https://x.com/i/status/2046236266329780301The mod(s) behind the DS2 Lighting Engine have done it again. Now, they have added path tracing to the best Souls game. DS2Chads, we are eating GOOD today!https://youtu.be/-XWIlYhdJSk
>>737388816Not my problem.
/v/ literally has no more excuses for skipping literally one of the Greatest Games of All Time.
>>737389008>>737389069pc specs require to play it above 60fps at 1440p?
>>737389138An RTX 5070 Ti, Ryzen 7800x3D, 32GB 6000 Mhz RAM
>>737388876You WILL replay Dark Souls 2 again, anon.
>>737389069>Can see the textures, vines, atmosphere, time of day>Ooooh foggy spooky now!!!Not a good change.
Is it supposed to make games uglier? If so thats neat.
>>737388816>DS2
>>737389901SOVLSoulless
but how does this make the game better?
>>737388816>>737389008>>737389069I don't get it, why do the textures look better? Does it have texture mods installed? Or is good lighting enough to give more depth to crappy textures? Kinda reminds me of Halo 4, all of the game's aesthetics and graphic prowess is held up by the lighting engine and the real textures when looked closely are crappier than Reach's .So was DS2 always supposed to ship with a powerful shadow/lighting engine?>>737389901Path tracing struggles with reflections, as opposed as what some people may think. It's not an evolution of Ray tracing, it's an alternative.RE9 requiem also has worse reflections with Path Tracing
>>737390223You will finally play DS2 how it was supposed to be?
>>737389901Nintendo...
>>737390426>why do the textures look betterThere are texture mods.
YOU NEED WINDOWS 11 TO RUN IT
>>737390971>you need the most secure operating system to run itoh no
Will it run on a 6800xt?
>>737388816I tried it. Its really shit on Oled in dark areas
>>737388816now it just needs entire map to be remade
>>737392001They definitely need to improve the character and armor models. The Faraam Knight set looks really bad in game.
>>737389901pathtracersissies on suicide watch
>>737388816looks washed out a shitty
>>737388816Looks extremely generic, like some random UE5 asset flip.
>>737388816>>737389008>>737389069>>737389901So much soulPure soulfulnessSoulmaxxedMiyazaki hire this troon immediately I insist!!!!!!!!!
>>737388816looks mid except for in the first few seconds
>>737388816i don't get it. i feel like i should tell you to buy an ad, but it also seems like you're poisoning the well against it. why can't people just talk normally about things?
>>737388816does this work with sotfs or is just the original?
>>737393762almost all ds2 mods are made on scholar
you really cannot have actual discussion on this board anymore. tragic. Just low iq retards saying the same shit over and over again in every single thread ad naseum.
>never pulls out a torch
>>737391620I've noticed this in general. Inky blacks are nice but the games are too fucking DARK
>>737394164I couldn't see without the torch in many places that aren't meant to be that dark. Even right out of the hut you cant see shit
>>73738881610 years has past, what even the fuck that tranny dev been doing? still WIP for that lighting mod? holy fuck this is a waste of time
>>737395545The Lighting Engine mod is different from that one retarded troon fag who was modding DS2 but never released shit.
Why are people pretending like Dark Souls 2 isn't fucking hideous?
cool... Where is the patch to make the game less shitty and ugly
>>737388816
>>737399687what ios this ? why does ur shit looks oweird
>>737388816I just can't comprehend why someone would waste hundred(s?) of hours of their life into making a mod for a mid game from 12 years ago that barely if at all improves the graphics.
Think I got it working
>ds2sheeesh lmao
now if only they could trace a path to making the game not irredeemable dogshit, that'd be something
path trace deez nootz LOL
>>737403959Could you show something really dark? Like that area above the bonfire room in the first castle
>>737402203i blame youtube essayfags for this new mental illness. Everyone was praised DS2 pvp but hate everything else about the game but now with all these people making random essays about retarded shit we have a bunch of other retards acting like they found the new blade runner.
>>737389249Somehow I doubt that.
>>737407303It's literally in the OP video.
>>737407185It's because of essayfags why people hated DS2 in the first place.
>>737389069That's overdoing it. Can't see shit, everything is covered in shadows. Path tracing is a great technology, but it still requires some dev touch to tone it down here and there, otherwise you get this.
