Elden Mode

Main changes

- Mobs will notice you from further away, and purchase you for longer

- Mobs and bosses have significantly more HP and deal slightly more damage

- NG+ offers a proper challenge from the early areas

- Main bosses unlock regular smithing stones at the Twin Maiden Husks

- "Soft randomizer" for common loot throughout the game to keep things fresh. Better merchant inventories.

About 2500 of the 5000 game items are randomized. Most of the useless crafting materials are replaced with various consumables. Many rare "drop only" items are now guaranteed somewhere in the world :  for example, you can now find a Dismounter somewhere in Limgrave.

Does not affect progression items nor guaranteed weapons/armor/spells/ashes of war (You can weave in and out of the mod with no worries to miss an important item).

- Some balance tweaks to keep in check the strongest stuff while increasing the number of viable options

I slightly nerfed the most abusable mechanics, while buffing numerous weakish options from the base game.

How bad is it?

If you were able to complete Elden Ring vanilla without strongly relying on coop/summons, you should do fine with this mod.

You'll have to relearn areas and play more cautious but this should never feel impossible. The scaling used in already challenging areas (Haligtree, SOTE...) is fine tuned to not push it into frustrating/one-shot galore territory.

Main prerequisite is to like being challenged, and finding your way around it!

Installing the mod

This mod merely changes some numeric values from the regulation.bin parameters file of Elden Ring

TLDR : Download the .zip and extract it in your game folder to replace the regulation.bin by the modded version

1. First set your game to offline mode, as trying to load the mod online will trigger the anti-cheat (System > Network > Play offline)

2. Locate your game folder, should look like C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\ELDEN RING\Game

3. Backup the original regulation.bin file to be able to restore to vanilla anytime

4. Download the .zip and extract it in your game folder to replace the regulation.bin by the modded version

5. Start offline & enjoy!

As a game update may break this mod without notice, I suggest you don't update your game during a playthrough without double checking I rel