Modern Dark Souls III Experience

Dark Souls 1 Poise

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• Added a Dark Souls 1 like poise system at all tiers of armour.
  
  
• You can check a demonstration in the Video tab of the mod here on Nexus.
  
  
• Keep in mind that the poise value displayed on armours refers to the vanilla hyper-armour feature, not the DS1-Poise. Generally with my mod, the heavier the armour, the higher the DS1-Poise.
  
  

All Weapons are now buffable

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• This includes infused weapons, special weapons and boss weapons.
  
  
• They can be infused both with spells and resins.
  
  
• This also applies for shields.
  
  

Bows, Arrows, Bolts, Throwable Rework

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• Much increased range.
  
  
• Much increased projectile speed.
  
  
• And even a slight homing to arrows and bolts that helps with tracking moving enemies!
  
  
• Additionally, you can now carry up to 250 ammunition compared to the 99 of the base game.
  
  
• Bolts and Crossbows now deal much more damage than arrows, but drain more stamina.
  
  
• Throwable items now also have a homing on target, are faster and have more range.
  
  

Covenant Equippable Items Rework

All Covenants Insignias now grant a passive effect when equipped. The effect is also shown in the description (English only):

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• Warriors of Sunlight (Increases lightning damage)
  
  
• Way of Blue (Increases HP and FP)
  
  
• Blue Sentinels (Increases Stamina and equip load)
  
  
• Blades of the Darkmoon (FP Regen)
  
  
• Rosaria's Fingers (Increases soul gain)
  
  
• Mound-Maker (Increases physical damage)
  
  
• Watchdogs of Farron (Decreases Stamina Consumption)
  
  
• Aldrich Faithful (Increases magic, fire, dark damage)
  
  
• Spears of the Church (HP Regen)
  
  

Increased lock-on distance

The lock-on distance has been increased substantially compared to the base game.

Standalone version here.



Starting Gifts Rework

Also adjusted the character creation menu to match the changes (English only).

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• Life Ring +3
  
  
• 10 Divine Blessings
  
  
• 10 Hidden Blessings
  
  
• Chuch Guardian Shiv
  
  
• Fire Gem
  
  
• Soul of a Crestfallen Knight
  
  
• Coiled Sword Fragment
  
  
• Estus Shard
  
  
• Undead Bone Shard
  
  

Enemies Rebalance

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• All enemies and bosses can now be poisoned and bleed!
  
  
• Jailers in Irithyll Dungeon no longer drain your HP.
  
  
• The Angels's Holy Barrage in Dreg Heap has been nerfed.
  
  
• The Giant Judicator's arrow barrage's damage has been reduced slightly.
  
  
• Small Crystal Lizards have their health reduced.
  
  
• The Slimes (Cathedral of the Deep and Smouldering Lake) have reduced absorption.
  
  
• The Wyvern in High Wall of Lothric has less HP.
  
  

More Options at Bonfire

Standalone version by CocaGeladinhaHmm. Adds new features at the bonfire, including:

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• Level up at the bonfire.
  
  
• Purchase and sell items.
  
  
• Reinforce, infuse, and repair your weapons.
  
  
• Allot and reinforce the Estus Flask.
  
  
• Reallocate your attributes like at Rosaria's!
  
  

Hexes rework

Hexes now work similarly to Dark Souls 2. Here's a detailed list of the features:

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• Offensive Hexes now deal physical damage alongside dark damage.
  
  
• Heretic's Staff, Archdeacon Great Staff, and Saint-tree Bellvine now scale on Faith and Intelligence, powering up Hexes.
  
  
• Hexes now require both Faith and Intelligence.
  
  
• Dark Sorceries are now as fast as regular Sorceries.
  
  
• Deep soul is now available from the start at Shrine Handmaid's.
  
  
• Great Deep Soul is now a Transposing spell from the Deacon's soul.
  
  
• Aldrich's Faithful Rank 1 now gives the Archdeacon Great Staff.
  
  
• Aldrich's Faithful Rank 2 now gives 3 Twinkling Titanites.
  
  

Transposing Kiln rework

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• Bosses with multiple items for transposing now only require regular souls for the second item, meaning you don't need NG+ to get all the items.
  
