Oath of the champion

This mode is continued here for Shadow of the erdtree : https://www.nexusmods.com/eldenring/mods/5508

Main changes

- All mobs will notice you from much further, and purchase you for longer

- All 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 1800 of the 4000 game items have been 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).

- Numerous 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. You'll find the complete changelog below.

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 hardest pinnacle bossfights are probably around the level of Ludwig / Slave Knight Gael / Orphan of Kos from previous games.

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 of