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HardBorne Is a Massive Overhaul Mod for Bloodborne With New NPCs, Quests, Bosses, and Weapons

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A team of modders has released a massive overhaul mod for Bloodborne that PC gamers can enjoy, called HardBorne. HardBorne makes a lot of changes to its core gameplay mechanics. At the same time, it adds new NPCs, quests, bosses, weapons, and items to the game. So, let’s take a closer look at it.

As the name implies, HardBorne aims to make Bloodborne significantly more challenging. One of the biggest changes is the healing system. You’ll no longer have 20 Blood Vials to spam during fights, effectively making HP management trivial.

HardBorne reworks healing to function much more like a classic Dark Souls game. You start with 4 healing vials, and throughout the game, you can find items that increase your carrying capacity up to 10. Think Estus Flask and Fire Keeper Souls.

To preserve Bloodborne’s iconic aggressive combat, the mod increases HP Rally regeneration by a substantial amount. This means your primary method of healing is to strike back before your orange HP bar fades. The good news here is that the window is fairly generous at the start. As you progress, you’ll also find items that further boost Rally recovery and enhance the effectiveness of your healing vials.

The team has also reduced the damage from parrying and riposte. It was just too much, and they felt it trivialized some fights and bosses. If you really want to parry, though, you can always pick the parry specialist class, and that has a boon to parrying damage to make it on par with the vanilla game.

Hunter’s Dream has significantly changed. You will find new NPCs there to meet and talk to, including a new shopkeep. On top of that, each map has a new NPC quest giver. They will give out the quest for that map, and it will be your job to figure out how to complete it. They will also have other quests that you can do, usually by finding one of the new mini-bosses that are on every map and beating them.

Almost all enemy placements have been changed or modified in order to give you that “oh crap” feeling once again. Furthermore, every map now has an element or physical damage that enemies are weak to, and one that they are strong against. This is to encourage you to use more than one weapon. Bosses on those maps also have this system implemented.

All in all, this is a cool overhaul mod that a lot of die-hard Bloodborne fans will appreciate. If you are one of them, you can download HardBorne from this link.

To install it, you’ll have to copy the dvdroot_ps4 folder into your BloodBorne shad folder and overwrite what’s there. As I said, you can play this mod on PC via the shadPS4 emulator.

Speaking of Bloodborne, here are three other cool mods for it. The first one is Bloodborne Magnus Opus. Bloodborne Magnus Opus is a project that aims to restore content that was cut from the game. The second is a first-person mod. By using it, you can play Bloodborne in first-person mode. This is a cool way to replay the game if you have already finished it.

Let’s also not forget the PC Remaster Mod. Bloodborne PC Remaster Mod adds dynamic shadows to everything in the game and changes some settings to improve shadow distance and stability. It also adds parallax occlusion mapping to many surfaces, making them look more detailed. The mod includes new point lights for things that originally had no light, like candles and lamps. It also fixes objects that were floating in the air.

Have fun!

HardBorne - A brand new challenging BloodBorne adventure!