  

Character rebalancing

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• Base health has been increased by 15%. (Why? This is to make the Ember more of a nice boost when you have it and less of a punishment when you don't have it)
  
  
• Ember health boost has been decreased by 15%.
  
  
• Base stamina regen is increased slightly.
  
  
• You can now trade Titanite and Infusion Gems with other players in multiplayer.
  
  
• Base physical defense has been slightly increased. (Why? Because Vitality, which regulates defense, is less levelled up due to the new changes to weight)
  
  

Misc changes

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• Blood is now red instead of grey.
  
  
• Poison now deals a fixed damage instead of scaling on max health.
  
  
• Fall Damage reduced by 80%.
  
  
• Simple infusion now grants more FP per second.
  
  
• You can now roll on most human-sized enemies.
  
  
• Coins now last until death and not a fixed amount.
  
  
• The Set of Thorns now deals much more damage.
  
  

Easier covenants

No more painful grinding of dozens of absurdly low drop rate items. Now you can buy them from the Shrine Handmaid!

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• Vertebra Shackle (Mortician's Ashes)
  
  
• Wolf's Blood Swordgrass (Dreamchaser's Ashes)
  
  
• Proof of a Concord Kept (Easterner's Ashes)
  
  
• Pale Tongue (Paladin's Ashes)
  
  
• Sunlight Medals (Excrement-covered Ashes)
  
  
• Human Dregs (Grave Warden's Ashes)
  
  
• Filianore's Spear Ornament (Xanthous Ashes)
  
  

Weapon Upgrade Rework

I always felt like the amount of Titanite needed for upgrades was too high. This mod changes it in the following way:

Normal weapons

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• 1>2>3 Titanite Shards (up to +3)
  
  
• 1>2>3 Large Titanite Shards (up to +6)
  
  
• 1>2>3 Titanite Chunks (up to +9)
  
  
• 1 Titanite Slab (for +10)
  
  

Special weapons

Titanite slabs are not required anymore.

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• 1>1>2>2>4 Twinkling Titanites
  
  
• 1>1>2>2>4 Titanite Scales
  
  

Shops changes

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• You can now buy Infusing Stones from the Shrine Handmaid after giving her specific Ashes:
  
  
  
  
• Shriving Stone, Refined Gem, Raw Gem, Fire Gem (Available from start)
  
  
• Crystal Gem, Blessed Gem, Deep Gem (Dreamchaser's Ashes)
  
  
• Chaos Gem, Lightning Gem, Simple Gem (Paladin's Ashes)
  
  
• Dark Gem, Blood Gem, Hollow Gem (Grave Warden's Ashes)
  
  

You can now buy Titanite Slabs from the Shrine Handmaid after beating the Twin Princes (30000 souls each).

The Tower Key has been lowered from 20000 to 5000 souls.

Purging Stone price has been lowered from 4500/3000 to 450/350 souls.

Arrows and Bolts prices have been adjusted.

Greirat now sells Iron Set, Lucatiel's Mask, and Porcine Shield after being sent to pillage once.



Spells and skills rebalancing

All the spells in the game feature slight changes:

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• Much increased range
  
  
• Offensive Lightning Spells deal more damage and require less Faith.
  
  
• Weapon buff spells last 30% longer than vanilla.
  
  
• Orb-like pyromancies no longer fall in a parable, which increases their reach.
  
  
• Added a slight homing to orb-like pyromancies to compensate their height.
  
  
• All spells only use one attunement slot - Standalone version
  
  
• All weapon and shield skills cost half the FP price of vanilla.
  
  
• Because spell buffs can now be applied to all weapons, including infused ones, they have been nerfed slightly. They cost more FP and Stamina, and require slightly more Intelligence and Faith. Their flat damage is also slightly reduced.
  
  

Progression and map changes

These are a series of changes that I think would fit nicely:

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• Coals have been moved earlier in the game to allow for earlier infusions. The Giant's Coal is now found in the Cathedral of the Deep, while the Profaned Coal is now found in the Catacombs of Carthus.
  
  
• The annoying fog wall in Firelink Shrine has been removed - Standalone version by AbrahamLink
  
  
• The Farron Keep swamp no longer inflicts poison.
  
