Players have been playing Dark Souls for quite a few years and show no signs of stopping. This guide shows the best mods and how to install them.
The last ten years of video games have been absolutely dominated by the Souls-like genre, and even the original Dark Souls is still played to this day. Dark Souls provides an intense but fair challenge for its players, while also showcasing that sometimes atmosphere in a video game is more important than story. No matter how someone feels about the franchise, it is impossible to argue that it isn’t memorable.
The biggest downside to Dark Souls is that over the last ten years most players have probably begun to grow tired of it, and it’s definitely beginning to show its age. Even back when it originally released it was lacking a lot of the graphical and optimization improvements that other video games were sporting. The best way to fix these problems now is for players to begin downloading mods. This guide shows players some of the best mods available and how to install them.
Dark Souls – How To Install Mods
Installing mods in video games is now easier than it ever has been, and players who want to get into it will just have to follow a few simple steps to get most mods working properly. The first step to modding any game is to check out a modding community like Nexus Mods. Not only does this website have a huge amount of mods for players to choose from, but there are also creators and other players that can give tips or walkthroughs on how to make things work properly.
After that to start downloading mods for Dark Souls, players will want to install a Mod Manager before they do anything else. One of the best ones is called Drag and Drop Mod Manager, and it makes the entire process for installing mods incredibly simple. Players who download Drag and Drop Mod Manager will need to move the downloaded files straight into their Dark Souls file folders. They then just need to open the Mod Manager and any downloaded mods can be dragged right into the Mod Manager interface.
Those who don’t want to use the Mod Manager, or can’t get it to work for some reason still have options though. Almost all mods on Nexus Mods will come with instructions for installing them, and even if they don’t it’s pretty easy. All players really need to do is download the files and then extract them into whatever folder the DarkSouls.exe file is. The upside to the Mod Manager though is that it makes it much easier to remove mods that aren’t working right or causing problems in the game without having to remove them manually.
Dark Souls – The Best Mods To Install
- DSFix: This is by far one of the most popular mods for the original Dark Souls and it is almost a necessity for running the game on PC. While Dark Souls has always had optimization issues, it runs particularly bad on PC compared to consoles. Essentially what this mod does is allow players to adjust many of the games graphic qualities as well as let many other graphical mods to work properly. This will help players rectify many of the Dark Souls’ framerate and freezing issues, so it should be everyone’s first download. Many mods will also require this one to be downloaded first before they will work.
- Daughters of Ash: This is one that has been designed by legendary Dark Souls modder Grimrukh, and at this time it is basically what put him on the map. This mod works as something of an expansion to Dark Souls by altering existing content as well as adding new things to the game. Players will travel through the world by a brand new path, be able to fight against new or altered bosses, and can discover brand new weapons and items. This is a must for those who have grown bored of the original game.
- Dark Souls Item Randomizer: This mod does exactly what it says and randomizes all of the items in the game. This will place weapons, armor, consumables, and even key items in entirely different locations in the world, which can help mix things up for players who know where to find everything in the world. This mod also comes with a difficulty setting and customization tools to let players plan out exactly how the mod will distribute items.
- Prepare To Die Again – Of Ash and Dust: This is another mod that will completely alter the way that the game is played. The positions of enemies and bonfires will be changed up and new enemies, weapons, and items are added to the game. The creator also dug into the game’s files and added a lot of the content cut from the game back into Dark Souls for players to explore for the very first time.
- Dark Souls Enemy Randomizer: The item randomizer was interesting enough, but this one takes things a step further by randomizing the locations of all the enemies in the game… including bosses. This means that a boss could just be hanging out in a normal location of the game, or players could step through the fog gate to the Bell Gargoyles and be confronted with Ornstein and Smough instead. This mod can drastically up the challenge for all players.
- Andres Cranial Ember: This mod doesn’t add anything breathtaking to the game, but it does fix one of the most glaring issues in Dark Souls: its awful character models. All this mod does is add better textures and models to the faces in the world so both the player and NPCs will have better-looking faces.
- The Scorched Contract: For those who don’t think Dark Souls is hard enough, The Scorched Contract will drastically up the game. With this in place, every time that the player defeats a boss they will receive some kind of debilitating status effect or more challenging aspects will be added to the game. This means that for every boss that is defeated the game will become noticeably more difficult and the player will have to weigh whether it is better to fight a tough boss earlier or later in the game.
- Dark Souls Input Customizer: One of the more annoying aspects of the original Dark Souls is that it lacked the ability to customize inputs in-game, and the controls were pretty awful. With this mod though players are able to completely alter what inputs will correspond to what action in the game. Definitely a must for anyone using mouse and keyboard controls.
- Ascension_Mod: This is just another mod that alters the game with brand new weapons, enemies, and items. It does also enter some level of randomization to the item and bonfire placements though so it adds a little bit of a change for veteran players as well. One of the biggest alterations though is the fact that this mod increases the movement and weapon speed of all characters in the game.
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Dark Souls can be played on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and PC.
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