enabling him by giving him a platform to portray himself as a misunderstood poor person.
@@Tec12122 Beautifully stated. Shitstains like reynolds are why the game's online features were locked out for almost a full year. There's nothing "whacky" about those "shenanigans."
The fact that he tried to justify it by saying it was to prove to the game devs that it was possible proves he went to far and was likely lying to save his ass. He could have just opened two different characters had them eventually meet up and "PVP" to see if the other character got soft banned. Since he is a hacker I doubt he that cant open the game on different computers or something and even then if he wants to test something like that it's only ok if he does it to himself doing it to a bunch of others because it will save him some time and money but still get the word out by costing so many other people their time and money ain't ok. It's a damn game not life or death. He did not need to cost so many people hours of their lives. And potentially cause them to have to buy a whole new copy just to be able to play the game fairly on a different account. Infact this grade A dumbass could have tried to give the files for the hacked dagger among other things he did, to the game devs anonymously and told them what it could do and why soft banning is an issue. He did not need to go that far period.
He straight-up admitted he just likes to stir up shit. What disgusts me is how many other people are completely okay with him doing it. We live in a society that has normalized bullying.
did...you watch the video? he litteraly said it himself that "oh the excuse that i'm doing it to show the flaws and bla bla bla i just did it for fun and to make people mad" also litteraly in the video that you're commenting on it states how the softbans were fake and just lies from redditors the only time he actually was able to softban people was 1 week in ds3 like watch the video first
@@superman91111111 Yes yes I did and think about what ur saying and re-read what I said and what was said in the video. The soft bans stilled happened and he likely would have kept doing it if they hadn't been fixed, also I was talking about it from a general logical stand point regarding all scenarios that we were presented with and even stated how I could tell he was covering his ass, either way the guy shouldn't be allowed to play the game at this point other than against other cheaters, they should soft IP ban his account so he stays in the servers that keep hackers at bay from other people, because at the end of the day he is a troll and not everyone wants to deal with their shit and u cant blame em for that. And letting him and people like him play at all is being nice far more nice than they deserve considering he did go as far to soft ban some people while he could and cause them to lose hours apon hours of progress and lock them into hacker servers when they are not even a hacker. That's not being funny it's being an ass whole for quiet literally no reason other than to be mean and because they can, no one has a right to act that way.
@@riverlee8074 so from what i'm hearing is that you want people that like to troll and such to be set aside and removed from others so everybody can have a fucking safe space...or maybe and just hear me out here...grow some fucking balls the trolling lasts like what a minute and then you can go about your day oh and guess what...soft bans litteraly last like a month or less if you appeal to them hell i've been a victim of the softban cheat during that 1 week...know what i did?...i appealed it to fromsoft and they unbanned me 2 days later litteraly that quick but seriously...f**k you for saying oh he shouldn't be allowed to play the game at this point...hes a troll...hes having fun his way and just because you don't like it he should be ip banned thats the most soyboy,childish,i need a safespace sensitive thing i've ever heard in response to a troll who if you encounter litteraly is only a bother for a fucking minute or if you ALT+F4 litteraly seconds witch i'm sure is so precious
@@MichaelTheRead jesus christ people are sensitive its not bullying its not like he picks one person and does it only to them over and over and over again every day for weeks no he trolls them for what like a minute or if its a streamer he trolls them for half an hour maybe an hour i swear you all want things to be rainbows and puppies...and this is coming from an icelander...we're litteraly known for how peacefull we are and even i think you're to much
Some glitches are funny as hell. However, game having bad anti-cheat or none at all isn't a good reason to grief people or causing others to get soft banned.
Even if he wasn't actually banning people. The fact that he gets joy from cheating and griefing people still makes him seem like a jerk in my opinion. Trolling the afk farmers was nice but doesn't make up the years and years of being a douche to ppl not to mention in ds3 he did in fact force ppls games into ng+ that would break their game save 100's of hours on a character, oh well.
@@ungone7133 This is literally not true lol, Malcolm has regularly recorded every single session and its been proven his actions have NEVER gotten somebody banned. Keep spreading lies, kiddo.
On the one hand, pretty funny to see game journalists/redditors run with a lie. On the other hand, this is sorta like Malcolm going into a movie theater, yelling “fire!”, and then being like “Ha! You didn’t even *check* if there was a fire! There was never a fire lol. Except for that one week where I actually *did* start fires”.
But there IS a fire, aka, the souls series anticheat being nonexistent... Also the comparison to fire is too extreme, not like he put anyone in any danger. Even the hackers/wreckers from old counter strike days that'd upload viruses to your computer and destroy your windows entirely didn't put anyone in any actual risk, although they did cause a ton more frustration and possibly cost people a pretty penny and possibly even cut their income if their computer had work related stuff... But simply destroying your game? Yeah, it's on the developers, and no matter how horrid the hacking, as long as it doesn't harm your computer, all it does in the end of the day is show how incompetent the developers are, which can only be solved by change and raising the bar.
Bro I've seen you on multiple takes just stop dude. The souls games have never been that huge of an issue with hackers. We just hate this one in particular because he literally fucked with your game and could give you a corrupted save. Stop riding the guy so hard and trying to blame other people. The point wasn't that he hacked, the point was that he was a dick.@@mkzhero
If you think afk farmers dont deserve runes, then: have you ever played bloodborne? If your answer is yes, then you probably know about the living failures glitch and the cum chalice.
I honestly can't understand how anyone can support a pile of crap like this guy, or any other hackers in an online game. Nobody gave their consent to have their gaming experience be ruined by a cheater. I would not send him death threats, but he totally had it coming. People who cheat just to fuck up other players' experience should get a nasty lawsuit in their face. This one is no exception. The only exceptions are visual hacks and creating modded game versions.
He's annoying but he definitely didn't deserve death threats or a lawsuit for just being a troll and running cheat scripts in a game with no anticheat lol
Teaching AFKers a lesson does not redeem him for going out of his way to ruin everyone's game experiences. And then he either lies to Kotaku or he lies to his viewers, which shows a real lack of integrity on his part. All in the name of a little short term entertainment. It doesn't matter if he didn't actually softban people, he still sapped the fun out of the game for people that just wanted to actually play. Maybe if he did it specifically to make FeomSoft do something about cheating online, that would be one thing. But he's simply nothing short of absurd, both in his actions and motivation. Guy like him deserves an IP ban from FromSoft's servers, even if he "doesn't grief anymore due to lack of a reason to do it". It's nowhere near as bad as doxxing or the death threats, but he still actively made thr $60 experience less enjoyable for the more innocent targets of his fuckery.
As bad as the doxxing and death threats were, you HAVE to admit that he earned that kind of treatment from his victims. Play stupid games and you win stupid prizes.
@@raycardomcquirter7877it's more like not something I'd condone but not something I'm gonna feel sorry for him over or think he has a point when he's like "they threaten me over a game". Nah dude, hacked PCs can be a major fucking problem for people, so putting them through that experience of not knowing if their game, their PC is fucked, if any of their info is compromised is just as serious as a threat in retaliation.
Damn, I remember having the stormruler +25 spawend directly in my inventory. Alt f4, going offline and assigning sell value to it through CE and selling to the shrine handmaid prevented the ban
22:01 Yeah I think modding is exciting because changing written line items can have dramatic visual effects. Playing the game is good, using the tilde key is better, but best is the game files.... I actually resist and hate games that don't let you see what their files are.
