COD: Tarnished Warfare

A remix of Tarnished Warfare by Sam Mitchell: Modern Warfare 2 (2009) combat in Elden Ring, rebuilt from scratch. Single player (Elden Ring runs offline with mods).

What's different

• Smooth first person. The look follows your mouse / right stick 1:1, the eye rides your body instead of the swinging head, and the view never drops back to third person.
• MW2 walking. WASD / the left stick move you relative to where you look, straight away: A and D strafe, S backpedals, with no turning first. Strafing and backpedalling are slower, and ADS slows you down, just like MW2. Sprint is still Elden Ring's dash (hold space / B).
• MW2's own viewmodel animations, read from your MW2: draw, holster, idle, fire, last-round, reload and empty reload (with the reload foley at MW2's exact frames), shell-by-shell shotgun reloads, sprint, and aim-down-sights through MW2's own sight line-up. Snipers get MW2's scope.
• MW2-style handling: weapon sway behind your turns, step bob, gun kick and view kick per shot, hip-fire spread that opens when you move.
• A setup that just works: reads MW2 in any language and MW2's current 64-bit files (fixes the original's "no surfaces in the zone" and "path not found" setup failures).
• Your character's body is hidden in first person; the arms and gun are drawn on the GPU.

As in the original

Every Elden Ring weapon type is an MW2 gun (24 guns over pistols, SMGs, rifles, shotguns, LMGs and snipers; stronger weapons get the stronger gun), upgrades climb MW2's camos to Gold, endless reserve ammo, M67 frags and a knife.

Controls

Move: WASD / left stick · Fire: left mouse / RT · ADS: right mouse / LT · Reload: mouse 4 (or fire when empty) · Frag: Q / RB · Knife: V / R3

Needs

Elden Ring 2.7.1.0 (Steam) and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009, Steam), fully installed (its MP zone files hold the guns). Nothing of either game ships with the mod: guns, animations, textures and sounds are read from your own MW2. Offline only (Melty starts Elden Ring with Easy Anti-Cheat off). Back up your saves.

Credits: Sam Mitchell (Tarnished Warfare, MIT), ER Mario by Delta (MIT), fromsoftware-rs, hudhook, ModEngine2.