Elden Ring Tainted Edition Overhaul (ERTE)

COMPATIBLE WITH ER SOTE 1.16.1

Overall Mod Site (WIP)

ERTE Website (work in progress)

Discord Server (Changelog channel there)

ERTE Discord

Intro

ERTE mod was initially designed to create a more challenging experience for coop play. It can also be played solo but only if you are both a very skilled and a patient player. Be warned, if you go solo, it can be very frustrating at first if you dont invest some time into learning the new meta. Both enemies density and enemies hp pools have been heavily increased, and the scaling is flattened to end game level, so you have to find ways to overcome the combat challenges using the game tools at your disposal. Use your brain.

New Optional Lite Version

I am aware many players want to play ERTE solo to try new weapons and bosses in a relaxed way, and they cant cope with the increased enemy count and choke points designed for coop play, so I released a Lite version without map edits other than the areas with new bosses. Scaling is still flattened, so players damage output goes from x1 up to roughly x2, but enemies hp is decreased x0.6 from regular ERTE values. Think in this like a "baby mode" ERTE.

You can find this lite version in optional download files section.

Note: For now, SOTE areas are edited same as ERTE regular version. Im still hesitating about making them vanilla or not (the edits are more tamed there).

Main Features

- Combat is more lenient, you are allowed to cancel attacks earlier, and most attacks have been sped up.

- Perfect Block is active from the get go for all weapons.

- Perfect Release added to R2 charged attacks and bows/crossbows.

- New game difficulty balance. Scaling has been revamped and flattened. You can no longer break difficulty overleveling, no matter the route you choose. Instead of the ridiculous up to x7 scaling vanilla has, ERTE players damage and enemies hp goes up to x2 maximum. This means you still can, and need to, increase your total AR leveling up both your stats and your weapon. Forget about killing bosses with a pair of hits.

- Many new weapons, either ported from other Souls games (mainly DS3) or being completely new. Theres also a few new armors, and spells.

- New enemies and bosses, Nightlords and DS3 ones, ported from Nightreign.

- New starting classes.

Installation

- You need Mod Engine 3 to run ERTE mod. Download Mod Engine 3 from Github from here ME3 and install it first.

- Go to Mod Engine 3 installed folders and find: … > me3 > config

- Unpack ERTE SOTE zip file and put the ERTE > profile main folder there, merging with existing one.

That is all. Run the provided ERTE-SOTE-CoopReady.me3 profile file to launch the mod.

If you want to play SeamlessCoop with ERTE, download it, and install it inside:

… > me3 > config > profiles > eldenring-mods > ERTE SOTE > @dll mods

Seamless Coop provides a config file that allows to adjust enemies and bosses HP pools and posture break resistance. If playing coop, I suggest to set regular enemies HP to x1.5 and bosses to 1.0, and dont change posture break resistance values. But thats up to you.

Run provided Gideon shortcut to add new weapons icons

Right before running the mod, use the Gideon app shortcut provided inside > ERTE SOTE folder to run Gideon software. It will add new description icons to the game automatically. Otherwise description icons will be blank.

Credits

Many thanks to all those people that made the tools and gathered all the info that allows to mod this game. You all people rock.

Many thanks also to Kaimod for his contributions with hks edits and EtheriusZT for new weapons models, and spicyFella for his permissions to use all his DS3 weapon models. Also many thanks to Kirnifr and Ivi for the inspirational features in their Elden Ring Reforged mod, and Clevererraptor and FWang for their help, and Blubber for his fantastic job with the retargeted animations, and FloppyDonuts for all his help and enemies ported into ER.