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Topics: Fromsoftware, Mods, Bloodborne, Dark Souls, PC, Steam
Topics: Fromsoftware, Mods, Bloodborne, Dark Souls, PC, Steam
A new Dark Souls 3 remaster is making the rounds at the moment, and it looks gorgeous.
Originally released in 2016, Dark Souls 3 stands today as one of the best looking FromSoftware games we’ve ever seen, and for good reason.
You can say what you want about Dark Souls’ Anor Londo, or Elden Ring’s Limgrave, but frankly they have nothing on some of those memorable Dark Souls 3 locations like Irithyll or The Ringed City.
Nine years later and it still looks fabulous. But now, one Dark Souls modder has gone ahead and made it look even more beautiful thanks to this new remaster mod.
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Popular Soulsborne YouTuber and modder Fromsoftserve uploaded a video online titled “Dark Souls 3 Graphics Upgraded w/ My Bloodborne PC Remaster Changes”.
As the title implies, the video showcases a new graphics mod for Dark Souls 3 that also uses some changes that have been made for the recent Bloodborne PC remaster project.
Check it out for yourself in the video linked below to see all the changes.
It turns out that Bloodborne and Dark Souls 3 share “99% of their rendering setup”, as Fromsoftserve puts it. That means nearly any mod made for Bloodborne that improves or tweaks the graphics may also apply to Dark Souls 3, and vice versa.
This includes upgraded SSAO, modified reflectance maps, parallax occlusion mapping, dynamic shadows, improved pointlights, removed hero lighting, removed vignette, exposure tweaks, disabled in game AA, added reshade based TAA, disable colorgrading, fixed LOD model pop in, adjusts lightmaps, and much more.
Fromsoftserve then goes on to list the mods that are being used in the video. The setup includes Bloodborne Visual Tweaks, Bloodborne Dynamic Shadows, Bloodborne Upgraded Textures, and No Player Light.
It looks like we won’t be getting an official Bloodborne remaster any time soon, but at least mods like this can keep the fires fuelled until Sony decides to listen to reason.