The recommended way to play the game on modern computers. Offers a variety of balance changes, new loot, new descriptions and more resolution options.

Summoner mod, while relatively vague in name offers a massive overhaul to the game's initial loot system. Merchants stocks reflect their stalls/locations, a wider variety of loot is available, many early game crutch items have been repaired and likewise many broken items have been made viable.
Installs in two parts, first the initial package then the second set of "item tables" laid over the initial if you want the gear changes. (These are honestly recommended, balance is a big flaw in vanilla summoner)

Extended features of the mod include but are not limited to:

• Better item descriptions
  
• Larger gear variety
  
• New textures for unique items
  
• Fixed spell effects on broken items
  
• Better armor stats
  
• Enemies have revamped resistances/stats. Elemental enemies now have immunity to their own element type.
  
• Gear types have been more differentiated stat-wise, allowing each to serve a purpose.
  
• Bows and crossbows are now viable to use
  
• Eastern swords and straight swords are now differentiated by weight class/speed
  
• Enemy weapon drops and more...

Now hosted on nexus to avoid Steam's shenanigans. Installation method remains the same.
Link to Nexus page[www.nexusmods.com]

Simply run install.bat and uninstall.bat from inside the install directory when necessary. If applying new tables over old ones you must use install.bat again to update the game files. In my experience existing saves work absolutely fine after either process.

dgVoodoo has proven over the past couple years to be a better alternative to Timeslip's now antiquated upscaling patch. Program explanation is on-site.
Hosted via PCGamingWiki[www.pcgamingwiki.com]

You can also extend the game's resolution above normal limits by applying the following dinput files. Can effect UI/Menu scaling but game is entirely playable. No longer efficient, but works to a limited degree.
Hosted via Sourceforge[timeslip.users.sourceforge.net]

-example of widescreen resolutions


-example of 4:3 resolutions




Not recommended for normal play. Causes enemy swarming and summons to rush to their deaths. Initially made as a challenge mod but poorly balanced and ill suited for small maps or maps with many enemies clustered behind different walls, as detection is not based on line of sight.
Download via Dropbox[www.dropbox.com]

Below are examples of major changes made to items in-game for balance purposes.

• NPC and Mob resistances have been changed to offer better variety and balance. Elemental enemies now nullify or drain their element, stone/skeletons are heavily resistant to pierce etc.
  
  
• Longswords and Broadswords have been recategorized as 1-handed weapons so that they may be used alongside shields.
  
  
• Items containing skill effects can not be worn by classes lacking said skills. For example only casters may use the Elemental Necklace, Flece is the only party member who can use the Thief's torque etc.
  
  
• Spiked Mace now does Piercing damage instead of Slashing damage
  
  
• Assassin Crossbow and Kishin Impaler now deal an excusable amount of damage. Originally their dps was nerfed to the point of uselessness due to their death spell enchantments. But due to the way the game rolls death resist and the rarity of casting the enchantment these weapons were useless in vanilla summoner.
  
  
• Nodachi now casts Icicle instead of Ice Coffin, allowing you to use it as a weapon. In vanilla Summoner this weapon would perpetually generate coffins of ice which protected the enemy you were attempting to kill.
  
  
• Bows now deal enough damage and have a wide enough enchantment variety to be a viable weapon specialty. Longbows are slower, Siegebows hit harder, Elemental bows carry weight and fire rate penalties.
  
  
• Lance weapons exist. These look like greatswords in-game. There is a stone lance that is classified as an axe, but deals blunt damage. This makes it a unique endgame blunt weapon that can be used alongside axespin.
  
  
• All maces have been slowed. Original stats had them on par with straight swords, and as blunt is one of the most shared damage vulnerabilities this made them far too overpowered in vanilla summoner.
  
  
• All katana type weapons are faster than longswords or broadswords. The finer and sharper the katana the faster, while the heavier and more designated examples such as the decapitator will be on the slower end of the scale.
  
  
• Armor has been re-weighted and re-scaled so that every single piece has a unique use and scaling rate. Some is heavier, some faster and prices have been somewhat rebalanced. By the endgame you are loaded anyway and don't need to worry too much about the prices, so gear acquired late has been changed minimally pricewise.
  
  
• The Sornehan Knight Shield (aka the SNKT Shield in-game) is now balanced to be a viable piece of equipment by the time it is accessible.
  
  
• Bone equipment all has a matching regeneration effect. Constantly pop numbers onto your screen like the undead do!
  
  
• Enemies can drop previously locked weapons such as bacite staves or late game knight shields. Note some of these are not scaled properly for players at all, such as the oni staves in the resolution screenshots.
  
  
• Merchants now have inventories respective to their stall locations and trade. Leatherworkers will sell light armor sets, smiths will sell a variety of shields and weapons while armorers will sell a wide variety of new options.
  
  
• New textures for Spell Scrolls/Unique Weapons
  
  
• More lore friendly/detailed item descriptions.

-Note the shrunken UI in menus. This is the worst side effect of exceeding the resolution cap.