Looks like the Reforged i asked to the heavens. While Reforged brought a lot of neat QoL changes, i couldn't stand how they tried to overbalance everything, turning it into a jankier vanilla+ experience with better UI
I am rather bit curious about what kind of jankiness you're talking about in Reforged. Not to start a fight or anything, just wanna hear another modding enjoyer's opinions
@@rip4anskiy7In my experience it changed the difficulty in a way I didn’t enjoy, as in making combat less responsive. Now, this may just be a problem with the build I used but it felt as if enemies just poised through attacks way more than in vanilla.
@@btarczy5067 can't really say I've had the same problem, though I have been playing on the vanilla scaled difficulty as I do find higher diff settings rather annoying (enemies passively regen hp? what kind of crap is that?)
I did my best to cover as much as I could without too many spoilers and without making the video an eternity long. Halcyon has done so much to this mod that even this video is abridged at best
There needs to be a standalone boss ressurection mod for vanilla. As much as i like these changes, i just want to refight bosses without having to go into ng+.
The best deflect mod for elden ring is Deflect Me Not, and it's actually compatible with reborn and convergence. It lets you customise pretty much every aspect of the deflecting feature, and changes the dodge animations, but you can turn that feature off if you want.
this is the only Mod I've seen that has the sense and the courage to make Great Runes actually powerful. Like worthy of their lore and how we see them with the bosses. Even great overhauls like Convergence and Reforged have not done them justice. I might play this mod now ❤
This looks amazing. Tbh I enjoyed Reforged at first but around mid-game I was encountering some changes that I didn't care for, and while I enjoyed the concept to start with, the idea of searching every nook and cranny for Rune Fragments for those extra stat boosts became more of a chore while initially (Limgrave) it was exciting. Can't say I'm too fond of the backflips though, but at least they're implimented well. Is the character creator/build mechanic fleshed out to where you can freely allocate the starting stat point allotment? Say you choose the Wretch at Level 1, each Stat has 10 points, can you then freely subtract points from some stats to boost others? Like subtracting 10 from Arcane to add to Faith (so you would have 0 Arcane but 20 Faith) as an example.
Why not mention that the version available on nexusmods (0.45) is TWO versions behind the one you showcase (0.47) which appears to be Patreon-exclusive?
@@Halcyon1997 Ok, maybe so. But 0.46 is on Patreon. It says so in the changelog posted on discord. Point is, people will watch the video and wrongly assume that features shown are available in the version linked in the description.
After playing any Souls game for long enough I always end up with the same complaint; I'd really like to do a playthrough in which I use a particular weapon or build, but it always takes far too much time to get what I want. I end up missing out playing the game WITh the weapon/spell I want to use. Allowing the player to pick out their starting weapons to better accomodate a certain play style from the beginning is amazing. Same goes for that merchant that takes medallions. Armor Shaders: How has this not been implemented already?
oh nice, i was thinking in playing with a mod, i tried reborn 0.36 a long time ago but the experience was a little terrible for me. but now seems a good awesome mod, perhaps i was wrong. Mods are the best, it really gives a new air to the game like you are playing for the first time discovering new things.
It wasn't shown in the showcase but are there any improvements to Seal/Staff gameplay? Outside of spells, the vanilla game version basically ghosted seals/staves of any meaningful gameplay improvements. (Caster gameplay has remained unchanged since Demon's Souls, especially since many of the great changes in DS2 were rolled back in DS3.) Such as: Access to Ash of Wars? Access to Infusions? Replacing the useless R2 Bonk? Mind determines Cast Speed? Playing as a Full Caster in Elden Ring felt like getting constant prompts to play as a Spellsword instead.
You can use both schools of magic with a few of the spell catalysts available in reborn. Staffs also have a new melee ability, albeit a bit janky right now, it's there. Also with the universal ashes of war mechanic, you can put any ash of war on any staff/seal. I did my best to make all the spells as deverse, interesting and viable as I could.
