Apparently there's a mod on the works since last year aiming at restoring Dark Souls 3 alpha content
nexusmods.com
youtu.be
I just learned about it after looking into Dark Souls 3 cut content used in Elden Ring.
Luckily, From loves to recycle non used content so apparently those guys are putting in bonfire sacrifices and God's Grave (old Farron Keep) + the old world structure and time of the day
Thoughts?
Dark Souls 3 - Alpha restoration project
Anthony Rodriguez
Charles Taylor
Joseph Lopez
Is it a completely new game? Would I have to rebeat the bosses to access the new areas?
Kayden Ross
James Rogers
I'm not one of the mod authors so I don't know for certain, but from what he showed there's literal new areas and old areas are more "connected".
He also said there's some new bosses but he will keep the core the same, like a Dark Souls 3 if it had
Luke Wright
so many mods become abandonware i simply don't pay attention until they finish
William Rodriguez
Looks like a shitty reshade.
Justin Adams
Well, at least those seem to have been working on this for more than a year
There's apparently a lot of new lighting for the time of the days and rituals
youtu.be
Hudson Turner
I don't know if it's finished or not
Point is
The mod intends to restructure the world itself and replace the bosses and enemies accordingly, which is great.
Oliver Garcia
You cant just restore alpha content, it would take more than restoring old assets, you would be making a whole new game. Much of what Miyazaki had to cut is not even available in anything other than some screenshoots.
Jace King
Caleb Anderson
God, imagine the copious amounts of porn that the Dancer of the Borreal Valley would have received had she remained a friendly NPC like in the alpha.
Josiah Scott
>it would take more than restoring old assets, you would be making a whole new game
Convergence already did some of that
Profaned Capital was entirely translated and could theoretically be replaced. At this point the leakers know perfectly the progress route and the assets used
Nathan Morales
HMMMM.....
Charles Thompson
>replaced
*repositioned
Jaxson Hughes
She had the exact same giant model, but stood upright instead of hunched like an animal. I remember seeing an early-development image of her.
Jacob Thompson
They really butchered 3 hard... should've given FROM another year.
Connor Jones
3 was a better game before Miyazaki came aboard
How interesting :^)
Carter Cox
I WILL NEVER NOT BE MAD.
John Long
More like 6 months
Most of what was cut was 80% finished
Kevin Flores
>I remember seeing an early-development image of her.
source
Gavin Nguyen
Jacob Wood
Take a look at this shit LMAO
youtu.be
Bamco-sama... I...
John Young
oh you mean the shit that's trash and got cut for a reason?
Ethan Reyes
cute
I though she would be huge
Tyler Bailey
Imagine her massive weight in armor as she rests her asscheeks on my face
Michael Butler
twitter.com
Posted by the same guy by the way
I think he is legit, been updating this mod for at least 2 years
Liam Roberts
Miyacucki fannytranny cope
Nathan Campbell
What a waste of porn potential.
Anthony Brown
Most Dark Souls 3 overhaul mods are usually finished, like Archthrones, Convergence, Cinders,...
Oliver Ramirez
Not sure about the dragons in the sky thing. I think Zullie put out a video showing how those dragons shared the same model as the DS2 dragons, which suggests they were a placeholder for demoing the pilgrim butterflies, and the butterflies were always the intention
Lucas Harris
William Brooks
Thought the same
Elijah Bell
The Butterflies were always the intention, that's why they share the root wings with Old King of the Eclipse/Sulyvahn
James Howard
It's OK, I have Tiche in Elden Ring.
Gabriel Jenkins
>Twin Princes had a third phase
Based
Henry Hill
Tiche sitting on your face doesn't have the same impact as this.
Oliver Gray
When was Dark Souls 3 remixed and why? I don't see what was gained out of the shuffled other than perhaps speeding up dev time, as everything bar the player determined bonfires sounds extremely compelling.
Despite everything DS3 still feels the most 'unfinished' of any Souls game to me.
DeS just had a cut level but everything else is good.
DS1 had some areas that could have used more work in the 2nd half, i.e Izalith, but pretty much everything is in-game.
DS2 once you ignore the lack of world connectivity is fine enough, I'd go as far to say the game likely improved once they changed directors, even with the loss of the lighting.
DS3 just doesn't feel right, like just take Untended Graves which always seemed to me like it should have had more importance placed on it, was the final level in the Alpha allegedly, is just tossed in as an optional area.
John Scott
DS3 feels unfinshed because it is. Probably the most of all souls games.
A suppossed leak from a guy who worked on it said they had to scratch almsot half of the game due lack of time/resources, and the game is basically what was done glued togehter. Some Miyazaki itnerviews seem to back this up, aswell as the several times the maps made no sense or had places with other intentions. The msot noticeable one is the room where you fight Wolnir where there's an altar that does nothing at all and then the room has an exit to Irthryl because why not.
Connor Hernandez
also the Pus of Man just not being used at all?
