Elden Ring differs from other FromSoftware titles in a multitude of ways. Perhaps the difference players will spot most easily is the fact that Elden Ring is an open-world game, allowing the player to wander wherever they please as soon as they step foot out of the Cave of Knowledge. Elden Ring's exploration lets players take on the task of becoming Elden Lord at their own pace, which means the opportunities to grind out levels and farm runes are nearly endless.
In Elden Ring, then, it is entirely possible for a character to be completely over-leveled for an encounter or boss fight. However, one player may have taken that leveling up in Elden Ring to an extreme, as they have hit the max level. User Cafenn94 on Reddit managed to achieve Elden Ring's max level, which is a state where every attribute is maxed out at 99, after 580 hours of play, showing the moment they reached level 713 in a video online.
Cafenn94 displayed all their maxed out attributes with the famed Giga Chad featuring alongside them. Giga Chads have been somewhat tied to Elden Ring since the game's release, due to players creating their own version of the meme using the character creator. Cafenn94's video then shows credits rolling, implying they have truly completed the game now that they have reached the highest level possible.
Despite some of the comments in Cafenn94's post praising the Elden Ring player, others were suspicious of how they reached level 713, as it appeared they had used a glitch to duplicate Lord's Runes. Lord's Runes are a late-game item in Elden Ring that give the player 50,000 runes when consumed. There are only five in existence in the game, and are found in multiple locations across the map, with a couple being dropped by Elden Ring's Erdtree Avatars. This then would imply that with there being so few Lord's Runes, that Cafenn94 has glitched their way to the max level. Going further into the comments of the Reddit post, Cafenn94 admitted they duplicated the Lord's Runes in order to save time.
Whether this counts as a legitimate way to reach level 713 in Elden Ring is up to the individual player, but Cafenn94 is not the only person to have reached an incredibly high level in the game. WWE Superstar Randy Orton revealed in April that his Elden Ring character was level 527, which is a couple of hundred levels shy of the cap, but still an impressive number.
Elden Ring is out now for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X.