  
• The toxic swamp in the Profaned Capital no longer inflicts toxic.
  
  
• You're no longer slowed down by deep water/poison. - Standalone version
  
  
• Killing the Wyvern in High Wall of Lothric now gives: 1 Large Titanite Shard, 1 Twinkling Titanite, 1 Titanite Scale.
  
  
• The lava lake in Smouldering Lake has been nerfed.
  
  
• The Grand Archive Key can now be found in Lothric Castle without beating all the Lords of Cinders.
  
  
• Boss soul items now grant more souls compared to vanilla (around 2/3 of the boss amount).
  
  
• Mound Makers covenant item is now dropped by Rotted Greatwood instead of Hodrick.
  
  
• Hawk's Ring is now given by the Giant on the Tower without the need to kill him.
  
  
• The chest in Firelink Shrine now contains both Silver and Gold Covetous Serpent Rings.
  
  
• Symbol of Avarice is now a guaranteed drop from the Mimic in Irithyll Dungeon (the one with the Estus Flask Shard).
  
  

Weapons, Armour, and Rings balances

The following features regard weapons and rings and include changes in the description menu when needed.

Special Weapons

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• To compensate the lack of infusion on special weapons, their scaling has been increased slightly, allowing them to be much more performant than
  
  normal. This includes twinkling titanite weapons and boss weapons.

Weapons and Armour

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• The weight of all weapons and armour has been decreased by 20%. (Why? This was made to reduce the impact of a relatively useless stat: Vitality).
  
  
• Bleed weapons deal less damage - This is because all enemies and bosses are now weak to bleed!
  
  
• Poison weapons deal less damage and scale worse - This is because all enemies and bosses are now weak to poison!
  
  
• All weapons with Intelligence and Faith requirements now scale on that stat.
  
  

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2. Astora Straight Sword (Physical DMG from Faith)
   
   
3. Lothric's Holy Sword (Physical DMG from Faith)
   
   
4. Earth Seeker (Physical DMG from Faith)
   
   
5. Morne's Great Hammer (Physical DMG from Faith)
   
   
6. Saint Bident (Physical DMG from Faith)
   
   
7. Yorshka's Spear (Physical DMG from Faith)
   
   
8. Wolnir's Holy Sword (Dark DMG from Faith and Intelligence)
   
   
9. Rose of Ariandel (Dark DMG from Faith and Intelligence)
   
   
10. Wolf Knight's Greatsword (Dark DMG from Faith and Intelligence)
    
    
    
    

Rings

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• Carthus Bloodring: only reduces physical absorption.
  
  
• Prisoner's Chain: only reduces physical absorption.
  
  
• Deep Ring: grants two attunement slots (it was 1 slot originally, which made it a redundant copy of the Saint's Ring)
  
  
• Darkmoon Ring: gradually restores FP.
  
  
• All Clutch Rings variants now only reduces the absorption that matches the damage they increase.
  
  
• The Ring of the Evil Eye now heals multiple times if you kill multiple enemies.
  
  
• Great Swamp Ring now boosts pyromancies by 25%, while Witch's Ring cuts pyromancies FP cost by 25%.
  
  
• Young Dragon Ring now boosts sorceries by 25%, while Bellowing Dragoncrest Ring cuts sorceries FP cost by 25%.
  
  
• Morne's Ring now boosts miracles by 25%, while Ring of the Sun's First Born cuts miracles FP cost by 25%.
  
  
• Aldrich's Ruby now restores 85 HP + 10% of max health (same as Elden Ring).
  
  
• Aldrich's Sapphire now restores 15 FP + 15% of max FP.
  
  
• Calamity Ring now reduces absorption and doubles weapon stamina consumption by 100%, but also greatly increases item discovery.
  
  
• Knight Slayer's Ring: enemies lose 50% more Stamina.
  
  
• Lloyd's Sword Ring: Increases attack by 10% when your HP is above 80%.
  
  
• Lloyd's Shield Ring: Blocks 50% of damage when your HP is full.
  
  
• Horsehoof Ring: Doubles all defenses, but also stamina consumption.
  
