A simple and immersive redesign of temples and powers. Powers rank up automatically when you enter NG+. Temples no longer upgrade powers and instead grant Quantum essence.
Hate the temple grind? Me too.
The temple puzzles are bland enough that doing 24 temples to unlock every power already borders on a questionable degree of repetition. Now, having to do 240 temples to max your powers is utterly inane. The power upgrade mechanic in vanilla might as well not exist because nobody wants to endure this sisyphean tedium. This mod aims to fix this farcical temple-power gameplay loop without breaking or making redundant any vanilla mechanics. Powers will now upgrade automatically with NG+, while temples will grant quantum essence instead of power upgrades.
Simple Temple Overhaul
Temples will no longer rank up your powers. Each temple will only grant their power the first time you visit them.
Subsequent visits to temples containing unlocked powers will now grant 2 Quantum Essence instead.
Powers scale with NG+. Acquired powers will upgrade by one rank each time you cross into Unity.
Do 1 set of temples instead of 10. Grow more powerful with each NG+ universe.
Lightweight & Compatible. Safe to install/uninstall whenever you want.
This mod eliminates the tedium of the 240 temple grind and incentivizes NG+ playthroughs by rewarding players for hopping into Unity. Temples only have to be done once to unlock powers, after that the temples are purely optional resource farms for Quantum Essence.
Further complement your NG+ experience with my other mod, NG+ Fixes And Improvements, which fixes the NG+ bug that prevents you from opening the inventory or saving the game.
Note: the end of the video shows a placeholder debug message, “giving player 2 quantum essence”. Fret not, the release build has a much more immersive message that fits the vanilla style, “You have gained 2 Quantum Essence from this Temple”. I just did not want to re-edit the video to remove the old debug msg from the video.
FAQ
Q: What if I still have locked powers in NG+?
A: You can obtain the powers normally in NG+ by finding their respective temples. Powers are not retroactively scaled, i.e. if you unlock Phase Time in NG+3 you will receive Phase Time I and not Phase Time IV.
Installation:
Plug and play. Mod does not disable achievements.
As with every other mod, archive invalidation needs to be set in your StarfieldCustom ini.
Install with mo2/vortex/manual/dyson vacuum/whatever. Manual install not recommended.
Safe to install/uninstall whenever.
Compatibility
This mod currently edits two scripts, ‘artifactpower_advancement’ and ‘mq305script’ – it should be compatible with anything that does not modify those 2 files. Editing MQ305script is presently necessary, but when the CK comes out the mod will be refactored to remove the edit to mq305script. The script edits in this mod are savegame-safe so there should no future complications.
Compatible with No More Temple Puzzles and Starborn Bounty.
Compatible and highly recommended with my other mod NG+ Fixes And Improvements.
Credits:
ConnerRia
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