>>737403959Show that green area with all the poison spitting statues before the fat lava demon
>>737407330Ah, so it must be true.
>>737400202I don't understand your post. Why did you post a screenshot of Fallout 4?
>>737402203DS2 is a masterpiece though. And I love all the games in the series and the only indication that it's a bad game is just fags who are meme-brained and have no original thoughts of their own. I get that on release it might have pissed people off but I didn't get into the series until ER. I think for og fans of the series might look as Das2 as the worst in the franchise, but anybody new to it would rightfully claim it as an instant classic
>>737407715I went into 2 right after beating 1, and it was so much different, no wonder people got whiplash and adverse reactions.I got over it because ultimately all I care if the game is good, but I can see why it's so polarizing in the community, with how some other franchises I like took a sharp turn in the sequel, it's somewhat relatable.
>>737403809Too dark.
>>737407395false. i hated it on release. huge disappointment after ds1. replayed it last year and still thought it was pretty mediocre. i did think that crown of the sunken king was amazing though. i've never played the scholar edition so idk about that. ds2 is just a polarizing game, and that's why the essays exist in the first place.
>>737393762>>737393847Will it also work on the original? I much prefer that over SOTFS
>>737409439No.
>>737407912Okay now let's see you wield a torch
>>737407395i hated this shit on released and hated it again 4 years ago when i tried to play during covid. PVP was amazing and dumb fun with stupid builds like 2 greatswords but the pve was the most mindnumbing thing ever. When you are not fighting an "guy in armor" you are fighting "boss reclycled from ds1".
>>737409482
looks a bit janky wanky at times i think its because i have a bunch of other mods and overwrote a bunch of old versions and didn't do it properly because I'm lazy
>>737410923me on the left
Does it fix the gameplay and how it feels to play?
I tried it for a little bit last year but imo DS2 Lighting Engine and the other supporting mods look like total dogshit outside of Majula. Like look at these pictures KEEEK>>737407912>>737403959>>737399687>>737389901
why is it so foggy
>>737390426>why do the textures look bettertl;dr DS2's old textures aren't compatible with all the features added by the lighting mod, so a lot of them were replaced with roughly equivalent ones that are PBR-enabled.
>>737411870the mod author has always been obsessed with fog and post-processing effects in general.
>>737403809this looks awful>>737403959this looks goodlast time i checked ds2 lighting engine was kind of in a weird place because it had added tons of features like the ability to hand-place light sources, etc. but the issue is that there's no one actually taking advantage of them let alone making half-decent lighting presets. there's not really a good default preset anymore (i don't know what the fuck happened, i swear it used to look better) and there's no good ones on the nexus either.it's an amazing tool but no one is doing anything with it.
>>737411870>>737412815Demon's Souls and Dark Souls 1 had post processing up the ass for distant scenery and people hardly bitched about that because it doesn't affect gameplay negatively.DS2 simply looks so dull that some ricy effects are still better than just how plain it normally otherwise looks.
>>737410453That's not the gutter
>>737388816Sure this is cool but it doesn't need it. The deadzone fix is a much more important mod.
>>737412906DeS goes for a very stylized look that still works, and DaS's post-processing stuff was largely tasteful with a few exceptions like the really harsh color filter used in the transition from Valley of the Drakes to Blighttown. I really like the depth blur effect in DaS, for example. It makes the world feels kind of dreamy and surreal and gives a sense of scale without being distracting.The fog / light scattering in DS2 Lighting Engine sometimes just starts like 10 feet from the player character for no reason.
>>737388816Does it fix the gameplay?
>>737388816>>737389008>>737389069Looks like shit.Play vanilla like a real man.
>>737388816>FogGet that shit out of my face
>Dark Souls II now has Path Tracing
>>737388816It could have feet smell-o-vision for all I care and it would still not be enough to tempt me into playing that awful piece of dogshit game
>>737407912>DARK souls
I'm gonna try it. I have a GTX GPU so I don't expect it to look much different on my end than previous DS2LE builds though.
>>737389901
Does the Cahrilion guy have the light spell? You can't see shit most of the time and the timer on the torch kinda stresses me out.
