Disclaimer for whoever sees this: The Convergence is an ongoing project, and has been moving really fast lately. More and more areas are being overhauled, and fundamental things are still being changed. So I just want to add to the video that the mod has gotten even better in the past few months and even more worth trying out!
This is a fun mod, but holy shit the performance drops are astronomically irritating. I'll be playing at 60FPS and the game will just drop to 20-30 randomly.
You guys are doing a great job! Spellsword builds have always been my favorite thing to try in honor of my first Demon's Souls character, this mod adds a lot of color to stuff like that.
@@davidemesturino2341 Oh sad to hear that, it's one of the few things i hate about consoles. You have to resort to piracy to add mods and then only a few specific mods made for the console version work, because the mods for PC use different files and such and are not compatible :(
I just downloaded this mod and beat the first boss and realized just how much this mod adds/changes. This video is super helpful for learning the basics. Great video
This mod seems WAYY cooler than the "Cinders" mod. Don't get me wrong I mean, Cinders is a good mod but the bosses have so much health, in late game, that its more annoying than anything. Also, the stamina depletion is insane.
Aldrich has like 16k fucking HP and I'm over here doing 400 damage each hit with Pyro flame and they call it a challenge. Challenge? That shit wasn't even a challenge lmao. That shit was hell itself, skill should help on a challenge, my skill from 700 hours on DS3 didn't help me agaisn't Aldrich because he spammed his arrow rain like it was a joke that loses it's grace the 19312391th time he fucking yeets it on my face and one-shots me
Yeah I gave Cinders a try recently and found it to be underwhelming at best, and I found all the "bosses" thrown in at random locations to be the laziest, most uninteresting shit I've ever seen. The weapons were kinda cool and I didn't try out spellcasting, but the Bloodborne weapons were also incredibly lazy.
3:30 i agree with this so much just cus you have end game enemies at the start does not make the challenge "FUN" im looking at you bloodsouls judgment of ash
What they should do with the Abyss Watchers in the swamp is just take a standard NPC and give them the Undead Legion gear. Should work a bit better than copies of the boss placed in an area they don't belong.
4:28 should prolly be noted that Cinders had that covenant overhaul system for a while, with the exact same features. Convergence builds upon alot of the mechanics that Cinders introduced originally.
To me, cinders is just a weapons and armors pack. Convergence legit adds so much, like custom animations, have you seen the threaded falchion? It's literally the beast cutter from bloodborne but working
@Hippo Crate Dunno, Cinders improves on a whole lot of the base game for me. And ever since Muffins was added to the Cinders team to work on weapons and such, I've seen and used some pretty awesome weapons with remixed movesets, such as Alonne's Bewitched Sword, which has a mix of a scythe, different katanas, and even Sekiro animations topped off with green black flames. On top of that, theres much more variety in builds and tools at your disposal, including spells, rings, consumables, etc. Convergence adds plenty of things Cinders has already implemented, if not done better. At the same time, Convergence also adds some things that piqued my interest for sure, and I wish Cinders had these features (new geometry in each map, even MORE spells, more changed bosses, etc). And as a side note, we have a Beast Cutter too ^_^
I think it's excellent they borrowed from cinders. The community is essentially building its ideal dark souls game through trial and error. Convergence has an excellent magic system, hopefully someone will come along and fix the cringy things like king allant and some of the dialogue and further improve it, adding their own stuff. Making it a real convergence.
Im blown away. Just tried cinders and I thought it was cool, but I couldn’t get the new armor to render and the bosses were too tanky. But convergence is next level, everything is just about perfect
Hey, I too had problems with the direction that Cinders had taken, but they have since undone a lot of the changes and reverted back to the glory days of ~ patch 1.7. Patch 2.0 is quite something.
@@pHixiq They were trying to make it more and more difficult instead of fun because it got super unbalanced two thirds into the game where you would become a literal unkillable god. It ended up making the first two thirds of the game frustrating as fuck. They then made more changes after 2.0 which made early game entertaining. I'm not sure if late game is improved though. Before I could reach there, I discovered Convergence mod.
@@greendabre right now I'm stuck on abyss watchers, killed dancer and going to go through there first. I don't like how all of a sudden gets hard because it was fun then like here you go let's make it hard
@@greendabre I'm just super rusty and never was too good at them, I feel like they spawn more in the first phase and the health bar seems pretty extreme considering the fact that I'm only given like 4 estus
I enjoy the variety of Cinders but I do definitely think their approach of "More enemies equals difficult" / "bigger numbers equals difficult" is kinda backwards. I was pretty put off when I was on their discord and mentioned Smouldering Lake being arse at the time (due to ~6 or 8 fire demons and stray demons, + the ballista, + the carthus worm being repositioned) and everybody basically pulled the Git Gud card and recommended cheesing with range/spells, as though the game's supposed to be played by hyper-cautious attrition. Kinda stops being a *game* at that point IMO. If Convergence can get anywhere near the level of gear and build options I'll probably make the switch.
