4 (deleted content version)
Designed for players who want Elden's Ring to be a true culmination of previous Souls games.
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Designed for players who want Elden's Ring to be a true culmination of previous Souls games.
Dark Souls 4 (Cut Content Edition)
🎮 **A comprehensive modification module that makes "Elden's Ring" closer to the classic Souls series experience! **
✨ New content
**🛡️ 8 new talismans**
**🍶 7 new consumables**
**🔧 1 brand new tool**
All new items are taken directly from the game's deleted content or created from scratch based solely on icons. Some original items include classic items returning from the previous game, with new icons from the deleted content, descriptions that are as close to the original setting as possible, and in most cases using the exact same values as the previous game.
🎯 Career system
**👤 New profession: Explorer**
The Explorer class from Dark Souls 2 returns! The prisoner profession has been replaced, and the starting equipment and attributes are almost identical.
⚖️ Balance adjustment
**📊Reworked attributes, status effects and items**
All adjustments use the exact values from the previous game, with only minor tweaks made to make the gameplay more balanced and rewarding for the player. Certain status effects have been significantly nerfed, while others have been tweaked to be more threatening when affecting players.
Items unique to Circle of Elden such as the Elixir Dew Drop have been reworked to make them more balanced and useful for all genres. Some talismans have also been reworked to match their effects in the previous game, and some extremely useless spells have been greatly enhanced to improve their usefulness.
🎭 Enemy behavior improvements
**👀 Better enemy behavior**
Exploring the open world of Elden's Circle is now more dangerous than ever! Enemy vision range has been increased and behavior patterns improved to make them more realistic.
- When an enemy in a dense enemy group locks on you, the rest of the enemies or some enemies will follow depending on the situation.
- You will encounter an ambush team just like in Dark Souls 2
- Shielded enemies can now counter your attacks
These changes are intended to make the open world more realistic, forcing players to make better use of stealth and spend more time thinking about which enemy to deal with first to avoid alerting other enemies.
🐉 Optimization of boss battles
**👑 Better boss design**
- The resistance and health of the weakest main boss have been strengthened
- The resistance of the most annoying boss has been greatly weakened
- Unfair and difficult-to-dodge boss attacks have been weakened
💎 Loot System
**🎁 Better loot**
Many crafting materials and consumables picked up on the map have been replaced with new consumables from the mod.
🗺️ Explore the experience
**🚫 Reduce guided design**
Many of the Blessing Points from the base game have been removed (mainly in the open world) to return to the core experience of resource management, making finding Blessing Points once again the momentous moment it was in the previous game. For the same reason, the Chalice Bottle replenishment mechanic on enemy kills has also been removed.
🔧 Other improvements
**📝 Other miscellaneous adjustments**
A lot of other stuff was tweaked, mostly tedious mechanics that had no logical reason but made the game frustrating.
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Install & use Install: follow the bundled instructions
- Unzip the archive from playbuff and read the bundled readme / instructions first.
- There is no universal mod manager for this game: some mods replace game files directly, some go into a game-specific Mods folder, and some need a game-specific community loader or tool first — follow the bundled readme.
- Place the files exactly as the readme says; mods with listed dependencies need those installed too.
- Launch the game to confirm it loaded; some games require enabling mods in settings or an in-game mod menu.
Install locations vary a lot between games and mods — the bundled readme is the most reliable guide.