And the entire active apocalypse with the butterflies and the eclipse being confined to like 2 levels before suddenly being in the Dreg Heap in an extremely time separated post apocalypse before The Ringed City takes you even further in time post apocalypse.
Jordan Ramirez
>obsess over someone's work to the point he develops an abandonment syndrome for them
Nolan Brooks
>When was Dark Souls 3 remixed and why?
Because Bamco cut the development short
Many asstes were repurposed in the dlcs
The game had a very different mid game structure, which you can tell because Lothric Castle, Archdragon Peak and High Wall/Undead Settlement have much higher quality/porduction values
The leak was fake and the story was headcanon.
Most of what is seen in retail is what would have appeared, the difference being in a reshuffled order
Catacombs was always near Irithyll
Brandon Scott
she is huge, the player isn't standing next to her, she's in the distance
Jonathan Rivera
A lot of fake news have been spread about this
"Irithyll" was called Abandoned Kingdom and was a desert kingdom
Carter Torres
>entire game series is a lazy copypaste of the prior title
>somehow they still can't finish a game
fromsoft more like gamefreak
Gabriel Anderson
>Because Bamco cut the development short
that seems very strange to do, coming off the financial successes of DS1,2 and BB (Sony's but still they would have seen how it performed) why would they get pushy with release dates and budgets then? At least they've relaxed with Elden Ring, I have not felt any of the problems I had with DS3 in that.
What was the original game to you guys then? I'm familiar with the "leak" that was saying like Wolmir was Yorm originally but changed the name of the models for final, Kaathe was going to burst in during a boss fight or something, Pontiff was final boss in Untended Graves.
Jaxon Sanchez
But Wolnir was not the boss and Irythyl had another entrance and you would've entered the catacombs from elsewhere, it wasn't under the Abyss Watchers' room for no reason.
Jacob Collins
Wolnir was moved twice.
He's been seen in both Yhorm's arena and the Abyss Watchers arena.
Jonathan King
>ywn play Dark Souls 3 the Original Cut
fug u bamco
Grayson Fisher
Wolnir is true.
Kaathe has never been backed up by any hard evidence IIRC.
Pontiff being the final boss is true but he would've been fought in a third version of Cemetary of Ash, the uncorrupted Champion Gundyr was always the boss of Untended Graves.
The third version of Cemetary would've linked to the actual Kiln of the First Flame from DS1.
Cooper Hill
The lore of Dark Souls 3's development is more interesting than the actual lore we get in game.
Samuel Cox
>that seems very strange to do
It's more common than you think
All Souls games except DS2 were rushed at some point
It's more about pushing releases in time for yearly financial quarters so the investors söyface over the new big numbers
>What was the original game to you guys then? I'm familiar with the "leak" that was saying like Wolmir was Yhorm
True, Wolnir was defined the "Lonesome Lord of the Profaned Capital" but a lot of characters switched around, not just Yhorm, that originally was the tutorial boss fight also met later in the red eyes form
>Kaathe was going to burst in during a boss fight or something
Pushed headcanon by fake leaker. There's absolutely NOTHING that indicates that
>But Wolnir was not the boss and Irythyl had another entrance and you would've entered the catacombs from elsewhere,
All of these are fake info from a supposed "QA leaker" citing a build that didn't even have Smouldering Lake in it
The supposed "second entrance" taht goes to Irithyll Dungeon can't even exist because Irithyll Dungeon used to be near Profaned Capital and not towards nu-Irithyll
Nolan Williams
>All Souls games except DS2 were rushed at some point
DaS2 as we know it was finished in nine months. Everything was scrapped prior to that point beyond assets.
Andrew Kelly
oh look. another patreon beg for money with the promise of a popular game mod.
Carter Garcia
It would have been kino bros...
Gavin Wilson
youtu.be
What the actual fuck is wrong with Miyazaki?
Christian Jackson
>these are fake info
Not the part about Wolnir
Austin Baker
This dude's been putting out content for years about it though and has posted numerous videos that deserve at least ass much attention as Lance's vids. I'm not giving him any money, but I eagerly wait his mod.
Zachary Sanchez
Apparently this is the first thing he personally did... and Bamco forced him to cut it
He should have went with Activision for Elden Ring
Lincoln Watson
Will they make the game not complete dog shit linear corridors that make cod checkpoint simulator look like baldurs gate? Because this game is the worst souls game in the franchise by a fucking mile. Its literally corridors with retarded enemies you should never fight and boss rush simulator. And the bosses are fucking prototype elden ring dancing ballerina fuck faces where a handful are good fights and rest are either a complete joke or chore.
Blake Fisher
so?
I've seen people do the same shit with other games. post for years that they're doing some whole game retexture or lighting fix, even have their own discord where everyone can go and get excited over some vaporware, and then they slowly go radio silence without ever releasing anything.
begging for money because you've done a mod is a shitty thing to do, even more so when the mod isn't fucking finished or released.