Blade of Darkness Reforged is a total visual overhaul including minor gameplay enhancements.
Reforged aims to update the visual fidelity of Blade of Darkness whilst not straying too far from the original look and feel.
Although many textures have changed from their original design, each and every texture is based on an upscaled version of the original allowing for greater visual authenticity and feel.
Overall, Reforged strikes a good balance between old and new by highlighting Blade of Darkness' atmospheric strengths via Reshade and providing more details and fidelity across all textures through much higher resolutions.
Blade of Darkness Reforged features include -
Upscaled 2k handmade textures based on the original textures covering all maps*, objects, weapons, characters and npcs.
Individual Reshade presets for each map. These individual Reshade configs have been carefully designed for each map and include Bloom, DOF, AO, SSR, HDR and tonemapping.
Please download and follow the instruction and configuration guidelines from the files tab.
Unfortunately this is a large download due to amount and size of the textures.
Known issues
Due to the increased size of the textures, load times are longer now.
Performance wise, 60 fps is easily achievable on a 1080 ti & i7 7700k.
120 is also achievable on higher refresh rate monitors.
However if your system is struggling, SSR & ADOF can be disabled via Reshade for a performance boost.
This version is for the latest Steam release.
It does work in openGL but it has not been tested thoroughly.
*Gorge of Orlok has been omitted due to technical issues.
The tutorial map also been omitted to lower the file size of the mod.
Some white text will appear very bright due to the Reshade bloom settings. Even though all Reshade presets are modest this is still unfortunately unavoidable.
BOD Reforged game play enhancements
The below PY files found in the LIB folder have been altered to enhance game play.
The original (OG) files have also been provided if you do not wish to use the enhanced versions.
Actions: This changes the default 1st person archery view to the 3rd person archery view.
Basic_Funcs: This increases the amount of energy that is required to perform an attack. This makes combat much harder and rewarding ( especially in the earlier levels ) as your hero will become fatigued much quicker due to the increased amount of energy required for each attack. This also impacts special attacks greatly as they generally require the most energy to perform. Basically these changes force you to play more strategically and patiently without the reliance on special attacks and big combos. *Beginners may want to use the OG file for their initial play through.
GenFX: This attaches additional light sources to some weapons, mainly Dal Gurak's blade.
PowDefWidgets: This disables some of the UI elements - Original HUD files are available for download under the files tab.
Scorer: This disable most of the UI elements.
Disclaimer
Blade of Darkness Reforged requires a legitimate purchased retail version of Blade of Darkness to work properly.
Blade of Darkness Reforged does not contain any executables.
Blade of Darkness Reforged is a texture overhaul with minor gameplay enhancements.
Blade of Darkness Reforged is a free mod and should not be redistributed for monetary gain.
Thankyou
A big thanks to all those over at Arohkslair, especially Prospero, Tomash, Sryml, Cieply & Borer.
Also a big thanks to all of the artists that have kindly allowed me to use their content.
Having said that, if any artist wishes to have their work removed or if I have accidentally used a piece of work inappropriately, please contact me immediately and accept my sincere apologies.
Lastly, a huge thankyou to the legend Sryml for developing the awesome mmp_converter framework. Without this, Blade of Darkness Reforged would simply not exist.
Tools, software used
Gimp
Gigapixel AI by Topaz Labs
mmp_converter
Reshade
Contacts
severancebladeofdarkness@gmail.com
Useful links
Arokhslair.net
Steamcommunity.com
Articles
UPDATE! UPDATE! Major latest steam patch broke mods.
Please rollback to v109 for Reforged to work properly.
Please also refer to the updated Blade of Darkness Reforged installation & configuration guidelines under files. Also check out the comparison screenshots in images for the hybrid, new & original character skins that are now ready for download. Lastly, original & FIXED BLUE XP HUD files have also been uploaded. Enjoy!
2K upscaled original character textures will also be included for those of you that prefer them.
Also, hybrid versions will also be included for those of you that may like a mixture between the new skins and the originals.
Blade of Darkness Reforged is a total visual overhaul including minor gameplay enhancements.
Reforged aims to update the visual fidelity of Blade of Darkness whilst not straying too far from the original look and feel.
Although many textures have changed from their original design, each and every texture is based on an upscaled version of the original allowing for greater visual authenticity and feel.
Files
BOD REFORGED PART 1a
Full Version 1 commentBOD REFORGED PART 1a Please read the installation and configuration guide included.
BOD REFORGED PART 1b
Full VersionBOD REFORGED PART 1b Please read the installation and configuration guide.
BOD REFORGED PART 2a
Full VersionBOD REFORGED PART 2a Please read the installation and configuration guide
BOD REFORGED PART 2b
Full VersionBOD REFORGED PART 2b Please read the installation and configuration guide.
BOD REFORGED PART 3b
Full VersionBOD REFORGED PART 3b Please read the installation and configuration guide.
BOD REFORGED PART 3a
Full VersionBOD REFORGED PART 3a Please read the installation and configuration guide.
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Hi everyone , i don’t mean to harm the mod because i love this game so much ( i played it since 2012) and this mod just made it even better , but sadly it’s not like the pictures because the lightning thing (ray tracing) isn’t with the mod and idk where to get it (as well as installing it on steam version) and it sometimes glitches me in the loading screen, can anyone help?
Hi,
Have you installed Reshade? You need to download Reshade to get the SSR etc effects.
cheers,
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I can not save the game after install the mod. In the menu save and load is grey out and can not select to save the game. Please help me :)
What version are you running? I can load and save just fine. Do you have any saved games? Check your save file in your BOD directory.
cheers,
Hello, I use the rollback version from Steam. Where can i check the version? When I start the game and go into the menu the save and load are grayed out and i can't choose them. Is there a way i can also see when the character gets tired when hitting? because the field down the middle is gone when I hit. But the real problem Is in the save the game. And can I install only textures because I do not want to change gameplay and I do not like reshade in BoD
You can check from the manage widget in Steam via the games landing page. It will list build id under the updates tab, otherwise just look for rollback next to BOD in your games list.
Sorry I'm not sure why you're having issues with your save games.
As for the game play/hud changes, these are intentional, so please refer to the optional files on moddb to reinstate the hud and gameplay mechanics.
Lastly, try the reshade, it was designed to be used with these textures - it's subtle yet effective.
cheers,
I'm mostly interested for the new skins. Which downloads I should go for?
The following files contain new character skins -
2k upscaled Amzskin1
Character Hybrid skins 2k
Character original 2k skins
However, if it's just the skins that come with the mod that you're interested in, then BOD REFORGED PART 1b is the file you need.
cheers,
Thanks! But sadly there's some weird messed up textures. Amazon for example has a weird chameleon camouflage texture going all over.
Is there a fix for this?
I'm using a gog version. Just downloaded and started playing.
What version are you running? You need to be on the previous build due to the "HD" update breaking mods. I haven't tested on the GOG version either lately but it had worked previously. Usually that weird texture effect means the texture hasn't been installed correctly, so try installing it again but I really think it's the latest update impacting this.
cheers,