Dark Souls 1 Redesign

The PTDE version can be found here.

It's intended for new players as well as veteran players that would like to do a magic run (but couldn't because it wasn't that viable with pyromancies, miracles or any other reason). This mod contains a few impactful quality of life improvements which significantly enhance the gameplay with the least amount of changes possible. This includes changes to pyromancy and miracles making them viable alone and giving every magic type their own advantage.

This mod is english only which was done to prevent bad translation or missing item names and descriptions.

If you are new to the game: just play the game normally without a wiki. Every combat style is now viable in its own way.

If you have already played the game: Solaire and Laurentius have extra dialogues. They give hints.

Feel free to give me feedback in the posts section. Please excuse my amateurish picture editing and sfx animation skills. Only open spoilers in the description if you don't want to search or find out locations yourself (mostly hinted).

Installation:

Follow all steps carefully or you will get banned.

1. right-click "DSR block in Firewall.bat" and click "run as administrator" (it forces the game offline and you won't get banned). It only works for default steam path, edit it within the file if needed.

2. run "backup saves.bat" (make sure to restore when playing without the mod again)

3. Copy all files from the "DARK SOULS REMASTERED" folder of this mod into your "DARK SOULS REMASTERED" game folder

-> You can now launch the game normally through steam.

If you ever intend to reverse it to normal then reinstall the game and then right-click  "DSR unblock in Firewall.bat" and click "run as administrator" and then run "restore saves.bat" (using modified save games from a mod online can get you banned as well).

Known Issues:

- very few enemies get stuck inside walls in rare cases (quit and reload to fix)

- when getting teleported to the DLC you spawn nowhere...no idea why, everything is correct (quit and reload during the long fall, you will spawn correctly after)

Modifications:

Quality of Life and general changes:

• []additional bonfires so boss runs are non existent or less annoying

  []new warping system: 4 bonfires unlocked when both bells are rung and all bonfires unlocked when the lordvessel is acquired (you obviously need to sit down at them first to unlock them)

• []lock-on distance doubled (so you don't do a 180° turn when trying to lock onto an enemy)