Starborn Among Us

Maybe there are starborn among us, hiding in plain sight, living a double life out there... You were not aware of their presence in the world, until you installed this mod...

• Dynamically convert enemies or friendly NPCs to starborns, adding some twists to your combat encounters!
• (Optionally) Lore friendly! Bind the trigger to main quest progression, or the New Game Plus you are in, or your player level, or play with none of these limitations!
• Customize your experience! Conversion chance, health and damage, outfit and voicelines... Create your own starborn lore with 20 gameplay options!
• Unleash the power of artifacts! Converted starborns can use a wide range of powers, sometimes even reviving the dead and summoning your evil duplicate to fight against you!
• Proper rewards for a proper challenge! Giving a chance to make converted starborn legendary, lootable, grant more quantum essences, or a combination of these!
• Compatible! With mods that adds POIs and Quests, with mods editing starborn on death behavior, with mods changing levelled enemies and overhauling combat difficulties! No patch required!

What will you get?

You will get this mod running in background, secretly converting some NPCs into Starborn when you visit a new location, get near a POI, enter an interior or board a ship.

You will get 20 gameplay options that allow you to customize all aspects of this mod. You can set who might become Starborn, whether they reveal their identity with Starborn spacesuits or the iconic voices, how capable they are in combat and what happens when they are killed. Of course you can set the chance of the conversion, for normal and legendary NPCs seperately. And in case RNG is not in your favor - you can set a "1 in x guarantee" to negate your bad luck, so you don't miss out the exhilarating combat for too long!

Gameplay options - Requirements

• Requires story revelation (whether main quest progression blocks conversion)
• Requires New Game Plus (whether the current iteration of NG+ blocks conversion)
• Requires Player level

Gameplay options - Conversion Chance

• NPC to Starborn conversion chance
• Legendary NPC to Starborn conversion chance
• Guaranteed conversion (one guaranteed conversion every x attempts)

Gameplay options - Conversion Rules

• Only consider NPC hostility
• Only consider NPC level above
• Only consider legendary NPCs
• Attemp conversion only once

Gameplay options - Converted Starborn Modifier

• Apply Health modifier
• Apply Damage modifier
• Apply Legendary modifier (chance to make Starborn legendary and drop Rare/Epic/Legendary gears)
• Apply Artifact powers (see screenshot for details)
• Apply Starborn spacesuit
• Apply Starborn voicelines
• Override Death Behavior
• Corpse behavoir (whether you can loot the corpse of a Starborn)
• Quantum Essence Gains Min
• Quantum Essence Gains Max

How to use

• Start a new game or load the save you wish to continue with
• In the pause menu, go to Settings -> Gameplay Options
• Scroll down until you find "Starborn Among Us" section and customize your experience
• Move out and explore! Now you may find Starborn living a double life among other NPCs

Note: the settings are attached to the save file you are playing, so don't forget to reconfigure them when starting a new game or branching out from an earlier save!

Compatibility

• Works with a new game, new game plus (aka entering Unity) or existing saves.
• Compatible with difficulty overhaul mods, although you might want to adjust the health and damage modifiers to align Starborns with your desired difficulty.
• Compatible with mods that adds new POIs, locations, quests etc.
• Compatible with new race mods (as long as it's humanoid).
• Compatible with mods that changes Starborn death behavior (for example granting more Quantum Essences on death), set "Override Death Behavior" to "No" to let other mods handle Starborn death.

Known Issues

In rare cases, Starborn with active Moon Form artifact power might hit you with an aimed power without facing towards you. This is caused by their AI package prioritizing evasion and movement even when Moon Form prevents it. This issue is purely visual.

Contact me

If you have any suggestions or run into issues with this mod, contact me on Reddit u/ExoWarlock313