Fitz's Vanilla Plus Overhaul

Description

Welcome to my Vanilla+ Overhaul mod. This whole thing started when I wanted to make bad weapons I liked feel better to use and has since snowballed into a full pass over the game with the same intentions, including ashes of war, skills, weapons, spells, and so on. Some changes are things I like from Nightreign, while others I made up myself. You may find some similarities with other mods of this nature, but significant differences with others. You can find the full list of changes HERE. It will be updated each patch.

What is this mod about?

This mod is an extensive sweep of the game’s main features, including spells, weapons, skills, AOWs, and so on. As such, because of the vastness of Elden Ring, it is and will probably always be a work in progress. It aims, like my original intention, to make “bad” or “undervalued” aspects of the game feel better to use and all aspects more fun. It also aims to soften some oversights from the developers.

While not a community effort, this mod is, at the end of the day, for the community. So, I appreciate all forms of feedback on its contents. You're welcome to use it in your own playthroughs and with your friends. If you plan on streaming it, just mention the mod in the title or have a command that links to it.

What is this mod NOT about?

This mod isn’t made to significantly change the vanilla experience. This means I tried not to “nerf” things, which isn’t a very helpful word, but I digress. Things that were strong will remain strong because I’m basing this work on an offline PVE environment, unless you consciously choose to combine this with Seamless Coop PVP. This also means no major changes to system mechanics like adding double jumps, difficulty sliders, meddling with enemy AI, removing i-frames from fog walls, no new content like enemies from other Souls games or restoring cut content, and finally, no removal of existing content, with very few exceptions that I’ll point out.

On merging & splitting the mod

I won't provide any files or guidance for merging because they're version-dependent and it's not that difficult to do by yourself. I started this solo project with an idea and absolutely no modding guidance or experience. There are lots of video resources, wikis, and the ?ServerName? discord server where you can look for tons of information without even needing to ask anyone. I'm sure you can manage.

Secondly, I won't be doing different versions. There are too many changes and handling multiple releases is asking for