Dark Souls Archthrones Demo (2024)

MAP
Rainswept Outpost (Tutorial Area)

• Player is no longer immortal and will respawn after death at the start if the boss has not been encountered yet
  

• It is now required to visit the Bountiful Queen throne at least once before visiting the other thrones.
• Can now change appearance and reallocate attributes at the Mirror of Self Reflection in the Nexus laboratory.
• Possible fix for flashing lights in the Nexus laboratory
• Added a chest in the starting room which allows lost key items to be re-obtained
• Fixed issue where Yellowfinger Heysel said the same line twice
• Fixed issue where placing the Coiled Sword crashed the game on app ver. 1.15.2
  

• Moved the ingredient flower so you don’t skip on Janara’s dialogue as reported.
• Restored Tree at the start of the outskirts where the 2 wolves are.
• Added corpse in a cell before the Captain Erdan boss fight which gives the Soul Greatsword sorcery and the Magic Clutch Ring
• The chest at the top of the elevator in the Ivory Fortress now gives a Dragonslayer Greatbow in addition to the 10 Dragonslayer Greatarrows
  

• Removed some jewelry mappieces that belonged to profaned capital.
• Moved treasure that was at the broken tower down near the wraith.
• Added Chloranthy Ring
• Reduced cost of absolution and dissolution at Warden Jessa
• Removed 1 Heide Queensguard and 1 Heide Kingsguard on the path to the Cathedral of Blue bonfire
• Flynn the Rogue Prince has a different idle animation
• Added treasure past Keeper of the Old Lords that gives Soul of an Old Hand
• Fixed bug where Keeper of the Old Lords would still talk to you after the fight is over
  

• Added Estus Shard
• Added Rusted Coin x10
• Added Rusted Gold Coin x4
• Added Fire Arrow x10
• Added Charcoal Pine Bundle x4
• Moved “Longsword” Corpse
• Removed Blue Knight near the bridge where the hollow sets itself on fire.
• Replaced 1 Overgrown Lothric Knight with Infested Corpse
• Changed enemy layout slightly
• Moved ladder from where first executioner is to near the stables bonfire for a shortcut to Pus Beast.
• Placed a patrolling winged knight behind the stables.
  

• Added green blossoms
• Added Undead Bone Shard
• Added Covetous Silver Serpent Ring
• Added Large Titanite shard x2
• Added Lightning Gem x2 next to the dragon
• Removed floating rubble inside of the building with a large statue inside
• Possible fix for Lailah appearing in Obediah’s arena if Obediah is alive
  

• Removed first instance of Giant Murkman
• Added Green blossom x3
• Added Fire Longsword
• Added Torch
• Added Red Bug Pellet x5
• Added Purging stone x3
• Added Purging stone x4
• Added Rusted Coin x7
• Added Fire Arrow x15
• Added Cathedral Knight Greatsword
• Added Cathedral Knight set
• Added Great Mace
• Reflavored fog statue, shows “CURSED!” instead of “TOXIC!”. Still reduces max HP by 3%
• Reduced cost of absolution and dissolution at the statue of Velka
• Removed the 2 corrupted milfanito in the rafters and replaced them with a large deep accursed which drops Aldrich’s Sapphire
• Large deacon above the elevator which leads to the rafters now drops the Deep Ring
  

ENEMIES

Drops:

Crystal Lizard:

• Possible fix for shadows flickering when a lizard is on screen
  

• Added Sharp Gem
• Added Humanity
• Added “Carthus Pike” (Spear variant)
  

• Tuned down aggression towards player
  

• Doubled Drop rate of Raw Fire Crystals
  

• Added Heavy Gem
  

• Added Sunless Spear and Estoc
  

• Added Frost Gem
• Sword and Shield variant should now drop the Outrider Knight Shield
• Greatsword variant should now drop the Irithyll Flamberge
  

• Added Frost Gem
  

• Added Humanity
  

• Added Humanity
  

• Added Simple Gem
  

• Added Hollow Gem
• Staff variant no longer drops the Storyteller’s Staff
  

• Added Hollow Gem
• Added Humanity
  

• Added Fire Gem
  

• Added “Angelic Paladin” armor set
  

• Removed “Cathedral Knight” set
  

• Added Human Pus
  

• Added Human Pus
  

• Added Human Pus
  

• Added Human Pus
  

• Added Human Pus
  

General Changes:

• Added effect to enemies to reduce Friendly Fire damage. Mostly used in areas with enemies that are fighting each other.
  