Mod smells like the work of an indian
>>737415601wtf this looks just like dark souls triple
>>737388816So now that the lighting engine is finally fixed, all that's stopping me from ever playing DS2 again are>its combat>all its other terrible mechanics>all the bosses being dogshit>all the areas being dogshitIf this game wasn't named Dark Souls it would've been about as well remembered as the first Lords of the Fallen. Funny that someone poured this much work into this piece of shit game.
>>737416120I'd rather play lords of the fallen again and the newest lords of the fallen absolutely mogs dark souls 2 in every regard
>>737389008
>>737415601nope. should i revert to the previous build.
2013>b-b-but the director! c-cash g-grab!2014>b-b-but the downgrade! f-false advertising!2015>b-b-but the deadzones! l-literally u-unplayable!2016>b-b-but the forced difficulty! t-the ganks!2017>b-b-but the falconer running animation! u-unfinished!2026>b-b-but they FIXED EVERYTHING? t-the game itself is just b-bad!DS2 haters deserve to be castrated with pliers.
>>737416585what windows u running
>>73741689111. Yeah current DS2LE build only works on RTX GPUs
>>737416985I'm running w/ 6800xt
YOU WILL JOIN THE RAT KINGYOU HUMAN ARE ONE OF THE GOOD ONES
>>737407395I didn't know this until last ds2 thread but apparently some dickhead made a 10 hour essay crying about Ds2 and that's when it all started, i generally stay away from all goobers on tubeyou
>>737409574You never played the game, there is only one boss who references ds1 and he is optinonal, why are ds2 haters just dishonest faggots?
>>737416739>DS2 haters deserve to be castrated with pliers.Yeah about that, they do it to themselves
>>737388816Dark Souls 2 now looks awful!
>>737389901>obliterates your art direction
>>737389901bottom looks like the des remake and what they did to the shire area with the flamelurker
>>737418746they missed the detail of the Adjudicator being made to look more pretty than it actually is, due to it being a religious picture
3 days until Dark Souls 2 turns 12 years old, thank you for everything you did to gaming
>>737388816I better not catch any motherfuckers playing this shit game with path tracing without this mod.https://www.nexusmods.com/darksouls2/mods/1200?tab=description
>>737418823>Nah best we can do is uglifiy everything, more pimples and vomit on the fat official you say?
Feeble cursed one, the gods frown on such soul-scrimpers!
>>737388816Dark Souls 2 looking ugly actually works in its favor.It distracts the player from the horrible animations that would pop out a lot more if it looked halfway decent.
It's made by an Indian. Not touching that
still ugly and still unplayable without the mod that fixes the movement
>>737388816>still looks like shit>still doesn't even resemble the original trailers before they downgraded itPathetic.
Hating 2 just exposes how much of a shit eating soul devoid redditor you arehttps://youtu.be/VHNXxZWPyIk
>>737407395No retard, the essays came after people already hated it.
>>737388816does it fix joystick deadzones being all fucked unless you download a thirdparty program?
>>737388816I'll try it 3-4 years from now when some mega autist makes a finished extended vanilla artstyle preset for it.
If you wanna spot a poser in these thread who larp as an OG, wait for him to mention the ds1 references in ds2 like this faggot right here>>737409574Ds1 copy pastes a whole area from Des, blighttown is a ripoff of the valley of defilement
>tfw the only people who hate ds2 are trannies and gay furry shitters like maulerhonestly I've soured over the years far more on DS3 to the point that I find it a worse game than DS2 nowadays
>Des references in Ds1Blightttown is temu valley of defilement>ds1 references in ds2Ornstein>demon souls ripoffs in ds3the old monk invades you in farrongreirat's quest is a rehash of stockpile thomasYuria is a ripoff of MephistophelesYhorm's boss fight gimmick is a ripoff of the stom kingEygon and Irian are a ripoff of Maiden astrea and garl vinlandthe mana barFirelink shrine is a ripoff of the Nexus hub Siegward's quest is a rehash of Bior's questLeonhard is a rehashed Yurt and his quest with rosaria where he tries to kill you is pumped from DesThe fat evangelists are a ripoff of the fat officials in DeSThe prison of hope was rehashed in the irythyl dungeon with the enemies there aswell are references to the jailers in DeSMad king Oceiros is rehashed Allantds3's tutorial boss is a reference to Old king Doranthe gimmick dragon fight
>>737418368retard
To be fair people complained that it looked too washed out instead of contrasty like the first gameplay videos being shown around
>>737410453The gutter area will be a nightmare on this as it's already way too dark originally
>>737388816Bump for interest.
what happaned to that guy that has been working on his ds2 mod for 10 years?