Idk I had more problems with npcs and bosses then I did enemy places I also loved the variety like you said but I did feel myself rushing the enjoyment of it I would definitely take it slow as it is still a good mod
Cinders had those demons so far apart that you only needed to get close to them to easily pull and kill them one by one, or ignore them and run to grab the items on the area, or just go to the ruins to deactivate the ballista first if you had problems dealing with it. Sorry to say this but if you couldn't do something as simple as any of that then it sounds like you really deserved those "cheese with ranged/spells" or "git gud" comments.
@@KudryavkaNoumiWafu This was a few dozen versions ago, when they were updating almost daily. They hadn't adjusted the aggro range on them from when they were mini bosses so they saw and attacked you from a few hundred feet. Was very easy to get noticed by 3+at a time, even hugging walls. The area wasn't impassable, it was just really badly designed at the time. The community's gut response of "You think our game design could use some tweaks? You must be a shitty player" struck me as the discord being full of jackasses. Their approach to new enemy placements hasn't particularly improved for the most part, when they make them. Forcing players to cheese isn't fun, is my point.
@@trevorp8124 Their aggro range didn't matter because as i said they were separated enough that you wouldn't aggro more than one at a time unless you ran all through the area to purposely aggro all of them. So no, if you aggroed more than one at a time you definitely did something wrong. And to be honest, i'm still not sure what's the point of complaining about some random people from the discord of that mod in a video-review of the Convergence. Pretty sure the point of this video is give importance about the quality of the Convergence mod, which is quite good, and not about the rotten parts of the Dark Souls community that you can find everywhere.
@@trevorp8124 Ok, considering the version of that mod when the demons where still in there, which means that you are holding a grudge for something that happened over at least 6 months ago or longer than that about some randoms making fun of you because you had no idea what were you talking about... Sorry but forget I said anything, I really don't know what are you trying to acomplish here but i rather have nothing to do with it from now on.
Not gonna lie, everything you mentioned about this just sounds infinitely more interesting than what From actually did with base DS3 and I say that despite the fact that I enjoyed the game for what it is but hearing all the changes and additions to the game through this mod has made me consider getting back into the game just to play it.
You will see once you play the mod that the vanilla is better. It’s cool to have 10000 new features, but it destroy the balance and ambience of vanilla DS3. That’s why formsoft is not adding thousands weapons and systems, they want quality over quantity.
I think it's awesome they borrowed from cinders. The community is essentially building its ideal dark souls game through trial and error. Convergence has an excellent magic system, hopefully someone will come along and fix the cringy things like king allant and some of the dialogue and further improve it, adding their own stuff. Making it a real convergence.
So, if there are 3 things that made me hate DS3 after initial couple of playthroughs it's these: 1. Magic generally sucks, with exception of some well timed pyromancies like black flame. By the time a pure caster build is complete dex/str builds can pump vigor or endurance to 40. By the time a hybrid caster is complete, dex/str builds are already 40 vig, 40 end and can pump the other stat to become pure quality. 2. Poise being absent - heavier armors are just pointless. Also, I hate how there is no mid-roll in DS3. there is either the fat roll nobody uses, or the super roll that should be reserved to super agile characters under 25% equipment weight imo. 3. The game is generally more based around quick reaction timing and muscle memory, which is not bad in itself, I love Bloodborne, even got Platinum for it, but it does so at the expense of meaningful decisionmaking in combat - mainly, stamina regen. It's waaaay too forgiving for my taste, but the way most bosses are designed it has to be so fast. Still, I prefered DS2 feel of tactically baiting out attack and punishing with heavy-heavy light combo instead of just dodge and R1 spam. Now, for any brave soul that actually read through the entire rant, does convergence adress any of these in substantial way, from your personal experiences?
I like this take, I personally prefer ds2 for its poise, and I’m a magic nut overall so it sucked seeing such a sad array of magic builds within meta. I’m gonna just bite the bullet with this mod cuz I really wanted a sorcerer fighter feeling for souls like I got with some arcane usage in bloodborne, and I’m hoping this gives it.
A couple questions for fellow commenters: I've played ds3 many many times but I just bought it for my PC to play mods, specifically this and cinders. Should I play through the vanilla game again before hand or can I go straight in?
Another: these giant mods always look fun but im always worried it'll be sensory overload. Does this mod throw you into everything super fast or does it give you time to understand all the new stuff and explain well?
These mods are best played when you have a good knowledge of the game for them to play with and subvert, so I'd say you're good to go and try them. Also for the second question, both Cinders and Convergence are pretty good about not throwing huge amounts of nonsense at you right off the bat, so sensory overload isn't a problem with these ones imo.
@@SilverSeraphym awesome, thanks a ton! Also, if you haven't made one already, I think a video of like 5-10 good ds3 mods would be great, I couldn't find any elsewhere
I feel like I need this. I've been thinking about doing a magic or battlemage run in Dark Souls 3, and this is really egging me into playing Dark Souls again, especially since I can't play Demon's Souls and I am anticipating Elden Ring.