• Decreased resistances: Standard,Slash,Strike by 0.1, Thrust by 0.2, Fire by 0.3, Dark by 0.250
• Increased resistances: Magic 0.020, Lightning by 0.130
• Decreased Bleed Aux resistance by 70 (250>180)
• Decreased Tentacle hitbox size by 0.050
  

• Decreased resistances: Standard,Strike,Lightning by 0.050
• Decreased base HP by 59 (341)
  

• Decreased resistances: Slash,Thrust by 0.12, Magic by 0.3, Lightning by 0.050
• Reduced base HP by 169 (281)
  

• Decreased resistances: Slash,Lightning by 0.15, Thrust by 0.040
• Reduced base HP by 200 (550)
• Always refills 1 Estus Flask upon defeat
  

• Fixed bug that caused enemy to not react properly when taking heavy hits during guard
• Added proper death animation when enemy gets heavily pushed backwards
  

• Given proper absorption
• Reduced base HP by 200 (300)
  

• Given proper absorption
• Reduced base HP by 350 (250)
  

• Given proper absorption
• Reduced base HP by 90 (410)
  

• Given proper absorption
• Reduced HP by 336 (164)
  

• Reduced base HP by 100 (400)
  

• Changed team type to 24 (Enemy 2, fights Carthus Warriors now)
• Sabre variant has their flame effect back
  

• Reduced stun on attacks
• Changed AI to run away from player/enemies
• Changed Team Type to Neutral
  

• Boosted HP by 250 (700)
• Removed first placement to make enemy feel “Special”
  

• Added walk route to the one in the inner section of the Cathedral Graveyard (one that gets shot by arrows in vanilla DS3)
• Added walk route to the second one in the outer section of the Cathedral Graveyard
  

• Reduced base HP by 96 (304)
• Given proper absorption
  

• Increased base HP by 26 (326)
• Given proper absorption
  

• Increased base HP by 26 (326)
  

• Changed team type to 24 (passive toward Followers)
  

BOSSES

General Changes:

• All bosses are affected by the “Map Scaling” changes listed below. Base HP is the same unless stated otherwise
• Gave proper Multiplayer Scaling to the bosses that did not have it
  

Heide Phoenix:

• increased recovery on a quick paw attack, the triple flame spit and all flying attacks (anims 3004, 3008, 3009, 3020, 3021, 3022, 3027, 3030, 6000, 6002, 6003, 3022 (offset 1), 3023 (offset 1))
• increased cooldown on the flying -> transforming into a smaller phoenix attack from 20 to 25 seconds
• increased cooldown on the backwards flying roll with fireballs attack from 20 to 25 seconds
• removed flame breath from both phase 2 transformation attacks
• AI tuned to stay on the ground for longer
• fixed a bug where the Heide Phoenix would disappear from the arena never to return
• fix a bug that caused Phoenix’s AI to freeze until approached from the side
• Changed a long explosion to only last for 0.263 seconds (You have 13 i-frames when you roll. (=0.43 seconds))
  

Angelic Siege Golem:

• Decreased Angelic Siege Golem’s resistances: Lightning by 0.032
• fallen animation lasts longer so players can have time to hit the head/weak spot.
• Decreased Angelic Siege Golem’s resistances: Standard,Strike by 0.1, Slash by 0.090, Thrust by 0.050, Magic by 0.4, Fire by 0.3
• Increased Angelic Siege Golem’s resistances: Dark by 0.150
• Decreased the hitbox dimensions when falling on player
• Reduced the damage on the beam attack that follows ground by ~27%
• Shockwave physical damage reduced by half
• Removed magic slam shockwave as it had weird active frames that rollcaught you if you did not roll with the EXACT timing
• 2nd phase single-hand Slam attack magic damage reduced by 75
• Slowed down single-hand slam attack for both phases
  