  
• Wood Grain Ring: Reduces weapon stamina consumption (10%/15%/20%).
  
  
• Dusk Crown Ring: Reduces all spells' consumption by 15%. No health Reduction.
  
  
• Stats Rings (Knight, Hunter, Scholar, Priestess) increase their stat by 10 points.
  
  

Pickle-Pee and Pump-a-Rump items rework

Some items have been changed, while others have been removed.

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• Firebomb -> 1 Ember
  
  
• Black Firebomb -> 3 Embers
  
  
• Lightning Urn -> Cleric's Sacred Chime
  
  
• Homeward Bone -> 5 Alluring Skull + Call Over gesture
  
  
• Seed of a Giant Tree -> 5 Budding Green blossoms
  
  
• Prism Stone -> Speckled Stoneplated Ring
  
  
• Vertebra Shackle -> removed
  
  
• Mendicant Staff -> removed
  
  
• Undead bone Shard -> Estus Flash Shard
  
  
• Siegbräu -> Large Soul of an Unknown Traveler
  
  

The items related to Iron Set, Lucatiel's Mask, and Porcine Shield have also been removed. Those items are now on sale from Greirat after sendind him to pillage once.

Whips buff

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• All whips gain physical damage off luck.
  
  
• Whips damage to poise and stamina has been increased significantly.
  
  
• Whips' physical damage has been increased significantly to compensate their low speed.
  
  

Class Adjustments

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• Cleric: it now starts with Lightning Spear instead of Force. It starts with less Luck (9) and more Faith (20). It also starts with the Braille Divine Tome of Carim.
  
  
• Sorcerer: it now starts with the Sage's Scroll.
  
  
• Pyromancer: it now starts with the Great Swamp Pyromancy Tome.
  
  

HOW TO INSTALL

The mod already includes ModEngine2.

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2. Simply drop the mod into your game directory (where the .exe is located)
   
   
3. Download and install the latest update file on top of it, accept to override, and launch the game through launchmod_darksouls3.bat.
   
   

Here's a video tutorial for those who need it!





ALTERNATIVE INSTALL METHOD

If ModEngine 2 doesn't work for you (e.g. you're on Linux), you can install the mod using UXM:

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• Download UXM.
  
  
• Use UXM to unpack the game files.
  
  
• Drop the Main File into the Game folder.
  
  
• Drop the Update File into the Game folder.
  
  
• In UXM, Patch the game.
  
  
• Launch the game through Steam.
  
  

HOW TO UPDATE

Download the latest update from the Update Files here on Nexus and paste in the Game folder. Agree to override.



HOW TO UPDATE

Download the latest update from the Update Files here on Nexus and paste in the Game folder. Agree to override.



HOW TO UNINSTALL

Delete the Modern Dark Souls III Experience folder and launch your game through Steam normally.





⚠️WARNING⚠️

Using this mod while online will lead to a softban. Remember to switch to offline on Steam to avoid this problem.



ADDITIONAL NOTES

Make sure to also take a look at Modern Dark Souls 2 Experience!



Since some items are moved, it's recommended to start with a new character to avoid problems.



For an even better experience, check out this amazing mod:

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• Proper PC Experience Mod by ellekz - For Ultrawide support and unlocked framerates.
  
  
• Infinite Respecs by SirAnsbachsWife - If you don't like More Options at Bonfire, but still want the respec feature.
  
  
• Bootboost by TKGP - For faster loading times.
  
  

COMPATIBILITY

This mod is INCOMPATIBLE with other overhaul mods such as Cinders, Convergence, or Archtrones.



SEAMLESS CO-OP COMPATIBILITY

The mod is COMPATIBLE with Seamless Co-op. All you have to do is:

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2. Download and install my mod
   
   
3. Download and install Seamless coop, then move the "SeamlessCoop folder" inside
   
   of #Modern Dark Souls III Experience - Mod Engine 2.1
   
   
4. Open config_darksouls3.toml and change this line:
   
   

   external_dlls = 
   
   

5. Launch the game through launchmod_darksouls3.bat
   
   

Special thanks

If you want to support me, here's my Patreon or my Ko-Fi !

To the many people in the ?ServerName? Discord server who helped me figure out many cool modding things.