Uploaded October 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
The randomizer is back, now in Dark Souls 2. Prepare for hell.
Enemies are random. Items are random. Text is poorly translated. My estus flask is Mountain Dew. Crazy mods, I know. Oh, and this is the Scholar edition, so there are A LOT of enemies. A LOT. I'm going to die a lot. New videos will be coming out weekly on Friday's, keep an eye out!
Songs used (in order of appearance):
Strange Precident - Silent Partner
Manchester Dream - Bruno E.
Local Forecast - Kevin Macleod
Running Scared - Jeremy Korpas
Gavlan Want Soul - youtu.be/NTntdQQfuG0
Duck In The Alley - TrackTribe
Takeoff - Ethan Meixsell
Endless Motion - Bensound
Mods used (Scholar of the First Sin edition only):
EDIT: the enemy randomizer (and likely some of the other mods) are broken on current patch of DS2 SotFS. You will need to downpatch to get it to work. Some of the Nexus mods might have been updated for the 2022 patch of the game, so downpatching could break these, but there may be a previous versions still available in the files section, you'll need to take a look.
You can follow the instructions found here for downpatching, replacing DS3 for DS2 SotFS:
wiki.speedsouls.com/darksouls3:Downpatching
For the depot download command, I think the one to use is:
download_depot 335300 335301 6969394704102823372
This is based off the App ID from the DS2 steam page:
steamdb.info/app/335300/depots
and the manifest number for the patch for the game in 2015:
steamdb.info/depot/335301/history/?changeid=M:6969394704102823372
I have yet to test this command so let me know if it works!
Once you have followed the downpatching instructions, put steam in offline mode for playing. The current version of steam seems to not allow games to not be updated while online, even if you mess with the config files (had a lot of trouble with this in DS3). If anyone follows these instructions and has issues, please let me know in the comments and I can try to help!
Enemy Randomizer: gamepressure.com/download.asp?ID=65435
Some notes about getting the Enemy Randomizer, getting it to run in game is not intuitive. Once you've followed the instructions for install, here's the steps I used to get it to actually randomize enemies:
1. Starting the game
2. Opening the cheat table
3. Choosing the Dark Souls 2 process in Cheat Engine
4. Loading up a character
5. Pressing = on the keyboard (you should hear a sound effect and see On in the Randomizer row of the cheat table)
6. Check the box next to Spawn List in the cheat table
7. Reload the area by dying or warping back to the same bonfire
If you do NOT hear the sound effect when pressing =, you may need to try a different keyboard. Another commenter got around this issue by changing their keyboard language to English and pressing = with a virtual keyboard.
Item Randomizer: nexusmods.com/darksouls2/mods/743
Poorly translated: nexusmods.com/darksouls2/mods/837
Bloodborne lock-on: nexusmods.com/darksouls2/mods/804
Rainbow loading: nexusmods.com/darksouls2/mods/807
Estus mountain dew: nexusmods.com/darksouls2/mods/916
The randomizer is back, now in Dark Souls 2. Prepare for hell.
Enemies are random. Items are random. Text is poorly translated. My estus flask is Mountain Dew. Crazy mods, I know. Oh, and this is the Scholar edition, so there are A LOT of enemies. A LOT. I'm going to die a lot. New videos will be coming out weekly on Friday's, keep an eye out!
Songs used (in order of appearance):
Strange Precident - Silent Partner
Manchester Dream - Bruno E.
Local Forecast - Kevin Macleod
Running Scared - Jeremy Korpas
Gavlan Want Soul - youtu.be/NTntdQQfuG0
Duck In The Alley - TrackTribe
Takeoff - Ethan Meixsell
Endless Motion - Bensound
Mods used (Scholar of the First Sin edition only):
EDIT: the enemy randomizer (and likely some of the other mods) are broken on current patch of DS2 SotFS. You will need to downpatch to get it to work. Some of the Nexus mods might have been updated for the 2022 patch of the game, so downpatching could break these, but there may be a previous versions still available in the files section, you'll need to take a look.
You can follow the instructions found here for downpatching, replacing DS3 for DS2 SotFS:
wiki.speedsouls.com/darksouls3:Downpatching
For the depot download command, I think the one to use is:
download_depot 335300 335301 6969394704102823372
This is based off the App ID from the DS2 steam page:
steamdb.info/app/335300/depots
and the manifest number for the patch for the game in 2015:
steamdb.info/depot/335301/history/?changeid=M:6969394704102823372
I have yet to test this command so let me know if it works!
Once you have followed the downpatching instructions, put steam in offline mode for playing. The current version of steam seems to not allow games to not be updated while online, even if you mess with the config files (had a lot of trouble with this in DS3). If anyone follows these instructions and has issues, please let me know in the comments and I can try to help!
Enemy Randomizer: gamepressure.com/download.asp?ID=65435
Some notes about getting the Enemy Randomizer, getting it to run in game is not intuitive. Once you've followed the instructions for install, here's the steps I used to get it to actually randomize enemies:
1. Starting the game
2. Opening the cheat table
3. Choosing the Dark Souls 2 process in Cheat Engine
4. Loading up a character
5. Pressing = on the keyboard (you should hear a sound effect and see On in the Randomizer row of the cheat table)
6. Check the box next to Spawn List in the cheat table
7. Reload the area by dying or warping back to the same bonfire
If you do NOT hear the sound effect when pressing =, you may need to try a different keyboard. Another commenter got around this issue by changing their keyboard language to English and pressing = with a virtual keyboard.
Item Randomizer: nexusmods.com/darksouls2/mods/743
Poorly translated: nexusmods.com/darksouls2/mods/837
Bloodborne lock-on: nexusmods.com/darksouls2/mods/804
Rainbow loading: nexusmods.com/darksouls2/mods/807
Estus mountain dew: nexusmods.com/darksouls2/mods/916
