Dark Souls Combat Overhaul

This is an extensive combat and character build overhaul inspired by the Dark Souls series and similar games. Combat balance and mechanics have been drastically changed to recreate the deliberate, hard-hitting pace of the Souls games, and levelling has been revamped to provide a classless experience with a large amount of build variety.This mod is designed for solo playthroughs; playing with other characters in your party will generally trivialise encounters. If you want to bring companions for banter/story, you can turn off their AI in their character record screen. In addition, party members who are not being controlled will become immune to damage and be ignored by enemies, ensuring they do not interfere with combat.

A gamepad is recommended for this mod.

For a full guide to the mod, please see the readme.

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Key features

Rebalanced, impactful combat

Combat has been overhauled to recreate the hard-hitting feel of the Dark Souls games. Designed for a solo experience, enemies have drastically lower health, allowing regular enemies to be taken out with basic weapon attacks. A Poise mechanic adds weight and impact to attacks, while an increased focus on stamina management emulates the deliberate pace of Dark Souls. All characters also come with a dodge roll by default, overriding the jump button when in combat.

Classless build variety, increased control over and importance of stats

All class restrictions of weapons, armour and abilities have been removed, allowing for a much larger range of character builds. Levelling has also been overhauled so you have more control of your attributes, allowing you to assign attributes on levelling up rather than through crafting.

Attributes are now also much more important; weapon damage scaling is more dramatically affected by attributes, and spell damage is determined directly from your Magic or Willpower attributes, rather than from weapons. Basic elements of your character, such as stamina, Focus and amount of armour they can equip, are also affected more through your attributes.

New and overhauled abilities

Many abilities have been rebalanced for the new combat system, and some completely new abilities have been added, such as a basic healing spell. Item passives have also been completely overhauled, with a variety of entirely new effects, many inspired by items from the Souls series and other games.

Increased enemy variety

Many enemies and bosses have been overhauled, with updated and some completely new abilities. Some enemies, such as m