You could definitely play a pure caster in this mod. The new spells also add for more ways to approach fights, like the delayed magma explosions/glintblades and the retaliation spell. Fp regen also helps to sustain
Great mod spotlight as always Snuggly, i personaly love the custom class start some other things not so much, for know i will stay with convergence but if the dlc is not out when i get bored of it now i know what to try.
Thank you! One thing I really liked about this mod was the level of customizability, in that if you don't really like an aspect of the mod you don't have to engage in it. Like great runes for example, they are quite overpowered and if you want a more challenging run you can just opt to not use them. Not much is really forced
This looks like exactly what I wanted the game to be, instead of what we got. I'll be trying it out when I get the chance. Deflects alone will fix like 3/4 of my complaints with the combat system I think, and the great runes look like some real fun.
I would definitely say it is of similar quality to convergence, it is extremely well done. Especially coming from a solo dev and not a team. That being said each mod has their own direction they take towards overhauling the game
I want to put the ash of war from the blasfemeus blade on the claymore, i have all weapons added with cheat engine but the ashes of war is just a notmals, how i get the uniques ?
Reborn is by far the most superior overhaul mod for Elden Ring. IMO the other major ones don't come close. This is because of how it changes several major chunks of the landscape, while the others either don't at all, or barely do.
@@SnugglytheCrowDS1 yeah they are. I just started playing Elden ring again recently, but found that even in vanilla the foliage has a lot of noise going on. Also I found that turning down anti aliasing and motion blur in the settings menu reduces a lot of flickering. I was just wondering if you came across that issue as well because your videos always looks amazing
EER is good because there's actually an attempt to work with basegame rather than completely throw the whole balance out of the window for the sake of "newer, better, flashier (and ultimately worse)" one.
Sooo, after taking a closer look at this mod I can see a LOT of issues that ruin the experience for me personally Melee seems way too strong at burst damage (daggers literally have almost double the attack speed, what the shit?) Most if not all of the talismans are changed to a ridiculous extent with a sole role on buffing the character power far beyond their original effect e.g. Scarseals give you TWENTY FIVE POINTS in physical and magical stats, but increase damage taken by 100 and 200% for Radagon's and Marika's seals respectively. what's the point of getting extra 25 Vigor if you take double damage?. Another dumb example is Daedicar's Woe, 1000% extra damage taken, why would I spend a taalisman slot when I could just play no hit? That's just few, my point is that I don't enjoy overbuffing player's power in these mods Another issue is that equipment and spells got NO STAT REQUIREMENTS... what is the fucking point of this change? so I can level VIG and END to my heart's content and just let my talismans and upgrade levels beat the game for me? The showcased changes to the dodging - backflipping makes no sense for me not matter what in this game unless used with a flashy moveset mod. Plus the removal of the consequences of wearing heavy armor makes 0 sense for me, where's the tradeoff for having bulkier defenses? What's the point of wearing lower weight armor if I have the same dodgeroll with heavy sets while having much stronger defense? I can see the enthusiasm and love put into this mod, I just feel like it needs more time in the oven so far
Daggers are only 30% faster, not double. I'm guessing you don't understand how scaling works, you still have to level stats for weapons and spells to be viable. So leveling vigor and stuff only isn't viable. I don't have the energy to give my thoughts to your whole comment here, but it seems you're just really quick to judge. This mod slaps
@@atmos1849 I do know how scaling works, I just don't see the point of removing the stat requirements, considering that in this game a ton of your damage comes from buffs and upgades as opposed to just scaling. This is literally what I say in the comment too. Yes, spells are affected by scaling much greater than weapons are, but as someone who enjoys melee combat far more than spellcasting, I really don't understand what's the point of me not having to invest say dex when I wanna be able to use stuff like Hand of Malenia or Nagakiba Sure I can give an even closer look at the mod, but the balancing so far puts me off is what I'm trying to say
@@rip4anskiy7I used hand of mal with 60 dex and got +400 damage from scaling I would get your point if you said that leveling strength and dex was less valuable, but to basically call it pointless is a stupid argument
this is one of those mods for people who want every rpg's stats to function the same way, the mmo brain rot i like to call it, same thing happens with convergence mod, every class felt the same and unlimited fp means spam ash of war to the end 🥱 souls games have a delicate system and you unravel a knot accidentally when you pull on one system without looking at the other parts
@@porkchop-rc2pt Again, it's not that scaling is pointless (something I never said btw), it's that lack of needing to invest stat points to be able to use something is dumb in my humble opinion. You see, for me it's not the AR that I get from a weapon, it's the flexibility of my build in lategame that I enjoy, not having to care about that kills the fun for me
The only thing I hate of this mod is the character creator and the fact that single weapon scales with 10 of each attribute (depending of the weapon for example 10 dex 10 faith), idk if that is still in the mod but what is the point to level up to use a weapon if you can use it right away from the start
That's not how that works. You have to invest in your stats for weapons to be really worth anything. Say, if you are using a strength weapon with 200 damage and only 10 strength you'll only have about 212 total damage, but if you also have 40 strength it will do about double that damage. That all depends on how high the weapons scaling is of course for the associated stat. Also, the starter stats at 10 each are like that to allow for total build freedom.
