Immersive Exploration - Wildlife Scarcity

Immersive Exploration Series will be a collection of small mods that will adjust visuals and/or gameplay settings with the goal of increasing the immersive factor of the game.

Wildlife Scarcity trims the percentage of alien fauna that you can potentially encounter in a certain area. I always thought it was unnatural to find 10 beasts just chilling behind every rock every 50 meters or so. Now you will have to actually be a hunter if you want to kill aliens, not just descend from your ship and do a machinegun sweep & fly off. Beasts will spawn in a broader area but you will find more than enough of them to complete your fauna scans.

Certain planets have higher spawn rates, others do not. It depends on the conditions of the planet i.e. what type of planet and what biome you're exploring.

Creatures spawn rate depends on the creature type. Predators will be less frequent while tiny scavengers and prey will be more common.

Based on that, sometimes you will run into a herd of creatures, but in other areas you might spend some time looking for them or just see a couple. That alone gives you enough reason to go and explore the map instead of just obliterating all fauna in one small area and leaving the planet soon after.

Use vantage points to scout the area for potential fauna. Use your scanner zoom to discover herds or smaller creatures hiding in the bushes.

Be the hunter, not the hunted.

I highly recommend using this mod with:

- IE - HUD Tweaks for no enemy markers and less marker guidance in your HUD.

- Hunting Trophy adds loot and decorations related to xeno hunting.

- Trees Rescaled for making forests and all vegetation lush and truly a-maze-ing to explore.

While I know Starfield is a different game than Skyrim or Fallout due to the sheer scale and vastness of areas we can explore, as well as generally small number of POIs to find, the disproportional number of aliens that were thrown in as an attempt to fill that void always made me feel like I'm playing a FPS shooter game primarily, and space exploration game as an afterthought. I believe this mod rectifies at least some of that.

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My plan is to continue making mods for Starfield far into the future.

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COMPATIBILITY

From what I've tested, this mod is compatible with all POI mods and will not interfere with anything other than fauna spawn rates. However, if you run into some issues, please use the posts tab to report them. Thank you!

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