![]() Handy, as the overall difficulty has been boosted a little. On paper, it does a lot of similar things - reshuffling and rebalancing encounters, adding new scripting and events to boss battles and pouring in a bucketload of new rings and spells to collect. If Daughters Of Ash and its sweeping changes was a bit much, Prepare To Die Again: Lordran Reborn might be more to your tastes. ![]() Prepare To Die Again: Lordan Reborn by Lionblade Studio Daughters Of Ash is especially eye-opening if you've played Dark Souls to death, with many surprises I don't want to spoil. While I played the version of the mod for Dark Souls Remastered (which is easier to set up), there is a multiplayer-compatible version for the older Prepare To Die Edition of the game, available here. There's some technical rough edges like objects popping in as you cross room thresholds, but this one is a must-play for Souls fans. ![]() Several boss fights are now multi-phase encounters that reference the mod's new expanded lore, and brutal challenges await those who uncover the dark secret of Anor Londo. The mod wiki (which I recommend skipping on until you've played) says that this was a random event, and results in a tougher fight later on.ĭaughters Of Ash saves a lot of its best for later. The Asylum Demon fight took on a scary twist when a rotund demon butt-stomp plunged us into the basement. Previously easily-reached areas are locked off, and new paths are opened up, making progression through Daughters Of Ash a remarkably fresh-feeling experience. ![]() This time, though, instead of ghost-murder hell I found a quiet, sad place, and an easy path to a far more lively Valley Of Drakes.Įven before that, this mod had surprises for me. The stated goal is to recapture that sense of playing Dark Souls for the first time, and I was certainly on edge the first time I delved into the dead city beneath the Firelink shrine. While unable to add new models or creatures to the game (though some are restored from cut content) or drastically remodel areas, modder Grimrukh has somehow created what feels like an elseworlds version of the game. Probably the largest and most fleshed out of all the mods here, Daughters Of Ash stretches Dark Souls' assets to new limits. "Wikloe" on YouTube challenges a 'new' boss recovered from Dark Souls' cut content vault. Which is fine, as it means you still get to play the biggest and best version on offer. Second, and possibly more important, is that the original release of the game is no longer for sale on any major storefront. The first, and more personal reason, is that I'm on a laptop with a 75hz-native monitor which the older version of the game just doesn't play nice with. Some of you might be asking "why Remastered, and not the original Prepare To Die edition?" Two reasons. Have fun storming Sen's castle! Dark Souls Remastered No mod managers here, sadly, but it's nothing too fiddly sometimes it's just as simple as unzipping something into the game directory and playing as normal. Just make sure you have a clean install of the game in question and follow the installation instructions on the Nexus page. So please, check yourself before you wreck your Souls account standing.īeyond that, installation of these mods is mostly straightforward. Some of the mods featured below have their own online mode lockout features, but not all of them. Before playing any of these mods, please set Steam to Offline Mode. Unless you manually cut the connection, Dark Souls mods for all three games can be picked up by FromSoftware's slightly overzealous cheat detection, resulting in a hard (you can't play at all) or soft (you can only play with other 'cheaters') ban from online multiplayer. Today, we take a peek at a bundle of B-Side adventures across the entire series. While limited in what can be added to the trilogy (though breakthroughs are being made on that front, too), it turns out that by creatively rearranging what's already there, you can get what feels almost like a new game. While mostly limited to technical improvements (such as Durante's fixes for the wonky original PC port) and small texture packs, the past few years have brought about a whole new genre of Souls mods for all three games. Every other Monday, Dominic gives you a reason to dust off one of your old games and dive into its mods with Modder Superior.ĭark Souls modders are forged in the flames of adversity.
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