Well then, my friend, since most people who play for the first time only reach Vordt in two hours I'd suggest you buy the game and wreck hell because even if you watched it later it's still not the same as playing. BUT GODDAMN SOME OF THE BOSSES ARE HELLA AWESOME FIGHTS LIKE SOUL OF CINDER
@@advertisingadrian Yea i'm planning to make a whole walkthrough, but i want to record and comment it, which is difficult with the little time i have, due to work :( However, I WILL play it before Elden Ring releases! Thanks for the motivating words my friend :)
as someone who is playing cinders, i agree with that its not what it used to be, im still sticking with patch 1.84, as thats where things are still allright and its fun, but i have read the changelogs and i have no clue to what they are doing now, makes me sad, it was once a very good mod,
I like his this mod returned pyromancy to have no stat requirements, being not the best, but still powerful, and the easiest to use, but at the cost of large FP in exchange for the limited castings being gone.
Question from a DS modding newbie: Can you still play your DS3 vanilla characters in normal DS3 and just start a new character for Convergence or Cinders? Can you play the vanilla game in parallel with the Convergence or Cinders mod?
I never modded DS but am very experienced with Skyrim, the gist is, what you want is usually done with mod manager profiles. If there's such a thing for DS, yeah you can do it easily. If there isn't... probably not.
It is possible but it would be a pain in the ass to switch between them. Unless you are using a mod manager that supports ds3 I just wouldn’t bother. I have 100% completed ds3 on console so idk
Cool mod. Curious for clarification though. If I have this mod and become "soft-banned" as the modders describe, what happens if I take the mod off (and go back to true vanilla)? Do I not become soft-banned anymore?
@@jahromespencer3246 I see. I just have a friend that enjoys the pvp aspect of the game and wanted to show him this mod as something we could do together. I didn't want him to be cucked out of it just in case he ends up not enjoying the mod ya know?
@@wigglezz692 Its a late reply, so it may be too late, but if you get soft banned once, you can NEVER get unbanned. Everyone on the softban server is a hacker or a mod player. You'll never be able to play on the legitimate server again.
check out cinders again. I agree that they went away from good things towards the bad things but this version was super fun to run through and collect all items
Does anybody know how to get havals outfit I have checked the convergence wiki and it says that it can be found on a dead body in archdragon peak but I remember seeing it be purchasable on a convanent so is it on a dead body or is it a convanent item
You can get the covenant that gives you chaos remnants in smoldering lake. And, also in smoldering is a group of demons and knights that fight. As long as you have good item discovery, it's easy to get a ton in a few hours
This looks amazing but I totally disagree about set bonuses! Fashion over everything and I hope dark souls never stops me from mix n matching by making set bonuses a thing. It'd nerf my already nerfed cosplay builds into the dirt.
id like to ask is there a class that is just obsurdly powerful with a few drawbacks id like to try a run like that but there are so many classes to choose from.
Honestly, if it weren't for the cinders moveset mod and that king allant boss, Convergence would easily be my favourite and go-to mod for ds3...alas, the cinders moveset mod is just too fun to pass up
If it’s at all like Cinders, only if you’re willing to get softbanned. Then you can invade other softbanned players! (Or get invaded) Take care to make use of “family library sharing” if you want to do this. Either to avoid getting your main account banned, or to have a fallback if you want to play vanilla.
I recently installed the honest merchant mod and all of a sudden I can’t play online does anyone know where that is should I uninstall the mod and how do I do that
@@SilverSeraphym hey, quick question, i am aware it’s unrelated to the thread but if you were to play this mod without the dlc, would some classes just be completely missing main weapons? I’m asking because my computer isn’t great, not even sure if my pc’ll be able to run it that well, and that’s why I’m getting it during a sale, and I am 99.99% positive demon princes, Midir, and gael will destroy my computer.
Is it very difficult to put mods into dark souls 3? I know I modded dark souls 1 after some trial and error figuring it out but it took me a little bit of a while lol. I definitely want to mod DS3 though especially this mod here :P.
Yo how do I increase my new game plus cycle, in Cinders you can go as high as you want. I mean first playthrough is just jokingly easy I would like to go to NG 7 like from the beginning.
Honestly, I don't know why I feel surprised that people can mod entire boss fights because if a guy can hack his character to create an entire boss fight and invite people to fight him, what even are the limitations at this point
As much as I appreciate all the hard work these modders do, it just affirms that, usually, the original vision of a game by its team is the best. Stuffing it full of new content just doesn't feel right and much of it doesn't feel like a natural extension.
I think cinders version 1.75 or 1.82 are the best versions. After that they stopped improving the base game and started making changes for the sake of changes
Man I wish I had dark souls three on PC. I wanna play mods like this one and cinders - but the game is still eighty fucking dollars including DLC, and I just can't afford that.
Unless you're not from the USA consider yourself lucky, because here in Brazil DS3 is like R$159,99 and I'd much rather live in America where it costs just 80 bucks.
I've heard of lots of people doing family sharing for that reason, that way their main Steam account can play unmodded and unbanned. I've actually never tried though, I personally just always stay offline with a mod installed.
