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About this mod
The Deep End makes the game increasingly difficult with each new NG+ loop, up to NG+100. With each new NG+ loop ground combat damage received by the player is increased by 25% and ship damage received by 10% (vanilla only increases both by 10% and caps them out at NG+10). Becoming more and more fragile - how close to The Deep End can you get?
- Requirements
- Permissions and credits
In vanilla with each NG+ the following happens (as layed out in PlayerUnityDamagePerk, a hidden perk of every player character):
The Deep End modifies and extends this framework:
The effect is that the player becomes more and more vulnerable in ground and - to a lesser degree - ship combat with each new loop, up to a point where eventually even a stray bullet might be deadly.
I hope you enjoy the ever increasing challenge of each new loop and draw some fun from this. See you out there in the Field :-).
Perspective
I might look into adding special rewards or easter eggs in dialogue etc. the closer a player gets to The Deep End.
How it was done
The Deep End is an .esm mod, made with xEdit. It's a single .esm file that only changes values (specifically PlayerUnityDamagePerk). No scripting involved. All values changed can easily be seen when opening the mod file with xEdit.
Installation
Credits
Without xEdit and Elminster's work of a genius all this would not be possible, so, many kudos to Elminster and team.
Notes
If you like challenging gameplay, a shout out to Scarcity at Starfield Nexus - Mods and Community (nexusmods.com), which already includes The Deep End.
- In general, damage received by the player is increased by 10% each loop, capping at 100% increase in NG+10
- In general, damage dealt by the player is decreased by 5% each loop, capping at 50% reduction in NG+10
- There are optional specific settings for EM/Shield damage (including ship combat, I guess) as well as explosive damage, each dealt and received, which just behave the same as above though in vanilla
The Deep End modifies and extends this framework:
- In general, damage received by the player is increased by 25% each NG+ loop, only capping at 25x times the damage received in NG+100
- EM/Shield damage (including ship combat, I guess) as well as explosive damage received by the player are increased by 10% each NG+ loop, capping at 10x times the damage received in NG+100
- Damage dealt by the player - all damage types, incl. EM/Shield and explosives - behaves still as in vanilla: it is decreased by 5% each NG+ loop, capping at 50% reduction in NG+10
The effect is that the player becomes more and more vulnerable in ground and - to a lesser degree - ship combat with each new loop, up to a point where eventually even a stray bullet might be deadly.
I hope you enjoy the ever increasing challenge of each new loop and draw some fun from this. See you out there in the Field :-).
Perspective
I might look into adding special rewards or easter eggs in dialogue etc. the closer a player gets to The Deep End.
How it was done
The Deep End is an .esm mod, made with xEdit. It's a single .esm file that only changes values (specifically PlayerUnityDamagePerk). No scripting involved. All values changed can easily be seen when opening the mod file with xEdit.
Installation
- First make sure to enable Archive Invalidation
- Then please install Plugins Enabler
- Download the mod, unzip it and place TheDeepEnd.esm into your game's data folder
- In your plugins.txt file please add the line *TheDeepEnd.esm (preferably at the end, so the changes are not accidentally overwritten by other mods)
Credits
Without xEdit and Elminster's work of a genius all this would not be possible, so, many kudos to Elminster and team.
Notes
If you like challenging gameplay, a shout out to Scarcity at Starfield Nexus - Mods and Community (nexusmods.com), which already includes The Deep End.