Elden Power Attack v1.2  

You feel like after fixing attack animations, movement, behavior, and the camera with SkySA/ABR & TDM, Skyrim combat still feels unresponsive and clunky, and you just can't figure out why?

I believe I know one major culprit: the CONTROLS.

Did you ever feel frustrated when you

• pressed the attack key but the attack didn't go off because your character was in the wrong stage of their previous animation?
• wanted to do a light attack but pressed the attack key 0.0000000001 seconds too long and accidentally did a power attack instead?

The first case happens because unlike good fighting games Skyrim has no input buffering at all.
The second case can in part be fixed by mods like One Click Power Attack or Separate Power Attacks.
I couldn't bring input buffering into Skyrim (some other modders probably could) but I tried to somewhat alleviate both issues with this mod.

• You can now hold down the attack key for as long as you want and you character will do consecutive Light Attacks for as long as the key is pressed.
• You can now only do Power Attacks the same way Heavy Attacks are handled in Elden Ring's (and Dark Souls) Keyboard & Mouse controls: by pressing the attack key while a modifier key (configurable) is held down.


VANILLA      with ELDEN POWER ATTACK
LMB(click) -> right normal attack LMB(click) -> right normal attack
LMB(hold)  -> right power attack  LMB(hold)  -> consecutive right normal attacks
    SHIFT+LMB -> right power attack
RMB(click) -> left normal attack RMB(click) -> left normal attack
RMB(hold)  -> left power attack RMB(hold)  -> consecutive left normal attacks
       SHIFT+RMB -> left power attack
LMB+RMB(press) -> dual wield normal attack LMB+RMB -> dual wield normal attack
LMB+RMB(hold)  -> dual wield power attack  SHIFT+LMB+RMB -> dual wield power attack

Alternatively to the dual power attack option you can also configure the mod to let you block while dual-wielding or fighting unarmed by pressing SHIFT+LMB+RMB (check the config file included). Other than regular blocking this puts you in a state of constant block with a click, until you press it again. (this doesn't apply when you've got SkySA installed, since SkySA already lets you block with the left key while dualing)

The mod also unlocks the missing 3-hit dual attack animation for 2hand weapons.

Being able to do consecutive light attacks makes pulling off combos much easier. Just hold the attack key until the right animation starts, no need to spam-click. Never again will a power attack be accidentally triggered.

Example: Without this mod if you wanted to do a SkySA power attack 4, you needed to do
click->click->click->click->hold
With this mod you just
hold until the 4th light attack->press shift (while still holding attack)

The advantage of having a modifier key compared to other mods that add a single power attack hotkey: It works with right hand, left hand and dual power attacks (at least the non-SkySA version) because it just modifies this action.

No behavior edits involved, lightweight esl-flagged mod, now script free thanks to dTry's Key Utils, just one tiny, inoffensive papyrus file to handle config. Compatible with Anniversary Edition from version 1.1 on.

You can configure the modifier key by editing:
\Elden Power Attack\SKSE\plugins\dtryKeyUtil\config\custom\Elden.ini

With version 1.2, gamepad input should now be fully supported.

You can customize the effects of the mod by editing
\Elden Power Attack\EldenPowerAttack.ini

• fInitialPowerAttackDelay controls the hold time for power attacks in vanilla. With Elden Power Attack, this value determines the time you can hold down the attack key WITHOUT pressing shift before you start doing consecutive light attacks.
• ]fSubsequentPowerAttackDelay controls the time between two consecutive power attacks. You'll have to find your optimal value here, it should be smaller than 1 for consecutive attacks to work, but setting it too low could cause animation clipping