Its always insane to me when I see such large mods on a game that has no mods support what so ever. for me its a miracle when people are able to mod games like skyrim where the devs give you tools to do so, let alone games like darksouls where there are no tools what so ever.
Cinders was compleeeetely ruined recently. It's really tragic what's happened to it. Hearing someone else comment on it was cathartic. SO STOP APOLOGIZING FOR YOUR OPINIONS.
Windows defender is terrible and u should know mods aren’t viruses as long as ur downloading them from a trusted site like nexus mods I turn it off all the time cuz it’s useless
One thing as the mod is right now is magic is really, really overpowered for most areas. The target lock system has seemingly no limit in range, making it possible to just kill everything from extremely far away in quite a few maps.
I can’t WAIT!! To get ds3 on pc so I can finally use this mod and cinders afterwards. I love all from soft games already, but everyone just gotta agree mods can make any game better 😂
I would like to have a more in depth comparison between this and cinders. I played Cinders and I loved it. Not sure if I am up for another playthrough again though (slowly reaching 100 by now)
I liked the video, but something that stood out to me is that you keep saying mods are for people who just want a different experience but you don't use that same logic when it comes to cinders, for example; you say that to claim that the changing of the tutorial boss is fine because it's just a mod it's not intended for new players, but you count cinders (a mod) breaking lore as a negative even though it's just a mod.
I’m getting it on steam today for 15 bucks in the hope that it does work, but even if it doesn’t work then I got it pretty cheap so I won’t really care
Bruh, I could play DS3 at 50+ fps on a budget gaming laptop from 2013. There's no excuse to not be able to run DS3 today, just go buy some used hardware for chump change.
Disclaimer for whoever sees this: The Convergence is an ongoing project, and has been moving really fast lately. More and more areas are being overhauled, and fundamental things are still being changed. So I just want to add to the video that the mod has gotten even better in the past few months and even more worth trying out!
I'll say. Playing it right now for the first time and loving every second so far!
@@damntakes525 i just downloaded it today lol
And now development on DS3 Convergence has finished and they're starting work on Elden Ring Convergence! Awesome news :)
@@KarlosMorale Can't wait! Especially because Elden Ring already has way more variety than DS3... They'll have to outdo themselves
This is a fun mod, but holy shit the performance drops are astronomically irritating. I'll be playing at 60FPS and the game will just drop to 20-30 randomly.
Thank you sooo much for this awesome video about our mod! Great job bud!
If you really are a mod developer than if there isnt make a wiki like cinders did
@@tigerg928 thank you so much i need it thank you so much
You guys are doing a great job! Spellsword builds have always been my favorite thing to try in honor of my first Demon's Souls character, this mod adds a lot of color to stuff like that.
congrats to the team
this mod is insane on so many levels
hi there, how do i play online with a friend? with the mod installed it wont let me connect to online servers
thanks
That chaos beam is the most op thing ever but it's so cool.
A lot of the spells of this mod are really nice, they make doing different mage builds so satisfying.
@@KudryavkaNoumiWafu I'm a console player sadly
@@davidemesturino2341 Oh sad to hear that, it's one of the few things i hate about consoles. You have to resort to piracy to add mods and then only a few specific mods made for the console version work, because the mods for PC use different files and such and are not compatible :(
the wind build is amazing
I just downloaded this mod and beat the first boss and realized just how much this mod adds/changes. This video is super helpful for learning the basics. Great video
This mod seems WAYY cooler than the "Cinders" mod. Don't get me wrong I mean, Cinders is a good mod but the bosses have so much health, in late game, that its more annoying than anything. Also, the stamina depletion is insane.
Casual...
@@michaeljhale23 casually doing your mom.
Aldrich has like 16k fucking HP and I'm over here doing 400 damage each hit with Pyro flame and they call it a challenge.
Challenge? That shit wasn't even a challenge lmao.
That shit was hell itself, skill should help on a challenge, my skill from 700 hours on DS3 didn't help me agaisn't Aldrich because he spammed his arrow rain like it was a joke that loses it's grace the 19312391th time he fucking yeets it on my face and one-shots me
@@michaeljhale23 you do realise difficulty isn’t just raising up the hp and damage of enemies
Yeah I gave Cinders a try recently and found it to be underwhelming at best, and I found all the "bosses" thrown in at random locations to be the laziest, most uninteresting shit I've ever seen. The weapons were kinda cool and I didn't try out spellcasting, but the Bloodborne weapons were also incredibly lazy.
3:30 i agree with this so much just cus you have end game enemies at the start does not make the challenge "FUN" im looking at you bloodsouls judgment of ash
The thrid sister of the sable church is now the untended graves boss?!?! I approve of this change
What they should do with the Abyss Watchers in the swamp is just take a standard NPC and give them the Undead Legion gear. Should work a bit better than copies of the boss placed in an area they don't belong.
4:28 should prolly be noted that Cinders had that covenant overhaul system for a while, with the exact same features. Convergence builds upon alot of the mechanics that Cinders introduced originally.