Omen of the Eclipse:

• Decreased P1 resistances: Slash by 0.060, Fire by 0.180,
• Decreased P2 resistances: Slash by 0.110, Fire by 0.180
• the two phases now utilize two HP bars, with the total HP being appropriately scaled
• Commander Esmond will stagger when his HP is close to 0 and then transition to phase 2
• Tuned down stunlock length on the forward body dash attack (first phase)
• Some of the attack chains in the first phase force the boss to wait longer until it can attack again
• Increased start up speed of some phase II attack animations
  

Aldrich, Saint of the Deep:

• set the 'curse rain' attack cooldown to 30 seconds
• increased chance to walk around without attacking
• Decreased resistances: Standard,Slash,Strike by 0.050
• Decreased Slime enemy resistances: Fire by 1
• ’Curse Rain’ fog speffect interval applies 0.475 seconds later (applies every 0.6 seconds now)
• ’Curse Rain’ bullets have been generally reduced, lowering the curse buildup as a side effect
• Slightly increased the delay before the gravelord swords come out of the ground to make them consistent to dodge
  

Janara One-Eye:

• White summon Knight Slayer Tsorig increased max hp
  

Kremmel, God of Struggle:

• White summon Knight Slayer Tsorig increased max hp
• White summon Knight Slayer Tsorig summon location moved closer to fog wall
• When in Knight Slayer Tsorig’s world, he has increased max hp against Kremmel
• Fixed the fire particles on the weapon being gone in phase 2
• Added camera rumble for attacks that lacked it
  

Pus-Ridden Beast:

• Decreased resistances: Standard,Slash,Strike,Thrust by 0.050, Fire by 0.5 (actually weak to fire now)
• Reduced size of 000_003029 attack hitbox by 0.3
• Reduced the body fluid bullet duration by 0.8
• Reduced the body fluid damage by 32
• Changed 000_003003 active frames to be from f37-59
• slightly reduced the hitbox radius of its ground AoE attack
  

Angel of Gertrude:

• Decreased resistances: Standard,Slash,Strike,Thrust by 0.020, Magic by 0.2, Fire by 0.170, Lightning by 0.180
• Added Pillars of Light attack for Sword wielding Angel
• Adjusted the way angels act toward player
• Fixed a bug where the sword wielding Angel would freeze before phase 2
  

Chaos Amalgamate:

• Decreased resistances: Thrust by 0.1
• Increased resistances: Standard,Slash by 0.1
• Removed an extra lava bullet from the pickaxe slam
  

Saint Klimt:

• Reduced maggot damage by half
• Maggot damage is only applied every 1 second
• Reduced Klimt maggot blood damage by 5% (10% now)
• Increased bleed aux damage by 5 (15 now)
• Raised poise amount by 50 (250)
  

Necromancer Obediah:

• decreased the start-up speed of the unique phase 2 AOE attack, while increasing the distance the enemy can travel during the attack
• decreased lifetime of area denial explosion
• Fixed AI of white summon Farron Legionnaire Hyde
  

Great Deep Accursed:

• Raised base HP by 200 (3000)
• Raised base HP of head part in emevd to 400 (was 300)
• Raised poise amount to 180
  

Keeper of the Old Gods:

• Decreased physical resistances by 0.050, Lightning by 0.140, Dark by 0.020
• Reduced base HP by 600
• Changed how often the boss can be riposted when its hyper armour fails to resist an incoming attack
  

PLAYER EQUIPMENT

Elemental VFX trail:

• Fixed issue with Fire on rapier, curved sword and UGS weapon class
• Added elemental vfx trail for lightning and frost weapon buff
  

