Hey everyone, today I am presenting you the latest update of Dark Souls: Prepare to die again, which is called Of Ash & Dust. This has been a crazy journey and I am so happy to release this update today after working on the mod for almost three years now. Thanks to everyone who helped and supported me over the time.
The mod has been on a long journey over the years, from inception as a Scholar of the First Sin-esque expansion of Dark Souls 1 to a complete rework of the scope of progression and regaining that feeling of the first run through your journey across this gaming classic. Much has now been adapted - from the addition of new spells to upgraded bosses and areas given much more meaning and a sense of cohesion across both the first and second half of the title.
All of that- and now, all with new things to experience... with the long-awaited and carefully developed v9 - Of Ash & Dust
One thing to note is that PTDA is not compatible with ANY other mod which affects gameplay (such as "Rekindled", or "Daughters of Ash")... this is a standalone project and should be treated as such - though generally speaking graphics enhancers will pair just fine.
I do hope you all enjoy Of Ash & Dust, and to be sure - try not to go Hollow out there in Lordran :D
Hey there. I installed the mod but my Controller isn't responding. Same with mouse and keyboard. I have to hold Enter to be able to move the Mouse. Can you help me?
for me the ferryman system coins glitched out. They disappeared and I couldn't get them back preventing me from using the ferryman system. and the items never dropped from enemies. I had to stop. I couldn't finish it. And I couldn't get blood to drop from the blue drakes either for the gaping dragon boss fight.
i am having trouble in the depths first of all i opened blight town door and the enemies from blight town started spawning in depths and now when i enter the gaping dragon's boss fight arena it says "the gaping dragon awaits a powerfull meal" what does that mean what do i have to do in order to trigger the boss fight and is there no way for me to stop the blight town enemies from spawning in? someone please help
Before i downloaded this mod, i was wondering why... even though this has 27k downloads, yet the endorsements are so little despite that this mod restored the cut content. Now i know why.
The restored cut contents are somewhat neat... i guess, but other than that? it's so frustating. This mods makes so many unecessary changes, you can't even warp to any bonfire after acquiring the lordvessel, and the freyman mechanics is so annoying. That mechanics is good for the first part of the game, but it's just become annoying afterwards.
Exploration is not even worth it, like... the harder part of some location with harder enemies doesn't give you good rewards. Also changing parry to shield bash is too much, modders need to understand that ds1 is very limited in terms of build. We only have 2 slots for everything, so... you need genuinely good items that can be used to "multi-tasking", such as GC shield to parry and at the same time gives you the stamina recovery boost. But because now it's changed to shield bash, i need to parry with smaller shield in the second slot. And yet that is not the only problem, cuz the second slot should be used for better equipment, such as pyromancy flame, catalyst, etc. Ykwim right?
Uninstalled after defeating nito and two of the dlc bosses. Because after defeating manus, it brought me back to firelink, yet i haven't killed kalameet cuz i can't even come back to oolacile.Yes, all of this because the modder removes the bonfire warp.
i'm not hating on you or your mod, but at this time, i'm just really frustated by it.
mine doesnt seem to work, i get past the first area and where the bird picks you up to get to firelink shrine but then a loading screen shows up and it doesnt seem to load whats happening here
I really liked this mod, but the second fight with Manus is just disgusting. I completed everything, but I have to drop the game here, because I can't call it anything other than difficulty for the sake of difficulty. Also, because of this fight, I can't get to the second fight with Gwyn, because I have to complete Manus for Gwyn's summon to appear. Mod - 8/10, Second Manus - shit/10
No, please don't play the remastered version of the mod while being online, you will get banned. The version changes that prevent this are only available for the PTDE version of the mod, there you can play online and only connect to people also playing the mod.