This interestingly enough fixes the balancing issues that Elden Ring has at the start of the game that my souls vet friends were joking about, calling it "Dark Souls 2.2". It made my second playthrough less daunting and more fun. Great overview!
I am thankful for every Elden Ring mod. Especially the Convergence mod has been my go-to "game" for this year because apart from the DLC I found nothing worth spending my time. On the flip side Reborn rebalanced the game in a way that makes no sense at all. Summons seem to attract 100% of the aggro. But your spirit summons die as quickly as a lvl1 beginner in a Melania boss fight. Or they cost so much FP that you need to level up your mind to 40+. Spells seem to do a lot less damage. Poison mist, the spell that only ever gets used to kill the "Tree sentinel" needs to be cast dozens of times to proc poison. Why? People still kill him with this spell because he's a frigging cheater, they just have to waste more time.
Completely different mods, my dude. This one's honestly a bit insane, considering that unlike Reforged and Convergence it's a solo dev mod, so the fact Halcyon has managed to make so many really impactful changes is nothing short of miraculous. Great mod, already knew about it but thanks for such fantastic indepth coverage, Snuggs.
Each mod does their own thing and has their unique approach to how the game should be overhauled. Like Ivan-og1os said, Reborn is a solo dev and it is incredible how much work has been done. But at the end of the day you can try both and see which you like best
Elden Ring's combat was so simple and dull because they focused all their effort into the spectacle/world of the game. This will be cool to try some day. One of the best things here is the transparency of what things do. God Fromsoft is so stupid in this regard. Obtuse and some flat out incorrect descriptions in their own game.
Yeah like @Mormerilon said, given that they both change a huge amount of things merging would be close to impossible to make it function properly and that is with losing a lot of functionality out of one or both mods
Well said. It's adding very little that we haven't already seen. The game needs entirely new maps with new monsters, with new loot. Without it, these mods are just putting lipstick on a pig. The base game itself is gorgeous and GREAT to play, but once you've seen it all, the honeymoon is over.
@@atlantic_love Yeaa ,would love to play another FromSoft in open world similar to ER ,maybe with more npcs and cities or villiges ,or places similar to RTH
Did you try looking with your eyes? It had the same animation, yes, but the poison effect is new. There were several changes from the norm, like the one handed greatsword R1 combo has a thrust attack and the straight sword uses some of the animations from the one handed form of Ludwig's Holy Blade from Bloodborne.
tried reforged just now and it made the game worse. got stuck on the tutorial sneaking past 2 guards. Game told me to parry an enemy and the fog never went away to let me through. uninstalled laughing my ass off whilst doing it. what a joke lol.
Yeah. Reforged is significantly more reined in. With a base game this good, I always prefer mods that don't deviate too far from the vanilla experience. All I really wanted was a deflect and some difficulty scaling for co-op, and Reforged is great for that.
@@Legendary_HoneyIt's reined in to an absurd degree. I had a terrible time in reforged, personally. Guess this just shows that we all have different tastes.
