Spoiler showcase videos of this mod now on my YouTube channel:
Dark Souls MOD: Enemy Placement Changes: Asylum: SPOILER Showcase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ab16-9WGvM&t=2s
Dark Souls MOD: Enemy Placement Changes: Boss Rush! 1st 5 bosses (this one includes the Gaping Dragon boss fight, from my upcoming Depths map): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5FvqYrAzc4&t=25s
Recorded YouTube live-stream long-play of all maps released, and yet unreleased, (no face-cam, no commentary): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKF75ljkFnw
I also have several YT live-streams, and a walk-thru, while using this mod (most of the time). They are on my Sims Dreamer channel:
So can you not backstab/riposte the asylum black knight? I'm so confused I've been parrying his ass and just can't riposte to save my life? Like git gud or whats going on, same with backstab.
Yeah, I suppose you are referring to the BK added to Asylum. Yeah, for some reason currently it can't be parried (or back-stabbed, which I hadn't tested, so thank you). I don't know if the other BKs added so far have the same problem. Anyway, as of now, I don't know how to fix this.
Been playing and streaming this combined with aggression black phantoms and random items and boy howdy am I having a time. I got up to the parish and was pleasantly surprised by a black knight. o boy! Then I found out gargoyles has friends. I've never laugh-cry-raged like that in a while. It totally adds more life into the game with what you added!
Thanks! And I'm looking forward to any more parts you put up!
You're welcome, and thank you! Please reply with a link address to your stream of this, please. Yes, I have streamed this mod a lot, also, but real life has prevented me from working on this any further, as of yet. I hope I can work on this mod some more, soon.
I stream it on twitch here: https://www.twitch.tv/eltripp
I had a few hiccups because at this point my Dark Souls is a mess of mods and tape holding it together and I had to restart haha. These are a good example of a few things combined for crazy. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/180630847 https://www.twitch.tv/videos/182372325
Your mod is really great. But I do have some questions: _Will you add more black knights/silver knights? They are awesome. _You actually add new enemies in or you just move them from map to map? Since I only see four hollows at the hellkite bridge. _Do you plan to add some more silver knight archers or silver knights in Ornstein and Smough boss fight? _The blue drake in Undead Parish is goddamn laggy. Can you do anything to fix it? _Do you plan to put Darkwraiths on some areas of the game, beside New Londo Ruins? _Add Asylum Demon or Stray Demon into Demon Ruins? _I think the Bounding Demon in Lost Izalith (the dragon butts) are cool enemies, will you move them to other areas?
Thank you that you like my mod, mostly, so far. Oh, and I think you are one of my viewers on my Sims Dreamer YouTube site, so ty.
-I will add more BKs and SKs to other maps, but that is probably all I'm adding to the maps I've uploaded so far (Asy, Firelink, Burg/Parish). The reasons: I don't want them to be in the way to make process, too much (putting them right in the way, like a regular enemy); I don't want it to be just too easy to farm BK and SK weapons (currently, the ones I've added will respawn if you die or leave the map, and I will make them not respawn once I figure out how).
If you are really wanting more BKs in your way, there is another mod like this that does it, though in my opinion, it doesn't have enough variety and is too hard, again, just to my liking. His video, with download, is on YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyWm8pez9ck Just to warn you, I think his mod kills most friendly NPCs that return to Firelink.
Again, I have nothing against the mod I just mentioned, I just like mine better, lol. The is also a play-thru on YT of an enemy mod that added many many BKs, and was really hard, but, there is no download for the mod (WTF, right?).
-I sometimes move enemies around in a map (such as the torch hollows in Lower Burg being spread throughout the area). However, mostly I add new enemies to the maps (using the model and NPCparams of the new enemy, but have to use AI of an enemy from the current map). There are approximately twice as many enemies in my maps that are finished.
-I don't know exactly what I'm going to add to O-S fight, as of yet. I won't be adding very many enemies, though.
-Yes, that blue drake (wyvern) in Parish does act weird. I just really wanted a dragon there (castle, you know). The red drake (dragon) doesn't work right at all to copy there. I may just remove that blue drake when I update.
-On my PC I have added a few Darkwraiths to the front part of NLR, and one in VoD (this is all one map). Since they are hard enemies, and can be farmed for Chunks and 1200 souls each, I probably won't add very many, or any, anywhere else.
Actually, I may add them, and other rare enemies, to Painted World, so there is more reason to go there. IDK yet, though.