Tbf some on dark souls cheaters are very good with software so some of them deserve the title of a hacker. Weird thing to give credit to such behaviors but it is what it is.
He's a loser, but at least he has enough of a spine to admit he does it simply because he wants attention. Most will deny and pretend they have some self righteous cause
I don’t know what is more pathetic That he’s proud of being a loser that wants attention or if he pretended like he didnt want attention but is still very much a loser
@@exmachina2600 that part of the video was so cringe to me. Totally gave off the vibe of a guy that unironically watches motivational joker quote videos
this is your only video that I disliked, I enjoy your content and attitude in general but I draw the line on cheaters. giving him a platform and attention makes idiots like him even worse and confident in their actions. any cheater messing with people in any game is 99% of the time are doing it to grief people, to make sure they dont enjoy their game. 1% is funny cheaters doing weird harmless stuff, but they’re really rare. sometimes i see cheaters supporting their idiotic actions and comparing it to invasion experience, by all means no, you’re literally breaking the game to make the other party suffer.
Was the soft-locking -- whereby the victim would end up trapped in a permanent death loop, potentially ruining hundreds of hours put into the game -- also a hoax? If not, there is no question about whether this guy is an irreverent trickster, or just an asshole, no matter what self-serving rationalization he could come up with.
@@superman91111111Are you referring to 9:10? That seems to be the only point where this video mentions restarting the game as a fix. In fact, the video doesn't really talk about the ER death loop soft lock, though you do see an example of it near the beginning. IIRC, you actually had to do a very precise set of inputs at the exact right instant in order to get out of the loop. I doubt most people this guy preyed on knew about this fix, if it was even discovered when the soft locks were going on. At the end of the day, the guy was/is trash, and no amount of soft peddling his antics, as this video does, is going to change that. How so? The dude put links to "Malcolm Reynolds" merch on his YT channel so he could profit off his scummy behavior.
@@luxinterior54 yes, every Souls game has this safety mechanic that enables "wrong warps", that's what the speedrunners call it when they use it for skips. It's basically a reset of your spawn location to the default spawn location of the current area. I got sent into a death loop in DS3 and the ONLY way out of it (it would endlessly reoccur upon reloading the safe file from the main menu and could otherwise only be helped by loading an oder safe file if you had backed it up) was performing said "wrong warp" which is done by quitting out of the game in this very small time frame between your spawn and your death, so the game can't register your location and respawns you at said default spawn point. I would consider myself a DS tryhard so I was able to pull those inputs off but it took a couple of tries and I can definitely see someone uninstalling the game over stuff like that. During my days in DS3 I met a couple of actually funny hackers who would cosplay as "bosses" with modded movesets and spells and would fight you, but actually give you a chance to beat them. I don't see why you would nuke people to drop their framerate to 0 and eventually crash their PCs, send them into death loops or getting them softbanned (I know of a couple cases of this happening in DS3... perhaps all during those weeks mentioned, where this forcing items into someones inventory became popular...). Btw. back then I heard rumors of Malcolm sharing the force item script on his Discord server to all the wannabe hacker kids who wanted to softban people for fun. Whenever people from my community reported stuff like that, I advised everyone to use their alt accounts for a while... I have at least ten of Malcolm's accounts on my block list on Steam. In my opinion this is absolute shit tier behaviour and should not be promoted or "reasoned with". I don't understand why someone would feed his ego except using his name for views...
If he became aware of the remote code execution that was present in all souls game before it was patched, do you think he'd abuse it to brick people's computers?
Even without softbanning people, hacked invasions are still a problem. At least in this sense. To clarify hacked invasions like noob pyromancer are fine. I'm talking insta kill hackers and the like. So in that sense he's still just as bad as any other hacker, doesn’t matter how flashy you die. And one more thing. At 1:09 was that a permanent softlock? If so thats even worse, but you've only mentioned temporary setbacks so i have to question what's happening in full context.
Giving him this much attention is exactly why he started. This video will no doubt inspire more hackers to ruin games for people. Well done. Well done.
@@ImaTroper this video is a part of the clout he wanted. Cheaters cheat because they are sad af people with no friends or people in their life and no life in general, so they seek attention by provoking and frustrating other people through games because in real life equivalent of this situation someone would beat the shit out of them already.
Eh, dude will be back. Hopefully next time he doesn't stir up the crazies the way he did in Elden Ring. He did more damage than hes admitted to just didnt stream it.
My characters were Hacked 2 times in Ds2. I was doing some PVP in the Brotherhood of Blood arena and eventually was matched with the said hacker. As soon as the duel started, he teleported my character to his and locked me in an endless backstab animation. Eventually I Alt + F4 the game and when I logged in again I saw the message that accused me of hacking and my character was locked out from co-op and PVP forever. Turns out, he maxed my level over the maximum value allowed by the game, tricking it to believe that I was the one hacking. Now, my account wasn't banned, thankfully, but loosing a character with which I've been playing after many hours really got to me. No matter how you put it. You have no business in ruining some other player gameplay and no matter what you say your excuses or reasons are, if you find pleasure in spoiling other people fun, you shouldn't be allowed to play games.
what an actual loser. people like this dont deserve recognition they deserve harsh punishment, it doesnt matter if theyre doing it "for the lolz" or anything theyre all cheating scum who dont know how to properly play games. and before u say it yes the ones who join streams to make "miniboss" fights are actually fun and cool, unlike the usual no life dorks some people run into
Nah. People are quick to blame others, but never look at the situation objectively, ultimately it's the fault of the developer. Putting a game out in a state that allows for that is like selling a car with no safety belts and airbags, and then blaming deaths on anyone but the manufacturer. Form's coding is sloppy subpar shit, has been for well over a decade, but the fans will defend them and the games to no end and pretend it's not. If an online/semi online game allows for another player to come and destroy your entire save, it's the dev has failed miserably
Not gonna lie... People like this give off really big narcissist vibes. Like you said, trolling for a show or just the spectical of it all is one thing. Invading someone and forcing them to stop playing even if only for a few minutes to reset their game is kinda shitty. Trying to make yourself sound like the super villain of a community by spreading rumors you can ban people is extreme levels of narcissistic behavior tho. Your actively trying to create a negative image of yourself and promote fear of loss in a gaming community for kicks? Sorry but I i genuinely don't understand that. To me atleast its like those RUclipsrs who run up to people in public places, yell in their ear and run off saying "its just a prank bro chill, why so serious?" Like I don't see the appeal of it as both the "prankster" or the audience its intended for. I remember seeing a video on fallout 76 where a hacker stole this little kids legendary gear and the kid broke down crying since it took him and his dad hours to get together. How does this stuff not make you feel like a POS? Not to mention as stated before by others your kinda feeding these people the attention they're addicted to by making a video on one of them. Rather best to let them die a slow quite death by boredom in obscurity then feed the next generation of trolls wouldn't you say?
I don't think defending Malcolm or praising him is a good thing. He went out of his way to ruin the *paid* experience of thousands of people, as well as corrupt/break their games to a point where it became unplayable. If he wanted to "send a message" to Fromsoft he could've done it in literally any other way than just fucking with countless people as well as on streams and in videos. The worst and most hypocritical part is he uploads on his channel complaining about hackers ruining his game and killing him, yet i'm pretty sure he was one of the people who invaded other people's worlds and killed them with a hack, and set it to where they'd spawn at the very bottom of the world at all times, making their game pretty much unplayable. I also have screenies of him being an absolute creep towards my ex
If he really thinks that he's sending a message, then it's not working because From's anticheat still sucks actual balls and has not gotten better. He's been doing this for ages and it's changed nothing. And I'm sorry, but does he really think he's important enough to get from to listen to him?? He's a sub-30k RUclipsr that doesn't even speak their native fucking language, and he's an incredibly controversial-at-best, downright-hated-at-worst figure in the community to those who do know who he is. So even if he was trying to send a message, it never would have been listened to. If he REALLY wanted to send a message, he'd have done so in a way that didn't harm the experience of other people. That excuse was obviously just him trying to seem like a better person than he really is.