>>737426261he started making armored core mods
>>737388816Looks like Crimson Desert which isn't really my favorite >>737410923yeah you can't see shit sometimesI'd like to try to playthrough it with this mod to assess it fairly
>>737388816>Actually kinda looks good and was interested in trying it out>watch the videos and now remember it doesn't change any animations so it still has the kinda floaty and shitty animations.Meh, can't fix everything i guess.
>>737388816Why do the other souls game never recieve this much dedication from the community?
>>737426772ds3 has literal total conversion mods while ds2 is the same lighting slop over and over again
>>737418823The DeS remake did a lot of things like that. Like changing the statues of the king who was specifically notable for being an outsider barbarian. They just turned it into generic regal king statues. The remake guys didn't understand it, didn't bother learning why it was unconventional, then made it generic. This sums up a lot of remake issues not just in this game I think.
>>737389069>>737389069Fucking garbage, lmao.
>>737426679I've been saying this, but I'd love playing old souls games remakes if all they changed was:>no balance changes whatsoever>no significant graphic changes, just implement good lighting and maybe higher res textures, fix some of the more painfully unfinished parts maybe>make animations better (which will conflict with the first point but a balance can be struck)
>>737426261he moved to blueskey and asks for money on twitch now
>>737427249Nah fuck that. None of the games need remakes
>>737427459They're going to happen anyway so might aswell do something positive with them instead of butchering the fuck out of them
>>737427490Not by from soft, which is a major reason to not care.
>>737418823Imo these westoid retards changed the adjudicator shield only because it kinda looked like a fat mexican guy in the original design.
>>737427635Even if it was to be made by fromsoft, certain things are prone to be ruined, i think the likes of ds2 was only made by chance of experimentation, aspects like the rat king covenant, the covenant of champions, the alken bell covenant, the ivory king dlc, the memory time travel, these things were only there by chance of the original director leaving the project and Tanimura taking as you notice over the years this type of experimentation like pic rel disappeared.
>>737407715it has worse character controls and worse feeling and looking combat, a kind of jankness to everything that isn't really charming anymore and the world layout is kind of lame.it's still an 8.5/10 game, but especially compated to DaS1 it just. falls short in most ways.it does have a really unique overall identity and vibes however, which makes it more interesting to play than DaS3
>>737418478>>737421850Old Dragonslayer, Belfry Gargoyles, Lost Sinner and i forgot his name but i remember a fight with a giant rat that had the same movesets than sif...Come on faggots
2 games., 1 philosophy
>>737430903The albinaurics in Elden Ring have the same animations as bonewheel skeletons in Dark Souls
>>737388816>>737389008>>737389069>playing some troon developed aids mod instead of playing it the way god intendedI'll pass.
>lost sinner>the rattrying too hard there poser
>>737403959>>737389008these look really good.
>>737413323>muh candlesYeah that would look great if it wasn't for DOGSHIT wall textures. Look at that tiling. Dark Souls 2 is full of this shit. Boxy rooms with extreme tiling issues.
>>737388816Wow, it looks like complete dogshit. Guess not every turd can be polished huh
>>737432113don't go outside then, you will see so many tiling issues out there your brain will burst
>>737432113yeah, do I like the game but there's a lot of hideous architecture that the poor textures make look even worse. The roof of that huge room in Earthen Peak that you can see right before you get to the boss room just looks so goofy and low effort it's actually annoying. And of course, Drangleic Castle has a ton of "wtf were they thinking when they designed this?" rooms
>>737388816DaS2 sure looks pretty when you can't fucking see it
>>737434630what about this screenshot makes you unable to see anything
>>737418823>more pretty than it actually isThe Adjudicator doesn't actually exist, it's a myth. What you see in the game is a demon who manifested itself in the form of the local myth. Same thing applies to the Storm King, the Dragon God, most bosses really, the most blatant one is False King Allant. Man I miss the old Demon's Souls lore threads on /v/.
