Improved Melee Combat Overhaul (IMCO)

A comprehensive melee gameplay overhaul that improves base combat with faster animation cancellations, allowing for new techniques.

Improved Melee Combat Overhaul (IMCO)

🎮 **MOD COMPATIBILITY**: This mod is compatible with ER 1.16 version and has been edited with new weapon categories. A few combat techniques and spells have not yet been edited.

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✨ Main Objectives

The two core goals of this project are:

• **Changed almost all weapon animations** for faster, smoother, more interesting and technically in-depth combat
• **Introduction of advanced techniques**, through the early animation cancellation mechanism to achieve advanced techniques only available in this module

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⚠️ IMPORTANT WARNING

• **Game Difficulty Reduced**: The original game will be easier due to better mobility and faster attack animations. Recommended to be used in combination with other mods that increase difficulty level
• **Online use prohibited**: Please do not use this module in online mode, otherwise it may lead to account ban and other consequences.

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🔗 Related modules

**New release! ** Complete game overhaul mod based on IMCO:

**Elden Circle: Corrupted Edition** - You can use IMCO alone to experience just the combat overhaul, or use the full version to enjoy all other changes

📎 Corrupted version of Elden's Ring

💬 Discord Server

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🔧 Detailed changes

**Improved melee combat gray**

All war grays have been adjusted to fit the overall mod. They are now faster, can be canceled earlier, and have added properties like block frames or invincibility frames

**Reworked parry system**

• The effective frame window for all parries now exactly matches the parry animation
• All parries have faster startup times
• Most parry startup frames adjusted to 3 frames, only Buckler to 4 frames
• Although the buckler has 1 more frame to start, the effective frame window is longer (7 frames vs. 6 frames for other parries)

💡 **TIP**: You may need to relearn the timing, but once you master it, you'll find parrying easier to execute and more useful

**Crossbow Overhaul**

Although this mod focuses on melee weapons, the feel of the crossbow was really poor and has been adjusted. They now have the same early cancellation properties as other weapons

**New invincible frame**

• **Step back and crouch animations** now have invincibility frames
• Crouch animation can now be used to dodge attacks
• The step back animation will also provide a short period of invincibility

**Quick cancellation mechanism**

• **Step back and crouch animation** can now be quickly canceled
• You can perform forward attacks and rolling attacks directly from the static state

**Dagger Throwing Cancel Technique**

• Attack and dash animations can now be canceled with throwing daggers
• Inspired by Ninja Gaiden 2
• The animation speed of throwing daggers has been greatly improved, and the cancellation time is earlier.

**Early Attack Cancellation**

Almost all attack animations (for modified weapons) can be canceled into other actions immediately after a valid hit frame

**Feint attack**

• Use dodge cancel to **Feint Charge R2 Attack**
• Cancel any attack during the charging animation
• Dodge the starting action of canceling the attack

**Quick weapon switching**

Now you can switch weapons as quickly as pressing the weapon switch button

**Animation acceleration**

Some attack animations have been accelerated, most notably:

• stabbing sword
• Curved sword
• Dagger
• Katana
• small ax
• whip

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📥 Installation Guide

Using Mod Engine 2:

🔗 GitHub link

🎥 Video tutorial

**Installation steps**:

• Place the c0000.anibnd.dcx and c0000_a00_hi.anibnd.dcx files into the `mod > chr` folder
• Overwrite existing files
• If there is no `chr` folder, please create or directly use the folder in the compressed package

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🔄 Merge with other modules

Merging possibilities vary by mod:

• Some mods are easy to merge, just re …