I was going to go fight malenia with my friend before getting to the correct place some hacker named guys invaded me and was invincible but kept making my character do animations from certain boss throw attacks to get me to malenia I respect him for that lmao it did no damage
@@lordvader5684 The game essentially connects your computers directly, with information being written onto either pc, allowing one knowledgeable enough to mess with some code to brick your pc.
@@BoneWalker I didn't think an exploiter directly breaking your hardware behind a screen even possible, which makes that guy even worse than he already is
@@lordvader5684yeah there was a problem in DS1 and in DS3 if I remember correctly. I don’t know how they did it but your pc would be bricked. I even heard that consoles could get bricked.
Oh yeah. I remember that guy. The definition of human trash. Got me banned and corrupted my save file. Was the last day I ever played ds3 Edit: also shame on you for condoning and supporting his actions.
I was playing with my friends ds 2 once, I see Malcom Reynolds has invaded pop up, I start shouting "NOOOOOOOOOOO" my friends had no idea what was happening until we all got petrified and died, it was glorious
I've read through some of your responses to critical comments. You call this a "unbiased documentary" But it really isn't, if it were to be unbiased you should have gotten some people affected by him to speak as well. At this point you're just letting him ramble on and build up a defence for himself without opposition. I like your other stuff though 👍
His softbanning spree is why I don't like him. Going in and being a silly hacker is one thing, legit screwing over people's hard work because you just have beef with streamers is another thing. Yes, it's fun to tease streamers because they're bottom of the barrel; they don't deserve to have a save destroyed though. You're not doing anyone favors, you're just making excuses to cause grief. I would at least hope the guy had enough balls to admit that was his goal, but of course he talks like some spineless nobody.
He did say it was only possible for one or two weeks. Which if he's being honest and I don't see any real reason for him to straight up lie about it, while admittedly shitty and not fun for people it happened to it seems like the actual number of people it legit happened to is greatly exaggerated.
@@drunkenprayer8390 The fact that he did it is the problem. You know how hard it was to find fightclubs or invasions after that nonsense? Everyone who enjoyed the pvp scene basically jumped ship after that series of softbanning invasions because people didn't want to deal with worrying whether or not they backed up their save that day. It was more prolific than what he says because others started to copycat him. He is literally the start of the "Just alt+f4" mindset that people who get invaded have nowadays. He is no hero and nearly killed souls pvp.
@@drunkenprayer8390 In DS3 it was only possible for a couple of weeks. He was eggheading/cursing/weapon and armour breaking people barely five minutes into their first run of DS Remake. And he was streaming that crap for hours and hours.
@@drunkenprayer8390 No one will pick up dropped items on FS games and that is mostly thanks to him and others like him. It's pathetic what people do for attention.
@@drunkenprayer8390 "Which if he's being honest and I don't see any real reason for him to straight up lie about it" Except for the fact that he's been lying about everything the whole time. That's a good enough reason to be very dubious about his so called honesty.
Sigh... Sure, it is funny. But I hate griefing. And Malcolm punishing AFK farmers is hardly compensation. It's like being happy a serial killer killed a political extremist, like, there's still a serial killer around. Overall, I have no respect for this guy and think whatever joy he can bring some people is outweighted by the bad taste he leaves of plenty of people's mouth.
He is the reason i didn't bother to play any souls game online on pc, getting invaded once is cool, getting invaded twice is annoying, but by the third time I just could not be bothered. Yeah i'll admit it was funny the first time, but it gets old fucking fast. And while it's true that this is mainly fromsoft's fault, being a cunt to the community doesn't make you cool. Also he was the reason why dark souls 3 invasions almost disappeared since it got to the point were most people would alt f4 the moment the saw an invasion message.
Edit: As much as respect a good joke, I can’t get behind him cheating so flagrantly. Even though the softbanning was basically a myth and he was only out to do a bunch of trolling, I just can’t applaud him for exploiting the flimsy anti-cheat software. Still, it is all just a game in the end. And as a message to Waifu, I have only this much to say. I admit when I’m wrong, and my bad. GG WP very fun fight
@@OnlyWaifuYTFair enough. Poor choice of words, my bad. I can definitely get behind him screwing with AFK farmers and trolling tons of overreactionaries, like me in this instance. Tell you what, seeing as I did finish this, I’ll alter the original comment to give my full opinion rather than the one formed at the time of writing it 😅
There are only two types of hackers I have ever experienced- fun hackers and toxic hackers. I'm sorry, his actions are too malicious in nature and his reasoning in an excuse reeking of bullshit.
Ah yes. I remember being stuck in an infinite loop of DS3 cutscenes until he got bored and decided to permanently damage my GPU. I hope someone hacks his wife’s holes while he watches from the closet in a Superman suit.
if he'd only used any account-affecting/file-corrupting stuff on *other* hackers, he might have been better regarded by a lot of players...but apparently *almost* none of that actually happened anyway, if I understood correctly. And mocking Kotaku and Baneposting are certainly OK in my book!
just saying threes a reason cheats in online games are a bankable offence. its just being chaotic and disruptive for ones self enjoyment. If you cheat and do "good" with it than i guess whatever but its still cheating and looked down upon. Cheating in games like pokemon roms or whatever is almost a must I'm not grinding 30 hours on a game that's 20 years old but to essentially grief in an online game just to be an annoyance your parents raised you wrong
@@MichaelTheRead Oh cmon you gotta admit some of the things he does are rather clever. He even said himself that the whole, "softbanning" people thing only happened once and although it's hard to trust the word of a serial cheater its worth to mention that he mainly only targeted streamers. I never ran into the guy and even if i did i would know how to avoid it via throwing myself off a ledge or alt f4ing. To me he's the type of person who would throw laxatives into the punch bowl at a party
OnlyWaifu, im just here to say, even tho this video is kinda old now, 15:10 you really did it , you used the ffx blitz ball theme there... Bro you just triggered some old memory in me jesus.
Anything for clout, likes, followers..,etc. Dont mess with a game truly love and actually play. Jerks are the reason why I stopped watching youtube and tiktok, nothing but bullying garbage. I swear ruining the game for others is low and disgusting. But anything for views right?
Malcolm Reynaldo’s desperately trying to generate attention (likely cause of a lack of a fatherly one) and trying establish control over his public perception is downright childish. He’s very good, that’s obvious, but this was brought upon himself, and he shouldn’t be too surprised. Atleast, he got what he wanted yeah? Death threats and negative attention is sorta what to expect when it comes to angering sweaty fromsoft players who do care about the 100$ they paid for the game experience. And the worst part is the trolling is the lowest medium his talent could be a used for.
he totally can do this on ER. it just happened to me and a buddy like 2 weeks ago and i had no idea all of this was a thing. it wasnt him it was someone else but they must be getting by doing it somehow
Man, it’s crazy how some sick people like this exist that do this out of attention. You don’t think “hey I’m ruining the game for others” and instead smile as you reassure yourself what you’re doing is right. These people remind me of the no lifes that simp everyday Reddit mod stereotype 😂
Hacking is okay as long as you do it offline or BRING GENUINE JOY TO OTHERS. Other than that you're just a douchebag, a disappointment of your parents, a failure of existence,... Yeah sure it'll be fun and all to you until somebody decides to make it personal irl. And if that is to happen, it won't end well.
