Drop Stone of Healing E3 2013 Icon Restoration (For DX9 Vanilla and SotFS)

On 2013, IGN premiered 12 minutes of Dark Souls 2 gameplay alongside FromSoftware director Yui Tanimura and Bandai Namco global producer Tak Miyazoe. For a lot of souls fans, what was shown that day is still an open wound.

The lighting was brutal and real. Torches threw harsh shadows across stone walls. Darkness meant actual darkness. The geometry was dense. The atmosphere felt suffocating in the best way. People watching genuinely debated whether the game was targeting next-gen hardware, it looked that different from anything out at the time. When the final game released in March 2014, that version of Drangleic was gone. The lighting was gutted. The geometry was simplified. FromSoftware addressed it publicly and said nothing that satisfied anyone. Over a decade later that demo still lives rent-free in the heads of everyone who saw it, and the modding community has been chasing its ghost ever since. Nobody has fully caught it yet.

MAIN FEATURES

• []Replaces the Old Radiant Lifegem icon with the Drop Stone of Healing design drawn from the IGN E3 2013 gameplay reveal.[/]

  []Two variants: Colorful (vivid and high contrast, reads clearly in the hotbar and inventory) and Pale (The original from the demo showcase)[/]

  []Works on both Dark Souls II DX9 and Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin.[/]

REQUIREMENTS

You need UXM Selective Unpack before installing this.

Download it here: https://github.com/Nordgaren/UXM-Selective-Unpack

Dark Souls 2 stores all its files packed inside game archives. The folder structure this mod installs into does not exist until UXM creates it. UXM also patches the game executable to actually read loose files, because by default the game ignores them entirely and reads the archives instead. Both steps inside UXM are required, Unpack and Patch. If you skip either one the mod will not work.

No other requirements. No additional mods, no script extenders, nothing else.

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS

Step 0 - Run UXM first if you have not already

Download UXM Selective Unpack: https://github.com/Nordgaren/UXM-Selective-Unpack

Open it, click Browse, and point it to your game executable:

Dark Souls II DX9:

<SteamLibrary>\steamapps\common\Dark Souls II\Game\DarkSoulsII.exeDark Souls II Scholar of the First Sin:

<SteamLibrary>\steamapps\common\Dark Souls II Scholar of the First Sin\Game\DarkSoulsII.exeClick Unpack and wait for it to finish. Then click Patch. Once both are done you can close UXM and proceed.

Step 1 - Back up your original file

Navigate to your game's icon folder:

Dark Souls II Vanilla DX9:

<SteamLibrary>\