>>737388816When are they releasing the "Good gameplay" modfix?
>>737436243That wasn't the point of his post, he was talking aboutt he design of the shield not the Adjudicator himself also i'm pretty sure the dragon did exist, their fossils were worshipped by the miners or something
>>737436407>the dragon did exist, their fossilsWere the fossils really the fossils of a Dragon? They found big bones and imagined dragons, just like real medieval people did in europe and all over the world. Dragons didn't exist in Boletaria prior to the Old One, they were just myths. The ones you kill, the red and blue drakes give you demon's souls.
>>737388816>now you need a 5070 Ti to play a 2014 game with lighting that doesn't look like Fallout 3Behead all hylics.
>>737436243>the adjudicator doesn't exist, what you see in the game is the adjudicatorits truly the brilliant minds that are so attracted to the enigmatic lore of fromsoftsoftware videotitles...
>>737436916retard
tried it, it's buggyalso some areas look like shit (too dark)could be good given more work
if adjudicator's copy manifested through the myth then it makes sense for it to resemble the paintings no? based remake was actually designed by people with brains
>>737437307Does it resemble the original painting designed by From Software?
>>737437385H A H A H A H A H AH AH A H AH AH AH AH A
>>737437445Damn what a hack job, I'd fire that studio if you catch my sarcasm!
>>737388816Ok but how about the Frigid Outskirts? All you ever see is the beginning areas where LE works fine. But some areas in the late game or the dlcs are completely ruined.
>>737389069soul vs soulless
>>737388816Dark Souls 2 fans are honestly the worst posters due to how much they try to manipulate people into liking their dogshit game.
>>737399687kek, it's like it's missing textureswtf?
>>737437890dark souls 2 fans are the vegetarians of souls games.
>>737437208Yeah. May as well wait until it's in a more stable place. Changes are still being done every day and lots of textures are going to look like molten plastic until someone fixes them
>>737437890imagine being such a little sissy that when seeing any opinion differing from yours the first thing that comes to your mind is psychological manipulation lmao
>>737437890Most of these threads are blatantly the other way around but go off queen
>>737399687wow they can even emulate the late 2000's feeling, good mod.
it's still not going to look like the awesome 2013 gameplay trailer
>>737388816And it still looks like shit because it's a shit game. No, just because you like a few little things it does doesn't negate the overall game and its experience is shit.
>>737388816I hate DS2 but i actually might go for a replay, the lighting in this game was infamously gimped
>>737438045brother come on... Just post more cringe webm.
>>737389541I have never beat that turd of a game just like ADHD ds3 and boreborn
>>737437890Don't bother, the apologists always try to rehabilitate the image of shit products and games. FF8, FF13, and even fucking FF15 have the same thing. Shit, there are even people who try to rehabilitate the image of the fucking AMC Gremlin and Yugo. They are essentially just autists who focus on 1 or 2 specific things they like, eg. power stancing, the torch scaring the spiders away, etc, and ignore the massive, glaring problems like movement dead zones, sluggish controls, etc., because the shit surrounding the flecks of gold doesn't bother them, so that must mean it's not a problem or legitimate complaint.
>opens a game thread>"DUDE YOU DON'T GET IT THERE'S LIKE THIS HUGE GROUP OF AUTISTS THAT JUST, THAT JUST LIKE THE GAME AND MAKE THREADS ABOUT IT AND IT'S JUST, IT'S JUST GIVING ICK!">clicks submit
>>737390426>RE9 requiem also has worse reflections with Path TracingThis is an insane thing to say when Requiem doesn't even let you use a good denoiser without PT, making the reflections look like shitPT does have the issue of turning into a blurry mess sometimes as the denoise struggles to resolve sparse rays on every surface but you just have to switch the ray reconstruction preset to fix it so w/e
>>737436836>Within the deepest pit of Stonefang Tunnel, the preserved skeleton of a massive dragon was discovered within a pool of lava. The Burrowers saw the skeleton as a god and built a sacred temple to worship it.They found he skelleton of the dragon, nowhere does it say they imagined it, you made that up i guess those lore threads were filled with headcanons and fart huffing
>>737438868Do we see the skeleton of the dragon or just big bones in the actual game?
