As the Ultimate Skyrim video has taught millions of people, the potential of mods is only limited by the imagination and the PC power required to run them. Elden Ring makes using mods a bit more complicated with its anti-cheat software, but that's a blessing in disguise. If you're not overly interested in the multiplayer aspect of the game, or you're willing to risk playing with cheaters, that's an acceptable sacrifice. We will also have to wait a while for more ambitious modding projects. But there's already plenty to choose from, with a selection of interesting mods that can enhance your gaming experience in a variety of ways.
We advise you to use Nexusmods for your downloads, you simply have to create a free account for your downloads. However, there are other sites and options available.
How to install mods?
The first thing to do is disable anti-cheat , which will unfortunately force you to play in offline mode. It is not legitimately possible to play multiplayer, with mods .
The easiest is probably to install a duo of mods specialized in this field, the first is Anti-cheat Toggler and Offline launcher . As its name suggests, it will disable anti-cheat software easily, reliably, and without interfering with game updates. Just unzip the contents of the .zip file in your game installation folder, for example "C:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\ELDEN RING\Game\". You then have to use toggle_anti_cheat.exe" once to disable the anti-cheat software and online mode. Just use it again to re-enable everything when you are out of mods. Your savegames corrupted by mods however, may have problems. You can also directly use "start_game_in_offline_mode.exe and create a desktop shortcut of it to start the game directly in offline mode.
Next comes Elden Mod Loader , which makes it easy to load the various mods and get them working. A lot of mods ask to have this specific mod installed . Just unzip "EldenModLoader.zip" into the game's "C:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\ELDEN RING\Game\" folder again. Subsequently, all ".dll" files of mods placed in the "mods" folder will be loaded automatically.
Now let’s move on to a small selection of particularly notable mods. We favored utility in our selection, rather than fancy modes. As mentioned above, we're going to have to wait a while for more ambitious mods.
Easy Mode - Easy Mode for Elden Ring
It is certainly the most popular and desired mod of the moment among the general public: Easy Mode for Elden Ring . Elden Ring offers many tools to overcome the difficulty, but sometimes it is not enough, for lack of time for example. Here's a mod that should help you overcome difficulties, whether it's reducing enemy damage, increasing your own, or (and) increasing rune gains. There are different versions of this mod, which allows you to adapt the game to what you specifically want:
- Easy mode : -50% damage received, +25% damage inflicted, 10 times more runes.
- Easy mode without the runes bonus
- Very easy mode : -70% damage received, +25% damage inflicted, 10 times more runes.
Hard Mode - Prepare to Die (Hard Mode)
For some players, Elden Ring is just too easy. Whether it's Souls regulars, those who have already completed the game and find it boring to explore the open world when you know what you're doing, or those who decide to make full use of all the tools at their disposal (double katana and Tear imitator +10), here is the mod that offers to suffer by raising the difficulty. Did you dream of it? Someone did it! It can also be a good way to put a friend off the game by introducing them to the game on this build, giving you some commonality with a certain character in the game. more punitive and cruel , which can seriously damage his appreciation. On the other hand, it's going to help make some encounters more interesting, especially since it doesn't just change a few numbers, even the enemy AI changes drastically. It's a mod that the creator is still working on to add new options, and features, so it will evolve over time, but it already offers the following:
- All enemy stats, such as damage, defense, and resistances start right away like in a New Game Plus game. This applies to subsequent NG+ games as well, up to NG+7.
- Improved enemy AI, they will see and hear you from further away. They will also look to stab you in the back if they spot you . No longer hope to openly massacre half of a camp of enemies without the soldiers a few meters away hearing nothing. They'll also feel you coming behind their backs if you don't stab them fast enough.
- A change that will not necessarily appeal to everyone: fast travel is limited to churches and cathedrals . You will have to travel to reach the places now.
- As a bonus, this mod will also offer a wider field of vision to the player. We'll talk about it below with a specialized mod.
Pause the game - Pause the game
Mentioned everywhere a few weeks ago, Pause the game simply allows you to pause the game, a feature that Elden Ring is sorely lacking. After installing it in the mods folder, you just need to press "P" by default, so you can respond to a real-life emergency for example. Be careful though, this mod is not perfect, avoid doing it during a boss attack, it is still better to distance yourself.
Display for ultrawide screens - Remove black bars
Elden Ring correctly handles resolutions above 16:9, but black bars are added on both sides of the screen to deprive the player of the expanded field of view. Maybe Miyazaki or someone at FromSoftware would consider this an unfair advantage, or they were afraid the game would be even more greedy. Whatever the reason, Remove Black Bars is a very simple mod that is going to let you leverage your screen properly and enjoy a better view than ever.
Cheat without limits with Cheat Engine - Elden Ring Ultimate Table
As long as it's solo, cheating is perfectly acceptable. Here is the richest program in this field, it allows you to modify many parameters in order to live your adventure as you wish. This ranges from infinite stats, to teleporting, to editing gear stats. Whether you want to be superman, or just want to rebalance your favorite weapon, this is the perfect tool. : Elden Ring Ultimate Table allows to add anything, to set many elements and to run different scripts. Its only downside is that you'll need to tweak the settings a bit or know what you're doing to fully exploit it, since there are tons of options.
It should be noted in passing that even the creators of this mod have stated that they are against cheating in multiplayer, and they specifically refuse to help players circumvent anti-cheat.
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