To me, cinders is just a weapons and armors pack. Convergence legit adds so much, like custom animations, have you seen the threaded falchion? It's literally the beast cutter from bloodborne but working
@@springtrapnibba Cinders actually has a bunch of cool movesets they are just not fully implemented yet
@Hippo Crate Dunno, Cinders improves on a whole lot of the base game for me. And ever since Muffins was added to the Cinders team to work on weapons and such, I've seen and used some pretty awesome weapons with remixed movesets, such as Alonne's Bewitched Sword, which has a mix of a scythe, different katanas, and even Sekiro animations topped off with green black flames. On top of that, theres much more variety in builds and tools at your disposal, including spells, rings, consumables, etc. Convergence adds plenty of things Cinders has already implemented, if not done better. At the same time, Convergence also adds some things that piqued my interest for sure, and I wish Cinders had these features (new geometry in each map, even MORE spells, more changed bosses, etc). And as a side note, we have a Beast Cutter too ^_^
I think it's excellent they borrowed from cinders. The community is essentially building its ideal dark souls game through trial and error. Convergence has an excellent magic system, hopefully someone will come along and fix the cringy things like king allant and some of the dialogue and further improve it, adding their own stuff. Making it a real convergence.
Nice review, I really liked your 'what I dislike' disclosure in the beginning
Im blown away. Just tried cinders and I thought it was cool, but I couldn’t get the new armor to render and the bosses were too tanky. But convergence is next level, everything is just about perfect
This is such an underrated channel! Shared with my buddies 🤙
Hey, I too had problems with the direction that Cinders had taken, but they have since undone a lot of the changes and reverted back to the glory days of ~ patch 1.7. Patch 2.0 is quite something.
You mind explaining to me what they were doing ? I just got cinders today and I love it but I’m new to mods for dark souls. Just curious!
@@pHixiq They were trying to make it more and more difficult instead of fun because it got super unbalanced two thirds into the game where you would become a literal unkillable god. It ended up making the first two thirds of the game frustrating as fuck.
They then made more changes after 2.0 which made early game entertaining. I'm not sure if late game is improved though. Before I could reach there, I discovered Convergence mod.
@@greendabre right now I'm stuck on abyss watchers, killed dancer and going to go through there first. I don't like how all of a sudden gets hard because it was fun then like here you go let's make it hard
@@wacamac1006 What's so difficult about AW? I haven't played in a month, haha.
@@greendabre I'm just super rusty and never was too good at them, I feel like they spawn more in the first phase and the health bar seems pretty extreme considering the fact that I'm only given like 4 estus
I enjoy the variety of Cinders but I do definitely think their approach of "More enemies equals difficult" / "bigger numbers equals difficult" is kinda backwards. I was pretty put off when I was on their discord and mentioned Smouldering Lake being arse at the time (due to ~6 or 8 fire demons and stray demons, + the ballista, + the carthus worm being repositioned) and everybody basically pulled the Git Gud card and recommended cheesing with range/spells, as though the game's supposed to be played by hyper-cautious attrition. Kinda stops being a *game* at that point IMO.
If Convergence can get anywhere near the level of gear and build options I'll probably make the switch.
Idk I had more problems with npcs and bosses then I did enemy places I also loved the variety like you said but I did feel myself rushing the enjoyment of it I would definitely take it slow as it is still a good mod
Cinders had those demons so far apart that you only needed to get close to them to easily pull and kill them one by one, or ignore them and run to grab the items on the area, or just go to the ruins to deactivate the ballista first if you had problems dealing with it. Sorry to say this but if you couldn't do something as simple as any of that then it sounds like you really deserved those "cheese with ranged/spells" or "git gud" comments.
@@KudryavkaNoumiWafu
This was a few dozen versions ago, when they were updating almost daily. They hadn't adjusted the aggro range on them from when they were mini bosses so they saw and attacked you from a few hundred feet. Was very easy to get noticed by 3+at a time, even hugging walls.
The area wasn't impassable, it was just really badly designed at the time. The community's gut response of "You think our game design could use some tweaks? You must be a shitty player" struck me as the discord being full of jackasses.
Their approach to new enemy placements hasn't particularly improved for the most part, when they make them. Forcing players to cheese isn't fun, is my point.
@@trevorp8124 Their aggro range didn't matter because as i said they were separated enough that you wouldn't aggro more than one at a time unless you ran all through the area to purposely aggro all of them. So no, if you aggroed more than one at a time you definitely did something wrong.
And to be honest, i'm still not sure what's the point of complaining about some random people from the discord of that mod in a video-review of the Convergence. Pretty sure the point of this video is give importance about the quality of the Convergence mod, which is quite good, and not about the rotten parts of the Dark Souls community that you can find everywhere.
@@trevorp8124 Ok, considering the version of that mod when the demons where still in there, which means that you are holding a grudge for something that happened over at least 6 months ago or longer than that about some randoms making fun of you because you had no idea what were you talking about... Sorry but forget I said anything, I really don't know what are you trying to acomplish here but i rather have nothing to do with it from now on.