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What's your opinion on Malcolm? Do you think he went too far?
He is a menace and a fiend
A demon incarnate
It's funny to watch him fuck with people. But i'm glad i never ran into the dude
@@melonking281 he is litteraly bane from dark knight rises lmao
Everyone wants to be special. I think he wanted to be special. He's special.
he didn't go far enough
"How do I alt+f4", certified Jerma moment.
Just doing goofy stuff isn't too bad but causing people to have invalid game data makes him a steaming pile.
???? Never happened ?????
@@Lem.ons_you probably never played souls like before
@@Lem.ons_ except you missed the part where he said it did for a few weeks in ds3?
@@Lem.ons_anyone who interacts with a cheater runs the risk of getting banned themselves. that's why you never pick up items from randoms
@@Tackitt he said that he did the ‘softban’ for like a week. Not some ‘invalid game data’ thing. Give me a timestamp and prove me entirely wrong.
What a sad little man
kinda scary how good this ranni ai voice is
ai? dude, she is real
@@reddd35literally ai
@@lecis9270r/woosh
no way this is AI 💀 Its way to good if it is
@@johnson_diapers Yeah, AI voices have become so good the last past months, it's honestly pretty impressive how accurate they are with so little dialogue
Fun hackers trying to play the mini-boss in souls games were always great but unfortunately Malcolm rarely ever did that, and while hes also contributed his knowledge for cheat engine over the years so that we could have some pretty interesting mods hes also the reason people are scared to go online in these games, maybe not him directly now but people who've seen what hes done and are repeating it for the laughs.
yea the boss-invaders are fun, but malcolm just spells things out in the air and spams big AoE effects all over the place and instakills everyone. Geez, what a "Noble hacker" this guy is.
That was the golden age right there, good times.
This cumguzzler hasn't contributed shit, everything was done by other people releasing scripts he refuses to.
Santa Claws and fnafFoxxy is coming to visit Oroboro
Pro strat: Name yourself Malcom Reynolds in Eldenring so people will leave by default to avoid getting hacked.
I'm gonna do it!
bruh i always do it when i make an invader build just to see people freak out xD
holy shit this dude living in 2077
@@superman91111111 Probably about 1 out of 10 hosts disconnect by default anyway, all you're doing by calling yourself Malcolm Reynolds is increasing that to 9 out of 10 lol.
@@yewtewbstew547 but that 1 out of 10 that don't almost always have rather fun,unique and not basic meta builds...or are noobs so its a win for me
The WORST HACKER or the WORST LIAR, my old laptop's gpu died when i invaded him the first time, and he is saying "well i didnt do anything wrong". He didnt only target streamers, but average players too, softbanned many of them, who got banned and in order to remove the ban, you had to communicate with bandai support where they told you to delete your save file, no matter how much time you spent on it. Cringe you just eat all his lies and accept it.
apparently you can do anything, you can say “i did something” and then say “hey i didnt do it” and people would believe you and praise you. I see many ppl believing him but many other people had bad experiences with him, when its mentioned “huh it must be someone else using his name because he didnt stream doing that”. I despise his attitude, it’s not “good fun” at all, even when he’s not getting anyone banned he just ruins their experience. and all you first worlders who say “its just a game bro what if you get banned” some people have to pay 1/3 of their salary to buy AAA games, and they sure don’t like getting banned for some “troll”.
Absolutely maidenless
Nah, he's a Friend
maidenless behavior fr
@@Sombrita00that's why you grind his meat in every comment section of people calling out his mischievious deeds at this point what is more pathetic : the hacker or the defender ? You could also be a loser who has no life and try to imagine a story out of that, it works too.
This tomy dude is the ultimate boot-licker 😂
@@executioner_ecgbert884nah, he’s a friend.
It was funny seeing people get glitched but people getting banned for it was lame
Never true
@@PDfrens it was for that short span of time he said, but the meme about it was hilarious I’d drop things as an invader and the host would alt f4 immediately
How's it funny though
he never actually got anyone banned Lol
@@naxergss2625You wouldnt get banned from picking up an item but when he used item injection for a week he was 100% softbanning people lol, fromsoft patched it very fast, dude was the goat tho, I loved occasionally seeing him
What I'm curious about is, if the period where it was possible to softban others had lasted longer than one or two weeks would he have eventually began abusing it? Is he merely pretending to be the supervillain of the DS community, or is it only pretend because he lacks the means to do what he wants legitimately.
It didn't ocurr to me to ask that specific question. I suppose I could ask him someday.
I agree, he was doing what he was able to do in the period that he was able to do it. The moment he admitted to soft banning that contradicted everything he said previously lol. He ain’t doing it now for a reason.
Though I don't really care too much about this, I believe he would if he could, at least for a good while, I think he's sorta a loser spending so much time on the internet fishing for attention to fuel whatever empty life he has, really the best course of action is just to ignore him, seriously don't understand why people bother getting provoked.
@@ItchiestBum Best comment here. When me and my friends stopped playing DS3 back then, the dude still ran around for years softbanning streamers day by day. I would find it funny if he was JUST trolling. But he literally deleted peoples accounts or softbanned them. He simply enjoyed that.
Me and my friends got run over by this dude , I got softbanned and sent to NG+ which effectively ruined my playthrough with friends .
We had to use 3rd party plugins to try to detect people using hacks and kick them when getting invaded
I personally couldn't give less of a fuck what his motivations were/are or what he actually did. Hacking a game and screwing with other players is maidenless behavior and you will never convince me otherwise (I say "you" in the general sense)
People like that can barely be called human
@@thecatinthehatwithabat9903 human garbage?
What I find funny is he has an anime profile picture
So, is there a reason you said nothing at all about him Eggheading, cursing and equipment breaking new players on Dark Souls Remastered for an age, with a stated purpose of making people rage quit the game, which he in fact had streamed multiple sessions of? Like, that kind of dick move is at the very least "delete character" worthy, never mind people whom don't know any better and try to struggle further into the game like that.
Plot twist. Only waifu is secretly Malcom
Praising somebody for ruining Souls games PVP must be a new low for your channel, how can you whitewash his actions when he's directly responsible for "Just ALTF4 if you get invaded" or people ALTF4ing when you drop items
I am not praising him. This is an unbiased documentary.
And I can't for the hell of me even remotely imagine how the word "whitewashed" crossed your mind when writing that comment.
"Maybe someday he will be back to entertain us once again with his whacky hacking shenanigans".This sentence is not whitewashing him ruining the community,peoples savegames or even softbanning them?Your video is really soft on his misdeeds and mostly shows him doing whacky stuff.
Next time are you planning on doing a video on people using the DS3 exploit to send you into NG+ and lock their savegame and call them funny whacky hackers?
I just perceive this video as really positive on reynolds,when in truth he is just a douche ruining the online feature of one of the best game series and you enabling him by giving him a platform to portray himself as a misunderstood poor person.
@@Tec12122 Beautifully stated.
Shitstains like reynolds are why the game's online features were locked out for almost a full year. There's nothing "whacky" about those "shenanigans."
@@OnlyWaifuYT I would believe that more if you weren't going around liking all the comments that are praising him.