@@Legendary_Honey the only things I hate about Reforged are the levelling system which being difficult as well and the reduction of our equipment or capabilities. I just wanted difficult enemies with enhanced AI, movements, poise and hp, not MAKING MY GAMEPLAY MUCH COMPLICATED WITH BUNCH OF RUNE PIECES
@@seemenowudont7244 Your opinion won't matter without playing it Both of these mods are great Reforged makes the boss ai and others way better reborn just gives the boss moves some extra stuff reborn got better open world map changes but reforged got new bosses reborn just tweaks vanilla stuff while reforged adds new stuff aswell as tweaking vanilla stuff Reforged also completely removes 99% of the cheese from the game so u cant really get busted at the start and breeze through the game unless you play on the easier difficulty
Clicked off immediately when I saw the sekiro deflect. Major gripe with all these overhauls. Having a sekiro deflect makes 0 sense in this game. None. It would require a complete rebalancing of everything to even come close to being balanced. No overhaul modders seem to understand this. Deflection is the most powerful defense and offense combined in any game Fromsoft has ever made. You can't just give it to the player for free. Sekiro is balanced around this being 99% of the combat. And of course we gotta get the mandatory Bloodborne dash in there for no reason as well, because originality is fake..
![The Convergence Mod Beta 2.1 Update - All Weapons Showcase [Elden Ring]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/h2pv826lr2I/mqdefault.jpg)
Big fan of the meteoric ore blade overhaul, I feel that weapon needs much needed love being that it’s a “unique” katana
Looks like the Reforged i asked to the heavens. While Reforged brought a lot of neat QoL changes, i couldn't stand how they tried to overbalance everything, turning it into a jankier vanilla+ experience with better UI
I am rather bit curious about what kind of jankiness you're talking about in Reforged. Not to start a fight or anything, just wanna hear another modding enjoyer's opinions
@@rip4anskiy7In my experience it changed the difficulty in a way I didn’t enjoy, as in making combat less responsive. Now, this may just be a problem with the build I used but it felt as if enemies just poised through attacks way more than in vanilla.
@@btarczy5067 can't really say I've had the same problem, though I have been playing on the vanilla scaled difficulty as I do find higher diff settings rather annoying (enemies passively regen hp? what kind of crap is that?)
@@rip4anskiy7 Oh, probably just used the wrong setting for me then! In that case I‘ll give it another shot.
Reforged just went in a silly direction after a couple months of quality. Changing stuff for the sake of changing it.
i am so glad I have been letting Reborn Cook! This is exciting! Thank you Snuggly :) and great work Halcyon!
I did my best to cover as much as I could without too many spoilers and without making the video an eternity long. Halcyon has done so much to this mod that even this video is abridged at best
Amazing mods, Snuggly.
I think you guys did a great job here, unique and fun stuff all over. Thanks for all the hard work, I really mean that ;)
Finally! I’ve been waiting for someone to cover this forever!
Apologies for the wait, thanks for watching
There needs to be a standalone boss ressurection mod for vanilla. As much as i like these changes, i just want to refight bosses without having to go into ng+.
There are a few already on Nexus,
www.nexusmods.com/eldenring/mods/3025
www.nexusmods.com/eldenring/mods/2790
Any mod that adds a Sekiro deflect is automatically an improvement, I just cannot comprehend how deflect is not in the base game to begin with
From adds aspects from every souls game but forget to add a simple sword deflect from sekiro.
Rip for the missed opportunities
The best deflect mod for elden ring is Deflect Me Not, and it's actually compatible with reborn and convergence.
It lets you customise pretty much every aspect of the deflecting feature, and changes the dodge animations, but you can turn that feature off if you want.
@@theholypopechodeii4367 thank you so much, I didn't notice this mod and was looking for a proper deflection mod + overhaul for such a long time.
this is the only Mod I've seen that has the sense and the courage to make Great Runes actually powerful. Like worthy of their lore and how we see them with the bosses. Even great overhauls like Convergence and Reforged have not done them justice. I might play this mod now ❤
This looks amazing. Tbh I enjoyed Reforged at first but around mid-game I was encountering some changes that I didn't care for, and while I enjoyed the concept to start with, the idea of searching every nook and cranny for Rune Fragments for those extra stat boosts became more of a chore while initially (Limgrave) it was exciting.
