Right now, the Genshin Impact community is experiencing anot...

Right now, the Genshin Impact community is experiencing another wave of panic due to cheaters who allegedly «delete objects and NPCs from the map.»

I want to reassure everyone by confirming that this is not true. Specifically, the permanent deletion of NPCs and objects is impossible. However, other, less frightening things are real, and many players suffer from them.

What threats do co-op cheaters currently pose?
1) Death Loop – Your character gets teleported under the map. The server automatically kills you once you reach a certain negative height.
2) Vacuum – Hordes of enemies will spawn on you. In reality, they don’t appear out of nowhere but are teleported from the surrounding area. That’s why enemies from Sumeru will appear if you’re in Sumeru. This is actually a very common feature in many cheats.
3) Damage Achievement – This is the only permanent harm you can suffer from encountering a cheater.

How does this work?
As you may have noticed, points 1) and 2) involve the word «teleport,» and that’s no coincidence.
When you play in co-op, every player can deal damage, push/pull enemies, and perform similar actions. The server trusts all players equally, and this is what hackers exploit to execute Death Loop and Vacuum.
Using this, a malicious player can even move «immovable» objects.

The good news is that the game server does not save the positions of «gadgets» (interactable objects). Therefore, all changes made this way are reset after a full relog (if you exit using Alt+F4, you’ll need to wait a few minutes for the server to disconnect you).

But what about the victim who supposedly lost the new Abyss and Katheryne?
Most likely, there is no victim. The HoYoLAB account that made this post was created 8 minutes before posting about the cheater (account creation time: 1751039373, post creation time: 1751039892). It’s highly probable that the cheater themselves is trying to further promote their actions by recycling the old Kaveh controversy.

If anyone has actually been affected by this cheater and their NPCs/objects aren’t returning, you can contact MeroMero via private messages on the channel or through other means.

Why is the cheater doing this?
To promote their TikTok account. They’re counting on people discussing their actions on Reddit and HoYoLAB, thus gaining a new audience.

That’s why I urge everyone not to blow this topic out of proportion and not to give the cheater the attention they so desperately want.