-I don't know if I want to, or if I can, add Asylum Demon as an enemy like that. I haven't worked on the DemonR and LostIz maps, yet.
-Most players don't like the dragon butts. If anything, I'll just leave them where they are, and not add them anywhere else (they are really big, for one thing, and need space).
Thanks for the answers. I think the Black Knight is right. Well, I am only at Lower Undead Burg (waiting for new maps) and I already have a +4 lightning spear thanks to Mr.Black Knight at the Hellkite Dragon bridge. It's too OP in my opinion. Also, I actually like your mod than others, since it creates a fair challenge, not an unbeatable challenge.
Side note: I have tested this mod with one of my pals. And I discovered that the phantom cannot see the added/moved enemies, even though they can still see me take damage and slicing invincible enemies. And the new enemies also attack the phantom, but they don't hurt the phantom. Also, the phantom can hit the added enemies, but he can't cause damage to them, though. I haven't tested if the cooper also have this mod installed.
Btw, here is my playthrough with the mod: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHLczOsHEiW5B8zeuN1DIFuLVSBy-P_G6
And once again, your mod is great. Looking forward to more maps.
Thank you. I guess you mean you got the Lightning Spear from my Mimic, then farmed Chunks from BKs to make it +4? Yeah, nature of the mod to allow such rewards. Since I'm altering the enemy structure, as it were, you're able to get more souls and more good loot early. Basically, this mod would be boring if I just made there be an exact copy of every enemy (placing the twins next to each other). Variety makes it good, I think.
Right, PVP and co-op will be weird if only one of you has this mod installed.
Yeah, that's fine that you made a YT play-thru, I'll check it out.
I also have several YT live-streams, and a walk-thru, while using this mod (most of the time). They are on my Sims Dreamer channel: YT channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3T4wTWm4UooWIbfN7nvHPw YT gaming: https://gaming.youtube.com/user/thesimsdreamer/live DS1 walk-thru (left this mod active during most of this) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLm5h-0g8psrBX0RjyCzyK34UabaYgablk
Oh right, you know this, you have watched my streams before, ty!
The mod is really great, expecially used with the Randomizer, and i have a few suggestions:
-First of all, i think that it would be way better to focus more on "diversity" than "quantity". For Example, i love how you added skeletons in the Parish, but i think that they should replace some existing enemies, not be just added. Do not misundestand, it's fine to add some enemies here and there, but i think that you went a bit overkill in some areas, making them less fun and more frustrating to play.
-I've read that is not possibile to fix the problem with the gargoyle spraying you with fire way before the bossfight in the Parish. I will then suggest to remove him entirely and to add some other enemy.
-Some bossfights are interesting (The Asylum Demon) and some are just gankier (Gargoyles). If a boss can not be improved adding more enemies, i suggest to just buff his HP pool to make it harder, or to transform it in his Gravelord version, if possible.
I'll wait the next version to play some more! Keep up the good work.
(I'm repeating these same points to you as I did in a reply to another user's comment on here).Yeah, I'm kinda torn between comments saying parts are too ganky, or farming is too easy, or you can level up too fast (all of which I mention in this mod's description). I'd say, besides the fact that I'm adding enemies that I WANT to see (since it is my mod), I'm also gauging the difficulty, and fun (to me) based on my own play-thru of the modded maps. As reference, I'll say that I've played DS1 for several years, but I don't speed-run, I don't do many challenge runs, and I like to take it slow and kill all the enemies. So, if I can handle the maps, then that is what I'm going to upload. Players can add even more challenge by playing EPiC along with other hard mods at their own, lol, discretion!
Also, I'm probably not going to add any gravelord versions of enemies or bosses.
Last question, is it hard to make a mod like this? I mean, if i want to make a similar mod, would it be hard? I'm a modder myself, but i've never modded DS before, so i don't know how hard it is or what program i should use. It would be great if you can provide me even a little "Imput" to point me into the right direction.
U R welcome. Well, it's really not all that hard, just sorta time consuming. First I'll say, I haven't learned very much about programming in Cheat Engine, which is fine, because I don't have to use CE for this, lol.
As I state in the description, I used Wulf2k9's MSB Editor to make the changes, and used the modded Debug DarkSouls.exe to find the coordinates I need, and keep enemies from chasing me, and testing, etc.