Not gonna lie, everything you mentioned about this just sounds infinitely more interesting than what From actually did with base DS3 and I say that despite the fact that I enjoyed the game for what it is but hearing all the changes and additions to the game through this mod has made me consider getting back into the game just to play it.
You will see once you play the mod that the vanilla is better.
It’s cool to have 10000 new features, but it destroy the balance and ambience of vanilla DS3.
That’s why formsoft is not adding thousands weapons and systems, they want quality over quantity.
Skip to 2:15 to when he starts talking about the Convergence Mod itself.
This is a very well done video.
Thanks a lot for your overview.
Can't wait to try it out! 😁
“Mods won’t improve the games they’ll just make them different” Skyrim Modders
thank you for this overview video. always helpful when I want to look into playing a mod or not
I think it's awesome they borrowed from cinders. The community is essentially building its ideal dark souls game through trial and error. Convergence has an excellent magic system, hopefully someone will come along and fix the cringy things like king allant and some of the dialogue and further improve it, adding their own stuff. Making it a real convergence.
Awesome review, thanks for the all the info my brotha
So, if there are 3 things that made me hate DS3 after initial couple of playthroughs it's these:
1. Magic generally sucks, with exception of some well timed pyromancies like black flame. By the time a pure caster build is complete dex/str builds can pump vigor or endurance to 40. By the time a hybrid caster is complete, dex/str builds are already 40 vig, 40 end and can pump the other stat to become pure quality.
2. Poise being absent - heavier armors are just pointless. Also, I hate how there is no mid-roll in DS3. there is either the fat roll nobody uses, or the super roll that should be reserved to super agile characters under 25% equipment weight imo.
3. The game is generally more based around quick reaction timing and muscle memory, which is not bad in itself, I love Bloodborne, even got Platinum for it, but it does so at the expense of meaningful decisionmaking in combat - mainly, stamina regen. It's waaaay too forgiving for my taste, but the way most bosses are designed it has to be so fast. Still, I prefered DS2 feel of tactically baiting out attack and punishing with heavy-heavy light combo instead of just dodge and R1 spam.
Now, for any brave soul that actually read through the entire rant, does convergence adress any of these in substantial way, from your personal experiences?
I like this take, I personally prefer ds2 for its poise, and I’m a magic nut overall so it sucked seeing such a sad array of magic builds within meta. I’m gonna just bite the bullet with this mod cuz I really wanted a sorcerer fighter feeling for souls like I got with some arcane usage in bloodborne, and I’m hoping this gives it.
A couple questions for fellow commenters:
I've played ds3 many many times but I just bought it for my PC to play mods, specifically this and cinders. Should I play through the vanilla game again before hand or can I go straight in?
Another: these giant mods always look fun but im always worried it'll be sensory overload. Does this mod throw you into everything super fast or does it give you time to understand all the new stuff and explain well?
These mods are best played when you have a good knowledge of the game for them to play with and subvert, so I'd say you're good to go and try them.
Also for the second question, both Cinders and Convergence are pretty good about not throwing huge amounts of nonsense at you right off the bat, so sensory overload isn't a problem with these ones imo.
@@SilverSeraphym awesome, thanks a ton! Also, if you haven't made one already, I think a video of like 5-10 good ds3 mods would be great, I couldn't find any elsewhere
Really awesome mod. I get a bloodborne inspired feel from certain changes :) well done
You've just earned a new subscriber, great vid
Thanks for this mate, really helpful , i love DS3 community 😬😁
I feel like I need this. I've been thinking about doing a magic or battlemage run in Dark Souls 3, and this is really egging me into playing Dark Souls again, especially since I can't play Demon's Souls and I am anticipating Elden Ring.
im so in love with this chaos beam show case, if shits hard, just default
The spells seem OP as fuck.
i only played DS3 once for 2 hours, but i love modders that bring more spells to a game like this! great work
Well then, my friend, since most people who play for the first time only reach Vordt in two hours I'd suggest you buy the game and wreck hell because even if you watched it later it's still not the same as playing.
BUT GODDAMN SOME OF THE BOSSES ARE HELLA AWESOME FIGHTS LIKE SOUL OF CINDER
@@advertisingadrian Yea i'm planning to make a whole walkthrough, but i want to record and comment it, which is difficult with the little time i have, due to work :(
However, I WILL play it before Elden Ring releases! Thanks for the motivating words my friend :)
will you do an elden ring convergence mod vid?
loved that one
I'm late but this was a really great mod review
God bless youtube recommendations. Mod looks wonderfull man
Thanks for the overview!
The hermit start is super fun
This shit's why I want PC.
This is why I'm building a PC. I just need to get my hands on a 3060 series card now or maybe a radeon.
@@iTzLagz1995 good luck with the chip shortage, lol. I've ssen em go for 1k minimum MSRP, it's ridiculous
@@iTzLagz1995 did you ever get your hands on one?
