Sometimes, the most effective strategy to win a fight is to be the largest, toughest badass on the table. However, there are other occasions when you should keep your head down and do nothing. An Elden Ring Runes player did just that, pretending to play the role of an NPC, when their game was attacked by a different player. And eventually, their crazy strategy paid off.
As with previous FromSoftware RPGs, the newly released open-world in Elden Ring allows players to play in the environments of others. Once you have invaded someone else's game you can follow them to the end and eliminate them. Easy enough, but it gets more complicated when somebody decides to dress as an adversary and pretend to be an NPC.
After putting on an armor suit of the NPC their chosen target, they walked to a particular spot in which the character they were cosplaying…