Can't say I'm too fond of the backflips though, but at least they're implimented well.
Is the character creator/build mechanic fleshed out to where you can freely allocate the starting stat point allotment?
Say you choose the Wretch at Level 1, each Stat has 10 points, can you then freely subtract points from some stats to boost others? Like subtracting 10 from Arcane to add to Faith (so you would have 0 Arcane but 20 Faith) as an example.
I don't remember being able to alter the points like that
So many options, time to reroll the same build I used in my vanilla playthrough
Looking good so far!
Why not mention that the version available on nexusmods (0.45) is TWO versions behind the one you showcase (0.47) which appears to be Patreon-exclusive?
its not on patreon, its the dev version
@@Halcyon1997 Ok, maybe so. But 0.46 is on Patreon. It says so in the changelog posted on discord. Point is, people will watch the video and wrongly assume that features shown are available in the version linked in the description.
@@altotashermes8927 the difference in features is so minimal that its not very likely to happen cuz the updates are pretty small. fair point though
OOOOO THE SPELLS
The Fx are so satisfying to watch on the carian sorceries
@@SnugglytheCrowDS1 Joy!
After playing any Souls game for long enough I always end up with the same complaint; I'd really like to do a playthrough in which I use a particular weapon or build, but it always takes far too much time to get what I want. I end up missing out playing the game WITh the weapon/spell I want to use. Allowing the player to pick out their starting weapons to better accomodate a certain play style from the beginning is amazing.
Same goes for that merchant that takes medallions.
Armor Shaders: How has this not been implemented already?
oh nice, i was thinking in playing with a mod, i tried reborn 0.36 a long time ago but the experience was a little terrible for me.
but now seems a good awesome mod, perhaps i was wrong.
Mods are the best, it really gives a new air to the game like you are playing for the first time discovering new things.
It has grown a lot this past year and is currently very well done, Halcyon has done an amazing job with it
It wasn't shown in the showcase but are there any improvements to Seal/Staff gameplay? Outside of spells, the vanilla game version basically ghosted seals/staves of any meaningful gameplay improvements.
(Caster gameplay has remained unchanged since Demon's Souls, especially since many of the great changes in DS2 were rolled back in DS3.)
Such as:
Access to Ash of Wars?
Access to Infusions?
Replacing the useless R2 Bonk?
Mind determines Cast Speed?
Playing as a Full Caster in Elden Ring felt like getting constant prompts to play as a Spellsword instead.
You can use both schools of magic with a few of the spell catalysts available in reborn. Staffs also have a new melee ability, albeit a bit janky right now, it's there. Also with the universal ashes of war mechanic, you can put any ash of war on any staff/seal. I did my best to make all the spells as deverse, interesting and viable as I could.
You could definitely play a pure caster in this mod. The new spells also add for more ways to approach fights, like the delayed magma explosions/glintblades and the retaliation spell. Fp regen also helps to sustain
Holy crap Rykard’s rune is busted. 99 on everything at regular newgame? Insane.
Yeah that one stood out as pretty crazy, I suppose if you want a more challenging run you could go sans great runes
Great mod spotlight as always Snuggly, i personaly love the custom class start some other things not so much, for know i will stay with convergence but if the dlc is not out when i get bored of it now i know what to try.
Thank you! One thing I really liked about this mod was the level of customizability, in that if you don't really like an aspect of the mod you don't have to engage in it. Like great runes for example, they are quite overpowered and if you want a more challenging run you can just opt to not use them. Not much is really forced
Oh my god the posture mechanic thrown in from Sekiro would make the combat so much fun.
this channel is goated ! love you're content keep going :)
Thanks, that means a lot :)
No stat requirements for weapons and spells is awesome. I wish future games would do this, honestly.
Love the video, and the editing is really good:)
Whoa this looks awesome! great spotlight man! do you know if reborn adds any new affinities to the game?
