Family sharing does not work either just so everyone knows

For anyone still wondering, no this no longer works. seeing as this is publicly a steam guide, they already patched it out. It now checks to see if the saves have been tampered with upon pressing start at all times, not just when you boot it up the first time. Family sharing still works though, so yay

Still works? works with sotfs?

How can I find my profiles before I got banned?

Will it work on DS?

I am inclined to think 3 is happening (remember the VAC episode). Why do I think this?

Let me tell you a story.

A guy found out that if you start the game in Steam Big Picture Mode, you can type in a name longer than the normal character limit. Like an idiot, he emailed Bandai Namco asking if this was OK to do. They told him "Your account is fine for now, but From says they saw unusual activity on your account which warrants further investigation."

He was subsequently softbanned. Let's face it, what probably happened was that by asking, he brought FROM's attention on him for his extra long name and they banned him for that.

The issue here is that, frankly, FROM has no way to detect DS2Fix in and of itself. All their softban code cares about is your character file, AKA SM/SL and certain items you can't possibly have.

And yet some dudes have gotten banned.

So there's three scenarios:

1) Either all of those people are lying and they edited something else that caused softbans.

2) FROM actually implemented some rudimentary anticheat that nobody has found that catches DS2Fix (not likely). DS2FIx is harmless. If it detects DS2Fix in this manner, there is a chance it will also detect and ban for, say, x360ce. Since, let's face it, FROM is not exactly a bastion of PC technical competence. This is not likely, because if this were true scores of hackers would have been banned and they really haven't been.

3) FROM hosed up and are basically banning people at random for imagined infractions, because Europa hasn't been touched yet.

This WILL NOT work, at least not anymore. There is a 100% legit method to remove any sort of restriction no matter how extreme by essentially hiding your "profile login" (which is what the server's "restrictions" on their side is based on) to something random on each and every time you login to the DSII server. But this has not been released publicly yet. Reason being it's quite easy to patch by FROM, being a very big loophole.

As for SoTFS, there's already a working CE table to unsoftban yourself right now. As for DX9 users, my suggestion is wait until the DX9 stealth server files for DX9 are released once they can't be fixed without overhauling the entire security, or wait/hope for the CE guy's to get you a table working asap. Demand means a lot on the CE forums, so the more who ask for a DX9 ver the better and faster your chances.

Good luck, from the scene, yours truly
Jintek

TKS ALOT MAN.

Fuck I have no idea if I was even soft banned. Every time I log in I get 1-5 summon signs on OIK, but after I finish 1 fight they just don't come back unless I log out and back in.