Crimson Fleet - Less Fleet More Heat Factions & Encounters Patch

v1.2 on 2026-4-19 - Added playstation support. Works with Free Lanes and Terran Armada

When you are a member of CF, this dynamically reduces Crimson Fleet from showing up at POIs (dungeon type) and ground bounty missions, allowing more opportunity to fight Wulfy's factions!

(Screenshots are me fighting the Rogue Ryujin faction at a POI rather than running into friendly Crimson crew yet again)

PLEASE READ ALL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE BEST EXPERIENCE :)

REQUIRES:

• Factions & Encounters Expanded

You do NOT need the original "Crimson Fleet - Less Fleet More Heat" mod. This patch is a standalone patch on Faction & Encounters Expanded. If you don't have Factions & Encounters you should go look for the original mod.

LOAD ORDER: You must place this mod below/after the F&E mod.

• Factions & Encounters Expanded
• Crimson Fleet Less Fleet More Heat F&E patch (this mod only, you don't need the original Less Fleet) (Note that both F&E and CF LFMH should be loaded before any mods that will inject additional factions)

COMPATIBILITY NOTES:

• Both Factions & Encounters and my patch hard edit LeveledCharacter forms. Wulfy's adds the faction LeveledLists and mine adds a condition to the vanilla Crimson Fleet entry. Load both mods before any mods that perform injection to add factions or you'll have an overwrite conflict. Loading any mods that hard edit LChar forms after these will likely stomp on both mods.

GAMEPLAY NOTES:

• Look for the Less Fleet More Heat gameplay option and ensure it is set to Enabled. This enables the mod's features.
• You must be a member of the Crimson Fleet for this mod to do anything. Becoming a member adds a hidden perk behind the scenes that this mod relies on for checking whether you are member or not.
• Points of Interest: You shouldn't see Crimson Fleet appear at random POIs while you are a member of Crimson Fleet. It should be all non-CF factions, such as Wulfy's factions, Spacers or Ecliptic (presuming compatibility with this mod). There are some random POIs which are exclusive to CF and CF will still spawn there. If it is a fixed POI, or story POI, or placed via a quest that specifically places CF pirates then this mod won't affect it.
• Bounties: Vanilla bounties targeting NPCs at a POI will be affected because they select from the POI spawn pool. You should receive only non-CF targets now after your old missions expire or are completed. Mission board mods or mission mods that use the vanilla way of placing random hostiles should also be affected. You may need to take and reject any current bounties for new ones to appear, go sleep 48 hours and change location to get mission boards to refresh after taking and rejecting or completing the currently available missions.
• Space Bounties: This does NOT affect space bounties (targeting ships) as they are hard coded to Crimson Fleet in vanilla. I will fix that in a different mod, but you may want to look at mission board mods out there as some fix that already by offering other missions which appears to be the only way to fix it.
• Other: This method doesn't appear to affect landing ship encounters or other types of random encounters that can happen at a variety of POIs. Meaning, you'll still encounter CF here and there, just a lot less.

TECHNICAL NOTES: The primary feature of this mode relies on a simple hard edit to the LeveledCharacter forms for HumanHostiles and sets a condition on Crimson Fleet related entries which checks for a number of conditions, but primarily FactionCrimsonFleetPerk == 0. Therefore CrimsonFleet can only be selected if you do not have the perk. The other conditions ensure we only try to block CF when its a dungeon (LocTypeDungeon), and we don't block if the location is CF exclusive.

This mod does not touch anything else outside of those forms, so I didn't edit quests, missions, boards, POIs any of that. I had to make it as a patch for Wulfy's to preserve Wulfy's hard edit.

SUPPORT

• Please triple check your load order against the above instructions before asking, load orders can be complex and I can't support every load order question.
• For general questions you can find me on DarkStar HQ https://discord.gg/joindarkstar in the cyberpsyche-mods channel