Very comprehensive video.
as someone who is playing cinders, i agree with that its not what it used to be, im still sticking with patch 1.84, as thats where things are still allright and its fun, but i have read the changelogs and i have no clue to what they are doing now,
makes me sad, it was once a very good mod,
I like his this mod returned pyromancy to have no stat requirements, being not the best, but still powerful, and the easiest to use, but at the cost of large FP in exchange for the limited castings being gone.
Question from a DS modding newbie: Can you still play your DS3 vanilla characters in normal DS3 and just start a new character for Convergence or Cinders? Can you play the vanilla game in parallel with the Convergence or Cinders mod?
I never modded DS but am very experienced with Skyrim, the gist is, what you want is usually done with mod manager profiles. If there's such a thing for DS, yeah you can do it easily. If there isn't... probably not.
It is possible but it would be a pain in the ass to switch between them. Unless you are using a mod manager that supports ds3 I just wouldn’t bother. I have 100% completed ds3 on console so idk
Best dark souls 3 mod ever. Change my mind
Any Bloodborne trick weapons? I play Champion's Ashes for them.
unfortunately currently no
@@rhysbuxton4437 Thanks for the reply. I'll check out the mod soon since v2.0 came out this past weekend. Give it a bug fix or two at least.
I don't know who you are, but amazing video
Cool mod. Curious for clarification though.
If I have this mod and become "soft-banned" as the modders describe, what happens if I take the mod off (and go back to true vanilla)? Do I not become soft-banned anymore?
pretty sure you stayed soft banned for awhile. but you can play with others that are soft banned
@@jahromespencer3246 I see. I just have a friend that enjoys the pvp aspect of the game and wanted to show him this mod as something we could do together. I didn't want him to be cucked out of it just in case he ends up not enjoying the mod ya know?
@@wigglezz692 Its a late reply, so it may be too late, but if you get soft banned once, you can NEVER get unbanned. Everyone on the softban server is a hacker or a mod player. You'll never be able to play on the legitimate server again.
though people can make alternate accounts on say Steam to get softbanned intentionally to PVP with mods
Awesome review 👍
check out cinders again. I agree that they went away from good things towards the bad things but this version was super fun to run through and collect all items
Does anybody know how to get havals outfit I have checked the convergence wiki and it says that it can be found on a dead body in archdragon peak but I remember seeing it be purchasable on a convanent so is it on a dead body or is it a convanent item
Where can I contract the fastest chaos remnant? I need about 350 chaos remnants for the smoldering set
You can get the covenant that gives you chaos remnants in smoldering lake. And, also in smoldering is a group of demons and knights that fight. As long as you have good item discovery, it's easy to get a ton in a few hours
This looks amazing but I totally disagree about set bonuses! Fashion over everything and I hope dark souls never stops me from mix n matching by making set bonuses a thing. It'd nerf my already nerfed cosplay builds into the dirt.
Can this be played with coop?
Yeah
id like to ask is there a class that is just obsurdly powerful with a few drawbacks id like to try a run like that but there are so many classes to choose from.
Is this mod able to play multiplayer? I'd love to try this out with my friends.
The chaos beam the hell opaf
Honestly, if it weren't for the cinders moveset mod and that king allant boss, Convergence would easily be my favourite and go-to mod for ds3...alas, the cinders moveset mod is just too fun to pass up
Can you invade with this? New to pc and curious
If it’s at all like Cinders, only if you’re willing to get softbanned. Then you can invade other softbanned players! (Or get invaded)
Take care to make use of “family library sharing” if you want to do this. Either to avoid getting your main account banned, or to have a fallback if you want to play vanilla.
@@jdirksen family library???
@@HumanInstrumentalityProject store.steampowered.com/promotion/familysharing
I definitely want to try this mod but i'm not sure which school of magic choose, i want to try them all xD
As a PS4 player of Soulsbornes, I've never come to close to the mod world...this vid has me thinking it's time for a secondary DS3 purchase for PC
just did it man its your turn
I recently installed the honest merchant mod and all of a sudden I can’t play online does anyone know where that is should I uninstall the mod and how do I do that
never use mods while online... you probably got banned....
Can you play this mod with your friends? Like put down summon signs and all
You can! But it requires passwording it and everything, there are details about doing it on the nexus page, community password and everything.
@@SilverSeraphym thx
@@SilverSeraphym hey, quick question, i am aware it’s unrelated to the thread but if you were to play this mod without the dlc, would some classes just be completely missing main weapons? I’m asking because my computer isn’t great, not even sure if my pc’ll be able to run it that well, and that’s why I’m getting it during a sale, and I am 99.99% positive demon princes, Midir, and gael will destroy my computer.
@@laundrybasketgamers Actually, it'll crash shortly after character creation. It requires both DLC, so unfortunately you need them from the beginning.
@@SilverSeraphym damn. I might get them before the steam sale ends, I suppose. Do you know if it’s the same with cinders?
where do you trade the remains for titanite shards?
Is it very difficult to put mods into dark souls 3? I know I modded dark souls 1 after some trial and error figuring it out but it took me a little bit of a while lol. I definitely want to mod DS3 though especially this mod here :P.
