Xenthos

Sephiroth from Final Fantasy 7 peering over Firelink Shrine in Dark Souls

Sephiroth from Final Fantasy 7 peering over Firelink Shrine in Dark Souls

Couldn't do one and not the other

Firelink Edition New enemy placement, item location, armor sets, weapons, decorations...A new experience and look for Dark Souls Ⅱ!

Dark Souls 2 Firelink Edition is finally out!
This is a new DS2 experience with new visuals, items, weapons, armor, enemy and item location and many more changes. Tell your friends and family.

I hope you all enjoy it.

holy shit genius

Pleasantly surprised with how decent this came out

Shall I bring Lordran despair?

To clarify, I’m asking about spellcasting weapons specifically. I’m not worried about regular old catalysts not having the ability to riposte or backstab.

The alternative I’ve thought of is binding spellcasting to an L2 stance.
This would only temporarily put you in a state where you could spellcast with R1, meaning the visual feedback on the HUD would be grayed out when you’re not in the stance. Might also feel clunkier, so idk.

There’s an annoying quirk with spell tools (catalysts etc) in DS1 that prevent them from being able to do critical hits.
How do people feel about that tradeoff? Giving certain weapons the ability to spellcast for their heavy attacks, but losing the ability to riposte or backstab?

Can't forget the actual death plane states lol

Nevermind! I made the fall speed consistent by breaking up the animations even more and adding even MORE states. Also fixed a visual bug while I was at it. Works perfect now!

Nevermind! I made the fall speed consistent by breaking up the animations even more and adding even MORE states. Also fixed a visual bug while I was at it. Works perfect now!

Update! It now has proper falling and landing states for when you use it from high ground. (You fall much slower than on flat ground, but I can't do anything about the gravity lol)
Also, another weapon imported by Bird - the Kikuichimonji.

Precisely lmao, literally his

More Hell's Gate polish! Definitely the most complex move I've set up for what you'd think should just be a simple R2 lol
Also featuring the Shiranui, another weapon to go with Masamune in the Odachi class. Model imported by @birdoflight.pmd.social

Oh you know it will loool

I’m having way too much fun playtesting this lol, I think the moveset will be a hit once it’s done

Well, cursed method proof of concept lmao
I've just gotta make some more variants and obviously fix the double crouch, but I mean, it works...

Hell's Gate WIP
I have to figure out a way to make the root motion scale with enemy distance. As far as I know, that's not a thing in DS1, so I'll probably have to resort to some cursed method like invisible bullets to track distance... lmao

If you know you know lmaoo
Hope the idle transitions are acceptable - I tried to adapt them to an already-existing DS1 idle. The original animations were so fast and these required a ton of adjustments.
(Model import courtesy of @birdoflight.pmd.social)

Washing Pole who?

Wing Stance now included!

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Pretty much, or any R2 that's just too slow to *actually* use.

Wing Stance now included!

Charged heavy attacks are also not planned. Instead, I'm manually merging the charged and uncharged animations for a solid middle ground.
I always preferred those types of R2s in base DS1 - the ones that felt like natural extensions to your moveset instead of super slow ones.

Of course, movesets I port from Elden Ring will have their animations and cancel windows slowed down, as well as root motion reduced as necessary. Haven't adjusted the latter yet, but I am satisfied with this attack speed for now.

Light Greatsword moveset WIP. Testing on an Iaito for now.
I've made ways to fully customize combo strings in my mod, so attacks can transition into each other as nicely as possible. Up to 6 light attacks are also supported, so I can port any basic Elden Ring moveset faithfully.