This is one of my favorites ds1 mods, my only suggestion would be to make Oscar stronger in the final fight, I don't know if it's possible but it would be really cool. Congrats for the work its amazing
I go thu this entire mod and try to do the dark ending only for Oscar to show up and run away from me to get to the fire and ruin the ending. Oscar being a coward and football running to link the fire never entered into my mind as an option for him so I didn't think to stop him. I'm legit pissed and there's no option but ng+ to try again because it counts as an ending not a death. Why tf would you add this as an option.
The cutscene with Oscar only plays if you are defeated by him and you just fight him after defeating Gwyn. I bet 99% of the people don't even know that there is an alternate ending if you lose against Oscar, but I think it makes sense as you are his final boss. If you did not lose against him and the cutscene still somehow played, then this is not intended and the first time that I heard of this happening.
Oh well then I apologize and have a bug to report then. Half way through the fight (I was going for the dark ending) Oscar backed up and ran to the center of the arena where the Bonfire had popped up for killing Gwyn and I was put into the Cutsene without losing the duel. I assumed that was a feature of the mod not a bug. I summoned solaire if that helps with debugging though if I'm literally the only person who this has happened to idk how you'd fix it. He may have killed Solaire and triggered the Cutsene? It was pretty frustrating at the time but rather funny in retrospect, as I figured you had simply added into the mod that at halfway HP Oscar would bee line for the Bonfire and light it to win before I killed him.
Thank you so much! :) Retired from modding, but working on a multiplayer roguelike deckbuilder inspired by souls games called "Nether Spirits: Beyond the Gate". You can check it out on steam (still in development) and wishlist it, if it sounds interesting. It would help a lot. <3
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which is called Of Ash & Dust. This has been a crazy journey and I am so happy to release this
update today after working on the mod for almost three years now. Thanks to everyone who
helped and supported me over the time.
The mod has been on a long journey over the years, from
inception as a Scholar of the First Sin-esque expansion of Dark Souls 1 to a
complete rework of the scope of progression and regaining that feeling of the
first run through your journey across this gaming classic. Much has now been
adapted - from the addition of new spells to upgraded bosses and areas
given much more meaning and a sense of cohesion across both the first and
second half of the title.
All of that- and now, all with new things to experience... with the long-awaited and
carefully developed v9 - Of Ash & Dust
One thing to note is that PTDA is not compatible with ANY other mod which affects
gameplay (such as "Rekindled", or "Daughters of Ash")...
this is a standalone project and should be treated as such - though generally
speaking graphics enhancers will pair just fine.
I do hope you all enjoy Of Ash & Dust, and to be sure - try not to go Hollow out
there in Lordran :D
Feel free to join the mod's discord server here
Hioe that helps.
The restored cut contents are somewhat neat... i guess, but other than that? it's so frustating. This mods makes so many unecessary changes, you can't even warp to any bonfire after acquiring the lordvessel, and the freyman mechanics is so annoying. That mechanics is good for the first part of the game, but it's just become annoying afterwards.
Exploration is not even worth it, like... the harder part of some location with harder enemies doesn't give you good rewards. Also changing parry to shield bash is too much, modders need to understand that ds1 is very limited in terms of build. We only have 2 slots for everything, so... you need genuinely good items that can be used to "multi-tasking", such as GC shield to parry and at the same time gives you the stamina recovery boost. But because now it's changed to shield bash, i need to parry with smaller shield in the second slot. And yet that is not the only problem, cuz the second slot should be used for better equipment, such as pyromancy flame, catalyst, etc. Ykwim right?
Uninstalled after defeating nito and two of the dlc bosses.
Because after defeating manus, it brought me back to firelink, yet i haven't killed kalameet cuz i can't even come back to oolacile.Yes, all of this because the modder removes the bonfire warp.
i'm not hating on you or your mod, but at this time, i'm just really frustated by it.
Retired from modding, but working on a multiplayer roguelike deckbuilder inspired by souls games called "Nether Spirits: Beyond the Gate". You can check it out on steam (still in development) and wishlist it, if it sounds interesting. It would help a lot. <3