Starborn's Bounty

Starborn's Bounty

This mod allows Starborn enemies to have different effects (or bounties) when the player defeats them, making them more interesting to dispatch.

Upon killing a Starborn, one of 3 things can happen:

Empowered - (grants Power) - You absorb their energy, causing them to disentigrate into astral stuff, granting you 1 starborn power or ranking up one of your existing ones. This might be a nice alternative if you'd prefer to not to NG+ over and over or you have a NG+ you've settled on and don't want to forfeit what you've built up. This has a 30% chance to occur.

Lootable - (can Loot) - They die normally (no disentigration) and you are able to loot them like other enemies. This usually provides you with a weapon and ammo and on death they may also contain a small cache of credits, a med kit and an assortment of scientific items (all random) and they can also drop a rare/epic/legendary piece of equipment. This has a 60% chance to occur.

Absorption -  (Grants Essence) - They disentigrate into astral stuff, providing you with 2 to 4 bonus Quantum Essence. This is an addition to the normal 1 Quantum Essence you always receive when killing one. This has a 10% chance to occur.

The different bounties don't (normally) stack but you always receive one of the three, based on it's chances.

I initially created this mod to give you an alternative means to have to sink into NG+ runs to raise or add new powers but I felt why not give it random outcomes to make it more interesting.

I felt at the same time, why do the Starborn just disentigrate and drop... Nothing? Except a quantum essence which, to me, is like receiving a food item (or Charlie Brown getting a rock as a gift). So on death, there's a chance some leveled list items are added to their inventory.

For lore-like purposes and this mod, you think of them disentigrating due to you greatly absorbing their energy and at other times, you didn't absorb enough of it to vaporize them, allowing you to loot them.

Installation:

Simply download the version of the mod you wish to use and install into your Starfield folder (files are pathed from Data). You should be able to use either the core Starfield folder or the one in My Games. If using a Mod Manager, follow the guidance for that in terms of installation.

This mod replaces the script, MagicEffectStarbornScript, which causes things to happen on death, so it is incompatible with any mod that replaces the same script.

It can be installed mid-game or removed mid-game. Try not t