Dark Souls 3 Mod Gives Game First-Person Viewpoint

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FromSoftware's Dark Souls games are third-person action-adventure RPGs through-and-through, with players sometimes able to go in first-person mode when aiming with certain weapons. The third-person camera is definitely best-suited for Dark Souls' style of gameplay, but that hasn't stopped one fan from setting out to make a full-fledged first-person mod for Dark Souls 3.

Reddit user Dasaav recently shared a clip of their Dark Souls 3 first-person mod, which aims to make the entire game playable from a first-person perspective. This isn't the first time that someone has made a Dark Souls 3 first-person mod, though Dasaav explained how their take will differ from previous attempts.

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After another Reddit user pointed out that a Dark Souls 3 first-person mod was made by Zullie the Witch six years ago, Dasaav explained how their vision of a first-person mod for the game differs. According to Dasaav, their Dark Souls 3 first-person mod will be a «full conversion,» whereas previous mods used clever placement to make the existing third-person camera look as though it was providing a first-person viewpoint. «In my mod, I plan to both attach the camera to the actual head of the player, so it moves together with the head, and make the player always face in the direction of the camera, with movement being relative to that, i.e. strafing not turning and walking forward,» Dasaav explained. Dasaav compared the movement in their Dark Souls 3 first-person mod to Skyrim, and while the video provided shows the mod in its earliest stages of development, it does bring to mind Bethesda's open world epic.

Regardless of how first-person is implemented in Dark Souls 3, one has to imagine