Not any new or custom affinities, unless I missed them
This looks like exactly what I wanted the game to be, instead of what we got. I'll be trying it out when I get the chance. Deflects alone will fix like 3/4 of my complaints with the combat system I think, and the great runes look like some real fun.
Glad I could show you a new mod!
Playing this mod on PC and just loving it
How would you compare this to convergence?
I would definitely say it is of similar quality to convergence, it is extremely well done. Especially coming from a solo dev and not a team. That being said each mod has their own direction they take towards overhauling the game
Don't think I didn't spot that DS2 dodge roll on heavy equip load!
Thank you for this informative Video ❤
You're very welcome, thank you for watching
I want to put the ash of war from the blasfemeus blade on the claymore, i have all weapons added with cheat engine but the ashes of war is just a notmals, how i get the uniques ?
Hello! You need to pick up the associated weapon in the regular spots to get the ashes.
Reborn is by far the most superior overhaul mod for Elden Ring. IMO the other major ones don't come close. This is because of how it changes several major chunks of the landscape, while the others either don't at all, or barely do.
Hey does this mod work with rhe seamless co-op mod
Everything works with seamless coop mod. There may be sections of the game itself that make get out of wack but as a whole everything works with it.
Have you ever came across artifacts/flickering when using RTGI with your reshade?
No, nothing like that. An occasional flicker with fogs but nothing serious. Are your graphics drivers up to date?
@@SnugglytheCrowDS1 yeah they are. I just started playing Elden ring again recently, but found that even in vanilla the foliage has a lot of noise going on. Also I found that turning down anti aliasing and motion blur in the settings menu reduces a lot of flickering. I was just wondering if you came across that issue as well because your videos always looks amazing
any new hairstyles?
What's the difference of this mod from the other popular overhaul mods like Convergence and Reforge?
EER is good because there's actually an attempt to work with basegame rather than completely throw the whole balance out of the window for the sake of "newer, better, flashier (and ultimately worse)" one.
Is this compatible with Seamless co-op? Could I play with a friend?
Yes it should be fully compatible with seamless just check their mod pages and discords for install info
The spells look so refined and immersive, like they are a seamless update. Great job!
Yeah he has done a wonderful job with the spells they are beautiful to watch
Sooo, after taking a closer look at this mod I can see a LOT of issues that ruin the experience for me personally
Melee seems way too strong at burst damage (daggers literally have almost double the attack speed, what the shit?)
Most if not all of the talismans are changed to a ridiculous extent with a sole role on buffing the character power far beyond their original effect e.g. Scarseals give you TWENTY FIVE POINTS in physical and magical stats, but increase damage taken by 100 and 200% for Radagon's and Marika's seals respectively. what's the point of getting extra 25 Vigor if you take double damage?. Another dumb example is Daedicar's Woe, 1000% extra damage taken, why would I spend a taalisman slot when I could just play no hit? That's just few, my point is that I don't enjoy overbuffing player's power in these mods
Another issue is that equipment and spells got NO STAT REQUIREMENTS... what is the fucking point of this change? so I can level VIG and END to my heart's content and just let my talismans and upgrade levels beat the game for me?
The showcased changes to the dodging - backflipping makes no sense for me not matter what in this game unless used with a flashy moveset mod. Plus the removal of the consequences of wearing heavy armor makes 0 sense for me, where's the tradeoff for having bulkier defenses? What's the point of wearing lower weight armor if I have the same dodgeroll with heavy sets while having much stronger defense?
I can see the enthusiasm and love put into this mod, I just feel like it needs more time in the oven so far
Daggers are only 30% faster, not double. I'm guessing you don't understand how scaling works, you still have to level stats for weapons and spells to be viable. So leveling vigor and stuff only isn't viable.