Yo how do I increase my new game plus cycle, in Cinders you can go as high as you want. I mean first playthrough is just jokingly easy I would like to go to NG 7 like from the beginning.
What is your starter class
Wait, if you don’t get the dlc and play this, will some classes just be missing weapons?
The game just crashes
I'm new to this mod and I'm trying to find out how to get the other spells
Spell casting without staff, FP regen, Seens like the focus is on magic and making the game simpler.
Looks pretty interesting. I think I'll try it, since Cinders was a huge disappointment for me
Honestly, I don't know why I feel surprised that people can mod entire boss fights because if a guy can hack his character to create an entire boss fight and invite people to fight him, what even are the limitations at this point
As much as I appreciate all the hard work these modders do, it just affirms that, usually, the original vision of a game by its team is the best. Stuffing it full of new content just doesn't feel right and much of it doesn't feel like a natural extension.
LMAO
I think cinders version 1.75 or 1.82 are the best versions. After that they stopped improving the base game and started making changes for the sake of changes
Man I wish I had dark souls three on PC. I wanna play mods like this one and cinders - but the game is still eighty fucking dollars including DLC, and I just can't afford that.
Keep an eye out for steam sales. It goes 75%-83% off sometimes.
then just pirate it mate
Is playable Torrent( illegal) version?
@@theowl5126 No difference fully platable
Unless you're not from the USA consider yourself lucky, because here in Brazil DS3 is like R$159,99 and I'd much rather live in America where it costs just 80 bucks.
Will i get banned on my main if I play online on a alt account?
I've heard of lots of people doing family sharing for that reason, that way their main Steam account can play unmodded and unbanned. I've actually never tried though, I personally just always stay offline with a mod installed.
@@SilverSeraphym btw the games force starts in offline mode how can i play coop
Actually very good video
What happens if you use both convergence and cinders at the same time?
Myazaki will be teleported into your house
They added new bosses on the last update
Its always insane to me when I see such large mods on a game that has no mods support what so ever.
for me its a miracle when people are able to mod games like skyrim where the devs give you tools to do so, let alone games like darksouls where there are no tools what so ever.
Do people invade with this mod?
Surprisingly I haven’t gotten invaded once but I have only made it to Lorthic and Lorian.
Why cant I use my mods in the game?
Starts 2.17 🤔
can i get the mode on the new ps5?
You can basically become the Avatar with this mod and I love it.
Okay, but does poise exist?
this looks fun but that mana regen rate is insane
Cinders was compleeeetely ruined recently. It's really tragic what's happened to it.
Hearing someone else comment on it was cathartic. SO STOP APOLOGIZING FOR YOUR OPINIONS.
OH GOD I'M SORRY. But seriously though, the decisions being made in the most recent dozen or so updates are strange.
I want a mod that I can just go through the world and have a easier fun experience haha I've already finished the game without mods
Better than cinders imo
Can we play online?
Addendum: Unofficial Patches mods for Bethesda games will only enhance the experience.
How to have mod
I'm so paranoid of downloading mods nowadays because Windows Defender shows every mod as a virus.
Windows defender is terrible and u should know mods aren’t viruses as long as ur downloading them from a trusted site like nexus mods I turn it off all the time cuz it’s useless
One thing as the mod is right now is magic is really, really overpowered for most areas. The target lock system has seemingly no limit in range, making it possible to just kill everything from extremely far away in quite a few maps.
I can’t WAIT!! To get ds3 on pc so I can finally use this mod and cinders afterwards. I love all from soft games already, but everyone just gotta agree mods can make any game better 😂
I would like to have a more in depth comparison between this and cinders. I played Cinders and I loved it. Not sure if I am up for another playthrough again though (slowly reaching 100 by now)
how to play mod
If mods were able to be played on console I'd buy it in a heart beat.
You dont buy mods
I liked the video, but something that stood out to me is that you keep saying mods are for people who just want a different experience but you don't use that same logic when it comes to cinders, for example; you say that to claim that the changing of the tutorial boss is fine because it's just a mod it's not intended for new players, but you count cinders (a mod) breaking lore as a negative even though it's just a mod.
This is just making me more sad due to the fact that I can’t afford a gaming laptop/pc to mod ds3
This or Champions ashes?
I wish my PC could run DS3
I’m getting it on steam today for 15 bucks in the hope that it does work, but even if it doesn’t work then I got it pretty cheap so I won’t really care
@@laundrybasketgamers Yeah, I did the same. But it was unplayable, so I refunded
@@ftorididk4198 I did too. I think I’m just gonna get some Star Wars games or something lol
Im playing just 15 fps. These videos are my channel now
Bruh, I could play DS3 at 50+ fps on a budget gaming laptop from 2013. There's no excuse to not be able to run DS3 today, just go buy some used hardware for chump change.
LOL, "well balanced and finely crafted"....when have the DS games ever been thus?
I think it sounds better than "masochistically crafted by a Berserk addict with a boner for poison water"