@@OnlyWaifuYT21:56
she simped over him as if he was some sort of ingenious cheat inventor
guy just crashed peoples games n thought it was fun
This video disgusts me. trying to redeem a cheater because its all fun and games, but when ign used a glitch u were fuming ( pure hypocrisy ).
The fact that he tried to justify it by saying it was to prove to the game devs that it was possible proves he went to far and was likely lying to save his ass. He could have just opened two different characters had them eventually meet up and "PVP" to see if the other character got soft banned. Since he is a hacker I doubt he that cant open the game on different computers or something and even then if he wants to test something like that it's only ok if he does it to himself doing it to a bunch of others because it will save him some time and money but still get the word out by costing so many other people their time and money ain't ok. It's a damn game not life or death. He did not need to cost so many people hours of their lives. And potentially cause them to have to buy a whole new copy just to be able to play the game fairly on a different account.
Infact this grade A dumbass could have tried to give the files for the hacked dagger among other things he did, to the game devs anonymously and told them what it could do and why soft banning is an issue. He did not need to go that far period.
He straight-up admitted he just likes to stir up shit. What disgusts me is how many other people are completely okay with him doing it.
We live in a society that has normalized bullying.
did...you watch the video? he litteraly said it himself that "oh the excuse that i'm doing it to show the flaws and bla bla bla i just did it for fun and to make people mad" also litteraly in the video that you're commenting on it states how the softbans were fake and just lies from redditors the only time he actually was able to softban people was 1 week in ds3 like watch the video first
@@superman91111111 Yes yes I did and think about what ur saying and re-read what I said and what was said in the video. The soft bans stilled happened and he likely would have kept doing it if they hadn't been fixed, also I was talking about it from a general logical stand point regarding all scenarios that we were presented with and even stated how I could tell he was covering his ass, either way the guy shouldn't be allowed to play the game at this point other than against other cheaters, they should soft IP ban his account so he stays in the servers that keep hackers at bay from other people, because at the end of the day he is a troll and not everyone wants to deal with their shit and u cant blame em for that. And letting him and people like him play at all is being nice far more nice than they deserve considering he did go as far to soft ban some people while he could and cause them to lose hours apon hours of progress and lock them into hacker servers when they are not even a hacker. That's not being funny it's being an ass whole for quiet literally no reason other than to be mean and because they can, no one has a right to act that way.
@@riverlee8074 so from what i'm hearing is that you want people that like to troll and such to be set aside and removed from others so everybody can have a fucking safe space...or maybe and just hear me out here...grow some fucking balls the trolling lasts like what a minute and then you can go about your day oh and guess what...soft bans litteraly last like a month or less if you appeal to them hell i've been a victim of the softban cheat during that 1 week...know what i did?...i appealed it to fromsoft and they unbanned me 2 days later litteraly that quick but seriously...f**k you for saying oh he shouldn't be allowed to play the game at this point...hes a troll...hes having fun his way and just because you don't like it he should be ip banned thats the most soyboy,childish,i need a safespace sensitive thing i've ever heard in response to a troll who if you encounter litteraly is only a bother for a fucking minute or if you ALT+F4 litteraly seconds witch i'm sure is so precious
@@MichaelTheRead jesus christ people are sensitive its not bullying its not like he picks one person and does it only to them over and over and over again every day for weeks no he trolls them for what like a minute or if its a streamer he trolls them for half an hour maybe an hour i swear you all want things to be rainbows and puppies...and this is coming from an icelander...we're litteraly known for how peacefull we are and even i think you're to much
Thats the dragon king lazer
Bro likes being an awful person towards people 🤦♂️
We love in a society
The flame of malding
He didn't softban anyone permanently, it's harmless and funny
@@Roundy346well it’s one of those things
I seriously question why people consider this fun
Some glitches are funny as hell. However, game having bad anti-cheat or none at all isn't a good reason to grief people or causing others to get soft banned.
I think Malcolm reynolds is a Peter puffer.
Even if he wasn't actually banning people. The fact that he gets joy from cheating and griefing people still makes him seem like a jerk in my opinion. Trolling the afk farmers was nice but doesn't make up the years and years of being a douche to ppl not to mention in ds3 he did in fact force ppls games into ng+ that would break their game save 100's of hours on a character, oh well.
he was banning people
@@ungone7133 This is literally not true lol, Malcolm has regularly recorded every single session and its been proven his actions have NEVER gotten somebody banned. Keep spreading lies, kiddo.
It’s a video game plus that never happened anyways
@@JustAGooseman show me the proof.
@@JustAGooseman killing someones game save is still fucked
On the one hand, pretty funny to see game journalists/redditors run with a lie.
On the other hand, this is sorta like Malcolm going into a movie theater, yelling “fire!”, and then being like “Ha! You didn’t even *check* if there was a fire! There was never a fire lol. Except for that one week where I actually *did* start fires”.
Based take. Summed this situation up perfectly
This is accurate
But there IS a fire, aka, the souls series anticheat being nonexistent... Also the comparison to fire is too extreme, not like he put anyone in any danger. Even the hackers/wreckers from old counter strike days that'd upload viruses to your computer and destroy your windows entirely didn't put anyone in any actual risk, although they did cause a ton more frustration and possibly cost people a pretty penny and possibly even cut their income if their computer had work related stuff... But simply destroying your game? Yeah, it's on the developers, and no matter how horrid the hacking, as long as it doesn't harm your computer, all it does in the end of the day is show how incompetent the developers are, which can only be solved by change and raising the bar.
Bro I've seen you on multiple takes just stop dude. The souls games have never been that huge of an issue with hackers. We just hate this one in particular because he literally fucked with your game and could give you a corrupted save. Stop riding the guy so hard and trying to blame other people. The point wasn't that he hacked, the point was that he was a dick.@@mkzhero
@@mkzheroShut up.
I used to think malcolm was cool but I grew out of it.
Surprised it even took you that long
Why he is not cool then?
I used to think malcolm was boring but I grew into it
being an aspiring programmer I actually love it lmao if from never tried to prevent this they should be blamed
@@originzz it's definitely interesting from a technical side and he's who got me into Elden Ring modding but the trolling I just can't get behind.
If you think afk farmers dont deserve runes, then: have you ever played bloodborne? If your answer is yes, then you probably know about the living failures glitch and the cum chalice.
Fromsoft should just sue Malcolm into oblivion.
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I honestly can't understand how anyone can support a pile of crap like this guy, or any other hackers in an online game. Nobody gave their consent to have their gaming experience be ruined by a cheater. I would not send him death threats, but he totally had it coming. People who cheat just to fuck up other players' experience should get a nasty lawsuit in their face. This one is no exception.
The only exceptions are visual hacks and creating modded game versions.
Totally agree! I couldn't have explained it better myself!
He's annoying but he definitely didn't deserve death threats or a lawsuit for just being a troll and running cheat scripts in a game with no anticheat lol
@@TheArnoldificationbut he got people banned and ruined their experience by killing the boss himself. You are a D1 glazer
@@CallMeMitochondriaYou have to do a LOT more than hack in an online game to deserve death threats. He deserves fitting punishment, tho
@@CallMeMitochondria do you check video? you can't ban people without inventory injection
The original Dung Eater
Teaching AFKers a lesson does not redeem him for going out of his way to ruin everyone's game experiences. And then he either lies to Kotaku or he lies to his viewers, which shows a real lack of integrity on his part. All in the name of a little short term entertainment.
It doesn't matter if he didn't actually softban people, he still sapped the fun out of the game for people that just wanted to actually play.