Tell you what, I may make a tutorial video (with voice commentary) about how to do this (I may ask Wulf2k9 for his permission, first). Right now, I'm making a YT DS1 walk-thru and doing DS1 YT livestreams, so I haven't made edits in MSB in at least a month. Also, I'm having some drama in my personal life, :-(
So, pretty soon I'll relearn, lol, how I was making this, and start making edits again. Then, I may make a YT tutorial.
Of course, I want people to download MY mod of added enemies, lol, but competition is fine, I guess, lol.
Sorry to bother you again here, but for some reason i can't send you PM's.
Anyway, i've given the editor a shot and i was ablo to spawn new enemies of the same level without any problem The first problem arose when i tried to replace all hollow soldiers with Graveyard's Skeletons: They spawn ONLY when i exit the first bonfire of the undead burg. Even the skeletons at the parish seem to not spawn otherwise.
Do you know what i might be doing wrong? There is a fix to this?
LOL, my mod is aimed more at variety than at difficulty, lol, also! I've seen two other versions of people making this type of mod, and those were even more ganky than mine, and had even more hard enemies (esp. BKs, right in the way). Those mods are fine, but too hard for my preference, and didn't have enough enemy variety (again, for my preference). However, I've never seen a mod like this that added enemies to boss fights, lol...but, ya know, "git gud"!
I never ment to say that you mod doesn't also improve variety xD Anyway, i'm still stuck for that "skeleton problem" that i wrote before. Do you know what might be causing it?
Can anyone help me with installing this specific mod (Enemy Placement Changes MOD - EPiC - Alpha stage release v1 by ChandraAblaze1977 )? Im new to this advanced modding, only did dsfix till now xD
My mod will go in maps/mapstudio within those data files. BACKUP the original maps first!!!
The changes due to my EPiCmod will show up on any character you have (old, or new, or current). However, I suggest you just do a new character to try out EPiC mod, especially since the changes are the first areas (maps) of the game.
so i played the mod and i actually had fun playing it on a new save but there are some pros and cons (IMO) about this mod so... here are my thoughts about it. Pros : 1) Area's will be more fresh and new because of new enemy's much like in ds2 2) Requires further planning before proceeding otherwise you be de_stroyed 3) chanllenges you to be mindful of your surroundings 4) boss fights are extremely engaging to the player Cons : 1) loot is common (wtf is this, diablo?) 2) players will be leveling up more than they should be causing less hardships on gameplay and more on ganking
But overall i really like this mod and it makes the game so much better. I also agree on McJ0hns0n's post about this.but again this mod is the best one iv 'e seen so far on fair gameplay wise, Keep up the good work! .
(I'm repeating these same points to you as I did in a reply to another user's comment on here).Yeah, I'm kinda torn between comments saying parts are too ganky, or farming is too easy, or you can level up too fast (all of which I mention in this mod's description). I'd say, besides the fact that I'm adding enemies that I WANT to see (since it is my mod), I'm also gauging the difficulty, and fun (to me) based on my own play-thru of the modded maps. As reference, I'll say that I've played DS1 for several years, but I don't speed-run, I don't do many challenge runs, and I like to take it slow and kill all the enemies. So, if I can handle the maps, then that is what I'm going to upload. Players can add even more challenge by playing EPiC along with other hard mods at their own, lol, discretion!
Yes, as I say in the mod's description, you can get more loot more easily and get more souls early, with this mod. That is part of the balancing act I'm doing to add harder enemies. As I say, I'm a fairly good player, and I can survive, and I have fun with EPiC. Of course, though, it is my choices.
Thank you that you consider (as you say) this being the best version so far of someone adding enemies. Yeah, see, it doesn't have ten or twenty additional Black Knights in each map, lol! And thus, I don't give many more farms for BK weapons, either!
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Dark Souls MOD: Enemy Placement Changes: Asylum: SPOILER Showcase:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ab16-9WGvM&t=2s
Dark Souls MOD: Enemy Placement Changes: Boss Rush! 1st 5 bosses (this one includes the Gaping Dragon boss fight, from my upcoming Depths map):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5FvqYrAzc4&t=25s
Recorded YouTube live-stream long-play of all maps released, and yet unreleased, (no face-cam, no commentary):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKF75ljkFnw
I also have several YT live-streams, and a walk-thru, while using this mod (most of the time). They are on my Sims Dreamer channel:
YT channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3T4wTWm4UooWIbfN7nvHPw
YT gaming:
https://gaming.youtube.com/user/thesimsdreamer/live
DS1 walk-thru (left this mod active during most of this)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLm5h-0g8psrBX0RjyCzyK34UabaYgablk
Sorry, I don't know how to make these be hyperlinks.
