3 Difficulties and AI Overhaul

THIS MOD HAS BEEN REPLACED WITH MY NEWER OVERHAUL:

Aspects Gameplay Overhaul at Elden Ring Nexus - Mods and Community (nexusmods.com)

I am keeping this mod up anyway.

This mod is based on Prepare to Die (Hard Mode) at Elden Ring Nexus - Mods and Community (nexusmods.com)

and Remove sorceries incantations and weapons stats requirement at Elden Ring Nexus - Mods and Community (nexusmods.com)

With some of my own changes added on.

--This mod overhauls the enemy AI making them much smarter and deadlier. They will see you from further away, investigate your presence, and chase you longer. Use the darkness and terrain if you want to sneak.

--This mod provides a new level of difficulty with each new NG cycle, starting slightly easier than vanilla then becoming harder than vanilla with each NG+. This allows the player a challenging experience whilst allowing them to learn the game before being thrown straight in to the deep end of the harsh world of FromSoft's games.

--You won't die in 1-2 hits, but fights are longer and you have less flask charges. Learn your enemy's patterns - bosses and hard foes will forgive a few slip-ups, but no more.

--Also included are changes to the fast-travel system, healing flasks, and equipment requirements (please see changes just below).

This mod is balanced around a single player playthrough, as online is disabled.

The very early game may seem trivial for souls veterans especially. The game's difficulty does ramp up the further you go.

List of changes:

All difficulties:

-Warp only to churches and cathedrals.

-enemies have hugely increased agro range and better AI. They will follow you longer, can detect stealth more easily, have better hearing. Their line of sight cone is reduced by around 5% to compensate. Using tools and the environment is essential. (did you know you can shoot an arrow or knife at a wall or floor to distract enemies?)

-Start the game with flask at max healing potential and a choice of charges between 4-7. All golden seeds and crystal tears in the game are replaced with a stash of 10,000 runes. This change means you must use your flask charges wisely and choose between HP and FP. Spamming spells is no longer an option unless you are willing to sacrifice your survivability. To compensate, 4 Golden seeds are located next to the first site of Grace where you spawn. You can choose to use them for up to 3 additional charges, leave them, keep them, or sell them for 10,000 each. Choose your own difficulty.

-All equipment and spells have a requirement cost of 1, meaning you can use whatever build you want, anytime, without respeccing or farming runes. (equipment and spells still scale with their corresponding stats).