Maybe if he did it specifically to make FeomSoft do something about cheating online, that would be one thing. But he's simply nothing short of absurd, both in his actions and motivation. Guy like him deserves an IP ban from FromSoft's servers, even if he "doesn't grief anymore due to lack of a reason to do it".
It's nowhere near as bad as doxxing or the death threats, but he still actively made thr $60 experience less enjoyable for the more innocent targets of his fuckery.
As bad as the doxxing and death threats were, you HAVE to admit that he earned that kind of treatment from his victims. Play stupid games and you win stupid prizes.
What's the point of messing with afk players
You can teach an AFK with a frenzied stone. Works on friendlys
@@raycardomcquirter7877it's more like not something I'd condone but not something I'm gonna feel sorry for him over or think he has a point when he's like "they threaten me over a game". Nah dude, hacked PCs can be a major fucking problem for people, so putting them through that experience of not knowing if their game, their PC is fucked, if any of their info is compromised is just as serious as a threat in retaliation.
He invaded me once in DS3.
I did what every sane person do. alt f4
You saved yourself lol
love watching this guys stuff its funny
Damn, I remember having the stormruler +25 spawend directly in my inventory. Alt f4, going offline and assigning sell value to it through CE and selling to the shrine handmaid prevented the ban
@@chaplainfattyif it was +5 it would've been a legal item
@@thediabolicalraisin8953 hm, ok, but how tf do you get a +25 in ds3? It isn't even possible
@@chaplainfattyit's a hack
@@chaplainfattyyes thats literally what he is saying, he had to get rid of it to avoid being banned.
@@chaplainfattyif you modify the parameters of the game it is
22:01 Yeah I think modding is exciting because changing written line items can have dramatic visual effects. Playing the game is good, using the tilde key is better, but best is the game files.... I actually resist and hate games that don't let you see what their files are.
21:02 denormalise accepting the excuse of provocation
Ok but the real question is could Malcom Reynolds’ Dark Souls/Elden Ring character beat Goku?
We don’t call them hackers in TF2, we call them “cheaters” or “script kitties”
Tbf some on dark souls cheaters are very good with software so some of them deserve the title of a hacker. Weird thing to give credit to such behaviors but it is what it is.
roblox kids are the same as tf2 players but 2x less funnier and are probably in their 30s or 14 years old
back on the xbox 360, we called them modders.
As a TF2 player "we live together" in this situation and i agree to therm
Or sniperbots
hes a fckn legend
He's a loser, but at least he has enough of a spine to admit he does it simply because he wants attention. Most will deny and pretend they have some self righteous cause
He's still an N word.
He literally did pretend to have some self-righteous cause when it came to the whole softbanning thing.
He still is pretending its self righteous and as if whqt he did is not wrong at all
I don’t know what is more pathetic
That he’s proud of being a loser that wants attention or if he pretended like he didnt want attention but is still very much a loser
@@exmachina2600 that part of the video was so cringe to me. Totally gave off the vibe of a guy that unironically watches motivational joker quote videos
when you interview people do you use the tts or just dub your real voice?
I really want to see the reaction of people who think Malcolm is funny when they get invaded by him
They are a lot, and very funny to see Malcolm fucking fliying and spelling things in the hair with spells
Otzdarva is one you are lookinh for
@@Sombrita00not everyone had the humor of a 7 year old tho
@@DemonInPain tell me then, how is your ellegant humor, your high class standards of what is it a joke
@@Sombrita00not laughing at people getting their files corrupted. Still unbelievable that people applaud others like him
this is your only video that I disliked, I enjoy your content and attitude in general but I draw the line on cheaters. giving him a platform and attention makes idiots like him even worse and confident in their actions. any cheater messing with people in any game is 99% of the time are doing it to grief people, to make sure they dont enjoy their game. 1% is funny cheaters doing weird harmless stuff, but they’re really rare.
sometimes i see cheaters supporting their idiotic actions and comparing it to invasion experience, by all means no, you’re literally breaking the game to make the other party suffer.
Was the soft-locking -- whereby the victim would end up trapped in a permanent death loop, potentially ruining hundreds of hours put into the game -- also a hoax? If not, there is no question about whether this guy is an irreverent trickster, or just an asshole, no matter what self-serving rationalization he could come up with.
those permanent death loops as she explained in the video were easily fixed by...turning off the game and turning it back on
@@superman91111111still a shitty thing to force onto others
@@Rahnonymous hes a troll you expect him to do good things to others?
@@superman91111111Are you referring to 9:10? That seems to be the only point where this video mentions restarting the game as a fix. In fact, the video doesn't really talk about the ER death loop soft lock, though you do see an example of it near the beginning.
IIRC, you actually had to do a very precise set of inputs at the exact right instant in order to get out of the loop. I doubt most people this guy preyed on knew about this fix, if it was even discovered when the soft locks were going on.
At the end of the day, the guy was/is trash, and no amount of soft peddling his antics, as this video does, is going to change that. How so? The dude put links to "Malcolm Reynolds" merch on his YT channel so he could profit off his scummy behavior.
@@luxinterior54 yes, every Souls game has this safety mechanic that enables "wrong warps", that's what the speedrunners call it when they use it for skips. It's basically a reset of your spawn location to the default spawn location of the current area. I got sent into a death loop in DS3 and the ONLY way out of it (it would endlessly reoccur upon reloading the safe file from the main menu and could otherwise only be helped by loading an oder safe file if you had backed it up) was performing said "wrong warp" which is done by quitting out of the game in this very small time frame between your spawn and your death, so the game can't register your location and respawns you at said default spawn point. I would consider myself a DS tryhard so I was able to pull those inputs off but it took a couple of tries and I can definitely see someone uninstalling the game over stuff like that.
During my days in DS3 I met a couple of actually funny hackers who would cosplay as "bosses" with modded movesets and spells and would fight you, but actually give you a chance to beat them. I don't see why you would nuke people to drop their framerate to 0 and eventually crash their PCs, send them into death loops or getting them softbanned (I know of a couple cases of this happening in DS3... perhaps all during those weeks mentioned, where this forcing items into someones inventory became popular...). Btw. back then I heard rumors of Malcolm sharing the force item script on his Discord server to all the wannabe hacker kids who wanted to softban people for fun.
Whenever people from my community reported stuff like that, I advised everyone to use their alt accounts for a while... I have at least ten of Malcolm's accounts on my block list on Steam. In my opinion this is absolute shit tier behaviour and should not be promoted or "reasoned with". I don't understand why someone would feed his ego except using his name for views...
This kinda shit is why I play in offline mode
If he became aware of the remote code execution that was present in all souls game before it was patched, do you think he'd abuse it to brick people's computers?
Yes, but only "for the irony" and to satisfy his antihero syndrome.
@@SphereS7 W
@@FartSticksXDlolglazing goes crazy
@@Francisco-yf1pj Nuh uh
Malky is coming...
Even without softbanning people, hacked invasions are still a problem. At least in this sense.
To clarify hacked invasions like noob pyromancer are fine. I'm talking insta kill hackers and the like.
So in that sense he's still just as bad as any other hacker, doesn’t matter how flashy you die.
And one more thing. At 1:09 was that a permanent softlock? If so thats even worse, but you've only mentioned temporary setbacks so i have to question what's happening in full context.
I don't know if that softlock is permanent, to be honest. I forgot to ask him.