• Added "Heavy Soul Arrow" to Scholar
• Added “Mail Breaker” to Knight
• Added “Brigand Axe” to Hunter
• Changes to Stats
  All should equal 98 now Knight: -1 VIG Fugitive: +2 LCK, -1 FTH Duelist: +1 DEX, +1 END, -1 LCK Priest: +1 DEX Outcast: -1 END

NEW ! Weapon: Carthus Pike

NEW ! Weapon: Sunless Spear

NEW ! Weapon: Irithyll Flamberge

Fixed Curved sword using the wrong animation for backstab

Dark wraith Greatsword fixed bug with the 1H R2 #2 charged anim

Uchigatana cost lowered from 5000 to 1500 souls

Old Greatsword has regained its intended debuff effects (Poison and Bleed), along with having better scaling

Silver Knight Greatsword Greatsword has its base damage improved by 34 physical damage

Phoenix Zweihander has its damage (Generally) reduced

Phoenix Great Mace has its damage (Generally) reduced

Baptismal Guard Blade:

• Reduced base damage of all types
• Reduced damage of Weapon Skill
• Adjusted Weapon Skill not using its proper “No FP” version
• Adjusted Weapon Skill activating effects of Nightblade Kindling and effects like it
  

Iron Club has new (Different from Mace) scaling and now deals more Poise damage than normal

Cup Hilt Rapier has new (Different from Rapier) scaling and now has the intended R2’s and Weapon Skill

Noble’s Dagger now has innate bleed damage

Queensguard Straight Sword now has innate lightning damage

Queensguard Greatsword now has innate lightning damage

Queensguard Cross-Spear now has innate lightning damage

Manservant/Footman Set:

• Has proper absorption
• Has reduced backstab damage on torso piece
  

• Increased the attack cancel window of 2h r1 by 6 frames
• Reduced the startup of 2h r1[2] slightly [added debuganimspeed event start 0 end 20 spd 15]
• Increased the attack cancel window of 1hr1[2] by three frames
• Increased startup speed of 1hr1[2] slightly [added debuganimspeed event start 0 end 20 spd 16]
• Applied universal tracking changes to 1hr1 [i forgor pre demo oops]
• Increased speed of 2h roll attack [added debuganimspeed event start 0 end 20 spd 14]
• Increase speed of the WA[1] and reduce Invincibility frames
• Fixed the abysmal tracking on WA[2] (Big grounded slam with beeg projectile)
  

• WAr2 now has its proper bullet behavior
• Reduced base damage by 25
• Changed R2's (my god this stuff was broken)
  

• fixed wrong scaling and upgrading with shriving stones
• Fixed weapon skill
  

Mail Breaker adjusted weapon requirements and scaling, improved Heavy infusion scaling

Coiled Sword adjusted lore

Titanite Shard adjusted lore

Large Titanite Shard adjusted lore

Titanite Chunk adjusted lore

Titanite Slab adjusted lore

Necromancer’s Kindling

• Skeleton damage now scales with the area you are in
• Skeleton spawns a bit behind you now so that it’s attacks land more often
• Removed some of the possible animations the skeleton could use that had a longer wind-up
  

Apostle Scythe now scales with luck

Heysel Pick now drops from Yellowfinger Heysel

Elixir of Embers/Great Embers fixed issue where it would duplicate kindling effects, granting more boons than normal

Elixir of Immolation/Great Immolation VFX changed

Elixir of Absorption/Great Absorption sound changed

Elixir of Mind/Great Mind sound changed

MAP SCALING

For those who do not have internal knowledge of how these Speffects work, they apply a % buff to the enemy in the level. 1.500 = 150% and so on

Changes to Speffect "Level Scaling - War Torn Village":

• Decreased Attack Power: Physical,Magic,Fire,Lightning,Dark by 0.057 (1.200)
• Decreased Defense: Physical,Magic,Fire,Lightning,Dark by 0.006 (1.020)
• Decreased Aux Resist: Poison,Toxic,Bleed,Curse,Frostbite by 0.007 (1.012)
• Decreased maxHpRate by 0.76 (1.180)
  

• Decreased maxHpRate by 0.1 (1.450)
  

• Decreased maxHpRate by 0.2 (1.666)
  