I don't have the energy to give my thoughts to your whole comment here, but it seems you're just really quick to judge. This mod slaps
@@atmos1849 I do know how scaling works, I just don't see the point of removing the stat requirements, considering that in this game a ton of your damage comes from buffs and upgades as opposed to just scaling. This is literally what I say in the comment too. Yes, spells are affected by scaling much greater than weapons are, but as someone who enjoys melee combat far more than spellcasting, I really don't understand what's the point of me not having to invest say dex when I wanna be able to use stuff like Hand of Malenia or Nagakiba
Sure I can give an even closer look at the mod, but the balancing so far puts me off is what I'm trying to say
@@rip4anskiy7I used hand of mal with 60 dex and got +400 damage from scaling
I would get your point if you said that leveling strength and dex was less valuable, but to basically call it pointless is a stupid argument
this is one of those mods for people who want every rpg's stats to function the same way, the mmo brain rot i like to call it, same thing happens with convergence mod, every class felt the same and unlimited fp means spam ash of war to the end 🥱 souls games have a delicate system and you unravel a knot accidentally when you pull on one system without looking at the other parts
@@porkchop-rc2pt Again, it's not that scaling is pointless (something I never said btw), it's that lack of needing to invest stat points to be able to use something is dumb in my humble opinion. You see, for me it's not the AR that I get from a weapon, it's the flexibility of my build in lategame that I enjoy, not having to care about that kills the fun for me
Why wouldn't you show the result of the rain of arrows straight sword? Honestly.
It doesn't do anything
The only thing I hate of this mod is the character creator and the fact that single weapon scales with 10 of each attribute (depending of the weapon for example 10 dex 10 faith), idk if that is still in the mod but what is the point to level up to use a weapon if you can use it right away from the start
That's not how that works. You have to invest in your stats for weapons to be really worth anything. Say, if you are using a strength weapon with 200 damage and only 10 strength you'll only have about 212 total damage, but if you also have 40 strength it will do about double that damage. That all depends on how high the weapons scaling is of course for the associated stat.
Also, the starter stats at 10 each are like that to allow for total build freedom.
This interestingly enough fixes the balancing issues that Elden Ring has at the start of the game that my souls vet friends were joking about, calling it "Dark Souls 2.2". It made my second playthrough less daunting and more fun. Great overview!
Thanks for watching, I'm glad you found a new mod to try!
I am thankful for every Elden Ring mod. Especially the Convergence mod has been my go-to "game" for this year because apart from the DLC I found nothing worth spending my time.
On the flip side Reborn rebalanced the game in a way that makes no sense at all. Summons seem to attract 100% of the aggro. But your spirit summons die as quickly as a lvl1 beginner in a Melania boss fight. Or they cost so much FP that you need to level up your mind to 40+. Spells seem to do a lot less damage. Poison mist, the spell that only ever gets used to kill the "Tree sentinel" needs to be cast dozens of times to proc poison. Why? People still kill him with this spell because he's a frigging cheater, they just have to waste more time.
Can you play this coop?
Yes I believe this is compatible with seamless coop. Not normal coop if you are unsure! :)
hate the weight changes
Different dodges and deflect got me. I’m sold. Wish convergence could implement something like it too. Will definitely try this soon 🙌🏼
Glad I could introduce you to a new mod!
Reborn or Reforged?
Completely different mods, my dude. This one's honestly a bit insane, considering that unlike Reforged and Convergence it's a solo dev mod, so the fact Halcyon has managed to make so many really impactful changes is nothing short of miraculous. Great mod, already knew about it but thanks for such fantastic indepth coverage, Snuggs.
Each mod does their own thing and has their unique approach to how the game should be overhauled. Like Ivan-og1os said, Reborn is a solo dev and it is incredible how much work has been done. But at the end of the day you can try both and see which you like best
Elden Ring's combat was so simple and dull because they focused all their effort into the spectacle/world of the game. This will be cool to try some day.
One of the best things here is the transparency of what things do. God Fromsoft is so stupid in this regard. Obtuse and some flat out incorrect descriptions in their own game.
is there a way to make this work with The Convergence mod
no they both are overhaul mods andd will not work together as they both alter similar items
Yeah like @Mormerilon said, given that they both change a huge amount of things merging would be close to impossible to make it function properly and that is with losing a lot of functionality out of one or both mods
@@SnugglytheCrowDS1 unfortunate
radahn rune - falls cannot kill you. I see what you did there))
this video could've really benefited from a proper human voiceover.
getting audio right is the most important thing for a video
I think here in the near future I will be switching to voiceovers :)
Awesome mod, but that's all it really does. Mod the aesthetics of the game. The vanilla game still beats out this mod.
