When you come down the opposite side of the wharf, you'll drop down some ledges. Head through the crowded room into the next to find a chest containing the shard. Head up these and use the Soldier Key on the door at the top. Near the Cardinal Tower bonfire are some stairs. Head inside, then make your way to the basement, where you'll find a corpse holding the shard.Įstus Flask Shard #3 - Forest of Fallen GiantsĪfter defeating The Last Giant, you'll receive the Soldier Key. With the House Key in your possession, you can open the big house near the well in Majula. Speak to him a few times, and he'll give you the House Key. Now head up the slope where the boulder came from to meet Cale. Inside, stop under the first horizontal beam to let a boulder roll by. See that cave entrance? Now leap from the rooftop to the scaffolding ahead, and head into the cave. Go up the gnarled tree, leap to the rooftop, and face the opposite corner from where you entered. Climb down the ladder, take out the enemies by the bridge, then turn left. To start, travel to the Cardinal Tower bonfire in Forest of Fallen Giants. Smack the rock here, and it will drop, raising a corpse. Outside of Twitter, you can also keep tabs on this mod on Twitch, where the creator streams their work.Near the largest house in Majula is a well. “Character shading, shadow quality, antialiasing, ambient occlusion, and more are all upgraded with better techniques.” What’s going on under the hood? “This is not a typical Reshade or SweetFX preset, which simply adds some post-processing effects, but a proper mod that edits the game’s lighting files and adds many new dynamic lights to all the maps,” explained redditor Katalash. Easily the brightest level in the game now, followed closely by Dragon Shrine. (Left is before, right is after) /cgHlUTtP4lĪnother quick comparison, this time Heide’s Tower of Flame. Starting with my current favorite, Shrine of Amana. Now I can swap back to unmodified files at will, so expect a lot of comparisons in the near future.
I figured it out, the problem was I was dumb the whole time.
Here are a few screenshots of the not-yet-finalized mod working its magic:Īnd here are some before-and-after comparisons: Whether or not you’re into Dark Souls II, modding, or Dark Souls II modding, you’ve got to check out this work-in-progress mod from a lighting artist and graphics programmer named Stayd. I always appreciate seeing that passion bubble up into fan creations that benefit the wider community. Plenty of Souls fans dislike it, but the people who dig it are really, truly enamored with Drangleic. It’s an enchanting, beautiful, ugly, gratifying, surprisingly deep, and occasionally infuriating video game, all at once.
This isn’t your typical Dark Souls II graphics modĮven if Dark Souls II didn’t turn out quite the way I expected, I have a lot of love for the sequel.
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