Its fun how most hackers are the exact same. Just insanely desperate for attention
Love the ffx music tbh
I only have one objection: it is not at all obvious what is and isn't possible with hacks to a non-expert.
Anything my friend
@@originzz impossible. they spent like 3 days on their anti-cheat software. it's ironclad.
Anything...everything. With Hacking you can essentially rewrite the laws of reality to whatever you wish them to be.
malcolm reynolds is actually not that bad, but the invalid game data sucks
Giving him this much attention is exactly why he started. This video will no doubt inspire more hackers to ruin games for people. Well done. Well done.
I think its better than just doing nothing and let people be totally unaware of that guy's existence
@@lordvader5684 hackers do their hacking for attention. Giving them attention makes them multiply.
I highly doubt a 2023 youtube video is why he's been doing this for over a decade.
@@ImaTroper it’s actually the rest of the videos that come up when I search his name on RUclips. That’s probably the reason.
@@ImaTroper this video is a part of the clout he wanted. Cheaters cheat because they are sad af people with no friends or people in their life and no life in general, so they seek attention by provoking and frustrating other people through games because in real life equivalent of this situation someone would beat the shit out of them already.
Yeah but what about the invalid save data or the perma death soft lock?
IDK why you made fun of the kotaku people but literally did the same thing by not questioning anything. Zero self awareness
Eh, dude will be back. Hopefully next time he doesn't stir up the crazies the way he did in Elden Ring. He did more damage than hes admitted to just didnt stream it.
He's a powertripping script kiddie who probably doesnt get to spend alot of time with his friends.
My characters were Hacked 2 times in Ds2. I was doing some PVP in the Brotherhood of Blood arena and eventually was matched with the said hacker. As soon as the duel started, he teleported my character to his and locked me in an endless backstab animation. Eventually I Alt + F4 the game and when I logged in again I saw the message that accused me of hacking and my character was locked out from co-op and PVP forever. Turns out, he maxed my level over the maximum value allowed by the game, tricking it to believe that I was the one hacking. Now, my account wasn't banned, thankfully, but loosing a character with which I've been playing after many hours really got to me. No matter how you put it. You have no business in ruining some other player gameplay and no matter what you say your excuses or reasons are, if you find pleasure in spoiling other people fun, you shouldn't be allowed to play games.
The people brown-nosing him also would have kissed Al Capone's crack for opening a soup kitchen.
what an actual loser. people like this dont deserve recognition they deserve harsh punishment, it doesnt matter if theyre doing it "for the lolz" or anything theyre all cheating scum who dont know how to properly play games. and before u say it yes the ones who join streams to make "miniboss" fights are actually fun and cool, unlike the usual no life dorks some people run into
Also, the good old binoculars of bleed in DS2.
Exactly.....I agree 100%
Nah. People are quick to blame others, but never look at the situation objectively, ultimately it's the fault of the developer. Putting a game out in a state that allows for that is like selling a car with no safety belts and airbags, and then blaming deaths on anyone but the manufacturer. Form's coding is sloppy subpar shit, has been for well over a decade, but the fans will defend them and the games to no end and pretend it's not. If an online/semi online game allows for another player to come and destroy your entire save, it's the dev has failed miserably
Not gonna lie... People like this give off really big narcissist vibes. Like you said, trolling for a show or just the spectical of it all is one thing. Invading someone and forcing them to stop playing even if only for a few minutes to reset their game is kinda shitty. Trying to make yourself sound like the super villain of a community by spreading rumors you can ban people is extreme levels of narcissistic behavior tho. Your actively trying to create a negative image of yourself and promote fear of loss in a gaming community for kicks? Sorry but I i genuinely don't understand that. To me atleast its like those RUclipsrs who run up to people in public places, yell in their ear and run off saying "its just a prank bro chill, why so serious?" Like I don't see the appeal of it as both the "prankster" or the audience its intended for. I remember seeing a video on fallout 76 where a hacker stole this little kids legendary gear and the kid broke down crying since it took him and his dad hours to get together. How does this stuff not make you feel like a POS? Not to mention as stated before by others your kinda feeding these people the attention they're addicted to by making a video on one of them. Rather best to let them die a slow quite death by boredom in obscurity then feed the next generation of trolls wouldn't you say?
I don't think defending Malcolm or praising him is a good thing. He went out of his way to ruin the *paid* experience of thousands of people, as well as corrupt/break their games to a point where it became unplayable. If he wanted to "send a message" to Fromsoft he could've done it in literally any other way than just fucking with countless people as well as on streams and in videos.
The worst and most hypocritical part is he uploads on his channel complaining about hackers ruining his game and killing him, yet i'm pretty sure he was one of the people who invaded other people's worlds and killed them with a hack, and set it to where they'd spawn at the very bottom of the world at all times, making their game pretty much unplayable.
I also have screenies of him being an absolute creep towards my ex
If he really thinks that he's sending a message, then it's not working because From's anticheat still sucks actual balls and has not gotten better. He's been doing this for ages and it's changed nothing.
And I'm sorry, but does he really think he's important enough to get from to listen to him?? He's a sub-30k RUclipsr that doesn't even speak their native fucking language, and he's an incredibly controversial-at-best, downright-hated-at-worst figure in the community to those who do know who he is. So even if he was trying to send a message, it never would have been listened to.
If he REALLY wanted to send a message, he'd have done so in a way that didn't harm the experience of other people. That excuse was obviously just him trying to seem like a better person than he really is.
I was going to go fight malenia with my friend before getting to the correct place some hacker named guys invaded me and was invincible but kept making my character do animations from certain boss throw attacks to get me to malenia I respect him for that lmao it did no damage
got hacked once by someone in DS1 who destroyed my PC and forced me to buy a new one.
but I love the create your own spell tutorial.
How is that even possible?
@@lordvader5684 The game essentially connects your computers directly, with information being written onto either pc, allowing one knowledgeable enough to mess with some code to brick your pc.
@@BoneWalker I didn't think an exploiter directly breaking your hardware behind a screen even possible, which makes that guy even worse than he already is
@@lordvader5684yeah there was a problem in DS1 and in DS3 if I remember correctly. I don’t know how they did it but your pc would be bricked. I even heard that consoles could get bricked.
@@achmahnsch Sounds like some government level tech
Oh yeah. I remember that guy. The definition of human trash.
Got me banned and corrupted my save file. Was the last day I ever played ds3
Edit: also shame on you for condoning and supporting his actions.
I was playing with my friends ds 2 once, I see Malcom Reynolds has invaded pop up, I start shouting "NOOOOOOOOOOO" my friends had no idea what was happening until we all got petrified and died, it was glorious
I've read through some of your responses to critical comments. You call this a "unbiased documentary"
But it really isn't, if it were to be unbiased you should have gotten some people affected by him to speak as well. At this point you're just letting him ramble on and build up a defence for himself without opposition.
I like your other stuff though 👍
His softbanning spree is why I don't like him.
Going in and being a silly hacker is one thing, legit screwing over people's hard work because you just have beef with streamers is another thing. Yes, it's fun to tease streamers because they're bottom of the barrel; they don't deserve to have a save destroyed though. You're not doing anyone favors, you're just making excuses to cause grief. I would at least hope the guy had enough balls to admit that was his goal, but of course he talks like some spineless nobody.
He did say it was only possible for one or two weeks. Which if he's being honest and I don't see any real reason for him to straight up lie about it, while admittedly shitty and not fun for people it happened to it seems like the actual number of people it legit happened to is greatly exaggerated.
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The fact that he did it is the problem.