Reforged is a big pile of sheet simply put
Well said. It's adding very little that we haven't already seen. The game needs entirely new maps with new monsters, with new loot. Without it, these mods are just putting lipstick on a pig. The base game itself is gorgeous and GREAT to play, but once you've seen it all, the honeymoon is over.
@@atlantic_love Yeaa ,would love to play another FromSoft in open world similar to ER ,maybe with more npcs and cities or villiges ,or places similar to RTH
RTX 4090 Bro?
3070 actually, still does really well on 1440p
you do cool stuff
cool
a shame the base game is way better to play
this is just an inferior experience to have
That’s already what Serpentbone blade’s heavy is, and none of the weapons you’ve shown had any moveset changes from normal
Did you try looking with your eyes? It had the same animation, yes, but the poison effect is new. There were several changes from the norm, like the one handed greatsword R1 combo has a thrust attack and the straight sword uses some of the animations from the one handed form of Ludwig's Holy Blade from Bloodborne.
tried reforged just now and it made the game worse. got stuck on the tutorial sneaking past 2 guards. Game told me to parry an enemy and the fog never went away to let me through. uninstalled laughing my ass off whilst doing it. what a joke lol.
a lot of these changes go directly against the lore and aesthetic of the original though
Thank God the game is not really like this. It's cool and all but ya. Thank God.
This mod is just pure chaos. Would never install it. Seems like a downgrade.
Yeah. Reforged is significantly more reined in. With a base game this good, I always prefer mods that don't deviate too far from the vanilla experience. All I really wanted was a deflect and some difficulty scaling for co-op, and Reforged is great for that.
Ya, I was out as soon as it said "removes skill restrictions"
It's amazing fun, but to each their own.
@@Legendary_HoneyIt's reined in to an absurd degree. I had a terrible time in reforged, personally.
Guess this just shows that we all have different tastes.
@@Legendary_Honey the only things I hate about Reforged are the levelling system which being difficult as well and the reduction of our equipment or capabilities. I just wanted difficult enemies with enhanced AI, movements, poise and hp, not MAKING MY GAMEPLAY MUCH COMPLICATED WITH BUNCH OF RUNE PIECES
hate the spells
This mod seems to be realy nice unlike that pile of shet called Reforged 😂
what are your issues with reforged
@@bigaurum Nothing ,it s just the biggest pile of dog shet I ve ever seen 😂
@@seemenowudont7244this mod does everything way worse then reforged lol
@Sir-Vesh maybe they both garbage ,i dont use any
@@seemenowudont7244 Your opinion won't matter without playing it
Both of these mods are great
Reforged makes the boss ai and others way better
reborn just gives the boss moves some extra stuff
reborn got better open world map changes but reforged got new bosses
reborn just tweaks vanilla stuff while reforged adds new stuff aswell as tweaking vanilla stuff
Reforged also completely removes 99% of the cheese from the game so u cant really get busted at the start and breeze through the game unless you play on the easier difficulty
Nothing looks diferent to me but ok...
Clicked off immediately when I saw the sekiro deflect. Major gripe with all these overhauls. Having a sekiro deflect makes 0 sense in this game. None. It would require a complete rebalancing of everything to even come close to being balanced. No overhaul modders seem to understand this. Deflection is the most powerful defense and offense combined in any game Fromsoft has ever made. You can't just give it to the player for free. Sekiro is balanced around this being 99% of the combat. And of course we gotta get the mandatory Bloodborne dash in there for no reason as well, because originality is fake..
Probably because overhaul modders just want to create a fun mod. It's not supposed to be taken so seriously.
fanboy alert 🤡🤡
Meh, it's flashy and makes a lot of noise, but nothing compares to the good old Longsword.