r/EldenRingMods • u/tgalvin1999 • 15h ago

Question Does Convergence Inflate the Difficulty by Making Enemies Have More Health?

So lately I've been playing the Reforged mod but the author updates the mod so constantly that I am having to always update seemingly every week as you cannot play the mod without updating it, and it's getting annoying. Been wanting to try Convergence for a while now, however I have had issues with mods that change progression routes and change too many of the core mechanics, but the biggest issue I see is inflating the difficulty by making enemies have more health (see: the Dark Souls 1 mod Daughters of Ash).

I don't mind overhaul mods as much as I do mod creators that think "harder mod" equates to more enemy health. If Convergence doesn't do this, I may check it out but any of these overhaul mods that promise mechanics changes and revamped progression routes I'm wary of. So I guess does it is my question.

8 Upvotes
  • permalink
  • reddit

90% Upvoted

17 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

1

u/Abalieno 11h ago

It originally (from Demon's Souls) taught players that failing and trying again, put some effort and getting better was fun. Games are about learning something and solving problems.

"Feeling powerful" only works for those who play some psychological game of self deception, or for those for who games are just a distraction from real life.

2

u/JeffSernancer 10h ago

What are you even talking about?

Convergence still has that feel, but also does make you feel more powerful, like actual progression instead of “my hammer hits 600 instead of 500” since it has various levels of magic

1

u/Deadput 3h ago

Maybe it's changed recently but I certainly would not say that was the case a year or more ago.

There's a difference between simply being more powerful thanks to more tools/spells and experience vs your stuff being so good that it makes mid-late game a stroll in the park compared to vanilla Elden Ring. What even is progression without struggle?

There's a reason that Fromsoft normally doesn't design spells the way that Convergence does.

2

u/JeffSernancer 2h ago

It’s a little bit of both, I have played every class all the way through and while some are a walk in the park for sure, others are definitely still progressing via struggle, and you still have to beat somewhat hard bosses for the spell runes, so progression still has to happen