Please, if you make a video while using this mod, please give me credit, at least in your description. Thank you.
https://web.archive.org/web/20161113105220fw_/http://wulf2k.ca/Souls/MSBEdit-2016-07-31.zip
Not the latest, but at least.
Works for me with Remastered by putting .msb to DSR/map/mapstudio.
Thanks! And I'm looking forward to any more parts you put up!
https://www.twitch.tv/eltripp
I had a few hiccups because at this point my Dark Souls is a mess of mods and tape holding it together and I had to restart haha. These are a good example of a few things combined for crazy.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/180630847
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/182372325
_Will you add more black knights/silver knights? They are awesome.
_You actually add new enemies in or you just move them from map to map? Since I only see four hollows at the hellkite bridge.
_Do you plan to add some more silver knight archers or silver knights in Ornstein and Smough boss fight?
_The blue drake in Undead Parish is goddamn laggy. Can you do anything to fix it?
_Do you plan to put Darkwraiths on some areas of the game, beside New Londo Ruins?
_Add Asylum Demon or Stray Demon into Demon Ruins?
_I think the Bounding Demon in Lost Izalith (the dragon butts) are cool enemies, will you move them to other areas?
-I will add more BKs and SKs to other maps, but that is probably all I'm adding to the maps I've uploaded so far (Asy, Firelink, Burg/Parish). The reasons: I don't want them to be in the way to make process, too much (putting them right in the way, like a regular enemy); I don't want it to be just too easy to farm BK and SK weapons (currently, the ones I've added will respawn if you die or leave the map, and I will make them not respawn once I figure out how).
If you are really wanting more BKs in your way, there is another mod like this that does it, though in my opinion, it doesn't have enough variety and is too hard, again, just to my liking. His video, with download, is on YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyWm8pez9ck Just to warn you, I think his mod kills most friendly NPCs that return to Firelink.
Again, I have nothing against the mod I just mentioned, I just like mine better, lol. The is also a play-thru on YT of an enemy mod that added many many BKs, and was really hard, but, there is no download for the mod (WTF, right?).
-I sometimes move enemies around in a map (such as the torch hollows in Lower Burg being spread throughout the area). However, mostly I add new enemies to the maps (using the model and NPCparams of the new enemy, but have to use AI of an enemy from the current map). There are approximately twice as many enemies in my maps that are finished.
-I don't know exactly what I'm going to add to O-S fight, as of yet. I won't be adding very many enemies, though.
-Yes, that blue drake (wyvern) in Parish does act weird. I just really wanted a dragon there (castle, you know). The red drake (dragon) doesn't work right at all to copy there. I may just remove that blue drake when I update.
-On my PC I have added a few Darkwraiths to the front part of NLR, and one in VoD (this is all one map). Since they are hard enemies, and can be farmed for Chunks and 1200 souls each, I probably won't add very many, or any, anywhere else.
Actually, I may add them, and other rare enemies, to Painted World, so there is more reason to go there. IDK yet, though.
-I don't know if I want to, or if I can, add Asylum Demon as an enemy like that. I haven't worked on the DemonR and LostIz maps, yet.
-Most players don't like the dragon butts. If anything, I'll just leave them where they are, and not add them anywhere else (they are really big, for one thing, and need space).
Side note: I have tested this mod with one of my pals. And I discovered that the phantom cannot see the added/moved enemies, even though they can still see me take damage and slicing invincible enemies. And the new enemies also attack the phantom, but they don't hurt the phantom. Also, the phantom can hit the added enemies, but he can't cause damage to them, though. I haven't tested if the cooper also have this mod installed.
Btw, here is my playthrough with the mod: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHLczOsHEiW5B8zeuN1DIFuLVSBy-P_G6
And once again, your mod is great. Looking forward to more maps.
Right, PVP and co-op will be weird if only one of you has this mod installed.
Yeah, that's fine that you made a YT play-thru, I'll check it out.
I also have several YT live-streams, and a walk-thru, while using this mod (most of the time). They are on my Sims Dreamer channel:
YT channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3T4wTWm4UooWIbfN7nvHPw
YT gaming:
https://gaming.youtube.com/user/thesimsdreamer/live
DS1 walk-thru (left this mod active during most of this)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLm5h-0g8psrBX0RjyCzyK34UabaYgablk
Oh right, you know this, you have watched my streams before, ty!