>>737437445Too bad that image doesn't also have some stuff about the butchery of the architecture. The architecture of the original was purposely 11th and 12th century inspired. The armor, weapons, and clothing were purposely 13th and 14th century inspired. It was meant to convey the world had history, and wasn't just static and frozen in vague "Gothic century." Unlike Bluepoint's, "We've reached the year 1557, and all of history has now stopped, everything older than 1557 has been torn down and replaced with what we have developed in the year 1557. Also please ignore that the architecture is now more advanced than the actual armor, arms, and clothing of the characters who are about a century behind now which actually makes no sense."And, Christ, could I rant about changing the Journey to the Nexus to "Boletarian Outpost," in the remake. Apparently Bluepoint is so fucking vapid and unintelligent they didn't realize the Journey to the Nexus doesn't take place in a Boletarian fort, it is a far older structure, as indicated by its architecture, than Boletaria. The reason why the Boletarian soldiers and Vanguard are there is because King Allant traveled through the ruins on his way to wake the Old One. But apparently Bluepoint, being the stupid motherfuckers they are, thought, "Well, there are Boletarian soldiers here, that must mean this was a Boletarian fortress!" And don't even get me started on the fact they don't know what the word outpost means, and an outpost wouldn't be a fucking fully decorated palatial fortress structure. Words have fucking definitions, they don't just mean what you feel they mean because you're too fucking lazy to look them up and your California public education system failed you goddamnit.
>>737439134Do you ever see a plaque naming the tunnel "Stonefang tunnel"?
>>737439501Yes, in the nexus.
can a 3080 run this?
>>737439579That was a manifestation of what you believed
>>737439693Not really.
>>737439778Ok
>>737439134Not sure, there is two dragons anyway, how is that relevant?
>>737439793Three dragons and they all drop demon's souls.
>>737388816Why does it make everything look less bright?
>>737439960Two and you can't kill the 2nd one, did you play the game?
>>737440270Dragon God, Red Drake and Blue Drake. That's three and you can kill all of them and they all drop demon's souls. Learn how to math before you reply to me again kid.
>>7373888165090 performance?
>>737440257to match the people playing the game :^)
>>737440473You can be teleported to a 2nd big dragon if you kill vanguard in the tutorial bozo, i'm not talking about drakes here
>>737389008>gameplay is exclusively fighting YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWN
>>737440649The "2nd big dragon" is literally Dragon God and the drakes are classified as dragons in the game.
>>737440719>>>/tv/that way
If demon souls ever comes to PC, you just know it will be the turd remake and not the original
>>737410453>>737410923Did tanimura consent?
>>737399687i dont get the naysayers hereit looks crispy/sexy af with high fidelity and no visual clutter that's plaguing modern gamesI like it.
>>737388816sweet, maybe next they can work on good game tracing
>>737440516>gee if the 5070ti doesn't even break a sweat I wonder how the fucking 5090 will performs?!Why are 5090 owners always the biggest retards around?
Shimmering chainmail, maybe it's just the aa, wouldn't let me convert to webum for some reasonhttps://streamable.com/twmsdx
uhoh my game went full disco when i rang the bell
>>737446774It reminds me of the UE3 days when everything looked like shiny wet plastic. Hideous
>>737389008>path tracingthank i'm died from the bad graphics lol
>>737412892Because the tool is autistic because the game is autistic. You CAN set every little possible thing you can possibly want with this mod, but to do so is intricate, tiny minute little details, tit for tat, from the position of sunlight, to the coloration, the strength and atmospherics, lots of extreme fine tuning.. for every single map, which is then divided into multiple sub-sections with their own lighting conditions, some of which can be as small as hallway passes, while at the same time random parts of the game inexplicably share these bits of map data so one change somewhere can have a random ass knockon effect elsewhere.It's genuinely too much to deal with for any average person or even most autistic modders. You have to stick your arm in the toilet to manhandle the turds clogging it, all the way up to the fucking shoulder.
>>737438405Imagine writing all this weird shit up instead of just accepting that some people like things you don't likemental illness meets severe immaturity
>>737389901why the fuck do they changed floor tiles?
