Prepare to Die, Dragonborn

Skyrim, unchanged — except you move like the Chosen Undead.

Prepare to Die, Dragonborn plays Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition's own rolls, backsteps and their timing on your Skyrim character. Every time Skyrim starts, the mod finds your installed copy of Dark Souls, opens its archives and decodes the player's animations and event data — nothing from Dark Souls is shipped.

What you get

• Roll — tap Sprint while moving. Dark Souls' fast, mid or fat roll, picked by how heavy your worn gear is, with Dark Souls' real invincibility frames (0.43 s fast, 0.37 s mid/fat).
• Backstep — tap Sprint while standing still, with its own short i-frame window.
• Lock-on — middle mouse or right stick click. Your character and the camera stay on the target, with a marker on it. Locked-on rolls go forward, back, left and right like in Dark Souls.
• Auto third person — rolling or locking on switches to third person (and pulls the camera back so you see the roll); you return to first person afterwards.
• Rolls cost stamina; once Dark Souls' own recovery window opens, moving cancels the rest of the roll.
• Hold Sprint to sprint and press Jump to jump, as always. Everything else — combat, sounds, music, quests — stays Skyrim.

Single player.

Needs

• Skyrim Special Edition 1.7.104 (the current Steam version)
• Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition, installed through Steam. Without it, Skyrim tells you so and plays unchanged.

Coming next

Dark Souls attack move sets for Skyrim weapons (light/heavy attacks, one- and two-handing), the kick, and target switching polish.

Credits

Made by puddinboots, built with Claude. Address Library for SKSE Plugins by meh321 (bundled with credit). CommonLibSSE-NG by Ryan McKenzie, powerof3, CharmedBaryon, alandtse and contributors. Havok spline decoding after HavokLib by Lukas Cone and SoulsAssetPipeline by Meowmaritus & Katalash. Dark Souls formats from SoulsFormats by TKGP. Ultimate ASI Loader by ThirteenAG. Dark Souls © FromSoftware / Bandai Namco; Skyrim © Bethesda.

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