-First of all, i think that it would be way better to focus more on "diversity" than "quantity". For Example, i love how you added skeletons in the Parish, but i think that they should replace some existing enemies, not be just added. Do not misundestand, it's fine to add some enemies here and there, but i think that you went a bit overkill in some areas, making them less fun and more frustrating to play.
-I've read that is not possibile to fix the problem with the gargoyle spraying you with fire way before the bossfight in the Parish. I will then suggest to remove him entirely and to add some other enemy.
-Some bossfights are interesting (The Asylum Demon) and some are just gankier (Gargoyles). If a boss can not be improved adding more enemies, i suggest to just buff his HP pool to make it harder, or to transform it in his Gravelord version, if possible.
I'll wait the next version to play some more! Keep up the good work.
Also, I'm probably not going to add any gravelord versions of enemies or bosses.
Last question, is it hard to make a mod like this? I mean, if i want to make a similar mod, would it be hard? I'm a modder myself, but i've never modded DS before, so i don't know how hard it is or what program i should use. It would be great if you can provide me even a little "Imput" to point me into the right direction.
As I state in the description, I used Wulf2k9's MSB Editor to make the changes, and used the modded Debug DarkSouls.exe to find the coordinates I need, and keep enemies from chasing me, and testing, etc.
Tell you what, I may make a tutorial video (with voice commentary) about how to do this (I may ask Wulf2k9 for his permission, first). Right now, I'm making a YT DS1 walk-thru and doing DS1 YT livestreams, so I haven't made edits in MSB in at least a month. Also, I'm having some drama in my personal life, :-(
So, pretty soon I'll relearn, lol, how I was making this, and start making edits again. Then, I may make a YT tutorial.
Of course, I want people to download MY mod of added enemies, lol, but competition is fine, I guess, lol.
And for the competition, don't worry, i'll aim just for enemy variety, not increased difficulty, so our mod will still be quite different
I'll wait for your video tutorial then, thanks a lot!
Anyway, i've given the editor a shot and i was ablo to spawn new enemies of the same level without any problem The first problem arose when i tried to replace all hollow soldiers with Graveyard's Skeletons: They spawn ONLY when i exit the first bonfire of the undead burg. Even the skeletons at the parish seem to not spawn otherwise.
Do you know what i might be doing wrong? There is a fix to this?
Im new to this advanced modding, only did dsfix till now xD
A step by step document or video would be awesome
thanks in advance
ps; will this work on my current character or?
Wulf2k9, the creator of the tool I'm using for making EPiC mod, also made tools for unpacking Data Files. He has his YT tutorial here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaPKqLcqGmY&list=PLm5h-0g8psrC4oUKcZ1eIyR2HkSsST4AM&index=135
Also, these snarky, lol, people tell the process, also, and then proceed to show install of Item Randomizer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAcJADyJ4K0&index=129&list=PLm5h-0g8psrC4oUKcZ1eIyR2HkSsST4AM&t=591s
My mod will go in maps/mapstudio within those data files. BACKUP the original maps first!!!
The changes due to my EPiCmod will show up on any character you have (old, or new, or current). However, I suggest you just do a new character to try out EPiC mod, especially since the changes are the first areas (maps) of the game.
Pros :
1) Area's will be more fresh and new because of new enemy's much like in ds2
2) Requires further planning before proceeding otherwise you be de_stroyed
3) chanllenges you to be mindful of your surroundings
4) boss fights are extremely engaging to the player
Cons :
1) loot is common (wtf is this, diablo?)
2) players will be leveling up more than they should be causing less hardships on gameplay and more on ganking
But overall i really like this mod and it makes the game so much better. I also agree on McJ0hns0n's post about this.but again this mod is the best one iv 'e seen so far on fair gameplay wise, Keep up the good work!
Yes, as I say in the mod's description, you can get more loot more easily and get more souls early, with this mod. That is part of the balancing act I'm doing to add harder enemies. As I say, I'm a fairly good player, and I can survive, and I have fun with EPiC. Of course, though, it is my choices.
Thank you that you consider (as you say) this being the best version so far of someone adding enemies. Yeah, see, it doesn't have ten or twenty additional Black Knights in each map, lol! And thus, I don't give many more farms for BK weapons, either!