• Decreased maxHpRate by 0.556 (1.788)
• Decreased Attack Power: Physical,Magic,Fire,Lightning,Dark by 0.118 (1.682)
• Decreased Defense: Physical,Magic,Fire,Lightning,Dark by 0.024 (1.069)
  

• Decreased maxHpRate by 0.033 (2.066)
  

• Decreased maxHpRate by 0.033 (2.100)
  

NPC SHOPS

Ebrius:

• now sells 4 titanite shards, cost: 800 souls, default access
• now sells 4 large titanite shards, cost: 4000 souls, Archtree Dew required
• Purple moss clumps from Archtree Dew are now unlimited
• now sells unlimited standard arrows, cost: 10 souls, Archtree Dew required
• now sells unlimited standard bolts, cost: 30 souls, Archtree Dew required
• now sells unlimited lightning bolts, cost: 300 souls, Archtree Dew required
• Bloodred moss clumps from Carthus Red Wine are now unlimited
• Raw Fire Crystals can now be sold for 300 souls instead of 50
• Laboratory key price reduced by 2500 souls (now 2500)
  

• Sells Crystal Gem x2
• Sells Sage Ring
  

• Fixed issue where the Catarina Gauntlets and the Catarina Armor shared the same purchase flag
  

PLAYER MECHANICS

• -Boosted Perfect Block stamina damage negation by 40% (60% total), chip damage negation by 35%. (50% damage reduction)
  -Adjusted timing of Perfect Block activation to be 0.092 seconds instead of 0.200 seconds ( )-Made Perfect Block actually bounce attacks back
• lessened the stamina cost of rolling/backstep to the same values as in vanilla Dark Souls 3
• Increased root motion when locked on for running light and running heavy attacks both 1h and 2h for Greataxes Colossal Weapons, and Greathammers[Please use these weapons, they are really good and cool I swear!]
• Modified poise health of wild strikes idle stance and moving stance to be the same as a 2h r1 of a hammer
• Sped up charged and uncharged 2h r2 of generic straight swords[wide sweep heavy attack] to be more in line with other weapon classes of similar size
  

• fixed hitbox delay issue
• fixed tracking bug
• fixed missing sound effect
  

• Removed vulnerability window [50% damage taken effect] from pickaxe jump attack [1h and 2h]
  

• Added two more active frames to the colossal weapon classes and Greataxe classes r1, r1[2] r1[3], r2, r2[2] (Both 1 handed and 2 handed) so that the attack actually lands when it should [thank you miyazaki san]
  

• Fixed desynced sound effect on greathammer 1h guard counter
• Increased Stamina/Poise damage by 20
• Added missing hyper armor to the following guard counters
  

-1h/2h Axe-1h Colossal Weapon-1h/2h Greataxe-1h Hammer-1h Greathammer-1h/2h Spear-1h/2h Halberd-1h/2h Scythe

SOUL GAIN CHANGES

War-Torn Village:

• Winged Knight (START): 35
• Lothric Knight (START): 10
• Hollow Soldier: 50 souls
• Winged Knight: 350 souls
• Lothric Executioner: 350 souls
• Infested Corpse: 20
• Writhing Infested Corpse: 370
  

• Manservant: 450
• Corrupted Dog: 150
• Sewer centipede: 280
• Colossal Murkman: 1500
• Dregsucker: 350
• Baptismal Knight: 750
  

• Carthus Warrior: 480
• Farron Follower: 400
• Carthus Warlord: 870
• Carthus Pyromancer: 430
  

• Phoenix Knight: 650
• Heide Queensguard: 500
• Heide Kingsguard: 550
• Heide Kingsguard (Exploding):200
• Elite Darkwraith: 1200
  

• Boreal Outrider Knight (Entry): 550
• Boreal Peacekeeper: 740
• Soul Powered Golem: 1500
• Silver Knight: 1000
• Sunless Knightess: 520
• Profane Hound-rat: 100
• Mimic: 2700
• Farron Follower: 550
• Boreal Outrider Knight (Outskirts): 750