Now that Elden Ring has thoroughly disappointed me, I have been going through the modding scene of the Dark Souls series and people are doing some really cool shit that I didn't even know was possible with the current set of tools.
You shouldn't play any of these mods on your actual Steam account unless you don't mind playing in the cheater's pool. If you care about that sort of thing, make an alt and family share because you will be soft-banned and matched with cheaters in the unmodded game.
You shouldn't play any of these mods on your actual Steam account unless you don't mind playing in the cheater's pool. If you care about that sort of thing, make an alt and family share because you will be soft-banned and matched with cheaters in the unmodded game.
DARK SOULS REMASTERED
Dark Souls: Nightfall is a complete fan-made sequel to Dark Souls taking place after the Dark Lord ending. This is by far the most extensive and ambitious of any of the mods listed in this thread. Nightfall features a new story, new characters and bosses, new world map (built mostly from the existing pieces), and much more. It’s basically a brand new Souls game built using the Dark Souls engine and assets. Combat will be faster-paced, against a mixture of familiar and unfamiliar foes, with brand new voiced NPCs and side-quests.
A demo is available with a full release delayed last minute before the intended release so the full release should be around the corner.
Download the demo
Some cool stuff I found on their twitter feeds about it.
Omnidirectional Bloodborne-style dodging
https://twitter.com/user/status/1360444424480841730
Bloodborne health recovery
https://twitter.com/user/status/1320916925246066691
Bloodlust combat state
https://twitter.com/meowmaritus/status/1320401597881589760
Day & Night cycle
https://twitter.com/user/status/1362597569667465218
First 18 minutes.
Dark Souls: Daughters of Ash is a massive re-imagining and expansion of Dark Souls by the primary contributor of Nightfall. It features new bosses, enemies, characters, storylines, weapons, and items, expanded lore, and many new secrets. It offers both modified and brand new content, much of which cannot be discovered in one play-through.
Daughters of Ash has more overall content than the original game and is much more complex, with more dynamic story events and branching paths to take throughout the game. It contains no new game assets (e.g. character models, map assets, dialogue recordings, visual effects) but expands and refreshes the experience by modifying the game's event scripts, placement data, and entity logic.
DARK SOULS II SCHOLAR OF THE FIRST SIN
Dark Souls 2: Seeker of Fire is a massive overhaul mod that touches almost every aspect of the game. It's like Daughters of Ash for the first game but much more extensive. The developer didn't do a good job summarizing it but it's very good and feels like the game Scholar of the First Sin should've always been.
Dark Souls 2: Flames of Old is a mod currently in development by a professional lighting artist to recreate Dark Souls 2 prior to the downgrade where they gutted the lighting system out of the game last minute, thus removing the intended atmosphere as a result. This isn't just some ReShade preset. He's manually adjusting the lighting sources using the Dark Souls Editor and replacing assets. It's very impressive and comes close to the footage prior to the downgrade when it was intended to be next gen only and have an extra year of development.
There's about a dozen videos showcasing his work and this channel uploads the showcases. He's always streaming progress and says it'll release sometime in 2023.
DARK SOULS III
Archthrones is an upcoming overhaul mod for Dark Souls 3 that completely overhauls the structure of the game to be more like Demon's Souls and adds new content such as bosses, locations and world tendency using heavily remixed and repurposed assets from Demon's Souls, Dark Souls, Dark Souls 2, Dark Souls 3, Bloodborne and Sekiro. An alternate story unfolds across five unique worlds, each accessed via the Nexus of Embers.
DEMO AVAILABLE NOW https://www.nexusmods.com/darksouls3/mods/1765
Cinders is an overhaul mod for Dark Souls 3 where almost everything has been modified in some way. Bosses have been reworked and new ones added. Progression is much less linear. New movesets and weapon arts have been added to make several weapons more interesting. Poise is now passive and active 100% of the time, rather than specifically during weapon swings. Magic has been redesigned to operate in a more fluid way. FP naturally regenerates and casting is designed around this.
This is my favorite Dark Souls 3 overhaul mod. The Convergence is balanced far too heavily around magic builds.
The Convergence mod for Dark Souls 3 is an exhaustive overhaul of Dark Souls 3 with dozens of new weapons, hundreds of new spells, extensively revamped areas and maps, improved visuals, new enemies, bosses and much more.
Here's an example of a custom boss (spoilers) https://youtu.be/cL31F9Kuguk
ELDEN RING
The Convergence mod for Elden Ring (Alpha Release) is an exhaustive overhaul of Elden Ring with dozens of new weapons and armor sets, hundreds of new spells, extensively revamped dungeons and maps, improved visuals, new enemies, bosses and much more by the same team behind The Convergence mod for Dark Souls 3.
Relive the quest to become Elden Lord as different factions fight for control of the Lands Between in real time (by the co-creator of Dark Souls Nightfall and Daughters of Ash).
Features
Dozens of enemy factions will dynamically roam and spread through the world, form alliances, and wage wars over territory and resources.
Choose sides, attack strongholds, or take command of one of the seven unique Shardbearer factions.
Enemies hold grudges. A soldier that kills you might steal something from you and carry it halfway across the world, or rise up through the ranks faster. A faction might deploy assassins to find you.
Take on endless new quests that could randomly appear anywhere, including: Monster hunts, Dungeon time attacks, Treasure hunts, Timed "belfry warp" visitations, "Use this equipment only" dungeon challenges, Boss rush gauntlets, and more.
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