You know how hard it was to find fightclubs or invasions after that nonsense? Everyone who enjoyed the pvp scene basically jumped ship after that series of softbanning invasions because people didn't want to deal with worrying whether or not they backed up their save that day. It was more prolific than what he says because others started to copycat him.
He is literally the start of the "Just alt+f4" mindset that people who get invaded have nowadays.
He is no hero and nearly killed souls pvp.
@@drunkenprayer8390 In DS3 it was only possible for a couple of weeks. He was eggheading/cursing/weapon and armour breaking people barely five minutes into their first run of DS Remake. And he was streaming that crap for hours and hours.
@@drunkenprayer8390 No one will pick up dropped items on FS games and that is mostly thanks to him and others like him. It's pathetic what people do for attention.
@@drunkenprayer8390 "Which if he's being honest and I don't see any real reason for him to straight up lie about it"
Except for the fact that he's been lying about everything the whole time. That's a good enough reason to be very dubious about his so called honesty.
So is this a video praising this guy or condemning him? Because he definitely should be condemned for the shit he's doing
Sigh... Sure, it is funny. But I hate griefing. And Malcolm punishing AFK farmers is hardly compensation. It's like being happy a serial killer killed a political extremist, like, there's still a serial killer around. Overall, I have no respect for this guy and think whatever joy he can bring some people is outweighted by the bad taste he leaves of plenty of people's mouth.
Yea him saying he didn't actually do anything really does NOT convince me he is scum anyways bc hacks why tf would I believe him
So the man goes into games with the express purpose of messing up people's day and saves, and people are cheering for him? Y'all are weird.
The only legit way to hack is to create a cool boss and act as one, like people did in ds2 and ds3. That shit was legit great.
He is the reason i didn't bother to play any souls game online on pc, getting invaded once is cool, getting invaded twice is annoying, but by the third time I just could not be bothered.
Yeah i'll admit it was funny the first time, but it gets old fucking fast. And while it's true that this is mainly fromsoft's fault, being a cunt to the community doesn't make you cool.
Also he was the reason why dark souls 3 invasions almost disappeared since it got to the point were most people would alt f4 the moment the saw an invasion message.
This is Ai? oof
Edit: As much as respect a good joke, I can’t get behind him cheating so flagrantly. Even though the softbanning was basically a myth and he was only out to do a bunch of trolling, I just can’t applaud him for exploiting the flimsy anti-cheat software. Still, it is all just a game in the end. And as a message to Waifu, I have only this much to say. I admit when I’m wrong, and my bad. GG WP very fun fight
Did you finish watching? That was not the real reason he did it lol
@@OnlyWaifuYTFair enough. Poor choice of words, my bad. I can definitely get behind him screwing with AFK farmers and trolling tons of overreactionaries, like me in this instance. Tell you what, seeing as I did finish this, I’ll alter the original comment to give my full opinion rather than the one formed at the time of writing it 😅
why didn’t they fix their flimsy software if it’s so vulnerable lmao
@@originzz Because they either don't have the ability to get even a somewhat decent anti-cheat system in or they cannot be bothered to pay for it.
@@OnlyWaifuYTa hacker nonetheless, nothing to applaud there...
Why i eare Giorno theme
There are only two types of hackers I have ever experienced- fun hackers and toxic hackers. I'm sorry, his actions are too malicious in nature and his reasoning in an excuse reeking of bullshit.
I dunno, I only play off-line.
Ver a dalas en un video en ingles es muy inesperado xd
Ah yes. I remember being stuck in an infinite loop of DS3 cutscenes until he got bored and decided to permanently damage my GPU. I hope someone hacks his wife’s holes while he watches from the closet in a Superman suit.
if he'd only used any account-affecting/file-corrupting stuff on *other* hackers, he might have been better regarded by a lot of players...but apparently *almost* none of that actually happened anyway, if I understood correctly. And mocking Kotaku and Baneposting are certainly OK in my book!
Imagine actually being this pathetic he makes twinks Gankers and afk farme look like saints
just saying threes a reason cheats in online games are a bankable offence. its just being chaotic and disruptive for ones self enjoyment. If you cheat and do "good" with it than i guess whatever but its still cheating and looked down upon. Cheating in games like pokemon roms or whatever is almost a must I'm not grinding 30 hours on a game that's 20 years old but to essentially grief in an online game just to be an annoyance your parents raised you wrong
He’s basically that one cartoon character that likes bugging people by randomly dropping anvils over their heads
Except it's not, nor is it funny.
@@MichaelTheRead Oh cmon you gotta admit some of the things he does are rather clever. He even said himself that the whole, "softbanning" people thing only happened once and although it's hard to trust the word of a serial cheater its worth to mention that he mainly only targeted streamers. I never ran into the guy and even if i did i would know how to avoid it via throwing myself off a ledge or alt f4ing. To me he's the type of person who would throw laxatives into the punch bowl at a party
@@HunterBloodHunterBloodnah, he mixes laxatives in one, cyanide in the other and forces you to drink one.
Dudes swiper from Dora
@@HunterBloodHunterBlood i hope someday he will ruin your playthrough in the next souls game )
Malcolm debería invadir en el seamless 😂😂😂
Malcolm is in his 30s for real
ok i am all for a little trolling, but once you go after a player's ability to play i draw the line
All I gotta say is imagine cheating lmao, that is the most loser thing you can possibly do and to just go get a job maybe put my fries in the bag too
I love Easy Anti-cheat making my game running slower, crashing it and still time to time seeing people reporting about cheaters in the game.
OnlyWaifu, im just here to say, even tho this video is kinda old now, 15:10 you really did it , you used the ffx blitz ball theme there... Bro you just triggered some old memory in me jesus.
im safe on PS5 right?
Anything for clout, likes, followers..,etc. Dont mess with a game truly love and actually play. Jerks are the reason why I stopped watching youtube and tiktok, nothing but bullying garbage. I swear ruining the game for others is low and disgusting. But anything for views right?
This guy can’t even win with the current strength gugs build so he’s gotta cheat 😅
19:00 time stamp for you so people can stop yapping in the comments. Dudes just tryna have fun, and knows how to get snowflakes upset on Reddit.
Malcolm Reynaldo’s desperately trying to generate attention (likely cause of a lack of a fatherly one) and trying establish control over his public perception is downright childish.
He’s very good, that’s obvious, but this was brought upon himself, and he shouldn’t be too surprised. Atleast, he got what he wanted yeah? Death threats and negative attention is sorta what to expect when it comes to angering sweaty fromsoft players who do care about the 100$ they paid for the game experience. And the worst part is the trolling is the lowest medium his talent could be a used for.
he totally can do this on ER. it just happened to me and a buddy like 2 weeks ago and i had no idea all of this was a thing. it wasnt him it was someone else but they must be getting by doing it somehow
Man, it’s crazy how some sick people like this exist that do this out of attention. You don’t think “hey I’m ruining the game for others” and instead smile as you reassure yourself what you’re doing is right. These people remind me of the no lifes that simp everyday Reddit mod stereotype 😂
The greatest thing he's done was grief Hasan when he was playing Dark Souls 3 and rekt'd his shit while Hasan was just mindless.
And with all the evidence him and other hackers still run rampant to this day. Real nice
Hacking is okay as long as you do it offline or BRING GENUINE JOY TO OTHERS. Other than that you're just a douchebag, a disappointment of your parents, a failure of existence,...
Yeah sure it'll be fun and all to you until somebody decides to make it personal irl. And if that is to happen, it won't end well.